Listen, Do you Hear?

Application: Someone has to go and tell. The “Someone is you! Don’t be filled with empty Faith.

Romans 10:14–21 NKJV

14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!” 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?” 17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. 18 But I say, have they not heard? Yes indeed: “Their sound has gone out to all the earth, And their words to the ends of the world.” 19 But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says: “I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation, I will move you to anger by a foolish nation.” 20 But Isaiah is very bold and says: “I was found by those who did not seek Me; I was made manifest to those who did not ask for Me.” 21 But to Israel he says: “All day long I have stretched out My hands To a disobedient and contrary people.”

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Romans 10:14–15 NKJV

14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!”

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Note: JEWS- Rejected Jesus and they rejected Paul after his conversion

Jesus says- Whosoever Calls

Romans 10:9 NKJV

9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 10:13 NKJV

13 For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

Personally I think many in the church forgets who they were before they were saved, or either saved at such a young age that they forget they are nothing without Jesus.

1. You have to Call Upon Him.

2. You must Believe to Call upon him.

Someone has to Tell You.

3. Someone has to Tell You.

4. Someone has to Proclaim the Good News.

5. The Proclaimer is Called By God.

Isaiah tells us not not all

Romans 10:15 NKJV

15 And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!”

Romans 10:16 NKJV

16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”

Romans 10:14–15 NKJV

14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!”

You see this quote of Isaiah

Isaiah 52:7 NKJV

7 How beautiful upon the mountains Are the feet of him who brings good news, Who proclaims peace, Who brings glad tidings of good things, Who proclaims salvation, Who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

THEY QUOTE- after Israel held captive by Assyria and Babylon.

The messenger of God proclaims:

time of peace,(absense of hostility) goodness, (absense of hate, sickness, and death) salvation, (God’s deliverance from Harm) and a period of Divine rule. (King of King)

Gary Smith, , vol. 15B, The New American Commentary (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2009), 423.

6. Your Faith comes through Someone preaching the Word of God.

Romans 10:17 NKJV

17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

NOTE: When you hear the Word of God and the HS indwells you, He Changes You!!

1 John 1:6–7 NKJV

6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

Matthew 6:24 NKJV

24 “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

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John 8:31–32 NKJV

31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

Note: REALIZE THIS IS FOR ALL PEOPLE. Israel is thinking no way is the Salvation for those people. No way can God save them. They are filthy people with no means to salvation.

Today we look and say these people in these sins cannot be saved. We have been polluted to think there is no Standard and then we don’t know how to handle when we run into people who are sick within their own sin.

7. If you Seek God, You Will Find Him.

Israel- no way God would save those people.

Romans 10:18–19 NKJV

18 But I say, have they not heard? Yes indeed: “Their sound has gone out to all the earth, And their words to the ends of the world.” 19 But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says: “I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation, I will move you to anger by a foolish nation.”

Jeremiah 29:13 NKJV

13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.

Psalm 40:1 NKJV

1 I waited patiently for the Lord; And He inclined to me, And heard my cry.

Jeremiah 29:13 NKJV

13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.

Luke 14:21–24 NKJV

21 So that servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and the maimed and the lame and the blind.’ 22 And the servant said, ‘Master, it is done as you commanded, and still there is room.’ 23 Then the master said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. 24 For I say to you that none of those men who were invited shall taste my supper.’ ”

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8. Don’t let your head knowledge Fool You.

Romans 10:20–21 NKJV

20 But Isaiah is very bold and says: “I was found by those who did not seek Me; I was made manifest to those who did not ask for Me.” 21 But to Israel he says: “All day long I have stretched out My hands To a disobedient and contrary people.”

Luke 14:21–24 NKJV

21 So that servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and the maimed and the lame and the blind.’ 22 And the servant said, ‘Master, it is done as you commanded, and still there is room.’ 23 Then the master said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. 24 For I say to you that none of those men who were invited shall taste my supper.’ ”

Matthew 23:37 NKJV

37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

They thought none was good enough but me!

Jesus looking and knowing I wanted you to know, you refused, you refused to Tell.

WE must TEll

We must Go

We must Proclaim

If we don’t how will they Know!

Do You Hear what God is telling you this morning!