Romans - Chapter 10

2. A WORD ABOUT
BIBLICAL TRANSLATIONS USED
For the sake of readability & getting
at what I believe to be the truest
essence of the text, I’m using a
combination of the:
* NRSV
* The Kingdom New Testament
THE SERMON-IN-A-SENTENCE
EVERYONE who calls on the name
of the Lord will be saved
ROMANS 10

3. My dear family, my heart's desire and prayer
to God for them is that they may be saved.
For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God,
but it is not based on knowledge. For they were ignorant,
you see, of God’s covenant faithfulness, and they were trying to
establish a covenant status of their own, so they didn’t submit
to God’s faithfulness. For The Messiah is the goal of the law,
so that covenant membership may be available
for all who believe.
Romans 10:1-4

4. For Moses writes about covenant membership
defined by the law, that the person who does the
commandments shall live by them. But faith-based
covenant membership puts it like this: “Do not say in your
heart, ‘Who will go up into heaven?’” (that is, to bring
The Messiah down) “or ‘Who will go down into the abyss?’”
(that is, to bring The Messiah up from the dead).
But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your
mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith
that we proclaim);
Romans 10:5-8

5. …because, if you confess with your mouth
that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart
that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Why? Because the way to covenant membership is by believing
with the heart, and the way to salvation is by professing
with the mouth. For the Bible says, “Everyone who believes
in Him will not be put to shame.” For there is no distinction
between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all,
and is rich towards all who call on Him. For “everyone
who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Romans 10:9-13

6. How then will they call on Him in whom
they have not believed? And how are they to believe
in Him of whom they have never heard? And how are
they to hear without someone announcing it to them?
And how will people make that announcement unless they
are sent? As the Bible says, “How beautiful are the feet of
those who bring good news of good things!” But they have
not all obeyed the good news. Isaiah asks you, “Lord, who
has believed our report?” So faith comes from hearing,
and hearing comes from the word of The Messiah.
Romans 10:14-17

7. This might make us ask, did they not hear?
But they certainly did. “Their sound went out to all the
world, and their words to the ends of the earth.” But I ask,
did Israel not know? To begin with, Moses says, “I will
make you jealous with a non-nation; and stir you to anger
with a foolish people.” Then Isaiah is so bold as to say,
“I was found by those who were not looking for Me;
I became visible to those who were not asking for Me.”
But of Israel he says, “All day long I have held out
my hands to a disbelieving and disagreeable people.”
Romans 10:18-21

8. SOUL TRAINING
EXERCISE
In light of today’s message:
If at all possible, attend this week’s
Good Friday service, as we reflect on
what Jesus went through to save us…