Bible Guys Classics: Romans 10

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Give me about it, all right, So going to chapter ten,

and if you could just give a little context to

you know, for anybody's maybe just coming.

In on this Friday listening. Y. Yeah, So Romans Chapter

ten is kind of now he you know, he pushes

with an idea and then he kind of summarizes the

idea and it culminates in a big statement. Then he

pushes for a while and then comes with another big statement.

Chapter ten is the big statement for the last couple

of chapters. So nothing will ever separate us from the

love of God. Even though you know, I feel like

I can't do what I want to do, and I

do the things I don't want to do, Nothing's gonna

separate me from God's love. Then he goes into God's

election and God's choice and that God is fair and

that we shouldn't judge God on how he does things.

And then finally he comes to this point where he

has said in the previous chapter, I'm willing to go

to hell in order for my countrymen to come to

faith in Christ. And he picks back up with that idea,

and now he really drives how does the gospel work.

He's kind of clarifying for people how the gospel actually works,

because in chapter nine, the whole purpose of chapter nine

was to say a lot of people think they're on

their way to heaven just because they come from a

certain family group. It's that's not true. Let me tell

you how the gospel really works. And that's what chapter

ten is.

I'm excited, all right, your brothers and sisters, the long

give in my heart and my prayer to God is

for the people of Israel.

To be saved.

I know what enthusiasm they have for God, but it

is misdirected zeal. They don't understand God's way of making

people write with himself. Refusing to accept God's way, they

cling to their own way of getting right with God

by trying to keep the law. For Christ has already

accomplished the purpose for which the law was given. As

a result, all who believe in him are made right

with God. For Moses writes that the law's way of

making a person right with God requires obedience to all

of its commands. But faith's way of getting right with

God says, don't say in your heart who will go

up to heaven to bring Christ down to earth? And

don't say who will go down to the place of

the dead to bring Christ back to life again. In fact,

it says, the message is very close at hand. It

is on your lips and in your heart. And that

message is the very message about faith that we preach,

which is simply this. If you openly declare that Jesus Lord,

and believe in your heart that God raise him from

the dead, you will be saved. Or it is by

believing your heart that you are made right with God.

And it is by openly declaring your faith that you

are saved. As the scriptures tell us, anyone who trusts

in him will never be disgraced. You and gentile are

the same in that respect. They have the same Lord

who gives generously to all who call on him, or

everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will

be saved. But how can they call on him to

save them unless they believe in him? And how can

they believe in him if they have never heard about him?

And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them?

And how will anyone go and tell them without being sent?

That is why the scriptures say, how beautiful are the

feet of messengers who bring good news?

Everyone welcomes the good news.

For Isaiah, the prophet said, Lord, who has believed our message?

So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the good

news about Christ. That's the final partneryeah, yeah, yeah, that section.

So then he goes on. He has a few more

verses about talking about how God exposed the people of

Israel to the Gospel, But that's the big summary there.

So what a powerful passage, Because have you ever had

somebody ask you, so, Kyle, how do I go to heaven,

how do I become a Christian all the time. Maybe

one of the best passages in the Bible is right here,

you know, verse eight. It says, the message is very

close at hand, it's on your lips and in your heart.

And he said, that message is very message about faith

that we preach. If you openly declare that Jesus is

the Lord and believe in your heart that God raised

him from the dead, you will be saved. And then

he goes into he unpacks why that is. Believing in

your heart is how you're made right with God. And

by declaring your faith, you're saved. And then he says,

there's no difference between Jewish and Gentile in this respect.

So remember the previous chapter was all about how the

Jews said, oh no, we get to have it in

a different way, and the Gentiles can't even go to heaven.

He goes, no, that's not one way, right. There's all

kinds of sons of Abraham and only a few when

you know, we're made right with God or were chosen.

So in this aspect now, he said, even in the

and we didn't really highlight this yesterday. To be honest

with you, but in verse thirty in chapter nine Yesterday,

he says, what does this all mean? And then he said,

even though the gentiles were not trying to follow God's standards,

they're made right with God by faith right. So whether

you're a Jew or a Gentile, you're both made right.

Not based on what family you came from or the

background you have. You're made right with God by faith alone.

Faith alone. So you declare with your mouth, and you

believe in your heart that Christ is raised from the dead.

When you declare with your mouth that Jesus's Lord, what

you're saying is Jesus, you're the king. I'm not the king.

You're surrendering. You're surrendering your sin, You're surrendering your own agenda,

You're surrendering your own identity to Christ. And say, now,

I'm not the king in my life. You're the king.

Yes. And one of things I would say too, is

and that's a faith element we do talk often, even

about like the Romans Road, which is kind of like

the Gospel. It's the good news. It's the fact that

we're sinners, we're saved by grace. But this is one

part of it. This is this verse nine here and

I think I would just encourage people to this could

be a verse to even like memorize. Right right now,

you openly declared that Jesus Lord, believe in your heart

that God raised from the dead, you'll be saved. That's

something that like when it comes to that question you said,

how many people ask that question? We should be ready

to give an account for the hope that we have,

really be ready to share. And it's in these types

of when you when you know this, when this is

written on your heart, and you give an account of

why you're saved and what salvation looks like. We should

be able to share this with people because we live

in a day and age where we're kind of post

biblical truth, right, and so people they just don't understand

these things. So we have to remember that this is

kind of a foundational statement for those of us who

call ourselves Christians to the Gospel to declare He's Lord

and that he was raised from the dead.

That's how you're saved. So yeah, and then verse thirteen

says everyone who calls them the name of Lord will

be saved. Right, So he's talking whether Jew or gentile,

no matter what your background is, no matter what you've done,

no matter how far from God you feel like you are.

Everyone who says Jesus, I want you to be the King,

the Lord of my life. And I believe that you

paid the price on the cross and you rose again

to be able to forgive my sin. That's enough. And

everyone who calls them the name of the Lord in

that way will be saved. But isn't that too simple? Well,

it's simple for us, it's not simple for God. It's

incredibly complex. It's so complex that for those that have

been following with us all the way through the Book

of Romans, you go, this book's really complex. The whole

book was to get us to this point right here, right,

and then from this point on he pivots. He talks

a little bit about Israel, and then from chapter twelve

on he just talks about what it means to live

as a Christian.

Yeah.

Right, So this is the culmination of this very complex

Book of Romans. And so, yeah, salvation is very complex.

For God. He had to overcome the fact that he said,

if you sin, you die, and so he's just God's

a just God. We do sin. We did die. We

died spiritually, we die physically, this world is broken. And

then God began this narrative. He began this storyline through

Abraham's family, promising to send the Messiah to solve this

sin problem. And over thousands of years he taught us

the idea sacrifice, the innocent dies for the guilty, all

these things, and finally he gets to Jesus and orchestrates

all the extraordinary details where God himself winds up becoming

the solution for our sin. It's incredibly complex, fam It's not.

It's easy for us. It's Jesus, I do want you

to be my king, and Jesus, I do believe that

you died and rose again for my to pay the

price for my sins. That's easy for me, it is,

but it's hard for God. Absolutely incredibly complex.

But that's the hard part is I think so many

people they want to know because everything else in life

to become a member of something, to become you know,

a a an elite club or a status. So we

talked earlier about delta, Right, you have to do this

and get the great points, and it's like it's all

about all the things right, and you can you can

kind of say, look what I've done. Look what I've done.

I've gotten to the status because of all the things

I've done, And here he's like, no, no, just everyone

who believes in the name of the Lord will be

saying like it's like it's certain, Like wait, that's is

there more to it? Is? There?

Is there like a there a loopholes or an asterisk?

Are they going to charge me a?

Am I going to get charge a late fee? Like

there's all those things you want to know about. And

I just find it really cool and I agree with you.

I love that he's kind of bringing things to kind

of a conclusion. Others there's so much more that he's

still going to talk about, but I like that this

is kind of where it's going to and what he's

been talking about.

Yeah, these these first eleven chapters are are so intense

because he's unpacking the Jewish side of Christianity, the Jewish

side of the promise of the Messiah, is unpacking that,

unraveling it from a gentile perspective. This is written to

Jews in Rome that he hadn't met yet, and so

this is a pretty pretty complex book, but it all

boils down to this passage here that essentially salvation is

by fai right, it's by faith. It's not your lineage,

it's not your behavior. Those are the two big things

he's fighting because they believe, well, we behave in a

certain way. I keep all the rules. So if I

keep the law, I get to go to heaven. Or well,

I get to go to heaven because I was born

into the right family, and he goes. Neither of those

are true. And by the way, the Gospels available for everybody,

for Jews and gentiles, and it's the same way anybody

who makes it to heaven, that we all will only

make it the same way, and that is through Jesus Christ.

You know, you ever hear the phrase the ground is

level at the cross, right, and meaning there's none of

us coming in higher, none of us coming in lower.

We all come in at the foot of the cross

the same way, and that Jesus. So really, what Paul

shows us here is that our response to what Jesus

did in faith saves us. But Jesus is the hero

of the whole story. Right, Jesus did it all. Jesus

made it all happen. And then we know the Holy

Spirit draws us to him. Even that is not of ourselves.

It's God's spirit drawing us to him that makes that possible,

and so it makes him the hero and we only

have to respond to this.

So let me ask you this real quick. Because we

read this and we see this good news, you know,

we can kind of read this. This is but when

he's writing this, this is extremely controversial, extremely.

So why is it they wanted to kill him over it? Exactly? Exactly?

So what about this this message you think is the

part that really just I mean to the Jews, the

what was the part about this that.

Were so controversial? We all tend to get very rooted

in the things that our culture tells us is true

and right. We've decided that this is the right way,

and we can't tolerate somebody to tell us something different.

So they had become so convinced that their opinions about

God and their belief system around their laws was the

only way that they could not see that all of

those things were only pointing to God's solution. So the

law was to show you you can't be perfect, and

quite honestly, every Jew would know secretly in the heart

they're not person. So then they'd find all these mental

hurdles to jump through or hoops to jump through to

kind of justify why they did what they did or

whatever to forgive themselves. But they all knew that they

were guilty of sin. So that's what he's pointing out.

He's really he's kind of touching that nerve, picking that nerve, right,

and then he says, but the good news is Jesus

paid the price. The problem was they had killed Jesus,

and so there's this issue of what do we do

with that, how do we justify putting our faith in

the guy that we killed? So the extent you have

to basically admit that it was all. Yeah, he's writing

to Romans, yep, so the Romans are guilty. He's writing

to the Jews in Rome, and so basically all of humanity.

He's representing the Jews and the Gentiles. You're both standing

there guilty. I'm not saying Jews are particularly guilty here.

I think that's a wrong thing to say. But he's

writing to Romans and the Jews, and he's goinging all

of humanity is guilty of killing God. So now what

are you going to do? Either you're the worst of

humans or it really is God's love. And that's what

he does is he begins to unravel this idea that

it's all about God's love. Jesus is the hero. So

it's controversial because it kind of picks the nerve of

their guilt. But it's not controversial when you begin to

realize this is the culmination of everything that got the

whole story of the Bible up to this point. He

puts it all in order, so and then he just

puts it down to you have to come to this

point where you believe. And so this last portion for me,

I would say, I feel like my greatest compulsion for

kingdom focus in my life comes from these verses. But

how can they call on him to save them unless

they believe in him? How can they believe in him

if they've never heard about him? How can they hear

about him unless someone tells him. I will anyone go

and tell them without being sent right yep. And so

we have to understand Jesus already sent us. His last

words before it goes to heaven is that you will

be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judeas, Samaria, in the other

most parts of the world. Jesus' last command was go

and make disciples of all nations. And so the last

thing he told us to he sent us not just

his disciples at that point when he's making that, it's

all of his followers, all the believers, you and me,

we are sent. Somebody was sent to us, right, the

gospel came for two thousand years on the way to us.

Somebody was sent to us. Whoever told you? And now

you are sent to somebody else. It wasn't just supposed

to end with you, because how are they going to

believe if they haven't heard, And how are they going

to hear if nobody tells them. And so instead of

arguing theology, instead of getting in and learning all the

big Bible words, say there's value in all those things.

But the greatest thing is to understand. If our heart

would break like Paul's heart, I'm willing to go to

hell for everybody else. If our heart would then go, Okay, God,

how do I stop people from going to hell? Because

your message is such good news? But they don't know

if they haven't heard, if they haven't heard this, that

Jesus is the only way. Then I got to go

tell him, and he said, you've all been sent, And

then he says, not everyone welcomes the good news. But

he says, so faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing

the good news about Christ. Right, so good, there's another passage.

Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

So you and I are not trying to come and

bring our own message, We're bringing Christ's message. So then

that's the value you reference the Romans road, right, that's

the value of memorizing some scriptures. When you're trying to

tell somebody how to go to heaven, your words about

how to go to heaven don't matter. It's faith by

the words of God. And so so you're not trying

to win them over with a sales pitch to get

to heaven with your own best ideas and words. Instead,

learn some of God's words. And so this passage here

that says, you know, declare that Jesus is Lord, and

believe that he rose from the dead, and you will

be saved. Teach people those right, So I would always

say Romans three twenty three. Tell people everybody's a sinner, right,

all fall short of the glory of God. Romans six

twenty three. Either wages of sin is death, but the

free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ

the Lord Romans five eight. But God demonstrates his own

love for us, and this while we were still sinners.

Christ died for us, and then I would almost always

bring them here to this point. Believe that Jesus rose

from the dead. Ask him to be the Lord of

your life, because everyone who calls them the name of

the Lord will be saved if I can just take

them down this Roman's road and give them scripture. Faith

comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

How will I ever hear the word of God? Somebody

has to tell him. Who's to somebody. Whoever's reading the

passage is to somebody. So if you just read that passage,

you're the somebody God wants to use in somebody else's life.

Yeah, And honestly, I love the fact that this good

news kind of emanated from a few people, right who

witness Jesus, well, actually a lot of people, and I'm

witnessing his death bearer of resurrection. But then the fact

that we're still talking about him two thousand years ago,

two years later, it's crazy because then he's saying to

this thing that could have been I mean, it could

have been shut down to the Romans, they could have

been so mad at this, and this thing could been

shut down, and that would have been a human thing, right,

it would have been shut down because it's human thing.

But it's a God thing.

And therefore here we are to about of two thousand

years later because they're people, they're faithful men and women

going to go and share the good news of Jesus.

And I just I love that when I see something

like this, I'm just like, man, this is just a

reminder from me that we are following a God who

this isn't This isn't a human thing, This is not

by human effort.

This is a God thing.

And it's it's in acts of talks about how if

it's of God, you won't be able to stop them, right,

And it's just a reminder he you will be to

stop the good news.

So faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word

of God. It's why we do the Bible Guys podcast.

What a great one hundredth episode is to come in

on this passage, because it's why we do this is

we want your faith to grow stronger. And the way

that your faith grows stronger is by spending time in

God's word every day. So good job you guys. Hear

God's word and that's going to build your faith. And

then also faith comes by hearing and hearing by the

word of God. When you take the words of God

to other petrol, then God wants you to bring faith

to them. And the way you do that as you

guys work, sounds great. It's great, great passage.

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