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I'm thinking today of Romans chapter 10. It's a unique message for an important

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time of year. In Romans chapter 10, Paul is talking about getting out the gospel.

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How then are they to call on Him in whom they have not believed? That's verse 14.

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Or how are they to believe in Him whom they have not heard and how are they to

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hear without a preacher? That's the rest of 14. And then down in verse 16, in the

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middle of the discussion about how the Word of God has to get out and how the

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Word of God will grow faith, there is this kind of excerpt. It says, however, they

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did not all heed the good news. For Isaiah says, quote, Lord who has believed our

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report, unquote. The bottom line is this, even if someone has sent, even if someone

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goes, not everyone will hear the gospel. Not everyone will respond positively to

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the message that God is willing to save souls. I remember in the story of Lazarus

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and the rich man, the rich man is begging the angel at the gate to send somebody

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back to his brothers to warn them. And he says, no, they have Moses and the prophets.

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And even if they saw somebody come back from the dead, even then they

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wouldn't listen. And that's exactly where we're living today. Jesus has come back

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from the dead and believers have been born again and are now living on this

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earth and delivering the message about Jesus. And still there are those who will

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not believe. It does not lessen our obligation to share, but it reminds us

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that even this year, even this time as we are celebrating the coming of Jesus, who

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is the most spectacular way that God declared his love and his salvation

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available, people sometimes won't hear. Tell them anyway.