THE PRESENT EVANGELIZATION OF A CHOSEN PEOPLE
THE RECEPTION OF THE GOSPEL

Since the Bible clearly teaches that it is faith in Christ alone that saves us, how can we have faith to receive Christ and believe in Him. Where does such faith come from? It is the gift of God’s grace—as is all of salvation. The Word of God is given and it creates faith in the hearts of those who will receive it.

This is THE MESSAGE TO SHARE.

8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach):
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.
10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
11 For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.”
12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is
rich to all who call upon Him.
13 For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Romans 10:8-13)

Everybody needs to know!

The late Adrian Rogers shared an illustration from the sinking of the ocean liner, Titanic:

On the Titanic, there were passengers who were rich and poor; young and old, male and female. Some traveled in the luxury of first class while others were in a small berth in the bowels of that ship—but after it sunk, there were in the end only 2 classes of people which the newspaper reports gave: those listed as saved or lost! Some are going to hell first class, others are in the lower deck; there are some working hard at staying afloat while others are lounging in luxury. But all need the Savior—and thank God whoever will may come!

Believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead; confess with your mouth that Christ is Lord! He will not fail to hear you—this is the promise—whoever! There are none so good that they need not be saved and none so bad that they cannot be saved! Everybody needs to hear the message.

God directs THE MEANS FOR SHARING.

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. (Romans 10:14-17)

You see the logic, don’t you?

You won’t call on someone unless you believe in them and you can’t believe in someone you haven’t heard about and you can’t hear about someone without a witness and you can’t have a witness unless someone sends them! It is a beautiful thing to go and tell the good news! God sends us to the unbelieving with a Word that they may believe. We don’t dare let the Great Commission become the great omission!


Recently, David Platt spoke at the Southern Baptist Pastors’ Conference. You should go online and find the message and listen to it all! There were a few points that were particularly poignant

“With 6,418 people groups we would not spend our dollars as we do, if we really believed the Good News of the Gospel…
Success is not how many people coming into your building, but how many are going out to do missions…
Do you believe that the Word of God empowered by the Spirit of God is enough to accomplish great things in this world?
Unreached people groups only have enough knowledge of God to damn them to hell.
Over 1.6 billion people with hell as their only option!”

Are we making ourselves available for God to use us to make an eternal difference in someone?