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October 16 - Romans 10 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  And it is Thursday, it's the 16th of October, and you have
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  tapped on play, so the wait is over.
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  I can come alive and I can read with you another chapter of
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  God's word on this World Food Day.
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  Oh yeah, Today's the day that there's a bit of an excuse for
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  you to try something interesting from around the world and
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  realise that no matter where we are around the world, we are one
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  people and one God surrounded by His love.
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  We can eat each other's food today.
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  Don't nick the person's food beside you, but we can find a
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  recipe from far away and cook it.
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  And by doing that, we can kind of all sit at the same table,
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  which is where love and understanding is shared.
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  Holy Spirit, as we read your Word today, we know that people
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  all around the world are going to be opening up Your Word.
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  Thank You that we are your people no matter where we are,
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  and we come before you. Open our hearts.
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  Teach us something more about you today.
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  Alright friends, let's do it. Let's read together Romans
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  chapter 10. Dear brothers and sisters, the
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  longing of my heart and my prayer to God is for the people
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  of Israel to be saved. I know what enthusiasm they have
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  for God, but it is misdirected zeal, for they don't understand
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  God's way of making people right with themself.
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  Refusing to accept God's way, they cling to their own way of
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  getting right with God by trying to keep the law.
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  For Christ has already accomplished the purpose for
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  which the law was given. As a result, all who believe in
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  him are made right with God. For Moses writes that the law's
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  way of making a person right with God requires obedience to
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  all of its commands. But faith's way of getting right
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  with God says, don't say in your heart who will go up to heaven
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  to bring Christ down to earth, and don't say who will go down
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  to the place of the dead to bring Christ back to life again.
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  In fact, it says the message is very close at hand.
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  It is on your lips and in your heart.
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  And that message is the very message about faith that we
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  preach. If you openly declare that Jesus
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  is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from
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  the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your
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  heart that you are made right with God, and it is by openly
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  declaring your faith that you are saved.
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  As the Scriptures tell us, anyone who trusts in Him will
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  never be disgraced. Jew and Gentile are the same in
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  this respect. They have the same Lord who
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  gives generously to all who call on Him, For everyone who calls
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  on the name of the Lord will be saved.
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  But how can they call on Him to save them unless they believe in
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  Him? And how can they believe in Him
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  if they have never heard about Him?
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  And how can they hear about Him unless someone tells them?
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  And how will anyone go and tell them without being sent?
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  That is why the Scriptures say how beautiful are the feet of
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  messengers who bring the good news.
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  But not everyone welcomes the good news.
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  For Isaiah the prophet said, Lord, who has believed our
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  message? So faith comes from hearing that
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  is hearing the good news about Christ.
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  But I ask, have the people of Israel actually heard the
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  message? Yes they have.
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  The message has gone throughout the earth and the words to all
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  the world. But I ask, did the people of
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  Israel really understand? Yes they did.
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  For even in the time of Moses, God said, I will rouse your
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  jealousy through people who are not even a nation.
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  I will provoke your anger through the foolish Gentiles.
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  And later as I spoke boldly for God, saying I was found by
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  people who are not looking for me, I showed myself to those who
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  are not asking for me. But regarding Israel, God said
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  all day long I open my arms to them, but they were disobedient
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  and rebellious. Oh Jesus, may we never find
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  ourselves in a position where our zeal for you is misdirected
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  and we end up following the wrong idea.
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  Help us not get sidetracked thinking that we need to be
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  perfect, thinking that it's by doing the right thing alone
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  that's going to bring us your favour and your saving Jesus.
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  Here Paul tells us that the law was fulfilled by you, so we
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  don't need to fulfil the law. We just need to come to you, to
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  love you, to accept you, and to follow you.
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  So Jesus, if our hearts get misguided, may your words of
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  truth ring loudly out so that we would hear and be turned back to
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  you, and that our zeal would not be misplaced.
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  You are a good God, a God of love, of forgiveness, of mercy,
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  of patience, and absolute holiness and power and might.
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  And so we come before you as your beloved grateful children,
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  and we love you, and we thank you for all you've done for us,
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  and most of all for giving us Jesus so that we know you, we
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  understand who you are, and we're saved.
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  So we pray all of this in His saving name, Amen.