Romans 10:1-21.

Romans 10.1-21

Dear friends, my greatest wish and my prayer to God is for the people
of Israel to be saved. I know they love God, but they don't
understand what makes people acceptable to him. So they refuse to
trust God, and they try to be acceptable by obeying the Law. But
Christ makes the Law no longer necessary for those who become
acceptable to God by faith.

Anyone Can Be Saved

Moses said that a person could become acceptable to God by obeying the
Law. He did this when he wrote, "If you want to live, you must do all
that the Law commands."But people whose faith makes them acceptable to
God will never ask, "Who will go up to heaven to bring Christ down?"
Neither will they ask, "Who will go down into the world of the dead to
raise him to life?" All who are acceptable because of their faith
simply say, "The message is as near as your mouth or your heart." And
this is the same message we preach about faith. So you will be saved,
if you honestly say, "Jesus is Lord," and if you believe with all your
heart that God raised him from death. God will accept you and save
you, if you truly believe this and tell it to others.The Scriptures
say that no one who has faith will be disappointed, no matter if that
person is a Jew or a Gentile. There is only one Lord, and he is
generous to everyone who asks for his help. All who call out to the
Lord will be saved. How can people have faith in the Lord and ask him
to save them, if they have never heard about him? And how can they
hear, unless someone tells them? And how can anyone tell them without
being sent by the Lord? The Scriptures say it is a beautiful sight to
see even the feet of someone coming to preach the good news. Yet not
everyone has believed the message. For example, the prophet Isaiah
asked, "Lord, has anyone believed what we said?" No one can have faith
without hearing the message about Christ. But am I saying that the
people of Israel did not hear? No, I am not! The Scriptures say, "The
message was told everywhere on earth. It was announced all over the
world." Did the people of Israel understand or not? Moses answered
this question when he told that the Lord had said,"I will make Israel
jealous of people who are a nation of nobodies. I will make them angry
at people who don't understand a thing."

Isaiah was fearless enough to tell that the Lord had said, "I was
found by people who were not looking for me. I appeared to the ones
who were not asking about me." And Isaiah said about the people of
Israel,
"All day long the Lord has reached out to people who are stubborn and
refuse to obey."

God bless you.