ROMANS 10:12-21
“Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I
have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world”
(Mt.28:19-20).
“And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every
creature” (Mk.16:15).

⇒ We are to pray for laborers.

“Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers
are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into
his harvest” (Mt.9:37-38).

c. We are to give to meet the needs of the world.

“Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in
all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace [giving] also”
(2 Cor.8:7).
“But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which
soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully” (2 Cor.9:6).
“Let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to
give to him that needeth” (Eph.4:28).
“But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his
bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?” (1 Jn.3:17).

3. The gospel is the message of peace and “glad tidings of good things.” Note three points.
a. The message of the gospel is peace.

“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto
you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” (Jn.14:27).
“These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye
shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world” (Jn.16:33).

b. The message of the gospel is “glad tidings of good things”.
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear
the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live” (Jn.5:24).
“I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly”
(Jn.10:10).
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
meekness, temperance: against such there is no law” (Gal.5:22-23).
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his
abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus
Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not
away, reserved in heaven for you” (1 Pt.1:3-4).

c. The feet of the preacher and witness are beautiful; that is, they are a welcome sight to the world. The world
desperately needs the message of peace and the glad tidings of good things. (Note: this verse is a quotation
from Is.52:7.)

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(10:16-17) Salvation—Belief—Hearing: Scripture says the gospel is universal. Isaiah says that many Jews did not
“believe the report [message] of God” (cp. Is.53:1). Therefore, they prove that salvation is not by race, heritage, tradition,
religion, institution, nor by works established by the Jewish nation or any other people.
Note a second thing: Isaiah used the phrase, “believing our report.” Isaiah was saying that believing the message is the
way of salvation. The message was to stir faith.
There are three steps involved in faith.
1. The step of hearing. A man must be willing to listen to the message of Christ.

“But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear” (Mt.13:16).
“But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth
it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty”
(Mt.13:23).
“And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word” (Lk.10:39).
“And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw
it, they rebuked them” (Lk.18:15).
“But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them
that believe on his name” (Jn.1:12).
“These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all
readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so” (Acts 17:11).
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