Romans 10:12-15
Posted July 3, 2008 by Mike PondCategories: Uncategorized
I was the youngest of 4 boys. We would do all kinds of things together. for example, we would play smear the queer, me, being the littlest one, was always the “queer”. We used to play with linking logs. This would normally be the “lets see who can make the best cabin” or something like that, but i would always a sever disadvantage because they would always need a specific log i placed at the bottom of my cabin, which looked no different than any other log, they just needed it because it was at the bottom of my cabin.
We would play games like, Keep away or monkey in the middle. more specifically, lets take Michaels toys and keep them away from him.
You get the picture. I fell victim of ALOT of childhood pranks. The way i always got myself out of these, was by calling on my daddy. “
DADDY!!, THEY TOOK MY TOYS!
DADDY!!, THEY WRECKED MY CABIN!
DADDY!! THEY WON’T STOP HITTING ME!
I did alot of calling on my dad, and he would always come to the rescue and save me from the various situations.
Romans 10:12
12….They have the same Lord, who gives generously to all who call on him. 13 For “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”[c]
Just as i was dependent on my dad when my older bothers would gang out on me, We are supposed to be dependent on God and call upon his name when the enemy gangs up on us.
We have to seek God and call upon his name, and we will be saved.
This next point is VERY IMPORTANT. This next point ties the great commission into all of this. Romans 14-15 states
14 But how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them? 15 And how will anyone go and tell them without being sent? That is why the Scriptures say, “How beautiful are the feet of messengers who bring good news!”
Wait, but read vrs 14 again. do you notice how it makes the distinction between believing and calling. It says that they have to call on him to be saved, and they can’t call, until they first believe. it doesn’t say that they are saved by believing, but that believing is a stepping stone to calling, which is how they are saved. Do you hear me right now? as it says in james chpt 2, even demons believe in God, but they are not saved, because they do not seek God and call upon the name of the lord.
I love how it gives the stepping stones to be saved.
to be saved, you have to call.
to call, you have to believe
to believe, you have to hear.
and to hear, you have to be told.
to be told, somebody has to be sent.
and guess what, the great commission has sent us, so lets start telling, so those we tell can hear, and those that hear, believe, and those that believe, call. and those that call, are saved. It all starts with you, and me. So lets go do it. You have been sent.