What about those who ve never heard? ROMANS 1, 3, 10, 15 Everyone - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

What about those who ’ ve never heard? ROMANS 1, 3, 10, 15

Everyone knows there is a God.

"For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them." ROMANS 1:19

Everyone knows there is a God. Therefore, everyone is without excuse

"For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse." ROMANS 1:20

"For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things." ROMANS 1:21-23

All people need help from outside themselves to be found innocent, righteous, and justified in the sight of God.

"Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin." ROMANS 3:19-21

Jesus Christ is the one who redeems us from our sin.

"But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it — the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus..." ROMANS 3:21-24

Jesus disciples are motivated by holy ambition.

"...and thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else's foundation, but as it is written, 'Those who have never been told of him will see, and those who have never heard will understand.'" ROMANS 15:20-21

Can one church really make that big a difference?

God will draw people to himself from among those who have yet to hear.

"After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands..." REVELATION 7:9

How can we leverage our lives for the sake of the gospel among those who have not heard?