Loving the Lost

 Romans 10:9-15

 

If you are a Born-Again believer in Christ Romans 10:9-13 isn’t for YOU anymore. 

“ that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.” 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. 13 For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”’

It is for those who have not yet believed.

Born-Again believer in Christ Romans 10:14-15,17 IS FOR YOU!

14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!” 17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Church, the body of Christ here on earth there is a lost and dying world out there. 

Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment. Every day in this world we inhabit 166,859 people die every day and have their fate sealed for all eternity. That is 6,952 people an hour, 116 per minute and 1.93 per second. 

Matthew 28:19-20, Mark 16:15-20, Luke 24:46-49, John 20:21, Acts 1:8 plainly tells us we have been sent, in fact commissioned to go into all the world and be witnesses for Jesus, make disciples, preach the gospel so we, every believer in Jesus as savior and Lord, have the message to plant into people that will produce the faith to save their souls. 

It is God who does the saving but He only saves those through faith repent, confess and receive that gift of salvation by faith.  That faith only comes to the unbeliever through the mouths of those who have already received that wonder grace through faith themselves.  EVERY SINGLE believer in Christ has this responsibility. It is a responsibility of LOVE.  

Would you let someone blindly walk into a burning building? If a child who could not swim fell into a pool and was drowning would you just turn away and ignore them?  If you saw someone do this would you not think that they were cruel and totally void of any love or compassion?  

What can we think, then of ourselves, if we do nothing to reach those around us?  

John 15:12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 

Think about it.  How did Jesus love you?  How are you to love others around you?