Author - Clay Corvin

11/15          Romans 10:14 

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!” 

HEARD

Have you heard?  The Lord of Glory has come to us in the form of Jesus Christ and paid the price for our sin.  He gives us a grace gift of salvation, so that whosoever will may come to the Father.  Jesus is the only way to the Father.  Christ has come to us and He is seeking us that we might be saved.  

11/14          Romans 10:10-13 

For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by openly declaring your faith that you are saved. 11 As the Scriptures tell us, “Anyone who trusts in him will never be disgraced.” 12 Jew and Gentile are the same in this respect. 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.” 

YOU

Salvation is a personal, one on one event between you and Jesus.  You must be born again and we find that rebirth into the spiritual realm by believing in Jesus Christ.  

11/13          Romans 10:5-9 

For Moses writes that the law’s way of making a person right with God requires obedience to all of its commands. 6 But faith’s way of getting right with God says, “Don’t say in your heart, ‘Who will go up to heaven?’ (to bring Christ down to earth). 7 And don’t say, ‘Who will go down to the place of the dead?’ (to bring Christ back to life again).” 8 In fact, it says, “The message is very close at hand; it is on your lips and in your heart.” And that message is the very message about faith that we preach: 9 If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 

BELIEVE

Do you believe?  Everything keys upon belief.  Salvation is a grace gift for the one who believes.  Our relationship is based on the work that God in His Son, Jesus Christ, has done.  For by grace are you saved through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.  In Christ and Christ alone are we saved.  Jesus is the only way to the Father.  

11/12          Romans 10:1-4 

Dear brothers and sisters, the longing of my heart and my prayer to God is for the people of Israel to be saved. 2 I know what enthusiasm they have for God, but it is misdirected zeal.  3 For they don’t understand God’s way of making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God’s way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law. 4 For Christ has already accomplished the purpose for which the law was given. As a result, all who believe in him are made right with God. 

SELF

People are self centered and stiff necked when it comes to bending the knee to God.  They deny Him and refuse to believe in Jesus.  Surrender now, ask Jesus to come into your heart and save you.  Jesus is Lord.  

11/11          Romans 9:29-33

And Isaiah said the same thing in another place: “If the LORD of Heaven’s Armies had not spared a few of our children, we would have been wiped out like Sodom, destroyed like Gomorrah.” 30 What does all this mean? Even though the Gentiles were not trying to follow God’s standards, they were made right with God. And it was by faith that this took place. 31 But the people of Israel, who tried so hard to get right with God by keeping the law, never succeeded. 32 Why not? Because they were trying to get right with God by keeping the law instead of by trusting in him. They stumbled over the great rock in their path. 33 God warned them of this in the Scriptures when he said, “I am placing a stone in Jerusalem that makes people stumble, a rock that makes them fall. But anyone who trusts in him will never be disgraced.”

TRUST

Trust in the Lord and you will be saved.  There is no other way to the Father except Jesus Christ.  Trust in Him.  

11/10          Romans 9:27-28 

And concerning Israel, Isaiah the prophet cried out, “Though the people of Israel are as numerous as the sand of the seashore, only a remnant will be saved. 28 For the LORD will carry out his sentence upon the earth quickly and with finality.” 

FEW

Few will listen to the Lord and answer Him.  Most will choose their own way of ego and pride and die in their trespasses and sin.  Life is short and the opportunities for us to know Him, listen to Him and respond to Him are few and far between.  Listen to the Lord calling you and accept His salvation.  

11/09          Romans 9:24-26 

And we are among those whom he selected, both from the Jews and from the Gentiles. 25 Concerning the Gentiles, God says in the prophecy of Hosea, “Those who were not my people, I will now call my people. And I will love those whom I did not love before.” 26 And, “Then, at the place where they were told, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’” 

FAMILY

God has called us and we listened to Him and answered Him.  Lord we believe-forgive me of my sin-come into my heart and save me.  He saved us.  We have become His children. 

11/08          Romans 9:18-23 

So you see, God chooses to show mercy to some, and he chooses to harden the hearts of others so they refuse to listen. 19 Well then, you might say, “Why does God blame people for not responding? Haven’t they simply done what he makes them do?”  20 No, don’t say that. Who are you, a mere human being, to argue with God? Should the thing that was created say to the one who created it, “Why have you made me like this?” 21 When a potter makes jars out of clay, doesn’t he have a right to use the same lump of clay to make one jar for decoration and another to throw garbage into? 22 In the same way, even though God has the right to show his anger and his power, he is very patient with those on whom his anger falls, who are destined for destruction. 23 He does this to make the riches of his glory shine even brighter on those to whom he shows mercy, who were prepared in advance for glory. 

CALL

Call upon the name of the Lord and He will save you.  If you will ask Him to save you He will.  For by grace are you save and that not by yourself, it is the free gift of God.  

11/07          Romans 9:14-17 

Are we saying, then, that God was unfair? Of course not! 15 For God said to Moses, “I will show mercy to anyone I choose, and I will show compassion to anyone I choose.” 16 So it is God who decides to show mercy. We can neither choose it nor work for it. 17 For the Scriptures say that God told Pharaoh, “I have appointed you for the very purpose of displaying my power in you and to spread my fame throughout the earth.” 

KEY

God loves you.  Surrender to Him.  He will forgive you and make you a member of His family.  Whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 

11/06          Romans 9:11-13 

But before they were born, before they had done anything good or bad, she received a message from God. (This message shows that God chooses people according to his own purposes; 12 he calls people, but not according to their good or bad works.) She was told, “Your older son will serve your younger son.”  13 In the words of the Scriptures, “I loved Jacob, but I rejected Esau.” 

FAITH
By faith we believe the Word of God, the Lord God, the Holy Spirit and the Lord Jesus Christ.  The Lord is true, faithful and just and He will never ever leave us.  Know the Lord.  Know Him by faith.  Our relationship with Him is a grace gift that everyone will have the same opportunity for salvation.