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Romans chapter 10, verses 14 and 15,

how then will they call on him in whom they have not believed?

And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard?

And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to

preach unless they are sent? As it is written, how beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good

news? In these verses, we have a pretty clear picture of how the gospel spreads to all the peoples of the world.

Jesus sins people who proclaim the gospel, people hear the gospel proclaimed.

People believe that gospel when they hear it.

They call on the name of the Lord and they are saved.

This is God's plan for getting the gospel to all people in the world.

And yet there are still approximately 2.8 billion people in the world who have little to no knowledge of the gospel.

They haven't heard it.

That's what Paul is asking me, because he's writing this to the church at Rome.

He's encouraging them to get the gospel to those who've never heard it in Spain.

And he says, how are they going to hear and believe and call on him if somebody doesn't go

and preach to them? And the same is true today. And 2.8 billion people today will continue to be born

and live and die without ever hearing the gospel. And we know based on all that Paul is taught in Romans,

all the book of Romans teaches that people without Christ cannot go to heaven.

That apart from Christ, they spend an eternity paying the penalty for sin against God.

So to think there's 2.8 billion people who are being born, they're living and are dying,

they're not even hearing the gospel, they're going to an eternal hell,

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