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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, 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.

Like they haven't heard it.

That's what Paul's 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

like 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 here in

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

heaven that apart from Christ 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 were being born, they're living and dying,

they're not even hearing the gospel are going to an eternal hell and they've never even had a chance to hear the gospel?

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