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Romans chapter 15 verses 20 and 21 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. This is Paul at the end of this book the book of Romans basically sharing with the church at Rome what drives him his ambition is to see Christ preached where he's not been named, where people don't know him, where people

haven't heard of him.

He wants those who've never been told of him to see, those who have never heard to understand. So that was

Paul in the first century. So what about 21st century? Are there people who have

not seen, are there people who have never heard and yes, like we talk about this at different

points and different, pray the word podcast, there's 2.8 billion people today who fall

into that category.

2,000 years after billion people today who fall into that category.

2,000 years after Paul wrote this, there are that many people in the world right now

who haven't been told of Jesus. They've not heard him. I mean people who've never even heard his name. I think about people I've met in Nepal walking on trails in the mountains and saying,

what do you know about Jesus?

And they look back at you like,

who are you talking about?

Is this a guy in a village nearby?

Like they've never even heard his name.

And so, uh, so I want to encourage us, all of us. So this is

obviously Paul uniquely talking about his ambition and the role God had given him to play in getting the gospel

to those who've never heard in a way that is unique for Paul and is unique for

missionaries who go out from the church and cross geographic and

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