If God is Sovereign, Why Share the Gospel? | New Testament | Romans 10

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🗓️ 1 August 2023

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You can't follow Jesus without God working in your life, yet you have the responsibility to share and believe in the gospel. How is this possible? In today's episode, Keithunpacks this paradigm from Romans 10. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Join the TMBT community in reading the entire New Testament in one year. Get your FREE reading plan here. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter@TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Romans 10

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life in the time it takes to get to work.
0:11.0	I'm Keith Simon. If you listen to yesterday's episode on Romans 9,
0:16.1	you heard how Paul says that the only reason we are Christians is because God
0:20.1	worked in our life to draw us to himself and give us faith to believe the good news of the gospel.
0:26.0	This means that if you'd given me 10,000 chances to follow Jesus, I wouldn't have unless God worked in my life. The Bible says that God
0:35.6	opened my eyes and changed my heart and gave me faith and I think every
0:39.4	Christian knows that deep down in their soul because when you you pray about your salvation, what does this sound like? Do you pray, God, I'm thankful that you did your part in my salvation, and I'm thankful that I did my part? Well, of course not. In your prayers you thank God for saving a
0:55.0	wretch like you. You thank God for opening your eyes so that you can see the
0:58.8	beauty of Jesus and the truth of the Gospel. You thank God that he opened your heart to him just like he did Lydia in Act 16.
1:07.0	Well today we're in Romans chapter 10 and in this chapter Paul emphasizes our responsibility to share the gospel and believe the gospel ourselves.
1:16.0	See, Romans 9 said God is sovereign over our salvation, and Romans 10, it says that in order to obtain that salvation, we must believe the gospel ourselves.
1:25.8	Maybe that sounds contradictory to you, but the Bible never sees God's sovereignty and
1:30.9	our responsibility to be in conflict.
1:33.7	Now I agree that it's hard for us to understand.
1:36.4	We usually want to say that it's either God is sovereign
1:39.6	or our choices matter.
1:41.7	But that's not how the Bible thinks about it. The
1:43.9	consistent theme of the Bible is that God is sovereign over all things and we have
1:49.2	real choices for which we are rightly held accountable. The Bible never says that God
1:54.6	sovereignly directed some event so that people's choices were irrelevant. That's
1:59.7	because the Bible never treats human beings like robots or puppets.
2:04.0	But neither does the Bible teach that people did something and God just sat back and watched.
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