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And many ways summarize the heart of the entire book of Romans, because Paul has just spent eight,

nine chapters walking through the beauty of the gospel, the good news. And as we get further

into the book of Romans, we'll see in Romans 15, the whole reason why he's writing this book is

to encourage the church in Rome to spread the gospel with him, not just in Rome, but to people who've

never heard it specifically in Spain. And so he begins to talk about the necessity of people hearing

the gospel in order to believe it's just basic logic that if people don't hear the gospel,

they can't believe it. And if they don't believe it, they can't be saved from their sins. So they

need to hear it from somebody. Romans 10, 17 goes on to say, faith comes from hearing and hearing

through the word of Christ. So how does the word of Christ get to them? Somebody must proclaim it

to them. How are they to hear unless someone preaches it? And how are they to preach unless they

are sent? So when you look at even just the verbs in this passage, kind of backwards, you see the

plan of God for the spread of the gospel throughout the world to all the peoples of the earth. It starts

with him saving sinners and then sending them out and he sends them out to do what to preach to

proclaim to share the gospel. And as they share the gospel, people hear it and as people hear it,

they believe it. And obviously we know not everybody who hears the gospel will believe it, but we

also know that some will inevitably this gospel has power to save. And every nation tribe in

Tongue is one day going to experience salvation from God. That means you can share this gospel anywhere

on the planet. And it's guaranteed somebody there is going to believe it. And once they believe

it, they'll call on the name of the Lord and everyone who calls the name of the Lord will be saved.

So where's the only potential breakdown in this whole plan? Is God still sending people to

proclaim the gospel? I'm sure he's definitely sending. And when people hear the gospel, well,

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