How Can They Hear About Him?

How Can They Hear About Him? || Day 4

Romans 10:1-15 NLT

Dear brothers and sisters, the longing of my heart and my prayer to God is for the people of Israel to be saved. I know what enthusiasm they have for God, but it is misdirected zeal. For they don’t understand God’s way of making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God’s way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law. For Christ has already accomplished the purpose for which the law was given. As a result, all who believe in him are made right with God. For Moses writes that the law’s way of making a person right with God requires obedience to all of its commands. But faith’s way of getting right with God says, “Don’t say in your heart, ‘Who will go up to heaven?’ (to bring Christ down to earth). And don’t say, ‘Who will go down to the place of the dead?’ (to bring Christ back to life again).” In fact, it says, “The message is very close at hand; it is on your lips and in your heart.” And that message is the very message about faith that we preach: If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by openly declaring your faith that you are saved. As the Scriptures tell us, “Anyone who trusts in him will never be disgraced.” Jew and Gentile are the same in this respect. They have the same Lord, who gives generously to all who call on him. For “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” But how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them? And how will anyone go and tell them without being sent? That is why the Scriptures say, “How beautiful are the feet of messengers who bring good news!”

But how can they hear unless someone tells them?

Someone has to say it. You can see it, you’ll just have to say it first. The lost and bound world needs preachers. They need you to open your mouth and herald the news that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

On June 19, 1865 something remarkable happened.

General Gordon Granger and the Union Army made their way onto the last bit of ground held by the already defeated Confederate forces. Informing them of the total surrender made by General Lee more than two months before, he sent his army throughout the city to post the following…

Galveston Texas June 19th 1865.

General Orders

     No. 3.

          The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor.

2-1/2 years before, there had been a proclamation by the president of the United States, setting all slaves free in the southern states, including Texas. From there, it was up to those battling to vanquish their adversaries and to enforce the decree.

On Juneteenth, in 1865, those who had lived their entire lives in bondage found out that the decree was made, the war was won, and they were free.

There is a lost and bound world out there just waiting to hear that the King has made a decree, the enemy has been vanquished, and that freedom is theirs for the taking!

Let’s pray together…