Romans 10

The Word Brings Salvation// Isaiah 65:1–16

¹Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is for their salvation. ²For I testify about them that they are zealous for God, but not on the basis of knowledge. ³Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. ⁴For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.

⁵For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.” ⁶But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down) ⁷or, ‘Who will descend into the Abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”

• ROM 10:5[QUOTES]Direct ← LEV 18:5
• ROM 10:6[FULFILLS]The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart ← DT 30:12-14MEDIUM

⁸But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming: ⁹that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. ¹⁰For with your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth you confess and are saved.

• ROM 10:9[HEART]If you confess Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart God raised Him, you will be saved.
• ROM 10:9[NOTABLE]THE ROMANS ROAD, STOP 4 OF 5. Say it with your mouth and believe it in your heart: Jesus is Lord, and God raised Him from the dead. Next stop, 10:13.
• ROM 10:9[FULFILLS]Salvation offered to all mankind through His name ← JOEL 2:32
• ROM 10:10[HEART]With the heart a person believes and is made right with God.

¹¹It is just as the Scripture says: “Anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame.” ¹²For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: The same Lord is Lord of all, and gives richly to all who call on Him, ¹³for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

• ROM 10:11[QUOTES]Direct ← IS 28:16
• ROM 10:13[NOTABLE]THE ROMANS ROAD, STOP 5 OF 5. Everyone means everyone. No one is too far gone. The road ends with a promise: call on Him, and He will save you.
• ROM 10:13[QUOTES]Direct ← JOEL 2:32

¹⁴How then can they call on the One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach? ¹⁵And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”

• ROM 10:15[FULFILLS]He would publish good tidings ← IS 52:7MEDIUM
• ROM 10:15[FULFILLS]One would come on the mountains bringing good news and proclaiming peace ← NAH 1:15MEDIUM

¹⁶But not all of them welcomed the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?” ¹⁷Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

• ROM 10:16[QUOTES]Direct ← IS 53:1

¹⁸But I ask, did they not hear? Indeed they did:

“Their voice has gone out into all the earth,

their words to the ends of the world.”

• ROM 10:18[QUOTES]Direct ← PS 19:4

¹⁹I ask instead, did Israel not understand? First, Moses says:

“I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation;

I will make you angry by a nation without understanding.”

• ROM 10:19[FULFILLS]God would make Israel jealous through a people who were not a nation ← DT 32:21

²⁰And Isaiah boldly says:

“I was found by those who did not seek Me;

I revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me.”

• ROM 10:20[FULFILLS]God would be found by people who did not seek Him while Israel stayed stubborn ← IS 65:1-2

²¹But as for Israel he says:

“All day long I have held out My hands

to a disobedient and obstinate people.”