First Baptist Church, Mount Pleasant, Michigan

Devotional: Romans 10:5-13

Today’s passage: Romans 10:5-13

Helpful thoughts:

  • Verses 6-8 refer to Deuteronomy 30:12-14.
    • The purpose of the comparison is to point out that God graciously brought His revelation to His people.  The Jews didn’t have to go searching for Him He revealed Himself to them.  The New Testament saints did not have to search high and low to find a savior, God gave Him to us by His grace.
    • In both the Old and the New Covenants, God’s grace and salvation through faith were central.
      • The Old Testament saints who sought to keep the Law because of their faith (As the fruit of their faith in God’s promise) did so because God had put His word in their mouth and in their heart.
  • Because God has graciously put His word in our mouth and in our heart, the one who says, “Christ is Lord” and believes in His heart that God raised Him from the dead, that person is a recipient of God’s grace.
  • This grace has been extended to Jews and Gentiles alike.  “All” who call on the name of the Lord are saved, and all who call upon the name of the Lord do so because God graciously put His word in their mouth and in their heart.
    • This passage supports both of these ideas:
      • The Gospel should be preached to all people.  There are no people we could look at and think they couldn’t be saved.
      • God will have mercy upon whom He has mercy.  Whom He graciously saves will believe and call Christ their Lord.

Questions to consider:

  1. The last couple of passages have said much about the sovereignty of God in our election and even God’s grace in our repentance and conversion.  Some people feel like these biblical ideas prevent evangelism.  Instead, how do these truths guarantee our success in evangelism?  When we obey the Lord and share the Gospel, if God graciously opens that person’s eyes and heart, what will they do?
  2. In what ways has God put His word in your heart and mouth?  Whom did God us to preach the Gospel to you?  How could God use you to share the Gospel with others?
  3. If you sincerely call out to God for salvation, what has He promised He will do?  Why is this promise so wonderful?  On whose character and faithfulness does our security rest?  Why is that such good news?