Message; I don't want you to be lost. A message for your son, daughter, husband,

Everyone has seen the TV commercial one time or another where targeted people from the Publisher’s Clearinghouse Sweepstakes knock on someone’s door (not in your neighbor hood) to tell him that he has just won $5 million. The winner is rambling with joy, jumping in the air, crying, laughing, and by a hair's breadth not believing that this could be true.

But visualize that when the representivies from Publisher’s Clearinghouse tell the guy that he’s won $5 million, he pulls out a gun and says, “Get off my property or I’ll blow your brains out!” “What? But, sir, you don’t understand. We’re giving you blessing your for life with money! You’ve just won a fortune!” But he destructively grumbles, “I said, ‘Get off my property now!’”

That’s the contrast between Romans 10:15 & 16. In verse 15 we read (citing Isa. 52:7), “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news of good things!” The good news is the message of salvation. Even though you’ve sinned against the holy God and deserve His judgment, He offers a complete pardon to anyone who will receive it. As verse 13 says, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.” But in verse 16 we read, “However, they did not all heed the good news; for Isaiah says [citing Isa. 53:1], ‘Lord, who has believed our report?’”