Prairie View Christian Church Norway, Iowa PastorTeacher Bill Wenstrom www'prairieviewchristian'org

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Prairie View Christian ChurchNorway,
IowaPastor-Teacher Bill Wenstromwww.prairievie
wchristian.org
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Thursday May 28, 2009Romans Romans 1014-Paul
Poses Three Rhetorical Questions That Demonstrate
Israels CulpabilityLesson 343
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Please turn in your Bibles to Romans 101.
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This evening we will note Romans 1014 in which
Paul poses three rhetorical questions that
demonstrate Israels culpability.
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They also emphasize the importance of the
communicators of the gospel in order that the
unsaved Jew might have an opportunity to exercise
faith in Jesus Christ as Savior so as to be saved
and declared justified by God.
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Romans 101, Brethren, my heart's desire and my
prayer to God for them is for their salvation.
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Romans 102, For I testify about them that they
have a zeal for God, but not in accordance with
knowledge.
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Romans 103, For not knowing about God's
righteousness and seeking to establish their own,
they did not subject themselves to the
righteousness of God.
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Romans 104, For Christ is the end of the law
for righteousness to everyone who believes.
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Romans 105, For Moses writes that the man who
practices the righteousness which is based on law
shall live by that righteousness.
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Romans 106, But the righteousness based on
faith speaks as follows DO NOT SAY IN YOUR
HEART, WHO WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN? (that is,
to bring Christ down).
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Romans 107, Or WHO WILL DESCEND INTO THE
ABYSS? (that is, to bring Christ up from the
dead).
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Romans 108, But what does it say? THE WORD IS
NEAR YOU, in your mouth and in your heart --
that is, the word of faith which we are
preaching.
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Romans 109, That if you confess with your mouth
Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God
raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
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Romans 1010, For with the heart a person
believes, resulting in righteousness, and with
the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
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Romans 1011, For the Scripture says, WHOEVER
BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.
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Romans 1012, For there is no distinction
between Jew and Greek for the same Lord is Lord
of all, abounding in riches for all who call on
Him.
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Romans 1013, For WHOEVER WILL CALL ON THE NAME
OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.
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Romans 1014, How then will they call on Him in
whom they have not believed? How will they
believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how
will they hear without a preacher?
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The first rhetorical question is the result of an
inference from Pauls teaching contained in
Romans 1013.
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The first rhetorical question How will they call
on Him in whom they have not believed? infers
that no one can call on Christ if they have not
believed in Him.
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Will they call is the third person plural
aorist middle subjunctive form of the verb
epikaleo (e)pikalevw) (ep-ee-kal-eh-o), which is
a synonym for exercising faith in Jesus Christ as
Savior.
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Pauls statement in Romans 1013 makes clear that
calling on the name of the Lord is synonymous
with faith in Christ since he says to do so
results in salvation and the Scriptures teach
that salvation is through faith alone in Christ
alone.
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Furthermore, in Romans 109, he teaches that if
one acknowledges with ones mouth that Jesus is
Lord, which is the same as believing that the
Father raised Him from the dead, then that person
will be saved.
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To acknowledge that Jesus is Lord is equivalent
to believing that the Father raised Him from the
dead since the resurrection demonstrated that
Jesus was God and the Scriptures teach that
salvation is only through faith alone in Christ
alone.
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Therefore, calling on the name of the Lord is
synonymous with exercising faith in the Lord
Jesus since both yield the same results and the
Scriptures teach that salvation is only through
faith alone in Christ alone.
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A sinner cannot call on Christ if they have not
believed in Him since calling on Him is an
acknowledgement of His deity and to acknowledge
His deity is to believe that the Father raised
Him from the dead since the resurrection
demonstrated that Jesus of Nazareth is Lord, i.e.
God.
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The third person plural form of the verb is a
reference to the unsaved Jews in Israel as
indicated by Pauls statements in Romans 1016-21
where he teaches that Israel rejected Jesus of
Nazareth as their Savior, which was anticipated
by God in the prophets of the Old Testament.
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Romans 1014, How then will they call on Him in
whom they have not believed? How will they
believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how
will they hear without a preacher?
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The second rhetorical question How will they
believe in Him whom they have not heard? infers
that no one can believe in Christ as Savior if no
one has heard about Him.
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Will they believe in is the third person plural
aorist active subjunctive form of the verb
pisteuo (pisteuvw) (pist-yoo-o), which refers to
trusting or placing ones absolute confidence
in the fact that the Father raised Jesus from the
dead, which demonstrated that He is Lord and
leads to the acknowledgement of this fact.
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They have not heard is composed of the
emphatic negative adverb ou (ou)) (oo), not and
the third person plural aorist active indicative
form of the verb akouo (a)kouvw) (ak-oo-o), they
have heard.
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In Romans 1014, the verb akouo refers to
learning about or being informed about Jesus
Christ and His death and resurrection through the
proclamation of the gospel as indicated by the
verb kerusso that appears in the third rhetorical
question.
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The emphatic negative adverb ou emphatically
negates the idea of the Jew believing in Jesus
Christ as Savior without hearing the proclamation
of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Romans 1014, How then will they call on Him in
whom they have not believed? How will they
believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how
will they hear without a preacher?
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The third rhetorical question How will they hear
without a preacher? infers that no one can hear
about Jesus Christ without someone proclaiming
the gospel of Jesus Christ to them.
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Without a preacher is composed of the improper
preposition choris (xwriv) (kho-rece), without
and the genitive masculine singular present
active participle form of the verb kerusso
(khruvssw) (kay-roos-so), a preacher.
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In Romans 1014, the verb kerusso refers to Paul
and his fellow Christians who publicly
proclaimed the gospel of Jesus Christ as
heralds in a dignified and authoritative manner,
which commanded the respect and attention of the
unsaved Jew who was exposed to it.
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The improper preposition choris indicates that
the unsaved Jew can never learn about Jesus
Christ independently of or without any
connection to someone proclaiming the gospel of
Jesus Christ to them.
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The purpose of these three rhetorical questions
and the one in Romans 1015 is to demonstrate to
Pauls readers that Israel is culpable because
they did hear the gospel through Jesus Christ
Himself, His apostles, pastor-teachers,
evangelists and believers operating in their
royal ambassadorship but rejected Jesus Christ.
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These three rhetorical questions in Romans 1014
and the one in 1015 infer that no one can be
saved from eternal condemnation by calling on the
name of the Lord, if there is no one to
communicate the gospel to them.
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In these three rhetorical questions, Paul repeats
the verb from the end of one question at the
beginning of the next, thus creating a connected
chain of steps that must be followed if a person
is to receive eternal salvation.
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In the first rhetorical question, Paul infers
that if the unsaved Jew is to be saved, they must
acknowledge Jesus is Lord and this wont take
place unless they believed that the Father raised
Jesus from the dead since the resurrection
demonstrated Jesus is God and faith alone in
Christ alone is the only way to be saved.
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In the second, he infers that they cannot believe
that the Father raised Jesus from the dead unless
they have first heard the gospel since the gospel
speaks of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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In the third, he infers that the unsaved Jew
cannot hear or learn about the resurrection of
Jesus Christ through the communication of the
gospel unless there is someone to communicate the
gospel.
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Lastly, in the fourth rhetorical question in
Romans 1015, Paul infers that no one can
proclaim the gospel to the Jews unless God sends
them.
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Therefore, in Romans 1014-15, Paul teaches
through inference that the following progression
must take place for a person to be saved
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(1) God must send a person to communicate the
gospel (2) The unsaved Jew must hear or learn of
the resurrection of Christ through a person who
communicates the gospel
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(3) They must believe that Jesus was raised from
the dead after hearing the resurrection of Christ
proclaimed in the gospel (4) They must believe
that Jesus was raised from the dead in order that
they can acknowledge that Jesus is Lord.
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Pauls statements about Israels culpability in
rejecting the incarnate Son of God, Jesus of
Nazareth as their Savior in Romans 1018-21 is
demonstrated by these four rhetorical questions
in Romans 1014-15.
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