{"id":840,"date":"2020-03-01T18:35:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T00:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/?p=840"},"modified":"2020-03-01T18:35:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T00:35:43","slug":"faith-comes-by-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/01\/faith-comes-by-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith Comes by Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cSo shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing<\/em> whereto I sent it.<\/strong>\u201d
Isaiah 55:11 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

God called many prophets in the Old\nTestament to go forth and declare His Word to people. They mostly went, no\nmatter what happened to them. We all remember one particular prophet who chose\nto disobey God. He chose to go the opposite direction God wanted him to go. The\nway he<\/em><\/strong>\nwanted to go. Remember him? Jonah, forever known as the prophet who was\nswallowed by a whale. Why did that happen to him? Because he chose to do what he<\/em><\/strong>\nwanted, instead of obeying God. But only after he was in the belly of that\ngreat fish for three days and three nights, praying, was he willing to go\ndeliver the Word of the Lord to the people of Nineveh. Even with his\nbegrudgingly behavior, thousands of people repented before God, and God spared\nthe people and the city. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you ever considered any of the\nother prophets God sent forth? Remember Isaiah. God asked who He could send,\nwho would go tell the people. Isaiah said, \u201cHere am I; send me.\u201d God told him to\ngo and tell the people, but Isaiah was warned that the people would hear him,\nbut would not listen to him. They would not understand what he was telling\nthem. They would not take any of the counsel of God\u2019s Word that he gave to\nthem. It might sound good for somebody else, but not them. They would not get\nit. Isaiah had God\u2019s Word, yet the people would not receive it. When Isaiah\nasked God how long he would have to tell this people who wouldn\u2019t really listen\nto anything he said, God told him to continue to tell the people until there\nwas no one left to tell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you think that would have been a\nhard thing to do? Isaiah was given more prophecies concerning Jesus, the Messiah\nthat was to come, than any other prophet. He was instrumental in helping the\npeople understand that salvation is of the Lord \u2013 not of anything man can do. Isaiah\u2019s\nname even signifies this, for his name means \u201cSalvation is of the Lord.\u201d Nevertheless,\ntradition declares that King Manasseh had him sawn in two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many other people declared the\ntruths of God\u2019s Word. One cannot help but think of Peter as he told of Jesus,\nand many thousands of people give their hearts and lives to Jesus. Paul gave\nhis life telling people about Jesus, and establishing churches to teach the\napostles doctrine. He also spent much time in prison. Stephen preached the\nGospel message of Jesus, and he was stoned to death. However, these men were\nfaithful to the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today should be no different. Each\nChristian is called to go and tell the Gospel message of Jesus. To tell the\ndifference that God\u2019s Word has made in that Christian\u2019s life. No one may hear.\nNo one may understand. They might believe that it is good for someone else, not\nfor them. They might not receive it. Nevertheless, we are called to go and tell\n\u2013 even when people don\u2019t want to hear about Jesus. \u201cSo then faith cometh<\/em> by hearing, and hearing by the word of God<\/strong>\u201d\n(Romans 10:17). People must hear<\/em><\/strong> before they can believe<\/em><\/strong>.\n\u201cHow then shall they call on him in whom\nthey have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not\nheard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?<\/strong>\u201d  (Romans 10:14). The word preacher<\/em> here means \u201cto herald (as a public crier), especially\ndivine truth (the Gospel); preach, proclaim, publish.\u201d This means anyone can\ndeclare or \u201ccry out\u201d the Gospel message. \u201cSo\nshall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me\nvoid, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in\nthe thing<\/em> whereto I sent it<\/strong>\u201d (Isaiah 55:11). We are just required to\ndeclare God\u2019s Word to people. God will take care of the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, no one will know the Gospel\nmessage of Jesus if we do not tell it. \n\nHave you told anyone about what Jesus has done for you?\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

God called many prophets in the Old Testament to go forth and declare His Word to people. They mostly went, no matter what happened to them. We all remember one particular prophet who chose to disobey God. He chose to go the opposite direction God wanted him to go. The way he wanted to go. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[383,353,396,186,240,405,59,80,404,403,359],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-with-verse-and-blog","tag-believe","tag-faith","tag-faithful","tag-god","tag-gods-word","tag-hearing","tag-isaiah","tag-jesus","tag-obey","tag-prophets","tag-salvation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":842,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}