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Carl Westerlund :: Romans 10:1-4 - Ignorance Is Disastrous

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Romans in Outline No. 98

INTRODUCTION: WHAT ABOUT THE JEWS WHO STUMBLE?

Romans 9:30-33

1.1  PAUL’S GREAT CONCERN FOR HIS PEOPLE

Romans 10:1

2.1  Paul’s feelings for his people

Romans 10:1a

2.2  Paul’s prayer for unsaved Israel

Romans 10:1b

3.1  WHY PRAY FOR THE UNSAVED

3.2  HOW TO PRAY FOR THE UNSAVED

4.1  That the Holy Spirit would convict

4.2  That they would be receptive to the Word

1.2  A DESCRIPTION OF ISRAEL’S FAILURE

Romans 10:2-4

2.1  Their zeal was not based on correct knowledge

Romans 10:2

3.1  EVANGELISTIC ZEAL IS NOT ENOUGH

Matthew 23:15

3.2  RELIGIOUS FERVOR IS NOT ENOUGH

1 Kings 18:25-29

3.3  RELIGIOUS ASCETICISM IS NOT ENOUGH

Colossians 2:23

3.4  FERVANT PRAYING IS NOT ENOUGH

Matthew 6:7

3.5  PERSECUTIONS OF THOSE NOT FOLLOWING ONE’S RELIGIOUS VIEWS IS NOT ENOUGH

Acts 26:9-11

3.6  EXERCISING SPIRITUAL GIFTS IS NOT ENOUGH

Matthew 7:21-23

2.2  Their righteousness was not God’s righteousness

Romans 10:3-4

3.1  THEY WERE IGNORANT OF THE TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS

Romans 10:3a

3.2  THEIR RIGHTEOUSNESS WAS SELF–RIGHTEOUSNESS

Romans 10:3b

3.3  GOD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS CENTERED IN CHRIST

Romans 10:4

4.1  Christ is the goal of the Law

Matthew 5:17-18

4.2  Christ bore the curse of the law

Galatians 3:13

Romans 10:1-4

1 Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. 2 For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. 3 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. 4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. (NKJV)

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