OUR FATHER WHO WOULD FOUND  BY PEOPLE WHO WERE NOT HIS PEOPLE

The book of Romans chapter 10 verses 14 - 21 says this;

14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written:

“How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace,

Who bring glad tidings of good things!”

16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?” 17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

18 But I say, have they not heard? Yes indeed:

“Their sound has gone out to all the earth,

And their words to the ends of the world.”

19 But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says:

“I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation,

I will move you to anger by a foolish nation.

20 But Isaiah is very bold and says:

“I was found by those who did not seek Me;

I was made manifest to those who did not ask for Me.”

21 But to Israel he says:

“All day long I have stretched out My hands

To a disobedient and contrary people.”

The Apostle Paul  surveyed the scriptures and in this passage showed where the prophets had long before foretold of  the ground movement that would be employed to propagate the good news of the provision that God had made for the salvation of mankind. From the prophet Isaiah in chapter 52 verses 7 where he exclaims how beautiful were the feet of those who brought good news. In Psalm 19, the mechanics of the dispensing and recieving of the gospel is described as a sound that goes throughout the earth seeking out those who had not yet heard.

Paul then discusses the point of  Israel's rejection of entreaties of their God and which provided the opportunity for the Gentiles to find God even though they were not serving or even seeking Him.

Paul finds the words of prophets who foretold that the children of Israel would be disobedient to the gospel and that they would spurn God's outreach to them. This would then jsutify the dispersion of the good news of salvation to the ends of the earth and that this displacement would ultimately stir the Israelites to jealousy as the gentiles are enfolded into the family of their God.

Amen.

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