Last week we spoke on the Urgency of our Prayer – "My hearts desire and prayer is for all of Israel to be saved." And we spoke on the centrality of our Proclamation "That if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead you shall be saved." And now we must turn to embrace the Necessity of Evangelism as our Profession. the prayers and the proclamation that rise from this great hope... now lead us to a point of identity... we come to a point where our Profession is embraced.

Romans 10:1-13 brings us to the peak application of the book of Romans. Here Paul, led by the Holy Spirit, brings us into the culminating expressions of the Christian before the glory of the Gospel.

Paul guides us to consider the sovereignty of God that lies behind this gospel. God is sovereign in how he saves (in mercy to those who believe). God is sovereign in who he saves (as we will see God crafts for fitness the vessels of mercy). And God is sovereign in order and timing in which he brings his salvation to the nations.

An overview of Romans 9 brings us to verse 22-24 and the challenge to the obstinate heart. Who are to to say to the one who has formed you? Consider God's sovereignty before your Salvation.

From James 1:9-11 the danger of finding our identity in temporary things is corrected by the truth found in God's Saving GRACE!

When Jesus cried out, "If anyone thirst come to me and drink" we must understand that he was present before those he was inviting. He still is. The waters of revival are not far from us but right before us.

God entices us to ask for wisdom holding out to us a promise, a provision, and His own generous presence. Finally He entices us with a precedent set. God is a giving God. Finally there one proviso... Ask in faith and don't doubt the Provider. Introductory words on the author James and then an in depth look at the promise to give wisdom to those who lack it.

Ruble #1 - We lose sight of God's power; Ruble #2 - we replace the authority of His word with our own renditions and our own needs, the doctrines are replaced with ethics and moralisms and we forget all that Christ has delivered us from and does deliver us from. Ruble #3 - We become dispossessed of the wonderful doctrines of justification, regeneration and therefore our understanding of sanctification is just something like, Try harder, be better, we all stumble and fall so pick yourself up, dust yourself off and do your best. And with this #4 the final load of Rubble in the Well is A THOUSAND LITTLE THINGS!

The doctrine of the new birth is faintly preached in our day. The reason is that it would not be received with joy in many congregations. 1 John was a letter most gladly received to its initial recipients. The same letter preached in many of our churches would be sobering and greatly convicting. So be it!

Deny or stifle a robust emotional expressions of guilt, shame or fear and you lose your hold on the greatness of the doctrine of justification. What the individuals need is not that these emotions be tamped down. Instead they must be raised in them to an acute level. This is what the Holy Spirit is doing as he convicts of sin, righteousness and judgment. Then when at full flame these emotions drive us to an answer for them in the cross of Christ.