Beautiful Feet!

SERMON OUTLINE:

Fact: All heard (vs 14-17)

Fact: Israel heard (vs 18-21)

Fact: Israel refused (vs 19-21)

SERMON BODY:

Ill:

• Nearly a quarter of all bones in our bodies are in our feet.

• There are 26 bones in each foot,

• As well as 33 joints, 19 muscles,

• 10 tendons and 107 ligaments.

• There are approximately 250,000 sweat glands in the feet,

• And on average,

• They excrete around 1 cup of moisture in one day.

• Your feet may just be the most ticklish part of your body.

• Because they contain 8000 nerve endings.

• The average person walks about 150,000 miles in a lifetime,

• 4 times around the earth.

• No wonder some of you ‘old timers’ are looking tired!

Questions:

• How would you feel if I asked you all to take off your shoes,

• And show your feet to the person either side of you?

• Would you be ok with that?

• Or would you be embarrassed?

• You don’t have to answer (although your partner might – lol).

• But anyone here got very sweaty feet?

• Anyone here got a hole in the toe of their socks?

• Or maybe you’re just not very fond of your feet.

• Confession time - I am not a feet person,

• I don’t mind my own,

• But I am not keen on other people’s feet!

• e.g. My wife has never had a foot massage from me!

• The only feet I touch are my own!

• TRANSITION:

• If you are wondering what the connection is to feet?

• Check out verse 15b,

“As it is written:

‘How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!’”

• So, whatever you think of your physical feet?

• According to this verse,

• You too can have feet that are, ‘beautiful!’

(1). FACT: All Heard (vs 14-17)

“How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can anyone preach unless they are sent?

As it is written: ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!’

But not all the Israelites accepted the good news. For Isaiah says, ‘Lord, who has believed our message?’ Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.”

Ill:

• Volvo engineer Nils Bohlin is unknown to most of us,

• But he has saved countless lives due to his 1959 invention,

• He came up with the idea of,

• The V-type three-point seat/safety belt.

• The Swedish car company could have made millions,

• By licensing the design to their competitors,

• But they decided to gift the design to the world,

• Instead of patenting it for themselves.

• Likewise, the car company Mercedes Benz,

• A number of years ago, produced a very clever advert.

• It showed a Mercedes Car being rammed into a wall,

• In order to reveal how the car’s frame,

• Was designed to protect the passengers in case of accident.

• In the commercial,

• An observer of this crash test,

• Asks the Mercedes spokesperson,

“Why have you not secured a patent on this crash-absorbing design?

Obviously, you’ve given your research to other carmakers, and they are copying you. Why did you do that?”

• The Mercedes spokesperson responded,

• And this is the line that has stuck with me,

• “Some things in life are too important not to share.”

• TRANSITION: When it comes to evangelism.

• We are called to share the gospel because,

• “Some things in life are too important not to share.”

In the verses you looked at last week.

• The apostle Paul has clearly shown,

• That salvation is available for everyone.

• It is a universal offer (vs 11-12), “‘Anyone,” (Jew or Gentile).

• But it is also a conditional offer (vs 13),

• Anyone, Jew or Gentile,

• MUST, “Call on the name of the Lord.”

• And now in verses 14-17 the apostle Paul will expand on this.

Notice:

• The first two verses (vs 14-15) are a series of questions.

• There is no command here.

• These verses are often quoted as a call to mission.

• But missions are not the goal here,

• If mission/evangelism were the goal,

• We would not be finding questions here but commands.

Notice: These questions all contain verbs.

• Verbs of course are doing words or action words,

• These verbs show to us,

• The or the process necessary for salvation.

• Step #1: The gospel begins with sending,