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octoberose:
Rom 10:21  But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.

Yes, this is how Romans 10 ends. I'm thinking stretching out our hands to this disobeying people is part of how we live our lives.
 As far as the whole world knowing Jesus, I really do not think so.  The name  of Jesus is well known, but the mission of Jesus and the truth of Jesus is not. A great deal of the world is Muslim and they do not have knowledge of the true Jesus. I don't even have to go to the Muslim world or Russia or China to tell you that people don't know the simplest things anymore about the Jesus 'story'. When  Tyler Perry decides that young people do not know about Jesus so he makes a TV musical about the passion- well, really, they don't know anything. They think it's a fairytale. They know very, very little.

Porter:
Agreed octoberose. Billions have died having never heard about Jesus. Even those that have heard about Him and preach about Him, still do not actually believe and obey Him. At least it seems we agree that the name of Jesus is well known.

Hopefully God will give you better success at sharing His Word than He did for me. It certainly is possible that He will do that for you. Look at what He has done with Ray's ministry. Albeit Ray worked really hard and studied probably thousands of hours getting it right. Yet even he made the occasional mistake, but he could admit that and correct it.

Thanks octoberose, I appreciate the discussion. :)

Kat:

The whole Christian world - the many - does no 'know' Christ, they are blind to this truth and that is the way it is meant to be in this age.

Mat 7:22  “Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’
v. 23  “And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’

Christ carried this out in His ministry, He was not trying to open the masses eyes, but spoke so they could not understand. Only those very few disciples were pulled aside and taught the truth.

Mat 13:13  “Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand
v. 14 And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says:
‘Hearing you will hear and shall not understand,
 And seeing you will see and not perceive; 
v. 15  For the hearts of this people have grown dull.
 Their ears are hard of hearing,
 And their eyes they have closed,
 Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears,
 Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn,
 So that I should heal them.’
v. 16  “But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear; 
v. 17  “for assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.

This has been the same all the way since Jesus spoke those words till now, many are called but few, very few are chosen. He already has those designated who are the chosen few and He will certainly make sure to learn these truths and that could certainly be through us.

Eph 1:4  just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,

I just don't see that we need to do out reach to the world in sharing this truth, God can and will bring those chosen few that He desires to know these things to Him, with or without us.

mercy, peace and love
Kat

lostANDfound:
I learned something in that conversation (interrogation) with my cousin the pastor.  Pastors don't like being told that God doesn't need them to save anyone.   :o

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