Rom 9:3
For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, those of my own race,
What an offer! Moses did a similar thing.

Rom 10:2
For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge.
They were zealous based on the law (legalism) and didn’t have the knowledge of Jesus.

Rom 10:10
For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.
Once we believe and are made right, then we want to live right.

Rom 10:13-15
for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." 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 they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!"
Believers are sent to preach – others hear – others believe – they call on Him – they are saved. Bottom line here is believers are sent and others are saved!

Rom 10:17
Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ.
When we (Phil and Patti) were children, we heard the message. We accepted what Christian adults told us. It brought about a measure of faith in what they were telling us. So that when we accepted Jesus for ourselves we already had a measure of faith. Phil likes to say that we knew Jesus first as a friend before we even knew we needed a Savior.

Rom 10:20
And Isaiah boldly says, "I was found by those who did not seek me; I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me."
We have often used the analogy of a horizontal line. Our life is like a horizontal line. We stay on the line and to eventual destruction until at some point (or many points) God reaches down to us and we reach back to Him. Then we are on the vertical line and on our way to life eternal.