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There is no simple mind that can evade the plain force of this last expression. Of course our new Perfection brethren, spick and span saints as they are, are not like Jack, they are not "poor sinners, and nothing at all," and I am afraid lest some of them should find out that Jesus Christ is not their all in all. that is, the word of faith, which we preach -- --that is, the word which men were to believe and obey for salvation (compare 1 Timothy 4:6). No man among us doubts that if he had performed the law of God the Lord would give him life; but it is equally certain that if we have believed in the Lord Jesus Christ we have eternal lire. The point is best understood by examining the source of Pauls information. Nothing can be more simple and essential. (9-13) How Gods righteousness is gained by faith. Cold desires do but beg denials; we must even breathe out our souls in every prayer. "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." "Paul, a bondman of Jesus Christ" an apostle "called," not born, still less as educated or appointed of man, but an apostle "called," as he says "separated unto the gospel of God, which he had promised afore by his prophets." For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever.". Romans 10:14-17. Through His Word. The Jews built on a false foundation, and refused to come to Christ for free salvation by faith, and numbers in every age do the same in various ways. Please see our Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. Now, our flesh likes the complications, because I would like to take some credit and receive some glory for salvation. What the law says, it speaks to those under it. There is a disposition continually to imagine that what is frequently spoken of must be understood; but experience will soon show that this is not the case. In the moments when the soul is in the lowest depths, faith is the only way to live. Yet Israel ignored this word also, making them more accountable. Christ holds it out to you: take it freely, and be rich for ever. This might seem an exaggeration: the gospel had not been carried throughout all the earth, not even to all the lands that were known to the inhabitants of the Graeco-Roman world. To man this is the hardest of all obedience; but when once secured, it leads peacefully into the obedience of every day. But the righteousness which stems from faith speaks like this--"Do not say in your heart, 'Who shall go up into heaven?' Though it directs us to a better and more effectual righteousness in Christ, yet in itself, considered as a law abstracted from its respect to Christ and the gospel (for so the unbelieving Jews embraced and retained it), it owneth nothing as a righteousness sufficient to justify a man but that of perfect obedience. Wrapping everything up into one, the gospel says, "Trust thou in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thy sins shall be forgiven thee, and thou shalt be saved." Be he Jew or be he Gentile, his only righteousness by law must come through the doing of the law. When our time comes to depart, we shall just step aside and say, "Good-bye, dear friends, awhile: we will meet again in the home of the blessed." Thus, the true God being lost, all was lost, and man's downward career becomes the most painful and humiliating object, unless it be, indeed, that which we have to feel where men, without renewal of heart, espouse in pride of mind the truth with nothing but unrighteousness. c. Establish their own righteousness: This effort shows Israels lack of knowledge and that they are ignorant of Gods righteousness. But what saith it? 14:1 - 15:14. Even the saints there would have been all the better for the gospel. Suppose you cannot walk on the sea, like Peter: never mind; you are not called to do it. "Don't scold," said one. If a man kept the law perfectly, even Moses concluded that such a person would live (be saved). "At any rate he is a saved soul," we hear. "Not so," replies the apostle. In our concern to understand what the apostle is saying about righteousness, justification, and the like we ought not to overlook his tremendous concentration on God." (Morris) i. Not a pretty toy for Sundays, but food to live upon; a common-sense hope; a blunt man's religion that he can carry into business. Ah, my Lord, what should I do then if I could not as "a poor sinner, and nothing at all" find Christ to be my "all in all." Having shown first, then, the sources and the character of the blessing in general as far as regards deliverance, the apostle sums up the result in the end of the chapter: "That as sin hath reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life," the point being justification of life now through Jesus Christ our Lord. Anyone who thinks that justification by faith is a new concept needs to re-study the Old Testament and the book of Romans. It says that no man is forbidden to believe; "for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him." Yet, how many times we take the promises of God and say, "Oh, God, just help me to believe. A disobedient and contrary people: This tells Gods assessment of disobedient, Messiah-rejecting Israel. Then he quotes Deuteronomy 30:12-13. Thus, they are seeking for a righteousness from works, their good works, and they have rejected that righteousness that God has established for them. If you crawl on your knees for five miles to kiss the statue you can be spared several days of purgatory. Next, what the gospel says: "But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise," and so on. No, he says only, "He that doeth those things shall live by them." No Gentile would do it who had not ceased worshipping the emperor as Kurios. You cannot believe in him unless you hear about him. It is through the Word of God that we come to know God. It is not as if we have to ascend into heaven or descend into the abyss to gain Jesus. "For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. Hence the faithful derive from this passage remarkable consolation with regard to the certainty of the word; for they may no less safely rest on it, than on what is actually present. He and his wife, Adrian, are beautiful people. Well, I can't either, but God didn't call me to reconcile it, He just called me to believe it.I tried to reconcile it for years until I was in such mental gymnastics I was worn out. He was ordered to be beaten. The facts were so well known by the preaching of the apostles, that they might be said to be in every mans mouth. - BN. As to those who have been called home, how have they died? There is a preaching which blasts the sinner with tempestuously angry words; but always Paul speaks the truth in love. Whosoever believed should not be ashamed; whosoever called should be saved. The remnant proves, then, that even under judgment the rejection of Israel is not complete, but rather a pledge of future favour. The story of Jesus Christ passed through all of the Jewish communities around the world. Did this seem to treat the law that condemned as an evil thing? Their problem is not that they have not heard or understood it, but that they have refused to believe it (see v. 16). Experience says, and we are some of us here to say it, that it is the grandest way of living in the world. These words were from the final sermon given by Moses. Even those that seek a place of separation to the Lord outside that which is now hurrying on souls to destruction are, nevertheless, deeply affected by the condition of that Christendom in which we find ourselves. ( Romans 10:5-8 ). The direction is "unto all;" the application is, of course, only to "them that believe;" but it is to all them that believe. why am I still under bondage and misery from the constant evil of my nature, over which I seem to have no power whatever? To these then he wishes, as was his wont, the fresh flow of that source and stream of divine blessing which Christ has made to be household bread to us: "Grace and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ" (ver. Concerning faith: It is with the heart that man believeth, which implies more than an assent of the understanding, and takes in the consent of the will, an inward, hearty, sincere, and strong consent. Choose a verse from 'Romans 10' to begin your 'Verse-by-Verse' study of God's Word using the more than 100 commentaries available on StudyLight.org. Confess with your mouth: Confession has the idea of agreeing with. The subject terminates with the grand truth which must never be obscured by details that we are to receive, one another, as Christ has received us, to the glory of God. (that is, to bring, Christ down from above:) or, Who shall descend into the deep? It was meant to make sin exceeding sinful. Paul was entirely ready to admit that the Jews were zealous for God; but he also saw that their zeal was a misdirected thing. Hence, as God's wrath is revealed from heaven, it is against every form of impiety "against all ungodliness." The application of this was more evident to the Gentile than to the Jew. Israel responsible for its own loss (9:30-10:21). The unbelieving Jews were the most bitter enemies Paul had in the world, and yet Paul gives them as good a character as the truth would bear. He was God over all blessed for ever, as well as their Messiah. Of course, it could hardly be the law: that was the boast of Israel. Wonderful to think the Spirit of God associates Himself with us in it all, deigning to give us divine feelings even in our poor and narrow hearts. God has done all that is necessary, and we receive His gift of righteousness by faith" (Vol. To this he refers likewise, Galatians 3:12, The man that doeth them, shall live in them. What gives glory to God like this? Thus one could not fail to see these two weighty inferences: the bringing in to be God's sons of those that had not been His people, and the judgment and destruction of the great mass of His undoubted people. He laughs at all our comeliness, he knows that it is a hollow cheat, a vile sham. Now the fact that Jesus went to the cross is God's witness before the world that there is only one way that a man can come to God, and that is by the cross of Jesus Christ. He quotes also from Isaiah "Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed." The connection is fully owned with that which had been from God of old. I have lost a friend tender and true to me, and my heart is too full for utterance. "For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified." Listen to it, lost ones; you need not climb to heaven: Christ has come down from heaven to you; and if you lie among the spiritually dead to-day, or think you do, he has come down to you, and you need not enquire bow you can go up to him. THE DESTRUCTION OF EXCUSES ( Romans 10:14-21 ), 10:14-21 How are they to call on him on whom they have not believed? It is Paul's one desire that the Jews may be saved. It is the thing which troubles a renewed conscientious soul above all, because of his surprise at finding the deep evil of the flesh and its mind after having proved the great grace of God in the gift of Christ. He saves those who are always confessors of sin, always needy in themselves, and therefore always glad of him. Our Lord Jesus lays a great stress upon this confessing of him before men; see Matthew 10:32; Matthew 10:33. It was about eating pork. It is against the "unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness." Not only was Abraham justified without law, but apart from that great sign of mortification of the flesh. And how can they proclaim it unless they be sent?So the basis for missions: having heard, having believed, having known, we are now responsible to send those to tell others of this glorious salvation and righteousness that God has offered to all men, Jew and Greek, who will just simply believe on His son Jesus Christ. It is agreed by all commentators that this is one of the most difficult and obscure passages in the letter to the Romans. For instance, if a man signs a contract without having read the conditions, he cannot complain if afterwards he finds out that the conditions are very different from what he thought they were. The things about which we are in doubt are far fewer than we would like to think. Romans 12:1-21 looks at the mutual duties of the saints. But what saith it? There is nothing about law there; it is all based on faith. For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building. I appeared plainly to those who did not enquire after me." Jesus in the garden prayed, "Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me." 2 Corinthians 2:14-16, 3:4-5, 5:18-21, Exodus 19:6 Hebrews 4:14-16, Psalm 32:8 Romans 5:10-11, James 2:14-17 Proverbs 4:1-9, John 14:26 Romans 10: . No, we will find out next week as we move into Romans 11:0 that God still has a plan whereby He is going to bring salvation to the Jew. At least they have a, Seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God, i. That is the first necessity for the sinner with God. Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here. Consequently the call of God, and not the birth simply makes the real difference. A Jew would find it hard to believe that the way to God was not through the law; this way of trust and of acceptance was shatteringly and incredibly new to him. A passage like this may seem strange to us and unconvincing; and it may seem that some at least of the texts Paul quotes have been wrenched out of their context and made to mean what they were never intended to mean. By proceeding, you consent to our cookie usage. First of all, the groundwork of it is laid in the first four verses, the last of them leading into every-day walk. I will read his exact words to you. Obedience was possible and the consequences of obedience (Gods blessings) were sure. Another, despairing of deliverance by his doings, runs upon his feelings, and cries, "If I am to be saved, surely I shall need to experience joys like those which are felt by spirits before the throne. He was "declared," says the apostle, "to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead" ( , ver. What glory so rich as that of the Christ Himself duly appreciated? Psalms 19:1-14 is used in the most beautiful manner to insinuate that the limits are the world. There is mutual confirmation. For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God." What, then, is its voice? He shall own that once glorious seat of royalty in Israel. How shall they hear without a preacher? For they being ignorant of Gods righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. And by the foolish nation I will anger you.". The righteousness which is of faith, what does it say to us? Their zeal was not according to knowledge. Bible Book List. First Moses says: I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation, There are some that find a difficulty here, because the expression "to hold" means holding firmly. It is not a question of creature-standing. I do say this for them--that they do have a zeal for God, but it is not a zeal which is based on a real knowledge. b. I want a righteousness which would need as much labor to produce as a climb to heaven would need; and I require an expiation for sin as great as though a man were plunged into the abyss itself, and there were made to suffer the divine anger. Click to enable/disable _gid - Google Analytics Cookie. So that this was no other than what Moses and the prophets said should be, Ro 10:20, and the chapter is closed, Ro 10:21, with another passage out of the same prophet in the next verse, showing the rejection of Christ and his Gospel by the Jews, and which justifies their being cast off by him, of which the apostle treats largely in the next chapter. This he shows further, Romans 10:3; Romans 10:3, where we may observe. Moses spoke a word that had to be obeyed, but Paul proclaims a word that must be believed. This Huckster Jack was a poor, wicked fellow, who had gone about from village to village, swearing, drinking, huckstering and perhaps pilfering. 8, after thanking God through Jesus for their faith spoken of everywhere, and telling them of his prayers for them, he briefly discloses the desire of his heart about them his long-cherished hope according to the grace of the gospel to reach Rome his confidence in the love of God that through him some spiritual gift would be imparted to them, that they might be established, and, according to the spirit of grace which filled his own heart, that he too might be comforted together with them "by the mutual faith both of you and me" (vv. No fresh revelations from God can nullify those which preceded them; but as the prophets looked onward to what was coming, so is the gospel already come, supported by the past. Can it cry? Many times people say, "Oh, I wish I had more faith," and I think that oftentimes we almost insult God by our lack of faith.I have heard people pray, "Oh, Lord, help me to believe. we know how this was in Israel, how it might be, and has been, in Christendom. I thank God he could say that of my religion: it did this for my dear friend it made him a happy man, whose pleasure it was to please others: and now he has passed away in full sunlight into a still brighter noon. But there is much more in Christ than that to which too many souls restrict themselves, not less to their own loss than to His dishonour. The believer in Jesus shall be saved because he is a believer; and Christ's veracity is staked thereon: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. This applies to all who cast themselves upon God in faith, Jews and Gentiles alike (11-13).Before people can believe this message, they must hear it. To a disobedient and contrary people.. As used by Moses in this place, it evidently means that his doctrines were in their mind, or were a subject of meditation and reflection. 5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. (ii) There is the ignorance which comes from wilful blindness. If you are to be saved by the commandments you must do them: that is clear. (1.) For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. The believer is not put under law, you will observe, but under grace, which is the precise reverse of law. Christ is nigh thee, for the word is nigh thee: nigh thee indeed: it is in thy mouth, and in thy heart; there is no difficulty in understanding, believing, and owning it. "Ah, well," says one, "I know I must undergo a singular experience-either I must be carried right away to heaven with delirious delight, or be plunged into the waves of hell in frightful despair." This knowledge was readily available and known to all. It was the Lord giving us the profit of sorrow, and ourselves bowing to the way and end of God in it, so that the result of tribulation should be rich and fruitful experience. I. Paul here professes his good affection to the Jews, with the reason of it (Romans 10:1; Romans 10:2), where he gives them a good wish, and a good witness. But such thoughts altogether vanish now, because, as the Gentile was unquestionably wicked and abominable, so from the law's express denunciation the Jew was universally guilty before God. "Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Men have an infinite and fatal capacity for shutting their minds to what they do not wish to see, and stopping their ears to what they do not wish to hear. You always can block or delete cookies by changing your browser settings and force blocking all cookies on this website. This verse shows that believing faith does not come ultimately from the believer's witness but from the Word of God. The inner man is dealt with, and searched through and through. One thing remains to be said of this passage. It would not have been righteous in any sense to have remitted the sins, until they were actually borne by One who could and did suffer for them. "For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. And I heard Keith giving his testimony on television the other night and he said that living here in southern California, going to UCLA and all, he was twenty-four years old before he ever heard about Jesus Christ. Clear, then, as possible it must be to every man among us who will think, that if the only way of salvation by the works of the law is by the keeping of the law in its entirety, then that road is closed against us, and the sooner we have done with it the better; for then we shall turn our thoughts in the right direction, and travel on the way which the Lord in great mercy has prepared for us. Then Isaiah says, greatly daring: "I was found by those who did not seek me. The information in verse 8 makes the point even more forcefully. Not in our descending, but in Christ's descending our hope is to be found. What is to be done according to Gods word? In the fourth verse this could not be absent; in the first verse it ought not to be present. I mean to let it stand out simply before you, that the incarnation, the life, the death, and the resurrection of Christ are the one foundation upon which we must depend for eternal salvation, and upon that alone; and if we do so depend we shall most assuredly be saved. I have never been down-hearted at anything my life; certainly not at the thought of dying. b. Paul's joy and boast were in the gospel of God. It is not even enough to believe in him, as being the Son of God, and the anointed of the Lord; but we must believe on him The faith that saves is not believing certain truths, nor even believing that Jesus is a Savior; but it is resting on him, depending on him, lying with all your weight on Christ as the foundation of your hope. Or, being ignorant of God's way of justification, which he has now appointed and revealed by Jesus Christ. This plainly shows that Christ's descent into the deep, or into hades, was no more than his going into the state of the dead, in allusion to Jonah. The gospel at its height in no wise weakens but maintains the moral manifestation of what God is. If what is possible? As He has made all, so He is heir of all. He was a man of rare common sense, straightforward and downright in his aims, and most pithy in his speech, with such a mixture of mother-wit that he might have been taken for John Ploughman's brother, as indeed he was. I hope that brethren in Christ will bear with me if I press on them the importance of taking good heed to it that their souls are thoroughly grounded in this, the proper place of the Christian by Christ's death and resurrection. To this then the apostle comes, after having spoken of the divine favour shown himself, both when a sinner, and now in his own special place of serving the Lord Jesus. He wished his beloved ones to go to their beds; and since they would stop with him, he desired them to sing." So I have found by my making over my other grandchildren she'll come elbowing her way in to get close to Grandpa. Man seeks to complicate it. I do not mean by this its truth merely, but its exquisite suitability; so that the opening address commences the theme in hand, and insinuates that particular line of truth which the Holy Spirit sees fit to pursue throughout. The truth is not difficult to be understood and embraced. Let me call your attention again to its force. This is precisely what salvation does not mean; and I would strongly press it on all that hear me, more particularly on those that have to do with the work of the Lord, and of course ardently desire to labour intelligently; and this not alone for the conversion, but for the establishment and deliverance of souls. Thus it is a mistake to suppose that saints may not be benefited by a better understanding of the gospel, at least as Paul preached it. "Christ's Prayer for his People.". They are really rebelling against God's path of righteousness, having established now their own righteousness by works, as Paul here declares. Has God then no delivering power from this? (1-3) Israels refusal to submit to the righteousness of God. i. Pauls hearts desire also translated into concrete action: prayer to God for Israel. a. Hear this! The apostle writes with the full assertion of his own apostolic dignity, but as a servant also. This is to fall back on a principle he had already used. Whoever you are, God's promise is to you that if you call upon the name of the Lord you will be saved. "He that doeth those things," that is, always, without exception, with all his heart and soul and strength "he shall live by them"; but nobody else. The old man refused. And it is well for those ignorant of it to know that here, in verse 4, the apostle speaks first of "walking not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." The figure of the relationship of husband and wife is introduced in order to make the matter plain. If a Jew is wealthy enough he will sometimes install a time switch to switch on the lights at dusk on Sabbath without his doing so himself. Faith is to both; it is the condition of our justification (Romans 5:1; Romans 5:1), and it is the root and spring of our sanctification; in it it is begun; by it it is carried on, Acts 15:9. Did they fall back on Abraham? As Cottrell observes: Moses emphasis is clearly on the accessibility and understandability of Gods law. He did not say, "Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O my friends, for the hand of the Lord hath touched me." There is a kind of telegraphic quality about the writing. The first is Moses himself. To call Jesus kurios ( G2962) was to count him unique. and how can they believe in him in whom they have not heard? Gentiles, who have no law, are justified by faith, and Jews can be too, if they will believe instead of trying to win Gods favour through keeping the law. He deals with the Jew from his own Scripture (verses 9-19). Horribly offensive as sin is to God, and inexcusable in the creature, it is sin which has given occasion to the astonishing display of divine righteousness in justifying believers. When we confess the Lord Jesus, we agree with what God said about Jesus, and with what Jesus said about Himself. There is entrance into favour, and nothing but favour. $150.00 + $30 . It is not in any degree settled as to itself by His blood. Truly they had a zeal for the law. He had no uncertainty; he was as sure of his safety as it it had been a matter of calculation by the rules of arithmetic. You, dear friend, down the aisle there, it you trust in Christ you shall never be ashamed of your hope. d. But what does it say? d. Seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God: Israel had a lack of knowledge. Such moral judgments will, no doubt, be used to leave man without excuse; they can never suit or satisfy God. Thou art my hiding-place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Here is an instance of what is so reprehensible. Knowing God we come to believe and trust in God. The Holy Ghost, who now gives the soul its consciousness of deliverance from its place in Christ, is also the witness that the body too, the mortal body, shall be delivered in its time. We know not how low he went, but we are told that "he descended into the lower parts of the earth." Thirdly, let us consider, WHAT THE SCRIPTURE SAITH; "Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed." I have always felt obliged to the Cardinal for that admission; because the best is good enough for me, and since trusting in Jesus is the safest, I intend to stick to it even to the end. But the righteousness which is of faith speaks like this, Don't say in your heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? Again, we cannot neglect the emphasis on personal responsibility. He is, of course, the same absolutely perfect and unchangeable God of goodness; but His perfection has displayed itself in new and more glorious ways in Christ's death, in Him who humbled Himself, and was obedient even to the death of the cross. But when Paul emphasizes the need to believe that God has raised him from the dead, it is not that we believe the resurrection as opposed to the cross, but encompassing the work of Jesus on the cross. No longer does the question exist of requiring an expiation. It must also be noticed, that the word, by which we have a firm and calm trust as to our salvation, had been set forth even by Moses: This is the word of faith. It was for this then that Paul describes himself as apostle. The sacrifices, and offerings, and purifications appointed under the Old Testament, prefigured Christ, and pointed at him; and their inability to take away sin discovered the necessity of a sacrifice that should, by being once offered, take away sin. And the blessedness of the gospel is, that it is (not merely an exercise of mercy, but also) divinely just. "This wail of despair takes many forms: one man puts it thus: "What doings can I perform by which I can be saved? There is no question of a people on earth, and of God's wrath breaking out in one form or another against human evil in this life. In the Fourth Book of Maccabees there is an amazing incident. 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