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He takes their own books, and proves from one of them (Deuteronomy) that in the ruin of Israel the resource is not going into the depths, nor going up to heaven. But why talk I so? All rights reserved. The rest of the chapter (7-25) is an instructive episode, in which the impotence and the misery of the renewed mind which attempts practice under law are fully argued out, till deliverance (not pardon) is found in Christ. by all that remains of the ancient world. But they have not all obeyed the gospel. 1-8 at the best online prices at eBay! Turn to Deuteronomy 30:11 . You may now believe in Christ and live eternally. Click to enable/disable Google Analytics tracking. If it were possible that man could be saved any other way, the cross would not be necessary. But this is the very thing that has happened, as it stands written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring the good news of good things. The condition of the Roman saints called for a setting forth of the gospel of God; but this object, in order to be rightly understood and appreciated, leads the apostle into a display of the condition of man. Nothing of this is intended in the class that is here brought before us. Paul does not raise the possibility of the message being read. a. How blessed it is when a child of God has actually fallen into sin, God keep us so that we never may, but if guilt is on the soul, what is a poor creature to do? There was somewhat as yet lacking to the saints there; but even this was ordered of God to call forth from the Holy Ghost an epistle which more than any other approaches a complete treatise on the fundamentals of Christian doctrine, and especially as to righteousness. This is now become impossible, by reason of the power of sin and the corruption of nature; but Christ is the end of the law. Hence the very fact of being renewed makes one sensible of a far more intense misery than ever, while there is no power until the soul looks right outside self to Him who is dead and risen, who has anticipated the difficulty, and alone gives the full answer to all wants. Zealous the Jews were and are. To whom, then, did the law address itself? This makes them more accountable for their rejection of the good news. It is not God seeking, or man bringing righteousness. There is the balance. They beat up on him the other day. It is nigh you; it is nigh you now: it will never be nigher than it is at this moment. No, he says only, "He that doeth those things shall live by them." I have had Bible studies in their home in Santa Monica, and Keith was by here the other day. For Moses described the righteousness which is of the law, [he said,] That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. What is nigh us may be easily obtained. If you wish to be saved by the law you must do its commands and you shall live. The past history of Israel was sketched inRomans 9:1-33; Romans 9:1-33; the present more immediately is before us inRomans 10:1-21; Romans 10:1-21. 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. He would not therefore have them ignorant how they had lain on his heart for a visit (ver. The law never delivers; it condemns and kills us. Upon what ground? The man who, being baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, or Christian baptism, would assert any license to sin because it is in his nature, as if it were therefore an inevitable necessity, denies the real and evident meaning of his baptism. Romans 10:17, KJV: So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Compare Peter's use in1 Peter 2:10; 1 Peter 2:10. Moses spoke a word that had to be obeyed, but Paul proclaims a word that must be believed. (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) Not so, says the apostle; it is because of the evil of the nature, not of the law. At least they have a, Seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God, i. 1. (that is, to bring Christ again from the dead.) We cannot keep the law now, for we have already broken it: the vase is fractured, and to talk of keeping it entire is nonsense. Suppose you cannot walk on the sea, like Peter: never mind; you are not called to do it. Deuteronomy 30:14. And, of course, the way we build up ourselves in the most holy faith is through the Word. Who bring glad tidings of good things!. 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. Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? But thus the way is now clear for bringing the Jew into the discussion. (i) There is the ignorance which comes from neglect of knowledge. (2.) First, he raises the question, "Has God cast away his people?" He quotes from Joel, that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. It is not merely a call then; but as we have by our Lord Jesus Christ our access into the favour wherein we stand, so there is positive boasting in the hope of the glory of God. Look to him and salvation is thine. "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. First Moses said, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation and I will anger you ( Romans 10:19 ). Our Lord Jesus lays a great stress upon this confessing of him before men; see Matthew 10:32; Matthew 10:33. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek ( Romans 10:11-12 ): Quite a statement for Paul a Hebrew of the Hebrews to make--no difference between the Jew and the Greek, that is, as far as salvation is concerned. But there is more, which Paul afterwards insisted on. First of all, the groundwork of it is laid in the first four verses, the last of them leading into every-day walk. This Huckster Jack was a poor, wicked fellow, who had gone about from village to village, swearing, drinking, huckstering and perhaps pilfering. It seems to us that what we have here is not so much a finished passage as summary notes. The Gentiles the despised heathen were to be brought in; the self-satisfied Jews are left behind, justly and beyond question, if they believed the law and the prophets. Death, and nothing short of it, rightly dissolves the bond. It is Paul's one desire that the Jews may be saved. "O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! for what follow are manifestly his words, in Deuteronomy 30:14. the word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart; which is to be understood not of the law, for Moses himself is not speaking of the law only, but either of the whole word of God, both law and Gospel; or particularly of the Gospel, which holds forth those special blessings and promises of grace, pardon of sin, and circumcision of the heart, which are mentioned in the context, as what should be bestowed upon the people of the Jews in the latter days; and so is rightly applied by the apostle to the then dispensation, and is to be understood of the Gospel; which was nigh both in the ministration of it, by the apostles, to Jews and Gentiles, and in the application and experience of it; it was not only "in the mouth" of the preachers, but also of the hearers of it, by a hearty and sincere confession; and "in [their] hearts", being attended with the power of God, and received in the love of it, was truly believed in, and cordially embraced; that is, the word of faith. f. The Scripture says: Referring, I think, to the general sense of Scripture, rather than to any one passage. No wonder, if souls confound the two things together, that they never know deliverance in practice. Uttering a wish of evil against somebody or a thing. The doctrine of faith therefore, which reposes on the cross, establishes law, instead of making it void, as every other principle must (verses 27-31). This, they say, would at least make men moral and keep them sober: whereas even in this they err against the light; for it has been proved by history that such preaching makes men worse and worse. There was no part of heathenism practically viewed now, so corrupting as that which had to do with the objects of its worship. Not so, says the apostle. Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the Word of God.We are told in Jude that one of the ways by which we keep ourselves in that place of blessing, the blessings of God's love, is building up ourselves in the most holy faith. (verses 22-32.) Bible > Commentaries > Romans 10:9 . The soul of prayer is the heart's desire. The meaning is, that the doctrine was already so familiar, and so well understood, that it was actually in their mouth, that is, their language, their common conversation. "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man," etc. Thus the latter portion of the chapter is not doctrine exactly, but the proof of the difficulties of a soul who has not realised death to the law by the body of Christ. And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? To question the need for bringing someone from the deep was a denial of Jesus resurrection (CBL, Romans, p. 163). There are two things that might make insuperable difficulty: the one is the obstacle of sin in the nature to practical holiness; the other is the provocation and condemnation of the law. They become angry and envious when they see their supposedly ignorant Gentile neighbours accepting the gospel, but they themselves will not listen to it (19-21). You cannot hear about him unless there is someone to proclaim the good news. 18). There are in reality very few times when we can honestly say: "I never knew that things would turn out like this." God was rather provoking Israel to jealousy by the call of the Gentiles. for he came to bring everyone who believes and trusts into a right relationship with God. But there is more than this in Romans 4:1-25 He takes up a third feature of Abraham's case; that is, the connection of the promise with resurrection. It was for this then that Paul describes himself as apostle. Concerning profession: It is with the mouth that confession is made--confession to God in prayer and praise (Romans 15:6; Romans 15:6), confession to men by owning the ways of God before others, especially when we are called to it in a day of persecution. "The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart," that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim: 9 If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. As I said the other day, Do not behave like a rat behind the wainscot, only daring to come out in the dark. What does experience say about believing in Christ! ): Paul says it is not necessary for men to descend into the realms of death and Satan to attain salvation. (325) It is the word which requires faith, and is received by faith; or it is the word entitled to faith, worthy of being believed; or it is the word which generates and supports faith. The discovery is made that the source of the internal misery was that the mind, though renewed, was occupied with the law as a means of dealing with, flesh. "The word is nigh thee." Though Israel heard, they did not exercise saving faith in Christ making them (and us) all the more responsible. Not only God, but also our fellow men, must know what side we are on. If God has blessed your ministry or other holy work, the devil whispers, "You are a pretty fellow; you have done wonders"; and up you will go if you are not steadied by the firm conviction that you may not glory, since you are nothing at all in yourself, and your sole help is in Jesus your Lord. Granted that it is so, at once and fully. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. A great present-day preacher called preaching "pleading with men." So then faith must come by hearing, and hearing by the word of God ( Romans 10:16-17 ). "The word is near you. Jesus did not bleed and die to be a superfluity to us: he cattle to meet a grim necessity. Everything Paul touches in this letter he relates to God. They have not all obeyed the gospel. 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. These things are matters of conscience, and depend much for their solution on the degree to which souls have attained. It was a message that went out from God to sinners as such. Here is your answer. Jesus said, "Straight is the gate, and narrow is the way that leads to eternal life and few there be that find it, but broad is the way and broad is the gate that leads to destruction" ( Matthew 7:13-14 ). But, suppose I still say: "Can it be that they have not heard?" I have the deep satisfaction of saying that when our dear brethren and sisters fall asleep they reflect honor upon the gospel which we have preached. Your name is not on the list." Alas! Here you have it, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." Romans 4:1-8,13-17. Here now we have the basis for missionary activity by the church. For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness are going about to establish their own righteousness, and they have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. In this too we have the blessed connection of the Spirit (here peculiarly designated, for special reasons, "the Spirit of holiness"). But what saith it? So he essayed to join himself unto the church, but the brethren looked suspiciously at him and enquired, "What is your experience?" a. Isaiah is very bold: Isaiahs bold prophecy was a warning that Israel ignored, making them more accountable. Romans 10:14-17. But what is testified by Christian baptism is Christ's death. Alas! This is a clear statement. If the good news of God goes out to man, entirely blotting out the difference between a Jew and a Gentile, what becomes of His special promises to Abraham and to his seed? ", But all have not obeyed the good news. We have all that we need to find salvation and be blessed by God. Paul said, "It is eliminated." Yes, but this is another principle. 3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. It is near and not hard to attain. Salvation isn't way off in heaven some place. He and his wife, Adrian, are beautiful people. In the fourth verse this could not be absent; in the first verse it ought not to be present. The tenour of it is, Do, and live. There can be no one to proclaim the good news unless God commissions someone to do so." Please see our Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. Ask those who have seen them die. Their crowning glory was precisely what they would not hear of. Acts 17:31; 2 Corinthians 4:14; 1 Corinthians 15:13-20. There never was a sinner yet to whom God said, "You must not trust my Son": on the contrary, it is written, "Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." Far beyond. Paul ably demonstrated in the first several chapters of Romans how futile this is. Then he knows that Jesus will blot out his transgressions, and create in him a clean heart, and restore him to himself again, though now, like David, his sin is ever before him. The righteousness of faith lies not in dreams and visions, delusions or depressions: it lies only in reliance upon the work of Jesus finished for you. What, then, is its voice? Did they venture to plead that it must be not only the same father, but the same mother? There they were recorded, and Jack was a new man and a saved man. Have as many good works as you can cram into your life, but never tell anybody about them, or think anything of them. The apostle refers to Isaiah to show that God would "lay in Zion a stumbling-stone." Though he had never visited Rome, many of them were known personally. Now, our flesh likes the complications, because I would like to take some credit and receive some glory for salvation. In this chapter are contained an account of the two righteousnesses of faith and works, a summary of the Gospel of Christ, a description of the grace of faith, in the nature, use, and means of it, and several testimonies concerning the calling of the Gentiles; and whereas the apostle knew that this, as well as what he had said in the latter part of the preceding chapter, that the Jews had not attained to the law of righteousness, but stumbled at the stumbling stone, would be offensive to his countrymen the Jews; wherefore that it might appear that he said this not out of disaffection and ill will to them, he declares his sincere regard unto them, and the great respect he had for them, by calling them "brethren", by expressing his good will to them, by praying for the salvation of them, Ro 10:1, by bearing testimony of their zeal for God, Ro 10:2, though he faithfully observes to them, that it was an ignorant zeal, of which ignorance he gives an instance, Ro 10:3, particularly in the attribute of God's righteousness; from which ignorance arose all their misconduct in religious things, especially in the article of justification; hence they sought to be justified by their own righteousness, and rejected the righteousness of Christ, and then points out to them the true end of the law, for righteousness which is Christ, Ro 10:4, which if they had known would have set them right, and which is another instance of their ignorant and misguided zeal: this leads him on to what he had in view, which was to give an account of the two righteousnesses he had suggested in the latter part of the former chapter, the righteousness of the law, which the Jews sought for and found not, and the righteousness of faith, which the Gentiles without seeking for enjoyed; and this account he gives in the words of Moses, for whom they had the greatest regard: the description of the former is given in his words, in Ro 10:5, which suggest the impossibility of keeping the law, and obtaining life by it, and therefore it is a vain thing to seek for righteousness by the works of it; the latter is described, Ro 10:6,7, by the certainty of it, being wrought out by Christ, who came down from heaven, fulfilled the law, and died, and rose again from the dead; and by the plainness and evidence of it, as revealed in the Gospel, Ro 10:8, the sum of which Gospel is, that whoever believes in Christ and confesses him shall be saved, Ro 10:9, which faith and confession, when genuine, are with the heart and mouth agreeing together; the consequences of which are righteousness and salvation, comfortably apprehended and enjoyed, Ro 10:10, and that the above is the sum of the Gospel, and that there is such a connection between faith and righteousness, and between confession and salvation, is confirmed, Ro 10:11, by a testimony from the prophet, Isa 28:16, which being expressed in such a general manner, as to extend to every believer, whether Jew or Gentile, reasons are given, Ro 10:12, in support of such an explanation of that passage, taken from the equal condition of all, there being no difference between them naturally, from the universal dominion of God over them, and from his liberal communication of grace and goodness to all that call upon him; which last reason is confirmed, Ro 10:13, by a passage of Scripture in Joe 2:32, on occasion of which, the apostle proceeds to treat of the calling of the Gentiles, and of the means of it, the preaching of the Gospel, which was necessary to it, which is made out by a train of reasoning after this manner; that seeing salvation is only of such that call upon the name of the Lord, and there could be no calling upon him without believing in him, and no believing without hearing, and no hearing without preaching, and no preaching without mission, which is proved by a citation out of Isa 52:7, and no success in preaching, when sent, without the exertions of efficacious grace, as appears from the case of the Jews, who had the ministration of the Gospel to them by Isaiah, and yet all did not believe it; as is evident from Isa 53:1, and seeing the conclusion of which is, that faith comes by preaching, and preaching by the order and command of God, Ro 10:14-17, it follows, that it was proper that ministers should be sent, and the Gospel preached to the Gentiles, and that attended with power, in order that they should believe in the Lord, and call upon his name and be saved; and which method God had taken, and which he had foretold he would take, in the prophecies of the Old Testament, and which were now fulfilling: that the Gospel was preached to them, and they heard it, were matters of fact, and were no other than what should be, or might be concluded, from Ps 19:4, cited, Ro 10:18, and that the Jews could not be ignorant of the calling of the Gentiles is clear, first from the words of Moses, De 32:21, which the apostle produces, Ro 10:19, and from a passage in the prophecy of Isa 65:1. Sufficient then for pacifying minds, and for rendering certain our salvation, is the word of the gospel; in which we are not commanded to earn righteousness by works, but to embrace it, when offered gratuitously, by faith. This God has wrought in Christ. There we find Christian knowledge as to the matter introduced; but still it is the knowledge of one who is not in this state pronouncing on one who is. It is not a question of His mercy merely; for this weakens the truth immensely, and perverts its character wholly. b. 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. They already possessed them, and talked and thought about them: so that there was no need of going to distant places to learn them. This is a state of mind, and not the necessary or immediate fruit of Romans 3:1-31, but is based on the truth of Romans 4:1-25 as well as 3. a. There the truth is held, and apparently with firmness too. Therefore I cast about me, and I considered what subject he would wish me to preach from if he were sitting behind me this morning as he was last Lord's-day. Did they fall back on Abraham? Pastor Mark Schlamann. It can mean many things such as: 1. For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever.". The righteousness of the law is an impossibility for all who have sinned even once, and the truth is all responsible men have sinned more than one time. There may be desires in the heart, and yet no prayer, unless those desires be presented to God. . Then he enlarges, and points out that there is a remnant of grace in the worst of times. Paul adapts Moses language to suit his own purpose, which is to describe "the righteousness which is of faith," not to show how it can be established from the Old Testament. 2 170). (b.) The nature of their unbelief. 6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? But the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against them pre-eminently. Oh, how nice you look today. Man seeks to complicate it. You will get the foreboding of this world with all of its problems. It is not an esoteric message hidden in some secret place or located at some far corner of the universe. May you experience the joys of His power, of His presence, of His glory, as God day by day showers you with His goodness and with His love. When a man has lost all hope he throws the reins upon his neck and runs into all manner of iniquity, judging that he may as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. What a title, then, God gives me now in beholding Christ, no longer dead but risen, to have it settled before my soul that I am in Him as He now is, where all questions are closed in peace and joy! Yet from beginning to end there is no anger in it; there is nothing but wistful longing and heartfelt yearning. "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. One reported to me the other day a word which cheered me much. I cannot get lower than that, can I? The second passage is from Isaiah 65:1 where God says that, in a strange way, he has been found by a people who were not looking for him at all. The answer is, that this will not do one whit better; for when we come down to the next generation, it is apparent that the two sons of Isaac were sons of the same mother; nay, they were twins. God's righteousness was now manifested as to the past sins He had not brought into judgment through His forbearance, and yet more conspicuously in the present time, when He displayed His justice in justifying the believer. $9.99 + $8.50 shipping. Click on the different category headings to find out more. Some of those zealous ones beat up the mayor in Jerusalem just a day or so ago because of some of his rulings that they felt did not coincide with their desires. We have had justification, both by blood and also in virtue of Christ's resurrection. When they see the way God has blessed the Christian believer and their love for God and for the Lord Jesus Christ, that they'll be provoked to jealousy, when they see the Gentiles receive the covenant and the grace and the blessings and the glory of God.As we were studying the book of Romans recently I sought to illustrate this by this beautiful, sharp, darling, little granddaughter of mine, who I love so greatly, as I do all my grandchildren. 5. A message of peace and of life, glad tidings of good things. Man is only so much the worse for knowing the truth, if he holds it ever so fast with unrighteousness. And the cross offends people, because the cross tells you there is only one way to God. Now, when you call upon the name of the Lord, God doesn't go down the list and say, "Let's see. Eleazar the priest was brought before Antiochus Epiphanes whose aim was to stamp out Jewish religion. Talk not thus. 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