The point is best understood by examining the source of Pauls information. then, go out to Gentiles? There is the righteousness of justification and the righteousness of sanctification. In both Old and New it is the same substantial testimony. That it is not at all hard or difficult. But the righteousness which stems from faith speaks like this--"Do not say in your heart, 'Who shall go up into heaven?' He says, "If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." Our website uses cookies to store user preferences. The nature of their unbelief. Or let's put on our asbestos suits and descend into hell and bring the Messiah back from the grave. And I was mad because I had been trying so long to do it and tie ends together. Not thus does God deal with souls. Here now we have the basis for missionary activity by the church. No, he directed the comfort to his dear wife, for she had greater need of it than he had his faith was firm. Undoubtedly divine judgment fell on Him; but this is not "the righteousness of God," as the apostle employs it in any part of his writings any more than here, though we know there could be no such thing as God's righteousness justifying the believer, if Christ had not borne the judgment of God. "He resisted," says the writer, "even to the agonies of death, for the law's sake.". (James 2:10-11). He said he had no experience but this, The good elders very properly asked, "Are you converted? 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. Zealous the Jews were and are. Of the Jew by his own confession. Paul does not raise the possibility of the message being read. No apostle had ever yet visited Rome. He refused. The story of Jesus Christ passed through all of the Jewish communities around the world. Lower than that, he descended to being "despised and rejected of men." Pauls intent here is to use the same words to express the same idea about the gospel instead of the law. . 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. Compare verse 6 (where the margin, not the text, is substantially correct) with verse 4. Is It Ok for Christians to Follow Zodiac Signs? Before the cross there hung out the gravest question that ever was raised, and it needed settlement in this world; but in Christ sin is for ever abolished for the believer; and this not only in respect of what He has done, but in what He is. The Bible describes confessing Christ in two ways. People cannot come to Jesus without the right information about the gospel, but information alone is not enough to save anyone. Christ indeed did both; and so the word was nigh them, in their mouth and in their heart. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. If you crawl on your knees for five miles to kiss the statue you can be spared several days of purgatory. That early prophet tells Israel, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God. If a man called Jesus kurios he was ranking him with the Emperor and with God; he was giving him the supreme place in his life; he was pledging him implicit obedience and reverent worship. (Barclay), ii. iii. Here it is not merely the negation of law and of circumcision, but we have the positive side. Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here. And what was all this about? Eleazar the priest was brought before Antiochus Epiphanes whose aim was to stamp out Jewish religion. "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. Hence, then, we find that the whole chapter is founded on this truth. Then, fourthly, we will hear what experience saith; for we may bring in the experience of believers to back up the declarations of God. (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) And how can they believe in Him unless they hear about Him? He saves those who are always confessors of sin, always needy in themselves, and therefore always glad of him. Do not suppose that anything is wanted as to doings or feelings in order to complete the righteousness which is wrought out by the Lord Jesus, and imputed by God to the believer. Beware of those endeavors of men today to broaden the gate. And what led to the call of Abraham, of whom we hear much in the epistle to the Romans as elsewhere, was the departure of man into idolatry. Strange as it was, this too was foretold. Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. Yes indeed: Their sound has gone out to all the earth, The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart.. Directions for our behaviour, as members of civil society, Rom. Thirdly, we shall consider what the Scripture saith: "Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed." If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved, Believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation, calls upon the name of the LORD shall be saved. Thereby is identification with His death. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for SDA Bible Commentary Set Vols. Now you won't get that on television, nor will you get that in your evening newspaper, watching the news or reading Time Magazine. Say not even in thy heart that by these doings or feelings thou canst be saved. 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. I. This is the substance of the matter Christ saves, and we trust. But what saith it? And she takes advantage of it and gives me a bad time, because she is totally independent when it comes to Grandpa.She loves to play her little independent games. Nederlandstalige Bijbelstudies door Stan Marinussen. It is such milk for babes that I have known people refuse such plain truth because they were not willing to be treated like little children. or who hath been his counsellor? 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 ). I believe that whoever you are, chosen or not, predestined or not, if you will call upon the name of the Lord you will be saved. Click to enable/disable Google Analytics tracking. A message of peace and of life, glad tidings of good things. There. There would be no remnant if justice took its course. We have Paul informing us that he transfers sometimes in a figure to himself that which was in no wise necessarily his own experience, and perhaps had not been so at any time. Take his counsel. They are zealous for God, yes. Be it so then; it was a foolish nation by which Moses declared they should be angered. (that is, to bring Christ down from above:) Or, Who shall descend into the deep? 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. It was not merely "to those at Rome," but "to you that be at Rome." "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. This do, and thou shalt live. Herein is no mystery: Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners, and whosoever believeth in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. They give us the basis of the first Christian creed. Verse 19. The word for Lord is kurios ( G2962) . Salvation is so close to every one of you tonight. Do not leave that out. So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God: Saving faith comes through hearing by the word of God. 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. It is not our effort which wins us goodness. First of all the apostle points out that death has come in, and that this was no consequence of law, but before it. The word of God is to be close to the heart of every Christian. Christianity is belief plus confession; it involves witness before men. So there must be confession with the mouth. No, He has already come and brought salvation down from heaven to men. "The word is nigh thee." The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart "that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. already. 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. It was not our effort which brought Christ into the world or raised him from the dead. Our Lord Jesus lays a great stress upon this confessing of him before men; see Matthew 10:32; Matthew 10:33. I was made manifest to those who did not ask for Me.. A wondrous way, but most blessed! You can also change some of your preferences. 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. ii. But it is very plain and easy: The word is nigh thee. There is really no other hope, for if you get a little bit of your own works put into the building, of your hope, you have just so much rotten timber in the fabric, and that rot will plague the whole house, and turn it into dust at the last. The righteousness of God, then, could now go forth in virtue of His blood. This was true even before Moses time (see Romans 4:13 and the example of Abraham). They will not accept that the way of salvation for them is the same as for the Gentiles - through faith in Christ (30-33). That is the first necessity for the sinner with God. And mark the force of it whosoever." This was the key to their difficulties this alone, and fully explains their coming ruin as well as God's solemn warnings. He "will render to every man according to his deeds: to them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: to them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first and also of the Gentile.". He shall come to Zion, says the other. They ought to have known better: they had every chance to know better; but they rejected the appeal of God. Zeal for God, but not according to knowledge: This is a perfect description of Paul himself before his conversion. This word of faith is our message, that, if you acknowledge with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and if you believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. He says his prayers every day. (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead. b. If you will go around and knock on a hundred doors a day and peddle the magazines and wake people up, continue this faithfully, and you will be saved. But what saith it? The earth, or, at least, the Jewish nation, had been familiar with such dealings of God in times past. 2. One might know a most real clinging to Jesus; but this would not set the heart at ease with God. 22). Its simplicity and plainness he proceeds immediately to state. (324) The righteousness of faith is evidently the it in this question: See Romans 10:6. Compare Romans 10:14; Romans 10:14. His death is instead of the death of our souls: his life is the life of our spirits. Sin is our not wanting the gifts of . It is not in any degree settled as to itself by His blood. Whatever man in all the world, throughout all the ages, shall come and trust himself on Christ shall never be ashamed of having done so. Christ holds it out to you: take it freely, and be rich for ever. And "how shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein?" But I say, [Paul said,] Have they not heard? Observe, the gospel is not simply remission of sins, nor is it only peace with God, but "the power of God unto salvation." Even the saints there would have been all the better for the gospel. As He is the spring of our joy, He is the power of sympathy in our sorrows, and the believer knows both. He was in the end killed. Romans 10 - Israel's Present Rejection of God A. Israel's rejection of the gospel of salvation through Jesus Christ. It became simply a question whether, in fact, God did call Gentiles, or whether He had revealed such intentions. First, then, a man to be a Christian must have a sense of the utter uniqueness of Jesus Christ. As He has made all, so He is heir of all. But this is not all; and the objection of the Jew gives occasion for the apostle to bring out a fuller display of what God is. Changes will take effect once you reload the page. The righteousness of Christ imputed, secures the soul, the better part, from death. 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. Jesus died my soul to save, my lips shall still repeat, for Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe. "What are you?" 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. The soul of prayer is the heart's desire. As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, The soul may feel the blood of Jesus to be a yet deeper want; but this alone does not give peace with God. In the beginning ofRomans 2:1-29; Romans 2:1-29 we have man pretending to righteousness. A disobedient and contrary people: This tells Gods assessment of disobedient, Messiah-rejecting Israel. It is not a soul's overcoming its difficulties, but a sinner's submission to the righteousness of God. I would like to boast about what I have done, the dangers that I have braved for God, the sacrifices that I have made, the dedication that took me through those dark, smelly, dangerous swamps. God sought by His work among the Gentiles the pouring out of His grace and love and blessings, to provoke the jealousy of the Jew, so that the Jew will seek after God through Jesus Christ. This also is a most important truth, my brethren, to bear in mind. To man this is the hardest of all obedience; but when once secured, it leads peacefully into the obedience of every day. The "word of faith" is the gospel Paul preaches and has explained in detail in Romans one through eight. i. Pauls hearts desire also translated into concrete action: prayer to God for Israel. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets" (verses 20, 21). They did not understand, and believe, and consider, the strict justice of God, in hating and punishing sin, and demanding satisfaction, did not consider what need we have of a righteousness wherein to appear before him; if they had, they would never have stood out against the gospel offer, nor expected justification by their own works, as if they could satisfy God's justice. Although circumcision began with Abraham, manifestly it had nothing to do with his righteousness, and at best was but the seal of the righteousness of faith which he had in an uncircumcised state. What else does the Scripture say? I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. Zion shall yet behold her mighty, divine, but once despised Deliverer; and when He thus comes, there will be a deliverance suited to His glory. If God had absolutely cast away His people, would there be such mercy? THE DESTRUCTION OF EXCUSES ( Romans 10:14-21 ), 10:14-21 How are they to call on him on whom they have not believed? The righteousness of God flows from His mercy, of course; but its character and basis is righteousness. A good wish (Romans 10:1; Romans 10:1), a wish that they might be saved--saved from the temporal ruin and destruction that were coming upon them--saved from the wrath to come, eternal wrath, which was hanging over their heads. This is the faith which saves the soul. (Spurgeon). Surely it would need that I mount to heaven to own my sin, or dive to hell to bear its punishment. Check to enable permanent hiding of message bar and refuse all cookies if you do not opt in. It is not God seeking, or man bringing righteousness. 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." What about His word passed and sworn to the fathers? Indeed they have. 4. It is, that is, it is promised that it shall be, in thy mouth (Isaiah 59:21), and in thy heart,Jeremiah 31:33. Listen. faith comes by hearing [ the thing heard], for on your own showing, according to that word to which we all bow, you must admit that one man's sin brought in universal moral ruin and death. The word of Christ is what brought us out of the world and that to which we were converted. In Romans 10:1-21 Paul made this same point. 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 14th verse in Deuteronomy 30:1-20 completes the thought by saying that the Jews could do what God wanted them to do - that thou mayest do it. So God's grace and mercy extended towards the Gentiles. 2. This is all perfectly true true of a Jew as of a pagan true of any unrenewed man that never heard of a Saviour. To this he refers likewise, Galatians 3:12, The man that doeth them, shall live in them. But now they were; and thus God vindicated Himself perfectly as to the past. Was it not sure and evident that Israel could not take the promise on the ground of mere connection after the flesh? * I scarcely knew what to preach from this morning; but at last I settled in my mind that I would raise a memorial to my departed friend by preaching a sermon which should be connected with himself. It is not a mystical, obscure thing; it is near and familiar. Outside Revelation, it only occurs here and Luke 8:31. How are they to proclaim the good news unless they are sent to do so? His witness to our spirit is this, that we are children of God. You say, "Chuck, that is too narrow. It was undeniable that the Gentiles did not seek the Lord, nor ask after Him; and the prophet says that Jehovah was found of them that sought Him not, and was made manifest to them that asked not after Him. I have tried my best; and so I close by bidding you hear WHAT EXPERIENCE SAITH. Isaiah was very bold, and he said, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that ask not after me. The last verses of the chapter, however, bring in the deliverance not yet the fulness of it, but the hinge, so to speak. But the Jews did so die. It is in your mouth and in your heart." No, confess yourself a sinner; trust in the sinner's Savior, and you are saved. The gospel is called the Word of faith, the Word of God, as being what was spoken, or communicated by God to man. If a man kept the law perfectly, even Moses concluded that such a person would live (be saved). higher, if so high, in this epistle. And that word is the message of faith which we proclaim. Thou sayest, "Who shall ascend into heaven?" (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) There is the balance. But this will always prompt you to accept/refuse cookies when revisiting our site. The word Kurios was and is the touchstone of faith.. Now he began the argument by saying that everything was of God and that men had no more to do with it than the clay had to do with the work of the potter. Now, I hope I have put it plainly. Finally he comes to two other witnesses; as from the Psalms, so now from the law and the prophets. Second, he cites Joel 2:32: "All who call upon the name of the Lord shall be delivered." Choose a chapter and verse from 'Romans' to begin your 'Verse-by-Verse' study of God's Word using the more than 100 commentaries available on StudyLight.org. i. Commentary on Romans 8:10-17 (Read Romans 8:10-17) If the Spirit be in us, Christ is in us. So therefore it addressed itself to the obedience of faith; not by this meaning practice, still less according to the measure of a man's duty, but that which is at the root of all practice faith-obedience obedience of heart and will, renewed by divine grace, which accepts the truth of God. Because many among them had not believed his report because they did not trust in Gods word through Isaiah and other messengers of the gospel. Difficulty there is none: only believe and thou art saved. 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. [1.] It will be observed therefore, that in this connection the apostle shows the place both of conscience and of the law, that God in judging will take into full consideration the circumstances and condition of every soul of man. If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved: We do not gain Gods righteousness by works. Though Paul preached against them, yet he prayed for them. 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. No man can tell. What was to be the stumbling-stone? Basically the scheme is this--in the previous passage Paul has been saying that the way to God is not that of works and of legalism, but of faith and trust. He does not, however, exclude other parts of the word, no, not even the precepts of the law; but his design is, to show that remission of sins stands for righteousness, even apart from that strict obedience which the law demands. One day I was in my office studying Romans, and I was just so upset I put my Bible down and I said, "God, I can't reconcile it," and I walked out of the room. "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. 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. Jack answered, "I never get lower than I am, for I am down at the bottom. Why, next, it forbids the questions of despair. Believe in Christ as you would believe in your friend: believe that he died for sinners, and trust in him for salvation. But did this satisfy the apostle? As positively as the law utters its promise and threat, so positively and unalterably doth the gospel deliver its decree. for he came to bring everyone who believes and trusts into a right relationship with God. He came down, indeed, when he was born; and, being down so low as that, he descended to the carpenter's shop, to the weariness of the well's brink, and to a thirst which made him say, "Give me to drink." "For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Faith is easy compared to a lifetime of slavish obedience to the Law. 13:1-14. Did they venture to plead that it must be not only the same father, but the same mother? Both Jew and Greek were quick to give some credit to national or ethnic origin, as if being saved were a matter of being born into the right family. His life and death pointed in one direction. Whatever it is that God has commanded, you must do; whatever he forbids, you must avoid; for by such obedience alone can you live. Confess with your mouth: Confession has the idea of agreeing with. 10:1-13 Brothers, the desire of my heart for the Jews and my prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. There could be but one satisfactory answer. And they are broadening the gate so that you breathe, "Oh, God loves you," you will be saved because you are breathing. Have as many good works as you can cram into your life, but never tell anybody about them, or think anything of them. Nevertheless the apostle does not expressly mention heaven here. 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." ( Romans 10:5-8 ). This is the key word of early Christianity. How shall they hear without a preacher? It is not God having an earthly centre, and the peoples doming up to worship the Lord in Jerusalem. I want to preach that same gospel this morning, in the hope that in after days this word may be scattered far and wide, and some Jack the Huckster, or some other like him, may find himself to be utterly empty and undone, and may then know that Christ is ordained to be his salvation. Moses saith, "I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people," etc. Now I ask you to listen to WHAT THE GOSPEL SAITH. Oh, how I love that phrase.That is why I love the ministry so much, because I have the privilege to bring to men glad tidings of good things. Let the cross pass. 1. This knowledge was readily available and known to all. It is true God gave them that law for which they were so zealous; but they might have known that, by the appearance of the promised Messiah, an end was put to it. Even in their best estate the saved ones need their Lord: even if we walk in the light as God is in the light, and have fellowship with him, we still sin, and still the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanseth us from all sin. 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? Now, Paul declares, or rather the gospel speaking for itself declares, this word of life by faith in the risen Christ to be near us, that is, to be accessible to us. Back when Jay Leno was hosted the Tonight Show, he frequently did "man-on-the street" interviews. Proud as you may be of that which distinguishes you, it is hard to make sin and death peculiar to you, nor can you connect them even with the law particularly: the race of man is in question, and not Israel alone. 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