The only way to keep right and humble is to be nothing, and let Jesus be all in all. Dig not into the bowels of the earth to find the gold of salvation. For if the law could give a man a righteous standing before God, then it was not necessary for Christ to die. by all that remains of the ancient world. And this leads the apostle into the moral history of man the proof both of his inexcusable guilt, and of his extreme need of redemption. We know not how low he went, but we are told that "he descended into the lower parts of the earth." This existential pain is deepened and furthered by the divisions between Paul and his own people as he simultaneously argues his claims for inclusion of the Gentiles within God's salvific plan. Far beyond. If God has made you feel yourself a sinner, then Christ is such a Savior as you need and you may have him at once: the only difficulty lies in the way being so easy that you can hardly think it can be so. Man goes back to the righteousness of works. His witness to our spirit is this, that we are children of God. Do some great brave wonderful marvelous thing. Would we follow up the heights of heavenly truth, would we sound the depths of Christian experience, would we survey the workings of the Spirit of God in the Church, would we bow before the glories of the person of Christ, or learn His manifold offices, we must look elsewhere in the writings of the New Testament no doubt, but elsewhere rather than here. For this (Romans 10:11; Romans 10:11) he quotes Isaiah 28:16, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed; ou kataischynthesetai. Truth lies in the center between extremes. There could be but one satisfactory answer. 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. How Daniels Prophecy of 70 Weeks Connects to the End Times, 4 Ways the Parable of the Sower Encourages Spiritual Growth. But now to faith all this is gone not lightly, but truly in the sight of God; so that he may live on a Saviour that is risen from the dead as his new life. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth Never lose the balance. and how can they believe in him in whom they have not heard? The man who does those things shall live by them: The Law of Moses makes the path to righteousness through the law plain. The truth is, those are altogether mistaken who call it so. And the cross offends people, because the cross tells you there is only one way to God. Moses is saying that God's law is not inaccessible and impossible; it is there in a man's mouth and life and heart. 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. 14:1 - 15:14. 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. 2018 David Guzik No distribution beyond personal use without permission. God is proved thus divinely consistent with Himself in Christ Jesus, whom He has set forth a mercy-seat through faith in His blood. 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. 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. In both parts, as it may be observed, the door is opened to the Gentile. 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. You cannot believe in him unless you hear about him. The ground taken by a Jew for supposing God exclusively for Israel was, that they had the law, which was the measure of what God claimed from man; and this the Gentile had not. Do not believe in yourself, but believe in Jesus. (b.) If you wish to be saved by the law you must do its commands and you shall live. We, O Antiochus," he said, "who live under a divine law, consider no compulsion to be so forcible as obedience to our law." Moses spoke a word that had to be obeyed, but Paul proclaims a word that must be believed. There is a preaching which blasts the sinner with tempestuously angry words; but always Paul speaks the truth in love. 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. If slurred over, as it too often is in souls, it invariably leaves practical obedience lame, and halt, and blind. And he is father of circumcision in the best sense, not to Jews, but to believing Gentiles. Romans is a book about God. He was ordered to be beaten. Here now we have the basis for missionary activity by the church. As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, Its remarkable that Paul found something good to say about these Jewish people who persecuted him so mercilessly. Following up with the teaching of the olive-tree, he carries out the same thought of a remnant that abides on their own stock, and points to a re-instatement of the nation, And I would just observe by the way, that the Gentile cry that no Jew ever accepts the gospel in truth is a falsehood. Note that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on our websites and the services we are able to offer. Let the cross pass. But God has established the way through Jesus Christ. He had bought the truth and would not sell it, and so he stuck to. It was not only his heart's desire, but it was his prayer. Let me call your attention again to its force. You know what Cardinal Bellarmine said: he was a great antagonist of Luther, and thought that we might trust in our works; but, looking it all over, he admitted that inasmuch as no man could be quite sure that he had done enough good works, it was perhaps best on the whole and safest to trust altogether to the blood and merits of Jesus Christ. 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. Christianity is not a system of promise, but rather of promise accomplished in Christ. The word is near you -- --easily accessible. As your next door neighbor's house is not hard to get at, so neither is salvation by the gospel. Whatever it is that God has commanded, you must do; whatever he forbids, you must avoid; for by such obedience alone can you live. Jesus in the garden prayed, "Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me." There is no need of dwelling now on "salvation" as employed in the Old Testament, and in some parts of the New, as the gospels and Revelation particularly, where it is used for deliverance in power or even providence and present things. The day hastens when the Redeemer shall come to Zion. ): Paul says it is not necessary for men to descend into the realms of death and Satan to attain salvation. 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. Which we preach - Which is proclaimed by the apostles, and made known to Jews and Gentiles. Such moral judgments will, no doubt, be used to leave man without excuse; they can never suit or satisfy God. What is the righteousness which is of the law? c. But the righteousness of faith: This is based on Jesus, and we dont have to work to get Jesus. But for the time it is held fast, though in unrighteousness. Christ did not come to make the law milder, or to render it possible for our cracked and battered obedience to be accepted as a sort of compromise. "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized unto Jesus Christ were baptized unto his death?" Changes will take effect once you reload the page. 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. 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. The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9 That 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. Justification is not from works of law. Beneath it there runs the conviction that there are certain kinds of ignorance which are inexcusable. The "word of faith" is the message of justification by the system of "faith" as opposed to the Law. And this is said to be unto salvation, because it is the performance of the condition of that promise, Matthew 10:32. But if it were so, He had not done with them. But I say, did Israel not know? Copyright - Enduring Word | . The law never delivers; it condemns and kills us. Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the Word of God. Pastor Mark Schlamann. (That is, to bring Christ up from the dead.) Take the Sabbath law. They have not all obeyed the gospel. I want to call your special attention to the fact that Paul borrows the words of Moses; for his intent was the ending of all fears. The law is magnified and made honourable by the death of Christ; and the doctrine of faith in his death and resurrection is fully proclaimed, and amply proved to be effectual to the purpose for which it was revealed. "Ah, well," said one, "sometimes I enjoy good frames and feelings, and feel very happy, and then I lose them, and sink in spirit." Last of all, the apostle links up this fundamental treatise of divine righteousness in its doctrine, its dispensational bearings, and its exhortations to the walk of Christians, with higher truth, which it would not have been suitable then to bring out; for grace considers the state and the need of the saints. speaketh on this wise: In these verses (6-8), Pauls language is clearly based on the Septuagint rendering of Deuteronomy 30:11-14 where Moses enumerates the blessings that accrue to Israel if she keeps the law. 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. To call Jesus kurios ( G2962) was to count him unique. And he gives his reason: "For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, The just shall live by faith." Because for He has revealed Himself to us. Consequently the door is as open to the Gentile as to the Jew. i. God gave us conscience and the guidance of his Holy Spirit; and often we plead ignorance, when, if we were honest, we would have to admit that in our heart of hearts we knew the truth. I have had almost thirty years among you, and God has been very gracious to us, so that we have lost very few comparatively by death; but now many are going home, and, according to the course of nature, many of our honored brethren and sisters will soon follow. It didnt surprise God or His prophets. Believe in Christ as you would believe in your friend: believe that he died for sinners, and trust in him for salvation. And there (for such was the point) it was the complete condemnation of this evil thing, the nature in its present state, so as, nevertheless, to set the believer as before God's judgment free from itself as well as its consequences. They have a zeal of God. It has four stages of meaning. The way to heaven up the steep sides of Sinai is inaccessible to trembling feet like ours. When we confess the Lord Jesus, we agree with what God said about Jesus, and with what Jesus said about Himself. To the contrary, the salvation of God is as near them as their own mouths and hearts. It say's this. In verse 11 of that chapter, Moses tells Israel that Gods commands are not beyond their grasp as if they could find them only by ascending to heaven or crossing the sea. The word is nigh thee - This is still a use of the language of Moses. b. . 2 173). The believing and the confession of that believing in God's own way are never to be separated, for "With the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." Zeal for God, but not according to knowledge: This is a perfect description of Paul himself before his conversion. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for SDA Bible Commentary Set Vols. One does not have to climb to heavenas though one couldto bring it down. "His flesh was torn off by the whips, and he streamed down with blood, and his flanks were laid open by wounds." Click to enable/disable _ga - Google Analytics Cookie. No longer does the question exist of requiring an expiation. It is against the "unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness." i. The idea of salvation by works sits like an awful incubus upon the breast of humanity, and presses out of the soul all hope, thus robbing man of strength to attempt true holiness. To hold the truth in unrighteousness would be no security. 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." But the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against them pre-eminently. God has condemned the flesh. Paul didnt just care, he prayed. Wishing and woulding, if that be all, are not praying. 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. 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). "What shall we then say that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? 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. So faith comes by hearing, hearing by the Word of God. The meaning of verse 6 is a little more difficult. There the truth is held, and apparently with firmness too. Here was the very truth that every Jew, as such, denied. If one may so say, He thus holds the man, instead of letting the man presume that he is holding fast the truth. Law works wrath because it provokes transgression; grace makes the promise sure to all the seed, not only because faith is open to the Gentile and Jew alike, but because God is looked to as a quickener of the dead. Now the one who plants and the one who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. Romans 10:17; Hebrews 6:5; Hebrews 11:3. 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. Undoubtedly there are fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, and God values them I will not say from man, but from His saints; but here it is what, according to the apostle, God has for man. Christ is come down from heaven; we need not go to fetch him. Romans 10:14-17. This is what made the gospel to be so sweet and precious, and, what is more, absolutely necessary, if he would escape certain and eternal ruin. Because they were sons of Abraham. Why would they not allow such a pretension? How far? For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 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. Jesus has come down: years ago be left the glories of his Father. There is such a thing as a blind misguided zeal: such was that of the Jews, who, when they hated Christ's people and ministers, and cast them out, said, Let the Lord be glorified (Isaiah 66:5); nay, they killed them, and thought they did God good service, John 16:2. John MacArthur New Testament Commentary, Book of Romans 2 Volume Set. 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. The offering up of this desire to God. The extent is what God Himself, so to speak, possesses the universe of God, whatever will be under Christ: and what will not? It is true Christ is in heaven; but we may be justified and saved without going thither, to fetch him thence, or sending a special messenger to him. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may bear it, and do it? It is true that Israel did not accept the good news from God, and in their refusal they were simply running true to form; history was repeating itself. He was God over all blessed for ever, as well as their Messiah. Here, then, it is not a question at all of pardon or remission. They are generally gentlemen in good health, with regular incomes and sweet tempers, and so they soon reach their imaginary sinlessness vain creatures that they are; but you never get any of that among the poor, suffering, tried people of God. 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. 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. And, of course, the way we build up ourselves in the most holy faith is through the Word. If what is possible? As this was now made known to all, as the apostles preached it everywhere, it could be said to be nigh them; there was no need of searching other lands for it, or regarding it as a hidden mystery, for it was plain and manifest to all. First of all, the groundwork of it is laid in the first four verses, the last of them leading into every-day walk. The top and bottom of the matter is, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ." There is then the solemn truth also of divine wrath. Man is only so much the worse for knowing the truth, if he holds it ever so fast with unrighteousness. Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness. "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. At this point we enter upon a most important part of the epistle, on which we must dwell for a little. 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. The doing supposed must be perfect and sinless, without the least breach or violation. 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." The fruits of it are not expanded here; but, in point of fact, to joy in God is necessarily that which makes praise and adoration to be the simple and spontaneous exercise of the heart. Paul deals with that objection by quoting Isaiah 52:7. $9.99 + $8.50 shipping. Hence it is wholly apart from the law, whilst witnessed to by the law and prophets; for the law with its types had looked onward to this new kind of righteousness; and the prophets had borne their testimony that it was at hand, but not then come. He was debtor both to the Greeks and the barbarians, both to the wise and to the unwise; he was ready, as far as he was concerned, to preach the gospel to those that were at Rome also (ver. b. I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God: Paul will readily recognize that Israel has a zeal for God but he also sees that it is zeal not according to knowledge. He can do nothing unless he has learned this precious truth, that he is nothing at all, and Jesus Christ is his all in all. All day long I have stretched out My hands Jesus has already come to the earth and brought us the information we need to serve God and find heaven. We need not here enter into the details; but on the surface we see how the apostle brings all down to that which is of the deepest interest to every soul. This blessed faith keeps men down when they are apt to go up, and up when otherwise they would be apt to go down. Christ is the end of the moral law in that he did what the law could not do (Romans 8:3; Romans 8:3), and secured the great end of it. Nothing shows better the Jewish attitude than the three classes into which they divided mankind. It is agreed by all commentators that this is one of the most difficult and obscure passages in the letter to the Romans. The great point is to note the true picture given us of a soul quickened, but labouring and miserable under law, not at all consciously delivered. There never was an hour since Israel's existence as a nation that God has not had His remnant of them. The strength and sincerity of his desire. . It is close to you; it is as close as your mouth. There was a most important trial of man in the person of Adam; but after this, what dispensation was there? But how, argues he, could this stand, seeing that Abraham had another son, just as much his child as Isaac? And she gives me the worst time because she knows how totally she has me wrapped around her little finger. Unbelief is a non-submission to the righteousness of God, standing it out against the gospel proclamation of indemnity. God, therefore, having not the least hindrance to the manifestation of what He can be and is in merciful intervention on behalf of the worst of sinners, manifests it is His righteousness "by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe" (ver. The apostle writes with the full assertion of his own apostolic dignity, but as a servant also. 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. That is - This is the use which the apostle makes of it; not that Moses referred to the gospel. The righteousness of the law required absolute sinless perfection achieved through flawless obedience; however, the righteousness that is of faith does not make requirements that are impossible for sinners. Let us take the objections and the answering scripture texts one by one. Even where the law was, not by it but by faith the just lived. he was Lord of heaven and earth, and yet they called him Beelzebub, and talked of him as a drunken man and a wine-bibber. 18). 2. Romans 10:8-17 8 But what does it say? Romans 10:5-9 . To question the need for bringing someone from the deep was a denial of Jesus resurrection (CBL, Romans, p. 163). 2 170). This is an important consideration because Paul specifically applies the allusions he makes to Deuteronomy 30 to "the righteousness which is of faith," whereas Moses is clearly talking about the law and obedience to it. "For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek" (ver. Romans 10:17, KJV: So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. It is in Zion that He lays it. Suppose your faith cannot work miracles; never mind about miracles. Clearly, then, such ground is untenable. But they have not all obeyed the gospel: If salvation is so simple, available to all who trust in the person and work of Jesus, then why does Israel seem to be cast off from God? The "word of faith" means the message that righteousness comes by faith. (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) 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. 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. and how can they hear without a preacher? ii. It is hard singing when your father is dying, but it was not hard to him. 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. No, my dear friend, do not say that even in your thought. These words were from the final sermon given by Moses. 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 ). They did not know it, because they would not; they shut their eyes against the discoveries of it, and love darkness rather. But why talk I so? 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