StudyLght.org. And she gives me the worst time because she knows how totally she has me wrapped around her little finger. 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. What He does is to pierce and penetrate the man's conscience. Man seeks to complicate it. It is salvation that the gospel exhibits and tenders--saved from guilt and wrath, with the salvation of the soul, an eternal salvation, which Christ is the author of, a Saviour to the uttermost. () in Romans 10:8, as afterwards . How can they hear about Him unless someone preach to them? We provide you with a list of stored cookies on your computer in our domain so you can check what we stored. 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. It was already among them by the preaching of the apostles, and was a subject of conversation and of thought. The whole history of Israel, past, present, and future falls in with, although quite distinct from, that which he had been expounding. This, however, will be put to the test by-and-by. They have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. Of these only a remnant would be saved. It is for the lost, therefore; for they it is who need salvation; and it is to save not merely to quicken, but to save; and this because in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed. Hence it is, as he says, herein revealed "from faith," or by faith. An evil pronouncement .read more. Moses is saying that God's law is not inaccessible and impossible; it is there in a man's mouth and life and heart. Our website uses cookies to store user preferences. There never was an hour since Israel's existence as a nation that God has not had His remnant of them. In heaven it will fill us perfectly; but there is no more perfect joy there, nor anything. a. It is exquisite the delicate love with which he singles out distinctive features in each of the saints, men and women, that come before him. For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building. But he meets their proud exclusiveness in another way. May the Lord be with you and may the blessings of the Lord surround your life as you walk with Him. And this was powerfully corroborated by the testimony of another great name in Israel (David), in Psalms 32:1-11. Nor is there only the manifest call of the Gentiles in this, but with no less clearness there is the rejection, at any rate for a time, of proud Israel. Thus, having shown the Gentile in Romans 1:1-32 manifestly wrong, and hopelessly degraded to the last degree having laid bare the moral dilettantism of the philosophers, not one whit better in the sight of God, but rather the reverse having shown the Jew overwhelmed by the condemnation of the divine oracles in which he chiefly boasted, without real righteousness, and so much the more guilty for his special privileges, all now lies clear for bringing in the proper Christian message, the. Obedience to the gospel required under Gods system of grace ("the righteousness which is of faith") is the obedience that trusting faith always produces not the obedience of works of merit. (b.) Did Gentiles believe? Though Paul preached against them, yet he prayed for them. Live, that is, be happy, not only in the land of Canaan, but in heaven, of which Canaan was a type and figure. 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. It is not the mercy of God., Many have contended that so it is, and to their own great loss, as well as to the weakening of the word of God. b. then, go out to Gentiles? I assure you that I daily find the value of living by faith. This would make me wonder what kind of a character am I that she is having such a hard time believing me. Knowing God we come to believe and trust in God. If one says that Paul is quoting from Deuteronomy 30, the reconciliations attempted between Pauls use of these words and Moses use of them are strained. God send us more like him men to whom religion is for home consumption. True ministry gives out not merely truth, but suited truth to the saints. The information in verse 6 may be contrasted with many modern religious claims. You always can block or delete cookies by changing your browser settings and force blocking all cookies on this website. Moses said, "That the man which doeth those things shall live by them." 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. I cannot get lower than that, can I? Fair-weather sailors, who go out in their little painted perfection boats, are people who have had small temptation and little soul-trouble. The story of Jesus Christ passed through all of the Jewish communities around the world. But the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against them pre-eminently. 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. Paul is attempting neither to quote Moses nor to interpret Moses. He has no longer to win God's favour; he need simply take the grace and love and mercy which he freely offers. Alas! And by the foolish nation I will anger you.". 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. Their own Scriptures maintained, as nothing else could, that all the wretchedness which is now found in the world, and the condemnation which hangs over the race, is the fruit of one man, and indeed of one act. Till the cross, well might a converted soul be found groaning in misery at each fresh discovery of evil in himself. Let me call your attention again to its force. 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 his sake let me tell it again. The soul of prayer is the heart's desire. But what is testified by Christian baptism is Christ's death. But what saith it? That was said to Paul, rather than what was taught by Paul. There the truth is held, and apparently with firmness too. Faith is easy compared to a lifetime of slavish obedience to the Law. Is there no call, no mercy, of God for any besides? a. I will provoke you to jealousy: God told Israel that He would bring others close to Him and make them jealous. I was found by those who did not seek Me; Justification is not from works of law. 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. Have you been born again?" He can meet the sinner, but He justifies the believer; and in this, instead of trenching on His glory, there is a deeper revelation and maintenance of it than if there never had been sin or a sinner. The information in verse 8 makes the point even more forcefully. Talk not thus. From the Septuagint, Deuteronomy 30:14. The Bible describes confessing Christ in two ways. It is close to you; it is as close as your mouth. 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. (2.) So one of the first works of the gospel is silencing the questions of our unbelief. Witness the common joy that grace gives an apostle with saints be had never seen, so that even he should be comforted as well as they by their mutual faith. Great preachers have known this. I know that he would have said to me, Give them Christ crucified, and salvation by grace through faith, as plainly as ever you can; for when he was sore sick and in the very agony of death, he repeated as his dying creed, and in his own quaint way he added, "They may talk as much as ever they like, but the whole of it lies in Jack the Huckster's verse. This Huckster Jack was a poor, wicked fellow, who had gone about from village to village, swearing, drinking, huckstering and perhaps pilfering. Let us go a little further. And this is said to be unto salvation, because it is the performance of the condition of that promise, Matthew 10:32. It is part of the honour of Christ that every tongue shall confess, Philippians 2:11. 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. 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. Zealous the Jews were and are. The gospel goes forth universally. Read this verse, "All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." We are heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ. No one had ever witnessed to him. And to this agreed the testimony of the prophet. Whatever it is that God has commanded, you must do; whatever he forbids, you must avoid; for by such obedience alone can you live. Does this sort of faith enable men to face death with courage? The design of the law was to lead people to Christ. in order to understand this declaration: it is as plain as words can make it. Bible > Commentaries > Romans 10:9 . But then again he intimates that the nature of the gospel is involved in the publishing of the glad tidings. But even if it were not already broken, should we get through to-morrow with its temptations, bearing such a heart as we have within us, without breaking that perfect and spotless law? There. The apostle is therefore plainly in presence of the broadest possible grounds of comparison, though we shall find more too. c. Believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead: We must also believe this. They are zealous for God, yes. yet, that is might be the more effectual to drive people to Christ and to make the covenant of grace welcome, it had a very great mixture of the strictness and terror of the covenant of works. Here you have it, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." He says, "I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou may be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed." But Paul's answer is: "Israel may have failed to understand; but the Gentiles did not. You, dear friend, down the aisle there, it you trust in Christ you shall never be ashamed of your hope. 7). One night he collared some young people to ask them questions about the Bible. This was no question of legal obedience, although the law came from Jehovah. We should take notice of that which is commendable even in bad people. How could the Jews say that this meant themselves? Romans 10:14-17. This is unto righteousness. In true faith, there is need of a great deal of submission; therefore the first lesson Christ teaches is to deny ourselves. 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. Because for He has revealed Himself to us. 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. Salvation supposes not this only, but a great deal more. There is water as well as blood, and to that, not to this, the washing here refers. Ed. This was the key to their difficulties this alone, and fully explains their coming ruin as well as God's solemn warnings. From verse 14 there is an advance. c. How beautiful are the feet: No wonder those who preach have beautiful feet they partner with God for the salvation of men. That is - This is the use which the apostle makes of it; not that Moses referred to the gospel. Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. Depend upon him without fear as to your present and eternal salvation. 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. What is that righteousness which is of faith, Romans 10:6; Romans 10:6, c. This he describes in the words of Moses, in Deuteronomy, in the second law (so Deuteronomy signifies), where there was a much clearer revelation of Christ and the gospel than there was in the first giving of the law: he quotes it from Deuteronomy 30:11-14, and shows. They have rejected God. 2. The judgments of God will fall on man as man, but the heaviest blows are reserved for Christendom. If I am thus pitied of God, if so truly and completely a justified man, if I am really an object of God's eternal favour, how can I have such a sense of continual evil? Accordingly, in the end of the chapter, he shows that this is most true as applied to the moral judgment of the Jew; that uone so much dishonoured God as wicked Jews, their own Scripture attesting it; that position went for nothing in such, while the lack of it would not annul the Gentile's righteousness, which would indeed condemn the more unfaithful Israel; in short, that one must be a Jew inwardly to avail, and circumcision be of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, whose praise is of God, and not of men. Then, from ver. We should say the best we can even of our worst enemies; this is blessing those that curse us. One does not have to climb to heavenas though one couldto bring it down. He shall come to Zion, says the other. And so you will see them at the wailing wall, you will see them as they tie to them a little box, the phylacteries as they bind them to their foreheads and as they put on their prayer shawl and they go up to the wall and they begin to bob up and down and they go through their prayers and all, a zeal for God but not according to knowledge. 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. Just help me to believe." But this may be comparatively a light question. 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. "But if [for so it should be read] thou art named a Jew," etc. 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. It is not so alone; but in His death, unto which I am baptized, I am dead to sin. Here, then, it is not a question at all of pardon or remission. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. In doing so, he personifies righteousness based on faith. (James 2:10-11). i. We know not how low he went, but we are told that "he descended into the lower parts of the earth." The consequences spiritually are blessed to the soul; how much more is it to Teach the source from which all flows! 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. No apostle had ever yet visited Rome. You will get the foreboding of this world with all of its problems. They must admit they are helpless sinners and accept the righteousness of God through Christ (10:1-4).The language of law says, Do all this and you will live. . 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." Click to enable/disable _gat_* - Google Analytics Cookie. and how shall they preach unless they be sent? In Romans 10:1-21 Paul made this same point. Hence, then, we find that the whole chapter is founded on this truth. He spent the whole night in trying to cheer and comfort others: he had no trembling thought about himself. Accordingly, in chapter 2 the Holy Spirit shows us man satisfying himself with pronouncing on what is right and wrong moralizing for others, but nothing more. The meaning is, the doctrine is not difficult to be understood and embraced. In the most solemn way he appeals to man with the demand, whether he thinks that God will look complacently on that which barely judges another, but which allows the practice of evil in the man himself (Romans 2:1-3). For this he quotes that scripture (Leviticus 18:5), You shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them. In Deuteronomy 30:11 Moses said his information was not far off, and it was not hidden from the Jewish people. See 2 Corinthians 3:7; Galatians 3:23; Galatians 3:24. Birthright from the same father would let in Ishmael on the one hand, as from both parents it would secure the title of Esau on the other. Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the Word of God. Now the one who plants and the one who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. 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. The apostle shows them with astonishing force at the starting-point that he was far from slighting their privileges. As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, Look at our dear, departed brother, Mr. Higgs, the last who has crossed the stream. This same term occurs again in verses 14 and 15. (that is, to bring, Christ down from above:) or, Who shall descend into the deep? The offering up of this desire to God. I have never been down-hearted at anything my life; certainly not at the thought of dying. If you want your faith increased, study the Word of God. This knowledge was readily available and known to all. Yes indeed: Their sound has gone out to all the earth, How is it possible that I can be saved? The downfall of man, when he thus abandoned God, was most rapid and profound; and the Holy Spirit traces this solemnly to the end ofRomans 1:1-32; Romans 1:1-32 with no needless words, in a few energetic strokes summing up that which is abundantly confirmed (but in how different a manner!) There is nothing now to be done, but a work in us; this must be our care, to look to our heart and mouth. No one is lost until he sins and sin becomes full grown (James 1:15). (1.) In essence this passage is an appeal to the Jews to abandon the way of legalism and accept the way of grace. The objection is: But what if the Jews never heard of that? Then the apostle introduces the ground, certainty, and character of God's judgment (verses 4-16). Moses claimed for the law which God had given to the people through him that it was clear, and within the range of their knowledge and understanding. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. And I was mad because I had been trying so long to do it and tie ends together. . He has put the two things together, "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved." 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