There is water as well as blood, and to that, not to this, the washing here refers. It is not a soul's overcoming its difficulties, but a sinner's submission to the righteousness of God. (that is, to bring Christ down), or, 'Who shall go down into the deep abyss?' It was his heart's desire; it was not a formal compliment, as good wishes are with many from the teeth outward, but a real desire. Zealous the Jews were and are. 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. To a disobedient and contrary people.. When we drift away from it, we become confused, and we begin dividing, bickering and fighting among ourselves. 2. Whosoever believed should not be ashamed; whosoever called should be saved. c. Establish their own righteousness: This effort shows Israels lack of knowledge and that they are ignorant of Gods righteousness. Oh, my bearer, our salvation lies in this! All that which is done for us is already done to our hands. 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. And mark the force of it whosoever." They would not hear of it. The application of this was more evident to the Gentile than to the Jew. Brethren, my hearts desire and prayer to God for Israel: Paul again feels compelled to relate his heart regarding his fellow Jews. He has put the two things together, "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved." "Whosoever believeth in him hath everlasting life." In thy mouth - This is taken from the Septuagint. 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. It is "the power of God unto salvation." And as it is for obedience of faith, it was not in anywise restricted to the Jewish people "among all nations, for his (Christ's) name: among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ" (verses 5, 6). The moral law was but for the searching of the wound, the ceremonial law for the shadowing forth of the remedy; but Christ is the end of both. It was not only his heart's desire, but it was his prayer. The righteousness of God is revealed from faith; and consequently, if there be faith in any soul, to this it is revealed, to faith wherever it may be. But the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against them pre-eminently. You asked, "Who shall descend into the deep?" In the fourth verse this could not be absent; in the first verse it ought not to be present. What about His word passed and sworn to the fathers? It is not God having an earthly centre, and the peoples doming up to worship the Lord in Jerusalem. You cannot believe in him unless you hear about him. God is revealing a righteousness of His own in the gospel. The same was true of the gospel. People cannot come to Jesus without the right information about the gospel, but information alone is not enough to save anyone. Paul does not rejoice that they have stumbled at that stumbling stone (Romans 9:32). This do, and thou shalt live. The latter clause in the first verse of the authorised version mars the sense. 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. If you wish to be saved by the law you must do its commands and you shall live. One does not have to climb to heavenas though one couldto bring it down. Hence, therefore, it was in no way limited to any particular nation, such as those that had already been under the law and government of God. Nothing can be more simple and essential. And "how shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein?" This brings out a most emphatic truth and special side of Christianity. We should take notice of that which is commendable even in bad people. The soul is brought into peace with God, as it finds its standing in the grace of God, and, more than that, rejoices in hope of the glory of God. They have a zeal of God. So when the other grandkids come over, I make a big to do over them, exaggerated. The answer is found in this portion of our epistle (that is, from the middle of chapter 5). b. When a man is at length awakened to a sense of sin he cries, "I long to be saved! () in Romans 10:8, as afterwards . i. Salem Media Group. Now listen. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. Difficulty there is none: only believe and thou art saved. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets" (verses 20, 21). Romans 10:5-9 . This it was before it was his prayer. There were those who were good, whose balance was on the right side; there were those who were bad, whose balance was on the debit side; there were those who were in between, who, by doing one more good work, could become good. Have not submitted. The word is nigh thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach: The 5th verse is a quotation from Leviticus 18:5. 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. This is further illustrated (Romans 10:10; Romans 10:10), and the order inverted, because there must first be faith in the heart before there can be an acceptable confession with the mouth. Its remarkable that Paul found something good to say about these Jewish people who persecuted him so mercilessly. No, confess yourself a sinner; trust in the sinner's Savior, and you are saved. Experience says, and we are some of us here to say it, that it is the grandest way of living in the world. Through His Word. It was meant to make sin exceeding sinful. We may request cookies to be set on your device. ( Romans 10:14-15 ). But the Jew might argue that it was an unjust thing in principle this gospel, these tidings of which the apostle was so full; for why should one man affect many, yea, all? If you want your faith increased, study the Word of God. God is not far from each one of us (Acts 17:27) because His will is right at our fingertips. There are several texts from which it may be gathered that believers shall not be put to shame. (Spurgeon). (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? What does experience say about believing in Christ! It is God who now makes known a righteousness to man, instead of looking for any from man. This is the first ground. a. He saves those who are always confessors of sin, always needy in themselves, and therefore always glad of him. "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized unto Jesus Christ were baptized unto his death?" 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. This is what Moses saith: hear it and be humbled. 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). 1. 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 ). No longer does the question exist of requiring an expiation. It means we recognize that Jesus is God, that He is the Messiah, and that His work on the cross is the only way of salvation for mankind. He demands perfect and entire obedience, if life is to come of it. There never was an hour since Israel's existence as a nation that God has not had His remnant of them. 4. On both sides therefore the apostle is meeting the grand points he had at heart to demonstrate from their own Scriptures. It is "revealed," and this too "from heaven." It is against the "unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness." For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever.". (2.) that is, the word of faith, which we preach -- --that is, the word which men were to believe and obey for salvation (compare 1 Timothy 4:6). Where then is boasting? 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? I. Christ holds it out to you: take it freely, and be rich for ever. This is where so many religious people even sincere Christians go astray. Hast thou not heard the tale? 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. i. (1-3) Israel's refusal to submit to the righteousness of God. Did the call of God. Moses said, "That the man which doeth those things shall live by them." Ah, then the heart foolishly cries, "I must know a great deal; as much as if I had been to heaven and seen for myself, or as if I had dived into the depths and made discoveries there." Here is where the passage becomes really difficult. 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. Paul has been saying some hard things about the Jews. Poor dear heart, if you can but trust Christ, even though the feeblest possible manifestation of it should be the only thing visible, namely, your calling upon God in prayer, it must and shall save you. The resurrection was an essential of Christian belief. The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; But the righteousness which is of faith: In contrast to the righteousness that is based on the law is the righteousness that results from faith. He had bought the truth and would not sell it, and so he stuck to. and therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. Jack answered, "I never get lower than I am, for I am down at the bottom. 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." This was true even before Moses time (see Romans 4:13 and the example of Abraham). He wished his beloved ones to go to their beds; and since they would stop with him, he desired them to sing." And it is well for those ignorant of it to know that here, in verse 4, the apostle speaks first of "walking not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." He knew whom he had believed, and knew what the Lord had done for him, and he could not see a weak point in it all. The work thou hast to do lies within thee: the kingdom of God is within you,Luke 17:21. No; clear, straight, cutting like a sharp razor, he puts before us the single sentence, "He that doeth those things shall live by them.". It is not an esoteric message hidden in some secret place or located at some far corner of the universe. 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. Have done with every other confidence. Salvation supposes not this only, but a great deal more. When we confess the Lord Jesus, we agree with what God said about Jesus, and with what Jesus said about Himself. 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. Instead of waiting for some new truth to fall from heaven, or float up from the abyss, they ought to recognize that truth has already been given. No, He has already come and brought salvation down from heaven to men. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believes ( Romans 10:3-4 ). Dig not into the bowels of the earth to find the gold of 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. 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. Instead, we gain it by confessing and believing in the person and work of Jesus Christ. Surely it would need that I mount to heaven to own my sin, or dive to hell to bear its punishment. No. Hearing is a reflection of first-century life. If he was called, so were they he an apostle, they not apostles but saints; but still, for them as for him, all flowed out of the same mighty love, of God. 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. The Text Now it is clear that that obedience could be given only by a man who was desperately in earnest about his religion. . His answer is: "You cannot say that Israel never got the chance to hear; for scripture plainly says that God's message has gone out to all the world.". 15), "because we are not under the law, but under grace?" As He has given us through the blood of Jesus full remission, as we shall be saved by this life, as He has made us know even now nothing short of present conscious deliverance from every whit of evil that belongs to our very nature, as we have the Spirit the earnest of the glory to which we are destined, as we are the vessels of gracious sorrow in the midst of that from which we are not yet delivered but shall be, so now we have the certainty that, whatever betide, God is for us, and that nothing shall separate us from His love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. This is applied in the two chapters that follow. The word is near you -- --easily accessible. Please see our Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. 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. (iii) But a man must not only believe in his heart; he must confess with his lips. How are they to hear without someone to proclaim the good news to them? For Isaiah said, Lord, who has believed our report? He has Gods law; all that remains is for him to obey it. 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. To make his point Paul uses two Old Testament quotations. I assure you that I daily find the value of living by faith. To this then the apostle comes, after having spoken of the divine favour shown himself, both when a sinner, and now in his own special place of serving the Lord Jesus. Let us not stumble at the starting-point, but leave room for the due extent and depth of "salvation" in the gospel. Whoever will in the whole world believe in Christ may do so; he is neither too old or too young, or too rich, or too poor, or too wicked, or too moral; if he will but trust Christ he shall be saved, and he is fully allowed and permitted, yea, commanded to believe and live. ROMANS 10:8-17 INTRODUCTION: It is amazing how little people know about the Word of God, especially here in America where virtually everyone has access to the Bible. c. How beautiful are the feet: No wonder those who preach have beautiful feet they partner with God for the salvation of men. Plug in, Turn on and Be En light ened! (b.) I do not mean by this its truth merely, but its exquisite suitability; so that the opening address commences the theme in hand, and insinuates that particular line of truth which the Holy Spirit sees fit to pursue throughout. 2. Conscious deliverance, to be solid according to God, must be in the line of His truth. Also, Gods word works in the Christian (1 Thessalonians 2:13). It was for this then that Paul describes himself as apostle. Not so, says the apostle; it is because of the evil of the nature, not of the law. But then again he intimates that the nature of the gospel is involved in the publishing of the glad tidings. The point is best understood by examining the source of Pauls information. The gospel, instead of treating this as a light matter, alone vindicates God in these eternal ways of His, in that which must be in him who stands in relationship with God. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever would believe in Him would not perish but can know the eternal life of God and the glory of God's eternal kingdom and can share as children of God, heirs of God, joint-heirs with Jesus Christ, kings and priests in that glorious age that is coming. Yes, but this is another principle. Rema is different from the law or works of the law because faith informs "the word.". What is to be done according to Gods word? Further, he would have real difficulty in believing that the way to God was open to everybody. And we hear it on all sides. All the while God is wanting the Jews to come elbowing, which is a trait for them anyhow, to come on in and get close.Moses said, "I will provoke you to jealousy by them that were not my people. Thou art my hiding-place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. 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." The objection is: But what if the Jews never heard of that? Ourselves nothing, Christ everything that is it. 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. For information about the word heart (kardia), see the commentary on verse 1. . That is, it is the power of God unto salvation, not because it is victory (which at the beginning of the soul's career would only give importance to man even if possible, which it is not), but because it is "the righteousness of God." f. The Scripture says: Referring, I think, to the general sense of Scripture, rather than to any one passage. ( Isaiah 53:1.) As Moses explains in v. 11, "What I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach." I confine myself to its doctrinal import, and the full Christian sense of the word; and I maintain that salvation signifies that deliverance for the believer which is the full consequence of the mighty work of Christ, apprehended not, of course, necessarily according to all its depth in God's eyes, but at any rate applied to the soul in the power of the Holy Ghost. Every mouth was stopped; the Jew by his own oracles, as the Gentile by their evident abominations, shown already. No wonder, if souls confound the two things together, that they never know deliverance in practice. Yes, whosoever will call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Not all will accept the message, but Christians must proclaim it nevertheless. 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. b. I was found by those who did not seek Me: It is strange that Israel, for the most part, rejected their own Messiah. "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness" (ver. Let the cross pass. The way of salvation is now both plain and easy. You see how simple God has made it? Jezreel, Lo-ruhamah, and Lo-ammi were of awful import for Israel; but, in presence of circumstances so disastrous, there should be not merely a people but sons of the living God, and then should Judah and Israel be gathered as one people under one head. And how shall they preach unless they are sent? There is no limitation there; the promise is to everyone; therefore, there is no difference between Jew and Greek. He laughs at all our comeliness, he knows that it is a hollow cheat, a vile sham. Yes, and I find a self-denying, Christ-exalting faith to be good in times of jubilation and success. In stormy weather our beauty and glory soon turn pale; when the devil meets us face to face, he cracks up our tinsel perfection with a blow. d. But what does it say? The last verses of the chapter, however, bring in the deliverance not yet the fulness of it, but the hinge, so to speak. That word is the gospel of Christ. Then, in Romans 10:8b-13, Paul reinforces faith by talking about its content and benefit. He must know not only Christ the martyr: he must know Christ the victor, too. It was laid down that, in the event of sickness, measures might be taken to keep the patient from becoming worse, but not to make him better. . Jesus has already come to the earth and brought us the information we need to serve God and find heaven. Now, our flesh likes the complications, because I would like to take some credit and receive some glory for salvation. Ed. You will get the foreboding of this world with all of its problems. There would be found a stumblingstone there. He does not say that if you have broken the law you may still live by some other means. Christ is nigh thee, for the word is nigh thee: nigh thee indeed: it is in thy mouth, and in thy heart; there is no difficulty in understanding, believing, and owning it. The excellency of the gospel above the law. ", Oh, but this is a very blessed thing to have to say to you. The future must be brought in by the grace of God; and this he accordingly gives us at the close of Romans 11:1-36. It is not among the Gentiles, but in the honoured centre of the polity of Israel. I can't accept it." For the truth is that God has in Christ condemned sin, and this for sin definitely; so that He has nothing more to do in condemnation of that root of evil. The righteousness of Christ imputed, secures the soul, the better part, from death. These things are matters of conscience, and depend much for their solution on the degree to which souls have attained. The soul therefore now is represented for the first time as already justified and in possession of peace with God. Glad tidings of good things, but not all who hear obey. "For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified." The gospel goes forth universally. Not only God, but also our fellow men, must know what side we are on. The gospel means His glad tidings for man. It is in Zion that He lays it. A voice cries "Who shall ascend into heaven?" Believing in the heart that God raised him from the dead. There is then the solemn truth also of divine wrath. He observes Sabbath; he loves God. faith comes by hearing [ the thing heard], (iii) There is the ignorance which is in essence a lie. You always can block or delete cookies by changing your browser settings and force blocking all cookies on this website. But what saith it? He had this, of course, in a revelation that was from God; he had law; he had prophets; he had divine institutions. Next, what the gospel says: "But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise," and so on. 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 ). But this may be comparatively a light question. The meaning is, the doctrine is not difficult to be understood and embraced. It is simple; indeed, so simple that people try to obscure it in order to understand it. He told me how that they now feel that their good works will make them acceptable to God. Moses had so often inculcated it, that it was understood and talked about by the people, so that there was no need to search in distant climes to obtain it. He descended into the grave, so that he dwelt among the dead! Yes, God is sovereign. Do you mean to tell me that because my father does not believe that Jesus is the Messiah that he is lost?" If in Isaac only, it is a question of the seed, not that was born, but that was called. To those that were under it, to be sure. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 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. Cold desires do but beg denials; we must even breathe out our souls in every prayer. No, if by keeping the law, then that encourages boasting, but it is eliminated because I am saved just through simple faith in Jesus Christ. Paul ably demonstrated in the first several chapters of Romans how futile this is. It is no longer a question of man's guilt, but of his nature. He refused. It is for the saints to learn, of course; but it is that which goes out in its own force and necessary aim to the need of man a divine righteousness, which justifies instead of condemning him who believes. Moreover, He gave up the knowledge of God that had been handed down from father to son (ver. It is a dilemma of human experience. . But more than this "Whosoever shall call." And thus, I have great difficulty with their present and current status before God. If we fail to equip ourselves for a task when every chance is given to us to equip ourselves adequately for it, we must stand condemned. It was undoubtedly enough for present purposes. An evil pronouncement .read more. He shall own that once glorious seat of royalty in Israel. He at the same time unfolds the essential difference between the righteousness of faith and that of law. He never said a word more than he felt; yet that was the style of man. We use cookies to let us know when you visit our websites, how you interact with us, to enrich your user experience, and to customize your relationship with our website. 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