If you will just confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is the Lord. 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). the Arabic version, "what dost thou say?" God is revealing a righteousness of His own in the gospel. I was found by those who did not seek Me; (i) The first objection is: "You cannot call on God unless you believe in him. You cannot believe in him unless you hear about him. In essence this passage is an appeal to the Jews to abandon the way of legalism and accept the way of grace. He laughs at all our comeliness, he knows that it is a hollow cheat, a vile sham. This accordingly leads the apostle into the earlier portion of his great argument, and first of all in a preparatory way. And boy, she comes elbowing her way in and she is going to get right there next to Grandpa. Hence the action of the Spirit of God in a double point of view comes before us. 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. Therein God is both vindicated and glorified. 2. It is a great piece of condescension for a proud heart to be content to be beholden to free grace; we are loth to sue sub forma pauperis--as paupers. 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. IV. Then Isaiah says, greatly daring: "I was found by those who did not seek me. It became simply a question whether, in fact, God did call Gentiles, or whether He had revealed such intentions. It is nigh you; it is nigh you now: it will never be nigher than it is at this moment. 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. Click to enable/disable essential site cookies. For, essentially associated as He is with the glory of God the Father, the full deliverance of souls from the realm of death was His also. Also, Gods word works in the Christian (1 Thessalonians 2:13). Its remarkable that Paul found something good to say about these Jewish people who persecuted him so mercilessly. Nor does this in the slightest degree weaken the principle of law. Did the call of God. 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. Includes cross references, questions, verse by verse commentary, outline, and applications on Romans 10. Some wonder why Paul didnt mention the crucifixion in this passage. If you were to be saved by the law you should have begun without sin, continued without sin, and then it would be needful to end without sin. 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. Moses' utterance was single and by itself. Even those that seek a place of separation to the Lord outside that which is now hurrying on souls to destruction are, nevertheless, deeply affected by the condition of that Christendom in which we find ourselves. 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 relationship between God and man is no longer the relationship between a creditor and a debtor, between an earner and an assessor, between a judge and a man standing at the bar of judgment. He shall come to Zion, says the other. How are they to proclaim the good news unless they are sent to do so? Because this word is so important, Paul said it was preached (present tense). All Israel shall be saved. Dig not into the bowels of the earth to find the gold of salvation. In the moments when the soul is in the lowest depths, faith is the only way to live. . 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. 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? He was in the end killed. The law cannot make a person righteous before God, nor can it give a person a righteous standing before God. He says rema is "the word of faith" that is proclaimed by the followers of Jesus. The profession of faith with the mouth, if there be not the power of it in the heart, is but a mockery; the root of it must be laid in an unfeigned assent to the revelation of the gospel concerning Christ, especially concerning his resurrection, which is the fundamental article of the Christian faith, for thereby he was declared to be the Son of God with power, and full evidence was given that God accepted his satisfaction. The meaning is, that the doctrine was already so familiar, and so well understood, that it was actually in their mouth, that is, their language, their common conversation. Seventh day adventist Bible Commentary reference series volumes 1-10. Justification by faith lays the foundation of our title to salvation; but by confession we build upon that foundation, and come at last to the full possession of that to which we were entitled. Romans 13:1-14; Romans 13:1-14 urges their duties towards what was outside them, more particularly to the powers that be, but also to men in general. But now, to meet the question that was raised, they pleaded the distinguishing promises to Israel. This is true for both Jews and Gentiles. Nederlandstalige Bijbelstudies door Stan Marinussen. . The first of these phrases, "from faith," excludes the law; the second, "to faith," includes every one that has faith within the scope of God's righteousness. They have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God, that is, they have not yielded to gospel-terms, nor accepted the tender of justification by faith in Christ, which is made in the gospel. II. The gospel or the system of grace or "the righteousness which is of faith" is not difficult to find or to accede to. It was not merely, that he had better light. 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." Romans 10:17, NASB: So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek ( Romans 10:11-12 ): Quite a statement for Paul a Hebrew of the Hebrews to make--no difference between the Jew and the Greek, that is, as far as salvation is concerned. See ye well to this. Thus then, if Paul gave his own sense of Jewish privileges, there was no unbelieving Jew that rose up to his estimate of them. (2.) 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. The consequences are thus pursued; first, the general place of the believer now, in all respects, in relation to the past, the present, and the future. 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. Believing in the heart that God raised him from the dead. Paul was entirely ready to admit that the Jews were zealous for God; but he also saw that their zeal was a misdirected thing. May the Lord be with you and may the blessings of the Lord surround your life as you walk with Him. The way to heaven up the steep sides of Sinai is inaccessible to trembling feet like ours. The day hastens when the Redeemer shall come to Zion. He must know not only Christ the martyr: he must know Christ the victor, too. By the preaching of the Gospel the doctrine of salvation is nigh thee, and the saving influence is at hand: it is in thy mouth, easy to be understood, easy to be professed: and in thy heart, if thou art upright before God, sincerely desiring to be saved on his own terms, not striving to establish thy own method of justification by the law, which must for ever be ineffectual, but submitting to the method of justification which God has devised. Clearly, then, such ground is untenable. There is nothing like the grace of God for producing the truest humility, the humility that not only descends to the lowest level of sinners to do them good, but which is itself the fruit of deliverance from that self-love which puffs itself or lowers others. In the next chapter (Romans 10:1-21) he carries on the subject, showing in the most touching manner his affection for the people. "At any rate he is a saved soul," we hear. For all this, as he presses further, there was the weightiest reason possible. Their crowning glory was precisely what they would not hear of. I'm sorry you can't accept it, but that is the way it is. They have a zeal of God. The problem is that none is able to keep the law perfectly. This is not something to smile at, but to admire. This was the key to their difficulties this alone, and fully explains their coming ruin as well as God's solemn warnings. The Text Who bring glad tidings of good things!. 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. (i) There is the ignorance which comes from neglect of knowledge. This phrase, , "the word of faith", may be seen in the Jewish writings z; and this shows what word is here meant, even the Gospel so called, because it contains doctrines which are to be believed upon the testimony of God, and particularly the doctrine of justification by the righteousness of Christ received by faith; and because it proposes Christ as the object of faith, and encourages souls to believe in him for life and salvation; and is also the means of begetting and implanting faith in the heart, and without it the preaching of it is of no avail: and it is further described by the ministration of it. Paul quoted Moses again (Deuteronomy 30:14) to reaffirm the fact that the great lawgiver taught that salvation came by faith. 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.". 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. Click to enable/disable _gat_* - Google Analytics Cookie. A message of peace and of life, glad tidings of good things. The old man refused. 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. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. So also the gospel by no means involves itself in obscurity, but says, Believe and live, quite as distinctly as Moses said, "Do and live." (that is, to bring Christ down from above:): In Moses sermon these words mean the law that he commanded Israel to obey was not some far off impossibility requiring heroic superhuman efforts to discover and obey. Such men have never been wanting since the truth has shone on this world; still less are they now. "By whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith." We accordingly are dead, says he, to the law; not (as no doubt almost all of us know) that the law dies, but that we are dead to the law in the death of Christ. 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. It was not an easy thing; it must often have been made extremely inconvenient; and it must often have made life very uncomfortable. The truth is, those are altogether mistaken who call it so. the word of faith -- The gospel peached by the apostles. 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. "The just shall live by faith" (not by law). 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. Jack answered, "I never get lower than I am, for I am down at the bottom. He quotes from Joel, that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 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. One reported to me the other day a word which cheered me much. Then, in Romans 9:1-33; Romans 10:1-21; Romans 11:1-36, the apostle handles a difficulty serious to any mind, especially to the Jew, who might readily feel that all this display of grace in Christ to the Gentile as much as to the Jew by the gospel seems to make very cheap the distinctive place of Israel as given of God. 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. What glory so rich as that of the Christ Himself duly appreciated? and how shall they preach unless they be sent? Finally he brings in Isaiah, showing that, far from retaining their blessing as an unbroken people, a remnant alone would be saved. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. ** In Park-street early in my ministry I told the story, and it did my friend good, and helped to rest his soul all those years ago, so that he remembered it and repeated it at the last. It is with that objection Paul deals; and, as he deals with it in its various forms, on each occasion he clinches his answer with a text from scripture. f. The Scripture says: Referring, I think, to the general sense of Scripture, rather than to any one passage. Did the Jew fancy that the gospel makes very light of Abraham, and of the then dealings of God? d. Believe in your heart: Mere intellectual agreement with the facts of the cross and the resurrection is not enough. Has God then no delivering power from this? 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. 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. 15:18-24). The offering up of this desire to God. It was for her he cared, and for those about him as for himself, all was rest. Romans is a book about God. A passage like this may seem strange to us and unconvincing; and it may seem that some at least of the texts Paul quotes have been wrenched out of their context and made to mean what they were never intended to mean. Take his counsel. I have always felt obliged to the Cardinal for that admission; because the best is good enough for me, and since trusting in Jesus is the safest, I intend to stick to it even to the end. If you want to live by the law (find life through the law), you must do the law and do it completely and perfectly. The application of this was more evident to the Gentile than to the Jew. 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. First, then, a man to be a Christian must have a sense of the utter uniqueness of Jesus Christ. What is near us may be easily reached. Romans 1:1-32. Again, we cannot neglect the emphasis on. How Daniels Prophecy of 70 Weeks Connects to the End Times, 4 Ways the Parable of the Sower Encourages Spiritual Growth. He speaks of the sovereignty of God having elected that it might stand by election. Now it was manifested, and not promised or predicted merely. 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. In Romans 14:1-23 and the beginning ofRomans 15:1-33; Romans 15:1-33 we have the delicate theme of Christian forbearance in its limits and largeness. This is the first ground. 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. Paul deals with that objection by quoting Isaiah 52:7. 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