What a title, then, God gives me now in beholding Christ, no longer dead but risen, to have it settled before my soul that I am in Him as He now is, where all questions are closed in peace and joy! The Jews have no reason to believe that God has rejected them. "Ah, well," says one, "I know I must undergo a singular experience-either I must be carried right away to heaven with delirious delight, or be plunged into the waves of hell in frightful despair." There is a kind of telegraphic quality about the writing. All that which is done for us is already done to our hands. Here was the very truth that every Jew, as such, denied. Israel is indeed the only people of whom there is always a portion that believe. Sin is our not wanting the gifts of . They are zealous for God, yes. Fair-weather sailors, who go out in their little painted perfection boats, are people who have had small temptation and little soul-trouble. They tried him many ways with their blessed experience, of which you and I have got cart-loads, perhaps waggon-loads; but he could not be drawn out of his one firm position. 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. Furthermore, To question how they could ascend into heaven in order to find a way of perfection was a denial of the incarnation of Christ. That is God's promise.So we have the divine sovereignty of God, but we also have the human responsibility of man, and you will not be saved unless you do call upon the name of the Lord. There can be no one to proclaim the good news unless God commissions someone to do so." Then, in Romans 10:8b-13, Paul reinforces faith by talking about its content and benefit. It is no longer blood, but death Christ's death and resurrection. Deuteronomy 30:14. He heard a poor woman sing somewhere, He remembered the words, and what was better, he felt their sense; and he kept on humming them to himself till God's good Spirit engraved them on his heart. Those that were under the law were to do all themselves, Do this, and live; but the gospel discovers the greatest part of the work done already, and what remains cut short in righteousness, salvation offered upon very plain and easy terms, brought to our door, as it were, in the word which is nigh us. In this too we have the blessed connection of the Spirit (here peculiarly designated, for special reasons, "the Spirit of holiness"). "Their voice is gone out to all the earth, and their words to the boundaries of the inhabited world." This was no question of legal obedience, although the law came from Jehovah. The same was true of the doctrine requiring faith in Christ. Next, this precious gospel translates these questions, and then answers them. Romans 10:17, ESV: So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. Chapter 10Now Paul again reaffirms his love and desire for his brethren after the flesh. All the world was guilty before God. There is a preaching which blasts the sinner with tempestuously angry words; but always Paul speaks the truth in love. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. This it was before it was his prayer. But what saith it? Verse 20. No trembling sinner doubts but that by the breaking of the law we are condemned: be you equally sure of it, that by not believing you are condemned. If I had a sense of sin as deep as that of lost souls in hell, I could hope that I should be saved." Here I shall be very brief. If you wish to be saved by the law you must do its commands and you shall live. No one would undertake it at all unless he was supremely in earnest. Can it cry? There is no need to bring Christ down to find out what God wants. 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. And "how shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein?" Since the word of God is in our mouth, "confession" (homologeo) of Christ is almost automatic. You asked, "Who shall descend into the deep?" It is a holy balancing pole: we can walk the narrowest line with this in our hands, and fear no fall. For the Scripture says, Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame. For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. Say not in thine heart that thou must be educated, trained, and made into a scholar. . (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) There would be no remnant if justice took its course. Why, next, it forbids the questions of despair. When a man has lost all hope he throws the reins upon his neck and runs into all manner of iniquity, judging that he may as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. That is, it is not merely pardon of past sins, but deliverance from sin, and in due time from all its consequences. We provide you with a list of stored cookies on your computer in our domain so you can check what we stored. I appeared plainly to those who did not enquire after me." "Yea verily, their sound went forth into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world." You that hope to be saved by your works are indulging a forlorn hope; what never you may do or be in the future, the past has already ruined you. Their zeal was not according to knowledge. Such is the principle. They too should live. He cared nothing for oratory, which I have heard him call "a flash in the pan"; he delighted in the plain, solid gospel of Jesus Christ. He must know not only Christ the martyr: he must know Christ the victor, too. Please see our Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. Moses writes that the man who works at the righteousness which comes from the law shall live by it. This would not have been just. Rightly does Paul take this as granted; for the doctrine of the law does by no means render the conscience quiet and calm, nor supply it with what ought to satisfy it. The first is Moses himself. This was not suitable to the character of the epistle; but the glory of God he does. Be it so then; it was a foolish nation by which Moses declared they should be angered. But there is a third. You won't get glad tidings of good things. (b.) "Always remember to keep your voice down," said another. Verse 21. Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia - Harga saham emiten migas Grup Bakrie PT Energi Mega Persada Tbk (ENRG) dan emiten milik taipan Prajogo Pangestu PT Barito Pacific Tbk (BRPT) kompak menjadi top losers hingga penutupan sesi I, Rabu (1/3/2023). In the next chapter (Romans 10:1-21) he carries on the subject, showing in the most touching manner his affection for the people. I was made manifest to those who did not ask for Me.. He is not coming according to the covenant that God established by Moses for sins to be forgiven. Hence therefore, the apostle, with divine wisdom, opens this to us before the blessed relief and deliverance which the gospel reveals to us. But what saith it? There is then the solemn truth also of divine wrath. God has brought him again from the dead and exalted him at his own right hand, and this is not for himself, but for all those who trust in him. Another, despairing of deliverance by his doings, runs upon his feelings, and cries, "If I am to be saved, surely I shall need to experience joys like those which are felt by spirits before the throne. Thereby is identification with His death. This same term occurs again in verses 14 and 15. Of course our new Perfection brethren, spick and span saints as they are, are not like Jack, they are not "poor sinners, and nothing at all," and I am afraid lest some of them should find out that Jesus Christ is not their all in all. This is what that word of faith says, even the gospel which we preach. If you find him in it will not much matter where you find him, in heaven or in the deep, for he must be almighty everywhere. Without faith there is neither justice nor life that God owns; where faith is, the rest will surely follow. It is near and not hard to attain. We have had justification, both by blood and also in virtue of Christ's resurrection. In Deuteronomy 30:11 Moses said his information was not far off, and it was not hidden from the Jewish people. For they being ignorant of Gods righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. The apostle has come now to the nature. Even the word of faith; the gospel and the promise of it, called the word of faith because it is the object of faith about which it is conversant, the word which we believe;--because it is the precept of faith, commanding it, and making it the great condition of justification;--and because it is the ordinary means by which faith is wrought and conveyed. Sin is our operating outside of God's grace. June 2023. 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. For Isaiah said, Lord, who has believed our report? Why would they not allow such a pretension? b. But, suppose I still say: "Can it be that they have not heard?" It was laid down exactly how far a man could walk on the Sabbath. Did they deny that they were a foolish nation? Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. 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. Includes cross references, questions, verse by verse commentary, outline, and applications on Romans 10. Jesus wept over Jerusalem. Having descended all that length he went lower still. Though the whole might have been announced in one continuous sentence, yet a question is interposed for the sake of exciting attention: and his object at the same time was to show how great is the difference between the righteousness of the law and that of the gospel; for the one, showing itself at a distance, restrains all men from coming nigh; but the other, offering itself at hand, kindly invites us to a fruition of itself, Nigh thee is the word. Have done with doings, and feelings, and trust yourself with Christ. To call Jesus kurios ( G2962) was to count him unique. What is remote, with difficulty. No, my dear friend, do not say that even in your thought. It was not merely better light in the conscience, which might be elsewhere, as is supposed in the early verses of our chapter; but the Jew's position was directly and unquestionably one of divine tests applied to man's estate. Even the saints there would have been all the better for the gospel. 13). Do some great brave wonderful marvelous thing. Suppose your faith cannot work miracles; never mind about miracles. Charity teaches us to have the best opinion of persons, and to put the best construction upon words and actions, that they will bear. c. But the righteousness of faith: This is based on Jesus, and we dont have to work to get Jesus. by all that remains of the ancient world. Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the Word of God.We are told in Jude that one of the ways by which we keep ourselves in that place of blessing, the blessings of God's love, is building up ourselves in the most holy faith. Paul adapts Moses language to suit his own purpose, which is to describe "the righteousness which is of faith," not to show how it can be established from the Old Testament. b. In Romans 7:1-25 we have the subject of the law discussed for practice as well as in principle, and there again meet with the same weapon of tried and unfailing temper. 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