I cannot get lower than that, can I? c. But the righteousness of faith: This is based on Jesus, and we dont have to work to get Jesus. There we find Christian knowledge as to the matter introduced; but still it is the knowledge of one who is not in this state pronouncing on one who is. He never said a word more than he felt; yet that was the style of man. The things about which we are in doubt are far fewer than we would like to think. This is where so many religious people even sincere Christians go astray. Justification by faith has always been the way for people to come to God. The meaning of verse 6 is a little more difficult. To say You can be right before God if you work hard enough is not a gospel of peace, and that message does not bring glad tidings of good things. ( Romans 10:5-8 ). (4-8) The contrast between Gods righteousness and our attempts at righteousness. Saul of Tarsus was a notorious persecutor of Christians before Jesus confronted him on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:1-20). Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for SDA Bible Commentary Set Vols. Our need is our warrant, and if that be gone, all is gone. Sin is our not wanting the gifts of . Christ's fullness is meant for our emptiness; Christ's righteousness is meant for our sin, salvation is for the lost. The direction is "unto all;" the application is, of course, only to "them that believe;" but it is to all them that believe. Yet from beginning to end there is no anger in it; there is nothing but wistful longing and heartfelt yearning. If you get out on the extreme and, unfortunately, some people do. 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 the Jew stumbling at Jesus Christ going about by works trying to establish a righteousness before God.Paul declares they just haven't made it and can't make it for they have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God and Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes. He shall own that once glorious seat of royalty in Israel. There is a kind of telegraphic quality about the writing. All of Pauls teaching of Gods election and right to choose does not diminish mans responsibility. Conscious deliverance, to be solid according to God, must be in the line of His truth. Surely if equal birth-tie could ensure community of blessing if a charter from God depended on being sprung from the same father and mother, there was no case so strong, no claim so evident, as that of Esau to take the same rights as Jacob. But why talk I so? He that believeth will not make haste (so the prophet has it)--will not make haste to run away from the sufferings he meets with in the way of his duty, will not be ashamed of a despised religion. If you do not want that we track your visit to our site you can disable tracking in your browser here: We also use different external services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps, and external Video providers. Now there is a tremendous failure some place of getting the message out.For how can they call on Him who they don't believe in? 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. We fully respect if you want to refuse cookies but to avoid asking you again and again kindly allow us to store a cookie for that. It is as equally simple to the Jew as it is to the Greek. One said somewhat roughly to him a fortnight before, "Don't be downhearted; you may got better yet." I was made manifest to those who did not ask for Me.. It is here that you will find a great failure of Christendom as to this. That early prophet tells Israel, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God. 3). In such a condition what has been found in Jesus is too often misused to make a kind of difference, so to speak, between the Saviour on the one hand, and God on the other ruinous always to the enjoyment of the full blessing of the gospel. 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. I appeared plainly to those who did not enquire after me." Romans 10:14-17. What could be conceived closer or more even than this? This God has wrought in Christ. This he proves by showing the different constitution of these two. But there is a third. The law cannot make a person righteous before God, nor can it give a person a righteous standing before God. Some wonder why Paul didnt mention the crucifixion in this passage. What is to be done according to Gods word? It might be more or less any man's lot to learn. The second plea is not that the rejection of Israel is only partial, however extensive, but that it is also temporary, and not definitive. 4). In both parts, as it may be observed, the door is opened to the Gentile. Romans 10:17, KJV: So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. * William Higgs, Esq., for many years a beloved deacon of the church in the Metropolitan Tabernacle, fell on asleep January 3rd, 1883, in his fifty-ninth year. 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. "Not so," replies the apostle. "Oh, God surely loves all mankind, and God loves the Buddhist and God loves the Mohammed, and God loves everybody." The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart. Instead of having to go to great lengths to achieve righteousness by the law, we can immediately receive righteousness by faith, by trusting in the word of the gospel. Yet, how many times we take the promises of God and say, "Oh, God, just help me to believe. To man this is the hardest of all obedience; but when once secured, it leads peacefully into the obedience of every day. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. It is not God having an earthly centre, and the peoples doming up to worship the Lord in Jerusalem. It is not as if we have to ascend into heaven or descend into the abyss to gain Jesus. The way of the law was not easy. "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. Amen, so let it be. Chapter Summary Paul's heart is broken for his people, Israel. This verse shows that believing faith does not come ultimately from the believer's witness but from the Word of God. So Paul's first answer is: "You cannot say there was no messenger; Isaiah describes these very messengers; and Isaiah lived long ago.". If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved: We do not gain God's righteousness by works. This accordingly leads the apostle into the earlier portion of his great argument, and first of all in a preparatory way. What did they say to Ishmaelites as joint-heirs? But what does it say? But if you and I are as he was, "poor sinners, and nothing at all," we may, with firm and resolute grip, lay hold upon the other line, "But Jesus Christ is my all in all." 14:1 - 15:14. He could not have remitted heretofore. Thus the discussion of Abraham strengthens the case in behalf of the uncircumcised who believe, to the overthrow of the greatest boast of the Jew. God send us more like him men to whom religion is for home consumption. It is nigh you; it is nigh you now: it will never be nigher than it is at this moment. Now the one who plants and the one who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. If you crawl on your knees for five miles to kiss the statue you can be spared several days of purgatory. "What shall we sing?" So Paul concludes his argument by citing two Old Testament texts to prove his case. Here is your answer. (James 2:10-11). There is mutual confirmation. The soul of prayer is the heart's desire. "At any rate he is a saved soul," we hear. Though Israel heard, they did not exercise saving faith in Christ making them (and us) all the more responsible. The faith of Christ has brought divine joy into his soul; but, in point of fact, he is traversing a world of infirmity, suffering, and grief. These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. It is through the Word of God that we come to know God. There is no mystery or obscurity about it. This, they say, would at least make men moral and keep them sober: whereas even in this they err against the light; for it has been proved by history that such preaching makes men worse and worse. But this may be comparatively a light question. 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. 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? On the contrary, it was the Jew provoked by the Gentiles "By them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you." Basically the scheme is this--in the previous passage Paul has been saying that the way to God is not that of works and of legalism, but of faith and trust. The gospel goes forth universally. "His flesh was torn off by the whips, and he streamed down with blood, and his flanks were laid open by wounds." 6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? Here, then, it is not a question at all of pardon or remission. They have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. Clarke's Commentary Verse Romans 10:8. So one of the first works of the gospel is silencing the questions of our unbelief. He had no uncertainty; he was as sure of his safety as it it had been a matter of calculation by the rules of arithmetic. Jesus had come and died; Jesus had been a propitiatory sacrifice; Jesus had borne the judgment of God because of the sins He bore. One day I was in my office studying Romans, and I was just so upset I put my Bible down and I said, "God, I can't reconcile it," and I walked out of the room. Wrapping everything up into one, the gospel says, "Trust thou in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thy sins shall be forgiven thee, and thou shalt be saved." This it was before it was his prayer. To call Jesus kurios ( G2962) was to count him unique. "But there is no place for boasting neither now or eternally when we get to heaven and when before the throne I stand in Him complete. 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. Man despised at first the outward testimony of God, His eternal power and Godhead, in the creation above and around him (verses 19, 20). 1. No man can tell. who would defraud God of that which He delights in the blessedness of bringing in deliverance by that One man, of whom Adam was the image? The gospel or the system of grace or "the righteousness which is of faith" is not difficult to find or to accede to. First, then, a man to be a Christian must have a sense of the utter uniqueness of Jesus Christ. As used by Moses in this place, it evidently means that his doctrines were in their mind, or were a subject of meditation and reflection. That is, it is not merely pardon of past sins, but deliverance from sin, and in due time from all its consequences. 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. 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. 2. We are not put to climb for it--it is not in heaven; we are not put to dive for it--it is not in the deep. It is not in any degree settled as to itself by His blood. And, of course, the way we build up ourselves in the most holy faith is through the Word. Oh, let's all get our climbing ropes and let's all climb into heaven and let's bring the Messiah down. Then, fourthly, we will hear what experience saith; for we may bring in the experience of believers to back up the declarations of God. 47. Finally he comes to two other witnesses; as from the Psalms, so now from the law and the prophets. Then the apostle introduces the ground, certainty, and character of God's judgment (verses 4-16). Even where the law was, not by it but by faith the just lived. They are merely persons who plume themselves on their orthodoxy, but in a wholly unrenewed condition. They too should live. The consequences spiritually are blessed to the soul; how much more is it to Teach the source from which all flows! 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. 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. 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). Do not try to climb the heavens or search the depths, for Christ has already come down from heaven to earth, has been crucified, buried and raised from the dead. God established that they had to bring an animal and kill the animal in their stead, that their sins must be transferred onto the animal and the animal slain. c. How beautiful are the feet: No wonder those who preach have beautiful feet they partner with God for the salvation of men. They have rejected God. The believer is not put under law, you will observe, but under grace, which is the precise reverse of law. He will not be ashamed to own that Christ in whom he trusts; he that believes in the heart will not be ashamed to confess with the mouth. 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. This he shows, Romans 10:5; Romans 10:5. 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. (i) There is the ignorance which comes from neglect of knowledge. A person cannot believe unless they hear. This might seem an exaggeration: the gospel had not been carried throughout all the earth, not even to all the lands that were known to the inhabitants of the Graeco-Roman world. First, Moses says: "I will make you jealous of a nation which is no nation. 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 ). Let me hold you." But natural conscience, although it may detect evil, never leads one into the inward possession and enjoyment of good never brings the soul to God. The rest of the epistle takes up the practical consequences of the great doctrine of God's righteousness, which had been now shown to be supported by, and in no wise inconsistent with, His promises to Israel. and Jack replied, "I do not know much about these things; but this I do know and am sure of, They put him back for awhile, to try if he would grow in his knowledge, but he never went an inch beyond the first standard. The Text But what is testified by Christian baptism is Christ's death. There is no limitation there; the promise is to everyone; therefore, there is no difference between Jew and Greek. 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. Say not in thine heart that thou must be educated, trained, and made into a scholar. But did this satisfy the apostle? But such thoughts altogether vanish now, because, as the Gentile was unquestionably wicked and abominable, so from the law's express denunciation the Jew was universally guilty before God. No, if the law is once broken it is all over with you as to salvation thereby: one single fault takes away the possibility of your ever being justified by the law. The language of faith says, Do nothing. 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. He is not studying an historical personage, however great; he is living with a real presence. Your name is not on the list." It was undoubtedly enough for present purposes. (2.) There is the balance. All day long I have stretched out My hands He has put the two things together, "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved." The word is nigh thee There is no occasion to seek high or low for the saving power; the word of reconciliation is nigh. 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. Romans 10:5-9 . This is the faith which saves the soul. (Spurgeon). Undoubtedly divine judgment fell on Him; but this is not "the righteousness of God," as the apostle employs it in any part of his writings any more than here, though we know there could be no such thing as God's righteousness justifying the believer, if Christ had not borne the judgment of God. (d) In the Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures it is the regular translation of the divine name, Jahveh or Jehovah. But they have not all obeyed the gospel. we know how this was in Israel, how it might be, and has been, in Christendom. The top and bottom of the matter is, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ." The man who does those things shall live by them: The Law of Moses makes the path to righteousness through the law plain. Live, that is, be happy, not only in the land of Canaan, but in heaven, of which Canaan was a type and figure. There. The man who does those things shall live by them, ascend into heaven or descend into the abyss, But what does it say? The meaning is not what was executed on Christ, but what is in virtue. To turn a blind eye may be in some few cases a virtue; in most cases it is folly. 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. 2 170). Man complicates the issues. It is in your mouth and in your heart." Ah, my Lord, what should I do then if I could not as "a poor sinner, and nothing at all" find Christ to be my "all in all." "The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,"[ a] that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim: 9 If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Anyone can express it easily with the mouth and accept it easily with the heart. Whatever man in all the world, throughout all the ages, shall come and trust himself on Christ shall never be ashamed of having done so. And how shall they preach unless they are sent? There is no good reason for such an assumption, but much against it. The first is Moses himself. of He is consistent with Himself when He is justifying sinners, or, more strictly, all those who believe in Jesus. And we hear it on all sides. "What shall we then say that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? Hearing is a reflection of first-century life. There are several texts from which it may be gathered that believers shall not be put to shame. 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