They wanted Jerusalem to be shut down completely on the Sabbath day, and he just let their sections be shut down but allowed cars to be driven in other sections. It didnt surprise God or His prophets. This God has wrought in Christ. 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. He shows that, on the responsible ground of being His nation, they were wholly ruined. All Israel shall be saved. 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. They become angry and envious when they see their supposedly ignorant Gentile neighbours accepting the gospel, but they themselves will not listen to it (19-21). He is come up from the deep; we need not perplex ourselves how to bring him up. 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. 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. He spent the whole night in trying to cheer and comfort others: he had no trembling thought about himself. He had this, of course, in a revelation that was from God; he had law; he had prophets; he had divine institutions. 2. Christ's work of redemption deserves that God should act as He does in the gospel. It is close to you. Here now we have the basis for missionary activity by the church. Confess with your mouth: Confession has the idea of agreeing with. 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. c. How beautiful are the feet: No wonder those who preach have beautiful feet they partner with God for the salvation of men. As I was walking out of the room God said, "I didn't ask you to reconcile it; I only asked you to believe it." (1.) The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. And mark the force of it whosoever." 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. 11, 12). Includes cross references, questions, verse by verse commentary, outline, and applications on Romans 10. This is an important consideration because Paul specifically applies the allusions he makes to Deuteronomy 30 to "the righteousness which is of faith," whereas Moses is clearly talking about the law and obedience to it. It is implied in this wish that they might be convinced and converted; he could not pray in faith that they might be saved in their unbelief. It is not so alone; but in His death, unto which I am baptized, I am dead to sin. Thus one could not fail to see these two weighty inferences: the bringing in to be God's sons of those that had not been His people, and the judgment and destruction of the great mass of His undoubted people. The "word of faith" is the message of justification by the system of "faith" as opposed to the Law. It is important to note, however, that Paul does not quote Moses. Christ has already done that and has returned gloriously by His resurrection from the dead. There the prophet points out how welcome those are who bring the good news of good things. But there was far more in Jesus. A disobedient and contrary people: This tells Gods assessment of disobedient, Messiah-rejecting Israel. In the rest of chapter 15 the apostle dwells on the extent of his apostleship, renews his expression of the thought and hope of visiting Rome, and at the same time shows how well he remembered the need of the poor at Jerusalem. That same energy of the Holy Ghost which had displayed itself in Jesus, when He walked in holiness here below, was demonstrated in resurrection; and not merely in His own rising from the dead, but in raising such at any time no doubt, though most signally and triumphantly displayed in His own resurrection. c. Establish their own righteousness: This effort shows Israels lack of knowledge and that they are ignorant of Gods righteousness. It was not only his heart's desire, but it was his prayer. The great point is to note the true picture given us of a soul quickened, but labouring and miserable under law, not at all consciously delivered. a. Everything Paul touches in this letter he relates to God. You, up there in the gallery, however guilty you may have been, or however moral you may have been, it matters not, if your one hope is in what Christ has done, you shall never turn round on your dying bed, and cry, "I made a mistake in trusting Christ." "Yea verily, their sound went forth into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world." For Christ is the end of the whole system of law. And how can they proclaim it unless they be sent?So the basis for missions: having heard, having believed, having known, we are now responsible to send those to tell others of this glorious salvation and righteousness that God has offered to all men, Jew and Greek, who will just simply believe on His son Jesus Christ. 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." Cold desires do but beg denials; we must even breathe out our souls in every prayer. First, What is promised to us: Thou shalt be saved. The gospel is called the Word of faith, the Word of God, as being what was spoken, or communicated by God to man. 10:5-8: For Moses writeth that the man that doeth the righteousness which is of the law shall live thereby. Verse 21. Did they venture to plead that it must be not only the same father, but the same mother? This is the faith which saves the soul. (Spurgeon). Do some great brave wonderful marvelous thing. It must also be noticed, that the word, by which we have a firm and calm trust as to our salvation, had been set forth even by Moses: This is the word of faith. Though he had never visited Rome, many of them were known personally. Click to enable/disable essential site cookies. "Shall we sin," says he, proceeding yet farther (ver. 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. To the ends of the world: There is not a part of the promised land in which these glad tidings have not been preached; and there is scarcely a place in the Roman empire in which the doctrine of Christ crucified has not been heard: if, therefore, the Jews have not believed, the fault is entirely their own; as God has amply furnished them with the means of faith of salvation. (Clarke). 6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? But oh, thank God we have a message to tell to the nations. They are merely persons who plume themselves on their orthodoxy, but in a wholly unrenewed condition. It is "the power of God unto salvation." He did not say, "Do and thou shalt live, and yet there is another way." I am sure we should not. I appeared plainly to those who did not enquire after me." (2.) Israel is indeed the only people of whom there is always a portion that believe. The wrath of God could not possibly be glad tidings. Or, being ignorant of God's way of justification, which he has now appointed and revealed by Jesus Christ. a. He believed God and His word, with special approval on God's part; and his faith was counted as righteousness (ver. It is not, as in Ephesians 2:1-22, dead in sins, which would be nothing to the purpose. The word is close to you, it is even in your mouth, and in your heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth that Jesus is Lord, and will believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved ( Romans 10:8-9 ). Whatever Gods purposes may be, the Jews are still responsible for their own loss. But after the flood man as such was put under certain conditions the whole race. Let man be what he might, or where he might, God's good news was for man. Why, next, it forbids the questions of despair. It is in our mouth--we are reading it daily; it is in our heart--we are, or should be, thinking of it daily. Finally he comes to two other witnesses; as from the Psalms, so now from the law and the prophets. Experience says, and we are some of us here to say it, that it is the grandest way of living in the world. It might be more or less any man's lot to learn. The gospel goes forth universally. Of these only a remnant would be saved. Not thus does God deal with souls. This is the key word of early Christianity. In the fourth verse this could not be absent; in the first verse it ought not to be present. To whom, then, did the law address itself? Ignorance of God's righteousness. All through this section Paul has been driving home the personal responsibility of the Jews. "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man," etc. To question the need for bringing someone from the deep was a denial of Jesus resurrection (CBL, Romans, p. 163). The same was true of the doctrine requiring faith in Christ. What were the principles of it? Here is an instance of what is so reprehensible. I was made manifest to those who did not ask for Me.. They have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. I. I invite your earnest attention to the first point WHAT MOSES SAITH: "Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them." Nevertheless the apostle does not expressly mention heaven here. 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. (324) The righteousness of faith is evidently the it in this question: See Romans 10:6. 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." No, my dear friend, do not say that even in your thought. Having received, having heard, having known the grace of God through Jesus Christ, we are now obligated to let the world know of that same grace.I have a very good friend, Keith Erickson, whom I love in the Lord. Has God then no delivering power from this? It is not among the Gentiles, but in the honoured centre of the polity of Israel. What about His word passed and sworn to the fathers? 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. This is the essential point. Listen, angels, you will not weary while I tell the story over again he went into Gethsemane where he put on the crimson garment of his own bloody sweat; and then to Pilate's hall, where they did falsely accuse him, and spit on him, and scourge him, and make a jest of him; and then to that cross whereon they nailed him in his nakedness, so that he hung in agony, to die in fever and in thirst, till he cried, "It is finished." Both Jew and Greek were quick to give some credit to national or ethnic origin, as if being saved were a matter of being born into the right family. Israel responsible for its own loss (9:30-10:21). They too should live. They are really rebelling against God's path of righteousness, having established now their own righteousness by works, as Paul here declares. And, of course, the way we build up ourselves in the most holy faith is through the Word. Now, soul, thou hast nothing to do with asking vain questions; thou hast to accept the result of the Savior's actual performances. He laughs at all our comeliness, he knows that it is a hollow cheat, a vile sham. He never said a word more than he felt; yet that was the style of man. 2018 David Guzik No distribution beyond personal use without permission. I assure you that I daily find the value of living by faith. He observes Sabbath; he loves God. This is applied in the two chapters that follow. Moses saith, "I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people," etc. The Gentiles the despised heathen were to be brought in; the self-satisfied Jews are left behind, justly and beyond question, if they believed the law and the prophets. This passed away with man when he sinned. 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