romans 10:8 17 commentary

Paul didnt just care, he prayed. "For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. the Arabic version, "what dost thou say?" He did not say, "Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O my friends, for the hand of the Lord hath touched me." We also do not need people to enter into heaven to learn Gods will since this information is revealed in His word. But what does it say? 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. The use of the law was to direct people for righteousness to Christ. What he meant was: "Christ is the end of legalism." Such men have never been wanting since the truth has shone on this world; still less are they now. The extent is what God Himself, so to speak, possesses the universe of God, whatever will be under Christ: and what will not? Even in their best estate the saved ones need their Lord: even if we walk in the light as God is in the light, and have fellowship with him, we still sin, and still the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanseth us from all sin. ", Oh, but this is a very blessed thing to have to say to you. The saving work is done, done by him who was anointed of the Lord to do it. He quotes from Joel, that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. All who confess Christ as Lord, and believe in His resurrection, will be saved. It became simply a question whether, in fact, God did call Gentiles, or whether He had revealed such intentions. Jesus did not bleed and die to be a superfluity to us: he cattle to meet a grim necessity. Then, from ver. Yet note, that Paul opens this up into two things. The man who does those things shall live by them: The Law of Moses makes the path to righteousness through the law plain. 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. Say not even in thy heart that by these doings or feelings thou canst be saved. a. As he whom we sorrow for today could die peacefully, and even merrily, so shall you and I if we rely on the same Savior. He lays down such a summary as no Jew ever gave since they were a nation. "He resisted," says the writer, "even to the agonies of death, for the law's sake.". For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God." They cannot say God has rejected them. Gods word provides a system to live by. The offering up of this desire to God. The law cannot make a person righteous before God, nor can it give a person a righteous standing before God. This was not a direct and intrinsic effect, of course, but the result of spiritual dealing for the soul. True ministry gives out not merely truth, but suited truth to the saints. He has Gods law; all that remains is for him to obey it. Yes indeed: Their sound has gone out to all the earth, In this chapter are contained an account of the two righteousnesses of faith and works, a summary of the Gospel of Christ, a description of the grace of faith, in the nature, use, and means of it, and several testimonies concerning the calling of the Gentiles; and whereas the apostle knew that this, as well as what he had said in the latter part of the preceding chapter, that the Jews had not attained to the law of righteousness, but stumbled at the stumbling stone, would be offensive to his countrymen the Jews; wherefore that it might appear that he said this not out of disaffection and ill will to them, he declares his sincere regard unto them, and the great respect he had for them, by calling them "brethren", by expressing his good will to them, by praying for the salvation of them, Ro 10:1, by bearing testimony of their zeal for God, Ro 10:2, though he faithfully observes to them, that it was an ignorant zeal, of which ignorance he gives an instance, Ro 10:3, particularly in the attribute of God's righteousness; from which ignorance arose all their misconduct in religious things, especially in the article of justification; hence they sought to be justified by their own righteousness, and rejected the righteousness of Christ, and then points out to them the true end of the law, for righteousness which is Christ, Ro 10:4, which if they had known would have set them right, and which is another instance of their ignorant and misguided zeal: this leads him on to what he had in view, which was to give an account of the two righteousnesses he had suggested in the latter part of the former chapter, the righteousness of the law, which the Jews sought for and found not, and the righteousness of faith, which the Gentiles without seeking for enjoyed; and this account he gives in the words of Moses, for whom they had the greatest regard: the description of the former is given in his words, in Ro 10:5, which suggest the impossibility of keeping the law, and obtaining life by it, and therefore it is a vain thing to seek for righteousness by the works of it; the latter is described, Ro 10:6,7, by the certainty of it, being wrought out by Christ, who came down from heaven, fulfilled the law, and died, and rose again from the dead; and by the plainness and evidence of it, as revealed in the Gospel, Ro 10:8, the sum of which Gospel is, that whoever believes in Christ and confesses him shall be saved, Ro 10:9, which faith and confession, when genuine, are with the heart and mouth agreeing together; the consequences of which are righteousness and salvation, comfortably apprehended and enjoyed, Ro 10:10, and that the above is the sum of the Gospel, and that there is such a connection between faith and righteousness, and between confession and salvation, is confirmed, Ro 10:11, by a testimony from the prophet, Isa 28:16, which being expressed in such a general manner, as to extend to every believer, whether Jew or Gentile, reasons are given, Ro 10:12, in support of such an explanation of that passage, taken from the equal condition of all, there being no difference between them naturally, from the universal dominion of God over them, and from his liberal communication of grace and goodness to all that call upon him; which last reason is confirmed, Ro 10:13, by a passage of Scripture in Joe 2:32, on occasion of which, the apostle proceeds to treat of the calling of the Gentiles, and of the means of it, the preaching of the Gospel, which was necessary to it, which is made out by a train of reasoning after this manner; that seeing salvation is only of such that call upon the name of the Lord, and there could be no calling upon him without believing in him, and no believing without hearing, and no hearing without preaching, and no preaching without mission, which is proved by a citation out of Isa 52:7, and no success in preaching, when sent, without the exertions of efficacious grace, as appears from the case of the Jews, who had the ministration of the Gospel to them by Isaiah, and yet all did not believe it; as is evident from Isa 53:1, and seeing the conclusion of which is, that faith comes by preaching, and preaching by the order and command of God, Ro 10:14-17, it follows, that it was proper that ministers should be sent, and the Gospel preached to the Gentiles, and that attended with power, in order that they should believe in the Lord, and call upon his name and be saved; and which method God had taken, and which he had foretold he would take, in the prophecies of the Old Testament, and which were now fulfilling: that the Gospel was preached to them, and they heard it, were matters of fact, and were no other than what should be, or might be concluded, from Ps 19:4, cited, Ro 10:18, and that the Jews could not be ignorant of the calling of the Gentiles is clear, first from the words of Moses, De 32:21, which the apostle produces, Ro 10:19, and from a passage in the prophecy of Isa 65:1. Directions for our behaviour, as members of civil society, Rom. Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness. Through His Word. Nevertheless Gods normal way of bringing people to Jesus Christ is through the preaching of the gospel. Click to enable/disable Google reCaptcha. The Word of God is essential for the development of faith within my heart. 3). There is no inconsistency in Ananias's word to the apostle Paul "wash away thy sins, calling upon the name of the Lord." We provide you with a list of stored cookies on your computer in our domain so you can check what we stored. Romans 10:17, NASB: So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. 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. It say's this. Clearly, then, such ground is untenable. The former is the direction, and the latter the application. Have done with every other confidence. 13). There was somewhat as yet lacking to the saints there; but even this was ordered of God to call forth from the Holy Ghost an epistle which more than any other approaches a complete treatise on the fundamentals of Christian doctrine, and especially as to righteousness. In fact, when Paul wrote the letters to Timothy and Titus, he spoke of the faith several times (see 1 Timothy 1:19 b; 3:9; 4:1, 6; 5:8; 6:10, 12, 21; 2 Timothy 3:8; 2 Timothy 4:7; Titus 1:13; Titus 2:2). And this is said to be unto salvation, because it is the performance of the condition of that promise, Matthew 10:32. 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. he was Lord of heaven and earth, and yet they called him Beelzebub, and talked of him as a drunken man and a wine-bibber. Did the call of God. 5. Thus the second man looks to excitements and feelings just as the first looked to works and self-denials. The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 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.". The remnant proves, then, that even under judgment the rejection of Israel is not complete, but rather a pledge of future favour. Scripture: Romans 10:15. In thy mouth - This is taken from the Septuagint. Be it so then; it was a foolish nation by which Moses declared they should be angered. What the apostle had given him in fulness was the great truth, however fundamental it may be, that I am entitled, and even called on in the name of the Lord Jesus, to know that I am dead to sin; not that I must die, but that I am dead that my baptism means nothing less than this, and is shorn of its most emphatic point if limited merely to Christ's dying for my sins. 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." Well, I am sorry. Next, he enters upon another branch of the truth the Spirit not as a condition contrasted with flesh (these two, as we know, being always contrasted in Scripture), but as a power, a divine person that dwells in and bears His witness to the believer. But what saith it? . Hence the action of the Spirit of God in a double point of view comes before us. I was found by those who did not seek Me; I would like to boast about what I have done, the dangers that I have braved for God, the sacrifices that I have made, the dedication that took me through those dark, smelly, dangerous swamps. Let me refer in passing to a few points more in the introduction, in order to link them together with that which the Spirit was furnishing to the Roman saints, as well as to show the admirable perfectness of every word that inspiration has given us. That word is the gospel of Christ. And mark the force of it whosoever." The word Kurios was and is the touchstone of faith.. These words were from the final sermon given by Moses. Thou art my hiding-place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. (that is, to bring, Christ down from above:) or, Who shall descend into the deep? Christ is come, and has changed all. They ought to have known better: they had every chance to know better; but they rejected the appeal of God. i. 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. No Gentile would do it who had not ceased worshipping the emperor as Kurios. Salvation isn't way off in heaven some place. The gospel goes forth universally. 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. There is no need of dwelling now on "salvation" as employed in the Old Testament, and in some parts of the New, as the gospels and Revelation particularly, where it is used for deliverance in power or even providence and present things. Faith in God means believing in and trusting in the greatest hopethat God became man, lived a perfect life, died a sacrificial death for your sins, and rose again to glory so that you could have. We have had justification, both by blood and also in virtue of Christ's resurrection. The quickening power of God therefore was here set forth, of course historically in a way connected with this life and a posterity on earth, but nevertheless a very just and true sign of God's power for the believer the quickening energy of God after a still more blessed sort. And, of course, the way we build up ourselves in the most holy faith is through the Word. Wonderful to think the Spirit of God associates Himself with us in it all, deigning to give us divine feelings even in our poor and narrow hearts. Finally he comes to two other witnesses; as from the Psalms, so now from the law and the prophets. God send us more like him men to whom religion is for home consumption. 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. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh." f. The Scripture says: Referring, I think, to the general sense of Scripture, rather than to any one passage. All Israel shall be saved. Great preachers have known this. It is no longer in our power to dream of a perfect, life-long obedience. And the cross offends people, because the cross tells you there is only one way to God. ** See No. I assure you that I daily find the value of living by faith. What baptism sets forth is more than that, and is justly found, not in Romans 3:1-31, but inRomans 6:1-23; Romans 6:1-23. They have plenty of zeal but little knowledge. (James 2:10-11). They would not hear of it. It is not our effort which wins us goodness. All Reading Plans / Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous) / Genesis 21:8-21 (The rescue of Hagar and Ishmael); Psalm 86:1-10 16-17 (Prayer for deliverance); Romans 6:1b-11 (Buried and raised with Christ in baptism); Matthew 10:24-39 (The cost of discipleship) ( English Standard Version) June 25, 2023. There is the type of confession described in Matthew 10:32. I am sure we should not. Romans 10:9-10 are of prime importance. One said somewhat roughly to him a fortnight before, "Don't be downhearted; you may got better yet." "Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Plainly put, by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified (Romans 3:20). Here now we have the basis for missionary activity by the church. Here we pass out of the introduction of the epistle. Nevertheless the apostle does not expressly mention heaven here. Nothing can be more simple and essential. The information in verse 6 may be contrasted with many modern religious claims. The law never delivers; it condemns and kills us. You say, "Who shall descend into the deep?" It was not an easy thing; it must often have been made extremely inconvenient; and it must often have made life very uncomfortable. The contrast of Christ with Adam takes in man universally as well as the Christian; and man in sin, alas! He fell and a soldier kicked him. If a man kept the law perfectly, even Moses concluded that such a person would live (be saved). Christianity is belief plus confession; it involves witness before men. It might be more or less any man's lot to learn. And there (for such was the point) it was the complete condemnation of this evil thing, the nature in its present state, so as, nevertheless, to set the believer as before God's judgment free from itself as well as its consequences. (that is, to bring Christ down from above:) 7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? It is not only a blessing in its own direct character, or in indirect though real effects, but the Giver Himself is our joy, and boast, and glory. Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. Let us go a little further. You need not "bring up Christ again from the dead," for the Lord has risen indeed. What blindness! He descended into the grave, so that he dwelt among the dead! The offering up of this desire to God. Hence it is essentially founded on the gift not only of a Saviour who would interpose, in the mercy of God, to bear our sins, but of One who is already revealed, and the work done and accepted, and this known in the fact that God Himself has interposed to raise Him from among the dead a bright and momentous thing to press on souls, as indeed we find the apostles insisting on it throughout the Acts. The believer is not put under law, you will observe, but under grace, which is the precise reverse of law. why am I still under bondage and misery from the constant evil of my nature, over which I seem to have no power whatever? He was the promised Messiah, born King of the Jews. ", But all have not obeyed the good news. To prove this point Paul quotes two passages. The meaning is, the doctrine is not difficult to be understood and embraced. Thither He shall come, and thence, go forth. Paul was well aware of that; at this very time he was planning the evangelization of Spain, a province where the name of Christ was not yet known (. Here is your answer. Difficulty there is none: only believe and thou art saved. No, he says only, "He that doeth those things shall live by them." It is hard singing when your father is dying, but it was not hard to him. Your name is not on the list." This is the faith which saves the soul. (Spurgeon). The solution is given elsewhere in the Bible: Get back to what brought us together in the first placethe combination of the word of Christ and devotion to Him, to the love . So he essayed to join himself unto the church, but the brethren looked suspiciously at him and enquired, "What is your experience?" 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. . I have had almost thirty years among you, and God has been very gracious to us, so that we have lost very few comparatively by death; but now many are going home, and, according to the course of nature, many of our honored brethren and sisters will soon follow. The law is not destroyed, nor the intention of the lawgiver frustrated, but, full satisfaction being made by the death of Christ for our breach of the law, the end is attained, and we are put in another way of justification. Let us take the objections and the answering scripture texts one by one. What is remote, with difficulty. If a man confessed faith in Jesus, as the Lord and Saviour of lost sinners, and really believed in his heart that God had raised him from the dead, thus showing that he had accepted the atonement, he should be saved by the righteousness of Christ, imputed to him through faith. Changes will take effect once you reload the page. But this one is a special little angel. Being Pure, blazing, glorious Godhead, "Light of lights, very God of very God," on a sudden they found him in a stable hanging on a woman's breast. , , The word, that is, the word of faith is nigh thee. Once it was far otherwise. At least they have a, Seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God, i. the Jew was none the better for this, unless there were the submission of his conscience to God. But the righteousness which is of faith speaks like this, Don't say in your heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? It is true, it is needful for man to learn; but in nowise is it good news. How shall they hear without a preacher? I now plunge into my text. Jesus has come down: years ago be left the glories of his Father. This occupies the central part of the chapter, which then closes with the unfailing and faithful power of God for us in all our experiences here below. Christ holds it out to you: take it freely, and be rich for ever. Salem Media Group. They beat up on him the other day. I thank God he could say that of my religion: it did this for my dear friend it made him a happy man, whose pleasure it was to please others: and now he has passed away in full sunlight into a still brighter noon. Now, was it not extreme folly in the Jews to adhere so closely to this way of justification and salvation, which was in itself so hard, and by the corruption of nature now become impossible, when there was a new and a living way opened? This was true even before Moses time (see Romans 4:13 and the example of Abraham). Hereupon he enters upon the direct proofs, and first cites Hosea as a witness. It is close to you; it is as close as your mouth. So I have found by my making over my other grandchildren she'll come elbowing her way in to get close to Grandpa. And by the foolish nation I will anger you.". Not only was Abraham justified without law, but apart from that great sign of mortification of the flesh. If a fire has to be poked a Gentile is employed to do it. And he gives his reason: "For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, The just shall live by faith." No apostle had ever yet visited Rome. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. Paul deals with that objection by quoting Isaiah 52:7. Believing in the heart that God raised him from the dead. You may now believe in Christ and live eternally. The first is Moses himself. But interesting question, how can they call upon the name of the Lord? Moses does not allow any person to dream that under the law he can be saved in any other way than by perfect obedience thereto. how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! It is no longer a question of man's guilt, but of his nature. Did Gentiles believe? The word is nigh thee There is no occasion to seek high or low for the saving power; the word of reconciliation is nigh. Nevertheless, what is in nowise the same as what was or what will be. What canst thou need more than to rely upon the Anointed of the Lord? He has set two things side by side; everything is of God, and everything is of human choice. How are they to hear without someone to proclaim the good news to them? Several general exhortations proper for all Christians, Rom. 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. It is "the power of God unto salvation." No man could believe this who did not also believe all the truths dependent on it. Sirs, what must I do to be saved? A voice cries "Who shall ascend into heaven?" He here shows the fatal mistake that the unbelieving Jews were guilty of, which was their ruin. 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