The word of God is to be close to the heart of every Christian. 7). a. Isaiah is very bold: Isaiahs bold prophecy was a warning that Israel ignored, making them more accountable. I was found by those who did not seek Me; 2. First, he quotes Leviticus 18:5 where it says that, if a man meticulously obeys the commandments of the law, he will find life. How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? From the very first we have these characteristics of the epistle disclosing themselves. 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. I will move you to anger by a foolish nation.. He know what he did know, and to that he held fast, Well, they must take him into the church; they could not well refuse a man with such a confession of faith; and when he was in the church, walking with the brethren, he was happier than the rest of them, at which they greatly marvelled, and one said to him, "Brother Jack, don't you sometimes feel doubts and fears? But what saith it? Not all will accept the message, but Christians must proclaim it nevertheless. There are some that find a difficulty here, because the expression "to hold" means holding firmly. And by the foolish nation I will anger you.". 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. The law never delivers; it condemns and kills us. (ver. The righteousness which is of faith, what does it say to us? 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. Upon what ground? This is all perfectly true true of a Jew as of a pagan true of any unrenewed man that never heard of a Saviour. 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. But that wasnt their only problem. Up also his body rose on the light of the third day; and he sojourned for forty days among his disciples. The gospel is called the Word of faith, the Word of God, as being what was spoken, or communicated by God to man. Righteousness can be gained by sinful men, but it can only be secured by faith and not by deeds. We believe and receive. Suppose you cannot walk on the sea, like Peter: never mind; you are not called to do it. The figure of the relationship of husband and wife is introduced in order to make the matter plain. Observe. What is that righteousness which is of faith, Romans 10:6; Romans 10:6, c. This he describes in the words of Moses, in Deuteronomy, in the second law (so Deuteronomy signifies), where there was a much clearer revelation of Christ and the gospel than there was in the first giving of the law: he quotes it from Deuteronomy 30:11-14, and shows. He takes their own books, and proves from one of them (Deuteronomy) that in the ruin of Israel the resource is not going into the depths, nor going up to heaven. You can also change some of your preferences. The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach: Paul refers to Deuteronomy 30:14. The gospel at its height in no wise weakens but maintains the moral manifestation of what God is. He must know not only Christ the martyr: he must know Christ the victor, too. Since the word of God is in our mouth, "confession" (homologeo) of Christ is almost automatic. Take his counsel. As I said the other day, Do not behave like a rat behind the wainscot, only daring to come out in the dark. He did not say, "Do and thou shalt live, and yet there is another way." But this may be comparatively a light question. Such has been their singular fruit of promise; such even in the midst of all their misery it is at present. Is he one of those that we elected? To call Jesus kurios ( G2962) was to count him unique. There is then the solemn truth also of divine wrath. 3. The word is nigh thee - This is still a use of the language of Moses. The information in this verse is a rather loose quotation from Deuteronomy 30:12-14 (it would be best to read these verses). Did they venture to plead that it must be not only the same father, but the same mother? Then Isaiah says, greatly daring: "I was found by those who did not seek me. The only way to keep right and humble is to be nothing, and let Jesus be all in all. To this he refers likewise, Galatians 3:12, The man that doeth them, shall live in them. 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. First, as to practical holiness, it is not merely that Christ has died for my sins, but that even in the initiatory act of baptism the truth set forth there is that I am dead. Nevertheless Gods normal way of bringing people to Jesus Christ is through the preaching of the gospel. He wished his beloved ones to go to their beds; and since they would stop with him, he desired them to sing." It is hard singing when your father is dying, but it was not hard to him. Due to security reasons we are not able to show or modify cookies from other domains. We all know where it is and must be for the Christian. Therefore they are not saved. 13). How are they to proclaim the good news unless they are sent to do so? That is true--but no one ever has. The apostle refers to Isaiah to show that God would "lay in Zion a stumbling-stone." "Don't scold," said one. Do some great brave wonderful marvelous thing. 17.) People cannot come to Jesus without the right information about the gospel, but information alone is not enough to save anyone. Birthright from the same father would let in Ishmael on the one hand, as from both parents it would secure the title of Esau on the other. Commentary on Romans 8:10-17 (Read Romans 8:10-17) If the Spirit be in us, Christ is in us. Kurios Serapis is Lord Serapis. "The man has not got anything like settled peace with God; perhaps he hardly knows his sins forgiven; but at least he is a saved soul." 2. that is, the word of faith, which we preach -- --that is, the word which men were to believe and obey for salvation (compare 1 Timothy 4:6). Man seeks to complicate it. And the message they proclaim is the good news concerning Jesus Christ (16-17). It was already among them by the preaching of the apostles, and was a subject of conversation and of thought. Thus, they are seeking for a righteousness from works, their good works, and they have rejected that righteousness that God has established for them. It is close to you; it is as close as your mouth. So then faith must come by hearing, and hearing by the word of God ( Romans 10:16-17 ). For "every one who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.". Click on the different category headings to find out more. Thus corruption not only overspread morals, but became an integral part of the religion of men, and had thus a quasi-divine sanction. "He resisted," says the writer, "even to the agonies of death, for the law's sake.". His witness to our spirit is this, that we are children of God. You cannot hear about him unless there is someone to proclaim the good news. Therefore I cast about me, and I considered what subject he would wish me to preach from if he were sitting behind me this morning as he was last Lord's-day. Our Lord Jesus lays a great stress upon this confessing of him before men; see Matthew 10:32; Matthew 10:33. People cannot come to Jesus without the right information about the gospel, but information alone is not enough to save anyone. (ii) There is the ignorance which comes from wilful blindness. Suppose your faith cannot work miracles; never mind about miracles. The latter clause in the first verse of the authorised version mars the sense. The fruits of it are not expanded here; but, in point of fact, to joy in God is necessarily that which makes praise and adoration to be the simple and spontaneous exercise of the heart. But this great work of Christ was not and could not be a mere vindication of God; and we may find it otherwise developed in various parts of Scripture, which I here mention by the way to show the point at which we are arrived. You may now believe in Christ and live eternally. Following up with the teaching of the olive-tree, he carries out the same thought of a remnant that abides on their own stock, and points to a re-instatement of the nation, And I would just observe by the way, that the Gentile cry that no Jew ever accepts the gospel in truth is a falsehood. What canst thou need more than to rely upon the Anointed of the Lord? There must be a radical, ii. All day long I have stretched out My hands We are heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ. The gospel or the system of grace or "the righteousness which is of faith" is not difficult to find or to accede to. Once, again, though your faith should only be strong enough to lead you to pray, yet it shall save you, for "Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved." Thou art my hiding-place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. One does not have to climb to heavenas though one couldto bring it down. Justification is not from works of law. No man could believe this who did not also believe all the truths dependent on it. Duty as to the Lord's return-watchfulness, 13:11-14. . Thus the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against (not only the open ungodliness of men, but) the orthodox unrighteousness of those that hold the truth in unrighteousness. [2.] What about the doctrine of election? 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. 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. Here you have it, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." The word for Lord is kurios ( G2962) . There is a kind of telegraphic quality about the writing. Accordingly Romans 8:1-39 pursues in the most practical manner the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free. Therein God is both vindicated and glorified. Compare verse 6 (where the margin, not the text, is substantially correct) with verse 4. Grace in the soul is its new nature; the soul is alive to God, and has begun its holy happiness which shall endure for ever. ( Romans 10:5-8 ). Still, it is "man" not yet exactly the Jew, but man who had profited, it might be, by whatever the Jew had; at the least, by the workings of natural conscience. Well, I can't either, but God didn't call me to reconcile it, He just called me to believe it.I tried to reconcile it for years until I was in such mental gymnastics I was worn out. Their sound has gone out to all the earth: This quotation from Psalm 19:4 proves that the word of the gospel went forth and Israel heard it. Who bring glad tidings of good things!. Nothing shows better the Jewish attitude than the three classes into which they divided mankind. Was it not sure and evident that Israel could not take the promise on the ground of mere connection after the flesh? He here shows the fatal mistake that the unbelieving Jews were guilty of, which was their ruin. The unbelieving Jews were the most bitter enemies Paul had in the world, and yet Paul gives them as good a character as the truth would bear. Romans 12:1-21 looks at the mutual duties of the saints. But I say, did Israel not know? As Cottrell says, "The word of faith is another shorthand expression for the entire way of grace" (Vol. This Good News is readily available to anyone who will receive it freely from God through Christ. But there was far more in Jesus. Paul deals with that objection by quoting Isaiah 52:7. Also, Gods word works in the Christian (1 Thessalonians 2:13). There they were recorded, and Jack was a new man and a saved man. Not only God, but also our fellow men, must know what side we are on. "I am dying by fiery torments for thy law's sake," he prayed to God. Faith is to both; it is the condition of our justification (Romans 5:1; Romans 5:1), and it is the root and spring of our sanctification; in it it is begun; by it it is carried on, Acts 15:9. Click to enable/disable Google reCaptcha. We cannot speak of the state of things before the flood as a dispensation. The chapter closes with the day of the Lord in its practical force on the Christian walk. 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 top and bottom of the matter is, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ." No; clear, straight, cutting like a sharp razor, he puts before us the single sentence, "He that doeth those things shall live by them.". is the double prophecy. They are merely persons who plume themselves on their orthodoxy, but in a wholly unrenewed condition. Observe, the gospel is not simply remission of sins, nor is it only peace with God, but "the power of God unto salvation." It was not merely "to those at Rome," but "to you that be at Rome." But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? There never was an hour since Israel's existence as a nation that God has not had His remnant of them. There is a preaching which blasts the sinner with tempestuously angry words; but always Paul speaks the truth in love. But even if it were not already broken, should we get through to-morrow with its temptations, bearing such a heart as we have within us, without breaking that perfect and spotless law? Look at our dear, departed brother, Mr. Higgs, the last who has crossed the stream. The rest of the chapter (7-25) is an instructive episode, in which the impotence and the misery of the renewed mind which attempts practice under law are fully argued out, till deliverance (not pardon) is found in Christ. "What shall we then say that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? ii. This was the key to their difficulties this alone, and fully explains their coming ruin as well as God's solemn warnings. He was debtor both to the Greeks and the barbarians, both to the wise and to the unwise; he was ready, as far as he was concerned, to preach the gospel to those that were at Rome also (ver. Perhaps I am doing the same this morning, but I do not mean to do it. Christ's work of redemption deserves that God should act as He does in the gospel. 5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. 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. Choose a chapter and verse from 'Romans' to begin your 'Verse-by-Verse' study of God's Word using the more than 100 commentaries available on StudyLight.org. They too should live. Can your faith pray? He begins with the great epoch of the dispensations of God (that is, the ages since the flood). "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. That was said to Paul, rather than what was taught by Paul. 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." And so you will see them at the wailing wall, you will see them as they tie to them a little box, the phylacteries as they bind them to their foreheads and as they put on their prayer shawl and they go up to the wall and they begin to bob up and down and they go through their prayers and all, a zeal for God but not according to knowledge. But we have had it fully in Romans 3:1-31. The nature of their unbelief. It pronounced on the Jew then. Romans 4:1-8,13-17. Thus the first argument shows that the rejection was not total; the second, that it was but for a season. But the righteousness which is of faith speaks like this, Don't say in your heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? Hence the depravity of the heathen found little or no cheek from conscience, because it was bound up with all that took the shape of God before their mind. This applies to all who cast themselves upon God in faith, Jews and Gentiles alike (11-13).Before people can believe this message, they must hear it. Great preachers have known this. It will not suffice for you to learn those commands by heart, or to write them up in your churches, or to read them over and say, "Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law": all that may be well enough, but it is not to the point. To whom, then, did the law address itself? There seems to be more than a tinge of implied rebuke against the self-righteousness of the Jews who have rejected Christ Jesus and the gospel. Possession of it is not dependent on some act of Herculean proportions, such as ascending into the heavens or crossing the sea. It is not a question of His mercy merely; for this weakens the truth immensely, and perverts its character wholly. And this is said to be unto salvation, because it is the performance of the condition of that promise, Matthew 10:32. Do not leave that out. "O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! When people say we need something other than Gods word, they deny what Paul wrote (compare 2 Timothy 3:16-17). In verse 11 of that chapter, Moses tells Israel that Gods commands are not beyond their grasp as if they could find them only by ascending to heaven or crossing the sea. But it is very plain and easy: The word is nigh thee. They're both true. Justification by faith has always been the way for people to come to God. Lower than that, he descended to being "despised and rejected of men." This believing, or trusting, is the whole of the matter, and neither heaven above nor the abyss beneath will ever reveal another salvation. We should say the best we can even of our worst enemies; this is blessing those that curse us. Outside Revelation, it only occurs here and Luke 8:31. The day hastens when the Redeemer shall come to Zion. 13:1-14. 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. The facts were so well known by the preaching of the apostles, that they might be said to be in every mans mouth.. If what is possible? His language conveys the main idea which Paul wished to do, that the doctrine was plain and intelligible. The language of faith says, Do nothing. Be he Jew or be he Gentile, his only righteousness by law must come through the doing of the law. There is no language where their voice is not heard. Believing in the heart that God raised him from the dead. In the Fourth Book of Maccabees there is an amazing incident. From verse 14 there is an advance. He shall never have cause to repent his confidence in reposing such a trust in the Lord Jesus. Romans 10:8-17 8 But what does it say? II. 47. b. Although circumcision began with Abraham, manifestly it had nothing to do with his righteousness, and at best was but the seal of the righteousness of faith which he had in an uncircumcised state. It was laid down that no food must be cooked on the Sabbath. a. I will provoke you to jealousy: God told Israel that He would bring others close to Him and make them jealous. This it was before it was his prayer. Though it directs us to a better and more effectual righteousness in Christ, yet in itself, considered as a law abstracted from its respect to Christ and the gospel (for so the unbelieving Jews embraced and retained it), it owneth nothing as a righteousness sufficient to justify a man but that of perfect obedience. Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Because they were sons of Abraham. But "justification of life" goes farther, though involved in the latter, than the end of Romans 4:1-25; for now we learn that in the gospel there is not only a dealing with the guilt of those that are addressed in it; there is also a mighty work of God in the presenting the man in a new place before God, and in fact, too, for his faith, clearing him from all the consequences in which he finds himself as a man in the flesh here below. 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. When a person comes up to me and says, "Oh, I have the hardest time trusting God," what they are really saying is, "I really don't know God very well." No, salvation is not put at so vast a distance from us. John MacArthur New Testament Commentary, Book of Romans 2 Volume Set. It is our duty that we must not, it is our privilege that we shall not, be ashamed of our faith in Christ. Bible Book List. He lays down such a summary as no Jew ever gave since they were a nation. The way to heaven up the steep sides of Sinai is inaccessible to trembling feet like ours. 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." They could not with Paul disclaim a dependence upon this (Philippians 3:9), Not having my own righteousness. It is not God seeking, or man bringing righteousness. 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. Go not to the loom to weave a righteousness. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. Believe in Christ as you would believe in your friend: believe that he died for sinners, and trust in him for salvation. As Moses explains in v. 11, "What I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach." The way of the law was not easy. First, We need not go to heaven, to search the records there, or to enquire into the secrets of the divine counsel. And this leads the apostle into the moral history of man the proof both of his inexcusable guilt, and of his extreme need of redemption. ", Oh, but this is a very blessed thing to have to say to you. Here it is not merely the negation of law and of circumcision, but we have the positive side. There is sure ground here. You need not go to the universities and earn a degree of D.D. God, therefore, having not the least hindrance to the manifestation of what He can be and is in merciful intervention on behalf of the worst of sinners, manifests it is His righteousness "by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe" (ver. Now that God has revealed Himself in the gospel, it is not what will suit man on earth, but what is worthy of the presence of the glory of God. (9-13) How Gods righteousness is gained by faith. Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the Word of God. And that word is the message of faith which we proclaim. It is a dilemma of human experience. Verse 18. 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. [1.] The whole passage Romans 9:1-33; Romans 10:1-21; Romans 11:1-36 is a condemnation of the Jewish attitude to religion. Going to where Jesus went (the abyss/Hades/the realm of the dead, verse 7) is also unnecessary. Hence, as is shown later in the chapter, Adam is a head characterized by disobedience, who brought in death, the just penalty of sin; as on the other hand we have Him of whom he was the type, Christ, the obedient man, who has brought in righteousness, and this after a singularly blessed sort and style "justification of life." The soul therefore now is represented for the first time as already justified and in possession of peace with God. May the Lord be with you and may the blessings of the Lord surround your life as you walk with Him. 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