It seems to mean that his truth was in their mind, and a subject of meditation and reflection. Then, in Romans 10:8b-13, Paul reinforces faith by talking about its content and benefit. b. Where then is boasting? There never was a sinner yet to whom God said, "You must not trust my Son": on the contrary, it is written, "Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." He has no longer to win God's favour; he need simply take the grace and love and mercy which he freely offers. 2 173). So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God, Their sound has gone out to all the earth, i. Well, then, suppose I say: "Did Israel not understand?" No, they cry, it is in Isaac's seed that the Jew was called. Be it so then; it was a foolish nation by which Moses declared they should be angered. The future must be brought in by the grace of God; and this he accordingly gives us at the close of Romans 11:1-36. Poor dear heart, if you can but trust Christ, even though the feeblest possible manifestation of it should be the only thing visible, namely, your calling upon God in prayer, it must and shall save you. No apostle had ever yet visited Rome. The sacrifices, and offerings, and purifications appointed under the Old Testament, prefigured Christ, and pointed at him; and their inability to take away sin discovered the necessity of a sacrifice that should, by being once offered, take away sin. Some of those zealous ones beat up the mayor in Jerusalem just a day or so ago because of some of his rulings that they felt did not coincide with their desires. Suppose your faith cannot work miracles; never mind about miracles. THE DESTRUCTION OF EXCUSES ( Romans 10:14-21 ), 10:14-21 How are they to call on him on whom they have not believed? Whatever it is that God has commanded, you must do; whatever he forbids, you must avoid; for by such obedience alone can you live. (verses 22-32.) They also had a moral problem: they have not submitted to the righteousness of God. There is the balance. You can also change some of your preferences. is the double prophecy. An evil pronouncement .read more. He was the promised Messiah, born King of the Jews. If in Isaac only, it is a question of the seed, not that was born, but that was called. Thus the first argument shows that the rejection was not total; the second, that it was but for a season. But Paul makes it clear: There is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. It is our rejecting the gifts our Lord offers in His Means of Grace. The righteousness of God flows from His mercy, of course; but its character and basis is righteousness. If what is possible? Jesus said, "Straight is the gate, and narrow is the way that leads to eternal life and few there be that find it, but broad is the way and broad is the gate that leads to destruction" ( Matthew 7:13-14 ). This is what made the gospel to be so sweet and precious, and, what is more, absolutely necessary, if he would escape certain and eternal ruin. He says, "I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou may be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed." Now he began the argument by saying that everything was of God and that men had no more to do with it than the clay had to do with the work of the potter. To a disobedient and contrary people.. It is a great piece of condescension for a proud heart to be content to be beholden to free grace; we are loth to sue sub forma pauperis--as paupers. It is not here believing on Jesus, but on God who has proved what He is to us in raisin, from among the dead Him who was delivered for our offences, and raised again for our justification (verses 13-25). This same term occurs again in verses 14 and 15. For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever.". So Paul concludes his argument by citing two Old Testament texts to prove his case. 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. ** In Park-street early in my ministry I told the story, and it did my friend good, and helped to rest his soul all those years ago, so that he remembered it and repeated it at the last. This was no question of legal obedience, although the law came from Jehovah. 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. The tenour of it is, Do, and live. Or what is to be done according to that doctrine? faith comes by hearing [ the thing heard], It is God Himself who, infinitely glorified in the Lord that expiated our sins by His one sacrifice, remits them now, not looking for our victory, nor as yet even in leading us on to victory, but by faith in Jesus and His blood. Nothing of this is intended in the class that is here brought before us. Now, what Paul declared of the Jew then is still true today. It may be helpful to read Deuteronomy 30:10. And "how shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein?" i. How are they to hear without someone to proclaim the good news to them? If what Christ has done will not save a sinner I am damned; for I have nothing else to depend upon; but if it will save, and sure I am that it will, I am saved as surely as Christ has risen from the dead. The same was true of the doctrine requiring faith in Christ. Now hearken. Fair-weather sailors, who go out in their little painted perfection boats, are people who have had small temptation and little soul-trouble. a. Romans 13:1-14; Romans 13:1-14 urges their duties towards what was outside them, more particularly to the powers that be, but also to men in general. We, O Antiochus," he said, "who live under a divine law, consider no compulsion to be so forcible as obedience to our law." 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.". 2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. He was a man of rare common sense, straightforward and downright in his aims, and most pithy in his speech, with such a mixture of mother-wit that he might have been taken for John Ploughman's brother, as indeed he was. If you want your faith increased, study the Word of God. Dig not into the bowels of the earth to find the gold of salvation. As long as we are nothing Christ is our all in all; we may be sure of that, and that is just the gospel in a nutshell. 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. 7). Several general exhortations proper for all Christians, Rom. Accordingly, then, he confronts the unquestionable truth, admitted by every Israelite, of the universal havoc by one man everywhere with the One man who has brought in (not pardon only, but, as we shall find) eternal life and liberty liberty now in the free gift of life, but a liberty that will never cease for the soul's enjoyment until it has embraced the very body that still groans, and this because of the Holy Ghost who dwells in it. 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. Can it cry? Suppose you cannot walk on the sea, like Peter: never mind; you are not called to do it. It is our duty that we must not, it is our privilege that we shall not, be ashamed of our faith in Christ. First, he cites Isaiah 28:16: "Every one who believes in him will not be put to shame." Then he quotes Deuteronomy 30:12-13. How blessed it is when a child of God has actually fallen into sin, God keep us so that we never may, but if guilt is on the soul, what is a poor creature to do? 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. Paul quoted Moses again (Deuteronomy 30:14) to reaffirm the fact that the great lawgiver taught that salvation came by faith. It is not meant that Paul knew nothing of this; but that the ground of inference, and the general theory built up, are alike mistaken. Note that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on our websites and the services we are able to offer. It didnt surprise God or His prophets. Compare Peter's use in1 Peter 2:10; 1 Peter 2:10. It is "revealed," and this too "from heaven." instructive and interesting manner the links that grace practically forms and maintains between the saints of God. in your mouth -- --when you confess Him. "What shall we then say that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? "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. It is as equally simple to the Jew as it is to the Greek. He demands perfect and entire obedience, if life is to come of it. It was meant to make sin exceeding sinful. Depend upon him without fear as to your present and eternal salvation. 1. "Righteousness" never means mercy, not even the "righteousness of God." How could the Jews say that this meant themselves? There must be a radical, ii. 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. Zealous the Jews were and are. a. There is satisfaction; but the work of Christ goes a great deal farther. The word is nigh thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach: The 5th verse is a quotation from Leviticus 18:5. We have God and man in presence, so to speak. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our report? So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. This passed away with man when he sinned. For this he quotes that scripture (Leviticus 18:5), You shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them. A message of peace and of life, glad tidings of good things. 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. From the very first we have these characteristics of the epistle disclosing themselves. This is not something to smile at, but to admire. "The righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? 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. This it was before it was his prayer. No man that rested in Christ, and Christ alone, ever was ashamed of his hope; and none ever shall be. Jesus died my soul to save, my lips shall still repeat, for Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe. , , The word, that is, the word of faith is nigh thee. a. "For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Whosoever believed should not be ashamed; whosoever called should be saved. No, confess yourself a sinner; trust in the sinner's Savior, and you are saved. Angels saw him and wondered. Him who came in humiliation, according to their prophets, they might despise; but it was vain to deny that the same prophets bore witness to His divine glory. I hear him say so at this moment; and I answer him, "Dear brother, we will be with you speedily.". I know that he would have said to me, Give them Christ crucified, and salvation by grace through faith, as plainly as ever you can; for when he was sore sick and in the very agony of death, he repeated as his dying creed, and in his own quaint way he added, "They may talk as much as ever they like, but the whole of it lies in Jack the Huckster's verse. They will not accept that the way of salvation for them is the same as for the Gentiles - through faith in Christ (30-33). b. Some wonder why Paul didnt mention the crucifixion in this passage. But there is much more in Christ than that to which too many souls restrict themselves, not less to their own loss than to His dishonour. It is in your mouth and in your heart." So therefore it addressed itself to the obedience of faith; not by this meaning practice, still less according to the measure of a man's duty, but that which is at the root of all practice faith-obedience obedience of heart and will, renewed by divine grace, which accepts the truth of God. But now he turns around and says, "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." 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." But what does it say? (iii) The third objection is a restatement of the first: But, what if I insist that they never got the chance to hear? The design of the law was to lead people to Christ. Listen to it, lost ones; you need not climb to heaven: Christ has come down from heaven to you; and if you lie among the spiritually dead to-day, or think you do, he has come down to you, and you need not enquire bow you can go up to him. And I answered him, "That is a very difficult question for me, because I do believe that your father does love God, has a zeal for God, but what is he doing about his sin? Go not to the loom to weave a righteousness. (2.) He says, "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." For He said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no man can come to the Father but by me" ( John 14:6 ). Zion shall yet behold her mighty, divine, but once despised Deliverer; and when He thus comes, there will be a deliverance suited to His glory. 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. He does not say that if you have broken the law you may still live by some other means. This last relation was the direct subject of the prophetic testimony, and Jesus had come accordingly. At least they have a, Seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God, i. Because this information was in the hands of the Hebrews, the Israelites did not need to go beyond the sea (verse 13) or send someone up to heaven (verse 12) to receive information about Gods will. 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." Man seeks to complicate it. Moses claimed for the law which God had given to the people through him that it was clear, and within the range of their knowledge and understanding. First of all, the groundwork of it is laid in the first four verses, the last of them leading into every-day walk. He laughs at all our comeliness, he knows that it is a hollow cheat, a vile sham. So I believe it. Romans 10:17, ESV: So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. For whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved ( Romans 10:12-13 ). Alas! He and his wife, Adrian, are beautiful people. It is God who now makes known a righteousness to man, instead of looking for any from man. 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. We believe and receive. In both parts, as it may be observed, the door is opened to the Gentile. 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. 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. 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. II. I am not sure, for I know little about it." "Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." "Sing" said he. There is no limitation there; the promise is to everyone; therefore, there is no difference between Jew and Greek. ", But all have not obeyed the good news. "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness" (ver. There are two things that might make insuperable difficulty: the one is the obstacle of sin in the nature to practical holiness; the other is the provocation and condemnation of the law. 1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. Now the one who plants and the one who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. Listen. (a) It is the normal title of respect like the English sir, the French monsieur, the German herr. 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. Now I ask you to listen to WHAT THE GOSPEL SAITH. Have done with doings, and feelings, and trust yourself with Christ. 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. "Their voice is gone out to all the earth, and their words to the boundaries of the inhabited world." It is not an esoteric message hidden in some secret place or located at some far corner of the universe. From verse 14 there is an advance. 8.What does it say? 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. ". It was laid down that he must lift no burden which weighed more than two dried figs. Salem Media Group. 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. And thus, I have great difficulty with their present and current status before God. Bible > Commentaries > Romans 10:9 . Calling for mischief or injury to fall upon a person. First, then, a man to be a Christian must have a sense of the utter uniqueness of Jesus Christ. 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. Because of Jesus Christ, man is no longer faced with the task of satisfying God's justice; he need only accept his love. It is evident, therefore, that dispensational position will not suffice for God, who holds to His own unchangeable estimate of good and evil, and who judges the more stringently according to the measure of advantage possessed. Believe in Christ as you would believe in your friend: believe that he died for sinners, and trust in him for salvation. Nothing less, I am persuaded, than this full blessing is the line that God has given to those who have followed Christ without the camp, and who, having been set free from the contracted ways of men, desire to enter into the largeness and at the same time the profound wisdom of every word of God. But the Jews did so die. 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. "Shall we sin," says he, proceeding yet farther (ver. And how shall they preach unless they are sent? I. Paul here professes his good affection to the Jews, with the reason of it (Romans 10:1; Romans 10:2), where he gives them a good wish, and a good witness. 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 (c.f. . It was for this then that Paul describes himself as apostle. 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. It is not doing, but believing; therefore it is what is proclaimed to them, and what they receive and believe. I am sure we should not. Not all will accept the message, but Christians must proclaim it nevertheless. In Romans Paul is clearly agonizing and arguing over the reality of Israel's call by God as well as Israel's rejection of Jesus. The righteousness of the law is an impossibility for all who have sinned even once, and the truth is all responsible men have sinned more than one time. We are heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ. and in your heart -- --when you believe on Him. The righteousness of faith, on the other hand, is easily available to all men upon the conditions mentioned in the next phrases. The truth is, those are altogether mistaken who call it so. And how shall they preach unless they are sent? Salvation supposes not this only, but a great deal more. If one says that Paul is quoting from Deuteronomy 30, the reconciliations attempted between Pauls use of these words and Moses use of them are strained. The meaning of verse 6 is a little more difficult. 2. In the Fourth Book of Maccabees there is an amazing incident. (That is, to bring Christ up from the dead.) And that word is the message of faith which we proclaim. So that this was no other than what Moses and the prophets said should be, Ro 10:20, and the chapter is closed, Ro 10:21, with another passage out of the same prophet in the next verse, showing the rejection of Christ and his Gospel by the Jews, and which justifies their being cast off by him, of which the apostle treats largely in the next chapter. For they do not realize that a man can only achieve the status of righteousness by God's gift, and they seek to establish their own status, and so they have not submitted themselves to that power of God which alone can make them righteous in his sight. how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! Is It Ok for Christians to Follow Zodiac Signs? And the blessedness of the gospel is, that it is (not merely an exercise of mercy, but also) divinely just. His language conveys the main idea which Paul wished to do, that the doctrine was plain and intelligible. And he is father of circumcision in the best sense, not to Jews, but to believing Gentiles. It is not said to be revealed in the gospel. Man despised at first the outward testimony of God, His eternal power and Godhead, in the creation above and around him (verses 19, 20). Click on the different category headings to find out more. Our Lord Jesus lays a great stress upon this confessing of him before men; see Matthew 10:32; Matthew 10:33. (James 2:10-11). a. One is from Deuteronomy 32:21 where God says that, because of Israel's disobedience and rebellion, he will transfer his favour to another people, and they will be forced to become jealous of a nation which has no nation. As your next door neighbor's house is not hard to get at, so neither is salvation by the gospel. "The word is nigh thee." 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. Then follows a warning against those who bring in stumbling-blocks and offences. The way of justification and salvation has in it no such depths or knots as may discourage us, no insuperable difficulties attending it but, as was foretold, it is a high-way, Isaiah 35:8. Paul has been saying some hard things about the Jews. Then, fourthly, we will hear what experience saith; for we may bring in the experience of believers to back up the declarations of God. Seventh day adventist Bible Commentary reference series volumes 1-10. 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. Then there is another and crowning part of the blessing: "And not only so, but also boasting in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the reconciliation." (325) The contrast, by which the difference between the law and the gospel appears, is indeed to be understood: and from this distinction we learn, that as the law demands works, so the gospel requires nothing else, but that men bring faith to receive the grace of God. . What is to be done according to Gods word? It was the Lord giving us the profit of sorrow, and ourselves bowing to the way and end of God in it, so that the result of tribulation should be rich and fruitful experience. Jewish pretensions were therefore disposed of; not here by new and fuller revelations, but by this divinely skilful employment of their own Old Testament Scriptures. "To all that be at Rome, beloved of God, called saints" (ver. Anyone can express it easily with the mouth and accept it easily with the heart. No; clear, straight, cutting like a sharp razor, he puts before us the single sentence, "He that doeth those things shall live by them.". Verse 9 seems to be directly connected to Deuteronomy 30:14 (it may be helpful to read this verse a second time). This is the faith which saves the soul. (Spurgeon). One does not have to mount a ladder to heaven in order to beseech God to send Christ down. To whom, then, did the law address itself? 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. (1-3) Israels refusal to submit to the righteousness of God. Moses writes that the man who works at the righteousness which comes from the law shall live by it. The answer is found in this portion of our epistle (that is, from the middle of chapter 5). Confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus: We can never forget all that it meant to say that Jesus Christ is Lord. The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart "that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) 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