There is no mystery or obscurity about it. Not a pretty toy for Sundays, but food to live upon; a common-sense hope; a blunt man's religion that he can carry into business. . "For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. The way of salvation is now both plain and easy. The first is Moses himself. But what saith it? b. I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God: Paul will readily recognize that Israel has a zeal for God but he also sees that it is zeal not according to knowledge. We cannot speak of the state of things before the flood as a dispensation. It is as equally simple to the Jew as it is to the Greek. All through this section Paul has been driving home the personal responsibility of the Jews. We know that God is behind everything; and yet, at the same time, we know that we have free will and can accept or reject God's offer. For if the law could give a man a righteous standing before God, then it was not necessary for Christ to die. You say, "Well, I can't reconcile that with God's divine election." What is remote, with difficulty. was true, accordingly, before the law, right through the law, and ever since the law. i. Be it so then; it was a foolish nation by which Moses declared they should be angered. 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. The following cookies are also needed - You can choose if you want to allow them: You can read about our cookies and privacy settings in detail on our Privacy Policy Page. God is gracious, but holy; He is faithful, but righteous. But more than this "Whosoever shall call." 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. This brings in the contrast with the other Head, the Lord Jesus Christ, whom we have here not as One bearing our sins in His own body on the tree, but as the spring and chief of a new family. The end of the law was to bring men to perfect obedience, and so to obtain justification. On the contrary, he says Gods word is as close to a person as his own mouth and heart. The shedding of His blood was absolutely necessary: without that precious expiation all else had been vain and impossible. Can it cry? "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. In vain will you preach Romans 3:1-31, or even 4 alone, for souls to know themselves consciously and holily set free. Just as I lean all my weight upon this rail so do I lean my soul wholly upon Christ. 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. 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. But now they were; and thus God vindicated Himself perfectly as to the past. For Christ is the end of the whole system of law. The judgments of God will fall on man as man, but the heaviest blows are reserved for Christendom. And she takes advantage of it and gives me a bad time, because she is totally independent when it comes to Grandpa.She loves to play her little independent games. 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 (. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our report? So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Moses said, "That the man which doeth those things shall live by them." While there were people who could read, the ordinary first-century citizen depended rather on being able to hear something. (Morris). John MacArthur New Testament Commentary, Book of Romans 2 Volume Set. Our Lord Jesus lays a great stress upon this confessing of him before men; see Matthew 10:32; Matthew 10:33. ** See No. But I say, have they not heard? Clearly, then, such ground is untenable. For whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved.. Besides this, which seems to be a most comprehensive expression for embracing every sort and degree of human iniquity, we have one very specifically named. Yes, they did hear. 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). 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." Such a man would necessarily be saved because there would be no sin to condemn him. What blindness! 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. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. This was true even before Moses time (see Romans 4:13 and the example of Abraham). How shall they hear without a preacher? The information in verse 8 makes the point even more forcefully. "Always remember to keep your voice down," said another. Did they fall back on Abraham? 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. 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. This is the key word of early Christianity. Chapter Summary Paul's heart is broken for his people, Israel. 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. Would we follow up the heights of heavenly truth, would we sound the depths of Christian experience, would we survey the workings of the Spirit of God in the Church, would we bow before the glories of the person of Christ, or learn His manifold offices, we must look elsewhere in the writings of the New Testament no doubt, but elsewhere rather than here. Knowing God we come to believe and trust in God. 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. It can mean many things such as: 1. If what is possible? b. Have done with doings, and feelings, and trust yourself with Christ. They too should live. 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. In the next chapter (Romans 10:1-21) he carries on the subject, showing in the most touching manner his affection for the people. 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. Rules for the conduct of Christians to one another, as members of the Christian church, Rom. 5 Things You Should Know about the ESV Bible Translation. "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. Thus, their good works must outweigh their bad works. The "word of faith" is the message of justification by the system of "faith" as opposed to the Law. So then faith must come by hearing, and hearing by the word of God ( Romans 10:16-17 ). It might be more or less any man's lot to learn. And this leads us to see not only where there was an analogy with those who believe in a promised Saviour, but also to a weighty difference. 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. If you refuse cookies we will remove all set cookies in our domain. 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. Let it not be! Then, from ver. 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 all this, as he presses further, there was the weightiest reason possible. We are heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ. Hence, as God's wrath is revealed from heaven, it is against every form of impiety "against all ungodliness." He brings out the peculiar glories of Israel according to the depth of the gospel as he knew and preached it; at least, of His person who is the object of faith now revealed. The inner man is dealt with, and searched through and through. Now what is this word of faith? Ed. * 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. But the Jew might argue that it was an unjust thing in principle this gospel, these tidings of which the apostle was so full; for why should one man affect many, yea, all? "Ah, well," says one, "I know I must undergo a singular experience-either I must be carried right away to heaven with delirious delight, or be plunged into the waves of hell in frightful despair." (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) Then your principle is your condemnation. $150.00 + $30 . Romans 1:1-32. 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. If the good news of God goes out to man, entirely blotting out the difference between a Jew and a Gentile, what becomes of His special promises to Abraham and to his seed? Zealous the Jews were and are. We have had justification, both by blood and also in virtue of Christ's resurrection. For what remains unsolved by and in Christ? It was laid down exactly how far a man could walk on the Sabbath. To man this is the hardest of all obedience; but when once secured, it leads peacefully into the obedience of every day. It is such milk for babes that I have known people refuse such plain truth because they were not willing to be treated like little children. 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. He spent the whole night in trying to cheer and comfort others: he had no trembling thought about himself. The condition of the Roman saints called for a setting forth of the gospel of God; but this object, in order to be rightly understood and appreciated, leads the apostle into a display of the condition of man. You will find that story in the first volume of my sermons. It is not believing (not to be reckoned so) if it be not with the heart. Take the Sabbath law. He shall come to Zion, says the other. There is no language where their voice is not heard. That is, it is not merely pardon of past sins, but deliverance from sin, and in due time from all its consequences. The soul of prayer is the heart's desire. (1-3) Israel's refusal to submit to the righteousness of God. Jesus had come and died; Jesus had been a propitiatory sacrifice; Jesus had borne the judgment of God because of the sins He bore. But now it is "the wrath of God from heaven;" and consequently it is in view of eternal things, and not of those that touch present life on the earth. Or let's put on our asbestos suits and descend into hell and bring the Messiah back from the grave. He never said a word more than he felt; yet that was the style of man. He here shows the folly of that mistake, and what an unreasonable thing it was for them to be seeking justification by the works of the law, now that Christ had come, and had brought in an everlasting righteousness; considering. Now the one who plants and the one who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. 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. 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." To call Jesus kurios ( G2962) was to count him unique. Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. 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. The relationship between God and man is no longer the relationship between a creditor and a debtor, between an earner and an assessor, between a judge and a man standing at the bar of judgment. i. 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. 1. There is then the solemn truth also of divine wrath. The answer is found in this portion of our epistle (that is, from the middle of chapter 5). 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 was not an easy thing; it must often have been made extremely inconvenient; and it must often have made life very uncomfortable. Listen, man. 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. It is through the Word of God that we come to know God. The tenour of it is, Do, and live. Uttering a wish of evil against somebody or a thing. Nothing shows better the Jewish attitude than the three classes into which they divided mankind. The use of the law was to direct people for righteousness to Christ. Your name is not on the list." The truth is not difficult to be understood and embraced. Ignorance of God's righteousness. If you get out on the extreme and, unfortunately, some people do. (c) It is the normal title of the Greek gods, prefaced before the god's name. 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. 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. Not only God, but also our fellow men, must know what side we are on. The Jews have no reason to believe that God has rejected them. Hence the very fact of being renewed makes one sensible of a far more intense misery than ever, while there is no power until the soul looks right outside self to Him who is dead and risen, who has anticipated the difficulty, and alone gives the full answer to all wants. 1. Finally he comes to two other witnesses; as from the Psalms, so now from the law and the prophets. 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. It is for the lost, therefore; for they it is who need salvation; and it is to save not merely to quicken, but to save; and this because in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed. It seems to mean that his truth was in their mind, and a subject of meditation and reflection. You will get the foreboding of this world with all of its problems. 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. 16). They grasped the meaning of this offer all right, when it came to them unexpectedly and unsought." 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. How are they to believe in him of whom they have not heard? 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. All then that believe, though uncircumcised, might claim him as father, assured that righteousness will be reckoned to them too. Plainly put, by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified (Romans 3:20). (that is, to bring Christ down from above:) Or, Who shall descend into the deep? . "For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. (2.) III. How shall they hear without a preacher? It is, that is, it is promised that it shall be, in thy mouth (Isaiah 59:21), and in thy heart,Jeremiah 31:33. There is evil at work, and grace does not close the eye to danger; at the same time it is never under the pressure of the enemy, and there is the fullest confidence that the God of peace will break the power of Satan under the feet of the saints shortly. The subject terminates with the grand truth which must never be obscured by details that we are to receive, one another, as Christ has received us, to the glory of God. Now, I hope I have put it plainly. Were it merely Romans 3:1-31 there could not be full peace with God as there is. You are free to opt out any time or opt in for other cookies to get a better experience. No man could believe this who did not also believe all the truths dependent on it. It is in our mouth--we are reading it daily; it is in our heart--we are, or should be, thinking of it daily. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for SDA Bible Commentary Set Vols. The Text b. and in your heart -- --when you believe on Him. Romans 10:5-9 . But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it." There is hardly any phraseology that tends to more injury of souls in these matters than a loose way of talking of salvation. Sin is our operating outside of God's grace. If one may so say, He thus holds the man, instead of letting the man presume that he is holding fast the truth. Now the fact that Jesus went to the cross is God's witness before the world that there is only one way that a man can come to God, and that is by the cross of Jesus Christ. In essence this passage is an appeal to the Jews to abandon the way of legalism and accept the way of grace. Consequently all turned, not on what man should be for God, but what God can be and is, as revealed in the gospel, to man. Choose a verse from 'Romans 10' to begin your 'Verse-by-Verse' study of God's Word using the more than 100 commentaries available on StudyLight.org. You always can block or delete cookies by changing your browser settings and force blocking all cookies on this website. Let the cross pass. He speaks of the sovereignty of God having elected that it might stand by election. Moses says nothing about wearing phylacteries, or washing hands, or offering incense, or performing ceremonies in order to righteousness. He deals with the Jew from his own Scripture (verses 9-19). He was in the end killed. Ask those who have seen them die. It is hard singing when your father is dying, but it was not hard to him. There is no limitation there; the promise is to everyone; therefore, there is no difference between Jew and Greek. God is not far from each one of us (Acts 17:27) because His will is right at our fingertips. Upon our believing, that is, our humble consent to the terms of the gospel, we become interested in Christ's satisfaction, and so are justified through the redemption that is in Jesus. 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