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It was not merely, that he had better light. Thirdly, let us consider, WHAT THE SCRIPTURE SAITH; "Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed." I can't accept it." 17 So then [ therefore] The words "so then" indicate the consequence of those who believe the message. A disobedient and contrary people: This tells Gods assessment of disobedient, Messiah-rejecting Israel. ", But all have not obeyed the good news. 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. He descended into the grave, so that he dwelt among the dead! The answer is found in this portion of our epistle (that is, from the middle of chapter 5). May you experience the joys of His power, of His presence, of His glory, as God day by day showers you with His goodness and with His love. But natural conscience, although it may detect evil, never leads one into the inward possession and enjoyment of good never brings the soul to God. Undoubtedly divine judgment fell on Him; but this is not "the righteousness of God," as the apostle employs it in any part of his writings any more than here, though we know there could be no such thing as God's righteousness justifying the believer, if Christ had not borne the judgment of God. The apostle writes with the full assertion of his own apostolic dignity, but as a servant also. And how can they believe in Him unless they hear about Him? For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. 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. For it may have been noticed from chapter 3 to chapter 5, that nothing but fitness for the glory of God will do now. "His flesh was torn off by the whips, and he streamed down with blood, and his flanks were laid open by wounds." Verse Romans 10:8. It is His righteousness, or, in other words, His perfect consistency with Himself, which is always involved in the notion of righteousness. and how shall they preach unless they be sent? But more than this "Whosoever shall call." d. But what does it say? Now, I hope I have put it plainly. Now, when you call upon the name of the Lord, God doesn't go down the list and say, "Let's see. 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." Check to enable permanent hiding of message bar and refuse all cookies if you do not opt in. Horribly offensive as sin is to God, and inexcusable in the creature, it is sin which has given occasion to the astonishing display of divine righteousness in justifying believers. Then he knows that Jesus will blot out his transgressions, and create in him a clean heart, and restore him to himself again, though now, like David, his sin is ever before him. What canst thou need more than to rely upon the Anointed of the Lord? This, he says, was his heart's desire and prayer, which intimates, (1.) From the very first we have these characteristics of the epistle disclosing themselves. The law ends for the believer in the sense that our obedience to the law is no longer the basis for our relationship with God. The gospel goes forth universally. 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. Mark you, Moses does not tone down the law to suit our fallen state, or talk of our doing our best and God's being satisfied with our imperfect obedience. The soul of prayer is the heart's desire. 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. Here, then, it is a comparison of the two great heads Adam and Christ, and the immeasurable superiority of the second man is shown. For information about the word heart (kardia), see the commentary on verse 1. But what saith it? When our time comes to depart, we shall just step aside and say, "Good-bye, dear friends, awhile: we will meet again in the home of the blessed." But there is more than this in Romans 4:1-25 He takes up a third feature of Abraham's case; that is, the connection of the promise with resurrection. To the contrary, the salvation of God is as near them as their own mouths and hearts. 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. 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. You, up there in the gallery, however guilty you may have been, or however moral you may have been, it matters not, if your one hope is in what Christ has done, you shall never turn round on your dying bed, and cry, "I made a mistake in trusting Christ." And the blessedness of the gospel is, that it is (not merely an exercise of mercy, but also) divinely just. So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God: Saving faith comes through hearing by the word of God. "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. 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. or "what saith he", Moses? Did the Jews take the ground of exclusively having that word of God the law? Yet from beginning to end there is no anger in it; there is nothing but wistful longing and heartfelt yearning. The former is the direction, and the latter the application. We have all that we need to find salvation and be blessed by God. For the Scripture says, Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame. For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. "For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified." And to this agreed the testimony of the prophet. 2. It is true that Christ was in the grave, and it is as true that he is now in heaven; but we need not perplex and puzzle ourselves with fancied difficulties, nor must we create to ourselves such gross and carnal ideas of these things as if the method of salvation were impracticable, and the design of the revelation were only to amuse us. a. It is a dilemma of human experience. No man among us doubts that if he had performed the law of God the Lord would give him life; but it is equally certain that if we have believed in the Lord Jesus Christ we have eternal lire. Hence the apostle does not, as in the early chapters of this epistle, take up our sins, except as proofs and symptoms of sin. Accordingly, in the end of the chapter, he shows that this is most true as applied to the moral judgment of the Jew; that uone so much dishonoured God as wicked Jews, their own Scripture attesting it; that position went for nothing in such, while the lack of it would not annul the Gentile's righteousness, which would indeed condemn the more unfaithful Israel; in short, that one must be a Jew inwardly to avail, and circumcision be of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, whose praise is of God, and not of men. . i. Not only is God's righteousness revealed, but also His wrath. Paul's Discourse of Righteousness; The Method of Salvation. The "word of faith" is the message of justification by the system of "faith" as opposed to the Law. Whoever you are, God's promise is to you that if you call upon the name of the Lord you will be saved. Two things are required as conditions of salvation:-- (a.) Not all will accept the message, but Christians must proclaim it nevertheless. 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. 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. He did not say, "Do and thou shalt live, and yet there is another way." "Sing" said he. Chapter 10Now Paul again reaffirms his love and desire for his brethren after the flesh. (16-17) The testimony of Isaiah 53:10. "No, not if you pluck out my eyes, and consume my bowels in the fire. Of whom does it declare all this? But after the flood man as such was put under certain conditions the whole race. The believer in Jesus shall be saved because he is a believer; and Christ's veracity is staked thereon: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. In point of fact, as he had hinted before, their true tenure was the call of God, who was free, if He pleased, to bring in other people. Now hearken. A man may be well aware that some habit, some indulgence, some way of life, some friendship, some association must have disastrous results; but he may simply refuse to look at the facts. (i) There is the ignorance which comes from neglect of knowledge. That is, it is not merely pardon of past sins, but deliverance from sin, and in due time from all its consequences. 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. It can mean many things such as: 1. "At any rate he is a saved soul," we hear. It was laid down that, in the event of sickness, measures might be taken to keep the patient from becoming worse, but not to make him better. 6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? The judgments of God will fall on man as man, but the heaviest blows are reserved for Christendom. Moreover, He gave up the knowledge of God that had been handed down from father to son (ver. It is not in any degree settled as to itself by His blood. This is now become impossible, by reason of the power of sin and the corruption of nature; but Christ is the end of the law. You will get the foreboding of this world with all of its problems. Accordingly he tells them now what reason he had to speak thus strongly, not of the more advanced truths, but of the good news. May God bless you and may God work in your life this week in a very special way. 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 (. God is proved thus divinely consistent with Himself in Christ Jesus, whom He has set forth a mercy-seat through faith in His blood. 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. Their problem is not that they have not heard or understood it, but that they have refused to believe it (see v. 16). 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. 4. Love is the great debt that we owe, which never can be paid, but which we should always be paying. Its remarkable that Paul found something good to say about these Jewish people who persecuted him so mercilessly. Concerning faith: It is with the heart that man believeth, which implies more than an assent of the understanding, and takes in the consent of the will, an inward, hearty, sincere, and strong consent. If it was the Lord's will that I should die in the street at this moment, I would cheerfully go." And he says to Israel: "All the day I have stretched out my hands to a people who are disobedient and contrary.". I will read his exact words to you. for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. Hence, then, we find that the whole chapter is founded on this truth. i. A person cannot believe unless they hear. This is where so many religious people even sincere Christians go astray. No man can say that they were not desperately in earnest about their service to God. Psalms 19:1-14 is used in the most beautiful manner to insinuate that the limits are the world. What is remote, with difficulty. iii. You, dear friend, down the aisle there, it you trust in Christ you shall never be ashamed of your hope. In the fourth verse this could not be absent; in the first verse it ought not to be present. There is a kind of telegraphic quality about the writing. We use cookies to let us know when you visit our websites, how you interact with us, to enrich your user experience, and to customize your relationship with our website. Next, what the gospel says: "But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise," and so on. This God has wrought in Christ. So God's grace and mercy extended towards the Gentiles. The nature of their unbelief. (i) A man must say Jesus Christ is Lord. What gives glory to God like this? a. I will provoke you to jealousy: God told Israel that He would bring others close to Him and make them jealous. You can also change some of your preferences. We all know where it is and must be for the Christian. Does that mean then that God is through with the Jew forever? They must admit they are helpless sinners and accept the righteousness of God through Christ (10:1-4).The language of law says, Do all this and you will live. Apparently the meaning is: "What if the message was so difficult to grasp that even when Israel did hear it they were unable to grasp its significance?" When God established His covenant with Israel, God established the various offerings that they must bring to Him for their sins. It will be observed therefore, that in this connection the apostle shows the place both of conscience and of the law, that God in judging will take into full consideration the circumstances and condition of every soul of man. How could the Jews say that this meant themselves? [b.] This word of faith is our message, that, if you acknowledge with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and if you believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. It is not God having an earthly centre, and the peoples doming up to worship the Lord in Jerusalem. The excellency of the gospel above the law. Nevertheless the apostle does not expressly mention heaven here. They did not know it, because they would not; they shut their eyes against the discoveries of it, and love darkness rather. The last verses of the chapter, however, bring in the deliverance not yet the fulness of it, but the hinge, so to speak. It is no longer in our power to dream of a perfect, life-long obedience. 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." Paul makes no attempt to resolve this dilemma; and the fact is that there is no resolution of it. As He has given us through the blood of Jesus full remission, as we shall be saved by this life, as He has made us know even now nothing short of present conscious deliverance from every whit of evil that belongs to our very nature, as we have the Spirit the earnest of the glory to which we are destined, as we are the vessels of gracious sorrow in the midst of that from which we are not yet delivered but shall be, so now we have the certainty that, whatever betide, God is for us, and that nothing shall separate us from His love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Herein is no mystery: Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners, and whosoever believeth in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. Let man be what he might, or where he might, God's good news was for man. Going to where Jesus went (the abyss/Hades/the realm of the dead, verse 7) is also unnecessary. Thus, how can your father have the forgiveness of sins which is essential for fellowship with God?" Now there is a tremendous failure some place of getting the message out.For how can they call on Him who they don't believe in? 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. d. Glad tidings of good things: Obviously, the salvation Isaiah prophesied about could not be salvation through works or the law. Does this sort of faith enable men to face death with courage? Rules for the conduct of Christians to one another, as members of the Christian church, Rom. The truth is not difficult to be understood and embraced. The righteousness of faith, on the other hand, is easily available to all men upon the conditions mentioned in the next phrases. Christ is the end of the moral law in that he did what the law could not do (Romans 8:3; Romans 8:3), and secured the great end of it. Free shipping for many products! So I have found by my making over my other grandchildren she'll come elbowing her way in to get close to Grandpa. They are zealous for God, yes. The great point is to note the true picture given us of a soul quickened, but labouring and miserable under law, not at all consciously delivered. in your mouth -- --when you confess Him. He could not have remitted heretofore. 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? God has done all that is necessary, and we receive His gift of righteousness by faith" (Vol. Because they were sons of Abraham. Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here. . "Paul, a bondman of Jesus Christ" an apostle "called," not born, still less as educated or appointed of man, but an apostle "called," as he says "separated unto the gospel of God, which he had promised afore by his prophets." 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. 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. Also, Gods word works in the Christian (1 Thessalonians 2:13). (2.) "Christ's Prayer for his People.". 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. The gospel states its message as clearly as the law. "What shall we sing?" He wished his beloved ones to go to their beds; and since they would stop with him, he desired them to sing." If you get extreme on the Calvinistic side and into election and predestination and all, then you have lost the center of truth. b. 8-10. Pauls intent here is to use the same words to express the same idea about the gospel instead of the law. If you were to descend there, what would you do without him whom God has anointed to save? 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. A good wish (Romans 10:1; Romans 10:1), a wish that they might be saved--saved from the temporal ruin and destruction that were coming upon them--saved from the wrath to come, eternal wrath, which was hanging over their heads. The man who does those things shall live by them: The Law of Moses makes the path to righteousness through the law plain. But it is very plain and easy: The word is nigh thee. The whole work is done. Paul has been saying some hard things about the Jews. Their zeal was not according to knowledge. The story of Jesus Christ passed through all of the Jewish communities around the world. His answer is: "You cannot say that Israel never got the chance to hear; for scripture plainly says that God's message has gone out to all the world.". There is a disposition continually to imagine that what is frequently spoken of must be understood; but experience will soon show that this is not the case. The remnant proves, then, that even under judgment the rejection of Israel is not complete, but rather a pledge of future favour. 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. You need not go to the universities and earn a degree of D.D. These things are matters of conscience, and depend much for their solution on the degree to which souls have attained. You always can block or delete cookies by changing your browser settings and force blocking all cookies on this website. Now what is this word of faith? He had this, of course, in a revelation that was from God; he had law; he had prophets; he had divine institutions. Having descended all that length he went lower still. Go to Jesus for everything. It is part of the honour of Christ that every tongue shall confess, Philippians 2:11. For this (Romans 10:11; Romans 10:11) he quotes Isaiah 28:16, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed; ou kataischynthesetai. Moses writes that the man who works at the righteousness which comes from the law shall live by it. For instance, if a man signs a contract without having read the conditions, he cannot complain if afterwards he finds out that the conditions are very different from what he thought they were. This it was before it was his prayer. It was a very great thing, especially, when the profession of Christ or Christianity hazarded estate, honour, preferment, liberty, life, and all that is dear in this world, which was the case in the primitive times. Yes, but this is another principle. Christianity is belief plus confession; it involves witness before men. The past history of Israel was sketched inRomans 9:1-33; Romans 9:1-33; the present more immediately is before us inRomans 10:1-21; Romans 10:1-21. This accordingly leads the apostle into the earlier portion of his great argument, and first of all in a preparatory way. 3. Saying that something more than the Bible is needed affirms that we need to bring Christ down. Paul had no difficulty in granting that, but the zeal was misdirected and misapplied. 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. Hence therefore, the apostle, with divine wisdom, opens this to us before the blessed relief and deliverance which the gospel reveals to us. He had bought the truth and would not sell it, and so he stuck to. 17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. He believed God and His word, with special approval on God's part; and his faith was counted as righteousness (ver. Then the domains of flesh and Spirit are brought before us: the one characterized by sin and death practically now; the other by life, righteousness, and peace, which is, as we saw, to be crowned finally by the resurrection of these bodies of ours. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. In light of what Moses said, Pauls teaching (justification by faith) was not a new concept. Do not believe in yourself, but believe in Jesus. All rights reserved. Brethren, my hearts desire and prayer to God for Israel, I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, i. 22). Sin had left its crimson stain, but He washed me white as snow." Whosoever believed should not be ashamed; whosoever called should be saved. 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. And this lies in the fact that Abraham believed God before he had the son, being fully persuaded that what He had promised He was able to perform. In the Fourth Book of Maccabees there is an amazing incident. 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. For all this, as he presses further, there was the weightiest reason possible. 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. The Christian must believe not only that Jesus lived, but also that he lives. Brethren, my hearts desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. c. But the righteousness of faith: This is based on Jesus, and we dont have to work to get Jesus. 3). But what saith it? There was a most important trial of man in the person of Adam; but after this, what dispensation was there? He "will render to every man according to his deeds: to them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: to them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first and also of the Gentile.". 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