Verse Romans 10:8. . And how shall they hear without a preacher? He descended into the grave, so that he dwelt among the dead! This accordingly leads, as connected with the deliverance of the body, to the inheritance we are to possess. 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. No; clear, straight, cutting like a sharp razor, he puts before us the single sentence, "He that doeth those things shall live by them.". "Always remember to keep your voice down," said another. They tried him many ways with their blessed experience, of which you and I have got cart-loads, perhaps waggon-loads; but he could not be drawn out of his one firm position. Romans 10:5-9 . That it is not at all hard or difficult. But it is a word one must believe with all his hearta word he must believe enough to give up all hopes of self-righteousness and submit his whole being to it in faithful, obedience. This is as certain and clear as the utterance of that dreadful roll of thunder which has just now left on your minds the thought, "He that doeth these things shall live by them.". Second, he cites Joel 2:32: "All who call upon the name of the Lord shall be delivered." Jewish religion was based on meticulous obedience to the law. It is not so alone; but in His death, unto which I am baptized, I am dead to sin. Tonight whoever you might be salvation is so close to you, all you have to do is call upon the name of the Lord and you will be saved. There is the type of confession described in Matthew 10:32. The apostle has come now to the nature. The soul therefore now is represented for the first time as already justified and in possession of peace with God. See an instance of this pride in the Pharisee, Luke 18:10; Luke 18:11. So that we have here a brief summary of the terms of salvation, and they are very reasonable; in short this, that we must devote, dedicate, and give up, to God, our souls and our bodies--our souls in believing with the heart, and our bodies in confessing with the mouth. Thus, the true God being lost, all was lost, and man's downward career becomes the most painful and humiliating object, unless it be, indeed, that which we have to feel where men, without renewal of heart, espouse in pride of mind the truth with nothing but unrighteousness. See 2 Corinthians 3:7; Galatians 3:23; Galatians 3:24. Wishing and woulding, if that be all, are not praying. Salem Media Group. There was no law there or then; for Abraham died long before God spoke from Sinai. He knew whom he had believed, and knew what the Lord had done for him, and he could not see a weak point in it all. But Paul's answer is: "Israel may have failed to understand; but the Gentiles did not. a. III. And "how shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein?" The believer is not put under law, you will observe, but under grace, which is the precise reverse of law. Furthermore, To question how they could ascend into heaven in order to find a way of perfection was a denial of the incarnation of Christ. He had this, of course, in a revelation that was from God; he had law; he had prophets; he had divine institutions. There. May you begin to experience greater victory in your walk with Jesus Christ as you yield yourself to that touch of God and as He molds and shapes you into that person He wants you to be, and as He conforms you into the image of Jesus Christ. How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? In the gospel there is revealed God's righteousness. Outside Revelation, it only occurs here and Luke 8:31. 7). They have a zeal of God. Thou sayest, "Who shall ascend into heaven?" Nevertheless the apostle does not expressly mention heaven here. Man goes back to the righteousness of works. Say not in thine heart that thou must be educated, trained, and made into a scholar. 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. The righteousness of Christ imputed, secures the soul, the better part, from death. God is not far from each one of us (Acts 17:27) because His will is right at our fingertips. 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. But they have not all obeyed the gospel: If salvation is so simple, available to all who trust in the person and work of Jesus, then why does Israel seem to be cast off from God? Now, Paul declares, or rather the gospel speaking for itself declares, this word of life by faith in the risen Christ to be near us, that is, to be accessible to us. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our report? So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. We cannot keep the law now, for we have already broken it: the vase is fractured, and to talk of keeping it entire is nonsense. Its remarkable that Paul found something good to say about these Jewish people who persecuted him so mercilessly. This Huckster Jack was a poor, wicked fellow, who had gone about from village to village, swearing, drinking, huckstering and perhaps pilfering. And how can they proclaim it unless they be sent?So the basis for missions: having heard, having believed, having known, we are now responsible to send those to tell others of this glorious salvation and righteousness that God has offered to all men, Jew and Greek, who will just simply believe on His son Jesus Christ. In short, it is what the words say "the righteousness of God," and this "by faith of Jesus Christ.". You can also change some of your preferences. That is, it is the power of God unto salvation, not because it is victory (which at the beginning of the soul's career would only give importance to man even if possible, which it is not), but because it is "the righteousness of God." For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness are going about to establish their own righteousness, and they have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. The law demanded, but could never receive righteousness from man. No man could believe this who did not also believe all the truths dependent on it. Justification by faith lays the foundation of our title to salvation; but by confession we build upon that foundation, and come at last to the full possession of that to which we were entitled. From Romans 9 alone we might think that salvation is Gods doing alone, but from Romans 10 we might think that salvation is mans doing alone together we see the matter from each perspective. As Cottrell observes: Moses emphasis is clearly on the accessibility and understandability of Gods law. When we drift away from it, we become confused, and we begin dividing, bickering and fighting among ourselves. The best of them are but filthy rags: stow them all away in the coal-hole, and look to the merits of your Lord for salvation. Let it not be! yet, that is might be the more effectual to drive people to Christ and to make the covenant of grace welcome, it had a very great mixture of the strictness and terror of the covenant of works. This last relation was the direct subject of the prophetic testimony, and Jesus had come accordingly. Thus then, if Paul gave his own sense of Jewish privileges, there was no unbelieving Jew that rose up to his estimate of them. It is the same form of expression exactly as in the beginning of Romans 5:1-21 "being justified by faith" ( ). He was "declared," says the apostle, "to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead" ( , ver. Every mouth was stopped; the Jew by his own oracles, as the Gentile by their evident abominations, shown already. So Paul's first answer is: "You cannot say there was no messenger; Isaiah describes these very messengers; and Isaiah lived long ago.". It was not merely "to those at Rome," but "to you that be at Rome." The righteousness of faith, on the other hand, is easily available to all men upon the conditions mentioned in the next phrases. And I heard Keith giving his testimony on television the other night and he said that living here in southern California, going to UCLA and all, he was twenty-four years old before he ever heard about Jesus Christ. speaketh on this wise: In these verses (6-8), Pauls language is clearly based on the Septuagint rendering of Deuteronomy 30:11-14 where Moses enumerates the blessings that accrue to Israel if she keeps the law. If His grace attract, His truth humbles, and leaves no room for vain boasting and self-confidence. This is further illustrated (Romans 10:10; Romans 10:10), and the order inverted, because there must first be faith in the heart before there can be an acceptable confession with the mouth. c. But the righteousness of faith: This is based on Jesus, and we dont have to work to get Jesus. Just before Israel crossed into the Promised Land, Moses spoke of righteousness by faith.. And this was powerfully corroborated by the testimony of another great name in Israel (David), in Psalms 32:1-11. We believe and receive. Though Paul preached against them, yet he prayed for them. It was not merely, that he had better light. And to this agreed the testimony of the prophet. 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. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refusing them will have impact how our site functions. Notice, first, what Moses said. If it was the Lord's will that I should die in the street at this moment, I would cheerfully go." Paul said, "It is eliminated." Romans 10:17, KJV: So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. In hours of dire distress and great heaviness of spirit, of which I know enough, I prove the power of faith in Jesus. What a title, then, God gives me now in beholding Christ, no longer dead but risen, to have it settled before my soul that I am in Him as He now is, where all questions are closed in peace and joy! If you were to be saved by the law you should have begun without sin, continued without sin, and then it would be needful to end without sin. In the end the soldiers so pitied him that they brought him dressed meat, which was not pork, and told him to eat it and say that he had eaten pork. Cold desires do but beg denials; we must even breathe out our souls in every prayer. Compare Romans 10:14; Romans 10:14. All then that believe, though uncircumcised, might claim him as father, assured that righteousness will be reckoned to them too. It is not a question of creature-standing. God was rather provoking Israel to jealousy by the call of the Gentiles. Plug in, Turn on and Be En light ened! For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. They beat up on him the other day. i. Alas! 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. A message of peace and of life, glad tidings of good things. If it were possible that man could be saved any other way, the cross would not be necessary. First Moses says: I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation, He dwells in the heart by faith. So faith comes by hearing, hearing by the Word of God. 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. No, if by keeping the law, then that encourages boasting, but it is eliminated because I am saved just through simple faith in Jesus Christ. I cannot get lower than that, can I? The answer is, that this will not do one whit better; for when we come down to the next generation, it is apparent that the two sons of Isaac were sons of the same mother; nay, they were twins. 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. d. But what does it say? Strange as it was, this too was foretold. (1-3) Israel's refusal to submit to the righteousness of God. Paul had no difficulty in granting that, but the zeal was misdirected and misapplied. There is no limitation there; the promise is to everyone; therefore, there is no difference between Jew and Greek. Time was when none of the English, nor French, nor of any other nation believed in the Saviour. Here, then, it is not a question at all of pardon or remission. She would say, "Oh, help me to believe you, Chuck, just help me to believe you." I believe that whoever you are, chosen or not, predestined or not, if you will call upon the name of the Lord you will be saved. It was his heart's desire; it was not a formal compliment, as good wishes are with many from the teeth outward, but a real desire. (1.) Now, was it not extreme folly in the Jews to adhere so closely to this way of justification and salvation, which was in itself so hard, and by the corruption of nature now become impossible, when there was a new and a living way opened? Here is where the passage becomes really difficult. When they see the way God has blessed the Christian believer and their love for God and for the Lord Jesus Christ, that they'll be provoked to jealousy, when they see the Gentiles receive the covenant and the grace and the blessings and the glory of God.As we were studying the book of Romans recently I sought to illustrate this by this beautiful, sharp, darling, little granddaughter of mine, who I love so greatly, as I do all my grandchildren. Hence it is essentially founded on the gift not only of a Saviour who would interpose, in the mercy of God, to bear our sins, but of One who is already revealed, and the work done and accepted, and this known in the fact that God Himself has interposed to raise Him from among the dead a bright and momentous thing to press on souls, as indeed we find the apostles insisting on it throughout the Acts. But this may be comparatively a light question. The truth is, those are altogether mistaken who call it so. Be he Jew or be he Gentile, his only righteousness by law must come through the doing of the law. It was undoubtedly enough for present purposes. What saith the gospel? If you wish to be saved by the law you must do its commands and you shall live. Yes, God has chosen and elected and predestined. Hereupon he enters upon the direct proofs, and first cites Hosea as a witness. What glory so rich as that of the Christ Himself duly appreciated? Not only God, but also our fellow men, must know what side we are on. 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." He proved himself the Son of God, gave the most convincing evidence that could be of his being the Messiah; and yet they did not know and would not own him, but shut their eyes against the clear light, so that their zeal for the law was blind. In Deuteronomy 30:11 Moses said his information was not far off, and it was not hidden from the Jewish people. Now, I hope I have put it plainly. a. You asked, "Who shall descend into the deep?" Oh, let's all get our climbing ropes and let's all climb into heaven and let's bring the Messiah down. For Isaiah said, Lord, who has believed our report? 12:1-21. Of course, it could hardly be the law: that was the boast of Israel. If slurred over, as it too often is in souls, it invariably leaves practical obedience lame, and halt, and blind. To call Jesus kurios ( G2962) was to count him unique. This brings out a most emphatic truth and special side of Christianity. Perhaps thou wouldst be ashamed to say it with thy lips; but do not say it at all; do not say that the way to heaven is hard, or mysterious, or in any degree apart from the simple act of believing. It would not have been righteous in any sense to have remitted the sins, until they were actually borne by One who could and did suffer for them. b. I was found by those who did not seek Me: It is strange that Israel, for the most part, rejected their own Messiah. 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. But this is not the full extent of salvation. as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! (that is, to bring Christ down:) 7 or, Who shall descend into the abyss? This maintains both the glory and the moral universality of Him who will justify the circumcision by faith, not law, and the uncircumcision through their faith, if they believe the gospel. (1.) Whoever you are, God's promise is to you that if you call upon the name of the Lord you will be saved. Go to Jesus for everything. It was laid down that no food must be cooked on the Sabbath. The word abyss (abussos) is usually found in the book of Revelation (Revelation 9:1-2; Revelation 9:11; Revelation 11:7; Revelation 17:8; Revelation 20:1; Revelation 20:3). This would make me wonder what kind of a character am I that she is having such a hard time believing me. 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. (That is, to bring Christ up from the dead.) 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. Now you won't get that on television, nor will you get that in your evening newspaper, watching the news or reading Time Magazine. 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. And as that little remnant is ever sustained by the grace of God, it is the standing pledge of their final blessedness through His mercy, whereon the apostle breaks out into raptures of thanksgiving to God. There is no hope for man otherwise; for the gospel is not all that is now made known. They have plenty of zeal but little knowledge. He did not say, "Do and thou shalt live, and yet there is another way." To prove this point Paul quotes two passages. 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. We, O Antiochus," he said, "who live under a divine law, consider no compulsion to be so forcible as obedience to our law." All of Pauls teaching of Gods election and right to choose does not diminish mans responsibility. The apostle shows them with astonishing force at the starting-point that he was far from slighting their privileges. "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." 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." This accordingly leads the apostle into the earlier portion of his great argument, and first of all in a preparatory way. Or to proclaim to them the truth. 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. In his final sermon, Moses made some other points. The meaning is, that the doctrine was already so familiar, and so well understood, that it was actually in their mouth, that is, their language, their common conversation. Now, what Paul declared of the Jew then is still true today. Paul makes no attempt to resolve this dilemma; and the fact is that there is no resolution of it. 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. faith comes by hearing [ the thing heard], The top and bottom of the matter is, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ." For what remains unsolved by and in Christ? Thus the introduction opened with Christ's person, and closes with God's righteousness. then, go out to Gentiles? He observes Sabbath; he loves God. We are not put to climb for it--it is not in heaven; we are not put to dive for it--it is not in the deep. Turn to Deuteronomy 30:11 . 13). It was the boast of the Jews that the law spoke about them; that the Gentiles had no right to it, and were but presuming on what belonged to God's chosen people. Clearly, then, such ground is untenable. See ye well to this. Was it possible to limit this to Israel? Love is the great debt that we owe, which never can be paid, but which we should always be paying. There are some that find a difficulty here, because the expression "to hold" means holding firmly. (that is, to bring Christ down from above:) Or, Who shall descend into the deep? "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. It was not only his heart's desire, but it was his prayer. Wuest, quoting Robertson on Jesus Christ is Lord: No Jew would do this who had not really trusted Christ, for Kurios in the LXX is used of God. 13:1-14. This same term occurs again in verses 14 and 15. He has put the two things together, "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved." 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. It is implied in this wish that they might be convinced and converted; he could not pray in faith that they might be saved in their unbelief. Scripture: Romans 10:15. Some thought him half-witted, but the story would show his wind to be sound enough. This is to fall back on a principle he had already used. Moses saith, "I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people," etc. It was laid down that he must lift no burden which weighed more than two dried figs. 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. 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. Even where the law was, not by it but by faith the just lived. In our concern to understand what the apostle is saying about righteousness, justification, and the like we ought not to overlook his tremendous concentration on God." (Morris) i. To a disobedient and contrary people.. Here is your answer. The soul of prayer is the heart's desire. Is he one of those that we elected? 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. 10:1-13 Brothers, the desire of my heart for the Jews and my prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. "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. There is no need of dwelling now on "salvation" as employed in the Old Testament, and in some parts of the New, as the gospels and Revelation particularly, where it is used for deliverance in power or even providence and present things. The legal institutions were associated with temporal judgment. Does this sort of faith enable men to face death with courage? But I say, did Israel not know? 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. In both parts, as it may be observed, the door is opened to the Gentile. It is done. But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? For whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved ( Romans 10:12-13 ). In the moments when the soul is in the lowest depths, faith is the only way to live. Did the Jew fancy that the gospel makes very light of Abraham, and of the then dealings of God? The word of faith is to be taken for the word of promise, that is, for the gospel itself, because it bears a relation to faith. Just as the sun in the heavens is not for one people or land alone, no more is the gospel. If he was called, so were they he an apostle, they not apostles but saints; but still, for them as for him, all flowed out of the same mighty love, of God. Saying that something more than the Bible is needed affirms that we need to bring Christ down. Has He mercy only for guilty Israel? Confess with your mouth: Confession has the idea of agreeing with. The things about which we are in doubt are far fewer than we would like to think. They set up the golden calf, and thus cast off the true God, their God, even in the desert. No longer does the question exist of requiring an expiation. 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. 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. 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. Talk not thus. The inner man is dealt with, and searched through and through. 3. But what saith it? Such moral judgments will, no doubt, be used to leave man without excuse; they can never suit or satisfy God. It is true, it is needful for man to learn; but in nowise is it good news. 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. And where? Indeed they have. That is, [a.] Man seeks to complicate it. How shall they hear without a preacher? Plug in, Turn on and Be En light ened! I have the deep satisfaction of saying that when our dear brethren and sisters fall asleep they reflect honor upon the gospel which we have preached. 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. d. Glad tidings of good things: Obviously, the salvation Isaiah prophesied about could not be salvation through works or the law. I'm sorry you can't accept it, but that is the way it is. How shall they hear without a preacher? They give us the basis of the first Christian creed. Because they were sons of Abraham. $150.00 + $30 . "To all that be at Rome, beloved of God, called saints" (ver. It could not therefore be the source or means of his righteousness. Gods word provides a system to live by. The whole passage Romans 9:1-33; Romans 10:1-21; Romans 11:1-36 is a condemnation of the Jewish attitude to religion. If you get extreme on the Calvinistic side and into election and predestination and all, then you have lost the center of truth. Christ has already done that and has returned gloriously by His resurrection from the dead. It is agreed by all commentators that this is one of the most difficult and obscure passages in the letter to the Romans. What He does is to pierce and penetrate the man's conscience. And the cross offends people, because the cross tells you there is only one way to God. The way of the law was not easy. The excellency of the gospel above the law. Along with this he gathers testimonies from more than one prophet. Israel responsible for its own loss (9:30-10:21). 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