He observes Sabbath; he loves God. Confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus: We can never forget all that it meant to say that Jesus Christ is Lord. This time Paul quotes Psalms 19:4: "Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world." To this he refers likewise, Galatians 3:12, The man that doeth them, shall live in them. It is the paradox of the human situation that God is in control and yet the human will is free. But what saith it? To the ends of the world: There is not a part of the promised land in which these glad tidings have not been preached; and there is scarcely a place in the Roman empire in which the doctrine of Christ crucified has not been heard: if, therefore, the Jews have not believed, the fault is entirely their own; as God has amply furnished them with the means of faith of salvation. (Clarke). And by the foolish nation I will anger you.". The gospel states its message as clearly as the law. Not only is God's righteousness revealed, but also His wrath. In the fourth verse this could not be absent; in the first verse it ought not to be present. i. Thus the latter portion of the chapter is not doctrine exactly, but the proof of the difficulties of a soul who has not realised death to the law by the body of Christ. To man this is the hardest of all obedience; but when once secured, it leads peacefully into the obedience of every day. Read this verse, "All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." 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. Notice that Paul describes Gods word as the word (a definite article occurs in the Greek text). ii. For information about the word heart (kardia), see the commentary on verse 1. [b.] 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. To this Paul answers: "Christ is the end of the law." (iii) The third objection is a restatement of the first: But, what if I insist that they never got the chance to hear? Even in their best estate the saved ones need their Lord: even if we walk in the light as God is in the light, and have fellowship with him, we still sin, and still the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanseth us from all sin. All day long I have stretched out My hands YOU see by this mourning that our church has been bereaved. He deals with the Jew from his own Scripture (verses 9-19). Have as many good works as you can cram into your life, but never tell anybody about them, or think anything of them. It is, that is, it is promised that it shall be, in thy mouth (Isaiah 59:21), and in thy heart,Jeremiah 31:33. But then again he intimates that the nature of the gospel is involved in the publishing of the glad tidings. The rest of the epistle takes up the practical consequences of the great doctrine of God's righteousness, which had been now shown to be supported by, and in no wise inconsistent with, His promises to Israel. He shall never have cause to repent his confidence in reposing such a trust in the Lord Jesus. For "every one who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.". 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. who would defraud God of that which He delights in the blessedness of bringing in deliverance by that One man, of whom Adam was the image? If it was the Lord's will that I should die in the street at this moment, I would cheerfully go." Yet Israel ignored this word also, making them more accountable. 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.". Now, what Paul declared of the Jew then is still true today. I have lost a friend tender and true to me, and my heart is too full for utterance. But what it does it say -- --continuing the quotation from Deuteronomy 30:14. The expression means that righteousness which God can afford to display because of Christ's atonement. He shall come to Zion, says the other. In Romans 10:1-21 Paul made this same point. There may be desires in the heart, and yet no prayer, unless those desires be presented to God. And so you will see them at the wailing wall, you will see them as they tie to them a little box, the phylacteries as they bind them to their foreheads and as they put on their prayer shawl and they go up to the wall and they begin to bob up and down and they go through their prayers and all, a zeal for God but not according to knowledge. (that is, to bring, Christ down from above:) or, Who shall descend into the deep? Nothing shows better the Jewish attitude than the three classes into which they divided mankind. Observe. b. Hence, what he is here discussing is not remission of sins, but deliverance from sin. 2018 David Guzik No distribution beyond personal use without permission. So there must be confession with the mouth. Ed. The law has not come to an end in the sense of no longer reflecting Gods standard or no longer showing us our need for a Savior. Truly they had a zeal for the law. You that hope to be saved by your works are indulging a forlorn hope; what never you may do or be in the future, the past has already ruined you. Israel is indeed the only people of whom there is always a portion that believe. Verse 19. The feet speak of activity, motion, and progress, and those who are active and moving in the work of preaching the gospel have beautiful feet. 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. "By whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith." It is not yet executed. a. Isaiah is very bold: Isaiahs bold prophecy was a warning that Israel ignored, making them more accountable. But what saith it? II. The apostle allows this privilege to be great, specially in having the Scriptures, but turns the argument against the boasters. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever would believe in Him would not perish but can know the eternal life of God and the glory of God's eternal kingdom and can share as children of God, heirs of God, joint-heirs with Jesus Christ, kings and priests in that glorious age that is coming. But this one is a special little angel. "The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart," 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 "the power of God unto salvation." Were it merely Romans 3:1-31 there could not be full peace with God as there is. "For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. He does not, however, exclude other parts of the word, no, not even the precepts of the law; but his design is, to show that remission of sins stands for righteousness, even apart from that strict obedience which the law demands. This is all perfectly true true of a Jew as of a pagan true of any unrenewed man that never heard of a Saviour. Knowing God we come to believe and trust in God. The Text It became simply a question whether, in fact, God did call Gentiles, or whether He had revealed such intentions. If I had a sense of sin as deep as that of lost souls in hell, I could hope that I should be saved." You need not go to the universities and earn a degree of D.D. It is the going forth of His richest blessing. Jesus has already come to the earth and brought us the information we need to serve God and find heaven. 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. God is proved thus divinely consistent with Himself in Christ Jesus, whom He has set forth a mercy-seat through faith in His blood. At least they have a, Seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God, i. We provide you with a list of stored cookies on your computer in our domain so you can check what we stored. 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. He refused. Then, in Romans 9:1-33; Romans 10:1-21; Romans 11:1-36, the apostle handles a difficulty serious to any mind, especially to the Jew, who might readily feel that all this display of grace in Christ to the Gentile as much as to the Jew by the gospel seems to make very cheap the distinctive place of Israel as given of God. It is not doing, but believing; therefore it is what is proclaimed to them, and what they receive and believe. It could not therefore be the source or means of his righteousness. People cannot come to Jesus without the right information about the gospel, but information alone is not enough to save anyone. Here now we have the basis for missionary activity by the church. All rights reserved. a. 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. Zeal for God, but not according to knowledge: This is a perfect description of Paul himself before his conversion. Of course, it could hardly be the law: that was the boast of Israel. Well, then, suppose I say: "Did Israel not understand?" And there (for such was the point) it was the complete condemnation of this evil thing, the nature in its present state, so as, nevertheless, to set the believer as before God's judgment free from itself as well as its consequences. It may be helpful to read Deuteronomy 30:10. 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. Romans 1:16,17 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek Isaiah 57:19 Death, and nothing short of it, rightly dissolves the bond. 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. The way of salvation is now both plain and easy. This was true even before Moses time (see Romans 4:13 and the example of Abraham). He came down, indeed, when he was born; and, being down so low as that, he descended to the carpenter's shop, to the weariness of the well's brink, and to a thirst which made him say, "Give me to drink." God has given us His word. (324) For the purpose of removing the impediments of faith, he has hitherto spoken negatively: but now in order to show the way of obtaining righteousness, he adopts an affirmative mode of speaking. Their problem is not that they have not heard or understood it, but that they have refused to believe it (see v. 16). 3). Conceivably, God could have chosen any means for the message of salvation to come, such as angelic messengers or directly working without a human preacher. 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. a. Is It Ok for Christians to Follow Zodiac Signs? If you will go around and knock on a hundred doors a day and peddle the magazines and wake people up, continue this faithfully, and you will be saved. Has He mercy only for guilty Israel? But what is testified by Christian baptism is Christ's death. At the same time the apostle does allude to that mystery which was not yet divulged at least, in this epistle; but he points from the foundations of eternal truth to those heavenly heights that were reserved for other communications in due time. We cannot speak of the state of things before the flood as a dispensation. This occupies the central part of the chapter, which then closes with the unfailing and faithful power of God for us in all our experiences here below. If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved: We do not gain Gods righteousness by works. He must not only know about Christ: he must know him. It was already among them by the preaching of the apostles, and was a subject of conversation and of thought. But besides this he adds "to faith." There was no law there or then; for Abraham died long before God spoke from Sinai. Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. Now there is no way in which God could lay a basis for peace with Himself more blessed than as He has done it. One might know a most real clinging to Jesus; but this would not set the heart at ease with God. 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. Turn to Deuteronomy 30:11 . Keep to it. Concerning profession: It is with the mouth that confession is made--confession to God in prayer and praise (Romans 15:6; Romans 15:6), confession to men by owning the ways of God before others, especially when we are called to it in a day of persecution. To turn a blind eye may be in some few cases a virtue; in most cases it is folly. 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? 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. Yes, God has chosen and elected and predestined. He has set two things side by side; everything is of God, and everything is of human choice. Now God must have reality in the man himself. It must not be, assumed too readily. This is the key word of early Christianity. Be he Jew or be he Gentile, his only righteousness by law must come through the doing of the law. Saul of Tarsus was a notorious persecutor of Christians before Jesus confronted him on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:1-20). There is hardly any phraseology that tends to more injury of souls in these matters than a loose way of talking of salvation. There is entrance into favour, and nothing but favour. God has done all that is necessary, and we receive His gift of righteousness by faith" (Vol. Say not in thine heart that thou must be educated, trained, and made into a scholar. The whole history of Israel, past, present, and future falls in with, although quite distinct from, that which he had been expounding. Not in our descending, but in Christ's descending our hope is to be found. And their words to the ends of the world.. There is nothing now to be done, but a work in us; this must be our care, to look to our heart and mouth. Not all will accept the message, but Christians must proclaim it nevertheless. But what does it say? 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. In thy mouth - This is taken from the Septuagint. "For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. Notice, first, what Moses said. Such men have never been wanting since the truth has shone on this world; still less are they now. He did not say, "Do and thou shalt live, and yet there is another way." 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. 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. 1. 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." Paul had no difficulty in granting that, but the zeal was misdirected and misapplied. There is no inconsistency in Ananias's word to the apostle Paul "wash away thy sins, calling upon the name of the Lord." Clarke's Commentary Verse Romans 10:8. Click to enable/disable _gat_* - Google Analytics Cookie. i. Pauls hearts desire also translated into concrete action: prayer to God for Israel. Thither He shall come, and thence, go forth. That is the first necessity for the sinner with God. Let me call your attention again to its force. 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. Paul's answer is: "Israel's disbelief was only to be expected, for, long ago, Isaiah was moved to say in despair: 'Lord, who has believed what we have heard?'" 2. 3). First, We need not go to heaven, to search the records there, or to enquire into the secrets of the divine counsel. We fully respect if you want to refuse cookies but to avoid asking you again and again kindly allow us to store a cookie for that. Glad tidings of good things, but not all who hear obey. One does not have to climb to heavenas though one couldto bring it down. Verse 18. I now plunge into my text. This is a clear statement. Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Granted that it is so, at once and fully. (2.) I do not come to-day with a gospel veiled in mystery and shrouded in doubt; I do not bring a message which you cannot understand or receive; neither do I come with "ifs" and "buts" and "peradventures," but with this, "Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." If God has made you feel yourself a sinner, then Christ is such a Savior as you need and you may have him at once: the only difficulty lies in the way being so easy that you can hardly think it can be so. 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. It is not said to be revealed in the gospel. Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the Word of God. The judgments of God will fall on man as man, but the heaviest blows are reserved for Christendom. "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. (1-3) Israel's refusal to submit to the righteousness of God. There would be found a stumblingstone there. Do not suppose that you can be a believer and conceal your faith. Antiochus ordered him to eat pork. Throw thyself upon him now; even as a babe casts itself upon its mother's breast. This, accordingly, is the essential spring of worship. (iii) There is the ignorance which is in essence a lie. Finally he brings in Isaiah, showing that, far from retaining their blessing as an unbroken people, a remnant alone would be saved. When God gives you growth in grace and fruitfulness in good works it will be your safety to be as little as ever you were, and to trust in nothing but the work of the Lord. For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, The man who does those things shall live by them. But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way, Do not say in your heart, Who will ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above) or, Who will descend into the abyss? (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). But still, all day long His hand stretched out to the Jew who refused to come God's way through Jesus Christ. I mean to let it stand out simply before you, that the incarnation, the life, the death, and the resurrection of Christ are the one foundation upon which we must depend for eternal salvation, and upon that alone; and if we do so depend we shall most assuredly be saved. And thus, I have great difficulty with their present and current status before God. 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. Your father is not offering sacrifices. 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. Plainly put, by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified (Romans 3:20). It is through the Word of God that we come to know God. They give us the basis of the first Christian creed. No man that rested in Christ, and Christ alone, ever was ashamed of his hope; and none ever shall be. - That is, what is the language of the doctrine of justification by faith? Thus corruption not only overspread morals, but became an integral part of the religion of men, and had thus a quasi-divine sanction. 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. How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? Just before Israel crossed into the Promised Land, Moses spoke of righteousness by faith.. His life and death pointed in one direction. This, he says, was his heart's desire and prayer, which intimates, (1.) He selects this language because it expresses his meaning in familiar terminology that is at once suitable and proverbial. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refusing them will have impact how our site functions. and how can they hear without a preacher? To a disobedient and contrary people.. It is in our mouth--we are reading it daily; it is in our heart--we are, or should be, thinking of it daily. No; under the law it was nothing but "Do and live; leave undone and die." 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 ). Obedience was possible and the consequences of obedience (Gods blessings) were sure. Now Paul here very adroitly takes these words out of the mouth of Moses, alters them somewhat, and as good as says, "It was the boast of the law that it was clear, known, and accessible to the people; but much more is this the glory of the gospel." This plainly shows that Christ's descent into the deep, or into hades, was no more than his going into the state of the dead, in allusion to Jonah. (that is, to bring Christ down:) 7 or, Who shall descend into the abyss? 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. To my mind this word of Moses is conclusive that none of us can possibly live by the works of the law. All are condemned to death (5). But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? Of whom does it declare all this? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) . Then Isaiah says, greatly daring: "I was found by those who did not seek me. Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. (that is, to bring Christ down from above:) Or, Who shall descend into the deep? Righteousness can be gained by sinful men, but it can only be secured by faith and not by deeds. No, salvation is not put at so vast a distance from us. Confess with your mouth: Confession has the idea of agreeing with. Judge ye whether any one of us has fulfilled the whole law. When a man is at length awakened to a sense of sin he cries, "I long to be saved! There is no hope for man otherwise; for the gospel is not all that is now made known. And that word is the message of faith which we proclaim. ** 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. 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. What is to be done according to Gods word? Undoubtedly there are fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, and God values them I will not say from man, but from His saints; but here it is what, according to the apostle, God has for man. "The word is near you. The righteousness which is of faith, what does it say to us? While there were people who could read, the ordinary first-century citizen depended rather on being able to hear something. (Morris). And the cross offends people, because the cross tells you there is only one way to God. How are they to hear without someone to proclaim the good news to them? 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