The soul therefore now is represented for the first time as already justified and in possession of peace with God. Thus, they are seeking for a righteousness from works, their good works, and they have rejected that righteousness that God has established for them. Why would they not allow such a pretension? For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our report? So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. The soul of prayer is the heart's desire. 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? No, salvation is not put at so vast a distance from us. 3). No trembling sinner doubts but that by the breaking of the law we are condemned: be you equally sure of it, that by not believing you are condemned. Romans 10:17, KJV: So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. We all know where it is and must be for the Christian. This is to fall back on a principle he had already used. And I love it. $9.99 + $8.50 shipping. There would not be a moment of your life in which you could be at peace, for there would always be the fear that in some unguarded instant you would transgress, and lose all. Such has been their singular fruit of promise; such even in the midst of all their misery it is at present. They tried him with their various attainments, depressions, anxieties, quibbles, and questions; but still the huckster would not budge. He saves those who are always confessors of sin, always needy in themselves, and therefore always glad of him. The meaning is, the doctrine is not difficult to be understood and embraced. Not that any part of the truth has escaped: it is the fatal brand of that "great house" that even the most elementary truth suffers the deepest injury; but as to this truth, it seems unknown altogether. As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, "But unto Israel he saith, All day long have I stretched out my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.". (a) It is the normal title of respect like the English sir, the French monsieur, the German herr. And this was powerfully corroborated by the testimony of another great name in Israel (David), in Psalms 32:1-11. If you trust in him with your heart, trust him openly, and confess him with your mouth, owning that he is your Lord, and your Savior. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may bear it, and do it? Abraham believed God when, according to nature, it was impossible for him or for Sarah to have a child. Him who came in humiliation, according to their prophets, they might despise; but it was vain to deny that the same prophets bore witness to His divine glory. First, as to practical holiness, it is not merely that Christ has died for my sins, but that even in the initiatory act of baptism the truth set forth there is that I am dead. Basically the scheme is this--in the previous passage Paul has been saying that the way to God is not that of works and of legalism, but of faith and trust. Whoever will in the whole world believe in Christ may do so; he is neither too old or too young, or too rich, or too poor, or too wicked, or too moral; if he will but trust Christ he shall be saved, and he is fully allowed and permitted, yea, commanded to believe and live. Was it possible to limit this to Israel? That is the first necessity for the sinner with God. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek ( Romans 10:11-12 ): Quite a statement for Paul a Hebrew of the Hebrews to make--no difference between the Jew and the Greek, that is, as far as salvation is concerned. Their sins had been passed by. Not so, says the apostle; it is because of the evil of the nature, not of the law. The figure of the relationship of husband and wife is introduced in order to make the matter plain. And their words to the ends of the world.. We cannot speak of the state of things before the flood as a dispensation. For "every one who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.". We should say the best we can even of our worst enemies; this is blessing those that curse us. That same energy of the Holy Ghost which had displayed itself in Jesus, when He walked in holiness here below, was demonstrated in resurrection; and not merely in His own rising from the dead, but in raising such at any time no doubt, though most signally and triumphantly displayed in His own resurrection. Beneath it there runs the conviction that there are certain kinds of ignorance which are inexcusable. Scripture: Romans 10:15. It is not as if we have to ascend into heaven or descend into the abyss to gain Jesus. Thirdly, let us consider, WHAT THE SCRIPTURE SAITH; "Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed." Confess with your mouth: Confession has the idea of agreeing with. But if it were so, He had not done with them. "Shall we sin," says he, proceeding yet farther (ver. See ye well to this. "The just shall live by faith" (not by law). Please see our Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. Click to enable/disable essential site cookies. The word is nigh thee There is no occasion to seek high or low for the saving power; the word of reconciliation is nigh. 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. They have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God, that is, they have not yielded to gospel-terms, nor accepted the tender of justification by faith in Christ, which is made in the gospel. The apostle refers to Isaiah to show that God would "lay in Zion a stumbling-stone." Strange as it was, this too was foretold. Thou art my hiding-place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Time was when none of the English, nor French, nor of any other nation believed in the Saviour. It is the same form of expression exactly as in the beginning of Romans 5:1-21 "being justified by faith" ( ). And how shall they preach unless they are sent? or, Who shall descend into the deep?" Truly they had a zeal for the law. then, go out to Gentiles? 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. Now it is interesting that this follows Paul's declaration about how God will have mercy upon whom He will have mercy and harden those whom He will harden. If you refuse cookies we will remove all set cookies in our domain. 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. (2.) These things are matters of conscience, and depend much for their solution on the degree to which souls have attained. Zealous the Jews were and are. There is sure ground here. It was not an easy thing; it must often have been made extremely inconvenient; and it must often have made life very uncomfortable. 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. Romans 10:17; Hebrews 6:5; Hebrews 11:3. Moses said, "That the man which doeth those things shall live by them." 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. Paul ably demonstrated in the first several chapters of Romans how futile this is. Now the one who plants and the one who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. "Not so," replies the apostle. Paul's Discourse of Righteousness; The Method of Salvation. I can say no less. It is not so alone; but in His death, unto which I am baptized, I am dead to sin. The man who does those things shall live by them: The Law of Moses makes the path to righteousness through the law plain. Of the Jew by his own confession. Truth lies in the center between extremes. Love is the great debt that we owe, which never can be paid, but which we should always be paying. The information in this verse is a rather loose quotation from Deuteronomy 30:12-14 (it would be best to read these verses). The Jews built on a false foundation, and refused to come to Christ for free salvation by faith, and numbers in every age do the same in various ways. There is nothing like the grace of God for producing the truest humility, the humility that not only descends to the lowest level of sinners to do them good, but which is itself the fruit of deliverance from that self-love which puffs itself or lowers others. "For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. He would not therefore have them ignorant how they had lain on his heart for a visit (ver. It could not therefore be the source or means of his righteousness. Paul was well aware of that; at this very time he was planning the evangelization of Spain, a province where the name of Christ was not yet known (c.f. There must be a radical, ii. Click to enable/disable _ga - Google Analytics Cookie. If it was the Lord's will that I should die in the street at this moment, I would cheerfully go." They get so extreme in the election predestination and all, they get so extreme that there are some churches that will not put a scripture on the board out in front, lest some sinner who has not been elected might walk by and believe in Jesus Christ and get saved when he wasn't predestined to do so.Don't get extreme. 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. Yes, God has chosen and elected and predestined. This is a state of mind, and not the necessary or immediate fruit of Romans 3:1-31, but is based on the truth of Romans 4:1-25 as well as 3. As Moses explains in v. 11, "What I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach." To this Paul answers: "Christ is the end of the law." e. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation: These two together (belief and confession) result in righteousness and salvation. Do not try to climb the heavens or search the depths, for Christ has already come down from heaven to earth, has been crucified, buried and raised from the dead. 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. Now listen. You, dear friend, down the aisle there, it you trust in Christ you shall never be ashamed of your hope. of it. . The Gentiles did not seem to him to be in the same position as the Jews at all. Accordingly, in chapter 2 the Holy Spirit shows us man satisfying himself with pronouncing on what is right and wrong moralizing for others, but nothing more. Moses saith, "I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people," etc. faith comes by hearing [ the thing heard], It was a message that went out from God to sinners as such. Everything Paul touches in this letter he relates to God. As to those who have been called home, how have they died? What could be conceived closer or more even than this? It might be more or less any man's lot to learn. By keeping the law? There is a legal maxim which says that genuine ignorance may be a defence, but neglect of knowledge never is. Nothing less, I am persuaded, than this full blessing is the line that God has given to those who have followed Christ without the camp, and who, having been set free from the contracted ways of men, desire to enter into the largeness and at the same time the profound wisdom of every word of God. I have had Bible studies in their home in Santa Monica, and Keith was by here the other day. This it was before it was his prayer. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refusing them will have impact how our site functions. First, he quotes Leviticus 18:5 where it says that, if a man meticulously obeys the commandments of the law, he will find life. The story of Jesus Christ passed through all of the Jewish communities around the world. He told me how that they now feel that their good works will make them acceptable to God. The doctrine of Moses and of the gospel was nigh; that is, it was easily obtained, embraced, and understood. This accordingly leads, as connected with the deliverance of the body, to the inheritance we are to possess. So when the other grandkids come over, I make a big to do over them, exaggerated. He quotes from Joel, that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. But they are not even doing the works that God requires in the offering of a sacrifice. There is no good reason for such an assumption, but much against it. The connection is fully owned with that which had been from God of old. Let us not stumble at the starting-point, but leave room for the due extent and depth of "salvation" in the gospel. But if children, we are His heirs. Christ is come down from heaven; we need not go to fetch him. Eleazar the priest was brought before Antiochus Epiphanes whose aim was to stamp out Jewish religion. Of course our new Perfection brethren, spick and span saints as they are, are not like Jack, they are not "poor sinners, and nothing at all," and I am afraid lest some of them should find out that Jesus Christ is not their all in all. It seems incredible that a man should die like that for a law like that. Where lies the value of belonging to the circumcised people of God? Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart.. Thus the deliverance is not merely for the joy of the soul, but also for strength in our walking after the Spirit, who has given and found a nature in which He delights, communicating withal His own delight in Christ, and making obedience to be the joyful service of the believer. The first of these phrases, "from faith," excludes the law; the second, "to faith," includes every one that has faith within the scope of God's righteousness. 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