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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 was undeniable that the Gentiles did not seek the Lord, nor ask after Him; and the prophet says that Jehovah was found of them that sought Him not, and was made manifest to them that asked not after Him. The direction is "unto all;" the application is, of course, only to "them that believe;" but it is to all them that believe. Help me to believe, Lord." No, my dear friend, do not say that even in your thought. Romans 10:9-10 are of prime importance. The righteousness of faith lies not in dreams and visions, delusions or depressions: it lies only in reliance upon the work of Jesus finished for you. Paul rightly observes that it all goes back to the preaching of the gospel, and preachers must be sent both by God and the Christian community at large. Our website uses cookies to store user preferences. 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. (b.) Romans 10:17, KJV: So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. And what led to the call of Abraham, of whom we hear much in the epistle to the Romans as elsewhere, was the departure of man into idolatry. (that is, to bring Christ down from above:) 7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? The way to heaven up the steep sides of Sinai is inaccessible to trembling feet like ours. An evil pronouncement .read more. But what saith it? "I am dying by fiery torments for thy law's sake," he prayed to God. Amen, so let it be. The apostle applies this according to divine wisdom. If you get extreme on the Calvinistic side and into election and predestination and all, then you have lost the center of truth. It is not yet executed. For all this, as he presses further, there was the weightiest reason possible. (325) The contrast, by which the difference between the law and the gospel appears, is indeed to be understood: and from this distinction we learn, that as the law demands works, so the gospel requires nothing else, but that men bring faith to receive the grace of God. Their zeal was not according to knowledge. They are zealous for God, yes. * William Higgs, Esq., for many years a beloved deacon of the church in the Metropolitan Tabernacle, fell on asleep January 3rd, 1883, in his fifty-ninth year. Paul was entirely ready to admit that the Jews were zealous for God; but he also saw that their zeal was a misdirected thing. But oh, thank God we have a message to tell to the nations. YOU see by this mourning that our church has been bereaved. He shows that, on the responsible ground of being His nation, they were wholly ruined. We all know where it is and must be for the Christian. 2018 David Guzik No distribution beyond personal use without permission. In stormy weather our beauty and glory soon turn pale; when the devil meets us face to face, he cracks up our tinsel perfection with a blow. How could the Jews say that this meant themselves? We have the tenour of it, Romans 10:9; Romans 10:10, the sum of the gospel, which is plain and easy enough. He is consistent with Himself when He is justifying sinners, or, more strictly, all those who believe in Jesus. 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. Charity teaches us to have the best opinion of persons, and to put the best construction upon words and actions, that they will bear. Such moral judgments will, no doubt, be used to leave man without excuse; they can never suit or satisfy God. He still loves the Jews, independent as far as God's way of righteousness and all, but God still loves them, and thus, He blesses you, and says, "Oh, come and receive the kingdom and into the joys and the blessings and all." (that is, to bring Christ down), or, 'Who shall go down into the deep abyss?' There the truth is held, and apparently with firmness too. It is "revealed," and this too "from heaven." But how, argues he, could this stand, seeing that Abraham had another son, just as much his child as Isaac? 2 173). No, you must not: the gospel is simple; salvation is as plain as a pikestaff; familiar an homespun; easy as the A B C of your childhood. But unto Israel he said, All day long I have stretched forth my hand unto a disobedient and gainsaying people ( Romans 10:20-21 ). He was God over all blessed for ever, as well as their Messiah. And, of course, the way we build up ourselves in the most holy faith is through the Word. This is what that word of faith says, even the gospel which we preach. It was not merely "to those at Rome," but "to you that be at Rome." But what saith it? A Jew would find it hard to believe that the way to God was not through the law; this way of trust and of acceptance was shatteringly and incredibly new to him. i. The word of Christ is what brought us out of the world and that to which we were converted. 1. The answer is found in this portion of our epistle (that is, from the middle of chapter 5). That is the first necessity for the sinner with God. 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. So when the other grandkids come over, I make a big to do over them, exaggerated. He was the promised Messiah, born King of the Jews. 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. ( Romans 10:15 ). They cannot say God has rejected them. So therefore it addressed itself to the obedience of faith; not by this meaning practice, still less according to the measure of a man's duty, but that which is at the root of all practice faith-obedience obedience of heart and will, renewed by divine grace, which accepts the truth of God. 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. Two things are required as conditions of salvation:-- (a.) In the most solemn way he appeals to man with the demand, whether he thinks that God will look complacently on that which barely judges another, but which allows the practice of evil in the man himself (Romans 2:1-3). But then again he intimates that the nature of the gospel is involved in the publishing of the glad tidings. "For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. It is the product of many graces, evinces a great deal of self-denial, love to Christ, contempt of the world, a mighty courage and resolution. I have had Bible studies in their home in Santa Monica, and Keith was by here the other day. The subserviency of the law to the gospel (Romans 10:4; Romans 10:4): Christ is the end of the law for righteousness. He says his prayers every day. b. The gospel is called the Word of faith, the Word of God, as being what was spoken, or communicated by God to man. 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. They will not accept that the way of salvation for them is the same as for the Gentiles - through faith in Christ (30-33). Paul didnt just care, he prayed. His life and death pointed in one direction. Thus, how can your father have the forgiveness of sins which is essential for fellowship with God?" 4. This clearly takes in man, it will be observed; and this is his grand point now. Now the one who plants and the one who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. Knowing God we come to believe and trust in God. Ed. Then follows a warning against those who bring in stumbling-blocks and offences. But this is not all; and the objection of the Jew gives occasion for the apostle to bring out a fuller display of what God is. Finally he comes to two other witnesses; as from the Psalms, so now from the law and the prophets. "Are you a Protestant?" We believe and receive. Deuteronomy 30:14. God is gracious, but holy; He is faithful, but righteous. Men have an infinite and fatal capacity for shutting their minds to what they do not wish to see, and stopping their ears to what they do not wish to hear. b. There is really no other hope, for if you get a little bit of your own works put into the building, of your hope, you have just so much rotten timber in the fabric, and that rot will plague the whole house, and turn it into dust at the last. But when Paul emphasizes the need to believe that God has raised him from the dead, it is not that we believe the resurrection as opposed to the cross, but encompassing the work of Jesus on the cross. 3. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 10:12-17 There is not one God to the Jews, more kind, and another to the Gentiles, who is less kind; the Lord is a Father to all men. I can say no less. 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. So Paul concludes his argument by citing two Old Testament texts to prove his case. I was found by those who did not seek Me; Clear, then, as possible it must be to every man among us who will think, that if the only way of salvation by the works of the law is by the keeping of the law in its entirety, then that road is closed against us, and the sooner we have done with it the better; for then we shall turn our thoughts in the right direction, and travel on the way which the Lord in great mercy has prepared for us. He can meet the sinner, but He justifies the believer; and in this, instead of trenching on His glory, there is a deeper revelation and maintenance of it than if there never had been sin or a sinner. , , The word, that is, the word of faith is nigh thee. In verse 11 of that chapter, Moses tells Israel that Gods commands are not beyond their grasp as if they could find them only by ascending to heaven or crossing the sea. 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. That is, it is not merely pardon of past sins, but deliverance from sin, and in due time from all its consequences. The information in verse 6 may be contrasted with many modern religious claims. Man complicates the issues. a. Hearing is a reflection of first-century life. Inductive Bible study on Romans chapter 10. So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God, Their sound has gone out to all the earth, i. The bearing of this on the contents and main doctrine of the epistle will appear abundantly by-and-by. Second, he cites Joel 2:32: "All who call upon the name of the Lord shall be delivered." But now, to meet the question that was raised, they pleaded the distinguishing promises to Israel. It is no longer a question of man's guilt, but of his nature. 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