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No, if the law is once broken it is all over with you as to salvation thereby: one single fault takes away the possibility of your ever being justified by the law. Your father is not offering sacrifices. 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. The design of the law was to lead people to Christ. Yet note, that Paul opens this up into two things. Not, of course, that the Roman saints were in this condition; but that God, writing by the apostle to them, seizes the opportunity to lay bare man's state as well as His own grace. Romans 10:5-9 . Christ has already done that and has returned gloriously by His resurrection from the dead. 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. But this does not content the apostle, or rather the Spirit of God; for he goes on to point out that Isaiah "is very bold" in a similar way; that is, there is no concealing the truth of the matter. (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) He loved even here at the threshold to show the breadth of God's grace. The Rock of Ages never fails. Here is your answer. Hence therefore, the apostle, with divine wisdom, opens this to us before the blessed relief and deliverance which the gospel reveals to us. This last relation was the direct subject of the prophetic testimony, and Jesus had come accordingly. This clearly takes in man, it will be observed; and this is his grand point now. Did they venture to plead that it must be not only the same father, but the same mother? 2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. Christ's fullness is meant for our emptiness; Christ's righteousness is meant for our sin, salvation is for the lost. 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. No one is lost until he sins and sin becomes full grown (James 1:15). The gospel means His glad tidings for man. It is not merely a call then; but as we have by our Lord Jesus Christ our access into the favour wherein we stand, so there is positive boasting in the hope of the glory of God. It is in our mouth--we are reading it daily; it is in our heart--we are, or should be, thinking of it daily. The word Kurios was and is the touchstone of faith.. He was ordered to be beaten. Because of Jesus Christ, man is no longer faced with the task of satisfying God's justice; he need only accept his love. In this too we have the blessed connection of the Spirit (here peculiarly designated, for special reasons, "the Spirit of holiness"). Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. It might be more or less any man's lot to learn. Abraham believed God when, according to nature, it was impossible for him or for Sarah to have a child. You say, "Chuck, that is too narrow. From the very first we have these characteristics of the epistle disclosing themselves. It is His righteousness, or, in other words, His perfect consistency with Himself, which is always involved in the notion of righteousness. Then follows a warning against those who bring in stumbling-blocks and offences. Listen to it, lost ones; you need not climb to heaven: Christ has come down from heaven to you; and if you lie among the spiritually dead to-day, or think you do, he has come down to you, and you need not enquire bow you can go up to him. 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. It was not an easy thing; it must often have been made extremely inconvenient; and it must often have made life very uncomfortable. Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. Seventh day adventist Bible Commentary reference series volumes 1-10. For Isaiah said, Lord, who has believed our report? (2.) Suppose you cannot walk on the sea, like Peter: never mind; you are not called to do it. He was debtor both to the Greeks and the barbarians, both to the wise and to the unwise; he was ready, as far as he was concerned, to preach the gospel to those that were at Rome also (ver. It is our duty truly and earnestly to desire the salvation of our own. To this he refers likewise, Galatians 3:12, The man that doeth them, shall live in them. You need not go to the universities and earn a degree of D.D. The subserviency of the law to the gospel (Romans 10:4; Romans 10:4): Christ is the end of the law for righteousness. b. They have rejected God. Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? 3). Jesus has already come to the earth and brought us the information we need to serve God and find heaven. The gospel states its message as clearly as the law. They are both true, so you can't reconcile. Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart "that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. When you and I are no longer sinners, Christ is no longer our Savior; when you and I no more need him, then we shall not have him. Well, I can't either, but God didn't call me to reconcile it, He just called me to believe it.I tried to reconcile it for years until I was in such mental gymnastics I was worn out. There they were recorded, and Jack was a new man and a saved man. It is an appeal to listen to the prophets who long ago declared that faith is the only way to God, and that that way is open to every man. 8-10. The word is nigh thee There is no occasion to seek high or low for the saving power; the word of reconciliation is nigh. God, therefore, had not cast off His people, but was employing the interval of their slip from their place, in consequence of their rejection of Christ, to call the Gentiles in sovereign mercy, after which Israel as a whole should be saved. 12:1-21. You see how simple God has made it? Can it cry? There never was an hour since Israel's existence as a nation that God has not had His remnant of them. (ver. I was found by those who did not seek Me; Further, he would have real difficulty in believing that the way to God was open to everybody. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets" (verses 20, 21). We are as full of evil as an egg is full of meat, and our heart is like a cage of unclean birds. Unbelief is a non-submission to the righteousness of God, standing it out against the gospel proclamation of indemnity. "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness" (ver. Accordingly we do not hear of salvation as such in Romans 3:1-31. (2.) Wonderful to think the Spirit of God associates Himself with us in it all, deigning to give us divine feelings even in our poor and narrow hearts. Here we pass out of the introduction of the epistle. The figure of the relationship of husband and wife is introduced in order to make the matter plain. 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. ( Isaiah 53:1.) Time was when none of the English, nor French, nor of any other nation believed in the Saviour. "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved." Glad tidings of good things, but not all who hear obey. Even those that seek a place of separation to the Lord outside that which is now hurrying on souls to destruction are, nevertheless, deeply affected by the condition of that Christendom in which we find ourselves. 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. Ignorance of God's righteousness. 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. He spent the whole night in trying to cheer and comfort others: he had no trembling thought about himself. Be it so then; it was a foolish nation by which Moses declared they should be angered. It is fit that God should be honoured with the mouth, for he made man's mouth (Exodus 4:11), and at such a time has promised to give his faithful people a mouth and wisdom,Luke 21:15. Their opposition to the gospel is from a principle of respect to the law, which they know to have come from God. What did they say to Ishmaelites as joint-heirs? Judge ye whether any one of us has fulfilled the whole law. Thus, how can your father have the forgiveness of sins which is essential for fellowship with God?" Please see our Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. Jesus came into the world to save real sinners, not sham sinners; for he is a real, and not a pretended Savior. If you will just confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is the Lord. 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. Thus, they are seeking for a righteousness from works, their good works, and they have rejected that righteousness that God has established for them. What he meant was: "Christ is the end of legalism." 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 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 God's righteousness by works. g. All who call upon Him: Again, note the emphasis on human responsibility. 2 Corinthians 2:14-16, 3:4-5, 5:18-21, Exodus 19:6 Hebrews 4:14-16, Psalm 32:8 Romans 5:10-11, James 2:14-17 Proverbs 4:1-9, John 14:26 Romans 10: . Granted that it is so, at once and fully. Now I ask you to listen to WHAT THE GOSPEL SAITH. "No, I am not." Romans 4:1-8,13-17. 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. It is nigh you; it is nigh you now: it will never be nigher than it is at this moment. First of all the apostle points out that death has come in, and that this was no consequence of law, but before it. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our report? So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Now I take this opportunity of pressing on all that are here to beware of contracted views of "salvation." We have Paul informing us that he transfers sometimes in a figure to himself that which was in no wise necessarily his own experience, and perhaps had not been so at any time. And he says to Israel: "All the day I have stretched out my hands to a people who are disobedient and contrary.". 1. That is true--but no one ever has. Zeal for God, but not according to knowledge: This is a perfect description of Paul himself before his conversion. But what it does it say -- --continuing the quotation from Deuteronomy 30:14. We are heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ. The word of Christ is what brought us out of the world and that to which we were converted. We know that God is behind everything; and yet, at the same time, we know that we have free will and can accept or reject God's offer. He shall never have cause to repent his confidence in reposing such a trust in the Lord Jesus. It must also be noticed, that the word, by which we have a firm and calm trust as to our salvation, had been set forth even by Moses: This is the word of faith. Romans 16:1-27; Romans 16:1-27 brings before us in the most. Depend upon him without fear as to your present and eternal salvation. This is where so many religious people even sincere Christians go astray. 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. Difficulty there is none: only believe and thou art saved. I. Be he Jew or be he Gentile, his only righteousness by law must come through the doing of the law. I can say no less. Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the Word of God. the Jew was none the better for this, unless there were the submission of his conscience to God. No, my dear friend, do not say that even in your thought. Yet from beginning to end there is no anger in it; there is nothing but wistful longing and heartfelt yearning. Click on the different category headings to find out more. "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. Believe that he can save you; believe that he will save you; at any rate leave the whole matter of your salvation with him in unquestioning confidence. Yes indeed: Their sound has gone out to all the earth, Say not even in thy heart that by these doings or feelings thou canst be saved. () in Romans 10:8, as afterwards . The law is not compelled to lower its terms, as though it had originally asked too much; it is holy and just and good, and ought not to be altered in one jot or tittle, nor can it be. He has put the two things together, "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved." And I love it. 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. The earth, or, at least, the Jewish nation, had been familiar with such dealings of God in times past. 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, Believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation, calls upon the name of the LORD shall be saved. I need not speak about it this morning: I believe it, and rejoice in it: but it is not at all contrary to this precious truth. 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." The legal institutions were associated with temporal judgment. (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? a. Nothing of this is intended in the class that is here brought before us. We have the tenour of it, Romans 10:9; Romans 10:10, the sum of the gospel, which is plain and easy enough. It is not a soul's overcoming its difficulties, but a sinner's submission to the righteousness of God. Not only was Abraham justified without law, but apart from that great sign of mortification of the flesh. Or what is to be done according to that doctrine? Now that God has revealed Himself in the gospel, it is not what will suit man on earth, but what is worthy of the presence of the glory of God. "This wail of despair takes many forms: one man puts it thus: "What doings can I perform by which I can be saved? Salvation isn't way off in heaven some place. And the cross offends people, because the cross tells you there is only one way to God. I will move you to anger by a foolish nation.. Thus the introduction opened with Christ's person, and closes with God's righteousness. If what Christ has done will not save a sinner I am damned; for I have nothing else to depend upon; but if it will save, and sure I am that it will, I am saved as surely as Christ has risen from the dead. It must not be, assumed too readily. 4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. One reported to me the other day a word which cheered me much. 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