17 So then [ therefore] The words "so then" indicate the consequence of those who believe the message. Even the word of faith; the gospel and the promise of it, called the word of faith because it is the object of faith about which it is conversant, the word which we believe;--because it is the precept of faith, commanding it, and making it the great condition of justification;--and because it is the ordinary means by which faith is wrought and conveyed. Paul is attempting neither to quote Moses nor to interpret Moses. For the Scripture says, Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame. For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. "He resisted," says the writer, "even to the agonies of death, for the law's sake.". We ought therefore to bear in mind, that if a soul be not brought into conscious deliverance as the fruit of divine teaching, and founded on the work of Christ, we are very far from presenting the gospel as the apostle Paul glories in it, and delights that it should go forth. What else does the Scripture say? God is revealing a righteousness of His own in the gospel. Choose a chapter and verse from 'Romans' to begin your 'Verse-by-Verse' study of God's Word using the more than 100 commentaries available on StudyLight.org. 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. Christ's fullness is meant for our emptiness; Christ's righteousness is meant for our sin, salvation is for the lost. A Monument for the Dead, and a Voice to the Living, --------------------------------------------------------------------------------, Delivered on Lord's-Day Morning, January 7th, 1883, by, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington. This is applied in the two chapters that follow. Hence it is, as he says, herein revealed "from faith," or by faith. Abraham believed God when, according to nature, it was impossible for him or for Sarah to have a child. 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. It was not an easy thing; it must often have been made extremely inconvenient; and it must often have made life very uncomfortable. Not all will accept the message, but Christians must proclaim it nevertheless. Perhaps I am doing the same this morning, but I do not mean to do it. I was found by those who did not seek Me; For whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved ( Romans 10:12-13 ). It is not a question of creature-standing. If a man kept the law perfectly, even Moses concluded that such a person would live (be saved). The gospel replies, if you did ascend to heaven what would you do there, without Christ, the anointed Savior? Romans 10:5-9 . To this day there are strict orthodox Jews in this country who will not poke or mend a fire on the Sabbath or switch on a light. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. Instead, we gain it by confessing and believing in the person and work of Jesus Christ. Although circumcision began with Abraham, manifestly it had nothing to do with his righteousness, and at best was but the seal of the righteousness of faith which he had in an uncircumcised state. ( Romans 10:14-15 ). Did the Jew fancy that the gospel makes very light of Abraham, and of the then dealings of God? If you crawl on your knees for five miles to kiss the statue you can be spared several days of purgatory. The remnant proves, then, that even under judgment the rejection of Israel is not complete, but rather a pledge of future favour. That is, the Jews did not need to wonder about or ask how God would treat those who obeyed and disobeyed. The whole work is done. And how shall they preach unless they are sent? 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. Go to Jesus for everything. b. Verse 21. 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. Thereby is identification with His death. There is the righteousness of justification and the righteousness of sanctification. "Sing" said he. or who hath first liven to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? 6 But the righteousness which is of faith saith thus, Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? And boy, she comes elbowing her way in and she is going to get right there next to Grandpa. While there were people who could read, the ordinary first-century citizen depended rather on being able to hear something. (Morris). (b.) He cared nothing for oratory, which I have heard him call "a flash in the pan"; he delighted in the plain, solid gospel of Jesus Christ. He was a man of rare common sense, straightforward and downright in his aims, and most pithy in his speech, with such a mixture of mother-wit that he might have been taken for John Ploughman's brother, as indeed he was. Let me hold you." Say not in thine heart that thou must be educated, trained, and made into a scholar. 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. THE DESTRUCTION OF EXCUSES ( Romans 10:14-21 ), 10:14-21 How are they to call on him on whom they have not believed? This accordingly leads the apostle into the earlier portion of his great argument, and first of all in a preparatory way. God is not far from each one of us (Acts 17:27) because His will is right at our fingertips. To prove this point Paul quotes two passages. Then Isaiah says, greatly daring: "I was found by those who did not seek me. "Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Now, what Paul declared of the Jew then is still true today. What about His word passed and sworn to the fathers? Moses' utterance was single and by itself. Instead of waiting for some new truth to fall from heaven, or float up from the abyss, they ought to recognize that truth has already been given. 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. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. But that wasnt their only problem. of it. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. But I am also at the top, and I cannot get higher than that, can I?" I do say this for them--that they do have a zeal for God, but it is not a zeal which is based on a real knowledge. The 14th verse in Deuteronomy 30:1-20 completes the thought by saying that the Jews could do what God wanted them to do - that thou mayest do it. It is part of the honour of Christ that every tongue shall confess, Philippians 2:11. There never was a sinner yet to whom God said, "You must not trust my Son": on the contrary, it is written, "Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." "Not so," replies the apostle. This was not suitable to the character of the epistle; but the glory of God he does. Up also his body rose on the light of the third day; and he sojourned for forty days among his disciples. "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. Jesus did not bleed and die to be a superfluity to us: he cattle to meet a grim necessity. He deals with the Jew from his own Scripture (verses 9-19). Was it not sure and evident that Israel could not take the promise on the ground of mere connection after the flesh? No, he directed the comfort to his dear wife, for she had greater need of it than he had his faith was firm. This brings in the contrast with the other Head, the Lord Jesus Christ, whom we have here not as One bearing our sins in His own body on the tree, but as the spring and chief of a new family. This is what that word of faith says, even the gospel which we preach. There is a preaching which blasts the sinner with tempestuously angry words; but always Paul speaks the truth in love. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our report? So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. He shall own that once glorious seat of royalty in Israel. 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." There is no language where their voice is not heard. They have plenty of zeal but little knowledge. That is not Christ's way. Going to where Jesus went (the abyss/Hades/the realm of the dead, verse 7) is also unnecessary. "His flesh was torn off by the whips, and he streamed down with blood, and his flanks were laid open by wounds." They could not with Paul disclaim a dependence upon this (Philippians 3:9), Not having my own righteousness. Directions for our behaviour, as members of civil society, Rom. Verse 18. Thus, their good works must outweigh their bad works. The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. (i) A man must say Jesus Christ is Lord. But this will always prompt you to accept/refuse cookies when revisiting our site. 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. There is water as well as blood, and to that, not to this, the washing here refers. I cannot get lower than that, can I? Dig not into the bowels of the earth to find the gold of salvation. Love is the great debt that we owe, which never can be paid, but which we should always be paying. . "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." We need 2 cookies to store this setting. Yet, how many times we take the promises of God and say, "Oh, God, just help me to believe. But now they were; and thus God vindicated Himself perfectly as to the past. Believing in the heart that God raised him from the dead. (1.) 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. (that is, to bring, Christ down from above:) or, Who shall descend into the deep? Ah, my Lord, what should I do then if I could not as "a poor sinner, and nothing at all" find Christ to be my "all in all." But such thoughts altogether vanish now, because, as the Gentile was unquestionably wicked and abominable, so from the law's express denunciation the Jew was universally guilty before God. (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) The same was true of the gospel. For they being ignorant of Gods righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. Saul of Tarsus was a notorious persecutor of Christians before Jesus confronted him on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:1-20). 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? But how, argues he, could this stand, seeing that Abraham had another son, just as much his child as Isaac? 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.". "At any rate he is a saved soul," we hear. For the scripture says, Whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed. What he meant was: "Christ is the end of legalism." The shedding of His blood was absolutely necessary: without that precious expiation all else had been vain and impossible. Herein he was merciful, as God is, who is not willing that any should perish (2 Peter 3:9), desires not the death of sinners. There we find Christian knowledge as to the matter introduced; but still it is the knowledge of one who is not in this state pronouncing on one who is. When the substance comes, the shadow is gone. Did not I show you just now that when Moses spoke he did not mystify the matter, but put it plainly, "The man that doeth those things shall live by them." For whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved.. 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. Not thus does God deal with souls. He can be yours through faith right where you are (6-8). To question the need for bringing someone from the deep was a denial of Jesus resurrection (CBL, Romans, p. 163). I have lost a friend tender and true to me, and my heart is too full for utterance. 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. Then, in Romans 10:8b-13, Paul reinforces faith by talking about its content and benefit. (ii) A man must believe that Jesus is risen from the dead. Jack answered, "I never get lower than I am, for I am down at the bottom. 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. It seems to us that what we have here is not so much a finished passage as summary notes. 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, they did hear. 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. Moses says nothing about wearing phylacteries, or washing hands, or offering incense, or performing ceremonies in order to righteousness. For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. There was no law there or then; for Abraham died long before God spoke from Sinai. They are merely persons who plume themselves on their orthodoxy, but in a wholly unrenewed condition. It is true, it is needful for man to learn; but in nowise is it good news. If ever we are to bring men to the Christian faith, our attitude must be the same. Oh, how nice you look today. From the Septuagint, Deuteronomy 30:14. Zion shall yet behold her mighty, divine, but once despised Deliverer; and when He thus comes, there will be a deliverance suited to His glory. Law works wrath because it provokes transgression; grace makes the promise sure to all the seed, not only because faith is open to the Gentile and Jew alike, but because God is looked to as a quickener of the dead. You must carefully guard against the notion of its being a question of Paul's own experience, because he says, "I had not known," "I was alive," etc. Time was when none of the English, nor French, nor of any other nation believed in the Saviour. He did not say, "Do and thou shalt live, and yet there is another way." But "justification of life" goes farther, though involved in the latter, than the end of Romans 4:1-25; for now we learn that in the gospel there is not only a dealing with the guilt of those that are addressed in it; there is also a mighty work of God in the presenting the man in a new place before God, and in fact, too, for his faith, clearing him from all the consequences in which he finds himself as a man in the flesh here below. His language conveys the main idea which Paul wished to do, that the doctrine was plain and intelligible. What did they say to Ishmaelites as joint-heirs? It is not believing (not to be reckoned so) if it be not with the heart. Romans 10:9-10 are of prime importance. It was already among them by the preaching of the apostles, and was a subject of conversation and of thought. 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. 8 But what saith it? (That is, to bring Christ up from the dead.) Then he quotes Deuteronomy 30:12-13. He speaks of the sovereignty of God having elected that it might stand by election. YOU see by this mourning that our church has been bereaved. If slurred over, as it too often is in souls, it invariably leaves practical obedience lame, and halt, and blind. For, essentially associated as He is with the glory of God the Father, the full deliverance of souls from the realm of death was His also. This blessed faith keeps men down when they are apt to go up, and up when otherwise they would be apt to go down. The meaning of verse 6 is a little more difficult. The extent is what God Himself, so to speak, possesses the universe of God, whatever will be under Christ: and what will not? There was somewhat as yet lacking to the saints there; but even this was ordered of God to call forth from the Holy Ghost an epistle which more than any other approaches a complete treatise on the fundamentals of Christian doctrine, and especially as to righteousness. But the righteousness which is of faith speaks like this, Don't say in your heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? We believe and receive. 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? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; that 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.". It is not as if we have to ascend into heaven or descend into the abyss to gain Jesus. First, he cites Isaiah 28:16: "Every one who believes in him will not be put to shame." If you get extreme on the Calvinistic side and into election and predestination and all, then you have lost the center of truth. Then there is another and crowning part of the blessing: "And not only so, but also boasting in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the reconciliation." As no keeper of the law would have been lost on any ground whatever, so no believer in Christ shall be lost on any ground whatever; as no breaker of the law could escape punishment, so no unbeliever in Christ can he saved. Gentiles, who have no law, are justified by faith, and Jews can be too, if they will believe instead of trying to win Gods favour through keeping the law. Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. It must not be, assumed too readily. Nevertheless the apostle does not expressly mention heaven here. Here was the very truth that every Jew, as such, denied. We have all that we need to find salvation and be blessed by God. It is not even enough to believe in him, as being the Son of God, and the anointed of the Lord; but we must believe on him The faith that saves is not believing certain truths, nor even believing that Jesus is a Savior; but it is resting on him, depending on him, lying with all your weight on Christ as the foundation of your hope. They have plenty of, Zeal for God, but not according to knowledge, iii. Romans 13:1-14; Romans 13:1-14 urges their duties towards what was outside them, more particularly to the powers that be, but also to men in general. Man despised at first the outward testimony of God, His eternal power and Godhead, in the creation above and around him (verses 19, 20). "I am dying by fiery torments for thy law's sake," he prayed to God. i. You cannot hear about him unless there is someone to proclaim the good news. And the ceremonies shadowed forth Christ as fulfilling the righteousness, and bearing the curse of the law. It is not our effort which wins us goodness. 22). 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. We provide you with a list of stored cookies on your computer in our domain so you can check what we stored. 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. It is not in any degree settled as to itself by His blood. Now God must have reality in the man himself. Once it was far otherwise. which we preach; being sent, commissioned, qualified, and assisted by Christ thereunto; which shows the agreement between Moses and the apostles of Christ; for the word which he spoke of, they preached, and indeed said no other things than what the prophets and Moses said should come, that Christ should suffer in the stead of his people, and rise again for their justification; the sum of which is delivered in Romans 10:9. Faith is easy compared to a lifetime of slavish obedience to the Law. All the world was guilty before God. "To all that be at Rome, beloved of God, called saints" (ver. a. We went astray from the womb, speaking lies; we were rebellious to our parents in our childhood, and wayward in our youth; in our early manhood we were carried about with this passion and with that, and since then all kinds of evils have led us astray. Ed. Wishing and woulding, if that be all, are not praying. Beneath it there runs the conviction that there are certain kinds of ignorance which are inexcusable. You already have it; all you have to do is obey it (Vol. Obedience to the gospel required under Gods system of grace ("the righteousness which is of faith") is the obedience that trusting faith always produces not the obedience of works of merit. Cold desires do but beg denials; we must even breathe out our souls in every prayer. 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. "For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. No, salvation is not put at so vast a distance from us. And this was powerfully corroborated by the testimony of another great name in Israel (David), in Psalms 32:1-11. They would have us proclaim salvation by the works of the law. Their zeal was not according to knowledge. And their words to the ends of the world.. (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead. It didnt surprise God or His prophets. Thus corruption not only overspread morals, but became an integral part of the religion of men, and had thus a quasi-divine sanction. It is the thing which troubles a renewed conscientious soul above all, because of his surprise at finding the deep evil of the flesh and its mind after having proved the great grace of God in the gift of Christ. Bible Book List. It is simple; indeed, so simple that people try to obscure it in order to understand it. [b.] John MacArthur New Testament Commentary, Book of Romans 2 Volume Set. No, my dear friend, do not say that even in your thought. 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. Verse 20. That act denoted not even the washing away of our sins by the blood of Jesus, which would not apply to the case, nor in any adequate way meet the question of nature. Jesus has already come to the earth and brought us the information we need to serve God and find heaven. i. The gospel goes forth universally. Go not to the loom to weave a righteousness. The consequences are thus pursued; first, the general place of the believer now, in all respects, in relation to the past, the present, and the future. Whatever Gods purposes may be, the Jews are still responsible for their own loss. (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) 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. To this he refers likewise, Galatians 3:12, The man that doeth them, shall live in them. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refusing them will have impact how our site functions. 7). His soul scarce descended among the shades before it quitted them for ever; that day he died he was in Paradise, and the thief was with him there as a trophy. It is not yet executed. The only way to keep right and humble is to be nothing, and let Jesus be all in all. 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. Their crowning glory was precisely what they would not hear of. "Righteousness" never means mercy, not even the "righteousness of God." Salvation isn't way off in heaven some place. He shows that, on the responsible ground of being His nation, they were wholly ruined. 10:5-8: For Moses writeth that the man that doeth the righteousness which is of the law shall live thereby. He is not coming according to the covenant that God established by Moses for sins to be forgiven. And night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into deep. 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