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Romans 10:17, NLT: So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ. Nor does this in the slightest degree weaken the principle of law. Also, Gods word works in the Christian (1 Thessalonians 2:13). 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. But Paul's answer is: "Israel may have failed to understand; but the Gentiles did not. What about His word passed and sworn to the fathers? a. (that is, to bring, Christ down from above:) or, Who shall descend into the deep? Now, if it was righteous in God (and who will gainsay it?) The resurrection was an essential of Christian belief. Copyright - Enduring Word       |      . Well, then, suppose I say: "Did Israel not understand?" i. Of the Jew by his own confession. By the preaching of the Gospel the doctrine of salvation is nigh thee, and the saving influence is at hand: it is in thy mouth, easy to be understood, easy to be professed: and in thy heart, if thou art upright before God, sincerely desiring to be saved on his own terms, not striving to establish thy own method of justification by the law, which must for ever be ineffectual, but submitting to the method of justification which God has devised. This is precisely what salvation does not mean; and I would strongly press it on all that hear me, more particularly on those that have to do with the work of the Lord, and of course ardently desire to labour intelligently; and this not alone for the conversion, but for the establishment and deliverance of souls. This last relation was the direct subject of the prophetic testimony, and Jesus had come accordingly. No, he directed the comfort to his dear wife, for she had greater need of it than he had his faith was firm. A person cannot believe unless they hear. All the world was guilty before God. Observe again, it is not victory here; for that would give place to human pride. I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. 4. It was not merely "to those at Rome," but "to you that be at Rome." 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. But by now the gospel had been carried to most parts of the Mediterranean area where Jews were to be found; and that is all the argument requires. (Bruce), b. It is true God gave them that law for which they were so zealous; but they might have known that, by the appearance of the promised Messiah, an end was put to it. Saying that something more than the Bible is needed affirms that we need to bring Christ down. But how, argues he, could this stand, seeing that Abraham had another son, just as much his child as Isaac? He know what he did know, and to that he held fast, Well, they must take him into the church; they could not well refuse a man with such a confession of faith; and when he was in the church, walking with the brethren, he was happier than the rest of them, at which they greatly marvelled, and one said to him, "Brother Jack, don't you sometimes feel doubts and fears? Why, next, it forbids the questions of despair. Please see our Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. (2.) The offering up of this desire to God. Experience says, and we are some of us here to say it, that it is the grandest way of living in the world. Now, when you call upon the name of the Lord, God doesn't go down the list and say, "Let's see. As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, What about the doctrine of election? Would that the Lord would give us hearts to remember, as well as eyes to see, according to His own grace! I hear him say so at this moment; and I answer him, "Dear brother, we will be with you speedily.". Otherwise you will be prompted again when opening a new browser window or new a tab. All that which is done for us is already done to our hands. 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. It was laid down exactly how far a man could walk on the Sabbath. Having shown first, then, the sources and the character of the blessing in general as far as regards deliverance, the apostle sums up the result in the end of the chapter: "That as sin hath reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life," the point being justification of life now through Jesus Christ our Lord. The truth is, those are altogether mistaken who call it so. It is not, as in Ephesians 2:1-22, dead in sins, which would be nothing to the purpose. Hereupon he enters upon the direct proofs, and first cites Hosea as a witness. I assure you that I daily find the value of living by faith. Further, he would have real difficulty in believing that the way to God was open to everybody. 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. Here is an instance of what is so reprehensible. Did they deny that they were a foolish nation? Now the one who plants and the one who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. Christ indeed did both; and so the word was nigh them, in their mouth and in their heart. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets" (verses 20, 21). 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." 17.) Up also his body rose on the light of the third day; and he sojourned for forty days among his disciples. Binding a person, a thing or a place with a spell. Click to enable/disable Google reCaptcha. d. Believe in your heart: Mere intellectual agreement with the facts of the cross and the resurrection is not enough. Compare verse 6 (where the margin, not the text, is substantially correct) with verse 4. For information about the word heart (kardia), see the commentary on verse 1. The stumbling-stone was their despised and rejected Messiah. But now to faith all this is gone not lightly, but truly in the sight of God; so that he may live on a Saviour that is risen from the dead as his new life. He said he had no experience but this, The good elders very properly asked, "Are you converted? Accordingly the apostle says that boast and works are completely set aside by this principle which affirms faith, apart from deeds of law, to be the means of relationship with God (verses 27, 28). One reported to me the other day a word which cheered me much. No apostle had ever yet visited Rome. Now he began the argument by saying that everything was of God and that men had no more to do with it than the clay had to do with the work of the potter. He loved even here at the threshold to show the breadth of God's grace. In Romans 10:1-21 Paul made this same point. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. He was "declared," says the apostle, "to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead" ( , ver. The ground taken by a Jew for supposing God exclusively for Israel was, that they had the law, which was the measure of what God claimed from man; and this the Gentile had not. This might seem an exaggeration: the gospel had not been carried throughout all the earth, not even to all the lands that were known to the inhabitants of the Graeco-Roman world. Here I shall be very brief. 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: . He says, "I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou may be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed." Even the saints there would have been all the better for the gospel. Therefore I cast about me, and I considered what subject he would wish me to preach from if he were sitting behind me this morning as he was last Lord's-day. Faith in God means believing in and trusting in the greatest hopethat God became man, lived a perfect life, died a sacrificial death for your sins, and rose again to glory so that you could have. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. They have plenty of zeal but little knowledge. Inductive Bible study on Romans chapter 10. The law which was given upon Mount Sinai, though it was not a pure covenant of works (for who then could be saved under that dispensation?) Then call upon the Lord, and you shall be saved. Eleazar the priest was brought before Antiochus Epiphanes whose aim was to stamp out Jewish religion. But that wasnt their only problem. Does that mean then that God is through with the Jew forever? There are in reality very few times when we can honestly say: "I never knew that things would turn out like this." Just as the sun in the heavens is not for one people or land alone, no more is the gospel. God send us more like him men to whom religion is for home consumption. They have a zeal of God. To say You can be right before God if you work hard enough is not a gospel of peace, and that message does not bring glad tidings of good things. Compare Peter's use in1 Peter 2:10; 1 Peter 2:10. No one would undertake it at all unless he was supremely in earnest. Two things are required as conditions of salvation:-- (a.) 3. 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. (iv) The fourth objection is: "But what if Israel did not understand?" 5 Things You Should Know about the ESV Bible Translation. 6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? If His grace attract, His truth humbles, and leaves no room for vain boasting and self-confidence. To hold the truth in unrighteousness would be no security. If you get extreme on the Calvinistic side and into election and predestination and all, then you have lost the center of truth. 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