and in your heart -- --when you believe on Him. Amen, so let it be. The fruits of it are not expanded here; but, in point of fact, to joy in God is necessarily that which makes praise and adoration to be the simple and spontaneous exercise of the heart. In short, it is what the words say "the righteousness of God," and this "by faith of Jesus Christ.". I have tried my best; and so I close by bidding you hear WHAT EXPERIENCE SAITH. In thy mouth - This is taken from the Septuagint. That is, [a.] Zealous the Jews were and are. In this too we have the blessed connection of the Spirit (here peculiarly designated, for special reasons, "the Spirit of holiness"). We know not how low he went, but we are told that "he descended into the lower parts of the earth." This, they say, would at least make men moral and keep them sober: whereas even in this they err against the light; for it has been proved by history that such preaching makes men worse and worse. So when the other grandkids come over, I make a big to do over them, exaggerated. Clarke's Commentary Verse Romans 10:8. Jesus came into the world to save real sinners, not sham sinners; for he is a real, and not a pretended Savior. Did they venture to plead that it must be not only the same father, but the same mother? Accordingly we do not hear of salvation as such in Romans 3:1-31. All through this section Paul has been driving home the personal responsibility of the Jews. Instead, we gain it by confessing and believing in the person and work of Jesus Christ. 11, 12). It is part of the honour of Christ that every tongue shall confess, Philippians 2:11. It must possess this place because the gospel is Gods power to save us (1:16). 2. Commentary on Romans 8:10-17 (Read Romans 8:10-17) If the Spirit be in us, Christ is in us. () in Romans 10:8, as afterwards . 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. We all know where it is and must be for the Christian. 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. I can't accept it." There would be no remnant if justice took its course. "Whosoever." c. But the righteousness of faith: This is based on Jesus, and we dont have to work to get Jesus. It was a message that went out from God to sinners as such. (that is, to bring Christ again from among the dead)." "O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! i. It might be more or less any man's lot to learn. Justification is not from works of law. As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, 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.". Moses had so often inculcated it, that it was understood and talked about by the people, so that there was no need to search in distant climes to obtain it. 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. Because of Jesus Christ, man is no longer faced with the task of satisfying God's justice; he need only accept his love. 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? The apostle is therefore plainly in presence of the broadest possible grounds of comparison, though we shall find more too. Romans 10:8-17 8 But what does it say? It would not have been righteous in any sense to have remitted the sins, until they were actually borne by One who could and did suffer for them. But we have had it fully in Romans 3:1-31. Our Lord gives the law all it requires, not a part, for that would be an admission that it might justly have been content with less at first. (Spurgeon). Moses does not allow any person to dream that under the law he can be saved in any other way than by perfect obedience thereto. Paul allegorizes that passage. "But unto Israel he saith, All day long have I stretched out my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.". In his final sermon, Moses made some other points. 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. It is not the awakening of conscience, however real; neither is it the attraction of heart by the grace of Christ, however blessed this may be. This is what that word of faith says, even the gospel which we preach. Is It Ok for Christians to Follow Zodiac Signs? Paul's joy and boast were in the gospel of God. Moses saith, "I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people," etc. The earth, or, at least, the Jewish nation, had been familiar with such dealings of God in times past. The information in this verse is a rather loose quotation from Deuteronomy 30:12-14 (it would be best to read these verses). I. I invite your earnest attention to the first point WHAT MOSES SAITH: "Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them." 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. In such a condition what has been found in Jesus is too often misused to make a kind of difference, so to speak, between the Saviour on the one hand, and God on the other ruinous always to the enjoyment of the full blessing of the gospel. 17 So then [ therefore] The words "so then" indicate the consequence of those who believe the message. The word Kurios was and is the touchstone of faith.. 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. Man goes back to the righteousness of works. Let me refer in passing to a few points more in the introduction, in order to link them together with that which the Spirit was furnishing to the Roman saints, as well as to show the admirable perfectness of every word that inspiration has given us. He laughs at all our comeliness, he knows that it is a hollow cheat, a vile sham. 21). And how shall they hear without a preacher? . There would be found a stumblingstone there. There is a kind of telegraphic quality about the writing. 1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. It is even as close as your mouth. There is no need of dwelling now on "salvation" as employed in the Old Testament, and in some parts of the New, as the gospels and Revelation particularly, where it is used for deliverance in power or even providence and present things. This is the substance of the matter Christ saves, and we trust. What is that righteousness which is of faith, Romans 10:6; Romans 10:6, c. This he describes in the words of Moses, in Deuteronomy, in the second law (so Deuteronomy signifies), where there was a much clearer revelation of Christ and the gospel than there was in the first giving of the law: he quotes it from Deuteronomy 30:11-14, and shows. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. I am crazy about this little doll, but it is necessary for me to get her close to me to provoke her to jealousy.Now that is exactly what God is seeking to do to the Jews. First of all, the groundwork of it is laid in the first four verses, the last of them leading into every-day walk. There is no need to bring Christ down to find out what God wants. God's righteousness was now manifested as to the past sins He had not brought into judgment through His forbearance, and yet more conspicuously in the present time, when He displayed His justice in justifying the believer. II. The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9 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. I want to preach that same gospel this morning, in the hope that in after days this word may be scattered far and wide, and some Jack the Huckster, or some other like him, may find himself to be utterly empty and undone, and may then know that Christ is ordained to be his salvation. The problem is that none is able to keep the law perfectly. Conceivably, God could have chosen any means for the message of salvation to come, such as angelic messengers or directly working without a human preacher. What could be conceived closer or more even than this? 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. "Paul, a bondman of Jesus Christ" an apostle "called," not born, still less as educated or appointed of man, but an apostle "called," as he says "separated unto the gospel of God, which he had promised afore by his prophets." God is revealing a righteousness of His own in the gospel. Thou art my hiding-place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. The Word of God is essential for the development of faith within my heart. Thus the proof was complete. Brethren, my hearts desire and prayer to God for Israel, I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, i. A man cannot be blamed for not knowing what he never had a chance to know; but he can be blamed for neglecting to know that which was always open to him. They set up the golden calf, and thus cast off the true God, their God, even in the desert. Their problem is not that they have not heard or understood it, but that they have refused to believe it (see v. 16). We, O Antiochus," he said, "who live under a divine law, consider no compulsion to be so forcible as obedience to our law." Witness the common joy that grace gives an apostle with saints be had never seen, so that even he should be comforted as well as they by their mutual faith. These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. As your next door neighbor's house is not hard to get at, so neither is salvation by the gospel. Paul adapts Moses language to suit his own purpose, which is to describe "the righteousness which is of faith," not to show how it can be established from the Old Testament. Observe, the gospel is not simply remission of sins, nor is it only peace with God, but "the power of God unto salvation." Consequently the door is as open to the Gentile as to the Jew. Unlike verse 5, Paul does not say, "Moses says" or "Moses writes." Paul does not rejoice that they have stumbled at that stumbling stone (Romans 9:32). He must know not only Christ the martyr: he must know Christ the victor, too. I am afraid we say a great deal at times which rather lumbers and cumbers the gospel than makes it clear. Conscious deliverance, to be solid according to God, must be in the line of His truth. Then call upon the Lord, and you shall be saved. Christ is thus the end of the law for righteousness, that is, for justification; but it is only to every one that believeth. 2018 David Guzik No distribution beyond personal use without permission. It was for this then that Paul describes himself as apostle. They have plenty of zeal but little knowledge. 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