romans 10:8 17 commentary

He was Emmanuel, yea, the Jehovah, God of Israel. 3. was true, accordingly, before the law, right through the law, and ever since the law. The story of Jesus Christ passed through all of the Jewish communities around the world. I cannot get lower than that, can I? The scope of the apostle in this part of the chapter is to show the vast difference between the righteousness of the law and the righteousness of faith, and the great pre-eminence of the righteousness of faith above that of the law; that he might induce and persuade the Jews to believe in Christ, aggravate the folly and sin of those that refused, and justify God in the rejection of such refusers. This passed away with man when he sinned. For it may have been noticed from chapter 3 to chapter 5, that nothing but fitness for the glory of God will do now. You will find that story in the first volume of my sermons. Chapter Summary Paul's heart is broken for his people, Israel. II. And I heard Keith giving his testimony on television the other night and he said that living here in southern California, going to UCLA and all, he was twenty-four years old before he ever heard about Jesus Christ. This is the substance of the matter Christ saves, and we trust. He "will render to every man according to his deeds: to them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: to them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first and also of the Gentile.". Which we preach - Which is proclaimed by the apostles, and made known to Jews and Gentiles. From verse 14 there is an advance. But still, all day long His hand stretched out to the Jew who refused to come God's way through Jesus Christ. The law is not destroyed, nor the intention of the lawgiver frustrated, but, full satisfaction being made by the death of Christ for our breach of the law, the end is attained, and we are put in another way of justification. Man despised at first the outward testimony of God, His eternal power and Godhead, in the creation above and around him (verses 19, 20). 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. Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. As used by Moses in this place, it evidently means that his doctrines were in their mind, or were a subject of meditation and reflection. 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. Why should this be so strange and incredible to you? He demands perfect and entire obedience, if life is to come of it. "Don't scold," said one. But what saith it? The offering up of this desire to God. The truth is, those are altogether mistaken who call it so. It was not merely "to those at Rome," but "to you that be at Rome." This it was before it was his prayer. Yes, they did hear. It was already among them by the preaching of the apostles, and was a subject of conversation and of thought. Here, then, it is a comparison of the two great heads Adam and Christ, and the immeasurable superiority of the second man is shown. There was a most important trial of man in the person of Adam; but after this, what dispensation was there? This is applied in the two chapters that follow. No. All are condemned to death (5). No topic is treated with anything like the frequency of God. 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. 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. 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. "What shall we sing?" It is through the Word of God that we come to know God. No one would undertake it at all unless he was supremely in earnest. 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. For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge ( Romans 10:1-2 ). First, We need not go to heaven, to search the records there, or to enquire into the secrets of the divine counsel. 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. The meaning of verse 6 is a little more difficult. But what is testified by Christian baptism is Christ's death. 21). Bible Book List. But this is the very thing that has happened, as it stands written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring the good news of good things. Then your principle is your condemnation. Hence, therefore, it was in no way limited to any particular nation, such as those that had already been under the law and government of God. As to those who have been called home, how have they died? The relationship between God and man is no longer the relationship between a creditor and a debtor, between an earner and an assessor, between a judge and a man standing at the bar of judgment. No, we will find out next week as we move into Romans 11:0 that God still has a plan whereby He is going to bring salvation to the Jew. From the first verse we have the application of the dead and risen Christ to the soul, till in verse 11 we see the power of the Holy Ghost, which brings the soul into this liberty now, applied by-and-by to the body, when there will be the complete deliverance. It is here that you will find a great failure of Christendom as to this. And their words to the ends of the world.. It can mean many things such as: 1. May you experience the joys of His power, of His presence, of His glory, as God day by day showers you with His goodness and with His love. 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. Here it is not merely the negation of law and of circumcision, but we have the positive side. Have not submitted. Let man be what he might, or where he might, God's good news was for man. Hereupon he enters upon the direct proofs, and first cites Hosea as a witness. 2. But this one is a special little angel. "Ah, well," says one, "I know I must undergo a singular experience-either I must be carried right away to heaven with delirious delight, or be plunged into the waves of hell in frightful despair." 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. b. Romans 10:17; Hebrews 6:5; Hebrews 11:3. Be he Jew or be he Gentile, his only righteousness by law must come through the doing of the law. "The righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? Here is an instance of what is so reprehensible. Perhaps I am doing the same this morning, but I do not mean to do it. For Moses described the righteousness which is of the law, [he said,] That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. It became simply a question whether, in fact, God did call Gentiles, or whether He had revealed such intentions. A wondrous way, but most blessed! Suppose your faith cannot work miracles; never mind about miracles. Abraham believed God when, according to nature, it was impossible for him or for Sarah to have a child. It has four stages of meaning. The gospel replies, if you did ascend to heaven what would you do there, without Christ, the anointed Savior? Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refusing them will have impact how our site functions. We should say the best we can even of our worst enemies; this is blessing those that curse us. The Jews have indeed heard this message, so they have no excuse (18). Or, being ignorant of God's way of justification, which he has now appointed and revealed by Jesus Christ. What blindness! Seventh day adventist Bible Commentary reference series volumes 1-10. The weak are not to judge the strong, and the strong are not to despise the weak. Surely it would need that I mount to heaven to own my sin, or dive to hell to bear its punishment. 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. Him who came in humiliation, according to their prophets, they might despise; but it was vain to deny that the same prophets bore witness to His divine glory. Though it directs us to a better and more effectual righteousness in Christ, yet in itself, considered as a law abstracted from its respect to Christ and the gospel (for so the unbelieving Jews embraced and retained it), it owneth nothing as a righteousness sufficient to justify a man but that of perfect obedience. He takes their own books, and proves from one of them (Deuteronomy) that in the ruin of Israel the resource is not going into the depths, nor going up to heaven. If a Jew is wealthy enough he will sometimes install a time switch to switch on the lights at dusk on Sabbath without his doing so himself. 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. yet, that is might be the more effectual to drive people to Christ and to make the covenant of grace welcome, it had a very great mixture of the strictness and terror of the covenant of works. 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. Granted that it is so, at once and fully. The whole history of Israel, past, present, and future falls in with, although quite distinct from, that which he had been expounding. All through this section Paul has been driving home the personal responsibility of the Jews. Knowing God we come to believe and trust in God. First, in 10:8b, he uses rema ("the word") to explain faith. Nevertheless Gods normal way of bringing people to Jesus Christ is through the preaching of the gospel. In the same way the apostle disposes of all pretence on the score of ordinances, especially circumcision. But the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against them pre-eminently. There is hardly any phraseology that tends to more injury of souls in these matters than a loose way of talking of salvation. And he says to Israel: "All the day I have stretched out my hands to a people who are disobedient and contrary.". Sirs, what must I do to be saved? Not all will accept the message, but Christians must proclaim it nevertheless. Look to him and salvation is thine. For who hath known the mind of the Lord? No, if by keeping the law, then that encourages boasting, but it is eliminated because I am saved just through simple faith in Jesus Christ. "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." Tonight whoever you might be salvation is so close to you, all you have to do is call upon the name of the Lord and you will be saved. The same was true of the doctrine requiring faith in Christ. No, confess yourself a sinner; trust in the sinner's Savior, and you are saved. 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?) When we confess the Lord Jesus, we agree with what God said about Jesus, and with what Jesus said about Himself. But the righteousness which stems from faith speaks like this--"Do not say in your heart, 'Who shall go up into heaven?' 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. They get so extreme in the election predestination and all, they get so extreme that there are some churches that will not put a scripture on the board out in front, lest some sinner who has not been elected might walk by and believe in Jesus Christ and get saved when he wasn't predestined to do so.Don't get extreme. While there were people who could read, the ordinary first-century citizen depended rather on being able to hear something. (Morris). 1. a. who would defraud God of that which He delights in the blessedness of bringing in deliverance by that One man, of whom Adam was the image? Far beyond. The way of the law was not easy. When God established His covenant with Israel, God established the various offerings that they must bring to Him for their sins. "The righteousness which is of faith," or believing, "speaketh on this wise, Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? At the same time he connects, in a singularly interesting manner, this disclosure of the principles of the eternal judgment of God with what he calls "my gospel." Click to enable/disable _gid - Google Analytics Cookie. What else does the Scripture say? Thus corruption not only overspread morals, but became an integral part of the religion of men, and had thus a quasi-divine sanction. b. "Not so," replies the apostle. There would not be a moment of your life in which you could be at peace, for there would always be the fear that in some unguarded instant you would transgress, and lose all. Sin is our not wanting the gifts of . An evil pronouncement .read more. It pronounced on the Jew then. (verses 22-32.) But I say, have they not heard? speaketh on this wise: In these verses (6-8), Pauls language is clearly based on the Septuagint rendering of Deuteronomy 30:11-14 where Moses enumerates the blessings that accrue to Israel if she keeps the law. He brings out the peculiar glories of Israel according to the depth of the gospel as he knew and preached it; at least, of His person who is the object of faith now revealed. "He that doeth those things," that is, always, without exception, with all his heart and soul and strength "he shall live by them"; but nobody else. That is not Christ's way. What he meant was: "Christ is the end of legalism." How Daniels Prophecy of 70 Weeks Connects to the End Times, 4 Ways the Parable of the Sower Encourages Spiritual Growth. Jewish religion was based on meticulous obedience to the law. Hence, what he is here discussing is not remission of sins, but deliverance from sin. The man who does those things shall live by them: The Law of Moses makes the path to righteousness through the law plain. In this too we have the blessed connection of the Spirit (here peculiarly designated, for special reasons, "the Spirit of holiness"). 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