Christ is nigh thee, for the word is nigh thee: nigh thee indeed: it is in thy mouth, and in thy heart; there is no difficulty in understanding, believing, and owning it. (b.) 15:18-24). Israel is indeed the only people of whom there is always a portion that believe. 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. If you crawl on your knees for five miles to kiss the statue you can be spared several days of purgatory. Abraham is the proof of the value of faith in justification before God. i. Possession of it is not dependent on some act of Herculean proportions, such as ascending into the heavens or crossing the sea. Paul has been saying some hard things about the Jews. The word of God is to be close to the heart of every Christian. Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia - Harga saham emiten migas Grup Bakrie PT Energi Mega Persada Tbk (ENRG) dan emiten milik taipan Prajogo Pangestu PT Barito Pacific Tbk (BRPT) kompak menjadi top losers hingga penutupan sesi I, Rabu (1/3/2023). It is not among the Gentiles, but in the honoured centre of the polity of Israel. StudyLght.org. But the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against them pre-eminently. Please see our Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. Its remarkable that Paul found something good to say about these Jewish people who persecuted him so mercilessly. The inner man is dealt with, and searched through and through. Along with this he gathers testimonies from more than one prophet. It is not a question of creature-standing. It pronounced on the Jew then. He was in the end killed. This is where so many religious people even sincere Christians go astray. Go not to the loom to weave a righteousness. So faith comes by hearing, hearing by the Word of God. (that is, to bring Christ down from above:) Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (i) There is the ignorance which comes from neglect of knowledge. 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. The saving work is done, done by him who was anointed of the Lord to do it. 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. The subserviency of the law to the gospel (Romans 10:4; Romans 10:4): Christ is the end of the law for righteousness. For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness are going about to establish their own righteousness, and they have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. No; clear, straight, cutting like a sharp razor, he puts before us the single sentence, "He that doeth those things shall live by them.". For if the law could give a man a righteous standing before God, then it was not necessary for Christ to die. Did they deny that they were a foolish nation? The offering up of this desire to God. God has done all that is necessary, and we receive His gift of righteousness by faith" (Vol. Having descended all that length he went lower still. He says rema is "the word of faith" that is proclaimed by the followers of Jesus. It is God Himself who, infinitely glorified in the Lord that expiated our sins by His one sacrifice, remits them now, not looking for our victory, nor as yet even in leading us on to victory, but by faith in Jesus and His blood. The thing is done for us, and we have only to accept. The gospel replies, if you did ascend to heaven what would you do there, without Christ, the anointed Savior? Hence, as God's wrath is revealed from heaven, it is against every form of impiety "against all ungodliness." Several general exhortations proper for all Christians, Rom. 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. It is through the Word of God that we come to know God. All that I have and all that I am I would give to escape from the righteous wrath of God. These words were from the final sermon given by Moses. "But there is no place for boasting neither now or eternally when we get to heaven and when before the throne I stand in Him complete. It is not the mercy of God., Many have contended that so it is, and to their own great loss, as well as to the weakening of the word of God. But this is not the full extent of salvation. The appeal to their own inspired account of Abraham turned into a proof of the consistency of God's ways in justifying by faith, and hence in justifying the uncircumcised no less than the circumcision. 4. How is it possible that I can be saved? He does not say that if you have broken the law you may still live by some other means. It is nigh you; it is nigh you now: it will never be nigher than it is at this moment. Surely it would need that I mount to heaven to own my sin, or dive to hell to bear its punishment. 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. 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. Why should this be so strange and incredible to you? First, he quotes Leviticus 18:5 where it says that, if a man meticulously obeys the commandments of the law, he will find life. He was the promised Messiah, born King of the Jews. There is no limitation there; the promise is to everyone; therefore, there is no difference between Jew and Greek. i. Pauls hearts desire also translated into concrete action: prayer to God for Israel. As they watched him rising higher, and yet higher, at last a cloud received him: he has gone up to the Father's throne, as the sinner's Savior: at the throne he stands to-day to intercede for sinners, and from that throne he bends to comfort those who come to him. "The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart," that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim: 9 If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. It is hard singing when your father is dying, but it was not hard to him. But what saith it? Paul wants the Jews to be saved, but they cannot be saved while trying to create their own righteousness through law-keeping. This plainly shows that Christ's descent into the deep, or into hades, was no more than his going into the state of the dead, in allusion to Jonah. we know how this was in Israel, how it might be, and has been, in Christendom. The Gentiles did not seem to him to be in the same position as the Jews at all. This is what made the gospel to be so sweet and precious, and, what is more, absolutely necessary, if he would escape certain and eternal ruin. To a disobedient and contrary people.. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, alone is capable of performing the mighty works of salvation required by humanitys sinfulness, and He has already done them. Because this information was in the hands of the Hebrews, the Israelites did not need to go beyond the sea (verse 13) or send someone up to heaven (verse 12) to receive information about Gods will. "He resisted," says the writer, "even to the agonies of death, for the law's sake.". For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, The man who does those things shall live by them. But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way, Do not say in your heart, Who will ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above) or, Who will descend into the abyss? (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). If you were to be saved by the law you should have begun without sin, continued without sin, and then it would be needful to end without sin. But they have not all obeyed the gospel. If salvation for man is possible by any other means, if man can be saved by the law, if man can be saved by his own efforts, by his good works, if a man can be saved by sincerity, then, God, let this cup pass from Me. faith comes by hearing [ the thing heard], And thus, I have great difficulty with their present and current status before God. "Whosoever." Paul's joy and boast were in the gospel of God. Rightly does Paul take this as granted; for the doctrine of the law does by no means render the conscience quiet and calm, nor supply it with what ought to satisfy it. If we fail to equip ourselves for a task when every chance is given to us to equip ourselves adequately for it, we must stand condemned. So the gospel does not propose a second way, and suggest "a larger hope," but it declares with solemn decision, "He that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." And the message they proclaim is the good news concerning Jesus Christ (16-17). "For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Wednesday, March 1st, 2023 This is further illustrated (Romans 10:10; Romans 10:10), and the order inverted, because there must first be faith in the heart before there can be an acceptable confession with the mouth. God has condemned the flesh. Take the Sabbath law. It is no longer blood, but death Christ's death and resurrection. c. How beautiful are the feet: No wonder those who preach have beautiful feet they partner with God for the salvation of men. Not only is God's righteousness revealed, but also His wrath. It is not God seeking, or man bringing righteousness. The word is nigh thee There is no occasion to seek high or low for the saving power; the word of reconciliation is nigh. Romans 10:17, KJV: So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. How blessed it is when a child of God has actually fallen into sin, God keep us so that we never may, but if guilt is on the soul, what is a poor creature to do? For He said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no man can come to the Father but by me" ( John 14:6 ). 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? Perhaps I am doing the same this morning, but I do not mean to do it. Compare Romans 10:14; Romans 10:14. You, dear friend, down the aisle there, it you trust in Christ you shall never be ashamed of your hope. What is near us may be easily reached. Romans 10:17, ESV: So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. ): Paul says it is not necessary for men to descend into the realms of death and Satan to attain salvation. Some of those zealous ones beat up the mayor in Jerusalem just a day or so ago because of some of his rulings that they felt did not coincide with their desires. Finally he comes to two other witnesses; as from the Psalms, so now from the law and the prophets. All of Pauls teaching of Gods election and right to choose does not diminish mans responsibility. For Moses described the righteousness which is of the law, [he said,] That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. Love is the great debt that we owe, which never can be paid, but which we should always be paying. "I am not ashamed," etc. And she takes advantage of it and gives me a bad time, because she is totally independent when it comes to Grandpa.She loves to play her little independent games. It was the Son of God not merely as dealing with the powers of the earth, Jehovah's King on the holy hill of Zion, but after a far deeper manner. The rest of the chapter (7-25) is an instructive episode, in which the impotence and the misery of the renewed mind which attempts practice under law are fully argued out, till deliverance (not pardon) is found in Christ. They are a disobedient and contrary people, and all the more so because of their great responsibility before God. But if it were so, He had not done with them. There is nothing about law there; it is all based on faith. This time Paul quotes Psalms 19:4: "Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world." Then the apostle introduces the ground, certainty, and character of God's judgment (verses 4-16). We fully respect if you want to refuse cookies but to avoid asking you again and again kindly allow us to store a cookie for that. Brethren, my hearts desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. It is evident, therefore, that dispensational position will not suffice for God, who holds to His own unchangeable estimate of good and evil, and who judges the more stringently according to the measure of advantage possessed. For they're ignorant of God's righteousness and they are going about to establish their own righteousness.I had a Jewish fellow one night as we were talking say to me, "Well, Chuck, my father is a very religious man. It says that no man is forbidden to believe; "for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him." "But if [for so it should be read] thou art named a Jew," etc. You will find that story in the first volume of my sermons. He selects this language because it expresses his meaning in familiar terminology that is at once suitable and proverbial. From Romans 9 alone we might think that salvation is Gods doing alone, but from Romans 10 we might think that salvation is mans doing alone together we see the matter from each perspective. This clearly takes in man, it will be observed; and this is his grand point now. Now, soul, thou hast nothing to do with asking vain questions; thou hast to accept the result of the Savior's actual performances. Conscious deliverance, to be solid according to God, must be in the line of His truth. The Text Death, and nothing short of it, rightly dissolves the bond. There are two things that might make insuperable difficulty: the one is the obstacle of sin in the nature to practical holiness; the other is the provocation and condemnation of the law. As Moses explains in v. 11, "What I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach." The apostle applies this according to divine wisdom. But unto Israel he said, All day long I have stretched forth my hand unto a disobedient and gainsaying people ( Romans 10:20-21 ). 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. We have God and man in presence, so to speak. Indeed they have. But what is testified by Christian baptism is Christ's death. The idea of salvation by works sits like an awful incubus upon the breast of humanity, and presses out of the soul all hope, thus robbing man of strength to attempt true holiness. A great present-day preacher called preaching "pleading with men." The second passage is from Isaiah 65:1 where God says that, in a strange way, he has been found by a people who were not looking for him at all. The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart. Instead of having to go to great lengths to achieve righteousness by the law, we can immediately receive righteousness by faith, by trusting in the word of the gospel. Paul was well aware of that; at this very time he was planning the evangelization of Spain, a province where the name of Christ was not yet known (c.f. What gives glory to God like this? Verse 20. Besides this, which seems to be a most comprehensive expression for embracing every sort and degree of human iniquity, we have one very specifically named. Believing in the heart that God raised him from the dead. For it may have been noticed from chapter 3 to chapter 5, that nothing but fitness for the glory of God will do now. "Christ's Prayer for his People.". The objection is: But what if the Jews never heard of that? 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. Now, your hope lies wholly in what this Son of God did in his descent and ascent. 2 170). There is sure ground here. Jesus did not bleed and die to be a superfluity to us: he cattle to meet a grim necessity. Here is your answer. I. Paul here professes his good affection to the Jews, with the reason of it (Romans 10:1; Romans 10:2), where he gives them a good wish, and a good witness. It is in Zion that He lays it. 2018 David Guzik No distribution beyond personal use without permission. 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. It is against the "unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness." For "every one who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.". Anybody being able to . To profess this doctrine was, therefore, virtually to profess all the truths of the Christian religion. Oh, let's all get our climbing ropes and let's all climb into heaven and let's bring the Messiah down. But now he turns around and says, "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." The word is nigh thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach: The 5th verse is a quotation from Leviticus 18:5. 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. 5. 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. Two things are required as conditions of salvation:-- (a.) The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach: Paul refers to Deuteronomy 30:14. 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. And boy, she comes elbowing her way in and she is going to get right there next to Grandpa. They have plenty of, Zeal for God, but not according to knowledge, iii. The meaning is, the doctrine is not difficult to be understood and embraced. Anyone can express it easily with the mouth and accept it easily with the heart. The answer is, that this will not do one whit better; for when we come down to the next generation, it is apparent that the two sons of Isaac were sons of the same mother; nay, they were twins. Strange as it was, this too was foretold. So that we have here a brief summary of the terms of salvation, and they are very reasonable; in short this, that we must devote, dedicate, and give up, to God, our souls and our bodies--our souls in believing with the heart, and our bodies in confessing with the mouth. Notice, first, what Moses said. Such men have never been wanting since the truth has shone on this world; still less are they now. How Daniels Prophecy of 70 Weeks Connects to the End Times, 4 Ways the Parable of the Sower Encourages Spiritual Growth. I will read his exact words to you. Hence the depravity of the heathen found little or no cheek from conscience, because it was bound up with all that took the shape of God before their mind. b. I was found by those who did not seek Me: It is strange that Israel, for the most part, rejected their own Messiah. There were those who were good, whose balance was on the right side; there were those who were bad, whose balance was on the debit side; there were those who were in between, who, by doing one more good work, could become good. 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. The point is best understood by examining the source of Pauls information. No Gentile would do it who had not ceased worshipping the emperor as Kurios. The whole passage Romans 9:1-33; Romans 10:1-21; Romans 11:1-36 is a condemnation of the Jewish attitude to religion. When a man is at length awakened to a sense of sin he cries, "I long to be saved! As your next door neighbor's house is not hard to get at, so neither is salvation by the gospel. , , The word, that is, the word of faith is nigh thee. We cannot speak of the state of things before the flood as a dispensation. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. If one may so say, He thus holds the man, instead of letting the man presume that he is holding fast the truth. Verse 21. 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. and how can they believe in him in whom they have not heard? ", Oh, but this is a very blessed thing to have to say to you. But what saith it? No, he directed the comfort to his dear wife, for she had greater need of it than he had his faith was firm. But there is more than this in Romans 4:1-25 He takes up a third feature of Abraham's case; that is, the connection of the promise with resurrection. First, We need not go to heaven, to search the records there, or to enquire into the secrets of the divine counsel. "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." In the gospel there is revealed God's righteousness. 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. Many times people say, "Oh, I wish I had more faith," and I think that oftentimes we almost insult God by our lack of faith.I have heard people pray, "Oh, Lord, help me to believe. No wonder, if souls confound the two things together, that they never know deliverance in practice. What he meant was: "Christ is the end of legalism." He has been telling them truths which were difficult for them to hear and bear. Moses spoke a word that had to be obeyed, but Paul proclaims a word that must be believed. This same term occurs again in verses 14 and 15. 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. I do not come to-day with a gospel veiled in mystery and shrouded in doubt; I do not bring a message which you cannot understand or receive; neither do I come with "ifs" and "buts" and "peradventures," but with this, "Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? 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. To man this is the hardest of all obedience; but when once secured, it leads peacefully into the obedience of every day. It was undoubtedly enough for present purposes. He is not studying an historical personage, however great; he is living with a real presence. ROMANS 10:8-17 INTRODUCTION: It is amazing how little people know about the Word of God, especially here in America where virtually everyone has access to the Bible. It is implied in this wish that they might be convinced and converted; he could not pray in faith that they might be saved in their unbelief. 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. Clearly, then, such ground is untenable. Click on the different category headings to find out more. III. A voice cries "Who shall ascend into heaven?" For this he quotes that scripture (Leviticus 18:5), You shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them. It is not believing (not to be reckoned so) if it be not with the heart. 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. "If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by [or because of] his Spirit that dwelleth in you.". Jesus came into the world to save real sinners, not sham sinners; for he is a real, and not a pretended Savior. 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. His sons and daughters will tell you that his death was sad to them, but not to him. 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.". It must possess this place because the gospel is Gods power to save us (1:16). Paul's answer is: "Israel's disbelief was only to be expected, for, long ago, Isaiah was moved to say in despair: 'Lord, who has believed what we have heard?'" Retrieve. 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. I am afraid we say a great deal at times which rather lumbers and cumbers the gospel than makes it clear. There would be no remnant if justice took its course. There is no good reason for such an assumption, but much against it. Thus, their good works must outweigh their bad works. 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