Now the doctrine which we saw asserted in the latter part ofRomans 5:1-21; Romans 5:1-21 is applied to both. Includes cross references, questions, verse by verse commentary, outline, and applications on Romans 10. Once, again, though your faith should only be strong enough to lead you to pray, yet it shall save you, for "Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved." Charity teaches us to have the best opinion of persons, and to put the best construction upon words and actions, that they will bear. It is against the "unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness." ( Romans 10:14-15 ). "I am of Mr. Spurgeon's religion, which makes people happy themselves, and causes them to do good to others." Nor is there only the manifest call of the Gentiles in this, but with no less clearness there is the rejection, at any rate for a time, of proud Israel. 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. What a title, then, God gives me now in beholding Christ, no longer dead but risen, to have it settled before my soul that I am in Him as He now is, where all questions are closed in peace and joy! And it is well for those ignorant of it to know that here, in verse 4, the apostle speaks first of "walking not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." Now it was manifested, and not promised or predicted merely. 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. Salem Media Group. It is our rejecting the gifts our Lord offers in His Means of Grace. Upon what ground? The future must be brought in by the grace of God; and this he accordingly gives us at the close of Romans 11:1-36. There would be found a stumblingstone there. It must also be noticed, that the word, by which we have a firm and calm trust as to our salvation, had been set forth even by Moses: This is the word of faith. The wrath of God could not possibly be glad tidings. Thou sayest, "Who shall ascend into heaven?" 1. You, dear friend, down the aisle there, it you trust in Christ you shall never be ashamed of your hope. (ver. "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved." ", Oh, but this is a very blessed thing to have to say to you. "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.". Zealous the Jews were and are. And the ceremonies shadowed forth Christ as fulfilling the righteousness, and bearing the curse of the law. Such is the doctrine and the fact. Jesus in the garden prayed, "Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me." Sin is our operating outside of God's grace. I am afraid we say a great deal at times which rather lumbers and cumbers the gospel than makes it clear. Every mouth was stopped; the Jew by his own oracles, as the Gentile by their evident abominations, shown already. That is quite true, because Isaiah says: "Lord, who has believed what they heard from us?" In verse 11 of that chapter, Moses tells Israel that Gods commands are not beyond their grasp as if they could find them only by ascending to heaven or crossing the sea. "Whosoever believeth in him hath everlasting life." But we have had it fully in Romans 3:1-31. So, then, if a man called Jesus kurios ( G2962) he was ranking him with the Emperor and with God; he was giving him the supreme place in his life; he was pledging him implicit obedience and reverent worship. To this he refers likewise, Galatians 3:12, The man that doeth them, shall live in them. Christ's fullness is meant for our emptiness; Christ's righteousness is meant for our sin, salvation is for the lost. This makes them more accountable for their rejection of the good news. Here we pass out of the introduction of the epistle. What was it? 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. The righteousness of faith lies not in dreams and visions, delusions or depressions: it lies only in reliance upon the work of Jesus finished for you. So when the other grandkids come over, I make a big to do over them, exaggerated. There was no part of heathenism practically viewed now, so corrupting as that which had to do with the objects of its worship. The way to heaven up the steep sides of Sinai is inaccessible to trembling feet like ours. What the apostle had given him in fulness was the great truth, however fundamental it may be, that I am entitled, and even called on in the name of the Lord Jesus, to know that I am dead to sin; not that I must die, but that I am dead that my baptism means nothing less than this, and is shorn of its most emphatic point if limited merely to Christ's dying for my sins. You can check these in your browser security settings. 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. He shall never have cause to repent his confidence in reposing such a trust in the Lord Jesus. It is no longer in our power to dream of a perfect, life-long obedience. For information about the word heart (kardia), see the commentary on verse 1. It seems to us that what we have here is not so much a finished passage as summary notes. It was his heart's desire; it was not a formal compliment, as good wishes are with many from the teeth outward, but a real desire. But for the time it is held fast, though in unrighteousness. a. "Oh, God surely loves all mankind, and God loves the Buddhist and God loves the Mohammed, and God loves everybody." For what remains unsolved by and in Christ? He had this, of course, in a revelation that was from God; he had law; he had prophets; he had divine institutions. Christ did not come to make the law milder, or to render it possible for our cracked and battered obedience to be accepted as a sort of compromise. The Holy Ghost, who now gives the soul its consciousness of deliverance from its place in Christ, is also the witness that the body too, the mortal body, shall be delivered in its time. Two things are required as conditions of salvation:-- (a.) 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. We accordingly are dead, says he, to the law; not (as no doubt almost all of us know) that the law dies, but that we are dead to the law in the death of Christ. (iii) But a man must not only believe in his heart; he must confess with his lips. 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?) He has been telling them truths which were difficult for them to hear and bear. His language conveys the main idea which Paul wished to do, that the doctrine was plain and intelligible. One night he collared some young people to ask them questions about the Bible. Look at our dear, departed brother, Mr. Higgs, the last who has crossed the stream. It was not merely, that he had better light. Well, I am sorry. On the contrary, the doctrine of faith establishes law as nothing else can; and for this simple reason, that if one who is guilty hopes to be saved spite of the broken law, it must be at the expense of the law that condemns his guilt; whereas the gospel shows no sparing of sin, but the most complete condemnation of it all, as charged on Him who shed His blood in atonement. It was already among them by the preaching of the apostles, and was a subject of conversation and of thought. This is the key word of early Christianity. 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. Birthright from the same father would let in Ishmael on the one hand, as from both parents it would secure the title of Esau on the other. ( Romans 10:15 ). If I had a sense of sin as deep as that of lost souls in hell, I could hope that I should be saved." 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. So he essayed to join himself unto the church, but the brethren looked suspiciously at him and enquired, "What is your experience?" Unlike verse 5, Paul does not say, "Moses says" or "Moses writes." 1. Jack answered, "I never get lower than I am, for I am down at the bottom. Salvation isn't way off in heaven some place. 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. He bade them read that chapter, "Let not your hearts be troubled"; and, as they read it, he did not take the verses, and apply them to himself. Thus the deliverance is not merely for the joy of the soul, but also for strength in our walking after the Spirit, who has given and found a nature in which He delights, communicating withal His own delight in Christ, and making obedience to be the joyful service of the believer. You already have it; all you have to do is obey it (Vol. It is not our effort which wins us goodness. He selects this language because it expresses his meaning in familiar terminology that is at once suitable and proverbial. But what saith it? It is not among the Gentiles, but in the honoured centre of the polity of Israel. Thou art my hiding-place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. You, up there in the gallery, however guilty you may have been, or however moral you may have been, it matters not, if your one hope is in what Christ has done, you shall never turn round on your dying bed, and cry, "I made a mistake in trusting Christ." It has four stages of meaning. Inductive Bible study on Romans chapter 10. In this too we have the blessed connection of the Spirit (here peculiarly designated, for special reasons, "the Spirit of holiness"). Concerning profession: It is with the mouth that confession is made--confession to God in prayer and praise (Romans 15:6; Romans 15:6), confession to men by owning the ways of God before others, especially when we are called to it in a day of persecution. Fair-weather sailors, who go out in their little painted perfection boats, are people who have had small temptation and little soul-trouble. StudyLght.org. It is for the lost, therefore; for they it is who need salvation; and it is to save not merely to quicken, but to save; and this because in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed. Compare Peter's use in1 Peter 2:10; 1 Peter 2:10. No, they cry, it is in Isaac's seed that the Jew was called. He fell and a soldier kicked him. 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. (1-3) Israel's refusal to submit to the righteousness of God. 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." 3. "For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek" (ver. 3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. 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. He shows that, on the responsible ground of being His nation, they were wholly ruined. (b.) Their zeal was not according to knowledge. He spent the whole night in trying to cheer and comfort others: he had no trembling thought about himself. As I was walking out of the room God said, "I didn't ask you to reconcile it; I only asked you to believe it." 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 is a preaching which blasts the sinner with tempestuously angry words; but always Paul speaks the truth in love. There is no hope for man otherwise; for the gospel is not all that is now made known. Thy salvation rests in Jesus, rest thou in Jesus. Please see our Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. He loved even here at the threshold to show the breadth of God's grace. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our report? So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Then he enlarges, and points out that there is a remnant of grace in the worst of times. What He does is to pierce and penetrate the man's conscience. The gospel, as now revealed in the New Testament, has linked with it, though not contained in it, the revelation of divine wrath from heaven, and this, you will observe, according to Paul's gospel. There is satisfaction; but the work of Christ goes a great deal farther. b. If you wish to be saved by the law you must do its commands and you shall live. Now observe, first, that the gospel claims to be like the law in its clearness. But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? And there (for such was the point) it was the complete condemnation of this evil thing, the nature in its present state, so as, nevertheless, to set the believer as before God's judgment free from itself as well as its consequences. a. 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. "Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." And how shall they preach unless they are sent? The soul is brought into peace with God, as it finds its standing in the grace of God, and, more than that, rejoices in hope of the glory of God. For Isaiah said, Lord, who has believed our report? A good witness, as a reason of his good wish (Romans 10:2; Romans 10:2): I bear them record that they have a zeal of God. Yet note, that Paul opens this up into two things. 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. or "what saith he", Moses? For they do not realize that a man can only achieve the status of righteousness by God's gift, and they seek to establish their own status, and so they have not submitted themselves to that power of God which alone can make them righteous in his sight. What is the righteousness which is of the law? Say not even in thy heart that by these doings or feelings thou canst be saved. "For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. This is the essential point. If you were to descend there, what would you do without him whom God has anointed to save? They would have us proclaim salvation by the works of the law. The objection is: But what if the Jews never heard of that? They are a disobedient and contrary people, and all the more so because of their great responsibility before God. Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. 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? THE DESTRUCTION OF EXCUSES ( Romans 10:14-21 ), 10:14-21 How are they to call on him on whom they have not believed? . The discovery is made that the source of the internal misery was that the mind, though renewed, was occupied with the law as a means of dealing with, flesh. 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. To a disobedient and contrary people.. 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. All Israel shall be saved. God, therefore, having not the least hindrance to the manifestation of what He can be and is in merciful intervention on behalf of the worst of sinners, manifests it is His righteousness "by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe" (ver. There is no limitation there; the promise is to everyone; therefore, there is no difference between Jew and Greek. The "word of faith" means the message that righteousness comes by faith. Confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus: We can never forget all that it meant to say that Jesus Christ is Lord. Calling for mischief or injury to fall upon a person. Did this seem to treat the law that condemned as an evil thing? Secondly, We need not go to the deep, to fetch Christ out of the grave, or from the state of the dead: Into the deep, to bring up Christ from the dead. Otherwise you will be prompted again when opening a new browser window or new a tab. They have not all obeyed the gospel. In the argument so far as it has gone there is a paradox. Even where the law was, not by it but by faith the just lived. You won't get glad tidings of good things. How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? If one may so say, He thus holds the man, instead of letting the man presume that he is holding fast the truth. I will read his exact words to you. It is just as clear as ever the law was, and quite as sharply distinct. Now I ask you to listen to WHAT THE GOSPEL SAITH. 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. What else does the Scripture say? Clarke's Commentary Verse Romans 10:8. What have you to say to that?" Sin had left its crimson stain, but He washed me white as snow." For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek ( Romans 10:11-12 ): Quite a statement for Paul a Hebrew of the Hebrews to make--no difference between the Jew and the Greek, that is, as far as salvation is concerned. Have done with every other confidence. This is all perfectly true true of a Jew as of a pagan true of any unrenewed man that never heard of a Saviour. God is not far from each one of us (Acts 17:27) because His will is right at our fingertips. 1. God has brought him again from the dead and exalted him at his own right hand, and this is not for himself, but for all those who trust in him. It was laid down that, in the event of sickness, measures might be taken to keep the patient from becoming worse, but not to make him better. 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