First of all, the groundwork of it is laid in the first four verses, the last of them leading into every-day walk. I confine myself to its doctrinal import, and the full Christian sense of the word; and I maintain that salvation signifies that deliverance for the believer which is the full consequence of the mighty work of Christ, apprehended not, of course, necessarily according to all its depth in God's eyes, but at any rate applied to the soul in the power of the Holy Ghost. That mode of living which will do for the depths is safe for the heights. $150.00 + $30 . He says his prayers every day. Proud member Possession of it is not dependent on some act of Herculean proportions, such as ascending into the heavens or crossing the sea. The doctrine of faith therefore, which reposes on the cross, establishes law, instead of making it void, as every other principle must (verses 27-31). And they are broadening the gate so that you breathe, "Oh, God loves you," you will be saved because you are breathing. ", But all have not obeyed the good news. "What do you mean? For his sake let me tell it again. In the argument so far as it has gone there is a paradox. Accordingly, for the first time, the Spirit of God fromRomans 5:12; Romans 5:12 traces the mature of man to the head of the race. May the Lord be with you and may the blessings of the Lord surround your life as you walk with Him. It was not only his heart's desire, but it was his prayer. And their words to the ends of the world.. It was a message that went out from God to sinners as such. This is now become impossible, by reason of the power of sin and the corruption of nature; but Christ is the end of the law. It is our duty truly and earnestly to desire the salvation of our own. Grace in the soul is its new nature; the soul is alive to God, and has begun its holy happiness which shall endure for ever. If I am thus pitied of God, if so truly and completely a justified man, if I am really an object of God's eternal favour, how can I have such a sense of continual evil? "Always remember to keep your voice down," said another. 4. They have not all obeyed the gospel. The apostle is therefore plainly in presence of the broadest possible grounds of comparison, though we shall find more too. No, He has already come and brought salvation down from heaven to men. "His flesh was torn off by the whips, and he streamed down with blood, and his flanks were laid open by wounds." "At any rate he is a saved soul," we hear. What is to be done according to Gods word? This Good News is readily available to anyone who will receive it freely from God through Christ. 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. "Sing" said he. I now plunge into my text. "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. He here shows the folly of that mistake, and what an unreasonable thing it was for them to be seeking justification by the works of the law, now that Christ had come, and had brought in an everlasting righteousness; considering. To those that were under it, to be sure. As far as persons are concerned, there is no hindrance; Jew or Gentile makes no difference, as is expressly said, "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the [passing over or praeter-mission, not] remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus" (verses 23-26). 2. "I am not ashamed," etc. 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: . Saul of Tarsus was a notorious persecutor of Christians before Jesus confronted him on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:1-20). The causes of their unbelief, and these are two:-- (1.) 4. i. Is It Ok for Christians to Follow Zodiac Signs? What were the principles of it? 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. The offering up of this desire to God. No one had ever witnessed to him. At the close of that period he rose into the air, ascending high. But now he turns around and says, "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. Yet note, that Paul opens this up into two things. 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. Do some great brave wonderful marvelous thing. How shall they hear without a preacher? It was the Lord giving us the profit of sorrow, and ourselves bowing to the way and end of God in it, so that the result of tribulation should be rich and fruitful experience. Because this word is so important, Paul said it was preached (present tense). Hence the very fact of being renewed makes one sensible of a far more intense misery than ever, while there is no power until the soul looks right outside self to Him who is dead and risen, who has anticipated the difficulty, and alone gives the full answer to all wants. Well, I am sorry. You may now believe in Christ and live eternally. It is hard singing when your father is dying, but it was not hard to him. But he meets their proud exclusiveness in another way. They tried him with their various attainments, depressions, anxieties, quibbles, and questions; but still the huckster would not budge. He had this, of course, in a revelation that was from God; he had law; he had prophets; he had divine institutions. He shall never have cause to repent his confidence in reposing such a trust in the Lord Jesus. No, salvation is not put at so vast a distance from us. I am sure we should not. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. He selects this language because it expresses his meaning in familiar terminology that is at once suitable and proverbial. 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 is your answer. You say, "Chuck, that is too narrow. We went astray from the womb, speaking lies; we were rebellious to our parents in our childhood, and wayward in our youth; in our early manhood we were carried about with this passion and with that, and since then all kinds of evils have led us astray. It is hard to trust somebody you don't know. Not only God, but also our fellow men, must know what side we are on. 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. 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. He will not be ashamed to own that Christ in whom he trusts; he that believes in the heart will not be ashamed to confess with the mouth. Rather he means to say the same thing about the system of grace ("the righteousness which is of faith") that Moses says about the law. See an instance of this pride in the Pharisee, Luke 18:10; Luke 18:11. 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." His death is instead of the death of our souls: his life is the life of our spirits. One day I was in my office studying Romans, and I was just so upset I put my Bible down and I said, "God, I can't reconcile it," and I walked out of the room. This is what that word of faith says, even the gospel which we preach. The subject terminates with the grand truth which must never be obscured by details that we are to receive, one another, as Christ has received us, to the glory of God. What saith the gospel? The chapter closes with the day of the Lord in its practical force on the Christian walk. The gospel states its message as clearly as the law. (ii) A man must believe that Jesus is risen from the dead. 6 But the righteousness which is of faith saith thus, Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? Clarke's Commentary Verse Romans 10:8. Calling for mischief or injury to fall upon a person. He quotes also from Isaiah "Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed." Salvation is so close to every one of you tonight. The truth is, those are altogether mistaken who call it so. It might be more or less any man's lot to learn. There is the type of confession described in Matthew 10:32. 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. The word of Christ is what brought us out of the world and that to which we were converted. Now, soul, thou hast nothing to do with asking vain questions; thou hast to accept the result of the Savior's actual performances. Due to security reasons we are not able to show or modify cookies from other domains. In his final sermon, Moses made some other points. It is done. 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? for what follow are manifestly his words, in Deuteronomy 30:14. the word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart; which is to be understood not of the law, for Moses himself is not speaking of the law only, but either of the whole word of God, both law and Gospel; or particularly of the Gospel, which holds forth those special blessings and promises of grace, pardon of sin, and circumcision of the heart, which are mentioned in the context, as what should be bestowed upon the people of the Jews in the latter days; and so is rightly applied by the apostle to the then dispensation, and is to be understood of the Gospel; which was nigh both in the ministration of it, by the apostles, to Jews and Gentiles, and in the application and experience of it; it was not only "in the mouth" of the preachers, but also of the hearers of it, by a hearty and sincere confession; and "in [their] hearts", being attended with the power of God, and received in the love of it, was truly believed in, and cordially embraced; that is, the word of faith. Now as to the test of death. f. The Scripture says: Referring, I think, to the general sense of Scripture, rather than to any one passage. They cannot say God has rejected them. And the cross offends people, because the cross tells you there is only one way to God. Thence thou must fetch thy evidences, not out of the records of heaven. The law is magnified and made honourable by the death of Christ; and the doctrine of faith in his death and resurrection is fully proclaimed, and amply proved to be effectual to the purpose for which it was revealed. - That is, what is the language of the doctrine of justification by faith? There is the vindication of God in His ways with the Old Testament believers. Say not in thine heart that thou must be educated, trained, and made into a scholar. He could not have remitted heretofore. Ask those who have seen them die. And this was powerfully corroborated by the testimony of another great name in Israel (David), in Psalms 32:1-11. God gave us conscience and the guidance of his Holy Spirit; and often we plead ignorance, when, if we were honest, we would have to admit that in our heart of hearts we knew the truth. Paul has been saying some hard things about the Jews. Some thought him half-witted, but the story would show his wind to be sound enough. To this he refers likewise, Galatians 3:12, The man that doeth them, shall live in them. This phrase, , "the word of faith", may be seen in the Jewish writings z; and this shows what word is here meant, even the Gospel so called, because it contains doctrines which are to be believed upon the testimony of God, and particularly the doctrine of justification by the righteousness of Christ received by faith; and because it proposes Christ as the object of faith, and encourages souls to believe in him for life and salvation; and is also the means of begetting and implanting faith in the heart, and without it the preaching of it is of no avail: and it is further described by the ministration of it. The apostle has come now to the nature. 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. c. Establish their own righteousness: This effort shows Israels lack of knowledge and that they are ignorant of Gods righteousness. This would make me wonder what kind of a character am I that she is having such a hard time believing me. Is he one of those that we elected? At least they have a zeal for God, Paul says. I do not mean by this its truth merely, but its exquisite suitability; so that the opening address commences the theme in hand, and insinuates that particular line of truth which the Holy Spirit sees fit to pursue throughout. Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the Word of God. 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. Inductive Bible study on Romans chapter 10. Now there is no way in which God could lay a basis for peace with Himself more blessed than as He has done it. They have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God, that is, they have not yielded to gospel-terms, nor accepted the tender of justification by faith in Christ, which is made in the gospel. Thus, having shown the Gentile in Romans 1:1-32 manifestly wrong, and hopelessly degraded to the last degree having laid bare the moral dilettantism of the philosophers, not one whit better in the sight of God, but rather the reverse having shown the Jew overwhelmed by the condemnation of the divine oracles in which he chiefly boasted, without real righteousness, and so much the more guilty for his special privileges, all now lies clear for bringing in the proper Christian message, the. 13). It was laid down exactly how far a man could walk on the Sabbath. He was in the end killed. i. He proved himself the Son of God, gave the most convincing evidence that could be of his being the Messiah; and yet they did not know and would not own him, but shut their eyes against the clear light, so that their zeal for the law was blind. I have always felt obliged to the Cardinal for that admission; because the best is good enough for me, and since trusting in Jesus is the safest, I intend to stick to it even to the end. 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. As Moses explains in v. 11, "What I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach." What, then, is its voice? There is satisfaction; but the work of Christ goes a great deal farther. ". It is salvation that the gospel exhibits and tenders--saved from guilt and wrath, with the salvation of the soul, an eternal salvation, which Christ is the author of, a Saviour to the uttermost. d. But what does it say? Be sure our duty truly and earnestly to desire the salvation of our own it Ok for Christians Follow. 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