Or let's put on our asbestos suits and descend into hell and bring the Messiah back from the grave. Again, we cannot neglect the emphasis on. He says rema is "the word of faith" that is proclaimed by the followers of Jesus. And what was all this about? Granted that it is so, at once and fully. Even the saints there would have been all the better for the gospel. "To all that be at Rome, beloved of God, called saints" (ver. Wednesday, March 1st, 2023 It seems incredible that a man should die like that for a law like that. God is not far from each one of us (Acts 17:27) because His will is right at our fingertips. 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. She would say, "Oh, help me to believe you, Chuck, just help me to believe you." or who hath been his counsellor? 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. d. But what does it say? In light of what Moses said, Pauls teaching (justification by faith) was not a new concept. Paul was entirely ready to admit that the Jews were zealous for God; but he also saw that their zeal was a misdirected thing. This is to fall back on a principle he had already used. Glad tidings of good things, but not all who hear obey. He has been telling them truths which were difficult for them to hear and bear. They're both true. 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. "No, not if you pluck out my eyes, and consume my bowels in the fire. He here shows the fatal mistake that the unbelieving Jews were guilty of, which was their ruin. Do not try to climb the heavens or search the depths, for Christ has already come down from heaven to earth, has been crucified, buried and raised from the dead. III. Hence it is, as he says, herein revealed "from faith," or by faith. Romans 10:5-9 . Now, our flesh likes the complications, because I would like to take some credit and receive some glory for salvation. Take his counsel. 5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. g. All who call upon Him: Again, note the emphasis on human responsibility. The whole passage Romans 9:1-33; Romans 10:1-21; Romans 11:1-36 is a condemnation of the Jewish attitude to religion. Yes, whosoever will call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Compare Peter's use in1 Peter 2:10; 1 Peter 2:10. Can it cry? 11, 12). If God had absolutely cast away His people, would there be such mercy? There is the righteousness of justification and the righteousness of sanctification. As He is the spring of our joy, He is the power of sympathy in our sorrows, and the believer knows both. Ask those who have seen them die. He did not say, "Do and thou shalt live, and yet there is another way." Beware that you do not confound it with souls being quickened, or even brought into joy. how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! It was undoubtedly enough for present purposes. why am I still under bondage and misery from the constant evil of my nature, over which I seem to have no power whatever? The righteousness of God is revealed from faith; and consequently, if there be faith in any soul, to this it is revealed, to faith wherever it may be. 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. It is not only a blessing in its own direct character, or in indirect though real effects, but the Giver Himself is our joy, and boast, and glory. "What shall we sing?" 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. Indeed they have. i. Pauls hearts desire also translated into concrete action: prayer to God for Israel. He is, of course, the same absolutely perfect and unchangeable God of goodness; but His perfection has displayed itself in new and more glorious ways in Christ's death, in Him who humbled Himself, and was obedient even to the death of the cross. It is with that objection Paul deals; and, as he deals with it in its various forms, on each occasion he clinches his answer with a text from scripture. "Shall we sin," says he, proceeding yet farther (ver. But Paul makes it clear: There is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. 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 quickening power of God therefore was here set forth, of course historically in a way connected with this life and a posterity on earth, but nevertheless a very just and true sign of God's power for the believer the quickening energy of God after a still more blessed sort. But the Jews did so die. Neither was there a need to ask about Gods will. Would that the Lord would give us hearts to remember, as well as eyes to see, according to His own grace! (324) For the purpose of removing the impediments of faith, he has hitherto spoken negatively: but now in order to show the way of obtaining righteousness, he adopts an affirmative mode of speaking. This maintains both the glory and the moral universality of Him who will justify the circumcision by faith, not law, and the uncircumcision through their faith, if they believe the gospel. But now he turns around and says, "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Chapter Summary Paul's heart is broken for his people, Israel. 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. 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. They are really rebelling against God's path of righteousness, having established now their own righteousness by works, as Paul here declares. Scripture: Romans 10:15. There is such a thing as a blind misguided zeal: such was that of the Jews, who, when they hated Christ's people and ministers, and cast them out, said, Let the Lord be glorified (Isaiah 66:5); nay, they killed them, and thought they did God good service, John 16:2. 16). 15), "because we are not under the law, but under grace?" All that I have and all that I am I would give to escape from the righteous wrath of God. i. Let us not stumble at the starting-point, but leave room for the due extent and depth of "salvation" in the gospel. And how shall they preach unless they are sent? But after the flood man as such was put under certain conditions the whole race. 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. They did not know it, because they would not; they shut their eyes against the discoveries of it, and love darkness rather. If you find him in it will not much matter where you find him, in heaven or in the deep, for he must be almighty everywhere. (b.) In Romans Paul is clearly agonizing and arguing over the reality of Israel's call by God as well as Israel's rejection of Jesus. If one says that Paul is quoting from Deuteronomy 30, the reconciliations attempted between Pauls use of these words and Moses use of them are strained. To this he refers likewise, Galatians 3:12, The man that doeth them, shall live in them. God was rather provoking Israel to jealousy by the call of the Gentiles. Death, and nothing short of it, rightly dissolves the bond. He begins with the great epoch of the dispensations of God (that is, the ages since the flood). Verse 20. b. I was found by those who did not seek Me: It is strange that Israel, for the most part, rejected their own Messiah. (ver. But that wasnt their only problem. Several general exhortations proper for all Christians, Rom. Moreover, He gave up the knowledge of God that had been handed down from father to son (ver. The best of them are but filthy rags: stow them all away in the coal-hole, and look to the merits of your Lord for salvation. 4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. So that this was no other than what Moses and the prophets said should be, Ro 10:20, and the chapter is closed, Ro 10:21, with another passage out of the same prophet in the next verse, showing the rejection of Christ and his Gospel by the Jews, and which justifies their being cast off by him, of which the apostle treats largely in the next chapter. It pronounced on the Jew then. But what does it say? This believing, or trusting, is the whole of the matter, and neither heaven above nor the abyss beneath will ever reveal another salvation. They would not hear of it. Hast thou not heard the tale? Apparently the meaning is: "What if the message was so difficult to grasp that even when Israel did hear it they were unable to grasp its significance?" A great present-day preacher called preaching "pleading with men." Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refusing them will have impact how our site functions. d. Believe in your heart: Mere intellectual agreement with the facts of the cross and the resurrection is not enough. The earth, or, at least, the Jewish nation, had been familiar with such dealings of God in times past. It is exquisite the delicate love with which he singles out distinctive features in each of the saints, men and women, that come before him. c. How beautiful are the feet: No wonder those who preach have beautiful feet they partner with God for the salvation of men. Just say it, "Jesus is my Lord," and believe in your heart that God did raise Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the Word of God. First of all the apostle points out that death has come in, and that this was no consequence of law, but before it. The design of the law was to lead people to Christ. They are a disobedient and contrary people, and all the more so because of their great responsibility before God. In both Old and New it is the same substantial testimony. 47. (that is, to bring Christ down from above:) Or, Who shall descend into the deep? No, He has already come and brought salvation down from heaven to men. a. The stumbling-stone was their despised and rejected Messiah. But unto Israel he said, All day long I have stretched forth my hand unto a disobedient and gainsaying people ( Romans 10:20-21 ). 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. It is hard singing when your father is dying, but it was not hard to him. Then the domains of flesh and Spirit are brought before us: the one characterized by sin and death practically now; the other by life, righteousness, and peace, which is, as we saw, to be crowned finally by the resurrection of these bodies of ours. Instead, we gain it by confessing and believing in the person and work of Jesus Christ. 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. 3). b. I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God: Paul will readily recognize that Israel has a zeal for God but he also sees that it is zeal not according to knowledge. Here it is not merely the negation of law and of circumcision, but we have the positive side. 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. And as it is for obedience of faith, it was not in anywise restricted to the Jewish people "among all nations, for his (Christ's) name: among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ" (verses 5, 6). Or to proclaim to them the truth. Then there is another and crowning part of the blessing: "And not only so, but also boasting in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the reconciliation." Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. It is not a mystical, obscure thing; it is near and familiar. No; under the law it was nothing but "Do and live; leave undone and die." (ii) A man must believe that Jesus is risen from the dead. Now Paul here very adroitly takes these words out of the mouth of Moses, alters them somewhat, and as good as says, "It was the boast of the law that it was clear, known, and accessible to the people; but much more is this the glory of the gospel." 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