Several general exhortations proper for all Christians, Rom. Thus the latter portion of the chapter is not doctrine exactly, but the proof of the difficulties of a soul who has not realised death to the law by the body of Christ. His pathway follows; and he shows that the very troubles of the road become a distinct matter of boast. This it was before it was his prayer. Accordingly Romans 8:1-39 pursues in the most practical manner the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free. I do say this for them--that they do have a zeal for God, but it is not a zeal which is based on a real knowledge. So I have found by my making over my other grandchildren she'll come elbowing her way in to get close to Grandpa. 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. 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. This is what that word of faith says, even the gospel which we preach. No man can tell. Time was when none of the English, nor French, nor of any other nation believed in the Saviour. Our website uses cookies to store user preferences. In thy mouth - This is taken from the Septuagint. Did the Jews take the ground of exclusively having that word of God the law? 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. Yes, whosoever will call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 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. The law is written in the ten commandments; you know them; and if you desire to live by them you must keep them. the top and bottom of such an ascent must be, "to bring Christ down." That mode of living which will do for the depths is safe for the heights. You say, "Who shall descend into the deep?" It is agreed by all commentators that this is one of the most difficult and obscure passages in the letter to the Romans. It is in your mouth and in your heart." We are heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ. The offering up of this desire to God. The design of the law was to lead people to Christ. The feet speak of activity, motion, and progress, and those who are active and moving in the work of preaching the gospel have beautiful feet. All Israel shall be saved. The causes of their unbelief, and these are two:-- (1.) He here shows the fatal mistake that the unbelieving Jews were guilty of, which was their ruin. The sacrifices, and offerings, and purifications appointed under the Old Testament, prefigured Christ, and pointed at him; and their inability to take away sin discovered the necessity of a sacrifice that should, by being once offered, take away sin. It is, that is, it is promised that it shall be, in thy mouth (Isaiah 59:21), and in thy heart,Jeremiah 31:33. 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. This was not suitable to the character of the epistle; but the glory of God he does. 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. ** In Park-street early in my ministry I told the story, and it did my friend good, and helped to rest his soul all those years ago, so that he remembered it and repeated it at the last. It is in Zion that He lays it. How are they to proclaim the good news unless they are sent to do so? He deals with the Jew from his own Scripture (verses 9-19). By keeping the law? (ii) A man must believe that Jesus is risen from the dead. Abraham is the proof of the value of faith in justification before God. "The word is near you. I want to preach that same gospel this morning, in the hope that in after days this word may be scattered far and wide, and some Jack the Huckster, or some other like him, may find himself to be utterly empty and undone, and may then know that Christ is ordained to be his salvation. Truth lies in the center between extremes. For, essentially associated as He is with the glory of God the Father, the full deliverance of souls from the realm of death was His also. Now the one who plants and the one who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. Deuteronomy 30:14. All rights reserved. (iii) There is the ignorance which is in essence a lie. No one had ever witnessed to him. d. But what does it say? Moses claimed for the law which God had given to the people through him that it was clear, and within the range of their knowledge and understanding. Because they were sons of Abraham. But what does it say? There is the type of confession described in Matthew 10:32. "The man has not got anything like settled peace with God; perhaps he hardly knows his sins forgiven; but at least he is a saved soul." It is not here a question of how a man is to be saved, but of God's indispensable moral judgment, which the gospel, instead of weakening asserts according to the holiness and truth of God. Instead, we gain it by confessing and believing in the person and work of Jesus Christ. Here, then, it is a comparison of the two great heads Adam and Christ, and the immeasurable superiority of the second man is shown. On the contrary, it was the Jew provoked by the Gentiles "By them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you." The apostle writes with the full assertion of his own apostolic dignity, but as a servant also. Having received, having heard, having known the grace of God through Jesus Christ, we are now obligated to let the world know of that same grace.I have a very good friend, Keith Erickson, whom I love in the Lord. 4). The story of Jesus Christ passed through all of the Jewish communities around the world. As Moses explains in v. 11, "What I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach." Herein is no mystery: Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners, and whosoever believeth in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. What canst thou need more than to rely upon the Anointed of the Lord? "I am of Mr. Spurgeon's religion, which makes people happy themselves, and causes them to do good to others." Then he knows that Jesus will blot out his transgressions, and create in him a clean heart, and restore him to himself again, though now, like David, his sin is ever before him. This might seem an exaggeration: the gospel had not been carried throughout all the earth, not even to all the lands that were known to the inhabitants of the Graeco-Roman world. Then he quotes Deuteronomy 30:12-13. The gospel goes forth universally. Of it nothing has been heard till now. When we speak of looking upon Christ, and receiving Christ, and feeding upon Christ, it is not Christ in heaven, nor Christ in the deep, that we mean; but Christ in the promise, Christ exhibited to us, and offered, in the word. There are several texts from which it may be gathered that believers shall not be put to shame. (Spurgeon). 8 But what saith it? The law is not compelled to lower its terms, as though it had originally asked too much; it is holy and just and good, and ought not to be altered in one jot or tittle, nor can it be. In the Fourth Book of Maccabees there is an amazing incident. These words were from the final sermon given by Moses. This word of faith is our message, that, if you acknowledge with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and if you believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. They tried him with their various attainments, depressions, anxieties, quibbles, and questions; but still the huckster would not budge. 5. That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. "But unto Israel he saith, All day long have I stretched out my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.". One reported to me the other day a word which cheered me much. But it is very plain and easy: The word is nigh thee. Then Isaiah says, greatly daring: "I was found by those who did not seek me. Is there no call, no mercy, of God for any besides? As long as we are nothing Christ is our all in all; we may be sure of that, and that is just the gospel in a nutshell. They did not know it, because they would not; they shut their eyes against the discoveries of it, and love darkness rather. We have the tenour of it, Romans 10:9; Romans 10:10, the sum of the gospel, which is plain and easy enough. Nevertheless there is in this passage something of permanent value. His sons and daughters will tell you that his death was sad to them, but not to him. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Why would they not allow such a pretension? "Shall we sin," says he, proceeding yet farther (ver. A voice cries "Who shall ascend into heaven?" Have you been born again?" 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? "Righteousness" never means mercy, not even the "righteousness of God." Christ is the end of the moral law in that he did what the law could not do (Romans 8:3; Romans 8:3), and secured the great end of it. I believe that whoever you are, chosen or not, predestined or not, if you will call upon the name of the Lord you will be saved. So when the other grandkids come over, I make a big to do over them, exaggerated. To this then the apostle comes, after having spoken of the divine favour shown himself, both when a sinner, and now in his own special place of serving the Lord Jesus. To hold the truth in unrighteousness would be no security. In such a condition what has been found in Jesus is too often misused to make a kind of difference, so to speak, between the Saviour on the one hand, and God on the other ruinous always to the enjoyment of the full blessing of the gospel. The tenour of it is, Do, and live. Paul said, "It is eliminated." There would be found a stumblingstone there. 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. Conscious deliverance, to be solid according to God, must be in the line of His truth. There can be no one to proclaim the good news unless God commissions someone to do so." 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. Verse 19. The inner man is dealt with, and searched through and through. Obedience was possible and the consequences of obedience (Gods blessings) were sure. Because many among them had not believed his report because they did not trust in Gods word through Isaiah and other messengers of the gospel. (c) It is the normal title of the Greek gods, prefaced before the god's name. Rather does it add to his guilt: such is man's evil state and will. Paul does not rejoice that they have stumbled at that stumbling stone (Romans 9:32). Now, the gospel forbids us to dream in this fashion. Does this sort of faith enable men to face death with courage? I was found by those who did not seek Me; The apostle is therefore plainly in presence of the broadest possible grounds of comparison, though we shall find more too. They thought they needed not to be beholden to the merit of Christ, and therefore depended upon their own performances as sufficient to make up a righteousness wherein to appear before God. Therefore they are not saved. "At any rate he is a saved soul," we hear. If it were possible that man could be saved any other way, the cross would not be necessary. At the close of that period he rose into the air, ascending high. 8.What does it say? Verse 20. He loved even here at the threshold to show the breadth of God's grace. The believing and the confession of that believing in God's own way are never to be separated, for "With the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." First, Moses says: "I will make you jealous of a nation which is no nation. In the gospel there is revealed God's righteousness. The Rock of Ages never fails. All day long I have stretched out My hands Ask those who have seen them die. And I answered him, "That is a very difficult question for me, because I do believe that your father does love God, has a zeal for God, but what is he doing about his sin? The direction is "unto all;" the application is, of course, only to "them that believe;" but it is to all them that believe. Jesus wept over Jerusalem. Jesus said, "Straight is the gate, and narrow is the way that leads to eternal life and few there be that find it, but broad is the way and broad is the gate that leads to destruction" ( Matthew 7:13-14 ). 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.". How are they to hear without someone to proclaim the good news to them? This existential pain is deepened and furthered by the divisions between Paul and his own people as he simultaneously argues his claims for inclusion of the Gentiles within God's salvific plan. Listen, man. To the limits of the holy land? People cannot come to Jesus without the right information about the gospel, but information alone is not enough to save anyone. Does that mean then that God is through with the Jew forever? Salvation isn't way off in heaven some place. "Doubts," he said, "what do you mean? And she gives me the worst time because she knows how totally she has me wrapped around her little finger. The word is near you -- --easily accessible. It is not doing, but believing; therefore it is what is proclaimed to them, and what they receive and believe. Hast thou not heard the tale? 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. Such is the principle. The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; But the righteousness which is of faith: In contrast to the righteousness that is based on the law is the righteousness that results from faith. And here it may be repeated that it is no question of pardoning the sinner, but of condemning the fallen nature; and this so as to give the soul both power and a righteous immunity from all internal anguish about it. You already have it; all you have to do is obey it (Vol. Their opposition to the gospel is from a principle of respect to the law, which they know to have come from God. Increase of privileges can never avail without the soul's self-judgment before the mercy of God. Believe that he can save you; believe that he will save you; at any rate leave the whole matter of your salvation with him in unquestioning confidence. The doctrine of Moses and of the gospel was nigh; that is, it was easily obtained, embraced, and understood. "No, I am not." No, they cry, it is in Isaac's seed that the Jew was called. There is nothing now to be done, but a work in us; this must be our care, to look to our heart and mouth. They must admit they are helpless sinners and accept the righteousness of God through Christ (10:1-4).The language of law says, Do all this and you will live. Jewish pretensions were therefore disposed of; not here by new and fuller revelations, but by this divinely skilful employment of their own Old Testament Scriptures. And how shall they hear without a preacher? 12:1-21. We provide you with a list of stored cookies on your computer in our domain so you can check what we stored. The old man refused. As no keeper of the law would have been lost on any ground whatever, so no believer in Christ shall be lost on any ground whatever; as no breaker of the law could escape punishment, so no unbeliever in Christ can he saved. Thy salvation rests in Jesus, rest thou in Jesus. The facts were so well known by the preaching of the apostles, that they might be said to be in every mans mouth.. It is not an esoteric message hidden in some secret place or located at some far corner of the universe. Thus the discussion of Abraham strengthens the case in behalf of the uncircumcised who believe, to the overthrow of the greatest boast of the Jew. Their problem is not that they have not heard or understood it, but that they have refused to believe it (see v. 16). This would make me wonder what kind of a character am I that she is having such a hard time believing me. Christ is come down from heaven; we need not go to fetch him. 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." We believe and receive. The gospel states its message as clearly as the law. 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. Now God must have reality in the man himself. To a disobedient and contrary people.. 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. No wonder, if souls confound the two things together, that they never know deliverance in practice. Romans 1:16,17 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek Isaiah 57:19 If what is possible? For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. All Reading Plans / Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous) / Genesis 21:8-21 (The rescue of Hagar and Ishmael); Psalm 86:1-10 16-17 (Prayer for deliverance); Romans 6:1b-11 (Buried and raised with Christ in baptism); Matthew 10:24-39 (The cost of discipleship) ( English Standard Version) June 25, 2023. Can it cry? 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. Nor does this in the slightest degree weaken the principle of law. Hearing is a reflection of first-century life. I want a righteousness which would need as much labor to produce as a climb to heaven would need; and I require an expiation for sin as great as though a man were plunged into the abyss itself, and there were made to suffer the divine anger. For whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved.. He begins with the great epoch of the dispensations of God (that is, the ages since the flood). As Cottrell says, "The word of faith is another shorthand expression for the entire way of grace" (Vol. When our time comes to depart, we shall just step aside and say, "Good-bye, dear friends, awhile: we will meet again in the home of the blessed." Proud member If you get out on the extreme and, unfortunately, some people do. 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. Beware that you do not confound it with souls being quickened, or even brought into joy. His death is instead of the death of our souls: his life is the life of our spirits. The meaning is, that the doctrine was already so familiar, and so well understood, that it was actually in their mouth, that is, their language, their common conversation. Thus, how can your father have the forgiveness of sins which is essential for fellowship with God?" Thus one could not fail to see these two weighty inferences: the bringing in to be God's sons of those that had not been His people, and the judgment and destruction of the great mass of His undoubted people. The point is best understood by examining the source of Pauls information. 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. 3. The soul of prayer is the heart's desire. She would say, "Oh, help me to believe you, Chuck, just help me to believe you." (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 passed away with man when he sinned. Who bring glad tidings of good things!. It must possess this place because the gospel is Gods power to save us (1:16). If ever we are to bring men to the Christian faith, our attitude must be the same. 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. "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." It is not among the Gentiles, but in the honoured centre of the polity of Israel. God is proved thus divinely consistent with Himself in Christ Jesus, whom He has set forth a mercy-seat through faith in His blood. 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. Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here. All of Pauls teaching of Gods election and right to choose does not diminish mans responsibility. He descended into the grave, so that he dwelt among the dead! The righteousness of the law is an impossibility for all who have sinned even once, and the truth is all responsible men have sinned more than one time. (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) Just as I lean all my weight upon this rail so do I lean my soul wholly upon Christ. Going to where Jesus went (the abyss/Hades/the realm of the dead, verse 7) is also unnecessary. He must know not only Christ the martyr: he must know Christ the victor, too. But God has established the way through Jesus Christ. The strictness of the law showed men their need of salvation by grace, through faith. 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: . 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. 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. b. And thus, I have great difficulty with their present and current status before God. 4. We know that God is behind everything; and yet, at the same time, we know that we have free will and can accept or reject God's offer. One does not have to mount a ladder to heaven in order to beseech God to send Christ down. 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