What were the principles of it? It is an appeal to listen to the prophets who long ago declared that faith is the only way to God, and that that way is open to every man. Angels saw him and wondered. There is no good reason for such an assumption, but much against it. It was not only his heart's desire, but it was his prayer. 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. No prayers, or tears, are wanted to bring him down: he has already come and is near at hand. Its simplicity and plainness he proceeds immediately to state. The man who, being baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, or Christian baptism, would assert any license to sin because it is in his nature, as if it were therefore an inevitable necessity, denies the real and evident meaning of his baptism. Of these only a remnant would be saved. His language conveys the main idea which Paul wished to do, that the doctrine was plain and intelligible. It is such milk for babes that I have known people refuse such plain truth because they were not willing to be treated like little children. 1. (14-15) The necessity of the preaching of the gospel. Here you have it, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." 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. May the Lord be with you and may the blessings of the Lord surround your life as you walk with Him. i. First, What is promised to us: Thou shalt be saved. Paul ably demonstrated in the first several chapters of Romans how futile this is. 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. But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it." Moses said, "That the man which doeth those things shall live by them." He had bought the truth and would not sell it, and so he stuck to. Also, Gods word works in the Christian (1 Thessalonians 2:13). Retrieve. Hence the faithful derive from this passage remarkable consolation with regard to the certainty of the word; for they may no less safely rest on it, than on what is actually present. A passage like this may seem strange to us and unconvincing; and it may seem that some at least of the texts Paul quotes have been wrenched out of their context and made to mean what they were never intended to mean. He did not say, "Do and thou shalt live, and yet there is another way." The believer, whosoever he might be, should not be ashamed. Yes, they did hear. Although circumcision began with Abraham, manifestly it had nothing to do with his righteousness, and at best was but the seal of the righteousness of faith which he had in an uncircumcised state. "Are you a Protestant?" That is, it is not merely pardon of past sins, but deliverance from sin, and in due time from all its consequences. It is even as close as your mouth. Undoubtedly divine judgment fell on Him; but this is not "the righteousness of God," as the apostle employs it in any part of his writings any more than here, though we know there could be no such thing as God's righteousness justifying the believer, if Christ had not borne the judgment of God. III. Did they deny that they were a foolish nation? 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. Not so, says the apostle; it is because of the evil of the nature, not of the law. (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) There is entrance into favour, and nothing but favour. So also the gospel by no means involves itself in obscurity, but says, Believe and live, quite as distinctly as Moses said, "Do and live." By the cross God has a deeper moral glory than ever a glory that He thus acquired, if I may so say. 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? Men have an infinite and fatal capacity for shutting their minds to what they do not wish to see, and stopping their ears to what they do not wish to hear. If you get extreme on the Calvinistic side and into election and predestination and all, then you have lost the center of truth. No, he says only, "He that doeth those things shall live by them." (2.) But oh, thank God we have a message to tell to the nations. 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. Brethren, my hearts desire and prayer to God for Israel: Paul again feels compelled to relate his heart regarding his fellow Jews. () in Romans 10:8, as afterwards . This was not suitable to the character of the epistle; but the glory of God he does. He was in the end killed. 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. Sin is our not wanting the gifts of . 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? Knowing God we come to believe and trust in God. And I heard Keith giving his testimony on television the other night and he said that living here in southern California, going to UCLA and all, he was twenty-four years old before he ever heard about Jesus Christ. "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. 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. And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? You know what Cardinal Bellarmine said: he was a great antagonist of Luther, and thought that we might trust in our works; but, looking it all over, he admitted that inasmuch as no man could be quite sure that he had done enough good works, it was perhaps best on the whole and safest to trust altogether to the blood and merits of Jesus Christ. Upon our believing, that is, our humble consent to the terms of the gospel, we become interested in Christ's satisfaction, and so are justified through the redemption that is in Jesus. (1-3) Israels refusal to submit to the righteousness of God. So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God: Saving faith comes through hearing by the word of God. He suffered agonizing pain, but his peace was as deep as the sea. 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. As this was now made known to all, as the apostles preached it everywhere, it could be said to be nigh them; there was no need of searching other lands for it, or regarding it as a hidden mystery, for it was plain and manifest to all. Let us not stumble at the starting-point, but leave room for the due extent and depth of "salvation" in the gospel. Hear this! It is the same form of expression exactly as in the beginning of Romans 5:1-21 "being justified by faith" ( ). "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." There would be no remnant if justice took its course. Or to proclaim to them the truth. If I had a sense of sin as deep as that of lost souls in hell, I could hope that I should be saved." 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. I have never been down-hearted at anything my life; certainly not at the thought of dying. Thus the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against (not only the open ungodliness of men, but) the orthodox unrighteousness of those that hold the truth in unrighteousness. [2.] He had no uncertainty; he was as sure of his safety as it it had been a matter of calculation by the rules of arithmetic. Ah, then the heart foolishly cries, "I must know a great deal; as much as if I had been to heaven and seen for myself, or as if I had dived into the depths and made discoveries there." 18). They beat up on him the other day. b. All Israel shall be saved. Now, soul, thou hast nothing to do with asking vain questions; thou hast to accept the result of the Savior's actual performances. Not all will accept the message, but Christians must proclaim it nevertheless. The judgments of God will fall on man as man, but the heaviest blows are reserved for Christendom. 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. Though he had never visited Rome, many of them were known personally. So there must be confession with the mouth. The way of justification and salvation has in it no such depths or knots as may discourage us, no insuperable difficulties attending it but, as was foretold, it is a high-way, Isaiah 35:8. Then he enlarges, and points out that there is a remnant of grace in the worst of times. In thy heart - The word heart is very variously used in the sacred Scriptures. The man who does those things shall live by them: The Law of Moses makes the path to righteousness through the law plain. Beneath it there runs the conviction that there are certain kinds of ignorance which are inexcusable. 2. First, he quotes Leviticus 18:5 where it says that, if a man meticulously obeys the commandments of the law, he will find life. So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God, Their sound has gone out to all the earth, i. 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. Moses spoke a word that had to be obeyed, but Paul proclaims a word that must be believed. Furthermore, To question how they could ascend into heaven in order to find a way of perfection was a denial of the incarnation of Christ. Verse 18. Have as many good works as you can cram into your life, but never tell anybody about them, or think anything of them. Without faith there is neither justice nor life that God owns; where faith is, the rest will surely follow. "At any rate he is a saved soul," we hear. It might be more or less any man's lot to learn. He was the promised Messiah, born King of the Jews. June 2023. But the Jew might argue that it was an unjust thing in principle this gospel, these tidings of which the apostle was so full; for why should one man affect many, yea, all? But what saith it? He has put the two things together, "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved." And thus, I have great difficulty with their present and current status before God. Now the one who plants and the one who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. You that hope to be saved by your works are indulging a forlorn hope; what never you may do or be in the future, the past has already ruined you. The excellency of the gospel above the law. But more than this "Whosoever shall call." The righteousness of God flows from His mercy, of course; but its character and basis is righteousness. The use of the law was to direct people for righteousness to Christ. Have not submitted. 12:1-21. We believe everything which the Lord Jesus has taught, but we must go a step further, and trust him. He is come up from the deep; we need not perplex ourselves how to bring him up. Lower than that, he descended to being "despised and rejected of men." His pathway follows; and he shows that the very troubles of the road become a distinct matter of boast. At least they have a zeal for God, Paul says. It is not our effort which wins us goodness. Paul does not rejoice that they have stumbled at that stumbling stone (Romans 9:32). No trembling sinner doubts but that by the breaking of the law we are condemned: be you equally sure of it, that by not believing you are condemned. 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. In the end the soldiers so pitied him that they brought him dressed meat, which was not pork, and told him to eat it and say that he had eaten pork. There they were recorded, and Jack was a new man and a saved man. Here is an instance of what is so reprehensible. He quotes from Joel, that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. This brings out a most emphatic truth and special side of Christianity. This is a state of mind, and not the necessary or immediate fruit of Romans 3:1-31, but is based on the truth of Romans 4:1-25 as well as 3. As I said the other day, Do not behave like a rat behind the wainscot, only daring to come out in the dark. Then he quotes Deuteronomy 30:12-13. We are as full of evil as an egg is full of meat, and our heart is like a cage of unclean birds. 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. Outside Revelation, it only occurs here and Luke 8:31. Here, again, the apostle takes up what he had but announced in chapter 1 the righteousness of God. 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. The way of salvation is now both plain and easy. It was laid down exactly how far a man could walk on the Sabbath. Now listen. This applies to all who cast themselves upon God in faith, Jews and Gentiles alike (11-13).Before people can believe this message, they must hear it. 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. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for SDA Bible Commentary Set Vols. Even where the law was, not by it but by faith the just lived. Alas! Confess Jesus Christ as Lord. We should take notice of that which is commendable even in bad people. But still, all day long His hand stretched out to the Jew who refused to come God's way through Jesus Christ. "Their voice is gone out to all the earth, and their words to the boundaries of the inhabited world." "Righteousness" never means mercy, not even the "righteousness of God." Then, from ver. 15:18-24). Who bring glad tidings of good things!. This do, and thou shalt live. It is nigh you; it is nigh you now: it will never be nigher than it is at this moment. Moses does not allow any person to dream that under the law he can be saved in any other way than by perfect obedience thereto. 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. The righteousness of God, then, could now go forth in virtue of His blood. This was the key to their difficulties this alone, and fully explains their coming ruin as well as God's solemn warnings. Confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus: We can never forget all that it meant to say that Jesus Christ is Lord. For the Scripture says, Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame. For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. 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? His answer is: "You cannot say that Israel never got the chance to hear; for scripture plainly says that God's message has gone out to all the world.". of it. 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. But they have not all obeyed the gospel. May God bless you and may God work in your life this week in a very special way. And what was all this about? The righteousness of Christ imputed, secures the soul, the better part, from death. 5 Things You Should Know about the ESV Bible Translation. The hope of salvation by works is black despair; yet we have a set of men on the face of the earth who are always wanting us to preach up this hopeless hope, and urging us to lay this heavy burden upon the shoulders of dying men. The believer, therefore, unwittingly though really, dishonours the Saviour, if he be content to walk short of this standard and power; he is entitled and called to walk according to his place, and in the confidence of his deliverance in Christ Jesus before God. Another, despairing of deliverance by his doings, runs upon his feelings, and cries, "If I am to be saved, surely I shall need to experience joys like those which are felt by spirits before the throne. Now, when you call upon the name of the Lord, God doesn't go down the list and say, "Let's see. It is not here believing on Jesus, but on God who has proved what He is to us in raisin, from among the dead Him who was delivered for our offences, and raised again for our justification (verses 13-25). (That is, to bring Christ up from the dead.) So I believe it. A good wish (Romans 10:1; Romans 10:1), a wish that they might be saved--saved from the temporal ruin and destruction that were coming upon them--saved from the wrath to come, eternal wrath, which was hanging over their heads. This is to fall back on a principle he had already used. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. 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. So God's grace and mercy extended towards the Gentiles. And the ceremonies shadowed forth Christ as fulfilling the righteousness, and bearing the curse of the law. as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! How far? The word is close to you, it is even in your mouth, and in your heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth that Jesus is Lord, and will believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved ( Romans 10:8-9 ). Abraham is the proof of the value of faith in justification before God. I thank God he could say that of my religion: it did this for my dear friend it made him a happy man, whose pleasure it was to please others: and now he has passed away in full sunlight into a still brighter noon. Since the word of God is in our mouth, "confession" (homologeo) of Christ is almost automatic. What was it? Oh, how nice you look today. No, salvation is not put at so vast a distance from us. It seems to mean that his truth was in their mind, and a subject of meditation and reflection. But natural conscience, although it may detect evil, never leads one into the inward possession and enjoyment of good never brings the soul to God. The old man refused. We, O Antiochus," he said, "who live under a divine law, consider no compulsion to be so forcible as obedience to our law." He does not, however, exclude other parts of the word, no, not even the precepts of the law; but his design is, to show that remission of sins stands for righteousness, even apart from that strict obedience which the law demands. What gives glory to God like this? 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. (2.) Thirdly, let us consider, WHAT THE SCRIPTURE SAITH; "Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed." But, suppose I still say: "Can it be that they have not heard?" Thus, the true God being lost, all was lost, and man's downward career becomes the most painful and humiliating object, unless it be, indeed, that which we have to feel where men, without renewal of heart, espouse in pride of mind the truth with nothing but unrighteousness. It means we recognize that Jesus is God, that He is the Messiah, and that His work on the cross is the only way of salvation for mankind. by all that remains of the ancient world. It is in your mouth and in your heart." Nevertheless there is in this passage something of permanent value. The law demanded, but could never receive righteousness from man. It didnt surprise God or His prophets. Here was the very truth that every Jew, as such, denied. He observes Sabbath; he loves God. It is not meant that Paul knew nothing of this; but that the ground of inference, and the general theory built up, are alike mistaken. In essence this passage is an appeal to the Jews to abandon the way of legalism and accept the way of grace. 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. I will make you angry with a nation that has no understanding." You won't get glad tidings of good things. This God has wrought in Christ. His sons and daughters will tell you that his death was sad to them, but not to him. Their opposition to the gospel is from a principle of respect to the law, which they know to have come from God. A Monument for the Dead, and a Voice to the Living, --------------------------------------------------------------------------------, Delivered on Lord's-Day Morning, January 7th, 1883, by, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington. 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. If you will go around and knock on a hundred doors a day and peddle the magazines and wake people up, continue this faithfully, and you will be saved. He has set two things side by side; everything is of God, and everything is of human choice. I am sure we should not. The gospel states its message as clearly as the law. This, accordingly, is the essential spring of worship. To this he refers likewise, Galatians 3:12, The man that doeth them, shall live in them. They will not accept that the way of salvation for them is the same as for the Gentiles - through faith in Christ (30-33). Anyone can express it easily with the mouth and accept it easily with the heart. Romans 8:1-39 displays this comforting truth in its fulness. For whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved ( Romans 10:12-13 ). This is all perfectly true true of a Jew as of a pagan true of any unrenewed man that never heard of a Saviour. Now hearken. Let me call your attention again to its force. 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. The connection is fully owned with that which had been from God of old. The man who does those things shall live by them, ascend into heaven or descend into the abyss, But what does it say? 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?" 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. Confessing the Lord Jesus--openly professing relation to him and dependence on him, as our prince and Saviour, owning Christianity in the face of all the allurements and affrightments of this world, standing by him in all weathers. But when Paul emphasizes the need to believe that God has raised him from the dead, it is not that we believe the resurrection as opposed to the cross, but encompassing the work of Jesus on the cross. Obedience was possible and the consequences of obedience (Gods blessings) were sure. For there is one God and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. No man can tell. The soul therefore now is represented for the first time as already justified and in possession of peace with God. 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