10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Though Israel heard, they did not exercise saving faith in Christ making them (and us) all the more responsible. For this (Romans 10:11; Romans 10:11) he quotes Isaiah 28:16, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed; ou kataischynthesetai. The word of faith is to be taken for the word of promise, that is, for the gospel itself, because it bears a relation to faith. See an instance of this pride in the Pharisee, Luke 18:10; Luke 18:11. Isaiah says: "I was found of them who sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me." There are some that find a difficulty here, because the expression "to hold" means holding firmly. Paul deals with that objection by quoting Isaiah 52:7. He was God over all blessed for ever, as well as their Messiah. Did Gentiles believe? Verse 18. 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. Saying that something more than the Bible is needed affirms that we need to bring Christ down. I need not speak about it this morning: I believe it, and rejoice in it: but it is not at all contrary to this precious truth. Their zeal was not according to knowledge. Unbelief is a non-submission to the righteousness of God, standing it out against the gospel proclamation of indemnity. 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. First, Moses says: "I will make you jealous of a nation which is no nation. When we confess the Lord Jesus, we agree with what God said about Jesus, and with what Jesus said about Himself. "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness" (ver. Cottrell cites Leon Morris in summary: "The righteousness of faith does not demand that we be supermen; it does not set some impossible task before us. Charity teaches us to have the best opinion of persons, and to put the best construction upon words and actions, that they will bear. And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? You need not "bring up Christ again from the dead," for the Lord has risen indeed. Even those that seek a place of separation to the Lord outside that which is now hurrying on souls to destruction are, nevertheless, deeply affected by the condition of that Christendom in which we find ourselves. Yet, how many times we take the promises of God and say, "Oh, God, just help me to believe. Observe, the gospel is not simply remission of sins, nor is it only peace with God, but "the power of God unto salvation." It must be further observed, that lest the minds of men, being led away by crafts, should wander from the way of salvation, the limits of the word are prescribed to them, within which they are to keep themselves: for it is the same as though he had bidden them to be satisfied with the word only, and reminded them, that in this mirror those secrets of heaven are to be seen, which would otherwise by their brightness dazzle their eyes, and would also stun their ears and overpower the mind itself. 5 Things You Should Know about the ESV Bible Translation. StudyLght.org. I was found by those who did not seek Me; 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: . There is no mystery or obscurity about it. The righteousness of faith, on the other hand, is easily available to all men upon the conditions mentioned in the next phrases. Of whom does it declare all this? The top and bottom of the matter is, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ." 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. Have as many good works as you can cram into your life, but never tell anybody about them, or think anything of them. Dig not into the bowels of the earth to find the gold of salvation. The promise is the same to all, who call on the name of the Lord Jesus as the Son of God, as God manifest in the flesh. All Israel shall be saved. Or let's put on our asbestos suits and descend into hell and bring the Messiah back from the grave. He saves those who are always confessors of sin, always needy in themselves, and therefore always glad of him. b. Believing in the heart that God raised him from the dead. "Their voice is gone out to all the earth, and their words to the boundaries of the inhabited world." It is here that you will find a great failure of Christendom as to this. Hence, then, we find that the whole chapter is founded on this truth. For Moses described the righteousness which is of the law, [he said,] That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. You see how simple God has made it? The first is Moses himself. And I love it. Such moral judgments will, no doubt, be used to leave man without excuse; they can never suit or satisfy God. They would have us proclaim salvation by the works of the law. Hence therefore, the apostle, with divine wisdom, opens this to us before the blessed relief and deliverance which the gospel reveals to us. Thereby is identification with His death. There is a legal maxim which says that genuine ignorance may be a defence, but neglect of knowledge never is. The faith of Christ has brought divine joy into his soul; but, in point of fact, he is traversing a world of infirmity, suffering, and grief. Menurut data Bursa Efek Indonesia (BEI), saham ENRG anjlok 5,15% dengan nilai transaksi Rp26,56 miliar dan volume perdagangan 101,84 juta saham. 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. They did not understand, and believe, and consider, the strict justice of God, in hating and punishing sin, and demanding satisfaction, did not consider what need we have of a righteousness wherein to appear before him; if they had, they would never have stood out against the gospel offer, nor expected justification by their own works, as if they could satisfy God's justice. for he came to bring everyone who believes and trusts into a right relationship with God. Righteousness can be gained by sinful men, but it can only be secured by faith and not by deeds. What canst thou need more than to rely upon the Anointed of the Lord? He cared nothing for oratory, which I have heard him call "a flash in the pan"; he delighted in the plain, solid gospel of Jesus Christ. 1. It is not in any degree settled as to itself by His blood. The soul therefore now is represented for the first time as already justified and in possession of peace with God. 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). They are generally gentlemen in good health, with regular incomes and sweet tempers, and so they soon reach their imaginary sinlessness vain creatures that they are; but you never get any of that among the poor, suffering, tried people of God. Help me to believe, Lord." "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. The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart. Instead of having to go to great lengths to achieve righteousness by the law, we can immediately receive righteousness by faith, by trusting in the word of the gospel. 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. Strange as it was, this too was foretold. A disobedient and contrary people: This tells Gods assessment of disobedient, Messiah-rejecting Israel. If you want your faith increased, study the Word of God. In the most solemn way he appeals to man with the demand, whether he thinks that God will look complacently on that which barely judges another, but which allows the practice of evil in the man himself (Romans 2:1-3). The chapter closes with the day of the Lord in its practical force on the Christian walk. 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! Listen. So then faith must come by hearing, and hearing by the word of God ( Romans 10:16-17 ). It was the Son of God not merely as dealing with the powers of the earth, Jehovah's King on the holy hill of Zion, but after a far deeper manner. 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. The meaning is, the doctrine is not difficult to be understood and embraced. It is God who now makes known a righteousness to man, instead of looking for any from man. Here is an instance of what is so reprehensible. There is the balance. There we find Christian knowledge as to the matter introduced; but still it is the knowledge of one who is not in this state pronouncing on one who is. of 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. "Doubts," he said, "what do you mean? Nothing of this is intended in the class that is here brought before us. (ii) The second objection is: "But, in point of fact, Israel did not obey the good news, even if your argument is true. But oh, thank God we have a message to tell to the nations. "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." (16-17) The testimony of Isaiah 53:10. iii. It is a great piece of condescension for a proud heart to be content to be beholden to free grace; we are loth to sue sub forma pauperis--as paupers. It is not among the Gentiles, but in the honoured centre of the polity of Israel. "The word is nigh thee." , , The word, that is, the word of faith is nigh thee. I. 22). It is part of the honour of Christ that every tongue shall confess, Philippians 2:11. It was all a matter of law and achievement. But did this satisfy the apostle? Chapter Summary Paul's heart is broken for his people, Israel. And she takes advantage of it and gives me a bad time, because she is totally independent when it comes to Grandpa.She loves to play her little independent games. (that is, to bring, Christ down from above:) or, Who shall descend into the deep? of it. An Italian gentleman, who has known me since I have been at Mentone, was asked, "Are you a Catholic?" To whom, then, did the law address itself? 7). When God established His covenant with Israel, God established the various offerings that they must bring to Him for their sins. Jesus in the garden prayed, "Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me." It was undeniable that the Gentiles did not seek the Lord, nor ask after Him; and the prophet says that Jehovah was found of them that sought Him not, and was made manifest to them that asked not after Him. As He is the spring of our joy, He is the power of sympathy in our sorrows, and the believer knows both. There is nothing about law there; it is all based on faith. He says, "If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." 2. Sin had left its crimson stain, but He washed me white as snow." Till the cross, well might a converted soul be found groaning in misery at each fresh discovery of evil in himself. They are both true, so you can't reconcile. God is proved thus divinely consistent with Himself in Christ Jesus, whom He has set forth a mercy-seat through faith in His blood. I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.". To those that were under it, to be sure. (verses 22-32.) To prove this point Paul quotes two passages. May the Lord be with you and may the blessings of the Lord surround your life as you walk with Him. "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved." II. (2.) Some thought him half-witted, but the story would show his wind to be sound enough. This is the substance of the matter Christ saves, and we trust. For instance, if a man signs a contract without having read the conditions, he cannot complain if afterwards he finds out that the conditions are very different from what he thought they were. Further, he would have real difficulty in believing that the way to God was open to everybody. This verse shows that believing faith does not come ultimately from the believer's witness but from the Word of God. All rights reserved. and how can they hear without a preacher? Obedience to the gospel required under Gods system of grace ("the righteousness which is of faith") is the obedience that trusting faith always produces not the obedience of works of merit. I know that he would have said to me, Give them Christ crucified, and salvation by grace through faith, as plainly as ever you can; for when he was sore sick and in the very agony of death, he repeated as his dying creed, and in his own quaint way he added, "They may talk as much as ever they like, but the whole of it lies in Jack the Huckster's verse. But still, all day long His hand stretched out to the Jew who refused to come God's way through Jesus Christ. It is our duty truly and earnestly to desire the salvation of our own. 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. Would that the Lord would give us hearts to remember, as well as eyes to see, according to His own grace! and how can they believe in him in whom they have not heard? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Hence, therefore, it was in no way limited to any particular nation, such as those that had already been under the law and government of God. Jesus came into the world to save real sinners, not sham sinners; for he is a real, and not a pretended Savior. Directions for our behaviour, as members of civil society, Rom. "He resisted," says the writer, "even to the agonies of death, for the law's sake.". You may now believe in Christ and live eternally. Also, Gods word works in the Christian (1 Thessalonians 2:13). Just before Israel crossed into the Promised Land, Moses spoke of righteousness by faith.. YOU see by this mourning that our church has been bereaved. And mark the force of it whosoever." ** See No. It was already among them by the preaching of the apostles, and was a subject of conversation and of thought. That is the first necessity for the sinner with God. There is no need to bring Christ down to find out what God wants. The day hastens when the Redeemer shall come to Zion. When we drift away from it, we become confused, and we begin dividing, bickering and fighting among ourselves. 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. What was to be the stumbling-stone? Man is only so much the worse for knowing the truth, if he holds it ever so fast with unrighteousness. Second Sunday in Lent Our Savior/Redeemer Pettibone/Woodworth, ND: Sun, Feb 20, 2005 Second Sunday in Lent : IN NOMINE JESU . This, they say, would at least make men moral and keep them sober: whereas even in this they err against the light; for it has been proved by history that such preaching makes men worse and worse. This is precisely what salvation does not mean; and I would strongly press it on all that hear me, more particularly on those that have to do with the work of the Lord, and of course ardently desire to labour intelligently; and this not alone for the conversion, but for the establishment and deliverance of souls. Sufficient then for pacifying minds, and for rendering certain our salvation, is the word of the gospel; in which we are not commanded to earn righteousness by works, but to embrace it, when offered gratuitously, by faith. III. why am I still under bondage and misery from the constant evil of my nature, over which I seem to have no power whatever? Paul makes no attempt to resolve this dilemma; and the fact is that there is no resolution of it. Believe in Christ as you would believe in your friend: believe that he died for sinners, and trust in him for salvation. You say, "Who shall descend into the deep?" There is satisfaction; but the work of Christ goes a great deal farther. How are they to believe in him of whom they have not heard? As Cottrell says, "The word of faith is another shorthand expression for the entire way of grace" (Vol. Proud as you may be of that which distinguishes you, it is hard to make sin and death peculiar to you, nor can you connect them even with the law particularly: the race of man is in question, and not Israel alone. Paul's answer is: "Israel's disbelief was only to be expected, for, long ago, Isaiah was moved to say in despair: 'Lord, who has believed what we have heard?'" If God had absolutely cast away His people, would there be such mercy? He at the same time unfolds the essential difference between the righteousness of faith and that of law. "For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified." Compare Romans 10:14; Romans 10:14. 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. First Moses said, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation and I will anger you ( Romans 10:19 ). e. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation: These two together (belief and confession) result in righteousness and salvation. Then your principle is your condemnation. The law cannot make a person righteous before God, nor can it give a person a righteous standing before God. (that is, to bring Christ down from above:): In Moses sermon these words mean the law that he commanded Israel to obey was not some far off impossibility requiring heroic superhuman efforts to discover and obey. But even if it were not already broken, should we get through to-morrow with its temptations, bearing such a heart as we have within us, without breaking that perfect and spotless law? 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. The righteousness of God flows from His mercy, of course; but its character and basis is righteousness. We believe and receive. Believe in him as your risen Saviour, declare him to be your Lord, and you will receive from God the righteousness that saves (9-10). They beat up on him the other day. 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. Though the whole might have been announced in one continuous sentence, yet a question is interposed for the sake of exciting attention: and his object at the same time was to show how great is the difference between the righteousness of the law and that of the gospel; for the one, showing itself at a distance, restrains all men from coming nigh; but the other, offering itself at hand, kindly invites us to a fruition of itself, Nigh thee is the word. () in Romans 10:8, as afterwards . What gives glory to God like this? 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. Click to enable/disable Google Analytics tracking. It pronounced on the Jew then. It might be more or less any man's lot to learn. In point of fact, as he had hinted before, their true tenure was the call of God, who was free, if He pleased, to bring in other people. When a person comes up to me and says, "Oh, I have the hardest time trusting God," what they are really saying is, "I really don't know God very well." 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. 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." Bible > Commentaries > Romans 10:9 . And how shall they preach unless they are sent? He introduced a new religion and way of worship, to which the former must give place. And what was all this about? It was not an easy thing; it must often have been made extremely inconvenient; and it must often have made life very uncomfortable. It is true God gave them that law for which they were so zealous; but they might have known that, by the appearance of the promised Messiah, an end was put to it. First, he cites Isaiah 28:16: "Every one who believes in him will not be put to shame." "O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! I will read his exact words to you. i. This it was before it was his prayer. Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. to deal with the whole posterity of Adam as involved in death because of one, their common father, who could deny the consistency of one man's saving? The downfall of man, when he thus abandoned God, was most rapid and profound; and the Holy Spirit traces this solemnly to the end ofRomans 1:1-32; Romans 1:1-32 with no needless words, in a few energetic strokes summing up that which is abundantly confirmed (but in how different a manner!) Surely it would need that I mount to heaven to own my sin, or dive to hell to bear its punishment. Retrieve. Their problem is not that they have not heard or understood it, but that they have refused to believe it (see v. 16). A person cannot save himself. Jesus had come and died; Jesus had been a propitiatory sacrifice; Jesus had borne the judgment of God because of the sins He bore. The first of these phrases, "from faith," excludes the law; the second, "to faith," includes every one that has faith within the scope of God's righteousness. One night he collared some young people to ask them questions about the Bible. Therefore they are not saved. Have not submitted. 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