That there is none righteous, none that doeth good, none that understandeth. What does experience say about believing in Christ! Hence, as is shown later in the chapter, Adam is a head characterized by disobedience, who brought in death, the just penalty of sin; as on the other hand we have Him of whom he was the type, Christ, the obedient man, who has brought in righteousness, and this after a singularly blessed sort and style "justification of life." You already have it; all you have to do is obey it (Vol. "Shall we sin," says he, proceeding yet farther (ver. Their sound has gone out to all the earth: This quotation from Psalm 19:4 proves that the word of the gospel went forth and Israel heard it. But Paul's answer is: "Israel may have failed to understand; but the Gentiles did not. Christ's work of redemption deserves that God should act as He does in the gospel. There is nothing that proves this so convincingly as the book of Genesis; and the apostle, by the Spirit of God, calmly but triumphantly summons the Jewish Scriptures to demonstrate that which the Jews were so strenuously denying. If God had absolutely cast away His people, would there be such mercy? Nevertheless Gods normal way of bringing people to Jesus Christ is through the preaching of the gospel. There is satisfaction; but the work of Christ goes a great deal farther. Pastor Mark Schlamann. It say's this. They are merely persons who plume themselves on their orthodoxy, but in a wholly unrenewed condition. is the double prophecy. 3). Christ is nigh thee, for the word is nigh thee: nigh thee indeed: it is in thy mouth, and in thy heart; there is no difficulty in understanding, believing, and owning it. 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. It says that no man is forbidden to believe; "for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him." If in Isaac only, it is a question of the seed, not that was born, but that was called. It was laid down that no food must be cooked on the Sabbath. One night he collared some young people to ask them questions about the Bible. And we hear it on all sides. a. I will provoke you to jealousy: God told Israel that He would bring others close to Him and make them jealous. And the ceremonies shadowed forth Christ as fulfilling the righteousness, and bearing the curse of the law. 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. 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? 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? To the ends of the world: There is not a part of the promised land in which these glad tidings have not been preached; and there is scarcely a place in the Roman empire in which the doctrine of Christ crucified has not been heard: if, therefore, the Jews have not believed, the fault is entirely their own; as God has amply furnished them with the means of faith of salvation. (Clarke). 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. But this is not the full extent of salvation. Jesus had come and died; Jesus had been a propitiatory sacrifice; Jesus had borne the judgment of God because of the sins He bore. Keep to it. 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. (d) In the Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures it is the regular translation of the divine name, Jahveh or Jehovah. The design of the law was to lead people to Christ. No. The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart.. Of the Jew by his own confession. for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. This is the key word of early Christianity. In essence this passage is an appeal to the Jews to abandon the way of legalism and accept the way of grace. At least they have a zeal for God, Paul says. There is evil at work, and grace does not close the eye to danger; at the same time it is never under the pressure of the enemy, and there is the fullest confidence that the God of peace will break the power of Satan under the feet of the saints shortly. in your mouth -- --when you confess Him. There must be a radical, ii. Just help me to believe." we know how this was in Israel, how it might be, and has been, in Christendom. It is God Himself who, infinitely glorified in the Lord that expiated our sins by His one sacrifice, remits them now, not looking for our victory, nor as yet even in leading us on to victory, but by faith in Jesus and His blood. What canst thou need more than to rely upon the Anointed of the Lord? And what was all this about? Such is the principle. 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? Their own Scriptures maintained, as nothing else could, that all the wretchedness which is now found in the world, and the condemnation which hangs over the race, is the fruit of one man, and indeed of one act. The whole Jewish approach was that by this kind of obedience to the law a man earned credit with God. That is quite true, because Isaiah says: "Lord, who has believed what they heard from us?" c. Believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead: We must also believe this. Thirdly, let us consider, WHAT THE SCRIPTURE SAITH; "Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed." ", But all have not obeyed the good news. Click to enable/disable Google Analytics tracking. They tried him with their various attainments, depressions, anxieties, quibbles, and questions; but still the huckster would not budge. They did not know it, because they would not; they shut their eyes against the discoveries of it, and love darkness rather. b. Lectionary Calendar. Horribly offensive as sin is to God, and inexcusable in the creature, it is sin which has given occasion to the astonishing display of divine righteousness in justifying believers. All the world was guilty before God. We have all that we need to find salvation and be blessed by God. It may be helpful to read Deuteronomy 30:10. The Jews built on a false foundation, and refused to come to Christ for free salvation by faith, and numbers in every age do the same in various ways. First, We need not go to heaven, to search the records there, or to enquire into the secrets of the divine counsel. 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. Or to proclaim to them the truth. i. Brethren, my hearts desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. Thus, their good works must outweigh their bad works. ** 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. [1.] 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.". It is done. He was God over all blessed for ever, as well as their Messiah. And I love it. Along with this he gathers testimonies from more than one prophet. (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) Click to enable/disable _gid - Google Analytics Cookie. No longer does the question exist of requiring an expiation. Go to Jesus for everything. , , The word, that is, the word of faith is nigh thee. 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. "Stop a minute," said he. You must carefully guard against the notion of its being a question of Paul's own experience, because he says, "I had not known," "I was alive," etc. Nothing of this is intended in the class that is here brought before us. 3. Due to security reasons we are not able to show or modify cookies from other domains. (324) The righteousness of faith is evidently the it in this question: See Romans 10:6. Difficulty there is none: only believe and thou art saved. 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. It is for the saints to learn, of course; but it is that which goes out in its own force and necessary aim to the need of man a divine righteousness, which justifies instead of condemning him who believes. It might be more or less any man's lot to learn. But they are not even doing the works that God requires in the offering of a sacrifice. Would that the Lord would give us hearts to remember, as well as eyes to see, according to His own grace! It was not merely better light in the conscience, which might be elsewhere, as is supposed in the early verses of our chapter; but the Jew's position was directly and unquestionably one of divine tests applied to man's estate. The saving work is done, done by him who was anointed of the Lord to do it. Confess Jesus Christ as Lord. It is hard to trust somebody you don't know. Now observe, first, that the gospel claims to be like the law in its clearness. Several general exhortations proper for all Christians, Rom. There is a preaching which blasts the sinner with tempestuously angry words; but always Paul speaks the truth in love. 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. (325) It is the word which requires faith, and is received by faith; or it is the word entitled to faith, worthy of being believed; or it is the word which generates and supports faith. The problem is that none is able to keep the law perfectly. Then he enlarges, and points out that there is a remnant of grace in the worst of times. The unbelieving Jews were the most bitter enemies Paul had in the world, and yet Paul gives them as good a character as the truth would bear. 2. The things about which we are in doubt are far fewer than we would like to think. Here is an instance of what is so reprehensible. How shall they hear without a preacher? 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. Because this word is so important, Paul said it was preached (present tense). 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. It is even as close as your mouth. 1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. Deuteronomy 30:14. First, he quotes Leviticus 18:5 where it says that, if a man meticulously obeys the commandments of the law, he will find life. This, accordingly, is the essential spring of worship. And the cross offends people, because the cross tells you there is only one way to God. 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. Does this sort of faith enable men to face death with courage? 4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. Our Lord Jesus lays a great stress upon this confessing of him before men; see Matthew 10:32; Matthew 10:33. As I was walking out of the room God said, "I didn't ask you to reconcile it; I only asked you to believe it." b. I was found by those who did not seek Me: It is strange that Israel, for the most part, rejected their own Messiah. (2.) The inner man is dealt with, and searched through and through. If you will just confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is the Lord. Judge ye whether any one of us has fulfilled the whole law. But what saith it? Then, in Romans 10:8b-13, Paul reinforces faith by talking about its content and benefit. Turn to Deuteronomy 30:11 . The direction is "unto all;" the application is, of course, only to "them that believe;" but it is to all them that believe. How could the Jews say that this meant themselves? 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. Have done with doings, and feelings, and trust yourself with Christ. i. Next, what the gospel says: "But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise," and so on. (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) 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. Thus then, if Paul gave his own sense of Jewish privileges, there was no unbelieving Jew that rose up to his estimate of them. gospel of God. What about the doctrine of election? The past history of Israel was sketched inRomans 9:1-33; Romans 9:1-33; the present more immediately is before us inRomans 10:1-21; Romans 10:1-21. The excellency of the gospel above the law. You won't get glad tidings of good things. 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. 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! 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. Christ indeed did both; and so the word was nigh them, in their mouth and in their heart. But we believe on Him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead. If ever we are to bring men to the Christian faith, our attitude must be the same. Granted that it is so, at once and fully. We are heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ. In Deuteronomy 30:11 Moses said his information was not far off, and it was not hidden from the Jewish people. Clearly, then, such ground is untenable. a. But it is quite possible for the unconverted to be tenacious of the truth, yet unrighteous in their ways; and so much the worse for them. From verse 14 there is an advance. He refused. He shall not be ashamed of his hope in Christ; he shall not be disappointed of his end. This is unto righteousness. His language conveys the main idea which Paul wished to do, that the doctrine was plain and intelligible. It seems to us that what we have here is not so much a finished passage as summary notes. 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. Whoever you are, God's promise is to you that if you call upon the name of the Lord you will be saved. It was a very great thing, especially, when the profession of Christ or Christianity hazarded estate, honour, preferment, liberty, life, and all that is dear in this world, which was the case in the primitive times. That is the first necessity for the sinner with God. Death, and nothing short of it, rightly dissolves the bond. He has put the two things together, "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved." "Don't scold," said one. But why talk I so? It is not God having an earthly centre, and the peoples doming up to worship the Lord in Jerusalem. 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. One reported to me the other day a word which cheered me much. 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. Man is only so much the worse for knowing the truth, if he holds it ever so fast with unrighteousness. But this great work of Christ was not and could not be a mere vindication of God; and we may find it otherwise developed in various parts of Scripture, which I here mention by the way to show the point at which we are arrived. Because if you know God well you will have no problem trusting in Him at all.How can you know God? and how can they hear without a preacher? For the scripture says, Whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed. 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