Turn to Deuteronomy 30:11 . The stumbling-stone was their despised and rejected Messiah. Anybody being able to . Wishing and woulding, if that be all, are not praying. He shows that, on the responsible ground of being His nation, they were wholly ruined. But what is testified by Christian baptism is Christ's death. To say that faith-righteousness says these things simply means it is characterized by them. (that is, to bring Christ down:) 7 or, Who shall descend into the abyss? The way of the law was not easy. A message of peace and of life, glad tidings of good things. One might know a most real clinging to Jesus; but this would not set the heart at ease with God. Rather does it add to his guilt: such is man's evil state and will. The law cannot make a person righteous before God, nor can it give a person a righteous standing before God. Look at our dear, departed brother, Mr. Higgs, the last who has crossed the stream. Though Israel heard, they did not exercise saving faith in Christ making them (and us) all the more responsible. 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. For his sake let me tell it again. There never was an hour since Israel's existence as a nation that God has not had His remnant of them. He observes Sabbath; he loves God. (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) He had this, of course, in a revelation that was from God; he had law; he had prophets; he had divine institutions. Never lose the balance. already. And this is said to be unto salvation, because it is the performance of the condition of that promise, Matthew 10:32. 1. iii. And how can they proclaim it unless they be sent?So the basis for missions: having heard, having believed, having known, we are now responsible to send those to tell others of this glorious salvation and righteousness that God has offered to all men, Jew and Greek, who will just simply believe on His son Jesus Christ. Their crowning glory was precisely what they would not hear of. All of Pauls teaching of Gods election and right to choose does not diminish mans responsibility. Difficulty there is none: only believe and thou art saved. Our Lord Jesus lays a great stress upon this confessing of him before men; see Matthew 10:32; Matthew 10:33. No one is lost until he sins and sin becomes full grown (James 1:15). Did not I show you just now that when Moses spoke he did not mystify the matter, but put it plainly, "The man that doeth those things shall live by them." (b.) June 2023. The truth is, those are altogether mistaken who call it so. Jesus has come down: years ago be left the glories of his Father. Rightly does Paul take this as granted; for the doctrine of the law does by no means render the conscience quiet and calm, nor supply it with what ought to satisfy it. His soul scarce descended among the shades before it quitted them for ever; that day he died he was in Paradise, and the thief was with him there as a trophy. 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." They're both true. This is to fall back on a principle he had already used. 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. When the substance comes, the shadow is gone. Did the Jews take the ground of exclusively having that word of God the law? 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 ). Of whom does it declare all this? And he says to Israel: "All the day I have stretched out my hands to a people who are disobedient and contrary.". Has God then no delivering power from this? The soul is brought into peace with God, as it finds its standing in the grace of God, and, more than that, rejoices in hope of the glory of God. Click to enable/disable Google Analytics tracking. To turn a blind eye may be in some few cases a virtue; in most cases it is folly. He had bought the truth and would not sell it, and so he stuck to. 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. Due to security reasons we are not able to show or modify cookies from other domains. The doctrine of faith therefore, which reposes on the cross, establishes law, instead of making it void, as every other principle must (verses 27-31). Those that were under the law were to do all themselves, Do this, and live; but the gospel discovers the greatest part of the work done already, and what remains cut short in righteousness, salvation offered upon very plain and easy terms, brought to our door, as it were, in the word which is nigh us. Where then is boasting? See an instance of this pride in the Pharisee, Luke 18:10; Luke 18:11. the Arabic version, "what dost thou say?" When God established His covenant with Israel, God established the various offerings that they must bring to Him for their sins. Zion shall yet behold her mighty, divine, but once despised Deliverer; and when He thus comes, there will be a deliverance suited to His glory. StudyLght.org. He and his wife, Adrian, are beautiful people. And boy, she comes elbowing her way in and she is going to get right there next to Grandpa. Whatever man in all the world, throughout all the ages, shall come and trust himself on Christ shall never be ashamed of having done so. Finally he comes to two other witnesses; as from the Psalms, so now from the law and the prophets. Hearing is a reflection of first-century life. Man goes back to the righteousness of works. Nevertheless Gods normal way of bringing people to Jesus Christ is through the preaching of the gospel. Their zeal was not according to knowledge. He said he had no experience but this, The good elders very properly asked, "Are you converted? Is It Ok for Christians to Follow Zodiac Signs? The doctrine of Moses and of the gospel was nigh; that is, it was easily obtained, embraced, and understood. 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. Yes, God has chosen and elected and predestined. . 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. b. (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) Then, in Romans 9:1-33; Romans 10:1-21; Romans 11:1-36, the apostle handles a difficulty serious to any mind, especially to the Jew, who might readily feel that all this display of grace in Christ to the Gentile as much as to the Jew by the gospel seems to make very cheap the distinctive place of Israel as given of God. Hence it is essentially founded on the gift not only of a Saviour who would interpose, in the mercy of God, to bear our sins, but of One who is already revealed, and the work done and accepted, and this known in the fact that God Himself has interposed to raise Him from among the dead a bright and momentous thing to press on souls, as indeed we find the apostles insisting on it throughout the Acts. 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. For all this, as he presses further, there was the weightiest reason possible. Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. 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. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. This is the substance of the matter Christ saves, and we trust. We are not put to climb for it--it is not in heaven; we are not put to dive for it--it is not in the deep. You need not go to the universities and earn a degree of D.D. 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." I appeared plainly to those who did not enquire after 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 they were recorded, and Jack was a new man and a saved man. If you are to be saved by the commandments you must do them: that is clear. His life and death pointed in one direction. We cannot speak of the state of things before the flood as a dispensation. This is now become impossible, by reason of the power of sin and the corruption of nature; but Christ is the end of the law. The former is the direction, and the latter the application. There is satisfaction; but the work of Christ goes a great deal farther. The gospel or the system of grace or "the righteousness which is of faith" is not difficult to find or to accede to. You say, "Well, I can't reconcile that with God's divine election." And the ceremonies shadowed forth Christ as fulfilling the righteousness, and bearing the curse of the law. No, He has already come and brought salvation down from heaven to men. They already possessed them, and talked and thought about them: so that there was no need of going to distant places to learn them. ". But there was far more in Jesus. Now the fact that Jesus went to the cross is God's witness before the world that there is only one way that a man can come to God, and that is by the cross of Jesus Christ. Without faith there is neither justice nor life that God owns; where faith is, the rest will surely follow. They ought to have known better: they had every chance to know better; but they rejected the appeal of God. Oh, how I love that phrase.That is why I love the ministry so much, because I have the privilege to bring to men glad tidings of good things. 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. The extent is what God Himself, so to speak, possesses the universe of God, whatever will be under Christ: and what will not? and how can they hear without a preacher? Next, what the gospel says: "But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise," and so on. It is "revealed," and this too "from heaven." A wondrous way, but most blessed! No, confess yourself a sinner; trust in the sinner's Savior, and you are saved. "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved." But more than this "Whosoever shall call." At the close of that period he rose into the air, ascending high. 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. First, he cites Isaiah 28:16: "Every one who believes in him will not be put to shame." Now you won't get that on television, nor will you get that in your evening newspaper, watching the news or reading Time Magazine. God sought by His work among the Gentiles the pouring out of His grace and love and blessings, to provoke the jealousy of the Jew, so that the Jew will seek after God through Jesus Christ. in your mouth -- --when you confess Him. Be he Jew or be he Gentile, his only righteousness by law must come through the doing of the law. Consequently all turned, not on what man should be for God, but what God can be and is, as revealed in the gospel, to man. Christ is thus the end of the law for righteousness, that is, for justification; but it is only to every one that believeth. ** 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. This he proves by showing the different constitution of these two. But what saith it? Sirs, what must I do to be saved? ( Romans 10:14-15 ). There was no part of heathenism practically viewed now, so corrupting as that which had to do with the objects of its worship. 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. Or what is to be done according to that doctrine? He does not say that if you have broken the law you may still live by some other means. But this one is a special little angel. To whom, then, did the law address itself? It is the same form of expression exactly as in the beginning of Romans 5:1-21 "being justified by faith" ( ). But now, to meet the question that was raised, they pleaded the distinguishing promises to Israel. Hear this! This same term occurs again in verses 14 and 15. You always can block or delete cookies by changing your browser settings and force blocking all cookies on this website. (iv) The fourth objection is: "But what if Israel did not understand?" If you refuse cookies we will remove all set cookies in our domain. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. Having shown first, then, the sources and the character of the blessing in general as far as regards deliverance, the apostle sums up the result in the end of the chapter: "That as sin hath reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life," the point being justification of life now through Jesus Christ our Lord. Moses spoke a word that had to be obeyed, but Paul proclaims a word that must be believed. 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. It is no longer in our power to dream of a perfect, life-long obedience. In heaven it will fill us perfectly; but there is no more perfect joy there, nor anything. But they have not all obeyed the gospel. In verse 11 of that chapter, Moses tells Israel that Gods commands are not beyond their grasp as if they could find them only by ascending to heaven or crossing the sea. The same was true of the doctrine requiring faith in Christ. 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. That is, the Jews did not need to wonder about or ask how God would treat those who obeyed and disobeyed. Observe, the gospel is not simply remission of sins, nor is it only peace with God, but "the power of God unto salvation." ", Oh, but this is a very blessed thing to have to say to you. IV. The soul therefore now is represented for the first time as already justified and in possession of peace with God. "For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. The point is best understood by examining the source of Pauls information. No man can tell. - That is, what is the language of the doctrine of justification by faith? They get so extreme in the election predestination and all, they get so extreme that there are some churches that will not put a scripture on the board out in front, lest some sinner who has not been elected might walk by and believe in Jesus Christ and get saved when he wasn't predestined to do so.Don't get extreme. Was it not sure and evident that Israel could not take the promise on the ground of mere connection after the flesh? It is true Christ is in heaven; but we may be justified and saved without going thither, to fetch him thence, or sending a special messenger to him. The meaning of verse 6 is a little more difficult. 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