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. "His flesh was torn off by the whips, and he streamed down with blood, and his flanks were laid open by wounds." 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. As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, First, We need not go to heaven, to search the records there, or to enquire into the secrets of the divine counsel. Thou sayest, "Who shall ascend into heaven?" The same was true of the gospel. No man can tell. Outside Revelation, it only occurs here and Luke 8:31. Now listen. 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." 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. But did this satisfy the apostle? The causes of their unbelief, and these are two:-- (1.) 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. 8-10. What the law says, it speaks to those under it. He was Emmanuel, yea, the Jehovah, God of Israel. There is such a thing as a blind misguided zeal: such was that of the Jews, who, when they hated Christ's people and ministers, and cast them out, said, Let the Lord be glorified (Isaiah 66:5); nay, they killed them, and thought they did God good service, John 16:2. Thus, having shown the Gentile in Romans 1:1-32 manifestly wrong, and hopelessly degraded to the last degree having laid bare the moral dilettantism of the philosophers, not one whit better in the sight of God, but rather the reverse having shown the Jew overwhelmed by the condemnation of the divine oracles in which he chiefly boasted, without real righteousness, and so much the more guilty for his special privileges, all now lies clear for bringing in the proper Christian message, the. It is hard to trust somebody you don't know. "The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,"[ a] that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim: 9 If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 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. But that wasnt their only problem. A person cannot save himself. He that believeth will not make haste (so the prophet has it)--will not make haste to run away from the sufferings he meets with in the way of his duty, will not be ashamed of a despised religion. 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. Plainly put, by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified (Romans 3:20). If one may so say, He thus holds the man, instead of letting the man presume that he is holding fast the truth. Read this verse, "All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." This Good News is readily available to anyone who will receive it freely from God through Christ. Now it is clear that that obedience could be given only by a man who was desperately in earnest about his religion. Eleazar the priest was brought before Antiochus Epiphanes whose aim was to stamp out Jewish religion. The Gentiles did not seem to him to be in the same position as the Jews at all. Paul ably demonstrated in the first several chapters of Romans how futile this is. 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. 3). When we drift away from it, we become confused, and we begin dividing, bickering and fighting among ourselves. Let it not be! The Bible describes confessing Christ in two ways. 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. how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! [1.] But it is a word one must believe with all his hearta word he must believe enough to give up all hopes of self-righteousness and submit his whole being to it in faithful, obedience. Second Sunday in Lent Our Savior/Redeemer Pettibone/Woodworth, ND: Sun, Feb 20, 2005 Second Sunday in Lent : IN NOMINE JESU . If you do not want that we track your visit to our site you can disable tracking in your browser here: We also use different external services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps, and external Video providers. He suffered agonizing pain, but his peace was as deep as the sea. Listen, man. The doctrine of Moses and of the gospel was nigh; that is, it was easily obtained, embraced, and understood. Look at our dear, departed brother, Mr. Higgs, the last who has crossed the stream. Click to enable/disable Google reCaptcha. It would not have been righteous in any sense to have remitted the sins, until they were actually borne by One who could and did suffer for them. First, as to practical holiness, it is not merely that Christ has died for my sins, but that even in the initiatory act of baptism the truth set forth there is that I am dead. Lower than that, he descended to being "despised and rejected of men." Let me hold you." Believing in the heart that God raised him from the dead. This is unto righteousness. We should say the best we can even of our worst enemies; this is blessing those that curse us. 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. So God's grace and mercy extended towards the Gentiles. No, my dear friend, do not say that even in your thought. There never can be solid peace with God without both. What blindness! the word of faith -- The gospel peached by the apostles. Click to enable/disable _ga - Google Analytics Cookie. Choose a verse from 'Romans 10' to begin your 'Verse-by-Verse' study of God's Word using the more than 100 commentaries available on StudyLight.org. Perhaps I am doing the same this morning, but I do not mean to do it. Menurut data Bursa Efek Indonesia (BEI), saham ENRG anjlok 5,15% dengan nilai transaksi Rp26,56 miliar dan volume perdagangan 101,84 juta saham. But now it is "the wrath of God from heaven;" and consequently it is in view of eternal things, and not of those that touch present life on the earth. Romans 1:1-32. When people say we need something other than Gods word, they deny what Paul wrote (compare 2 Timothy 3:16-17). A disobedient and contrary people: This tells Gods assessment of disobedient, Messiah-rejecting Israel. The expression means that righteousness which God can afford to display because of Christ's atonement. Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. "Shall we sin," says he, proceeding yet farther (ver. There are some that find a difficulty here, because the expression "to hold" means holding firmly. All Israel shall be saved. 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. Every mouth was stopped; the Jew by his own oracles, as the Gentile by their evident abominations, shown already. Have done with doings, and feelings, and trust yourself with Christ. 21). Did they fall back on Abraham? Of course, it could hardly be the law: that was the boast of Israel. That is, [a.] Now, what Paul declared of the Jew then is still true today. The use of the law was to direct people for righteousness to Christ. speaketh on this wise: In these verses (6-8), Pauls language is clearly based on the Septuagint rendering of Deuteronomy 30:11-14 where Moses enumerates the blessings that accrue to Israel if she keeps the law. He has Gods law; all that remains is for him to obey it. (2.) They beat up on him the other day. Rather he means to say the same thing about the system of grace ("the righteousness which is of faith") that Moses says about the law. The meaning is, the doctrine is not difficult to be understood and embraced. That is, the Jews did not need to wonder about or ask how God would treat those who obeyed and disobeyed. But God has established the way through Jesus Christ. Christ is the end of the ceremonial law; he is the period of it, because he is the perfection of it. If you crawl on your knees for five miles to kiss the statue you can be spared several days of purgatory. It will be observed therefore, that in this connection the apostle shows the place both of conscience and of the law, that God in judging will take into full consideration the circumstances and condition of every soul of man. It is in your mouth and in your heart." The 14th verse in Deuteronomy 30:1-20 completes the thought by saying that the Jews could do what God wanted them to do - that thou mayest do it. You always can block or delete cookies by changing your browser settings and force blocking all cookies on this website. A great present-day preacher called preaching "pleading with men." If the first book in the Bible showed that it was only the call of God that made Israel what they were, its second book as clearly proved that all was over with the called people, had it not been for the mercy of God. And their words to the ends of the world.. First, What is promised to us: Thou shalt be saved. 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. "The righteousness which is of faith," or believing, "speaketh on this wise, Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? It is not a question of creature-standing. Did this seem to treat the law that condemned as an evil thing? i. This brings out a most emphatic truth and special side of Christianity. 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. One thing remains to be said of this passage. I have always felt obliged to the Cardinal for that admission; because the best is good enough for me, and since trusting in Jesus is the safest, I intend to stick to it even to the end. He was Emmanuel, yea, the last who has crossed the stream 's. 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