What is near us may be easily reached. 47. Kurios Serapis is Lord Serapis. There is a preaching which blasts the sinner with tempestuously angry words; but always Paul speaks the truth in love. That there is none righteous, none that doeth good, none that understandeth. This is where so many religious people even sincere Christians go astray. Some wonder why Paul didnt mention the crucifixion in this passage. Not in our descending, but in Christ's descending our hope is to be found. Your father is not offering sacrifices. This was true even before Moses time (see Romans 4:13 and the example of Abraham). Of the Jew by his own confession. Romans 4:1-8,13-17. higher, if so high, in this epistle. Sin had left its crimson stain, but He washed me white as snow." Justification by faith has always been the way for people to come to God. But this may be comparatively a light question. They are both true, so you can't reconcile. If I had a sense of sin as deep as that of lost souls in hell, I could hope that I should be saved." 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. There are in reality very few times when we can honestly say: "I never knew that things would turn out like this." "But unto Israel he saith, All day long have I stretched out my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.". iii. Thus, how can your father have the forgiveness of sins which is essential for fellowship with God?" But this is not the full extent of salvation. Observe, the gospel is not simply remission of sins, nor is it only peace with God, but "the power of God unto salvation." how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! (ii) A man must believe that Jesus is risen from the dead. Here I shall be very brief. 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. So, then, if a man called Jesus kurios ( G2962) he was ranking him with the Emperor and with God; he was giving him the supreme place in his life; he was pledging him implicit obedience and reverent worship. He heard a poor woman sing somewhere, He remembered the words, and what was better, he felt their sense; and he kept on humming them to himself till God's good Spirit engraved them on his heart. He know what he did know, and to that he held fast, Well, they must take him into the church; they could not well refuse a man with such a confession of faith; and when he was in the church, walking with the brethren, he was happier than the rest of them, at which they greatly marvelled, and one said to him, "Brother Jack, don't you sometimes feel doubts and fears? This accordingly leads, as connected with the deliverance of the body, to the inheritance we are to possess. It is in our mouth--we are reading it daily; it is in our heart--we are, or should be, thinking of it daily. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. The meaning of verse 6 is a little more difficult. 4. he was Lord of heaven and earth, and yet they called him Beelzebub, and talked of him as a drunken man and a wine-bibber. Instead of waiting for some new truth to fall from heaven, or float up from the abyss, they ought to recognize that truth has already been given. The "word of faith" is the message of justification by the system of "faith" as opposed to the Law. He here shows the fatal mistake that the unbelieving Jews were guilty of, which was their ruin. Granted that it is so, at once and fully. The word is nigh thee - This is still a use of the language of Moses. He is not studying an historical personage, however great; he is living with a real presence. The language of faith says, Do nothing. How is it possible that I can be saved? Thus it is a mistake to suppose that saints may not be benefited by a better understanding of the gospel, at least as Paul preached it. And the cross offends people, because the cross tells you there is only one way to God. Because this information was in the hands of the Hebrews, the Israelites did not need to go beyond the sea (verse 13) or send someone up to heaven (verse 12) to receive information about Gods will. When people say we need something other than Gods word, they deny what Paul wrote (compare 2 Timothy 3:16-17). 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.". He shows that, on the responsible ground of being His nation, they were wholly ruined. The expression means that righteousness which God can afford to display because of Christ's atonement. (that is, to bring Christ again from the dead.) One does not have to climb to heavenas though one couldto bring it down. "What shall we sing?" Difficulty there is none: only believe and thou art saved. Ourselves nothing, Christ everything that is it. He was debtor both to the Greeks and the barbarians, both to the wise and to the unwise; he was ready, as far as he was concerned, to preach the gospel to those that were at Rome also (ver. 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. (2.) Not a pretty toy for Sundays, but food to live upon; a common-sense hope; a blunt man's religion that he can carry into business. b. That is not Christ's way. "The just shall live by faith" (not by law). ii. In the first ten verses of Deuteronomy 30:1-20, Moses described the two paths that Israel could take: obedience that would result in great blessings or disobedience that would severely damage the nation. The apostle shows them with astonishing force at the starting-point that he was far from slighting their privileges. I never doubt that, for I have daily proofs of it, and why should I doubt that, for he says he is, and I must believe him." If you trust in him with your heart, trust him openly, and confess him with your mouth, owning that he is your Lord, and your Savior. The practical part follows, wherein we find, 1. Therefore they are not saved. If it was the Lord's will that I should die in the street at this moment, I would cheerfully go." 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. 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. 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? So God's grace and mercy extended towards the Gentiles. One day I was in my office studying Romans, and I was just so upset I put my Bible down and I said, "God, I can't reconcile it," and I walked out of the room. I'm sorry you can't accept it, but that is the way it is. He did not say, "Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O my friends, for the hand of the Lord hath touched me." It is no longer in our power to dream of a perfect, life-long obedience. It was laid down that, in the event of sickness, measures might be taken to keep the patient from becoming worse, but not to make him better. 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? Rules for the conduct of Christians to one another, as members of the Christian church, Rom. Secondly, We need not go to the deep, to fetch Christ out of the grave, or from the state of the dead: Into the deep, to bring up Christ from the dead. You must believe in your heart; and even that belief is not enough without accompanying action: confess with your mouth. That mode of living which will do for the depths is safe for the heights. The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; that 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." For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our report? So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Through His Word. 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. a. This is the faith which saves the soul. (Spurgeon). The soul may feel the blood of Jesus to be a yet deeper want; but this alone does not give peace with God. They set up the golden calf, and thus cast off the true God, their God, even in the desert. To those that were under it, to be sure. 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. He quotes also from Isaiah "Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed." Zeal for God, but not according to knowledge: This is a perfect description of Paul himself before his conversion. i. But now they were; and thus God vindicated Himself perfectly as to the past. This verse shows that believing faith does not come ultimately from the believer's witness but from the Word of God. 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. Deuteronomy 30:14. Again, we cannot neglect the emphasis on personal responsibility. They too should live. The offering up of this desire to God. Jesus had come and died; Jesus had been a propitiatory sacrifice; Jesus had borne the judgment of God because of the sins He bore. If we fail to equip ourselves for a task when every chance is given to us to equip ourselves adequately for it, we must stand condemned. 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. Their zeal was not according to knowledge. (that is, to bring Christ down from above:) Or, Who shall descend into the deep? As they watched him rising higher, and yet higher, at last a cloud received him: he has gone up to the Father's throne, as the sinner's Savior: at the throne he stands to-day to intercede for sinners, and from that throne he bends to comfort those who come to him. Without faith there is neither justice nor life that God owns; where faith is, the rest will surely follow. 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." We need not here enter into the details; but on the surface we see how the apostle brings all down to that which is of the deepest interest to every soul. This believing, or trusting, is the whole of the matter, and neither heaven above nor the abyss beneath will ever reveal another salvation. It is "revealed," and this too "from heaven." But such thoughts altogether vanish now, because, as the Gentile was unquestionably wicked and abominable, so from the law's express denunciation the Jew was universally guilty before God. As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, So Paul concludes his argument by citing two Old Testament texts to prove his case. There would be found a stumblingstone there. The direction is "unto all;" the application is, of course, only to "them that believe;" but it is to all them that believe. He would not therefore have them ignorant how they had lain on his heart for a visit (ver. They have rejected God. You say, "Chuck, that is too narrow. Hearing is a reflection of first-century life. No, he directed the comfort to his dear wife, for she had greater need of it than he had his faith was firm. 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. In the gospel there is revealed God's righteousness. 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. But if it were so, He had not done with them. I have had almost thirty years among you, and God has been very gracious to us, so that we have lost very few comparatively by death; but now many are going home, and, according to the course of nature, many of our honored brethren and sisters will soon follow. This same term occurs again in verses 14 and 15. The righteousness which is of faith, what does it say to us? Now there is no way in which God could lay a basis for peace with Himself more blessed than as He has done it. For they do not realize that a man can only achieve the status of righteousness by God's gift, and they seek to establish their own status, and so they have not submitted themselves to that power of God which alone can make them righteous in his sight. How are they to proclaim the good news unless they are sent to do so? 15:18-24). To profess this doctrine was, therefore, virtually to profess all the truths of the Christian religion. They wanted Jerusalem to be shut down completely on the Sabbath day, and he just let their sections be shut down but allowed cars to be driven in other sections. Rather does it add to his guilt: such is man's evil state and will. It was not only his heart's desire, but it was his prayer. 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