That there is none righteous, none that doeth good, none that understandeth. But there is much more in Christ than that to which too many souls restrict themselves, not less to their own loss than to His dishonour. But there is more than this in Romans 4:1-25 He takes up a third feature of Abraham's case; that is, the connection of the promise with resurrection. Now he began the argument by saying that everything was of God and that men had no more to do with it than the clay had to do with the work of the potter. Then there is another and crowning part of the blessing: "And not only so, but also boasting in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the reconciliation." God's righteousness was now manifested as to the past sins He had not brought into judgment through His forbearance, and yet more conspicuously in the present time, when He displayed His justice in justifying the believer. And how shall they preach unless they are sent? Look to him and salvation is thine. I'm sorry you can't accept it, but that is the way it is. Listen, angels, you will not weary while I tell the story over again he went into Gethsemane where he put on the crimson garment of his own bloody sweat; and then to Pilate's hall, where they did falsely accuse him, and spit on him, and scourge him, and make a jest of him; and then to that cross whereon they nailed him in his nakedness, so that he hung in agony, to die in fever and in thirst, till he cried, "It is finished." They ought to have known better: they had every chance to know better; but they rejected the appeal of God. Click on the different category headings to find out more. There is nothing like the grace of God for producing the truest humility, the humility that not only descends to the lowest level of sinners to do them good, but which is itself the fruit of deliverance from that self-love which puffs itself or lowers others. But thus the way is now clear for bringing the Jew into the discussion. Whatever Gods purposes may be, the Jews are still responsible for their own loss. 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). Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia - Harga saham emiten migas Grup Bakrie PT Energi Mega Persada Tbk (ENRG) dan emiten milik taipan Prajogo Pangestu PT Barito Pacific Tbk (BRPT) kompak menjadi top losers hingga penutupan sesi I, Rabu (1/3/2023). Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. "At any rate he is a saved soul," we hear. It has four stages of meaning. "The man has not got anything like settled peace with God; perhaps he hardly knows his sins forgiven; but at least he is a saved soul." But I am also at the top, and I cannot get higher than that, can I?" We have had justification, both by blood and also in virtue of Christ's resurrection. Finally he comes to two other witnesses; as from the Psalms, so now from the law and the prophets. Undoubtedly there are fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, and God values them I will not say from man, but from His saints; but here it is what, according to the apostle, God has for man. From the first verse we have the application of the dead and risen Christ to the soul, till in verse 11 we see the power of the Holy Ghost, which brings the soul into this liberty now, applied by-and-by to the body, when there will be the complete deliverance. But if you and I are as he was, "poor sinners, and nothing at all," we may, with firm and resolute grip, lay hold upon the other line, "But Jesus Christ is my all in all." The relationship between God and man is no longer the relationship between a creditor and a debtor, between an earner and an assessor, between a judge and a man standing at the bar of judgment. [b.] We are as full of evil as an egg is full of meat, and our heart is like a cage of unclean birds. "But there is no place for boasting neither now or eternally when we get to heaven and when before the throne I stand in Him complete. One might know a most real clinging to Jesus; but this would not set the heart at ease with God. He was Emmanuel, yea, the Jehovah, God of Israel. Be nothing; be nobody; and trust Him. 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. The past prepared the way, as it is said here, "which God had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures, concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, [here we have the great central object of God's gospel, even the person of Christ, God's Son,] which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh" (ver. And it is well for those ignorant of it to know that here, in verse 4, the apostle speaks first of "walking not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." I want a righteousness which would need as much labor to produce as a climb to heaven would need; and I require an expiation for sin as great as though a man were plunged into the abyss itself, and there were made to suffer the divine anger. Accordingly, then, he confronts the unquestionable truth, admitted by every Israelite, of the universal havoc by one man everywhere with the One man who has brought in (not pardon only, but, as we shall find) eternal life and liberty liberty now in the free gift of life, but a liberty that will never cease for the soul's enjoyment until it has embraced the very body that still groans, and this because of the Holy Ghost who dwells in it. 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. Free shipping for many products! They set up the golden calf, and thus cast off the true God, their God, even in the desert. Jesus said, "Straight is the gate, and narrow is the way that leads to eternal life and few there be that find it, but broad is the way and broad is the gate that leads to destruction" ( Matthew 7:13-14 ). God, therefore, had not cast off His people, but was employing the interval of their slip from their place, in consequence of their rejection of Christ, to call the Gentiles in sovereign mercy, after which Israel as a whole should be saved. Thus the first argument shows that the rejection was not total; the second, that it was but for a season. 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. If I had a sense of sin as deep as that of lost souls in hell, I could hope that I should be saved." John MacArthur New Testament Commentary, Book of Romans 2 Volume Set. It is true that Christ was in the grave, and it is as true that he is now in heaven; but we need not perplex and puzzle ourselves with fancied difficulties, nor must we create to ourselves such gross and carnal ideas of these things as if the method of salvation were impracticable, and the design of the revelation were only to amuse us. One thing remains to be said of this passage. They are merely persons who plume themselves on their orthodoxy, but in a wholly unrenewed condition. Thus, how can your father have the forgiveness of sins which is essential for fellowship with God?" 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. It was not our effort which brought Christ into the world or raised him from the dead. or who hath first liven to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? Did the Jew fancy that the gospel makes very light of Abraham, and of the then dealings of God? 22). 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. (i) A man must say Jesus Christ is Lord. What blindness! This, he says, was his heart's desire and prayer, which intimates, (1.) Romans 1:16,17 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek Isaiah 57:19 (1-3) Israel's refusal to submit to the righteousness of God. A man cannot be blamed for not knowing what he never had a chance to know; but he can be blamed for neglecting to know that which was always open to him. He was in the end killed. He suffered agonizing pain, but his peace was as deep as the sea. Thus, they are seeking for a righteousness from works, their good works, and they have rejected that righteousness that God has established for them. 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? To this Paul answers: "Christ is the end of the law." Would we follow up the heights of heavenly truth, would we sound the depths of Christian experience, would we survey the workings of the Spirit of God in the Church, would we bow before the glories of the person of Christ, or learn His manifold offices, we must look elsewhere in the writings of the New Testament no doubt, but elsewhere rather than here. For what remains unsolved by and in Christ? Salvation isn't way off in heaven some place. The profession of faith with the mouth, if there be not the power of it in the heart, is but a mockery; the root of it must be laid in an unfeigned assent to the revelation of the gospel concerning Christ, especially concerning his resurrection, which is the fundamental article of the Christian faith, for thereby he was declared to be the Son of God with power, and full evidence was given that God accepted his satisfaction. "Ah, well," says one, "I know I must undergo a singular experience-either I must be carried right away to heaven with delirious delight, or be plunged into the waves of hell in frightful despair." If you are to be saved by the commandments you must do them: that is clear. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may bear it, and do it? "Christ's Prayer for his People.". What were the principles of it? He shall come, says one Testament, out of Zion. i. The inner man is dealt with, and searched through and through. 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." But the righteousness which stems from faith speaks like this--"Do not say in your heart, 'Who shall go up into heaven?' So one of the first works of the gospel is silencing the questions of our unbelief. They have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. I had no difficulty in answering that question. The Jews have no reason to believe that God has rejected them. We believe everything which the Lord Jesus has taught, but we must go a step further, and trust him. 5. 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. 17.) For all this, as he presses further, there was the weightiest reason possible. 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? 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth When people say we need something other than Gods word, they deny what Paul wrote (compare 2 Timothy 3:16-17). But, suppose I still say: "Can it be that they have not heard?" If God had absolutely cast away His people, would there be such mercy? He shows that, on the responsible ground of being His nation, they were wholly ruined. These things are matters of conscience, and depend much for their solution on the degree to which souls have attained. Oh, my bearer, our salvation lies in this! To say that faith-righteousness says these things simply means it is characterized by them. 1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. i. If he had to die, his fathers would receive him "holy and pure." b. 1. The apostle has come now to the nature. I. I invite your earnest attention to the first point WHAT MOSES SAITH: "Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them." First, What is promised to us: Thou shalt be saved. Romans 10 - Israel's Present Rejection of God A. Israel's rejection of the gospel of salvation through Jesus Christ. Isaiah was very bold, and he said, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that ask not after me. Hence it is wholly apart from the law, whilst witnessed to by the law and prophets; for the law with its types had looked onward to this new kind of righteousness; and the prophets had borne their testimony that it was at hand, but not then come. This is as certain and clear as the utterance of that dreadful roll of thunder which has just now left on your minds the thought, "He that doeth these things shall live by them.". It will not suffice for you to learn those commands by heart, or to write them up in your churches, or to read them over and say, "Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law": all that may be well enough, but it is not to the point. I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.". If God has blessed your ministry or other holy work, the devil whispers, "You are a pretty fellow; you have done wonders"; and up you will go if you are not steadied by the firm conviction that you may not glory, since you are nothing at all in yourself, and your sole help is in Jesus your Lord. As Cottrell observes: Moses emphasis is clearly on the accessibility and understandability of Gods law. The objection is: But what if the Jews never heard of that? higher, if so high, in this epistle. The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart "that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. Well, then, suppose I say: "Did Israel not understand?" Help me to believe, Lord." Such is the doctrine and the fact. Jesus has already come to the earth and brought us the information we need to serve God and find heaven. Christ is the end of the ceremonial law; he is the period of it, because he is the perfection of it. The gospel or the system of grace or "the righteousness which is of faith" is not difficult to find or to accede to. So, then, faith comes from hearing, and hearing comes from the word which comes from Christ and which tells of him. You, up there in the gallery, however guilty you may have been, or however moral you may have been, it matters not, if your one hope is in what Christ has done, you shall never turn round on your dying bed, and cry, "I made a mistake in trusting Christ." The righteousness which is of faith, what does it say to us? The second passage is from Isaiah 65:1 where God says that, in a strange way, he has been found by a people who were not looking for him at all. On the accessibility and understandability of Gods law. God, but that is way... 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