II. (a) It is the normal title of respect like the English sir, the French monsieur, the German herr. Hear you what God the Lord speaketh, and hear nothing else. Isaiah says: "I was found of them who sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me." (1.) But more than this "Whosoever shall call." How can they call on him in whom they have not believed? May the great Lord save you! Youngs Literal so then the faith [is] by a report, and the report through a saying of God. Now, I know this is not authoritative, so dont go Greek or Postal on me. All through this section Paul has been driving home the personal responsibility of the Jews. to deal with the whole posterity of Adam as involved in death because of one, their common father, who could deny the consistency of one man's saving? 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. The whole history of Israel, past, present, and future falls in with, although quite distinct from, that which he had been expounding. "How is this?" It was not merely "to those at Rome," but "to you that be at Rome." You cannot hear about him unless there is someone to proclaim the good news. And she takes advantage of it and gives me a bad time, because she is totally independent when it comes to Grandpa.She loves to play her little independent games. And those that are thus set apart, not only may, but must preach, as those that are sent. Thus the deliverance is not merely for the joy of the soul, but also for strength in our walking after the Spirit, who has given and found a nature in which He delights, communicating withal His own delight in Christ, and making obedience to be the joyful service of the believer. Thanks for explaining it so clear. The faith of Christ has brought divine joy into his soul; but, in point of fact, he is traversing a world of infirmity, suffering, and grief. They grasped the meaning of this offer all right, when it came to them unexpectedly and unsought." There never was an hour since Israel's existence as a nation that God has not had His remnant of them. The middle column agrees with the Greek (per verbum Dei); the final column (per verbu(?) His grace is his own, distinguishing grace his own, and he dispenses it in a way of sovereignty, gives of withholds it at pleasure--anticipates us with the blessings, the riches choicest blessings, of his goodness. 6:5, 11.3, The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts. This point touches the heart of Israels problem. Romans 10:17 New International Version 17 Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ. Thus the proof was complete. This would not have been just. How shall a man act as an ambassador, unless he have both his credentials and his instructions from the prince that sends him? 7). "At any rate he is a saved soul," we hear. I took notes and now I truly have a better understanding. Indeed they have. Oh, what would you give to have the gospel once more when you are cast away from it! It must not be, assumed too readily. All rights reserved. Faith cannot be washed into us by immersion, nor sprinkled upon us in christening; it is not to be poured into us from a chalice, nor generated in us by a consecrated piece of bread. In Romans 7:1-25 we have the subject of the law discussed for practice as well as in principle, and there again meet with the same weapon of tried and unfailing temper. If slurred over, as it too often is in souls, it invariably leaves practical obedience lame, and halt, and blind. Get our Question of the Week delivered right to your inbox! O God, it is hell, it is eternal damnation. Of it nothing has been heard till now. If you get extreme on the Calvinistic side and into election and predestination and all, then you have lost the center of truth. Thus, their good works must outweigh their bad works. Of the Jew by his own confession. The whole passage Romans 9:1-33; Romans 10:1-21; Romans 11:1-36 is a condemnation of the Jewish attitude to religion. When we generalize the term, The Word, we make no distinction between sinful man and the perfect God. The question is whether or not people are willing to listen obediently and submissively to it. It is not meant that Paul knew nothing of this; but that the ground of inference, and the general theory built up, are alike mistaken. 3. (3.) So faith comes through hearing and hearing through the word of Christ. (4.) If you crawl on your knees for five miles to kiss the statue you can be spared several days of purgatory. For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. Nor is there only the manifest call of the Gentiles in this, but with no less clearness there is the rejection, at any rate for a time, of proud Israel. Romans 8:1 is consistent with what the Lord Jesus taught in John 8:30-32: As He spoke these words, many believed in Him. It is no strange thing, but it is a very sad and uncomfortable thing, for the ministers of Christ to bring the report of the gospel, and not to be believed in it. 8, after thanking God through Jesus for their faith spoken of everywhere, and telling them of his prayers for them, he briefly discloses the desire of his heart about them his long-cherished hope according to the grace of the gospel to reach Rome his confidence in the love of God that through him some spiritual gift would be imparted to them, that they might be established, and, according to the spirit of grace which filled his own heart, that he too might be comforted together with them "by the mutual faith both of you and me" (vv. I will make you angry with a nation that has no understanding." Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the Word of God.We are told in Jude that one of the ways by which we keep ourselves in that place of blessing, the blessings of God's love, is building up ourselves in the most holy faith. It is a wonder of mercy in God that his goodness is not overcome by man's badness; and it is a wonder of wickedness in man that his badness is not overcome by God's goodness. Consequently the call of God, and not the birth simply makes the real difference. 53:1 where refers to YHWH; hence "word of God" is appropriate here. He that regardeth the day, regardeth [it] unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard [it.] "Faith" is translated from the Greek word pistis, which means "belief, trust, or confidence in someone or something." Man despised at first the outward testimony of God, His eternal power and Godhead, in the creation above and around him (verses 19, 20). Faith comes through faith in Christ Jesus. 3). Because for He has revealed Himself to us. I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. There is no magic about it; it comes by hearing the word of God, and by that way only. The righteousness which is of faith, what does it say to us? Now that God has revealed Himself in the gospel, it is not what will suit man on earth, but what is worthy of the presence of the glory of God. (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.). God's Spirit has so prepared them that they have believed almost as soon as they have heard the saving truth. Salvation is so close to every one of you tonight. To die in a ditch, to die in a prison, to die on the gallows, none of us would desire it; but to die in your sins! And there (for such was the point) it was the complete condemnation of this evil thing, the nature in its present state, so as, nevertheless, to set the believer as before God's judgment free from itself as well as its consequences. But they are not even doing the works that God requires in the offering of a sacrifice. KJV So then faith [cometh] by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. "Incline your ear and come unto me, hear and your soul shall live." Then, from ver. [b.] We see far more reasons for belief than for doubt. For the Jew stumbling at Jesus Christ going about by works trying to establish a righteousness before God.Paul declares they just haven't made it and can't make it for they have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God and Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes. The latter clause in the first verse of the authorised version mars the sense. Why does Acts not mention the deaths of Peter and Paul? 2 For I bear them record that they have a a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. (iii) The third objection is a restatement of the first: But, what if I insist that they never got the chance to hear? If he preaches truth it is by hearing not him, the man, but by hearing the word of God, that I shall come to faith. Romans 10:17, So the reality of things hoped for comes out of a message that is heard, and this message is heard as a spoken word coming through and from the total message of God. The truth is, those are altogether mistaken who call it so. Because they were sons of Abraham. Although based mainly on late manuscripts of the Byzantine text-type, Erasmus' edition differed markedly from the classic form of that text, and included some missing parts back translated from the Latin Vulgate. For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God." Salvation comes through Jesus Christ. Of course, it could hardly be the law: that was the boast of Israel. Romans 10:17 NASB. Somebody must tell them what they are to believe. In either case the gospel is in view. What a provocation it was to the Jews to see the Gentiles taken into favour we may see, Acts 13:45; Acts 17:5; Acts 17:13, and especially Acts 22:22. We must not go into the pulpit and say, "I have been working out a subject from my own mind, and I am going to give you the result of my thoughts." "Oh, God surely loves all mankind, and God loves the Buddhist and God loves the Mohammed, and God loves everybody." There is the vindication of God in His ways with the Old Testament believers. And he gives his reason: "For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, The just shall live by faith." who would defraud God of that which He delights in the blessedness of bringing in deliverance by that One man, of whom Adam was the image? Tonight whoever you might be salvation is so close to you, all you have to do is call upon the name of the Lord and you will be saved. and how shall they preach unless they be sent? Hearing here is not the same as "hearkening" in the preceding verse, but refers merely to the sense of hearing, and should not even be understood as excluding "reading"; for a deaf person still might learn the word of God through reading it, as a blind person might learn it through yet another sense, that of touch. The application of this was more evident to the Gentile than to the Jew. Romans 10:17. I do say this for them--that they do have a zeal for God, but it is not a zeal which is based on a real knowledge. It is God who now makes known a righteousness to man, instead of looking for any from man. "I am not ashamed," etc. If he was called, so were they he an apostle, they not apostles but saints; but still, for them as for him, all flowed out of the same mighty love, of God. The righteousness of God is revealed from faith; and consequently, if there be faith in any soul, to this it is revealed, to faith wherever it may be. Why in the Sierpiski Triangle is this set being used as the example for the OSC and not a more "natural"? It was undoubtedly enough for present purposes. God gave us conscience and the guidance of his Holy Spirit; and often we plead ignorance, when, if we were honest, we would have to admit that in our heart of hearts we knew the truth. The things about which we are in doubt are far fewer than we would like to think. There must be a breakdown in it somewhere. 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. Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience. 10:17 Greek NT: Scrivener's Textus Receptus 1894 , . In some cases, too, faith has come when the word has possessed a peculiar soul-revealing pointedness in it to the hearer's particular case. The gospel, as now revealed in the New Testament, has linked with it, though not contained in it, the revelation of divine wrath from heaven, and this, you will observe, according to Paul's gospel. for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. The answer is found in this portion of our epistle (that is, from the middle of chapter 5). As He is the spring of our joy, He is the power of sympathy in our sorrows, and the believer knows both. The problem is that none is able to keep the law perfectly. But now they were; and thus God vindicated Himself perfectly as to the past. Romans 10:17 is a well known verse on the centrality of preaching: "So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God" (AV). already. For instance, if a man signs a contract without having read the conditions, he cannot complain if afterwards he finds out that the conditions are very different from what he thought they were. Even the demons believe that and shudder" (James 2:19, NIV). Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness. It quite suffices for practical purposes for you to tell me to go to the tap or the fountain. and how shall they hear without a preacher? I was wondering if youre seeing manifestations of the Holy Spirit flowing through your life as a result of obeying the principles you are teaching here. Christ died, but you have no part in his death. as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! There are other verses in the Bible that refer to the Word "rhema" of God, but not every word is spoken by or about Christ, as a matter of fact Jesus did not write anything down that we know of other than some words in the sand. Salvation supposes not this only, but a great deal more. see RSV, NIV, etc. I must confess this is the first teaching on Romans 10:17 that actually makes sense to me. , . But the righteousness which is of faith speaks like this, Don't say in your heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? Well then, faith does not come and cannot come by such hearing. It is surprising how a belief in these things lingers still in what is called this age of light; the notion is still current that if you dream of seeing Jesus, or fancy you have seen him while awake, or if a passage of Scripture strikes you, or if you hear or imagine that you hear a voice speaking to you, you are then a believer. a. Paul deals with that objection by quoting Isaiah 52:7. Assuredly; yet, nevertheless, it was not necessary for the apostle to mention those facts here. Antiochus ordered him to eat pork. As if he had said, by the very quotation which you have made from Isaiah, it appears that a report was necessary. 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. What He does is to pierce and penetrate the man's conscience. "But unto Israel he saith, All day long have I stretched out my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.". The Bible tells us " So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God " ( Romans 10:17 NKJV). (ver. Their great badness to him. The righteousness of God means that God is just, while at the same time He justifies the believer in Christ Jesus. True ministry gives out not merely truth, but suited truth to the saints. Oh yes very true, for their sound went out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world ( Romans 10:18 ). It is no longer a question of man's guilt, but of his nature. I am going to reword Romans 10:17 by substituting the words with expanded meanings, and/or loose definition wordings taken from other verses. But, it is not needful for the feeding, of the hungry that we should on every occasion go into all those details, although we hold very sound views upon them. Along with this he gathers testimonies from more than one prophet. If they could feel emotions either of horror or of exquisite delight, they would then, they think, be the possessors of faith; but till they have felt what they have heard described in certain biographies of undoubtedly good men, they cannot believe, or even if they have a measure of faith, they cannot hope that it is true faith. We have had justification, both by blood and also in virtue of Christ's resurrection. Even by this passage, therefore, it seems that a message was necessary, that faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the divine message. For whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved ( Romans 10:12-13 ). "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man," etc. However, if the OT was able to save it's hearers there would have been no need for a New Covenant; and Jesus need not have come, suffered and died fulfilling all the Law and Commandments. He that comes to God by prayer must believe, Hebrews 11:6. Your name is not on the list." In verse 17 Paul showed how faith is created. In fact, the KJV says obeyed the gospel.. occurs at Lk 3:2; Jn 3:34; Eph 6:17; and Heb. It implies a sense of our dependence on him, an entire dedication of ourselves to him, and a believing expectation of our all from him. Repentance (Acts 2:38) destroys the practice of sin; repentance is a change for the better, and it is also necessary for salvation (Acts 17:30). III. Although written in Greek, Paul clearly has the Hebrew verb shama in mind. I will let my words drop rapidly without any ornament, and remind you, dear friend, that if you have been a hearer and faith has not come to you, you are, this moment, in the gall of bitterness and in the bonds of iniquity. He observes Sabbath; he loves God. Linked is the text of Beza's 1598/1599 edition, courtesy of The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts. Believing the gospel (Mark 16:16) is next, and belief directs our attention away from sins pleasure. for on your own showing, according to that word to which we all bow, you must admit that one man's sin brought in universal moral ruin and death. Why did God hate Esau from the womb when he had done no evil? If we spent our time in nothing else but just explaining the text, "He that believeth and is baptised shall be saved," we might achieve a blessed life-work, and perhaps might see greater results than when our ministry takes a wider range. 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. A man needs no greater plague than to be left to the impetuous rage of his own lusts. For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. But if children, we are His heirs. There was no law there or then; for Abraham died long before God spoke from Sinai. Even when the Lord was upon the earth, there were many unbelievers (John 12:37-41). Oh for hearers who only need to know the gospel, and the evidence of it, and then consent thereto, saying, "It is the truth of God, I cannot quarrel with it; I joyfully receive it." Moses saith, "I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people," etc. The extent is what God Himself, so to speak, possesses the universe of God, whatever will be under Christ: and what will not? Hearers only; faithless, graceless, Christless! Romans 10:17 This 'hearing' is the written word coming alive in our heart. This is not something to smile at, but to admire. Some manuscripts read "God" instead of "Christ," but "Christ" is the better attested reading. "By whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith." Come with the intent to find faith in Jesus; cry to God to make his word effectual to our salvation, and then hearing will be quite another business with you. If you will go around and knock on a hundred doors a day and peddle the magazines and wake people up, continue this faithfully, and you will be saved. It is not a question of His mercy merely; for this weakens the truth immensely, and perverts its character wholly. 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. Are there any canonical examples of the Prime Directive being broken that aren't shown on screen? God pronounces against the unrighteousness of such; for if the knowledge, however exact, of God's revealed mind was accompanied by no renewal of the heart, if it was without life towards God, all must be vain. Well, it is because the gospel commends itself to some hearts as true upon the very first blush of it, it strikes them as being undoubtedly the gospel of God.

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