ROMANS
CHAPTER 10
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
I)
[Ro 9:27-28]:
A)
A REMNANT OF ISRAELITE BELIEVERS IS IN VIEW
1)
ROMANS 10:9-10 HAS IN VIEW A GROUP WHICH IS JUSTIFIED BY FAITH ALONE
AND THEN SAVED BY A FAITHFUL ACTION OF CONFESSION OF JESUS AS
LORD, HENCE THE REMNANT OF ISRAELITES REFERRED TO IN 9:27-28 MUST ALSO
BE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH, I.E., BELIEVERS IN ORDER TO BE SAVED
a)
[Ref Ro 10:9-10]:
i)
To Be Justified By Faith Is To Be Saved Unto Eternal Life From God's
Wrath
[Compare
Ro 5:9]:
2)
IN THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL, A 'REMNANT' MAY BE TRACED OF BELIEVERS IN A
COMING MESSIAH CHOSEN BY GRACE TO SAVE THEM FROM THEIR SINS
a)
Only A Remnant Of Faithful Israelite Believers Will Return To Israel In
the Future
i)
[Compare Isa 10:22-23]:
b)
There Will Always Be Throughout History A Remnant Who Are Faithful To
God Chosen By Grace - Believers Are In View
i)
[Compare Ro 11:2-6]:
ii)
[Compare Eph 2:8-9]:
iii)
[Compare Ro 9:6-8 ]:
c)
In Elisha's Time There Was A Remnant Of 7000 Faithful Believers Like Him
That Had Not Bowed The Knee To Baal - Prophets Who Are By Definition
Believers
i)
[Compare 1 Kings 19:15-18]:
d)
Prophets Who Are Part Of The Remnant Preserved Throughout History Must
Be Believers
i)
[Ref. Dt 18:17-19]:
ii)
[Ref. 2 Pet 1:19-21]:
e)
In Isaiah's Time God Left A Remnant Of Israelites To Survive
i)
[Compare Isa 1:9]:
f)
During The Captivities The Remnant Of Believers Appears In Jews Like
Ezekiel, Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, Esther, and Mordecai
g)
At The Advent Of Our Lord, John The Baptist, Simeon, Anna, And 'Them
That Looked For Redemption In Jerusalem' are remnant-believers
i)
[Compare Lk 2:28-38]:
h)
During The Church-Age The Remnant Is Composed Of Believing Jews
i)
[Compare Ro 11:4-6]:
i)
The Chief Interest In The Remnant Is Prophetic. During The Great
Tribulation A Remnant Of Believers Out Of All Israel Will Turn To Jesus
As Messiah, And Will Become His Witnesses After the Removal Of The
Church
i)
[Compare Rev 7:3-8]:
ii)
Some Of These Will Undergo Martyrdom
[Ref.
Rev 6:9-11]:
iii)
Some Will Be Spared To Enter The Millennial Kingdom
[Ref.
Zechariah 12:6-13:9]:
I cont.)
[Ro 9:27-28 cont.]:
B)
"SAVED" REFERS TO A REMNANT OF ISRAELITE BELIEVERS BEING
DELIVERED FROM GOD'S TEMPORAL DESTRUCTION AND ITS PRESERVATION AS A
NATION THROUGHOUT THE AGES UNTIL ALL ISRAEL OF THAT FUTURE TIME WILL BE
SAVED WHEN MESSIAH COMES
1)
[Compare Isa 10:22-23]:
2)
[Compare Zech 12:6-13]:
3)
[Compare Ro 11:26-27]:
4)
[Compare Isa 59:20-21]:
C)
IN PAUL'S TIME ISRAEL ONCE AGAIN FACES TEMPORAL DESTRUCTION IN WHICH
ONLY THE REMNANT WILL BE SAVED
1)
[Compare Mt 23:33-37]:
II)
[Ro 9:27-29]:
A)
A REMNANT OF BELIEVERS MUST SURVIVE DOWN THROUGH THE AGES IN ORDER THAT
ISRAEL MIGHT BE SAVED INTO THE ETERNAL KINGDOM AS PROPHESIED
1)
[Compare Isa 1:9]:
2)
[Compare Ro 11:26-27]:
3)
[Compare Isa 59:20-21]:
4)
[Compare Jer 31:33-34]:
III)
[Ro 9:30-33]:
A)
RIGHTEOUSNESS IS NOT TO BE PURSUED BUT OBTAINED AS THE GENTILES
HAVE DONE IT: BY FAITH IN THE ROCK WHO IS CHRIST - A STUMBLING STONE TO
THE ISRAELITES WHO PURSUED RIGHTEOUSNESS BY THE LAW AND FAILED AND WERE
LARGELY DESTROYED
1)
[Compare Isa 8:13-14]:
2)
[Compare Isa 28:16]:
3)
[Compare Ez 36:24-27]:
IV)
[Ro 10:1-2]:
A)
PAUL'S HEART'S DESIRE AND PRAYER IS THAT THE ISRAELITES BE SAVED FROM
GOD'S WRATH UNTO ETERNAL BLESSINGS IN THE PROMISED LAND
V)
[Ro 10:2-3]:
A)
THE ISRAELITES SOUGHT TO ESTABLISH THEIR OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS IN PLACE OF
GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS
1)
[Compare Ro 3:19-22]:
2)
[Compare Acts 10:43]:
B)
THROUGHOUT HISTORY ISRAEL WOULD NOT SUBMIT TO GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS AND BE
SCATTERED UNTIL A TIME WHEN GOD WILL GATHER THEM INTO THE PROMISED LAND
AND THEY WILL BE SAVED AS A REMNANT OF ISRAELITE BELIEVERS
1)
[Compare Ez 36:24-27]:
a)
[Compare Jn 7:38-39a]:
i)
[Isa 12:2-3]:
VI)
[Ro 10:3-4]:
A)
FAITH IN CHRIST TO PROVIDE GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS IS THE END OF ONE BEING
UNDER LAW, I.E., A CODE OF CONDUCT TO LIVE BY IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE THE
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD UNTO ETERNAL LIFE
VII)
[Ro 10:3-5]:
A)
A MAN IS TO LIVE IN HIS DAILY LIVE BY A RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH IS BY FAITH
AND NOT BY ONE WHICH IS BY LAW
1)
[Cref. Lev 18:1-5]:
B)
ONE WHO SEEKS TO ESTABLISH ONES OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS WITH GOD BY KEEPING
THE LAW OR ANY RULES OF CONDUCT WILL FAIL
1)
[Compare Lev 18:1-5]:
2)
[Compare Jas 2:10]:
C)
KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS TO ESTABLISH ONES OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS BEFORE GOD
INVOLVES PERSONAL EFFORT WHETHER IT IS DIRECTED BY GOD OR NOT WHICH
INEVITABLY FALLS SHORT OF GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS
1)
[Review Ro 10:2-5]:
2)
[Compare Ro 3:10-11]:
3)
[Compare Eph 2:8-9]:
VIII)
[Ro 10:6-8]:
A)
ONE DOES NOT HAVE TO ASCEND TO HEAVEN TO BRING CHRIST DOWN TO TELL ONE
WHAT ONE MUST DO TO ATTAIN RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH - THE WORDS OF CHRIST
ARE IN THE WORD OF GOD WHICH IS IN ONES MOUTH AND IN ONES HEART (MIND)
FROM PAUL'S PREACHING
1)
[Compare Dt 30:11-13]:
B)
ONE DOES NOT HAVE TO DESCEND INTO THE DEEP TO BRING CHRIST UP FROM THE
DEAD TO TELL US WHAT ONE MUST DO TO ATTAIN RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH - THE
WORDS OF CHRIST ARE IN THE WORD OF GOD WHICH IS IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN
YOUR HEART (MIND)
1)
[Compare Dt 30:12-13]:
IX)
[Ro 10:8]:
A)
THE WORD OF GOD IS NEAR IN THE SENSE OF ONE UNDERSTANDING IT IN ONES
HEART (MIND) AND CONFESSING IT WITH ONE'S MOUTH
1)
[Compare Dt 30:9b-14]:
X)
[Ro 10:8-9]:
A)
CONFESSION IS WITH THE MOUTH IS A VERBAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND EXPRESSION
BY A REMNANT OF BELIEVERS THAT JESUS IS LORD OF ONES LIFE
1)
"THAT" REFERS TO THE WORD OF FAITH WHICH PAUL AND OTHERS WERE
PREACHING RELATIVE IN THIS CONTEXT TO A REMNANT OF BELIEVERS WHO BY
FAITH ARE SAVED FROM GOD'S TEMPORAL WRATH
2)
"IF YOU [BELIEVERS] CONFESS" LITERALLY MEANS IF ONE
ACKNOWLEDGES BY SPEAKING OUT LOUD WITH ONES MOUTH THAT JESUS IS LORD
3)
TRUE CONFESSION WITH ONES MOUTH OF JESUS AS LORD CAN ONLY OCCUR ONCE ONE
HAS BELIEVED ALONE IN HIM ALONE AS SAVIOR FROM ONE'S SINS UNTO ETERNAL
LIFE
a)
[Compare Eph 2:1-2]:
b)
[Ref. Ro 8:5-9]:
c)
[Ref Jn 1:12-13]:
4)
CONFESSION OF JESUS CHRIST AS LORD IS FOOLISHNESS TO ONE WHO IS NOT
SAVED AND THEREFORE CANNOT BE A REQUIREMENT TO BE SAVED
a)
[1 Cor 2:14]:
5)
SINCE CONFESSION WITH ONES MOUTH JESUS AS LORD INVOLVES HUMAN DOING,
I.E., A WORK; IT CANNOT BE PART OF WHAT ONE MUST DO TO BE SAVED UNTO
ETERNAL LIFE, WHICH IS A GIFT & NOT BY WORKS. HENCE ANOTHER
KIND OF SALVATION IS IN VIEW - FROM TEMPORAL DESTRUCTION
a)
[Eph 2:8-9]:
Xcont.)
[Ro 10:8-9 cont.]:
B)
TO BELIEVE IN THE HEART THAT GOD RAISED JESUS FROM THE DEAD HAS IN VIEW
AN ACCEPTANCE IN THE MIND THAT CHRIST'S SACRIFICE FOR THE SINS OF THE
WHOLE WORLD IS TRUE
1)
"HEART" IS EQUIVALENT TO THE MIND IN SCRIPTURE - SYNONYMOUS,
THE CENTER OF MENTAL ACTIVITY
a)
[Ref Ps 73:21]:
b)
[Compare Heb 8:10b]:
c)
Lk 24:25 & 45]:
2)
BELIEVE IS DEFINED AS A MENTAL ACCEPTANCE AS TRUE
3)
TO BELIEVE THAT GOD RAISED HIM [JESUS CHRIST] FROM THE DEAD HAS IN VIEW
HIS SACRIFICE FOR THE SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD WHICH IS VERIFIED BY HIS
RESURRECTION
a)
[Compare 1 Cor 15:12-14]:
b)
[2 Cor 4:10-14]:
C)
IF CONFESSION OF JESUS AS LORD IS CONCURRENT WITH BELIEVING IN YOUR
HEART [MIND] THAT GOD RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD THEN YOU SHALL BE SAVED
FROM GOD'S TEMPORAL WRATH UNTO BLESSINGS ON EARTH
XI)
[Ro 10:8-10]:
A)
AN INDIVIDUAL IS JUSTIFIED BY FAITH AND DELIVERED FROM THE WRATH OF GOD
UNTO ETERNAL LIFE
1)
"FOR" CLARIFIES THE PREVIOUS VERSE RELATIVE TO THE CAUSE OF
THE RESULT OF BEING SAVED AND THE ORDER AND KIND OF EVENTS WHICH LEAD TO
BEING SAVED FROM THE TEMPORAL WRATH OF GOD
2)
JUSTIFIED = CREDITED WITH THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD AND SAVED FROM THE
ETERNAL WRATH OF GOD UNTO ETERNAL LIFE
a)
[Ref Ro 3:22; 4:3-6]:
b)
[Compare Ro 5:8-9]:
c)
[Compare Jn 3:16]:
i)
[Ref Eph 2:1-2]:
ii)
[Mt 4:8-9]:
B)
ONCE ONE IS JUSTIFIED AN INDIVIDUAL HAS SECURED JESUS AS LORD OF THEIR
LIFE AND MAY NOW CONFESS THAT, NOT BEFORE
XI
cont.) [Ro 10:8-10 cont.]:
C)
CONFESSION OF JESUS AS LORD SAVES AN ALREADY JUSTIFIED INDIVIDUAL FROM
GOD'S ETERNAL WRATHUNTO ETERNAL LIFE & BLESSINGS
XII)
[Ro 10:10-11]:
A)
BELIEVING UNTO ETERNAL LIFE IS IN VIEW
1)
[Compare Isa 28:16]:
2)
[Compare 1 Pet 2:4-6]:
XII cont.) [Ro
10:10-11 cont.]:
B)
'WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NEVER BE PUT TO SHAME' REFERS TO NEVER
BEING PUT TO THE SHAME OF ETERNAL CONDEMNATION AND IT IS CAUSED BY FAITH
ALONE, NOT CONFESSION
XIII)
[Ro 10:10-12]:
A)
SALVATION IS FOR ALL MANKIND, JEW AND GREEK, I.E., GENTILE ALIKE BECAUSE
THE LORD IS LORD OF ALL
1)
[Compare Ro 3:21-24]:
B)
RICHES ABOUND FOR ALL THOSE BELIEVERS WHO CALL UPON THE LORD
XIV)
[Ro 10:10-13]:
A)
TO CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD IS TO MAKE USE OF HIS NAME, I.E., TO
TRUST IN HIS CAPACITY TO SAVE ONE FROM GOD'S WRATH AND UNTO ABUNDANCE IN
RICHES
1)
[Compare Joel 2:1-32]:
B)
CALLING UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD IS SOMETHING ONLY THOSE WHO ALREADY
ARE JUSTIFIED, I.E., SAVED UNTO ETERNAL LIFE CAN DO EFFECTUALLY
1)
[Compare 1 Cor 1:2]:
2)
[Compare Acts 9:13-14, 21]:
3)
[Compare 2 Tim 2:22]:
4)
[Compare 1 Pet 1:17]:
XV)
[Ro 10:13-14]:
A)
TO CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD UNTO SALVATION FOLLOWS BELIEVING IN
HIM
B)
ONE MUST HAVE THE GOSPEL PREACHED TO THEM IN ORDER TO HEAR IT IN ORDER
TO BELIEVE IN IT AND BE JUSTIFIED, I.E., SAVED FROM GOD'S WRATH UNTO
BLESSINGS
XVI)
[Ro 10:13-15]:
A)
THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL IS A GOD SEND
B)
ALL BELIEVERS ARE IN VIEW RELATIVE TO BRINGING THE GOOD NEWS OF THE
GOSPEL OF ETERNAL LIFE
1)
[Compare Isaiah 52:5-8]:
XVII)
[Ro 10:13-16]:
A)
THE ISRAELITES DID NOT HEED THE GLAD TIDINGS OF THE GOSPEL
1)
[Compare Isa 3:1-11]:
XVIII)
[Ro 10:13-17]:
A)
THE GOSPEL MUST FIRST BE COMMUNICATED THEN ONE MUST BELIEVE IN IT TO BE
TRUE
