Chapter 10

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10:1 Brothers and sisters, the good pleasure of my heart and my prayer towards God for their sake [the natural Judean] is to bring them into salvation. 2 For I bear witness concerning them, that they have a zeal for God, but not according to personal knowledge and acknowledgment. • 3 Indeed, being ignorant of God’s just approval, and seeking to establish and make a stand upon their own fake rightness, they have not placed themselves under the just innocence of God. • 4 For, indeed, Christ is the completion and the perfect fulfillment of the law, resulting in everyone who believes being declared to be justly innocent.

• 5 For as Moses writes of the “rightness and approval” which comes out of the law, “The man who does these things will live inside of them” (Leviticus 18:5). • 6 But the just innocence which is out from faith speaks in this way: “You should NOT say inside your heart ‘Who will go up into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down). 7 Or, “‘Who will go down into the place of the dead?’” (That is, to bring Christ up out from the dead). 8 But what does it say? • “The word [Christ, the Word God speaks] is near you here and now, inside of your mouth and inside of your heart” (Deuteronomy 30:12-14). This is the word of faith, persuasion, and confidence which we proclaim, • 9 that, if you speak the same word in your mouth [that is the Lord Jesus] [f], and hold confident faith and persuasion inside your heart that God raised Him out from the dead, you will be saved [rescued into God Himself, complete and whole]. • 10 For the heart persuades into just innocence; and the mouth speaks the same word [f], speaking Christ into salvation. 11 As the Scripture says, “No one who believes with confidence upon Him will be put to shame” (Isaiah 28:16). 12 Nor is there any difference between Judean and Greek; for the same Lord of all is rich with purpose into all who call upon Him. • 13 For all who call upon the name of the Lord will be saved [rescued into God Himself, complete and whole].

14 But how can they call upon Him whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe on Him of whom they have not heard? More than that, how shall they hear apart from someone speaking publicly? • 15 And how shall they speak publicly, if they are not sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those proclaiming the good news of peace, of those proclaiming the good news of intrinsic and inherent goodness” (Isaiah 52:7).

16 But not all listened to the good news. Indeed, Isaiah also said, “Lord, who has believed our report?” (Isaiah 53:1). • 17 So faith is out from hearing, and hearing through the speaking of Christ. 18 But I ask, “Did they not hear?” On the contrary, “Their sound has gone out into all the earth and their words into the limits of human habitation” (Psalm 19:4 & 1 Kings 18:10). 19 But then I ask, “Did Israel not know?” First Moses said, “I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a people; by a people without understanding, I will provoke you to anger” (Deuteronomy 32:21). 20 Isaiah, moreover, was very bold in saying, “I was found by those who did not seek Me; I became visible to those were not enquiring of Me” (Isaiah 65:1). 21 To Israel, however, he said, “All day long, I have stretched out My hands to a people who are unpersuaded and who speak against Me” (Isaiah 65:2).

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Gospel Comments	Notes
• Definition: Earlier in Romans, Paul addressed the issue of how we are declared justly innocent, by our own doing or through faith in Jesus actively saving us. Now Paul is addressing the issue of election. The issue for God is honesty of the heart. Those who present their own rightness to God are inherently dishonest, for they hate God, as Jesus said. Those who believe into Jesus are those who desperately NEED a Savior. The elect are those who always NEED Jesus. • Definition: Christ lives inside of our hearts through faith (Ephesians 3:17). These two statements are anti-faith and contrary to the Gospel, for they deny Jesus in our heart. One who says, “I will go to heaven when I die, and there I will see and know Jesus, that I might be with Him when He comes back,” rejects Jesus here and now. The second statement is a denial of the resurrection life of Jesus in which we walk right now (see Romans 6). Paul is zeroing in on the ONLY thing that matters to God. • Ruling Verse 7: Those who NEED Jesus now are called of God. Those who do not need Jesus will wait in ruin. Those who believe that God speaks the Truth are called. Jesus lives as every Word God speaks inside the hearts of those who are convinced that Jesus alone connects them with God. Those who call on the name of the Lord, “Jesus, save me,” please God. • Speak Christ: Christ Jesus is the Word inside our mouths and hearts. The Greek word Paul uses is homologia; it means “to speak the same word.” We speak the same Word that is Christ Jesus because Jesus is True, Jesus connects us with God. • Life: Christ Jesus sustains us by His power-filled Word. He comes to us as the very Seed of God that we might receive Him into ourselves (Hebrews 1:3 & 4:2). The Spirit gives us all the faith we need, but our part is to accept the weakness of our humanity in all honesty. We need Jesus. And as we receive Jesus into ourselves, we are CONCEIVED out from God. Life is knowing the Father; we speak Christ that we might know the Father through knowing Jesus Sent into us. • Ruling Verse 7: Faith receiving Jesus as all Word fulfilled is the only thing that pleases God.	f. The Greek word “homologia,” literally “same word,” cannot mean “agree with correct ideas.” I translate it always as “speak the same word,” making it part of the overhwleming New Testament teaching that we are to speak Christ made personal as us with all public boldness.

Gospel Comments

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• Definition: Earlier in Romans, Paul addressed the issue of how we are declared justly innocent, by our own doing or through faith in Jesus actively saving us. Now Paul is addressing the issue of election. The issue for God is honesty of the heart. Those who present their own rightness to God are inherently dishonest, for they hate God, as Jesus said. Those who believe into Jesus are those who desperately NEED a Savior. The elect are those who always NEED Jesus.

• Definition: Christ lives inside of our hearts through faith (Ephesians 3:17). These two statements are anti-faith and contrary to the Gospel, for they deny Jesus in our heart. One who says, “I will go to heaven when I die, and there I will see and know Jesus, that I might be with Him when He comes back,” rejects Jesus here and now. The second statement is a denial of the resurrection life of Jesus in which we walk right now (see Romans 6). Paul is zeroing in on the ONLY thing that matters to God.

• Ruling Verse 7: Those who NEED Jesus now are called of God. Those who do not need Jesus will wait in ruin. Those who believe that God speaks the Truth are called. Jesus lives as every Word God speaks inside the hearts of those who are convinced that Jesus alone connects them with God. Those who call on the name of the Lord, “Jesus, save me,” please God.

• Speak Christ: Christ Jesus is the Word inside our mouths and hearts. The Greek word Paul uses is homologia; it means “to speak the same word.” We speak the same Word that is Christ Jesus because Jesus is True, Jesus connects us with God.

• Life: Christ Jesus sustains us by His power-filled Word. He comes to us as the very Seed of God that we might receive Him into ourselves (Hebrews 1:3 & 4:2). The Spirit gives us all the faith we need, but our part is to accept the weakness of our humanity in all honesty. We need Jesus. And as we receive Jesus into ourselves, we are CONCEIVED out from God. Life is knowing the Father; we speak Christ that we might know the Father through knowing Jesus Sent into us.

• Ruling Verse 7: Faith receiving Jesus as all Word fulfilled is the only thing that pleases God.

f. The Greek word “homologia,” literally “same word,” cannot mean “agree with correct ideas.” I translate it always as “speak the same word,” making it part of the overhwleming New Testament teaching that we are to speak Christ made personal as us with all public boldness.