Conybeare and Howson translated this verse: Word of Christ instead of "word of God," as in KJV, does not alter the meaning, the word of Christ and the word of God being identical. 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. 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. They were a disobedient gainsaying people. It is not a question of creature-standing. Bruce M. Metzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (New York: United Bible Societies, 1994), 464. 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. Accordingly he tells them now what reason he had to speak thus strongly, not of the more advanced truths, but of the good news. It is so divinely grand, so harmonious, so good, so gracious, so unexpected nobody could have thought of it but God himself it must be the truth." It was the Son of God not merely as dealing with the powers of the earth, Jehovah's King on the holy hill of Zion, but after a far deeper manner. PORTION OF SCRIPTURE READ BEFORE SERMON Romans 1:1-32 . (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.). (Rom.10:14, The Message). Issac carrying wood on his back up a hill to be sacrificed is a shadow/type of Jesus on the cross. Why did God hate Esau from the womb when he had done no evil? . Great preachers have known this. To lump the whole canonized collection of works that tell about the story of Christ (ie: The Bible), as THE word of God, is a misrepresentation. He had this, of course, in a revelation that was from God; he had law; he had prophets; he had divine institutions. This is precisely what salvation does not mean; and I would strongly press it on all that hear me, more particularly on those that have to do with the work of the Lord, and of course ardently desire to labour intelligently; and this not alone for the conversion, but for the establishment and deliverance of souls. No, you see, this opens the door to every man no matter who you are, predestined or not, elected or not, chosen or not. What about His word passed and sworn to the fathers? Alas I fear you will perish, let us preach as we may, while we are regarded by you as mere orators to be criticized, and not as witnesses whose testimony is to be weighed. so faith to hearing, hearing to preaching, preaching to a mission; whence it follows, that it is the original will of God, to send forth . Romans 16:26. 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. The consequences spiritually are blessed to the soul; how much more is it to Teach the source from which all flows! Faith comes through faith in Christ Jesus. And how is anyone going to tell them, unless someone is sent to do it?" 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. We see by this conclusion what Paul had in view by the gradation which he formed; it was to show, that wherever faith is, God has there already given an evidence of his election; and then, that he, by pouring his blessing on the ministration of the gospel, to illuminate the minds of men by faith, and thereby to lead them to call on his name, had thus testified, that the Gentiles were admitted by him into a participation of the eternal inheritance. From the very first we have these characteristics of the epistle disclosing themselves. Because they were sons of Abraham. First, he quotes Leviticus 18:5 where it says that, if a man meticulously obeys the commandments of the law, he will find life. 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. 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. This clearly takes in man, it will be observed; and this is his grand point now. No. Eutychus may fall from the third loft and be taken up for dead, but he is not likely to become a believer by sleeping, even though Paul should be the preacher. To conclude, Romans 10:9-10 is not establishing public confession as a prerequisite for salvation. But what is testified by Christian baptism is Christ's death. Faith hath something firmer to stand upon than those ever-changing frames and feelings which, like the weather of our own sunless land, is fickle and frail, and changeth speedily from brightness into gloom. What does Romans 10:17 mean? To call Jesus kurios ( G2962) was to count him unique. Moreover, suppose in addition to this he charges you nothing whatever, but does everything gratis, having evidently no motive of gain, but being altogether disinterested, moved only by real pity for you, and a kind desire to remove your pain and save your life. "Sir, tell me what I am, and where I am in the sight of God, and how I can be saved; for it will little satisfy me to wake up in hell and remember that I used to hear a fine orator. Seeing that without faith it is impossible to please God, the grace supposed to be conveyed by the mere participation in sacraments is of small value, it cannot give the cardinal requisite for acceptance before God. You hear him speak and you perceive that he understands your case, for he describes exactly all your symptoms, even those which none know but yourself and a skillful physician. By a draught of water. Use this table to get a word-for-word translation of the original Greek Scripture. Christ was crucified with his hands stretched out. Consequently the call of God, and not the birth simply makes the real difference. it seems to me a harder thing not to believe in Jesus than to believe in him, if you are indeed willing to be made whole. The text base used for the KJV was primarily the 1588/89 and '98 editions of Theodore Beza, occasionally departing to follow Stephanus's 1550 Novum Testamentum. (that is, to bring Christ again from the dead.) That is the first necessity for the sinner with God. Without faith there is neither justice nor life that God owns; where faith is, the rest will surely follow. He has been telling them truths which were difficult for them to hear and bear. God, therefore, having not the least hindrance to the manifestation of what He can be and is in merciful intervention on behalf of the worst of sinners, manifests it is His righteousness "by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe" (ver. I know the answer will be that "the promise is to us and to our children," but it will be well for the objector to reply to himself by completing the quotation "even to as many as the Lord your God shall call." Commenting on, Christ Here I am not going to give a translation but a substitution using an analogy used in John 1:1. And so you will see them at the wailing wall, you will see them as they tie to them a little box, the phylacteries as they bind them to their foreheads and as they put on their prayer shawl and they go up to the wall and they begin to bob up and down and they go through their prayers and all, a zeal for God but not according to knowledge. No, they cry, it is in Isaac's seed that the Jew was called. Know the diffrence! But for the time it is held fast, though in unrighteousness. Why is christou translated God in KJV Romans 10:17? Christi) is consistent with the Vulgate. He loved even here at the threshold to show the breadth of God's grace. See 1 Thessalonians 5:12; 1 Thessalonians 5:13. (c) It is the normal title of the Greek gods, prefaced before the god's name. Thus, they are seeking for a righteousness from works, their good works, and they have rejected that righteousness that God has established for them. If a person has heard and understood the message of Gods word and is not saved, it can be only because he has not believed what he has heardat least, he has not believed it enough to obey it. There is evil at work, and grace does not close the eye to danger; at the same time it is never under the pressure of the enemy, and there is the fullest confidence that the God of peace will break the power of Satan under the feet of the saints shortly. Which was the first Sci-Fi story to predict obnoxious "robo calls"? It is God who now makes known a righteousness to man, instead of looking for any from man. One is a want of intention, by which I mean that many persons come to hear, but they have no wish to be led into faith. Is anyone listening and believing a word of it? The point is: Before you trust, you have to listen. It is in your mouth and in your heart." "Always remember to keep your voice down," said another. In contrast, the NA-28: , . 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.] It is with that objection Paul deals; and, as he deals with it in its various forms, on each occasion he clinches his answer with a text from scripture. And this was powerfully corroborated by the testimony of another great name in Israel (David), in Psalms 32:1-11. 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. God's patience with them was a very great aggravation of their disobedience, and rendered it the more exceedingly sinful; as their disobedience advanced the honour of God's patience and rendered it the more exceedingly gracious. If he wants a larger declaration of how bread is obtained, we can give it to him at another time when he is no longer hungry; we will tell him how the corn is sown in the furrow of earth, and how by mysterious processes of nature it germinates, grows, and ripens; we will trace it from the reaper to the thresher, and from the thresher to the mill, and we will also show that daily bread is as much a gift from heaven as the manna which dropped down upon the hungry people in the wilderness. The apostle has come now to the nature. That the promise is the same to all (Romans 10:13; Romans 10:13): Whoever shall call--one as well as another, without exception. It is not so alone; but in His death, unto which I am baptized, I am dead to sin. No one had ever witnessed to him. And how can they hear if nobody tells them? The problem was with the people, not the availability of the message. He that comes to God by prayer must believe, Hebrews 11:6. But how, argues he, could this stand, seeing that Abraham had another son, just as much his child as Isaac? and when we assure them that it is a simple trust or confidence in the finished work of Christ, then straightway they say, "How can we get this faith? He is consistent with Himself when He is justifying sinners, or, more strictly, all those who believe in Jesus. For all this, as he presses further, there was the weightiest reason possible. 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. And we hear it on all sides. For example, Genesis 22:6. Believing the gospel (Mark 16:16) is next, and belief directs our attention away from sins pleasure. Well then, faith does not come and cannot come by such hearing. Too many hearers are as a bag full of holes, and golden sermons will not bless them because they wilfully forget all. A Jew would find it hard to believe that the way to God was not through the law; this way of trust and of acceptance was shatteringly and incredibly new to him. Now there is a tremendous failure some place of getting the message out.For how can they call on Him who they don't believe in? 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. The shame was the necessary consequence for going astray. Thither He shall come, and thence, go forth. His offers: I have stretched forth my hands, offering them life and salvation with the greatest sincerity and seriousness that can be, with all possible expressions of earnestness and importunity, showing them the happiness tendered, setting it before them with the greatest evidence, reasoning the case with them. They cannot call on him in whom they have not believed. There is water as well as blood, and to that, not to this, the washing here refers. Just say it, "Jesus is my Lord," and believe in your heart that God did raise Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. It is not among the Gentiles, but in the honoured centre of the polity of Israel. I was actually looking up the verse for another question I might ask about rhema (actually rmatos) "hearing, and hearing by" but I noticed that though I had memory of it saying "the word of God", it clearly shows "the word of Christ" if the concordances are correct. 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. What the gospel is: It is the gospel of peace; it is the word of reconciliation between God and man. Accordingly Romans 8:1-39 pursues in the most practical manner the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free. Then you enquire as to the man's character; you find that he is no mere pretender, but an authorized skillful, longestablished practitioner, well known for truthfulness, uprightness, and every good quality. It is against the "unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness." 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. Now this provoked them to jealousy. For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. And to this agreed the testimony of the prophet. Bah! They will never come to faith because they do but look at their face in the glass of the word, and go their way and forget what manner of men they are. He did not condemn people for not believing what they had not heard; but he complains of those who did not believe a message actually delivered to them. So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. The contrast of Christ with Adam takes in man universally as well as the Christian; and man in sin, alas! the Jew was none the better for this, unless there were the submission of his conscience to God. By keeping the law? He brings out the peculiar glories of Israel according to the depth of the gospel as he knew and preached it; at least, of His person who is the object of faith now revealed. 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. 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. The rest of the epistle takes up the practical consequences of the great doctrine of God's righteousness, which had been now shown to be supported by, and in no wise inconsistent with, His promises to Israel. In the fourth verse this could not be absent; in the first verse it ought not to be present. The righteousness of God flows from His mercy, of course; but its character and basis is righteousness. Faith is the basis for all we receive from God, The New Verse Translation with all substitutions, Other Real Translations of Romans 10:17, Prayer Is the Transaction Faith Is the Currency - My Christ News. Thus there must not have been any preaching or hearing, since if there had been, surely the Jews would have believed (Vol. But I say, [Paul said,] Have they not heard? There is no good reason for such an assumption, but much against it. And how can they proclaim it unless they be sent?So the basis for missions: having heard, having believed, having known, we are now responsible to send those to tell others of this glorious salvation and righteousness that God has offered to all men, Jew and Greek, who will just simply believe on His son Jesus Christ. brothers noun voc-pl-mas the def art nom-si-fem indeed conjunction finding-good noun nom-si-fem of the And thus, I have great difficulty with their present and current status before God. Christ died, but you have no part in his death. I must confess this is the first teaching on Romans 10:17 that actually makes sense to me. So when the other grandkids come over, I make a big to do over them, exaggerated. There is a lot of saying and calling on and confessing and proclaiming, and a lot hearing, words and names and reports. I may believe a statement because it looks like truth. This would make me wonder what kind of a character am I that she is having such a hard time believing me. 14, 15). We want attention in order to the real reception of the word. ( Romans 10:5-8 ). We have Paul informing us that he transfers sometimes in a figure to himself that which was in no wise necessarily his own experience, and perhaps had not been so at any time. There is nothing about law there; it is all based on faith. 10:17 Greek NT: Westcott and Hort / [NA27 and UBS4 variants] , . If slurred over, as it too often is in souls, it invariably leaves practical obedience lame, and halt, and blind. higher, if so high, in this epistle. Nothing less, I am persuaded, than this full blessing is the line that God has given to those who have followed Christ without the camp, and who, having been set free from the contracted ways of men, desire to enter into the largeness and at the same time the profound wisdom of every word of God. But what does it say? Although written in Greek, Paul clearly has the Hebrew verb shama in mind. Those that confess Christ before men, he will confess them before the Father and His angels. 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. God sought by His work among the Gentiles the pouring out of His grace and love and blessings, to provoke the jealousy of the Jew, so that the Jew will seek after God through Jesus Christ. To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers. But still, all day long His hand stretched out to the Jew who refused to come God's way through Jesus Christ. 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). He quotes also from Isaiah "Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed." (2.) (Galatians 4:23 ). Many persons in hearing a sermon, are like children looking, at a cornfield it is full of yellow garlic, or perhaps of scarlet poppies, and they cry "What a lovely field;" but the farmer thinks not so, he is looking for the wheat. the spiritual fool of Psalms 14:1; Psalms 53:1; Pro 17:21 ) will I anger you. They cannot preach except they be sent, except they be both commissioned and in some measure qualified for their preaching work. And how can they believe in Him unless they hear about Him? It is not here believing on Jesus, but on God who has proved what He is to us in raisin, from among the dead Him who was delivered for our offences, and raised again for our justification (verses 13-25). First, then, a man to be a Christian must have a sense of the utter uniqueness of Jesus Christ. Thus, we have spoken of it negatively. There are some who fancy that faith cometh by feeling. A study of this word throughout the New Testament reveals several key facts. and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? (3.) Chapter 10 Salvation comes through righteousness to those who believe in ChristFaith comes by hearing the gospel taught by legal administrators sent of God. Yes, more or less, they have either heard the gospel, or at least heard of it. A great present-day preacher called preaching "pleading with men." [a.] "No, not if you pluck out my eyes, and consume my bowels in the fire. So belief cometh of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. Second, he cites Joel 2:32: "All who call upon the name of the Lord shall be delivered." 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. ", Ah, remember, though your present state is terrible it is not all. He can be yours through faith right where you are (6-8). It was undoubtedly enough for present purposes. It is not the awakening of conscience, however real; neither is it the attraction of heart by the grace of Christ, however blessed this may be. Concerning this word the Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament (3:394) says, For Paul, faith is essentially a matter of obedience, just as a lack of faith is understood as disobedience toward God and his message. It is not enough to hear. He shall own that once glorious seat of royalty in Israel. 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. Thanks, Honored my Brother! Those that will be found faithful have need to be very bold. His witness to our spirit is this, that we are children of God. The fruits of it are not expanded here; but, in point of fact, to joy in God is necessarily that which makes praise and adoration to be the simple and spontaneous exercise of the heart. Thou art my hiding-place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. This time Paul quotes Psalms 19:4: "Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world." Welcome to Bible Hermeneutics SE and thank you for your contribution. How are they to proclaim the good news unless they are sent to do so? And so with the preacher, though he be rough, if it be the truth which he speaks, only pray that it may save your soul, and be content to put up with the man's infirmity, if by any means you may attain to salvation by Jesus Christ. In the end the soldiers so pitied him that they brought him dressed meat, which was not pork, and told him to eat it and say that he had eaten pork. In the rest of chapter 15 the apostle dwells on the extent of his apostleship, renews his expression of the thought and hope of visiting Rome, and at the same time shows how well he remembered the need of the poor at Jerusalem. John calls Jesus by the Greek word logos. One possible rendering is the total concept of God, or the total message of God. As far as persons are concerned, there is no hindrance; Jew or Gentile makes no difference, as is expressly said, "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the [passing over or praeter-mission, not] remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus" (verses 23-26). Your delineation between Christos and Logos seem to make that distinction and I appreciate your willingness to take the time to point that out. The last verses of the chapter, however, bring in the deliverance not yet the fulness of it, but the hinge, so to speak. Shadows and tyos are included from the old testament. They become angry and envious when they see their supposedly ignorant Gentile neighbours accepting the gospel, but they themselves will not listen to it (19-21). There are some that find a difficulty here, because the expression "to hold" means holding firmly. Far beyond. What the apostle had given him in fulness was the great truth, however fundamental it may be, that I am entitled, and even called on in the name of the Lord Jesus, to know that I am dead to sin; not that I must die, but that I am dead that my baptism means nothing less than this, and is shorn of its most emphatic point if limited merely to Christ's dying for my sins. He was ordered to be beaten. , , , 10:17 Greek NT: Nestle 1904, 10:17 Greek NT: Westcott and Hort 1881, 10:17 Greek NT: Westcott and Hort / [NA27 and UBS4 variants], 10:17 Greek NT: RP Byzantine Majority Text 2005, 10:17 Greek NT: Greek Orthodox Church, 10:17 Greek NT: Tischendorf 8th Edition, 10:17 Greek NT: Scrivener's Textus Receptus 1894, 10:17 Greek NT: Stephanus Textus Receptus 1550. But it is quite possible for the unconverted to be tenacious of the truth, yet unrighteous in their ways; and so much the worse for them. Him who came in humiliation, according to their prophets, they might despise; but it was vain to deny that the same prophets bore witness to His divine glory. Before the cross there hung out the gravest question that ever was raised, and it needed settlement in this world; but in Christ sin is for ever abolished for the believer; and this not only in respect of what He has done, but in what He is. To those that were under it, to be sure. The beginning, progress, and strength of faith, are by hearing. We all know where it is and must be for the Christian. In heaven it will fill us perfectly; but there is no more perfect joy there, nor anything. And the message they proclaim is the good news concerning Jesus Christ (16-17). Can you any longer refuse to believe and submit? It is not a question of His mercy merely; for this weakens the truth immensely, and perverts its character wholly. Romans 8:1-39 displays this comforting truth in its fulness. James made note that faith in God was not something special: "You believe that there is one God. This is the first ground. Man goes back to the righteousness of works. Not thus does God deal with souls. Why would they not allow such a pretension? But there is more, which Paul afterwards insisted on. But if children, we are His heirs. This was what the Jews were so angry with Paul for, that he was the apostle of the Gentiles, and preached the gospel to them. And "how shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein?"
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