Romans 10:1-7
1: Brethren, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God for them is for their salvation.
2: For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not in accordance with knowledge.
3: For not knowing about God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
4: For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
5: For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on law shall live by that righteousness.
6: But the righteousness based on faith speaks as follows: “DO NOT SAY IN YOUR HEART, ‘WHO WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN?’ (that is, to bring Christ down),
7: or ‘WHO WILL DESCEND INTO THE ABYSS?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”
Paul again shared his heart’s desire for the Jews to be saved. Paul said they were not wicked, evil people for they were desirous of God’s salvation, but they had an incorrect understanding of how that would come. As a result, they were seeking to establish righteousness their own way, not subjecting themselves to God’s plan.
Jesus fulfilled the Law thus terminating it. It is finished. Completed. A new covenant began at that point. Paul longed for the Jew to see this, and he quoted much Old Testament Scripture to back up what he said. Paul referenced Moses who said if a man kept the Law he would live (Leviticus 18:5). Yet they'd seen that no one could. The one who kept trying to attain righteousness that way would continually fail. It was a necessary, though futile attempt, before Jesus came.
Paul quoted from Deuteronomy 30:11-13 where the Lord said that this commandment He gave to bring life, if they kept it, was not up in heaven or beyond the sea, so they didn’t need to ask who could go get it for them and bring it back so they could hear it and keep it. He had made it available. It was nearby. Paul applied this Scripture to the righteousness that comes by faith which also says not to ask those questions. You don’t need to ask someone to go to heaven or the abyss to go get this righteousness and bring it back. It is available now.
To think that righteousness by faith is unattainable is to deny that Jesus fulfilled the Law and did what it commanded. He already came, died, descended, rose from the dead, and ascended into heaven, ending the Law and establishing righteousness by faith. He was the only one who could do that, and He did it for us. This righteousness by faith, which is the only kind that will work for mankind, is not somewhere unattainable or unreachable. Where is it? That is answered next.
2: For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not in accordance with knowledge.
3: For not knowing about God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
4: For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
5: For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on law shall live by that righteousness.
6: But the righteousness based on faith speaks as follows: “DO NOT SAY IN YOUR HEART, ‘WHO WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN?’ (that is, to bring Christ down),
7: or ‘WHO WILL DESCEND INTO THE ABYSS?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”
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Paul again shared his heart’s desire for the Jews to be saved. Paul said they were not wicked, evil people for they were desirous of God’s salvation, but they had an incorrect understanding of how that would come. As a result, they were seeking to establish righteousness their own way, not subjecting themselves to God’s plan.
Jesus fulfilled the Law thus terminating it. It is finished. Completed. A new covenant began at that point. Paul longed for the Jew to see this, and he quoted much Old Testament Scripture to back up what he said. Paul referenced Moses who said if a man kept the Law he would live (Leviticus 18:5). Yet they'd seen that no one could. The one who kept trying to attain righteousness that way would continually fail. It was a necessary, though futile attempt, before Jesus came.
Paul quoted from Deuteronomy 30:11-13 where the Lord said that this commandment He gave to bring life, if they kept it, was not up in heaven or beyond the sea, so they didn’t need to ask who could go get it for them and bring it back so they could hear it and keep it. He had made it available. It was nearby. Paul applied this Scripture to the righteousness that comes by faith which also says not to ask those questions. You don’t need to ask someone to go to heaven or the abyss to go get this righteousness and bring it back. It is available now.
To think that righteousness by faith is unattainable is to deny that Jesus fulfilled the Law and did what it commanded. He already came, died, descended, rose from the dead, and ascended into heaven, ending the Law and establishing righteousness by faith. He was the only one who could do that, and He did it for us. This righteousness by faith, which is the only kind that will work for mankind, is not somewhere unattainable or unreachable. Where is it? That is answered next.
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