Msg #24020 Romans Chapter 10
What The Bible Says
Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice
Gentile believers have justly taught the reception of God’s so great salvation from the middle three sentences of Romans 10 ever since the Apostle Paul penned them nineteen centuries ago. Romans 10:9-10 is the capstone to our memorized Romans Road to Heaven, which leads with 3:10,23,5:8, and 6:23. Its precursor is John 3:16-18,36, and 5:24. Everyone needs to be saved from condemnation and every believer should memorize the road that got them there. But in a world filled with antisemitism it would behoove us to also focus on the first three sentences and the last three sentences of this tremendous chapter. “Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved … ” (Read Rom.10:1-3,19-21). Romans 10 is a centerpiece of Paul’s parenthetical detailing, to our amazement and Paul’s dismay, that many of God’s elect nation, Israel are missing out on becoming God’s elect people, born again, blood washed saints. Consequently, Romans 10 describes the end of the Law Dispensation (vr.4-5); what Christ did via his death, burial, and resurrection to bring in a Grace Dispensation (vr.6-7 cf.1Cor.15:1-4); what man, Jew or Greek, must do to become God’s elect people (vr.9-13); and where such saving grace comes from (vr.14-17).
This Epistle is a defense of righteousness of God (Rom.1:16-17); in chapter 9, God was righteous to choose and elect Israel to bring Christ into the world; in chapter 10 God is righteous when his elect nation misses the mark and the foolish nations received the gospel of peace; and in chapter 11 God will be righteous to remember and fulfill every promise he made to Israel.
Protestants, particularly Calvinists, who suppose Israel is not elect, and only they are, will never rightly divide the word of truth in these three chapters. Believers need to.
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