Romans 10:3 Prevalent Errors on Justification Considered. Note: I. The notion that the spirit may receive an honourable discharge at the great day on the ground of obedience to the law. It is an opinion which exists, indeed, in floating, formless hopes, rather than in the shape of clear and light... [ Continue Reading ]
Romans 10:4 The Law of the Spirit. In this text there are three subjects which call for remark: the Law, Righteousness, and Faith. Consider them in succession. I. "The Law." By the Law is meant the eternal unchangeable Law of God, which is the revelation of His will, the standard of perfection, an... [ Continue Reading ]
Romans 10:8 Spiritual Exhaustion. These words were spoken to men who were speculating on mysterious subjects, and they touch, of course with necessary change, one of the troubles of this time. For many of us are wearying ourselves with endless speculation on the loftier subjects of thought in reli... [ Continue Reading ]
Romans 10:8 I. Confession with the mouth. Confession does not stop, though it begins, with the confession of sin, of the greatness of its guilt, and the justice of its punishment; it rapidly advances to the confession announced in our text; the confession of sin being not only involved in the confe... [ Continue Reading ]
Romans 10:9 Belief in the Resurrection of Christ. I. That which serves for the condemnation of the unbeliever, setting at nought all his wisdom, works in every way for the good of the faithful, and so is it with that marvellous fulfilment the Resurrection. It was such as quite surpassed all the th... [ Continue Reading ]
Romans 10:12 I. This declaration, at the time when it was first uttered, was probably equally astonishing to the Jew and the Greek: for the Jew, with his long-descended traditions, his sense of privilege of the most exalted kind, his habit of regarding the nations of the earth as in some degree uncl... [ Continue Reading ]
Romans 10:14 The opponents of "faith by hearing" are accustomed to speak highly of the general sources of enlightenment the prospect of creation without us and the light of conscience within. I. As regards the former its universality and perpetuity, as a disclosure of deity to mankind, are utterly... [ Continue Reading ]
Romans 10:14 Modern Missions. It is an integral point of the Christian gospel that it recognises the unity of mankind, abolishes old walls of division, and aims at establishing on earth a universal spiritual brotherhood. Consider how thoroughly in harmony it is with this gospel of human brotherhood... [ Continue Reading ]
Romans 10:21 The appeal which Jesus Christ makes, with His hands stretched out upon the cross, to the hearts of Christians is twofold. 1. It is an appeal on behalf of God's standard of holiness, and against the laxity and sin of man. And He makes this appeal by the force of His own example. There a... [ Continue Reading ]