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Continued from: Roman Chapter 9
Romans 10 (CLV)
1 Indeed, brethren, the delight of my heart and my petition to God for their sake is for salvation." 2 For I am testifying to them that they have a zeal of God,
Who are They?
Those who follow The Law of Righteousness, and at the risk of presenting an oxymoron, Pharisaical Israel.
but not in accord with recognition." 3 For they, being ignorant of the righteousness of God,
What is righteousness?
Definition of righteous
1 : acting in accord with divine or moral law
Definition of RIGHTEOUS
God's Law (Torah)
and seeking to establish their own righteousness,
The Law of Righteousness
The Law of Sin and Death
were not subjected to the righteousness of God."
God's Law (Torah)
As we saw in Chapter 9, The Law of Righteousness is in opposition to the Righteousness of YHWH. It elevates one's self above YHWH.
4 For Christ is the consummation of law for righteousness to everyone who is believing.
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Let's pause here.
Despite that we have gone over so far in The Book of Romans; and despite thus far, Paul has consistently said that we keep the Torah; this verse is often used by those who are looking for a way to skirt around obedience to YHWH's law.
Here is just one example pointed out early on in the foundation of this letter:
(CLV) Ro 2:13
For not the listeners to law are just with God, but the doers of law shall be justified.
Let's look at this verse very carefully.
This translation uses the word "consummation," which means marriage. The CLV purports to be a word for word translation; but most other translations use the word "end"
However, I am not presenting an argumentum ad populum.
Here is how Strong defines G5056:
•end
•termination, the limit at which a thing ceases to be (always of the end of some act or state, but not of the end of a period of time)
•the end
•the last in any succession or series
•eternal
•that by which a thing is finished, its close, issue
•the end to which all things relate, the aim, purpose
•toll, custom (i.e. indirect tax on goods)
G5056 - telos - Strong's Greek Lexicon (KJV)
Now I'm by no means saying that Strong is the final authority on this matter; but the translation is relatively consistent.
This translation is also consistent with the context of Paul's letter to the Romans.
Context is key.
Paul laid this foundation in the opening of this letter:
(CLV) Ro 1:17
For in it God's righteousness is being revealed, out of faith for faith, according as it is written: "Now the just one by faith shall be living."
What is just?
Definition of just
2a : acting or being in conformity with what is morally upright or good : righteous
b : legally correct : lawful
Definition of JUST
So those of faith will be obedient to YHWH's law, through faith.
In the very next verse Paul laid this foundation in the opening of this letter:
(CLV) Ro 1:18
For God's indignation is being revealed from heaven on all the irreverence and injustice of men who are retaining the truth in injustice,
Retaining the truth in injustice? What does this mean? Let's read through Paul's letter to find out. I already mentioned, earlier in this series, that Paul has a round about way of getting to his point. He's now getting to his point.
Just four verses earlier, in Romans 9:31, Paul introduce a new legal term to our vocabulary:
The Law of Righteousness.
It sounds righteous; doesn't it?
It's NOT!
31 Yet Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, into a law of righteousness does not outstrip." 32 Wherefore? Seeing that it is not out of faith, but as out of law works, they stumble on the stumbling stone, 33 according as it is written: Lo! I am laying in Zion a Stumbling Stone and a Snare Rock, And the one believing on Him shall not be disgraced."
Paul is trying to get us to understand that believing that working to obedience to the law as the means of salvation, is a stumbling stone.
Yahshua's name proclaims that it is YHWH saves you. YAH shua!
By believing that you can save yourself; you have elevated yourself to YHWH.
YHWH didn't nail his righteous law (Torah) to the torture stake. He nailed The Law of Righteousness to the torture stake. It is the end of The Law of Righteousness for those who are under The Law of Faith. They will be obedient to The Spirit's Law of Life, as it lead the to be obedient to YHWH's Law (Torah).
Paul went over this in Chapter 8.
Romans 10:4 in context:
For Messiah is the end of The Law of Righteousnes, for righteousness, to everyone who is believing in the righteousness of YHWH.
Follow Yahshua, as Yahshua followed Torah.
(CLV) Ro 2:13
For not the listeners to law are just with God, but the doers of law shall be justified.
5 For Moses is writing of the righteousness which is of law, that a man who does the same shall be living in it."
(CLV) Ro 2:13
For not the listeners to law are just with God, but the doers of law shall be justified.
6 Yet the righteousness of faith is saying thus: You may not be saying in your heart, Who will be ascending into heaven? - that is, to be leading Christ down -"
(CLV) Dt 30:12
It is neither in the heavens for you to say: Who shall ascend to the heavens for us and take it for us and announce it to us that we may do it?
Hear and Obey. Follow Yahshua as he followed the Torah.
(CLV) Ro 2:13
For not the listeners to law are just with God, but the doers of law shall be justified.
7 or Who will be descending into the submerged chaos? - that is, to be leading Christ up from among the dead."
(CLV) Dt 30:13
Nor is it across the sea for you to say: Who shall cross across the sea for us and take it for us and announce it to us that we may do it?
Hear and Obey. Follow Yahshua as he followed the Torah.
(CLV) Ro 2:13
For not the listeners to law are just with God, but the doers of law shall be justified.
8 But what is it saying? Near you is the declaration, in your mouth and in your heart - that is, the declaration of faith which we are heralding" 9 that, if ever you should be avowing with your mouth the declaration that Jesus is Lord, and should be believing in your heart that God rouses Him from among the dead, you shall be saved." 10 For with the heart it is believed for righteousness, yet with the mouth it is avowed for salvation." 11 For the scripture is saying: Everyone who is believing on Him shall not be disgraced. 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same One is Lord of all, being rich for all who are invoking Him."
One Elohim, and one law for all of Israel!
(CLV) Mt 15:24
Now He, [Yahshua] answering, said, "I was not commissioned except for the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
(CLV) Ex 12:49
One law shall there be for both the native and for the sojourner sojourning in your midst.
13 For everyone, whoever should be invoking the name of the Lord, shall be saved." 14 How, then, should they be invoking One in Whom they do not believe? Yet how should they be believing One of Whom they do not hear? Yet how should they be hearing apart from one heralding? 15 Yet how should they be heralding if ever they should not be commissioned? According as it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those bringing an evangel of good! 16 But not all obey the evangel, for Isaiah is saying, "Lord, who believes our tidings? 17 Consequently, faith is out of tidings, yet the tidings through a declaration of Christ." 18 But, I am saying, Do they not hear at all? To be sure! "Into the entire earth came out their utterance, And into the ends of the inhabited earth their declarations." 19 But, I am saying, Did not Israel know at all? First Moses is saying, I shall be provoking you to jealousy over those not a nation; Over an unintelligent nation shall I be vexing you." 20 20 Yet Isaiah is very daring and is saying, I was found by those who are not seeking Me; I became disclosed to those who are not inquiring for Me." 21 Now to Israel He is saying, The whole day I spread out My hands to a stubborn and contradicting people!"
Paul speaks of the nations coming to know him.
Hallelu YAH!
Legal Terms:
The Law of Faith (Ch 3)
A Different Law (Ch 7)
The Law of My Mind (Ch 7)
The Law of Sin (Sin's Law) (Ch 7)
God's Law (Ch 7)
The Spirit's Law of Life (Ch 8)
The Law of Sin and Death (Ch 8)
The Law of Righteousness (Ch 9
Romans Chapter 11
Romans 10 (CLV)
1 Indeed, brethren, the delight of my heart and my petition to God for their sake is for salvation." 2 For I am testifying to them that they have a zeal of God,
Who are They?
Those who follow The Law of Righteousness, and at the risk of presenting an oxymoron, Pharisaical Israel.
but not in accord with recognition." 3 For they, being ignorant of the righteousness of God,
What is righteousness?
Definition of righteous
1 : acting in accord with divine or moral law
Definition of RIGHTEOUS
God's Law (Torah)
and seeking to establish their own righteousness,
The Law of Righteousness
The Law of Sin and Death
were not subjected to the righteousness of God."
God's Law (Torah)
As we saw in Chapter 9, The Law of Righteousness is in opposition to the Righteousness of YHWH. It elevates one's self above YHWH.
4 For Christ is the consummation of law for righteousness to everyone who is believing.
------------------------------------------------
Let's pause here.
Despite that we have gone over so far in The Book of Romans; and despite thus far, Paul has consistently said that we keep the Torah; this verse is often used by those who are looking for a way to skirt around obedience to YHWH's law.
Here is just one example pointed out early on in the foundation of this letter:
(CLV) Ro 2:13
For not the listeners to law are just with God, but the doers of law shall be justified.
Let's look at this verse very carefully.
This translation uses the word "consummation," which means marriage. The CLV purports to be a word for word translation; but most other translations use the word "end"
However, I am not presenting an argumentum ad populum.
Here is how Strong defines G5056:
•end
•termination, the limit at which a thing ceases to be (always of the end of some act or state, but not of the end of a period of time)
•the end
•the last in any succession or series
•eternal
•that by which a thing is finished, its close, issue
•the end to which all things relate, the aim, purpose
•toll, custom (i.e. indirect tax on goods)
G5056 - telos - Strong's Greek Lexicon (KJV)
Now I'm by no means saying that Strong is the final authority on this matter; but the translation is relatively consistent.
This translation is also consistent with the context of Paul's letter to the Romans.
Context is key.
Paul laid this foundation in the opening of this letter:
(CLV) Ro 1:17
For in it God's righteousness is being revealed, out of faith for faith, according as it is written: "Now the just one by faith shall be living."
What is just?
Definition of just
2a : acting or being in conformity with what is morally upright or good : righteous
b : legally correct : lawful
Definition of JUST
So those of faith will be obedient to YHWH's law, through faith.
In the very next verse Paul laid this foundation in the opening of this letter:
(CLV) Ro 1:18
For God's indignation is being revealed from heaven on all the irreverence and injustice of men who are retaining the truth in injustice,
Retaining the truth in injustice? What does this mean? Let's read through Paul's letter to find out. I already mentioned, earlier in this series, that Paul has a round about way of getting to his point. He's now getting to his point.
Just four verses earlier, in Romans 9:31, Paul introduce a new legal term to our vocabulary:
The Law of Righteousness.
It sounds righteous; doesn't it?
It's NOT!
31 Yet Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, into a law of righteousness does not outstrip." 32 Wherefore? Seeing that it is not out of faith, but as out of law works, they stumble on the stumbling stone, 33 according as it is written: Lo! I am laying in Zion a Stumbling Stone and a Snare Rock, And the one believing on Him shall not be disgraced."
Paul is trying to get us to understand that believing that working to obedience to the law as the means of salvation, is a stumbling stone.
Yahshua's name proclaims that it is YHWH saves you. YAH shua!
By believing that you can save yourself; you have elevated yourself to YHWH.
YHWH didn't nail his righteous law (Torah) to the torture stake. He nailed The Law of Righteousness to the torture stake. It is the end of The Law of Righteousness for those who are under The Law of Faith. They will be obedient to The Spirit's Law of Life, as it lead the to be obedient to YHWH's Law (Torah).
Paul went over this in Chapter 8.
Romans 10:4 in context:
For Messiah is the end of The Law of Righteousnes, for righteousness, to everyone who is believing in the righteousness of YHWH.
Follow Yahshua, as Yahshua followed Torah.
(CLV) Ro 2:13
For not the listeners to law are just with God, but the doers of law shall be justified.
5 For Moses is writing of the righteousness which is of law, that a man who does the same shall be living in it."
(CLV) Ro 2:13
For not the listeners to law are just with God, but the doers of law shall be justified.
6 Yet the righteousness of faith is saying thus: You may not be saying in your heart, Who will be ascending into heaven? - that is, to be leading Christ down -"
(CLV) Dt 30:12
It is neither in the heavens for you to say: Who shall ascend to the heavens for us and take it for us and announce it to us that we may do it?
Hear and Obey. Follow Yahshua as he followed the Torah.
(CLV) Ro 2:13
For not the listeners to law are just with God, but the doers of law shall be justified.
7 or Who will be descending into the submerged chaos? - that is, to be leading Christ up from among the dead."
(CLV) Dt 30:13
Nor is it across the sea for you to say: Who shall cross across the sea for us and take it for us and announce it to us that we may do it?
Hear and Obey. Follow Yahshua as he followed the Torah.
(CLV) Ro 2:13
For not the listeners to law are just with God, but the doers of law shall be justified.
8 But what is it saying? Near you is the declaration, in your mouth and in your heart - that is, the declaration of faith which we are heralding" 9 that, if ever you should be avowing with your mouth the declaration that Jesus is Lord, and should be believing in your heart that God rouses Him from among the dead, you shall be saved." 10 For with the heart it is believed for righteousness, yet with the mouth it is avowed for salvation." 11 For the scripture is saying: Everyone who is believing on Him shall not be disgraced. 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same One is Lord of all, being rich for all who are invoking Him."
One Elohim, and one law for all of Israel!
(CLV) Mt 15:24
Now He, [Yahshua] answering, said, "I was not commissioned except for the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
(CLV) Ex 12:49
One law shall there be for both the native and for the sojourner sojourning in your midst.
13 For everyone, whoever should be invoking the name of the Lord, shall be saved." 14 How, then, should they be invoking One in Whom they do not believe? Yet how should they be believing One of Whom they do not hear? Yet how should they be hearing apart from one heralding? 15 Yet how should they be heralding if ever they should not be commissioned? According as it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those bringing an evangel of good! 16 But not all obey the evangel, for Isaiah is saying, "Lord, who believes our tidings? 17 Consequently, faith is out of tidings, yet the tidings through a declaration of Christ." 18 But, I am saying, Do they not hear at all? To be sure! "Into the entire earth came out their utterance, And into the ends of the inhabited earth their declarations." 19 But, I am saying, Did not Israel know at all? First Moses is saying, I shall be provoking you to jealousy over those not a nation; Over an unintelligent nation shall I be vexing you." 20 20 Yet Isaiah is very daring and is saying, I was found by those who are not seeking Me; I became disclosed to those who are not inquiring for Me." 21 Now to Israel He is saying, The whole day I spread out My hands to a stubborn and contradicting people!"
Paul speaks of the nations coming to know him.
Hallelu YAH!
Legal Terms:
The Law of Faith (Ch 3)
A Different Law (Ch 7)
The Law of My Mind (Ch 7)
The Law of Sin (Sin's Law) (Ch 7)
God's Law (Ch 7)
The Spirit's Law of Life (Ch 8)
The Law of Sin and Death (Ch 8)
The Law of Righteousness (Ch 9
Romans Chapter 11
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