Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Bible study on Thursday night. Always glad to have you here. I'm here in Towson, New Mexico, you're across America and around the world. And we are going to study Romans tonight. One of those well known passages, two verses anyway, verses nine and ten of Romans, chapter ten in what is now excuse me, excuse me. Our 26th time to come together in the book of Romans as we make it into the 10th chapter tonight. And we are going to look at the first eleven verses on this Thursday night. For those of you who are watching live anyways, Thursday night here in Taos, New Mexico, and I would love to give some greetings to you at the end of the hour. Maybe you could just sometime say hello from wherever you are. Always a delight to see who you are, where you're from. And those of you who watch the archives, of course you don't get so much the opportunity to do that, but I always enjoy hearing from you. And you could email me sometime, Randy@randywhiteministries.org, just say, hey, I'm out here, I'd like to introduce myself and I would love to meet you, even if across the miles, you know? It's time to register for the conference in Branson, september 1 through four. We're going to look at right division issues and answers. I think it'll be a good one. And this is our 9th time to gather together for our Labor Day Bible Conference and always a good family reunion that we have. This time, Esther at Sight and Sound Theater is included and you'll enjoy that presentation as well as the Friday night fellowship, if you can make it in by Friday night, the Saturday teaching, the Sunday teaching, the Monday teaching, and again, right division issues and answers. We'll even look at those who say right division is heresy. We'll listen to what they have to say with an open mind and see if we are indeed heretics. We'll find out. But tonight we're here for Bible study. So why don't we just switch right over here and begin to do that? And I better get over here and get my pointer. I can't teach without a pointer, can I? We've got an outline available for you and that is available at our worship I and Randy White ministry site. It's right down below if you'd like to use that to follow along. Or at our RWM Connect site, you get through that through Randywhiteministries.org. Just look. I don't know, maybe all the way down at the bottom or so it says Connect. You'll have to sign up for an invitation for that and we will be happy to send you one. Tonight we will be looking at here we go. We will be looking at mostly the King James. We might look at a little bit of a Greek here, but on our biblifi software, King James got a little interlinear and we've got this should be, it's not set there, but it should be set to the Young's Literal translation that we will take a look at. And let me now get us back to Romans chapter ten. Here we go. As Paul says something that really he has said at least a couple of times now certainly he said it in Romans chapter nine, as he expressed his love for the nation of Israel and his desire to see the nation of Israel saved. Nothing new here, but as I said the earlier times that it came up, we have to come take a look at this and recognize that you don't know Paul if you don't know his heart's desire and his desire is for Israel. Therefore all those who are Pauline should also be pro Israel. We should be of the Israel persuasion. And Paul is here now. He comes in Romans chapter ten, and he begins to explain in. Here we go from Romans graphically presented. This is on page 41 or 42. Page 42 we have the overview of chapter nine, one through 1021, part four. We've been in it already three times looking at the three parts of chapter nine. Now we get into all of chapter ten together and it's all about God's future work with Israel. Now you may remember that at the end of chapter nine, the way I outlined it was that chapter 930-31-3233, those last few verses of chapter nine were about God's current work with Israel, the current dispensational position of Israel. But now he's not beginning in chapter ten. He's not talking about the current dispensational position of Israel. He's talking about God's future work with Israel. What is God going to do? He has chosen them. He says in verse nine, chapter nine, excuse me. And now he's got a future work. We'll look at verses one through four, the misguided righteousness of Israel. We'll look at verses five through eleven, the righteousness that is found by faith in Messiah, and then we'll save verses twelve through 21 for next week. Now we don't want to be confused. The righteousness that is in faith in Messiah is not the Pauline Gospel. Let me say this now then, let me say it then. Then let me tell you that I told it. Romans chapter ten, verses one through eleven is not about the Pauline Gospel. We will not find the Pauline Gospel in there. The problem is that Romans chapter ten, verses one through eleven suffers from similarity. But remember, things that are similar are not the same. When you look at them closely all the way around, things that are similar are not the same. And this is going to be one of those issues that comes together and we'll look at it and say, oh, I know he's talking about his Gospel, the Pauline Gospel, the mystery Gospel. And yet for those of you who are keen right dividers, which of course would be the majority of our audience, you would not get very far before you would say, wait a minute, something's wrong here. How in the world can that be mystery? And so that is what we will consider tonight as we begin here in Romans, chapter ten, verse one. Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved. This is right here, his desire. We're going to have everything tonight, by the way, be in black lettering. Black in our rightly divided color coding means this is not for us, this is about something else. It's pretty clear. It's his desire for Israel. His prayer for Israel is that they might be saved. Now we, though we and I'll use that word too broadly, we as in Christendom, we Christians, talk against Isajesis isgesis, is our favorite thing to do. Thou shalt not do isegesis. And then we go and do Isajesis, isajesis reading into the text, reading our experience, our knowledge, our understanding, our dispensation into the text. So here it would be so easy to come along and say, brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might experience the Pauline salvation that I've experienced. Just because it uses the word saved does not mean it's talking about the same kind of salvation that you and I experience. Paul certainly does want Israel to be saved, there's no doubt about that. But I think that what he wants them to experience, the salvation he wants them to experience is the kingdom salvation. The kingdom salvation is the salvation that is the future salvation on earth when God provides the promises to Israel. And it's the Old Testament salvation, if you will, and Paul wants them to have that now to build that a little bit. If we were to jump down and I guess let's just go ahead and do it. If we were to jump down here to Romans chapter eleven, verse 26, it says, and so all Israel shall be saved. There we go. So all Israel shall be saved. Okay, put this together. Romans chapter ten, verse one. I want Israel to be saved. My heart's desire, my prayer for Israel is that they be saved. Romans 1126. So all Israel shall be saved. Now, I want to give you a little warning. Sometimes you make a mistake at the beginning and you don't realize what a mistake it is to the end. How many times has that happened to us, right? We put the part on thinking everything would be great. It goes right here. I'm going to go ahead and put it on and then we get all the way to the end and find out, oh, now I got to undo absolutely everything so I can stick this other part on that I forgot. So I don't want you to get there, okay? I don't want you to end up at the end and say, oh my goodness, this doesn't work. So if remember Romans 1126 here. So all Israel shall be saved. Obviously we're a ways off from getting to that conclusion but he is going to make that conclusion. Now let's go back to Romans, chapter ten, verse one. My heart's desire is that they might be saved. If you take this salvation to be by grace through faith, not of yourselves, the Pauline salvation, then you will have to end up with a position that every single Jew is going to experience that salvation. All Israel is going to be saved by grace through faith, not of works every Jew because that's the conclusion that Paul is going to come to. So I don't want you to go all the way through here reading an individual salvation or a Pauline salvation or a mystery salvation and then get to the end and say oh wow, I got to back up to chapter ten, verse one and redo this because that's not what it is, it's not where we're at. And so we will begin to look at that and as we will begin to look at that, what we're going to discover is that he's talking about a national salvation all the way through to the end and then all Israel nationally will be saved. And we'll obviously put that together between here and there. So my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel, for the nation is that they might be saved, that they might have their kingdom salvation, not their individual salvation. Now just in case, let me reach down here to my favorite poster. There we go. Just in case you have forgotten or you might be new with us, let me remind you that we talk about a kingdom salvation here at Randy White Ministries. And rightly dividing we talk about an individual salvation. We also talk about an overlap, a period in the book of Acts where there is an overlap. I think here that Paul is he's writing within this overlap but he's speaking to that on this side. He's speaking to Israel. Israel's salvation of our covenants and commonwealth. This is the salvation that Paul wants Israel to have. My heart's desire, my prayer to God for Israel is that she experience this salvation over here, this national gospel of Israel. I want her to have it. He's writing the book of Romans to say hey, I want you all to know there's this thing going on over here. But this is what I want Israel to have is the testimony and is the experience. So here it is that they might be saved, they the nation might be saved. Going on verse two, he says for I bear them record that they have a zeal of God but not according to knowledge. Well I think you would agree with me that having a zeal for God is a good thing and they have a zeal of God. There is this zealous nature to their service of God and he commends them for that. He amends that. I bear record. I'll stand and witness to that all day long. Not a problem. And yet the problem is not their zeal. The problem is knowledge. Their zeal is not according to knowledge. Now the word knowledge, it's the regular word for knowledge. It's this little word right here, epigenosis. Epigenosis. And if we were to let me get over here. If we were to cover up the prefix EPI, you have the word gnosis. Gnosis. We get the gnostics out of that. Gnosis. As a matter of fact, we get knowledge out of gnosis. So knowledge, but it's got the little prefix right there, EPI. EPI is upon, on the surface, epidural right in the skin. It goes there. So upon knowledge, okay, let's get this. But not according to being on knowledge or not. We need to add to this basically is what he says. There is knowledge upon knowledge. EPI is in its essence, it's an intensifier. So it strengthens this and yet again, really, it's giving the idea of having knowledge about knowledge. So yeah, they got zeal, but they need some knowledge about their knowledge. That is, they missed something and they need to get it. Now once again, because you and I live in the body of Christ in the age of grace and the dispensation of the grace of God in the Pauline era, we could read the mystery right here and we could say the problem with Israel is not their works or their zeal. And Paul's kind of going to argue that here in a moment. So we might say the problem is not their works or zeal, but the problem is they don't have knowledge of the mystery. But that's our experience. It's not what Paul's saying. I think that Paul is saying, hey, in your zeal to carry out the law, there's actually something about the law that you are not recognizing, you are not carrying out. And so he wants them to have a little more knowledge. Now in the next verse it actually is going to solidify this argument that knowledge here is not knowledge of the mystery. So again, he's not saying, I wish that they had zeal according to knowledge of the mystery. That would be debunked by the time we get to verse three. Let's go ahead and get there. It says, for they being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness, have submitted themselves unto have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. Now their problem is what? Their problem is they do not have the righteousness of God. They are ignorant. As a matter of fact, ignorant is Agnoia. Agnostic. We get from there. They do not have the knowledge. It's the same thing he says in verse three. So the problem is they don't have the knowledge of God's righteousness. They are going about to establish their own righteousness. They have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. Sounds a little works based, doesn't it? And indeed I would argue that it is a little works based as we put that together. Let's think here about the righteousness of God. So they haven't submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. Let's go to Romans, chapter one, verse 16. One that you know, as Paul says, excuse me, I got us to the wrong place. Romans chapter one, verse 16 says, I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it's the power of God to salvation, to everyone who believe it, to the Jew first, and also the Greek. Okay, I'm not ashamed, I'll stand by it. The Gospel of Christ. Go back to our notes on Romans, chapter one, verse 16. I think it's session two or three in the book of Romans. Go back to that 20 some OD sessions ago if you missed that or if you've forgotten that I am convinced the Gospel of Christ is the Gospel of the Messiah, the gospel of the messianic reign, the gospel of the kingdom. I'm sure he's not ashamed of his gospel either, but here I think he's talking about the gospel of the kingdom and he says, I'm not ashamed of this messianic gospel. It is the power of God to salvation to everyone that believed, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. Now, the Pauline gospel doesn't have anything to do with Jew or Greek, neither Jew nor Gentile. But here this gospel does have to do with the Jew and the Greek, and it's to the Jew first and then it's also to the Greek. So that gospel of Christ, that messianic gospel, that kingdom gospel, he says, for therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith. Wait a minute, the righteousness of God is revealed where? There in, where is there in the Gospel of Christ, the kingdom gospel. Now, I know there's a little bit of interpretation, there some assumptions there and you question the assumptions, but you don't have to buy it just yet if I haven't convinced you. Just stick around and let's see if we can get there. So again, Romans, chapter ten, verse one is heart's desire is that they would have kingdom salvation is my interpretation. Paul says, wow, they're really good with zeal. The problem is they need some knowledge about knowledge. They are ignorant of God's righteousness. Where does God's righteousness come from? Therein ah in the messianic gospel comes God's righteousness. God becomes their righteousness when they recognize their Messiah, and Messiah comes to be the righteousness of God among them. So they're ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness. They've submitted themselves, they've not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. Now, I am convinced that what we've got here in verse three is Paul saying that Israel has not come to the righteousness of God even though they've got a great deal of zeal, they simply are not at the righteousness of god. And in doing this, the challenge and the problem is basically that they have not received their Messiah. Verse two, they need to receive their Messiah. They need knowledge about their Messiah, basically, and I'll build this case as we go along, but basically verse two says, the reason that we have the problem of verse one that they're not saved is because they rejected the Messiah. I think Paul here would say, hey Israel, had you listened to Peter in Acts chapter two and chapter three, you would be saved. He would have brought you your salvation. Times of refreshing would have come, as Peter said, but you didn't listen to him. You rejected the righteousness of God. You're still zealous, you're still zealous for the Law, but you missed what the whole Law is about. He's going to say that in a moment, you rejected the righteousness of God that comes through the Law, which is only found in the Messiah. The Law is not an end unto itself. The law is to lead to messiah. Now, Paul could have also said, okay, so yeah, you didn't follow through with what Paul had to say to Peter, but you had another opportunity. Stephen, go through Stephen's sermon sometime in Acts chapter seven and you'll see that Stephen's whole sermon is Israel. You need to place faith that Jesus is the Christ. Herein is the problem. So follow this through here. Paul says verse one, I wish they were saved. I want them to be saved. He says, the problem is they don't have the righteousness of God. They've not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God. Then someone raises their hand, how do we discover the righteousness of God? Paul says, I already told you back in chapter one, verse 17, therein is the righteousness of God. Well, what do you mean therein in the Kingdom, gospel is the righteousness of God. It has to do with a coming Messiah at a particular time, at a particular place. You needed to be looking for someone who was born in Bethlehem, born of a virgin of the house and lineage of David and who would have command over the wind and the waves and the demons and sickness and all physical things. You needed to be looking for that person. I wonder who that could have been, I don't know. No, you rejected the only guy that could do it. And so the problem is you've not submitted yourself to the righteousness of God to make all that shorthand. You rejected Jesus, that's the problem. You rejected Jesus as the Christ and therefore you rejected the righteousness of God. You've not submitted yourselves unto the righteousness of God. Then he goes on in verse four saying for Christ, read Messiah there. Messiah is the end of the Law for righteousness, literally for ice unto end of the Law unto righteousness. Christ is the end of the Law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. Okay, the problem is you didn't believe. You should have believed in Israel, in living the law, in having a zealousness for the law. You don't just do it for your health. The Law was never meant to be permanent. The Law was not meant just, oh, we got another generation of law abiders. Isn't that nice? After this one, it'll be gone. There'll be another generation of law abiders on and on through eternity. Another generation of law abiders. No, the Law was let's live according to the strictness of these commands so that God will send a Savior who will redeem us from all of this. That was the purpose of the Law. So the problem is they missed that. They were just living zealously as, oh, we could do it this generation, we'll do it the next generation, we'll do it the one after that. Isn't this a nice way to live? They missed the purpose. Christ is or Messiah is the end of the Law for righteousness. So if you never come to the end, you you miss the point. You know, sometimes I don't know. We hear you go on a I don't know, let's step back a few years. You go on a train ride somewhere. We're going to Los Angeles. Get yourself on the train. Southwestern Chief. Here we go. We're on our way to Los Angeles and you hadn't even hit Albuquerque yet before someone's saying, mom, are we there yet? Are we there yet? And dad says, just enjoy the journey. Enjoy the journey. Just enjoy the journey. Okay, it's nice chat, nice talk, but imagine the train just drives forever. Like literally just forever. It's the journey that matters, that's all. It's just the journey. Let's just enjoy the journey. The train makes a turn here and a turn there and a stop here and a stop there never makes it to Los Angeles. You would say, do you want your money back? Engine engine number nine? Yeah, I want my money back. It didn't take me there. So the purpose of the Law is not just this journey. This is a wonderful journey, living for God under the Commandments. It's not the purpose of the Law. The purpose of the Law is to get you somewhere. It's to get you to the Kingdom. It's to get you to that salvation. It's to get you to the Messiah. Messiah is the end of the Law for righteousness. It's to get the nation to that righteous point where Messiah comes and he is theirs and they are his into the Law for righteousness. To everyone that believeth, there's going to have to be some faith in this. And I think that what you got is Paul here is going to argue much like James in just a moment, james argues that you have to have faith in works. You know what Paul's arguing right here. You got to have faith in works. Why would Paul argue such a thing? Because the salvation he's talking about is pauline, excuse me, is kingdom, that's the same thing Peter was talking about. So when Peter and Paul talk about the Kingdom, they're both same. You got to have faith, you got to have works. James actually was emphasizing works. Paul is emphasizing belief, belief in where's this train going. Oh, it's going to Messiah. Messiah is the end of the law for righteousness. Messiah is where this journey is coming. You got to trust that. You got to have belief in that. Okay, so comes down for Moses, describeth the righteousness which is of the Law. Can I back up here? Let's go back into verse three. They are ignorant of God's righteousness going about to establish their own righteousness, not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God. I suppose most evangelicals here would say this means that they've never recognized that the Law would not bring them righteousness. They're trying to get their own righteousness, but they can't get their own righteousness because the Law doesn't provide it. What they need to do is come get salvation in Jesus Christ. That would be the evangelical approach and they would even say, don't these Jews know that the Law will never provide righteousness? That's the evangelical position, the Law will never provide righteousness. Now before you say that, recognize that you do have to get down here to verse five where it says Moses describeth the oh, wait a minute, righteousness which is of the Law. You can't say the Law doesn't give any righteousness because Paul testifies that Moses described the righteousness which is of the Law. So are you willing to say Moses didn't know what he was talking about? Now a lot of people might say that all moses didn't know what he's talking about. He didn't know that later there's going to be a righteousness by faith. That's what they'll say this week. Come back next week and say how was Moses saved? He was saved by believing in advance of the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ to die for his sins. There's a terrible inconsistency that comes about in evangelicalism. So Paul testifies that Moses describes. Now if Paul thought Moses was wrong, he should have said so. There's no indication here at all that he thinks Moses is wrong. If Moses was wrong, somebody in the Bible should have told us so. But Moses described the righteousness which is of the Law. And then Paul quotes Moses as saying the man which doeth those things. Anybody want to guess what those things are? You're right, those things are the things of the Law. Moses testified to the righteousness of the Law by saying the man which doeth those things shall live by them they will bring you life. So Moses, the problem was they were just living the Law perpetually, which is what they needed to do because they had rejected their Messiah. So let's just oh, this is wonderful, let's just live the Law. Oh, live it again, live it again. We'll live it today, we'll live it tomorrow, we'll live it this week, we'll live it next week. We'll live it this year, we'll live it next year. We'll live it this generation, we'll live it next generation. We just live the law. That's what we do on this train to nowhere. Employ. Are we happy? Just enjoy the journey. And Paul says, Come on, you know that this train's got to go somewhere. It goes to the righteousness of God. And this train's not getting there. It's going in circles. We got to get to the destination. How do you get to the destination? It's going to be to everyone that believeth. You got to believe. When this Messiah comes, you got to believe in him. Moses describes the righteousness of the Law. The man which does these things shall live by them indeed. So here's the works part of it. The man which doth these things, those things shall live by them. Yeah, there's got to be some works you got to do. The law. Good for you. You got to be zealous. But verse six and verse six, seven and eight really have to be kind of combined together, because it's all one one sentence and one quote from the Old Testament. But the righteousness which is of faith, speaketh of this wise. Now, wait a minute. The righteousness which is of faith. This is where someone comes and says, yeah, here we got to it. Now. We're in the Pauline stuff. Faith. Righteousness which is of faith. No, Paul's argument is Israel. You got to live your law. Thumbs up to you for doing it, but recognize where this law leads. It leads to Messiah coming. And you in faith, having lived obediently, receive him as your King, as your Messiah. This is what needed to happen. You rejected it. You put him to death on the cross. Peter Came said, hey, God's willing to overlook that just a minor issue, but he'll overlook it. But we need to come have a meeting with him. You rejected Peter. Stephen came. Same message. You rejected Stephen. You've missed the righteousness which is of the Law, because it requires not only the works that you are doing, it requires faith as well. The righteousness which is of faith, speaketh this wise. Now, he's still giving testimony to Moses, and he begins to quote of Moses right here when he says this little part right here. And it continues with a couple of parenthetical interjections. Say not in thy thine heart who shall ascend into heaven. So he comes in these verses and he quotes Deuteronomy, chapter 30, verses twelve through 14, and he's going to use this. He doesn't quote it word for word, but it clearly is a reference to Deuteronomy 3012 through 14 and clearly the words of Moses. Moses is giving these words to Israel. It's in the last will and testament of Moses as he speaks. And Moses says to the nation, say not. In thine heart, who shall ascend into heaven? Now, I'm going to skip the parenthetical and come back for a moment. Or who shall descend into the deep? Okay, you got it. We got two choices here. Who's going to go up into heaven, who's going to go into the deep? But what say of it? The word is naive even in thy mouth and in thy heart. That is the word of faith which we preach. Okay? The word right here, the word is nigh thee. Now, here is let me take you back and we could go back to Deuteronomy again, chapter 30, verses twelve through 14, and read him from there. But it's quoted well enough here that we don't need to. Moses in Deuteronomy 30 is, as I mentioned, giving his last final speech to Israel. And he says to Israel, I am about to die. I'm about to go the way of all the earth. I'm about to sayanara, out of here. I'll leave things with Joshua, and you nation of Israel are going to have to carry on without me. And when I'm gone a little bit, somebody might come along and say, oh, what are we supposed to do? I don't know what God wants out of us. I don't know. Let's take the wings of a dove and go up into the heavens and see if we can figure out no, let's go down into the deep and see if we can figure things out. Let's search the universe trying to find truth. And Moses says, wake up and smell the coffee. You got it right in front of you. You don't need to go up into the heavens, you don't need to go down into the deep. The word is nigh thee. I think the interpretation of this, the Greek, the Hebrew actually says if it was a snake, it would have Bitcha. The word is right there. What Moses is saying is, you got the Torah, there is no need to look over the heavens and the earth everywhere you can find, trying to find truth. You've got the word. It is naive. It's sitting right there in front of you. Use it. And his point is, you're going to have to have some faith that this Torah actually came from God. Moses, it's as if he says, now, you all remember your parents told you because it was the next generation by then, moses was the only one left. Your parents told you how I went up into Mount Sinai. Remember, they told you all that some of you were little and they told you all the stories about God giving the law, about the broken tablets and all that kind of stuff. You remember, this is the word of God. We have trusted it. We've taken it as the word of God. But you're going to get out a generation or so and you're going to say, hath God really said? You're going to say, is this really the Word of God and you're going to go searching high and low and everywhere. You can go near, far, whatever, saying, what's the truth from God? What do I need? And he says right here, the word is nigh thee. You got to have some faith that this is actually the Word. Now, what Paul does is change that just slightly. He is the apostle Paul, he can do so if he wants to, right? He changes it just slightly, but it's actually not unprecedented. And I'll show you. Paul comes and says, hey, who shall ascend into Heaven? And he puts this, that is to bring Messiah down from above, who shall descend into the deep, that is to bring Christ, bring Messiah again from the dead. Catch it. I know I'm going to repeat myself a little bit here. I rarely do that. I don't want you to miss it. Here's Moses, who says, I don't want you to miss that. You've got the word of God right in front of you. You don't have to go to Heaven, you don't have to go down into the deep, cross the seas, over the mountains and through the woods to find it. It's right here by you. Now, Paul comes, shifts that just a little bit, and he says, if you've got to have faith that this is the Torah, which is what Moses said, I have a little faith in this. What about the end of the Torah, the journey, the destination of the Torah, which is Messiah? And do you have to say, oh, let's go up into the heavens, see if we can find Messiah? Let's go down to the deep league and see if we can find Messiah, let's go over the mountains and through the woods, see if we can find Messiah. He says, no need for that. Messiah is naive. Right here in front of you. What you need is faith that this the one who claimed to be the Son of God, just like the Torah claims to be the Word of God, you need to put your faith in it. Now, he has all the way through used examples that would be easy for Israel, easy for Israel to accept. You remember ishmael is not the promised one. Isaac is the Promised one. Yeah, this guy knows what he's talking about. Esau is not the promised one. Jacob is not the promised one. Yeah. Amen. I couldn't have said it better myself. And God chose Pharaoh in order that he would bring about the work of God in Israel. They agreed with everything. And it was this great tactic of a good rhetorician to get everybody to agree with you before you bring down the thing that's hard to do. So here he brings up this moses, you got to have faith in the Torah, right? Yeah, we have faith in the Torah. You do? Says, okay, the Torah tells about the righteousness of God in the Messiah, the end of the Torah, the direction of the Torah, the destination of the Torah is the Messiah. We're going to have to have some faith that the one who claimed to be the Messiah is actually the Messiah. That's what we've got to do and that's what he's leading him here. So you don't have to descend into let me back up this one verse. You don't have to ascend into Heaven to find the Torah. You don't have to descend into the deep to find the Torah. You don't have to ascend into Heaven to find the Messiah. You don't have to descend into the deep to find Messiah, but the word is naive. Now, let's take this right here. The word is naive. That's Moses's words, and he was talking about the word of Torah. It's right there in front of you. I mentioned that Paul shifted this just a little bit from the Torah to the Messiah, which is the end of the Torah. But he's not the only one. Remember the Gospel of John in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. This idea of equating the Word of God, let's just say in print to the word of God in person. It's a natural thing that the writer of John's Gospel did. And Paul does the same thing here. And he brings this out, I think. And when he says the Word is naive, quoting again from Moses, he's saying the Messiah is naive. Now, the Messiah is nive. It might even be when Jesus says to those Pharisees, the Kingdom of God is among you, right here. Where? Right here. I'm standing in front of you. Here I am. I'm the king. I bring your kingdom. Now, with all of this using all this Old Testament stuff to bring to say, remember Moses told us we had to have faith in Torah? Yeah, we remember. We have to have faith that Torah promised a Messiah, a prophet like unto Moses. And there is a guy that claimed to be that and we rejected him. We need to turn it's right near it is among us right here where the word is nigh thee even in thy mouth and in thy heart. Now, again, this is Moses's words talking about the Torah. You've got the truth in your mouth, you got the truth in your heart. I think here there is this little play that Paul is given, the works and the faith. Speak it, you believe it. Put those two together and Paul says, hey, you're zealous in works, you're zealous in the mouth. It's the heart we got a problem with. We need some knowledge upon knowledge to bring this whole thing together. So the word is nigh thee. What if we capitalize that? The word is nigh thee even in thy mouth and in thy heart. Well, how in the world is their Messiah? In their mouth or in their heart? Well, I'll show you in a moment. He says, that is the word of faith which we preach. Once again he's saying to them, they lack faith. This is what they need, the faith that Christ is the end. Messiah is the end of the law. They're missing that the train is going in circles, round and round she goes. So they need to add faith to this. And they could do it with their mouth. With their heart. Now that's when we come to verse nine, which is the verse that of course is always used in the Roman Road Gospel presentation. If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Let me back up. The word is in thy mouth. The word is in thy heart. Those are Moses words. And so Paul takes Moses words, mouth and heart and says, if you'll use the mouth and the heart, then you will be saved. Now, for those who know the principles of right division, how do you base the Pauline Gospel on Moses? That doesn't fit with Ephesians chapter three, does it? This dispensation of the grace of God, which was given unto me for you word, this dispensation, that was a mystery of four times unknown. And yet you could find it in Moses, see it in Moses, foreshadow it in Moses. I don't think so. Doesn't work. And yet even dispensationalists will take Romans chapter ten, verse ten, verse nine and ten, and say, oh, this is our Gospel. Without even bringing into the fact that there is some works involved here. If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thine heart that God raised him for the dead. Well, you know, Paul forgot to tell the Philippian jailer half the formula. What must I do to be saved? Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you'll be saved. Oh, and confess him. Confess him with your mouth. I almost forgot that. Why didn't Paul tell that to the Philippian jailer? Because he was Philippian, not Jew. Was an individual salvation, not a national salvation. So let me go to the end here and let's work our way back up. In verse nine here it says that if you do all this, thou shalt be saved. Now that's his heart's desire, my prayer, my heart's desire for Israel is that they would be saved if Israel, you would confess with your mouth jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, thou Israel shall be saved. I think this is not I recognize it's in the singular, but I think this is speaking about the nation of Israel, thou Israel. And there's a number of places in the scripture where the actual words thou Israel are used. Isaiah and Hosea, I gave you a couple of those on the outline that thou Israel shall be saved. And this is the word or the desire that is given there as he speaks this. So he wants Israel to do what? He wants them to be saved. And here's how they need to be saved. Israel needs to confess with thy mouth. The Lord Jesus. Confess with thy mouth. That's really a hard thing to get around, that being works. I remember as a standard evangelical being asked a few times by some keen listeners, keen readers of the of the Word. Well, how is mouth confession not works? Well, it's just an overflow of the heart. An overflow of the heart says confess with thy mouth means what it says, says what it means, what's, what's wrong with that? So now then, as we go, if thou, if thou Israel will confess with thy mouth. Remember what Jesus said in Matthew 23 39, I bring it up fairly often. As Jesus says, you will not see me henceforth till you say, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. So what Paul saying? Israel, you want to see your salvation? Open your mouth and say Peter was right, Stephen was right, jesus is the Lord and believe in thine heart that God raised him from the dead. This is that faith aspect of it. They didn't believe this and that's what he wanted them to do, to believe, have the mouth and the heart, or as we said it earlier, the works and the faith. As James says. As Paul says, you need both of them. Got to have both in Jewish national salvation. Don't get this confused with my salvation and your salvation. Let me say again, I'm not talking about our individual salvation once tonight. Anything I say, it's not about how to be saved, how I should be saved and how you could be saved. This is for Israel and Israel needs the mouth and the heart. It needs the works and it needs the faith. James is saying I'm not seeing enough works. Paul is saying I'm not seeing enough faith and bringing these together. So if you do that, thou Israel shalt be saved. And then in verse ten, he in one sense reiterates his earlier claims. For with the heart, believeth man, believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. So he just rotates these around again and talks about the heart, he talks about the mouth, he talks about Israel, he talks about man, the future dispensational plan, this is what it's going to be, and carry this out. And so they've got a mouth problem, they've got a heart problem. They need to bring both of these problems together and recognize and confess Jesus as Lord. Now, I think that again, verses nine and ten are directed towards Israel, and yet I got a little stack of tracks over there and I could pick up, I don't know, probably 80% of them and find Romans, chapter ten, verses nine and ten in there. And they would be used in a presentation of our Gospel. I don't think they describe our Gospel. Now, some of you might say, oh, that's the verse that Pastor So and So used. Let's call him pastor. Goodheart. Pastor Goodheart used that when he shared the Gospel with me. That's when I was saved back when I was 15 years old. You saying I'm not saved because that's for Israel? No, because you did believe. You placed your faith in Jesus Christ. You received the gift and it's carried out. But by doing this, if we put this in here, we do introduce confusion, really, right from the beginning. It is by grace through faith, not of works. As long as you confess with your mouth, as long as your mouth is moving, then it's all by grace and you're tithing and you're attending church on the Lord's day at the Lord's house. We just get so confused so quickly. So better to take a passage like Acts 1631, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved to carry that out. And then our last verse of the evening. For the scripture saith, whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. Now, this is the second time in the relative context that Paul has used these words. Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. They are a quote from Isaiah, chapter 28, verse 16 in Isaiah 20 816. This is where Isaiah shares the word of the Lord. The Lord really speaks and says, I will lay in Zion a stone, a builder stone, the chief cornerstone. I will put it there. And whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. And Paul says the problem is Israel. It's not that you're not working. You got a zeal for works. It's just you're on a train to nowhere. You skipped over the destination, and now you kind of want to erase that. Kids were going to Los Angeles. We forgot to get off the train at Los Angeles. We're just enjoy the journey. Just boy, this is fun. This is so much fun. Pretend like it didn't happen. Pretend like make that Messiah thing go away. No. Christ is the end of the law. He's the goal. He's the destination. And what you all need to do is look back and say, we miss Los Angeles. We need to turn this train around. We need to get back there. We're going to do that with a confession of our mouth, like Moses said, and a belief in our heart. We're going to bring both of those together, and we're going to find the stone that we stumbled over. We're coming back to it because it says of that stone, whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. We got to get back there. Now, once again, that's a pretty clear testimony by Paul for Israel. I'm not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ. I'm not ashamed of this messianic gospel. Here's what we need to do. Pretty clear message and Paul gives a pretty clear message again on Ephesians three that his Pauline gospel was hidden. And in Romans chapter one, verses one through eleven we have had several quotes from Moses and now we've got quotes from Isaiah that are used foundationally to support the argument for what Paul is arguing which says Paul must not be talking about the Grace gospel which says we shouldn't have it in our gospel tracks. We can find something better to carry that out. Now let me give you a word of warning here. You are going to go from here and a friend is going to give you a track maybe out of church. They'll hand you this track, say hey, the Roman road to salvation, why don't you share this with someone this week and you're going to say stop the presses. Romans ten, nine and ten is not for us. And they are going to look at you and call together the heretic committee and they'll have a meeting before Sunday's out of the heretic committee. We were talking about spiritual gifts the other day and going to complete that this Sunday but I talked a little bit about discernment. I began to think afterwards what is the gift of discernment for the local church anyway? Like do we need a discernment committee like all the ladies with discernment to come together because we got some new prospects here. They've come into the church, we're trying to discern whether or not we want them or not. Do we want to keep these people around or do we want to show them the door? Let's have the discernment committee. Well the heretic committee is also going to come in and they will so not understand the things we said tonight if you try to bring it up to them. So my encouragement is to be careful when you try to bring it up to them. Romans ten, nine and ten, you're going to bump into it all the time out in evangelicalism and if you try to tell them that's not for us they simply won't get it. You will talk to your blue in the face, they won't get it. They've got to start somewhere much earlier. There are prerequisites to get here, one of those being what is the Pauline mystery to begin with and is it different from the Kingdom gospel to get that understanding? And then you would say that which is mystery is not prophesied and everything in Romans chapter ten is built upon prophecy. It's got to go over here and then maybe you can get it. But anyway that's just my encouragement to say might not be the best thing to go. Try to argue with your evangelical friends on this one just yet. Get them involved in the advanced class. We looked here through verse eleven and God's future work with Israel. Again, this is on page 42 of Romans graphically presented next week we'll go into verse twelve a parenthetical praise for God's work today. And then he picks up in 13 through 21, Israel's Gospel proclaimed but not seen. Israel's gospel. That has been Romans, rightly? Divided session number 26. And I look forward to session number 27 next week and to saying Hi, hello, how are you tonight? To all of you who are here, if you haven't given a hello, go ahead and do it now. I see Debbie right there. My advice is don't bring it up or you'll be sorry. She's been there, done that, hasn't she? She got the T shirt, the heretics T shirt about that and Teresa. Yeah. Most don't care to know what they don't know. That is a sad thing. That really, in a lot of ways, the American church lacks knowledge. It needs some epigenosis, some knowledge upon knowledge in order to come out there. Okay, let's do some greetings and see who's here tonight before we depart. Jim and Piedmont, South Carolina. Good to see you. The Benners in Inkerman, Pennsylvania. Neil up in Vulcan, alberta, Canada, I think. Did I see Neil say something about it was cold up there? Are you all jealous, any of you? Crystal Springs, Mississippi. Good to see Debbie and Darryl tonight. Everett says, good evening, fellow. Right, Dividers from Sholo, Arizona. Jeff, a friend in Trinidad, Colorado, is here with us tonight. And Roger in Maryland. Wabashaw, Minnesota. Jack and Teresa in still. Very hot, Houston. Boy, Texas has got it. I don't know about other places I haven't paid attention too much, but man, saw some of those temperatures in Texas and just made me glad to be in New Mexico. Keith and Carla in Auburn, Kentucky. Never gets hot and humid there. Everything's just perfect. Yeah, there's Neil. Almost freezing at night here at my house. We've had the same thing. Now, granted, I live at 8600ft above sea level, but this morning when I left, I think I left about ten till 07:00 A.m., and it was about 37 degrees. That's almost freezing. But it did warm up today. It's kind of a warmer day down here, down here in the lowlands. And Taos, 7000ft. Scott, good to see you in the hill country of Texas. Thanks, Edith. And West Plains, Missouri. Oh, yeah, there's Neil had a 37 degree. 37 degree night. Chuck in western Oklahoma. You know Chuck. This morning we had another Chuck. Where was the other Chuck from? Yeah, it'll come to me. But Chuck in western Oklahoma, almost two inches of rain an hour ago. That's nice. Jody and Rich. Pensacola, Florida. You know, the polka dots are moving to Pensacola. Deb, good to see you in the Ozarks. She said I'm late. Why are we in Romans one, you are late. But I did notice here I'll come over here a little glitch in Biblifi. Sometimes in chapter ten of a book, for some reason, it drops the zero. I don't know if you can see that or not, but it says Romans 110, but it's actually Romans 1010. I'll see who I can call about that. But we did flash back to Romans one a little bit, didn't we? St. Croix County, Wisconsin. Bev, john, good to see you. Got Darryl and Lisa in Bleeding, Kansas. Lisa had me working in the yard. Well, Lisa, you're making your husband late for Bible study. Rodney, good to see the Stevens household. Where are you all? Rodney, I don't think you're back in Memphis yet, are you? Or are you? I think maybe Montana. Mike, good to see you. Smithville, Missouri. Thank you. Carol in Fresno, California. God bless you. And Roger. Eric in Ohio. Welcome. Herb and Sherry. Lafayette, Louisiana. Hope you're still doing well. Thank you, phil and Dream, I always good to see you on these Thursday nights. Lexington, Kentucky. Shirley out in Ridgecrest, California. Thanks for being here. Linda in Lexington. Linda, I think I saw you had a birthday. I don't remember which day it was. Maybe yesterday or something. But happy birthday to Linda in Lexington was this week anyway. Nicholas and Boulding, Brook, Illinois. Thank you. Annie P. I kind of remember where you are, but I'm not saying it because I kind of forgot to. I want to say Illinois, but I could be wrong. Annie, sorry about that. Lynn London. Welcome. Good to see you. Good to see Gerard. Also in the Netherlands and Cliff in Ontario. Kitchener, Ontario. Annie. Speaking of Annie, I noticed who was it Gerard said hatikva. Hatikva the hope. Annie. Pete put the English words, the hope is not yet lost. The hope of 2000 years to be a free people in our land. The land of Zion and Jerusalem. Words from the Israeli national anthem, which really is a beautiful song. Hatikva we've got I just want to check, make sure I didn't miss anybody here. If I did, always. Sorry. It's hard to catch all those J. Good. See the two Haplas from Lilywap Washington. Thank you. And, oh, yeah, it was yesterday. Linda's birthday yesterday. And a happy birthday to you. There's the cliff. Yes. I knew it. Oh, yeah. Cliff helped me. I'm sorry. No, there's the Chuck, is what I'm trying to say. The chuck was from Laro's, Louisiana. Yeah, we even looked it up on the map. I don't know why I couldn't remember that. But Chuck and LaRose was with us this morning. Good to see each one of you. And you all are a blessing. I know that the Giles in Forney not with us tonight. Francine's struggling a little bit with her cancer treatments. We'll pray for them. And also had a death at work, for chris. So that's the Forney Texas Crew. Helen, good to see you. Just joining us. Glad you're here. And each one of you let me lead us in a word of prayer and then I'll tell you a little bit about programming. And then we'll pick up and pick up and go home. How's that? Heavenly Father, you are a blessing to us. It's a blessing even though it's not real simple not to read ourselves and our experience into here. It's a blessing to be able to come and begin to rightly divide the book of Romans. Thank you for the opportunity to do that. And it is our prayer that we got it right here. And if we didn't, of course, that you would use these believers who listen and others who may come upon this from time to time and to help set it straight to understand the book of Romans thoroughly. And our desire is to rightly divide the word of truth. And we're grateful for each who have joined us tonight, others who will be joining us over time. And we're most grateful for the word of God in person and in print. We ask this in Jesus name, amen. Well, Sunday we're going to be at 945 mountain time in our virtual tour of Israel. We're looking at the city of Jerusalem, the New Testament, part of the city of Jerusalem. And then we'll have at our 1045, we're unlearning and we're going to unlearn some more about the spiritual gifts. I sort of laid down the gauntlet on Sunday, and now I will defend that position this coming Sunday. Hope you'll be here, that is at 10:45 A.m.. Thank you each one of you very much for being here and look forward to seeing you again. We'll have ask Theologian tomorrow at 10:00 a.m.. Also mountain time. Till then, you also care.