Sermon Tone Analysis

SDA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

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NTST 658 ADVANCED STUDIES:

ROMANS

PR.

RICHARD CHOI

ROMANS DRAFT II

BY

FELIX AMPARO

 

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*PRELIMINARY READING*

 

GNT *Romans 10:5* Mwu?sh~/j ga.r gra,fei th.n dikaiosu,nhn th.n evk Îtou~/Ð no,mou o[ti o` poih,saj auvta.

a;nqrwpoj zh,setai evn auvtoi~/jÅ 6 h` de.

evk pi,stewj dikaiosu,nh ou[twj le,gei( Mh. ei;ph|j evn th~/| kardi,a| sou( Ti,j avnabh,setai eivj to.n ouvrano,nÈ tou~/tV e;stin Cristo.n

katagagei~/n\ 7 h;( Ti,j katabh,setai eivj th.n a;bussonÈ tou~/tV e;stin Cristo.n

evk nekrw~/n avnagagei~/nÅ 8 avlla.

ti, le,geiÈ VEggu,j sou to.

r`h~/ma, evstin evn tw~/| sto,mati, sou kai.

evn th~/| kardi,a| sou( tou~/tV e;stin to.

r`h~/ma th~/j pi,stewj o] khru,ssomenÅ 9 o[ti eva.n o`mologh,sh|j evn tw~/| sto,mati, sou ku,rion VIhsou~/n kai.

pisteu,sh|j evn th~/| kardi,a| sou o[ti o` qeo.j auvto.n

h;geiren evk nekrw~/n( swqh,sh|\ 10 kardi,a| ga.r pisteu,etai eivj dikaiosu,nhn( sto,mati de.

o`mologei~/tai eivj swthri,anÅ 11 le,gei ga.r h` grafh,( Pa~/j o` pisteu,wn evpV auvtw~/| ouv kataiscunqh,setaiÅ 12 ouv ga,r evstin diastolh.

VIoudai,ou te kai.

{Ellhnoj( o` ga.r auvto.j

ku,rioj pa,ntwn( ploutw~/n eivj pa,ntaj tou.j evpikaloume,nouj auvto,n\ 13 Pa~/j ga.r o]j a'n evpikale,shtai to.

o;noma kuri,ou swqh,setaiÅ

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*INTRODUCTION*

Paul used of Leviticus 18:5 illustrate a point on the righteousness that is of the law and the righteousness that is of faith.

By using Leviticus 18 he is trying to explain to his audience that the righteousness of the law will be good to give life to those who are obedience, and the end result of that would be a good life in the promise land.

This righteousness was good to preserve the lives of those who were obedience to the law so that they can live in this new land.

This righteousness was a token to live a live in Canaan, but to live in heaven there was a need for a new righteousness and that is the righteousness that comes by faith in Christ.

This is the righteousness that God accept for us to become a candidate for the Kingdom to God, and that is the righteousness that those who rejected Him were lacking.

The Jews who rejected Jesus were willing to go to heaven above or to the abyss beneath to look for the words, they were willing to use their own righteousness.

But the righteousness that is of God and which was so near them in the person of Christ, they rejected.

They were willing to do anything that would make them feel good and deserver of their own righteousness; yet the righteousness that is of God through faith in Christ did not appear to their taste.

*THESIS STATEMENT*

Christ’s words of faith are to be our only token of salvation, to call upon His name implied more than just a simple proclamation.

The call of faith is a call of expectation, to be conforms into the image of the Son God, Jesus Christ.

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NRS *Romans 10:5* “*Moses writes concerning the righteousness that comes from the law that the person who does these things will live by them."

*The used that Paul gives to the word righteousness is “*dikaiosu,nhn *noun accusative feminine singular” is in reference of the right behavior that God requires of a person it means /righteousness, good behavior, uprightness/, and the opposite of it is *avdiki,a *(/unrighteousness, wrongdoing/);” (Friberg).

Is the kind of righteousness that the Pharisees had, and which Jesus found insufficient to enter the kingdom of heaven, see Mathew 5:20.

Also is the sort of righteousness Moses expected of the people found in Leviticus 18:5.

Paul used of Leviticus 18:5 illustrate a point on the righteousness that is of the law and the righteousness that is of faith.

By using Leviticus 18 he is trying to explain to his audience that the righteousness of the law will be good to give life to those who are obedience, and the end result of that was a good life in the promise land.

This righteousness was good to preserve the lives of those who were obedience so that they can live in this new land.

Leviticus 18, talks about illicit sexual relationship that the people that inhabited the land before the Israelites had.

Moses told the Israelites that the reason why the Canaanites were vomits out was because they failed to lives righteous lives.

He advised them, that if Israel also failed to live by the statures and ordinances that they were receiving they too were going to be vomit out.

It is clear from reading Leviticus 18, that Moses is speaking about the Israelites doing what is right before God in the promise land.

This was not a game to the people who were to live in the new land, their lives depend it upon their obedience to their statues and ordinances given to them by Moses.

If we read Leviticus we would see key words that clarify the issues as to what was really happening in this text.

Let us read…    

 

NRS *Leviticus 18:5-6,23-29 “*You shall keep my statutes and my ordinances; by doing so one shall live: I am the LORD.”

6None of you shall approach anyone near of kin to uncover nakedness: I am the LORD…  23 You shall not have sexual relations with any animal and defile yourself with it, nor shall any woman give herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it: it is perversion.

24 Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for by all these practices the nations I am casting out before you have defiled themselves.

25 Thus the land became defiled; and I punished it for its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.

26 But you shall keep my statutes and my ordinances and commit none of these abominations, either the citizen or the alien who resides among you 27 (for the inhabitants of the land, who were before you, committed all of these abominations, and the land became defiled); 28 otherwise the land will vomit you out for defiling it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

29 For whoever commits any of these abominations shall be cut off from their people.

According to the text above the people were to live in the promise land by reason of their behaviors, it was supposed to be a better conduct than their previous land owner.

The basis for their lives in the land was due to a behavior or by works and not of faith, as we also see Paul speaking in the book of the Galatians 3:12.

They need it to show evidence that they belong to a different kingdom, Israel were to follow the rules of the King who introduce them to this land.

They were to keep His statues and ordinance by following His rules of government.

It was a matter of lives by doing what is right or be cut off from the people by doing what was wrong.

This righteousness was a matter of do what is right and live or do what is wrong and die.

This righteousness was dependent upon their work of righteousness.

The word that is used in Leviticus (The Septuagint) promise them (Jews living in the promise land of Canaan) will live “*zh,setai *verb indicative future middle 3rd person singular” which mean “they will live” been future in tense, is a promise for the futures.

But the righteousness that Paul is contrasting here is the righteousness of Christ which is a promise no for living in the future but to lives in the present.

Christ Himself says “he that believes in me has eternal live” the promises of Christ for the believer are in the present tense, not the future.

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*6** “But the righteousness that comes from faith says,” *Now Paul is ready to introduce another kind of righteousness in this chapter as well as he has introduced it in another chapter, like Rom. 3:22, 25. 4:13, and other books, like Phil.

3:9, Heb.

1:3.* *This righteousness is of a total different character then the previous one in verse 5.  The fruits of this righteousness also are of a different character.

The source of this righteousness is faith (the word faith is in the genitive case), not the works of the law.

*"Do not say in your heart,” *Paul used the negative particle *Mh.

*Which is use to deny an idea, and when is accompanies with the aorist imperative is use to express prohibition, which in this case is rightly applied base on what’s follow.

Paul is giving a command to forbid something to take effects on our heart or mind.

He is about to do a word play using a quote from Deuteronomy 30: 12-14 to illustrate his point.

He had used Adam; subsequently he used Abraham, now he move on to Moses to bring home his thought.

It appear to me that he is using the greatest of Jewish’s authorities to give the Jewish no excuses for unbelieving.

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*'Who will ascend into heaven?'"

(That is, to bring Christ down)  *The word used for ascend is *avnabh,setai *verb indicative future middle deponent 3rd person singular from *avnabai,nw  *I go up, I ascend, but here the word is used in the future tense, he will ascend, but Paul is saying that to think that way is not of faith, because that would be to bring back down, whom has already gone up.

In Deuteronomy 30, Moses’ words are concerning the commandment, it was not far from them because the word was already among them.

It was not time for the Jews to think of the word as far away because God’s law and precepts were already in the sanctuary.

He said that the word has already been given to them; Moses has gone up to Mount Sinai to get the Law from God.  Now they should do their part, keep it near to their heart and observe it.

The law was near to their mouth and heart, all they need it to do was to keep it.

NRS *Deuteronomy 30:11* “Surely, this commandment that I am commanding you today is not too hard for you, nor is it too far away.

12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, "Who will go up to heaven for us, and get it for us so that we may hear it and observe it?"

13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, "Who will cross to the other side of the sea for us, and get it for us so that we may hear it and observe it?"

14 No, the word is very near to you; it is in your mouth and in your heart for you to observe.

15 See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, death and adversity.”

Christ have overcome the distant and space between men and God, He had brought near to us that which was far, the Word has been made flesh has dwell among us.

Paul is using quotes from Deuteronomy to illustrate the point that Jesus has brought near to us that which could be impossible for us to do.

He is trying to bring home to the Jews the fact that it will be impossible for them to keep trying to be save by the works of the law.

The word been near in the sanctuary was not good enough for the Jews.

Better than been near to the heart and mind it need it to be in their heart and mind.

Even if the word was memorized so that they can repeated which is also why Moses said it was in their heart and mouth, it still was not enough.

There was a need for a new heart, a new vessel upon which the word of God could abide.

Paul is trying to bring this point home that there was need for a new heart and upright spirit.

He said that Jesus has gone up and brought down gifts for man.

He has done the hard work, He has live the life that we need to live, He has died the death that we need to die, and has resurrected and gone up to heaven leaving behind the Spirit, which has given gifts to men.

All that is left for us to do is believe, and confess with our mouth the salvation that has already taken place on our hearts.