(Rom 10:8) “But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; (9)  That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” Faith believes what God has said and acts upon it. Nothing more is required but to believe and do what the Lord has asked. The essence of the thought here is: embrace by faith the Lord Jesus and what He has done to save your soul.

(Rom 10:6)  “But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:) (7)  Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) (8)  But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;” What do these things mean? Faith does not need the physical presence of Jesus (what can be seen) in order to believe and act. Faith hears, trusts, and acts: (Rom 10:17) “ So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”

(Rom 10:4) “ For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. (5)  For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.” Faith rest in what Jesus has done. Law looks only to self which ends in failure: (Jas_2:10) “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.” There is no mixture of the two to save. It is either all of one or all of the other.

(Rom 10:4) “For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.”  Let is not forget this is referring to that righteousness needed to save one’s soul. The saved “are” to seek personal righteousness to keep fellowship with our Holy God and Father.

Rom 10:4  For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.  Praise God, to embrace Jesus as Savior is to be clothed in “His righteousness”: (Php_3:9)  And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:” Someday Israel was whole will turn back and embrace Jesus: (Jer_33:16) “In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.”

(Rom 10:2)  “For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. (3)  For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.”  The righteousness of God is perfect. That is the standard to earn everlasting life. The law was to reveal this; this is why He gave them the law of sacrifice. Just as those with conscience towards God looked by faith to the sacrifice, the saved look by faith to the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus. This is where the nation of the Jews failed.

(Rom 10:1) “Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. (2)  For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.”  To this very day people, saved and unsaved alike, confuse zeal for God evidence of salvation. A person can be sincerely wrong. Salvation is an experience that takes a time and a place. One truly sees what Jesus did for them, turns in heart from their sinful life asking God for mercy, and He responds giving the gift of everlasting life

Rom 9:31  But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. (32)  Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; (33)  As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.” When it speaks here of not being ashamed, it is not referring to an individual not being ashamed of being a follower of the Lord Jesus. It is saying, “Everything you have embraced by trusting the Word of God shall be fulfilled”: (2Ti_1:12)  “For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.”