Now, the words we have to look at this evening are to be found in Paul's Epistle to the Romans

chapter 10 and verse 4, the fourth verse in the 10th chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans.

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believe in.

Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believe it. These are the words that are before us as we look into this great epistle to the Romans

for the 236th time and what words they are.

You notice that they follow on from what the Apostle has been saying, the word four is explanatory of what has been preceding.

And there we have seen that the Apostle says that the Jews are as a nation and as a whole

outside the kingdom of God and outside the church because of their ignorance, because

of their lack of precise knowledge.

And we've been tracing the forms which this ignorance and lack of precise knowledge. And we've been tracing the forms which this ignorance and lack of precise

knowledge took and still take. They were ignorant of the righteousness that God demanded.

They were ignorant of the fact that all the righteousness of which they bested was nothing but their

own righteousness, not the righteousness of God, nor the righteousness that God demands.

And thirdly, we saw that they were ignorant of the fact that now God himself has provided

a righteousness which he offers freely to all, a righteousness which we receive

by faith, which doesn't necessitate our going about to establish our own righteousness,

but which simply calls upon us to submit ourselves and to receive this righteousness which God is offering us.

Very well, the apostle now takes up at that particular point.

And here in this fourth verse, he sums up all that he's been saying, and in a sense adds to it.

The real trouble, he says with the Jews, and this he introduces with the word four, is

that they were ignorant of the truth concerning our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

So you can take this fourth verse if you like as a fourth respect in which they were ignorant and lacking in precise knowledge, or you can take it as a summing up of all that he's been saying, as if he was saying, well, all this really amounts to the fact that they are ignorant of the truth concerning the Lord Jesus Christ and His work.

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