May 26, 2011 – Romans 10

“For Christ is the end of the law for the justification of everyone who has faith” 10:4

That sounds a lot like faith alone.  There are no works that a person must do but believing in Christ, faith in Him, is enough because all the law ended with Him.  I think we must look, specifically here, at what Paul is talking about when he says law.  The next verse talks about Moses and the law that was laid down by him.  That is the Jewish laws.  And it is very clear the Jewish laws were fulfilled in Christ and therefore obsolete.  But is Paul saying that law, rules, works are all obsolete to faith.  Is that what Christ taught. 

Eat my flesh and drink my blood, love your enemies, follow me, feed my sheep, forgive one another.  Are these not the commands given to us by Christ.  Are these laws obsolete by faith in Christ.  That really doesn’t make any sense.  When looking at this entire book as a whole, it appears Paul’s entire focus on what is meant by law is the Jewish law and what is laid down by that.  He does mean to say that those laws are made obsolete by Christ, but not the laws set down by Christ and Christ does lay down new commandments.