#118 | Reaching the Finish Line in Christ Part 2

OneLife Nashville: Rare but vital conversations about Jesus · Dec 21, 2023 · 24m

In this episode we continue to look at the larger context of Romans 10:4-10 where Paul's quotes the passage of Deuteronomy 30:12-14. In order to understand how Paul applies that passage in Deuteronomy to Christ and the gospel in Romans 10 we have to look at what Paul says in the surrounding verses leading up to that quotation, namely, Romans 9:30-33.

There, Paul not only uses a "foot race" metaphor to describe Jews and Gentiles "attaining" righteousness like one attains a reward for winning a race, but also seems to have the story of the foot race between Odysseus and Ajax in Homer's Ililad…