The Good News
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· 73 viewsIf we don’t get the gospel right, then everything else will be wrong in our faith and Christian life. You cannot be wring about the gospel and be right with God. To be right about the gospel is to be right about everything that truly matters. Getting the gospel right is that important.
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Summary Statement
Summary Statement
If we don’t get the gospel right, then everything else will be wrong in our faith and Christian life. You cannot be wring about the gospel and be right with God. To be right about the gospel is to be right about everything that truly matters. Getting the gospel right is that important.
Simple meaning of the Gospel
Simple meaning of the Gospel
When there was no way for man to be right with God, God made a way, through Jesus, His Son, who is “the Way,” John 14:6
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
This is what is known as “the Good News.” God’s love met God’s holiness at the cross in the man Christ Jesus.
God is holy and I am not. At the end of my life I will be judged on the basis of my righteousness—or lack of it—or the righteousness of another—Jesus being the other.
Study Outline
Study Outline
I. Paul Classifies the Gospel.
I. Paul Classifies the Gospel.
1 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,
1. The Exclusivity of the gospel, “the gospel of God.”
1. The Exclusivity of the gospel, “the gospel of God.”
There is only one gospel, there is only one way to be saved.
The Bible never speaks of “a gospel,”
9 As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.
It is not one path in many to God, there is only one way, one path, one gospel.
“The,” is not on the original language, but it is implied by the reader, Paul is talking about one and only gospel, cf. Romans 1:9,16; 15:16.
1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand,
7 not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.
13 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
Cf. Philippians 1:5,7,12,16,27; Colossians 1:5,23; 1 Thessalonians 2:2; 2 Thessalonians 1:8; 2 Timothy 1:10.
The New Testament emphasis is on the exclusivity of the gospel.
There are many roads to hell, there is only one way to heaven, cf. John 14:6. There is only one way to God, Acts 4:12
12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
There is only one “Mediator,” 1 Timothy 2:5
5 For there is one God, one mediator also between God and men, himself man, Christ Jesus,
There is only one way to God, and any other way that man deems right in order to get to God, leads to hell.
Religion, which seeks correctness and tolerance, leads to hell. Dogmatic truth, Jesus Christ is the one and only way to God. There is only one gospel, one truth concerning our salvation, one message that saves; the gospel is that message.
Every self-conceived way to God; human religion, human wisdom, human morality, leads to hell. Jesus is the exclusive monopoly on the way to God.
In a day of political correctness, tolerance, every religion contributes, e everybody is right and nobody is wrong. A day when the church has drunk of the intoxicating drink of our culture, the church must be clear; Jesus is it!
2. The Emergence of the Gospel, Romans 1:1.
2. The Emergence of the Gospel, Romans 1:1.
1 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,
This is God’s gospel. The gospel is about God, but the gospel is God’s.
The gospel is God’s message.
The gospel is God’s solution or answer to our most deepest problem, our greatest dilemma.
Only God could come up with this message. The very Son of God, born of a virgin, living under the Law in perfect obedience. He would die on a cross for those who sinned against God’s holiness, all the sins of the entire world past, present, and future resting on Christ alone. He would be take down put into a grave and three days later would resurrect alive. He would ascend back to the throne and intercede for all God’s people.
This is not a Baptist message, this is God’s message.
To receive the gospel is to receive God, it is His message, His word, designed, written, lived out through Jesus.
To reject the gospel is to reject God. There is zero tolerance when it comes to tampering with gospel.
This is not a denomination message. This is not a religious message. It was not crafted, scripted,, nor designed by church, seminary, scholar, elders, or any individual; it is God’s.
God has some good news, for all of us, for the whole world, and that good news is the gospel.
23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,
2 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
28 Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.
II. Constituent parts which comprise the gospel, Romans 1:2-4.
II. Constituent parts which comprise the gospel, Romans 1:2-4.
56 Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad.” 57 So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?”
17 For truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.
1. The gospel held a prominent place on the pages of the Old Testament.
1. The gospel held a prominent place on the pages of the Old Testament.
This was not new good news, but it was old good news. This message had antiquity.
Note the “Good News” in the Old Testament.
15 I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring;
he shall bruise your head,
and you shall bruise his heel.”
7 And Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?” 8 Abraham said, “God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they went both of them together.
14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
6 For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given;
and the government shall be upon his shoulder,
and his name shall be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Cf. Isaiah 53; Daniel 9:24-27
24 Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy. 25 Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the anointed one, the prince, shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troublous times. 26 And after the threescore and two weeks shall the anointed one be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and even unto the end shall be war; desolations are determined. 27 And he shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease; and upon the wing of abominations shall come one that maketh desolate; and even unto the full end, and that determined, shall wrath be poured out upon the desolate.
Jesus fulfilled 300 prophecies in His earthly life. 27 prophecies were fulfilled in one day.
Mathematically, the odds of one person fulfilling 8 or 300 prophecies is 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000. One person fulfilling 48 of 300 is 1 chance in 10 to the 157th power. One person fulfilling 300; only Jesus.
The gospel was promised long ago from the beginning of time, “which,” impersonal pronoun.
The gospel was promised and prophetical through out the pages of the Old Testament. This is not a new way to heaven, this is not plan “B” it has always been plan “A.”
Anytime any who has been saved in human history to the last person to ever be saved, it will be by and through the gospel. In Old Testament times in New Testament times, is days of old, to our current days, salvation has always and will always be by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, cf. Romans 1:17;
4 “Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him,
but the righteous shall live by his faith.
2. The gospel pirouettes around the person of Jesus Christ, Romans 1:3-4.
2. The gospel pirouettes around the person of Jesus Christ, Romans 1:3-4.
The gospel is concerned with Jesus,
Christ is the heartbeat of the gospel. He is it’s life, the gospel pumps and pulsates with Jesus. Christ is the anatomy of the gospel.
“The more gospel we would preach, the more of Christ we must preach.” —C H Spurgeon.
The gospel is Jesus, God’s message to the world is Jesus. Jesus is the solution to our sin problem, man’s greatest dilemma.
The gospel is concerned with he humanity/incarnation of Jesus, Romans 1:3.
The significance of the incarnation to the gospel, John 1:14…Why did God become man?
The significance of the incarnation to the gospel, John 1:14…Why did God become man?
Only God—who is Creator, who is Life, and who is Light, John 1:3-5—only God can reverse death and dissipate the darkness caused by sin.
Since death and darkness is in creation, and in humanity, the Word became flesh in order to restore from within.
When God became incarnate He began a comprehensive work of reconciliation that healed and saved every last aspect of our fallen humanity. So, incarnation is a rebuke of man’s misguided aspirations of any hope of our doing anything to save ourselves. It affronts our desire for boasting without brokenness, glory without grace, Titus 3:5. Not by repudiating our humanity, but assuming it, reconciliation is achieved between God and man from the side of God.
God became like us, yet so unlike us. God came to us, got into our skin, moved into our world.
The gospel is concerned with Jesus’ Death/Resurrection, Romans 1:4.
Jesus was born, Romans 1:3 to die Romans 1:4.
The ultimate vindication of Christ’s deity, who He claimed to be was His resurrection.
What does it prove?
Jesus can save from the power of sin, “spirit of holiness.”
Jesus can save from the penalty of sin, “from the dead.”
Romans 6:23; Ezekiel 18:20; John 2:19; Matthew 12:40; Mark 9:31.
Only God can save. Jesus staked everything on this,
18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.”
The efficacy of the gospel is possible only as we believe that Jesus is man and God. The gospel is exclusive, only Jesus can save, cf. Romans 1:3,4.
In the resurrection, God made a bold statement about Jesus!
“Declared,” Greek word, English word, “horizon.” The horizon is the dividing line between earth and sky. The resurrection is the dividing line between humanity and deity, its what distinguishes, sets Him apart, makes Him more than human, but God.
Note the language change, Romans 1:3 “born, Romans 1:4 “unborn”
The declaration of Jesus deity is made in a powerful and pronounced way, Romans 1:4 “declared.”
Jesus is not just man; He is God.
Jesus is the Son of Man because He came out of the Womb.
Jesus is the Son of God because He came out of the Tomb.
He came out of the grave, burst the bands of death. Nothing declares Jesus to be God more than an empty tomb.
The gospel is concerned with the identification of Jesus, Romans 1:4.
Paul underscores the person of Jesus
Jesus — The Saving One, Matthew 1:21, His Mission.
21 She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”
Christ — The Strong One, “Christ” means “the anointed One.”
Lord — The Sovereign One, Greek “Kurious” means, “despot,, rulers, Lord over all,” cf. Philippians 2:10-11
10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
III. The Course of the Gospel, Romans 1:5-6.
III. The Course of the Gospel, Romans 1:5-6.
1. And offering of grace.
1. And offering of grace.
“Throughout,” in Greek, “a means or a channel.” Like a pipe which something flows.
“Through whom,” personal pronoun. Christ is the means and by which everything flows to the believer, cf. Ephesians 1:3.
Grace is received and not a reward for righteousness, but a gift for sinners.
Grace is only received by an empty hand.
It cannot be earned.
It is not deserved.
Every aspect of grace.
Saving grace
Sanctifying grace
Strengthening grace
Serving grace
Sustaining grace
Flows through Jesus.
2. Obedient Faith.
2. Obedient Faith.
The gospel carries demands, obligations, and responsibility. Obedience springs from faith. Saving faith produces obedience.
The gospel calls for obedience, it demands it, obedience is not optional.
Obedience starts at conversion.
“What does it mean to believe in Christ? It means more than accepting and affirming the truth of who He is – God in human flesh – and believing what He says. Real faith results in obedience… True faith is never seen as passive – it is always obedient.” —John MacArthur.
“Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord’s people.” — J C Ryle.