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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
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
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
I. Paul Classifies the Gospel.
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,”
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.
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
There is only one “Mediator,” 1 Timothy 2:5
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.
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.
II.
Constituent parts which comprise the gospel, Romans 1:2-4.
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.
Cf.
Isaiah 53; Daniel 9:24-27
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;
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?
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,
The efficacy of the gospel is possible only as we believe that Jesus is man and God.
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