What is the Gospel? (2)

What is the best news you have heard?

Romans 1:16–17 ESV

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”

The Promise of God.

The Power of God.

What is salvation?

rescue, deliverance especially of the sea.

Why do you think it would refer to rescue from the sea?

Where were God’s people delivered from the sea?

Exodus 15

Where were they not?

Genesis 6

What are we being rescued from?

2. Wrath

Work up into a frenzy.

How do people usually react when they get angry?

Wrath and Grace

righteousness and unrighteousness

Ungodliness - failure to honor God as God

Romans 1:21 (ESV)

For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Unrighteousness - an act that violates a standard of conduct or what is right.

Sin

Colossians 2:23 (ESV)

These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.

Colossians 2:8 (ESV)

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

The Good News is only good in light of bad news.

Diamond on black cloth

The Perfection of God.

Christ our righteousness.

Martin Luther and incessant work.

Hebrews 4:3 ESV

For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest,’ ” although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.

The righteousness of Christ appeased the wrath of God.

Wrath is not good news but bad, but peace is good news indeed.

Ephesians 6:15 (ESV)

and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace.

Christ alone is the one who calms the waves of the sea.