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*/The Gospel of Christ/*
*Romans 1:16-17*
Look with me in your Bible to Romans chapter 1 and we're going to be looking at verses 16 and 17 tonight.
Let me read these two verses to you and then we'll comment on them as the Word of God is open to us.
Paul says: "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
For in it is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith."
This is the most life-transforming truth ever put into mens' hands.
If we really understand and respond to these truths in these two verses time and eternity is totally altered.
Now I believe that these two verses form the theme and the thesis for the epistle to the Romans.
In brief but glorious comprehensive terms the epistle is compressed into these basic truths.
It is a statement of the gospel of Christ.
Paul begins by saying - I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ and then in concise terms expresses it in those two verses.
Now remember that Paul has concluded a masterful opening statement.
A statement that really has two parts.
Part one has to do with the gospel of God, the content of the gospel.
Part two has to do with Paul's own personal representation of that gospel.
We look at the message in the first part of chapter one, and then the messenger in the remaining part.
So, he has discussed his message, he has discussed himself as the messenger, now he crystalizes the thesis of the epistle which will unfold in the remaining chapters.
The whole epistle is really an expansion of what we see in verses 16 and 17.
I really believe that up to this point Paul has been endeavoring to make contact with his audience.
He has been endeavoring to make a connection, to get the people's attention.
And now that he has their attention he establishes his thesis.
Look again at verse 16, he says, "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ."
That phrase is the last statement in the section dealing with his ministry.
He closes that section by saying - I'm not ashamed.
And then he says - Of the gospel of Christ - and that introduces his theme.
The theme is the gospel of Christ.
Paul is not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.
All the learned religionists, all the philosophers of Rome do not intimidate Paul.
They did not intimidate him in Athens.
They did not intimidate him in Corinth.
They did not intimidate him in Ephesus.
They did not even intimidate him in Jerusalem.
And they aren't about to intimidate him here.
He is proud of the gospel.
He is overjoyed at the privilege of proclamation.
He is utterly and absolutely eager to preach Jesus Christ.
And even though it is a stumbling block to the Jew and foolishness to the Gentile the gospel is still the power of God unto salvation to all that believe and Paul is not hesitant to preach it.
He has been imprisoned in Philippi.
He has been chased out of Thessalonica.
He has been smuggled from Berea.
He was laughed at in Athens.
He was seen as a fool in Corinth.
He was nothing but an irritant and sore spot in Jerusalem.
He was stoned while in Galatia.
And yet he will be eager to preach the gospel at Rome also.
I guess all of us would like to be able to identify with Paul in that same way.
But the fact is for you and for me very often we are ashamed of the gospel of Christ.
I don't think we'll confess that, I don't think weld state that, I don't think we easily admit that but that's the way it works out.
Because in those times when we could speak we don't speak.
When those times come when we could be bold we are not bold.
We face the hostility of the world.
We face the unimpressiveness of the gospel.
It talks about sin and blood and death.
And it sounds so foolish and so silly to men, and we're afraid of what they might think and so we tend to be silent when we should speak.
But Paul calmly viewed the distain of the unbelievers.
He understood the contempt and the ridicule of those who rejected Christ.
He faced death itself for the gospel but never once did he become ashamed of Christ.
Timothy did.
But Paul never did.
He would face anybody, anytime and preach Jesus Christ.
Oh how the fear of men brings a snare.
Paul seemed to be able to overcome that in the power of God.
I've been told that if you trace on the floor a circle with white chalk and put a goose in the middle of it, the goose won't cross that white chalk.
It will stay in that circle, according to what I read, and die before it will cross that white chalk.
Kind of reminds me of some people who are gooselike.
They have around them chalkmarks of fear of custom, the fear of convention, the fear of ridicule, the fear of being thought foolish, the fear of being rejected and they never walk outside that circle because they're afraid.
People say silly things about the gospel and about Christ and they never open their mouth.
But not Paul.
Sadly, fear of opposition and fear of contempt from the world often leads us to be silent or else it leads us to corrupt the message and accommodate the message to men.
That's sad.
I was sharing with the men at Moody this week that there is a new movement in America called the "Health and Wealth" ministries.
And they're promising people that in Christ you get health and wealth.
You get physical comfort and possessions.
Do you know something that fascinates me?
In Matthew chapter 8 a disciple came to Jesus and said - "I'll follow Thee wherever Thou goest."
And Jesus said, "Well, I'm sorry but foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests but the Son of man has nowhere to lay His head."
He said - Fella, I do not accept you because you're looking for comfort and you're looking for ease and you're looking for all of those kinds of things to make your physical life comfortable and I'm not offering that.
And Jesus rejected him.
He wanted comfort ... Jesus said no.
There are people-who are telling people today that Jesus will make you well, Jesus will give you healing.
You'll never be sick.
You'll never have a cold.
Life will be blissful in the physical dimension.
They are offering the very thing that Jesus rejected.
A second man came and said - I'll follow You too but first let me go bury my father.
Jesus said - You'd better let the dead bury the dead.
The point was the man's father wasn't even dead yet.
But he wanted to hang around to get the inheritance.
He came to Jesus and said - I'll come but let me get my money.
Jesus turned him down.
These people are playing into the hands of the lies of Satan.
The things that keep men from Christ are personal comfort, they're afraid of giving up comfort.
And personal possessions, they're afraid of losing those and here comes these false teachers and offer the very thing that keeps men from Christ to them.
And thus they bypass the real gospel for a phony.
And we must confront people with the gospel being unashamed to speak it and so unashamed of it in its truth that we do not compromise it to accommodate the sin of man.
Now, why was Paul bold?
And here's the key.
Why was he bold?
It says so in verse 16: "He was not ashamed of the gospel of Christ because it is the power of God unto salvation."
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