Promises Fulfilled| Romans 1:2–7
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The ORIGINATOR of the Gospel is God
The ORIGINATOR of the Gospel is God
The Gospel is not a creation of Paul, nor the other apostles. It was not an attempt to “change” Judaism. It was created, and finds its source in God himself.
God wrote the gospel.
The SOURCE of the Gospel is Scripture
The SOURCE of the Gospel is Scripture
Not only is it true that God is the originator of the Gospel, but it’s also true that the gospel was not first preached in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The truth is, the Gospel, the good news has been preached since the beginning.
The gospel was preached by Adam, by Abel, by Abraham, by Noah, by Moses, by David, by Isaiah. The gospel has been preached since sin entered the garden.
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.”
This is first gospel, and the gospel has been preached by every person, led by the Spirit of since the beginning.
Peter noted this in his epistle:
Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories. It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.
What a great truth! God has been promising us the coming king of kings since Genesis. He has proclaimed it on every page of scripture.
As John Stott notes there is continuity between the Old Testament and the New. Jesus called himself that he was the son of man of Daniel 7 and the suffering servant of Isaiah 53, and that, as it had been written, he had to suffer in order to enter into his glory.
The SUBJECT of the Gospel is Jesus
The SUBJECT of the Gospel is Jesus
The gospel is the fulfillment of the covenants of God and they are all fulfilled by JESUS.
Christ fulfills the ADAMIC covenant
Christ fulfills the ADAMIC covenant
God made a promise to all of mankind in Genesis 3 following the fall of Adam and Eve:
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.”
In that verse God promised that he would crush sin and death.
and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
Praise God, that is why the wonderful hymn writers Kristen and Keith Getty wrote in their great hymn, Christ Our Hope in Life and Death:
Unto the grave, what shall we sing?
“Christ, he lives; Christ, he lives!”
And what reward will heaven bring?
Everlasting life with him
There we will rise to meet the Lord
Then sin and death will be destroyed
And we will feast in endless joy
When Christ is ours forevermore
Christ fulfills the ABRAHAMIC covenant
Christ fulfills the ABRAHAMIC covenant
God promised Abraham that through is descendant, all the peoples of the world would be blessed. Israel failed in this. How? Instead of going to the nations proclaiming the glories of God, the Jews became more and more insulated and isolated from the world to whom they were created to be a blessing.
and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.”
But when Christ came, he became the one through whom the whole world is blessed.
Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many, but referring to one, “And to your offspring,” who is Christ.
Christ fulfills the MOSAIC covenant.
Christ fulfills the MOSAIC covenant.
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”
God makes a promise to Israel that he will make them his prized possession. But in their sin, they were unable to keep their part of the covenant to “obey his voice and keep his covenant” and yet he keeps his promise regardless of their sinfulness in Christ.
But Christ did what we could not! He obeyed his Father’s voice:
but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.
Keeping all of the law, that we could not!
The law of Moses was unable to save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature. So God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have. And in that body God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins.
PRAISE BE TO GOD!
Christ fulfilled the DAVIDIC covenant
Christ fulfilled the DAVIDIC covenant
When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men, but my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you. And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.’ ” In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David.
But we know that David died, and his family line was deposed from it’s throne. And yet, God did exactly what he promised.
He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”
Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.”
Christ will reign FOREVER MORE!!!
Christ fulfilled the NEW covenant
Christ fulfilled the NEW covenant
“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
God promised to put his law within us and write it on our hearts. He promised that we would know him, and that we would be his children. he promised to forgive our iniquities and to remember our sins no more.
In Hebrew 8, the writer quotes these verse and in chapter 9 he says:
Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own, for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
We are saved by Christ. He has fulfilled EVERY PROMISE that God made since the garden. In him, we have redemption and salvation. PRAISE BE TO GOD!!!