Defining the Gospel

What does Paul say?
- Romans 1
- Gospel intro in vs. 16
- vs. 18 God’s wrath
- Gentiles deserve wrath
- Romans 2
- Jews think they know, but they don’t
- Romans 3
- vs 9 Jews have no advantage
- Romans 3:21-26
- righteousness of God
  - positional/forensic/legal righteousness
  - righteous status that God wants to give sinners
  - salvation
  - progressive righteousness
  - becoming more like Christ over time
  - sanctification
  - actual righteousness
  - once we get to heaven
  - fullness of salvation
  - glorification
  - word group dikao
  - noun- righteousness
  - verb- justify, to declare righteous
- vs. 21-22
  - bear witness
  - not different kind of righteousness, Genesis points to it
  - different in degree and accomplishment that is surpasses and is apart from the law
  - faith in Jesus vs animal sacrifice
  - by faith, I don’t work first, but accept Jesus’s righteousness and payment for sin
  - Jesus’s human life pays for human sin, and His divine/infinite life pays for an infinite amount of human sin
  - animals only symbolize because they are innocent, but not human or infinite
- vs. 23
  - all people
  - glory of God
  - realistic standard for human life to which God holds us accountable
  - doesn’t require omniscience and omnipotent, but justice, mercy, and walk humbly with God
  - possible with the Spirit after salvation
- vs. 24-26
  - justified (declare righteous) by grace
  - grace: God’s riches at Christ’s expense
  - redemption: purchased
  - propitiation: satisfaction of wrath, bear just penalty for sin
  - mercy seat
    - the blood is over the ten commandments
  - Jesus absorbs the wrath and gets destroyed in protection of us
  - God’s wrath is the proper reaction to evil
  - God punished Israel and Abraham through Jesus
  - just because He punishes sin
  - justifier because through Jesus He pays for sin
Role of Faith
- Faith: trust promises of God, results in action
- believe and repent are so intertwined, they are interchangeable
- repentance: turning away from sin
- faith: turning towards Jesus
- focus needs to be on object of faith, not amount of faith
- Eph. 2:8-10
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heart to obey, good works, fruit of the Spirit	evidence
Faith	means
Grace

Proto-evangelium
- first Gospel
- Gen 3
- God’s Role

Form	Function
light from darkness	sun, moon, stars
sky from water	birst and fish
land from later	animals

Man’s Role
- reflect God (image of God)
- rational, emotional, will
- God passed the baton, we dropped it
- God wants to get back to perfect, Rev. 19-20
Gen 3
- word of evil one challenges word of God
- introduces conflict
- word of judgement for serpent, and promise for people
- loss of rule and loss of relationship
- Emnity between Satan and Eve (head and heel)
- supposed to be God→ Adam→ Ground
- Adam rebels→ Ground rebels
- death
- what used to be fun work is toil
- don’t live forever
- death of innocent substitute is necessary
- %%vs 19 death%%
- %%vs 20 faith%%
- %%vs 21 covering of sins%%
Gospel in OT
- Gen 3, 12, 49; 2 Sam 7; Is. 9, 11, 42, 53, 61
- Gen 12
- background
  - Gen 11 Babel
  - language forced division into nations
  - necessary to prevent further unity against God
  - ruins change of unified cimmunity
  - Babel→Humpty Dumpty
  - God’s promise to Abraham os the answer to the problem of Babel
- vs. 1-3
  - expands on promise of chapter 3
  - Gal. 3:8 Paul refers to 12:3 as the Gospel in advance
  - blessing→God→Abram→Jesus→people
  - promise to put nations back together
  - Land
  - put in crossroads of ancient world
  - Nation
  - Ex. 19:6
  - God<→ Priest<→ people
  - Kingdom of priests
  - God<→nation of priests<→the world
  - Leader
  - Jesus
- Gen. 49
- Jacob’s prophetic words
- Judah→vs 10, scepter
- Shiloh
- until he comes to whom it (scepter) belongs (Jesus)
- obedience of the nations (Gen. 11-12)
- 2 Sam. 7
- God blesses David to bless and unite Israel
- capital, palace
- vs. 11 David will have a dynasty
- vs. 12 seed after you will build a house for me, I will establish his throne forever
  - Solomon built temple, reigned, but died
  - Zerubbabel built temple, didn’t reign
  - Jesus will build and reign forever
- Is. 9
- Prince of Wholeness
- Shalom
  - peace, restoration, fullness of function
- Is. 11
- no curse, no fear of nature
- Jesus’s miracles stop/go against the curse
- Is. 52-53
- talk about Jesus before He comes
Gospel in NT
- Matt. 27; Acts 2, 10; Gal. 3, 2; Rom. 1; Rev. 7, 19, 21-22
- Matt. 27
- Barabbas
  - Bar Abbas (son of the father)
- reed→scepter
- crown of thorns→curse
- Jesus gives His life, it is not taken from Him
- people come to life as soon as Jesus dies, the price was paid
- Acts 2
- Spirit comes down on all nations (Jews from all over the world)
- Acts 10
- Peter and Cornelius the centurion
- Cornelius gets the Spirit
- beginning of Babel being put back together
- Eph. 3
- mystery: previously unknown, new revelation by the Holy Spirit
- Gentiles are fellow heirs
- no one ever saw that they would be equal
- Gentiles now get the fullness of God’s blessing
- Gal. 3, 2
- Gentiles don’t need to become Jewish to be on the same level
- Gospel creates one unified body
- Rev. 7
- God sends Jewish people to tell others about Him, and so many got saved you can’t count them
- God’s plan for the Jewish people falls into place