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The Good News Really Is Good Series
Contributed by James Goforth, Jr. on May 1, 2006 (message contributor)
Summary: Exposition on Romans
This letter is written to the Gentiles, but to the world. It is the clear presentation of the theology of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
So Paul lays the ground work here.
Read with me Romans 1:1-17
I. Starts with JESUS vv 1-4
A. Prophesies about Him
(serpent)… He shall bruise you on the head, …
(From Abraham’s Descendants) … all the families of the earth will be blessed."
" The scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes, And to him {shall be} the obedience of the peoples.
"As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will take His stand on the earth.
They open wide their mouth at me, As a ravening and a roaring lion. I can count all my bones. They look, they stare at me; They divide my garments among them, And for my clothing they cast lots
I have become estranged from my brothers And an alien to my mother’s sons.
"… Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel.
For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. There will be no end to the increase of {His} government or of peace, On the throne of David and over his kingdom, To establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness From then on and forevermore.
Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse, And a branch from his roots will bear fruit. The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him, …
I gave My back to those who strike {Me,} And My cheeks to those who pluck out the beard; I did not cover My face from humiliation and spitting.
Says he was despised and rejected, a man of sorrows, we esteemed him smitten of God
"Behold, {the} days are coming," declares the LORD, "When I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; And He will reign as king and act wisely And do justice and righteousness in the land. "In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel will dwell securely; And this is His name by which He will be called, ’The LORD our righteousness.’
"For thus says the LORD, ’David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel; and the Levitical priests shall never lack a man before Me to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings and to prepare sacrifices continually.’
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout {in triumph,} O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
… give {me} my wages; … So they weighed out thirty {shekels} of silver as my wages. Then the LORD said to me, "Throw it to the potter, {that} …
B. Made to be a Man Declared Son of God
John 1:1, 14;
Is 9:6 (son given)
1. made to be a man - born into the family of David
2. “declared” - The Son of God - the word “declared” has a full
def - “to mark out boundaries or limits … to determine or be determined”
3. Becoming a man was something Jesus, The Son of God, did in a moment in history
4. Declared the Son of God - was a matter of Revealing to Time what he had been for ETERNITY. It was a matter of God setting the boundaries for defining who he was in a way we could understand and relate to. He already existed and was given the responsibility and jurisdiction of the Son of God
5. PROVED - By the Power of the Resurrection -
a. the resurrection was an unveiling
b. it was giving physical evidence to the spiritual reality that he was more than a man
c. he was “unmasked”
Because he was prophesied and DID COME and was UNMASKED, revealed as Son of God, we can believe the prophesies yet unfulfilled
Let me give you a taste
C. Prophesies Yet to Come
"Of old You founded the earth, And the heavens are the work of Your hands.
"Even they will perish, but You endure; And all of them will wear out like a garment; Like clothing You will change them and they will be changed.
"But You are the same, And Your years will not come to an end.
