You receive the righteousness of God by grace through faith (Eph. That’s what “the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith” means. Here’s a good piece of information to consider: Sin won’t stop the power of God for salvation in your life but trusting in your own good works will. Notice that righteousness is not revealed from Law to Law, from good deed to good deed-it’s revealed from faith to faith. That’s huge!įor therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. It’s saying that when you understand the Gospel, or the grace of God, it’ll release the power of God into your life. Acts 20:24 and Galatians 1:6 both use the terms “gospel” and “grace” interchangeably. Why? “For it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” The Gospel is the power of God, and that’s talking about grace. Nothing was nearly too good to be true.īut Paul said he was not ashamed of the Gospel. It referred to news that was so awesome, nothing really justified using it. Nobody talked this way, because the word literally means nearly-too-good-to-be-true news. This word “gospel” in the original Greek is a word that was seldom used at the time this was written. Paul started off with this statement in Romans 1:16:įor 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. And, unfortunately, we’ve had a lot of help!
Paul, the writer, made it so simple that you’d have to have somebody help you to misunderstand it. The book of Romans was written to explain the Gospel so that anybody could understand it. They mix it with the Law, and that isn’t the Gospel at all. Today’s religious system is not preaching the same Gospel that Paul did.
The Gospel is the most basic, foundational message of the New Testament, yet it’s the most misunderstood.
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