The Gospel of Jesus Christ | Romans 6:23

04/14/23 • 6 min

What is the gospel? The apostle Paul answers best in Romans 6:23, "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." We deserve death for our sins, but God offers salvation as a free gift through the person and work of Jesus Christ. Our sins require a divine payment, and without a Redeemer, we will receive exactly what we deserve: death. But by His grace and mercy, God sent His Son who came in the likeness of man and yet without sin, and was "delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification" (Rom. 4:25). And when we believe in Jesus, when we place our faith in Him for salvation, God will count us as righteous just as Christ is righteous, and give us eternal life. Hallelujah to the King of kings and the Lord of lords!

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Clothed in Righteousness | Isaiah 61:10

Two major truths are presented in the Bible: (1) God is holy and (2) man has sinned against Him. This leads to THE most important question humanity has to answer: How can a man be right before God? (Job 25:4). Or in other words, how can a holy God justify ungodly sinners while still being just? The answer is found in the grace of God revealed in the person and work of Jesus Christ. Therefore, justification is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. There is absolutely NOTHING that you can do to earn or add to your salvation. All we must do to receive this gracious gift is to place our faith in Jesus and trust that He has secured our salvation through His life, death, and resurrection. It is by this wonderful truth that we can not only be in heaven but most importantly, be reconciled to God. But how much joy do you have in this profound spiritual reality?

CONTEXT: Earlier in the Book of Isaiah, God saw a lack of justice and righteousness among His people (59:1-15), so He would send His own arm to bring salvation by clothing him with a breastplate of righteousness, a helmet of salvation, garments of vengeance, and a cloak of zeal to bring justice to the wicked and salvation for the righteous (59:16-20). The Holy Spirit is then seen filling and anointing the Messiah to preach good news to the poor, to bind up the brokenhearted, and proclaim liberty to the captives (61:1-3). And of course, we know that Jesus when He was in Nazareth spoke those words and applied them to Himself (Luke 4:17-21). By Isaiah 61:10, the prophet Isaiah envisions God clothing the same Spirit-filled Messiah (not us initially as some scholars interpret it) with divine clothing to equip and prepare him for His ministry to bring salvation to God’s people. And “as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up before all the nations” (61:11). But how does God accomplish this? By the atoning blood of Jesus Christ, where He was pierced and crushed for our sins (53:5). It would be by His suffering where He would "make many to be accounted righteous" (53:10). And so just as God clothes the Messiah with clothing to bring salvation and righteousness to the people of God, so we who believe and trust in the person and work of Jesus Christ (the Messiah) will be clothed with His righteousness that we may stand justified by grace through faith before God (60:21).