It's All About JESUS
“THE
GOSPEL OF GOD
...concerning
His
Son,
Jesus
Christ our Lord”
-ROMANS
1:1-3 [KJV]
There was a time when I didn´t know that the gospel was all about Jesus. I thought that it was all about me,—what I should do, and what I should be. Many of us had similar ideas before grace opened our eyes to the truth.
Before we were saved, we mistook the message of the gospel for the message of the law, thinking its chief purpose was to make us better-behaved people. A grand mistake indeed!
But then, concerning God, the thinking of an unrenewed heart is always wrong. Saul of Tarsus thought that he should do many things contrary to the name of Jesus (Acts 26:9); but he was wrong. He soon discovered his mistake when the Lord suddenly and graciously converted him.
We may as well expect a blind man to appreciate the Mona Lisa or a deaf man to enjoy Mozart, as suppose an unrenewed person can understand the gospel. This is a strong statement, but, nevertheless, it´s true. Neither learning, labour, nor law can give a divine knowledge of that gospel which is God's sole prerogative to communicate.
But if the gospel is not about us, who is it about? It´s about Jesus [see our text, ROMANS 1:1-3].
True, it may have much to say as to both sinners and saints, but the theme and splendid subject-matter of the gospel is Jesus the Son of God. He is the centre, sum and substance of divine revelation. How little, after all, can be said about man? He blotted his copy-book and needed to be rescued! That´s his story in a nutshell. On the other hand, how much may be said of Christ? As John wrote, the world itself could not contain the books that might be written about Him [JOHN 21:25].
When Saul was converted, the very first thing he did was to preach in the synagogue. And what was his subject? His message was that Jesus was the Son of God [ACTS 9:20]. That was his keynote theme, first preached in Damascus and continued through his ministry. According to Paul, that message is and will be the deepest and richest point of all Christian knowledge. That is why we read that the goal and purpose of the five-fold ministry is Christ centered till we all come to the knowledge of the Son of God [see EPHESIANS 4:11-13].
Now, don´t get me wrong, the gospel has for its object the salvation of sinners, not their improvement, nor reformation, but their deliverance from their fallen condition to form the Body and Bride of Christ. But salvation is not the gospel. It is the result of the gospel.
Jesus is to be glorified, adored, and worshipped by the multitude who owe Him praise for their salvation. But this praise is not the gospel!
The gospel is all about Jesus, not about anything we do.
The gospel is about the Son of God and what He has done in His finished work in history.
The gospel is about the Blessed Eternal One who became a man to die.
The gospel is about the one who lived and died for the glory of the Father.
The gospel is about the one who was raised from the dead.
The gospel is about the one who when on earth, as man, made the Father known.
The gospel is about the eternal Word made flesh—full of grace and truth; to whom multitudes of needy, diseased, famished, and sinful came.
The gospel is about the one from whose lips flowed words of truth for He was the Truth.
The gospel is about the one who died, the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God [I PETER 3:18].
The gospel is about the one whose blood paid the full price of our redemption, and "cleanses from all sin" [I JOHN 1:7].
What a gospel! What a Saviour!
What wonderful, wonderful grace.
And that´s the Gospel Truth!
-Gospel
report by preacher D.G.Miles McKee
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