The book of Romans is Paul’s greatest masterpiece on the doctrine of grace. Nowhere else in Scripture is the mystery of God’s grace revealed more thoroughly or more simply. This series helps the listener discover the book of Romans’ liberating truths, which have literally changed the world.
today on our gospel truth broadcast I’m
going to start dealing with pause
masterpiece on the subject of grace
that’s the book of Romans I tell you
this teaching transformed my life many
years ago and I think it has the same
potential for you so please stay tuned
for the gospel truth
welcome to gospel truth with Andrew
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emphasizes God’s unconditional love and
grace and now here’s Andrew welcome to
our Monday’s broadcast of the gospel
truth today I’m going to begin a brand
new series and I am really excited about
this I’m going to be teaching on grace
the power of the gospel and this is the
title of a brand-new book that I’ve got
out this is a very first time we’ve ever
promoted it and it’s basically a study
of the book of Romans it doesn’t cover
every single verse I don’t have time to
do that but it is a powerful teaching I
also have a study guide that comes out
it’s a companion to the books first time
we’ve ever done this and I think that
this is going to really be a blessing to
people so we’ll be advertising this
later in the series but this teaching on
the book of Romans I believe is just
foundational to every single Christians
life you know it’s been about 30 years
ago I guess that I had the Lord speak to
me and tell me that if I could ever get
the first eight chapters of the book of
Romans to where I understood them that
it would revolutionize my life and I bet
you I spent 20 years studying the book
of Romans before I could say that I
really understood it and of course
that’s a you know that’s a conditional
statement I there’s still things that
I’m learning and growing in I don’t
think we ever plumb all of the truths in
the revelation that God gives us but it
probably took me 20 years to where I
felt like I at least had a handle on
those truths and sure enough it has
radically transformed my life and I
believe that this same teaching is going
to do the same thing for you the book of
Romans is probably not the favorite book
of most people watching this program but
it ought to be in my opinion the book of
Romans is like the masterpiece of the
Apostle Paul on what salvation is all
about and about how we obtain it it’s
like I mean it is one of the greatest
masterpiece in the Bible on the subject
of grace the book of Romans and the book
of Galatians are basically dealing with
the exact same issue but the book of
Galatians is where Paul is preaching to
a group of people who at one time who
had embraced the gospel and yet had been
turned away from it and they had gone
back into trying to mix the grace of God
with legalism and keeping all of these
rules and regulations so in the book of
Galatians the Apostle Paul just like
takes the gloves off and he goes to
attacking these people he says old
foolish Galatians who hath bewitched you
that you should believe a lion he just
made some incredible statements that the
book of Galatians to me is a great book
also but it’s harsh it’s right in your
face it’s you know I mean getting right
down to it and saying if you don’t
believe this Christ is going to profit
you nothing and he says anybody who
preaches something contrary to what I
have preached led him be accursed that’s
in the very first chapter of the book of
Galatians and that’s such a strong
radical statement that I’m sure most
people thought all he couldn’t mean what
he said and so he repeated and he says
again I say if anybody even an angel
preaches any other gospel unto you than
that which I have preached let him be
accursed I mean Paul was vicious
in his presentation of grace in the book
of Galatians whereas the book of Romans
is more like just a scholarly dealing
with it it’s not emotional in the sense
that it’s countering some specific
problem or anything like that it’s just
a scholarly approach of trying to lay
out in order the practical truths about
the gospel and I really believe that the
book of Romans is just something
that if you are going to ever succeed as
a Christian you’re going to have to
learn these truths and the very fact
that very few people today really look
at Romans as being one of their favorite
books I believe is indicative of just
how much we don’t understand the gospel
how it really is not a revelation I
believe that the the truths contained in
the book of Romans are the antidote for
all of the problems that we see in the
church today if we were to get to where
the book of Romans was something that
was impacting us these truths I
guarantee it would solve the problems
that we have now I want to just say a
couple of things before I get right into
this teaching and that is that some
people are probably going to think oh no
here we are going to study through a
book of about I want to learn about how
to overcome my depression I can
guarantee you that if you were to get
hold of the truths in the book of Romans
it would be impossible I believe this
with all of my heart absolutely
impossible to be depressed and still
meditate on these truths I believe that
so this is the cure so I’m saying that
for those of you think oh I needed this
or I need that some people think but I
need a healing in my body well as it
says in Romans 1:16 the gospel is the
power of God unto salvation it’s the
power of God that will release healing
into your body it will release
prosperity it will release deliverance
from depression and discouragement and
guilt and condemnation these truths
presented in here in the book of Romans
I believe are the antidote to whatever
your problem is whatever it is it’s
causing you to hurt this is the answer
to it
whatever your itch is this is what will
scratch it they meant that’s what I
believe so I’m just saying these things
that some people don’t like to get
doctrinal they don’t like to go through
here but just like the Lord spoke to me
30 years ago if you could understand
these truths contained here in the book
of Romans I guarantee it would solve
your problems and the Lord spoke that to
me I’m speaking this same thing to you
and just encouraging you to open up your
heart
oh that we get busy and not every person
watches this program every single day
and I can understand that that your
world doesn’t revolve around my program
but I really believe that for the next
few weeks that it would be to your
advantage to go to an effort of making
this a center of your day focusing on
this because these truths I believe
you’re going to just radically transform
your life so in the book of Romans of
course this is Paul writing to the
Christians that were in Rome and the
first few verses of the book of Romans
are kind of introductory statements he
says things like I thank God through
Jesus Christ for you all that your faith
is spoken off throughout the whole world
well that’s quite a statement and we
could spend time talking about them but
basically all of these first few verses
are basically introduction and greetings
of the Apostle Paul to these people and
then he began to say that he longed to
come unto them that he may impart some
spiritual gift unto them to the end that
they may be established in verse 11 and
he said that he was in in verse 14 I am
a debtor both to the Greeks and to the
barbarians both to wise and to the
unwise so as much as in me is I am ready
to preach the gospel to you that are at
Rome also and some of these words in
here I’m going to have to just make some
statements because we skip over these
things these have become a religious
cliches to us and we don’t understand
the importance of it but let me just
back up and say a couple of things in
verse 14 he says I have a debtor both to
the Greeks and to the barbarians now
again these words are not words that we
use typically but basically he was
talking to people that had a Jewish
mindset the Jews believed that they were
the chosen people of God and basically
that they were the only people who had
any relationship with God they preached
that if you were going to have a
relationship with God you had to convert
to Judaism and you had to become a
follower of the Jewish faith to have any
relationship with God that is not what
the Bible taught at all as a matter of
fact there’s a book in the Bible that
was written by a pagan King
Nebuchadnezzar Daniel chapter four and
he praised God and extolled God and
Darius the Mede was prophesied hundreds
of years in advance scuse me not Darius
but Cyrus the Meade was prophesied three
hundred and something years in advance
and called by name and was called a
servant of the Lord there were people
all throughout biblical history such as
Melchizedek who were not Jews and were
yet people who were in relationship with
God but the Jews had degenerated into a
place where they believed that you had
to be a Jewish convert to have any
relationship with God so for Paul to
make a statement like I am a debtor to
the Greeks and to the barbarians and I
am going to come and preach the gospel
unto you did you know that this was very
offensive to the religious Jews of
Paul’s day as a matter of fact the book
of Acts chapter fifteen was written all
about the fact that the Paul and some of
the others had been preaching the gospel
and people who were non-jews were being
saved and coming into relationship with
God in the church was so upset that
people would claim to have a
relationship with God and yet not be a
Jew not be converted to Judaism that
they had a counsel about it and that’s
what Acts chapter 15 is all about and
Paul and Barnabas went up to this
council and they defended their
preaching the gospel to non-jews and
offering relationship with God to people
outside of the Jewish faith and that’s
what Acts chapter 15 is all written
about so anyway I bring that out to say
that see this is all in these passages
the scripture we just read over this and
don’t think much about it but what Paul
was saying here about preaching the
gospel and offering salvation
relationship with God to someone who
isn’t a Jew that was unthinkable it was
offensive to these people and
Paul made these statements and then he
says in verse 16 I am not ashamed of the
gospel of Christ and specifically he’s
talking about the gospel being that is
not based on you being a Jew it doesn’t
matter about your actions it’s just your
personal faith and relationship with the
Lord so he begins to start making the
major point of the book right here in
the 16th verse of the first chapter
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and now gospel truth continues so in
Romans 1:16 the apostle paul begins to
really make the point of this whole
teaching in the book of Romans and in
Romans 1:16 he says for I am not ashamed
of the gospel of Christ for it the
gospel is the power of God unto
salvation to every one that believeth to
the Jew first and also to the Greek for
therein is the righteousness of God
revealed from faith to faith as it is
written the just shall live by faith now
again this is the word gospel and
salvation have become religious cliches
to us and many of us just read this
and kind of pass on and don’t think much
about it but these words were radical
terms for his day again the Jewish
mindset of that day was that the only
way a person could have relationship
with God was to become a Jew and keep
all of the rules and the regulations the
dress codes this ordinance of
circumcision for the men and all of
these things these were foundational
things and Toofer Paul to be saying that
he was not ashamed of telling people
that they didn’t have to become a Jew
that they didn’t have to be circumcised
that they didn’t have to keep the law
that they didn’t have to do all of these
Jewish rituals that they could just
accept Jesus as their Savior and be
right with God what a radical statement
there was probably very few
contemporaries of the Apostle Paul in
his day that would make a statement like
that because it just brought the wrath
of all of the Jewish leaders because for
centuries they had thought that they had
a corner on God and that you had to
become a Jew to have a relationship with
God and here’s the Apostle Paul
preaching that that’s not so and so the
word gospel to them was a radical
radical term to us the word gospel has
become kind of a cliche
I hear people today saying things like
you know I I heard this statement once
that they said that nobody in the United
States should hear the gospel twice
until every person in the world has had
the opportunity of hearing it once and
what they were trying to do is to
emphasize that we have a responsibility
to evangelize the whole world not put
all of our efforts into trying to
evangelize people in the United States
that have heard the gospel many many
times but let me make a radical
statement that you know what people in
the United States have not heard the
gospel and many people think oh yes they
have no they haven’t
they’ve heard religion but they haven’t
heard the gospel they haven’t heard this
gospel that the Apostle Paul was
preaching as a matter of fact as we go
through this study and go through the
book of Romans one of the things that
you’re going to see is that the book of
Romans is in direct opposition to the
majority of what Christianity is
preaching today in the United States
across Europe Africa or around the world
what is being proclaimed as the gospel
today does not compute it does not
measure up to what the Apostle Paul is
preaching in the book of Romans now
that’s a radical statement and I know
that there’s probably many people
offended by that but it’s absolutely
true and as we go through this teaching
this is going to be one of the things
that happen but see the word gospel to
us it just it’s becoming a religious
term that basically applies to anything
to do with the Christian religion I’ve
heard people before say man I’m
preaching the gospel and then you listen
to them and all they’re doing is
preaching Hellfire and damnation repent
or else turn or burn you’re going to go
to hell if you don’t repent and they
call that the gospel that is not the
gospel again the word gospel to us is a
word that doesn’t really mean very much
it’s just a religious cliche but in
Paul’s day the word gospel here’s what
it literally means it means good news
and if you really study it out
specifically it’s it’s nearly too good
to be true news is the point that the
word gospel is communicating when the
Bible was written in all of Greek
literature outside of the Bible I read
this in a commentary and they said that
out of their study they went through all
of Greek literature and this Greek word
that was used and translated gospel into
our English language was only used twice
outside of the Bible that’s how rare it
was it was an obscure word that was
hardly ever used and you know why nobody
ever used this word because it didn’t
just mean good news it literally would
be better translated or I believe more
accurately showing you what it’s getting
across by saying that it’s the nearly
too good to be true news it’s a
superlative it’s just over the top like
this is so good it is so great there is
nothing to compare with this and outside
of the Bible
what Jesus came to do for us this word
was hardly ever used because there was
nothing in this world that is nearly too
good to be true news so it was very very
seldom used because there is very very
seldom anything that is nearly too good
to be true but you know what when it
came to what Jesus did for us the word
gospel was borrowed from the Greek
language and applied to Jesus because it
really was descriptive of what he did
Jesus came and did something for us that
was nearly too good to be true news and
even more specific I can get even more
specific than that that the word gospel
is not just talking about something that
is nearly too good to be true but you
know the word gospel is specifically
talking about the grace of the Lord
Jesus Christ now I can use a number of
scriptures to verify that let’s turn
over to Galatians chapter 1 and remember
Galatians is basically making these same
points as are recorded here in the book
of Romans in Galatians chapter 1 in
verse 6 Paul said I marvel that you are
so soon removed from him that called you
into the grace of Christ unto another
gospel which is not another but there be
some that trouble you and would pervert
the gospel of Christ in verse 6
notice that the Apostle Paul said I
marvel that you are so soon removed from
him that called you into the grace of
Christ unto another gospel he’s using
the word grace and gospel
interchangeably so the word gospel is
literally saying that it’s the nearly
too good to be true news but as you
study it out through scripture the word
gospel is specifically denoting the way
that we receive relationship with God
the manner in which salvation has been
offered unto us and it’s specifying that
it’s talking about the grace of God the
word grace of course is talking about
something that you don’t deserve
something that you don’t that you
haven’t earned
it’s undeserved unmerited unearned favor
and so when you’re talking about the
gospel you’re talking about the nearly
too good to be true news that God is
offering forgiveness of sin not based on
your performance not based on you
swearing that you’ll never do anything
wrong again or somehow or another doing
so many good works that your good works
outweigh your bad works so that’s what a
lot of people kind of have picture they
have one of these balances you know that
has a fulcrum in the middle and the
things on each side and if you’ve got
this much sin over here then what you’ve
got to do is start doing this much
holiness over here that when your life
is over the good will outweigh the bad
that’s not good news that puts the
burden of salvation on your back and it
makes you the Savior and I guarantee
you’re going to fail and it just puts
you on this treadmill of trying to do
all of these things that’s not good news
then nearly too good to be true news is
that it’s not this thing of your good
works outweigh and your bad works it’s a
matter of Jesus came he paid for every
sin that you could ever imagine every
sin you had committed every sin you ever
would commit he paid for them all he has
totally wiped out your debt and the only
thing he request is that you just
acknowledge him as your Savior that you
put your faith in him and when you stand
before God instead of proclaiming I’m a
good person I’ve done this and I’ve done
this instead you proclaim that you made
Jesus your Savior and you have
relationship with God based solely upon
what Jesus did now see that’s Grace you
aren’t getting what you deserve and yet
there’s a lot of people there’s a lot of
people who call themselves Christians
today and I’m there what I call
religious Christians not truly born
again they they claim to be Christians
because they believe that there is a God
they believe that Jesus is the Son of
God they can even talk about him coming
to die but when it comes right down to
it what’s going to make them right when
they stand before God is it going to be
their goodness and they’ve lived a holy
life or is it their faith in a savior
and what I’m calling religious
Christians will say well I believe
that you have to have Jesus as your
Savior but also it’s based on what I’ve
done
nope the moment you add anything to
Jesus you’ve defiled him
it’s either what Jesus did for you
without your goodness added to it or any
attempt to improve upon add to what
Jesus has done totally voids what Jesus
has done for you and again if we had
time I could turn over to Galatians
chapter 5 and this is exactly what he’s
saying over there he says those of you
who are seeking to be justified by works
you are falling from grace Christ has
become of no effect unto you the moment
you say it’s Jesus plus anything then
that equals zero but if it’s Jesus plus
nothing except faith in him than that
equals salvation that equals everything
and see this is the point that he’s
trying to get across when he’s using the
term the gospel is the power of God he’s
talking about this nearly too good to be
true news that we can be in right
standing with God not through our
goodness not through our effort but
through what Jesus did for us and that
needs a lot of explanation because again
it’s like the Apostle Paul said over
here in Galatians he says that there are
some that would provoke the gospel of
Christ it’s not actually a totally
different gospel it’s just a perversion
of the gospel and that’s what we see in
the religious Church today they
acknowledge Jesus they will call him
Savior they will talk about some of
these truths but when it comes right
down to it’s Jesus plus your own
goodness equals your answer to prayer
and God moving in your life that’s a
perversion of the gospel and that is not
true salvation I’ve got a lot more to
share about this and this is reason
we’ve started this series I encourage
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Andrews complete teaching on Romans is
available in a brand-new book from
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the power of the gospel you can request
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that’s exactly what I was teaching on on
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synopsis of the book of Romans and a
revelation of the greatest truth I
believe recorded in the Bible it’s
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in tomorrow for more gospel truth as the
Apostle Paul said right here he says I
testified to every man that is
circumcised that he is a debtor to do
the whole law Christ has become of no
effect unto you whosoever of you are
justified by the law you are fallen from
grace I could say the same thing today
whoever it is that feels like you’ve not
only got to believe on Jesus but you’ve
also got to be baptized in water in the
name of Jesus only for the remission of
your sins are you’ve got to live a
certain way and have your hair fixed a
certain way and dress a certain way and
you can’t wear any gold or jewelry or
you can’t do this or you’ve got to go to
church so many times a week or you’ve
got to read so many chapters a day and
if any of these things enter into your
relationship with God as a prerequisite
for God to either save you or maintain
your salvation then Christ has become a
nun effect unto you you are falling from
grace you aren’t operating under the
gospel then I know that there’s people
all around the world right now saying
this can’t be I’m reading this to you
out of Scripture that’s tomorrow on
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