Concerning His Son!

Romans 1:1¶ Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
Romans 1:2 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)
Romans 1:3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;

This is a profound piece of inspired scripture. To often we skip important parts, in a hurry to get to the meat of the epistle. This introduction in the apostle Paul's letter to the saints in Rome, is very revealing. He starts off by letting the readers know that he is a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle (by God and not man), separated into the gospel (now here is the important part), concerning God's Son Jesus Christ. He did not say, "Concerning a religion", or, "concerning a system of beliefs or principles". He wrote, "Concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord".

Paul was separated unto the good news (gospel) of God, which was concerning Jesus Christ. That's it. He was separated unto good news, not a system of rules, ordinances, laws, or principles. Paul was not separated unto a program concerning how to live your best life now. He was not separated unto the gospel, concerning how to put in place, principles to have a successful Christian life. He was not separated unto a religion, concerning guilt laden people who needed to feel better about themselves. No sir! He was separated unto the good news of Almighty God, concerning His Son JESUS CHRIST!

People ask, "What is life really all about?" Life is about a whole race of loosers, just the devil's children who desired to be their own god and needed to be rescued from certain eternal damnation by the ONLY TRUE MAN that ever lived, Jesus Christ. We desperately needed a Saviour. He was God's only begotten Son, a God-Man, born in the flesh to a Jewish virgin and obeyed the law perfectly, right from His youth so that He could be our perfect substitute and rescue us from under the law and the condemnation of it. The law is cold and unforgiving. It says if you disobey it in one spot, you have broken the whole thing. If you break it, the punishment is eternal death. Jesus kept it perfectly. That qualified Him to be the representative for the entire human race. He then took the full brunt of the Father's wrath on the cross, that should have been poured out on us. Jesus, because of the joy that was before Him, endured the cross, despising the shame and humiliation. We are the ones that sinned. We deserved it, not Him. Jesus was perfect, sinless and yet was slain and his blood ran to the ground in order to pay for our sin. God looked on Jesus hanging there on that tree, and His justice was satisfied. Jesus became sin for us, who knew no sin. Jesus made peace with God for us. He did it all! He promises that if we believe in Him with all our heart, He will come back for us and take us to be with Him for ever. Apart from all religion. Apart from all self effort or works of righteousness on our part. A marvelous free gift indeed!

It's all about Jesus. Many people, through religion are working to gain acceptance with God, and it is futile. It is a never ending struggle to try to gain favor with God on your own merit. That is why there are so many religious people in a miserable state of bondage. They try and try, and things just won`t get right. There is no real joy, no love, or peace in their life. One must accept that our right doing will forever be insufficient to win God's favor. The only way to get into God's love and favor is to get into Christ. Jesus is the only Man that ever fully pleased the Father. God's love is found in Jesus Christ. When we are born again, the Holy Spirit places us into the physical body of Jesus where He becomes our identity. We become like cell transplants in Him. Jesus becomes our life, our hope, our righteousness, our everything. There is no longer "I". Only Christ. We enter into His history, His crucifiction, His death, His resurrection, His ascension, and seated with Jesus at the right hand of God. We are heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ. Heirs to the coming kingdom. It's all about Jesus! It is not about our experience. (Satan loves when we focus on that.) It is not about our "churches" or our Christian lives. It's all about HIM. Jesus, the only true Potentate. The King of kings and the Lord of lords.