CRYSTALLIZATION-STUDY OF THE GOSPEL OF GOD
in the Epistle to the Romans

Message Four

The Content of the Gospel of God—
the Dynamic Salvation of God in Its Fullness

The Essence of the Particular Items
of God’s Dynamic Salvation

Scripture Reading: Rom. 1:16

OUTLINE

1. The gospel of God is dynamic (powerful) to save all the sinners who would believe in it—Rom. 1:16:
   1. To redeem them:
      1. Judicially.
      2. By the blood of Christ—Rom. 3:24-25.
      3. On the cross—1 Pet. 2:24a.
      4. From:
         1. Their sins—Rev. 1:5b.
         2. God’s righteous judgment, wrath, and condemnation—Rom. 2:5-6, 16; 3:19b; John 3:18b.
         3. The eternal perdition in the lake of fire— Rev. 21:8; 22:15.
         4. The accusation of Satan, God’s enemy— cf. Rev. 12:10-11.
      5. Through:
         1. The forgiveness of sins—Eph. 1:7.
         2. The washing of the believing sinners’ sins— Rev. 1:5b; 1 Cor. 6:11.
         3. The reconciliation of the believing sinners to God from their enmity toward God— Rom. 5:10a.
         4. The justification of the believing sinners by God—Rom. 3:20-24.
         5. The making of peace between the believing sinners and God—Rom. 5:1.
         6. The sanctification of the believing sinners unto God positionally—Heb. 10:10, 14, 29b; 13:12a.
      6. Such a redemption lays the foundation of God’s dynamic salvation for the consummation of God’s dynamic salvation.
   2. To save them:
      1. Organically.
      2. By the life of Christ—Rom. 5:10b.
      3. In the Spirit of life—Rom. 8:2.
      4. From:
         1. The indwelling sin—Rom. 7:17; 8:2.
         2. The condemnation due to the sinful action of the indwelling sin—Rom. 7:17-20; 8:1.
         3. The old man—Rom. 6:6.
         4. The natural I—Gal. 2:20a.
         5. The self—Matt. 16:24.
         6. The flesh with its passions and its lusts— Gal. 5:24.
         7. Worldliness—1 John 2:15-16; Rom. 12:2a.
         8. Tribulations and all kinds of environmental troubles—Rom. 5:3; 8:35-39.
         9. Spiritual death and weakness—Rom. 8:5, 7, 24-26; Rev. 3:1-2.
         10. The vanity and the slavery of corruption— Rom. 8:20-21.
      5. Through:
         1. Regeneration, washing the believers from the oldness of their old man (Titus 3:5a) and making them the many sons of God—1 Pet. 1:3; John 3:3, 5; 1:12-13; Heb. 2:10.
         2. The dispositional sanctification—Rom. 6:19, 22; 15:16b; 1 Thes. 5:23.
         3. Renewing—Titus 3:5b; Rom. 12:2b.
         4. Transformation to change the believers’ constitution metabolically with the divine element of the life of Christ into His image from glory to glory—Rom. 12:2b; 2 Cor. 3:18:
            1. 1) Making the believers boast in their tribulations—Rom. 5:3.
            2. 2) Making the believers more than conquerors over the environmental troubles— Rom. 8:35-39.
            3. 3) Making the believers kings to reign in the eternal life through the abounding grace—Rom. 5:17, 21.
         5. Conformation, conforming them to the image of Christ as the firstborn Son of God to be the mass reproduction of Jesus the God-man as the prototype for the building up of His organic Body—Rom. 8:29.
         6. Glorification, the redemption of the believers’ body, to glorify the believers in their entire being with the divine glory for their full enjoyment of their divine sonship— Rom. 8:23, 30.
         7. Such a salvation consummates the building up of the church, the organic Body of Christ (fully covered by the following chapters 12—16, after the parenthetical section of chapters 9—11), which will consummate in the New Jerusalem as the center of the eternal economy of God.
2. The way to partake of the dynamic salvation of God:
   1. Believing in your heart that God has raised Jesus the Lord from the dead—Rom. 10:9b.
   2. Confessing with your mouth Jesus as Lord and calling upon the name of the Lord—Rom. 10:9a, 13.
   3. To be baptized into Christ Jesus, the embodiment of the Triune God (the Father, the Son, and the Spirit), to get into the organic union with the Triune God embodied in Christ—Rom. 6:3; Matt. 28:19.

Now that we have seen the center of the gospel of God, we want to go on to see its content. The content of the gospel of God is the dynamic salvation of God in its fullness. In this message we want to see the essence of the particular items of God’s dynamic salvation.