Without Christ There Is No Gospel. The Centrality Of Christ In Scriptures.

“Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.” (Romans 5:1-2)


We are “Gospel-people”, we are “New Covenant-people”. We must never forget that we live on this side of the cross. The Messiah that was coming, the One in whom the people in the Old Testament hoped for centuries, the One to whom all the prescriptions of the law appointed to, and in whom all those prescriptions were fulfilled (Matthew 5:17), already came to us. Nothing is more important for us believers, than to know how to live in the Gospel and to preach the Gospel to ourselves all the time. It is important that we truly understand the essential transition from the Old Covenant (The Law) to the New Covenant (The Grace).

In doing this, we must be careful of not being caught up living and preaching a Gospel without Christ. For it is through Christ that the wrath of God is removed from us and placed over Himself, and God’s justice is fully satisfied. It seems easy to think that we are saved by grace, and then live trying to satisfy God’s justice according to the works of the law. But at the end this will cost us everything. This is what the apostle Paul condemns about the Churches in Romans 2:25-29; 3:28-30, Galatians 2:11-21, Galatians 3, and Colossians 2. Believers that had known this grace (the New Covenant) through Christ, and now wanted to live according to the works of the law (the Old Covenant). They didn’t get it well.

In Romans 3:24, Paul says that we are justified by grace, referring to that day when we were saved, referring to our conversion, when we trusted in Christ as Lord and Savior. But also, in Romans 5:2, Paul talks about this “grace in which we stand”. Paul says here that our day to day before God relies on the same foundation as our justification — on His grace. But this grace, for both our salvation and for our daily lives is granted to us through Jesus Christ, not on the basis of our fragile and imperfect obedience to the demands of the law.
To approach the Old Testament and the prescriptions of the law without having in mind the essential reality of the cross and with any other purpose but pointing us to Christ, in order that we might be justified by faith (Galatians 3:24) and live in His “grace in which we stand” (Romans 5:2), is to twist the message of the Scriptures. This is the essence of the whole Bible. Everything in the Old Covenant and in the New Covenant points to the centrality of Christ in our lives.