Christ, The God-Man
Romans 1:1-7
Using finger prints is a fairly new concept to place specific people at the scene of the crime. Up until the early 1900’s, nothing was known about fingerprints and their uniqueness. Now we understand that we each as individuals have our own fingerprints and they are the same as no one else. In Romans, Paul shows us the fingerprints of Christ. Was He truly the Messiah or was He simply a person who
happened to be in the right place at the right time?
First, Paul tells us in verse 2 we are told that the prophets gave very specific details concerning who the Messiah would be. For a person to fulfill just eight of the prophecies, his chances would be a one in a billion million. That is several times the total number of people who have ever lived. To fulfill all the prophecies would be one in a trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion. Christ fulfilled all the prophecies 100% making Him clearly the Messiah.
Secondly, Paul mentions the prophecy of being royal blood. If you follow Christ lineage in Matthew and in Luke, they are seemingly contrary to each other. One is the lineage traced through Mary, Christ’s earthly mother. This lineage goes straight back to David through Zerubbabel. If this was not enough to prove Christ’s royal line, the other account follows Joseph back to Zerubbabel then to David. This makes Christ heir to the throne both through the bloodline of Mary His mother and through Joseph His stepfather. When God does something, He does it all the way.
The third fingerprint of Christ is the most powerful of them all proving that He truly was the Messiah, the Son of the Most High God. Verse 4 tells us that Christ is declared the Son of God through the resurrection from the dead. No mere mortal could ever do this. Christ is the Messiah making His death, burial, and resurrection the only way to salvation. When we as a church partake of communion, we testify to the fact that Christ gave Himself and took the full wrath of the Father to bring all humanity to Himself. This is only possible because Christ alone is the one, true Messiah.