A summary of the Gospel: Romans 1:1-1:6
The epistle to the Romans has been called a summary of the Bible. The apostle Paul wrote this letter to the Roman church while he was wintering in the home of Gaius (16:23) in Corinth in the spring of 57 AD. Paul was planning to go to Spain (15:24) via Rome. He wrote to the church in Rome to let them know he wanted to visit them (1:13) and also to be an encouragement to them (1:11-12).
Paul gives a summary of the gospel in the first six verses of his letter to the Romans, which is a letter about the good news of Yahweh. So, with that in mind, let us read Romans 1:1-6:

The gospel originates with Yahweh. We see this at the end of verse 1, where Paul says, “the gospel of Yahweh.” The gospel did not originate with Paul. It did not originate with the apostles. It did not originate with man. It is Yahweh’s gospel. Paul and the other apostles did not invent it. It was revealed and entrusted to them by Yahweh. It is something Yahweh announced and accomplished, and what he sent his apostles to proclaim. It is something Yahweh blesses and through which he saves men and women.

The gospel is promised in the Old Testament Scriptures. Paul says in verse 2: “the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures.” That is, the announcement and the confirmation of the gospel is the Scripture itself. Although Yahweh revealed the gospel to the apostles, it did not come to them as something new, because he had already promised it before through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures.

The gospel concerns Yahshua Messiah. Paul says in verses 3-4: “Regarding his Son, who as to his human nature was a descendant of David, and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of Yahweh by his resurrection from the dead: Yahshua Messiah our Lord.  The gospel of Yahweh is the good news regarding his Son. Paul said in verse 9 that the substance of his preaching concerned Yahshua Messiah. He said, “Yahweh, whom I serve with my whole heart in preaching the gospel of his Son.” For Paul, the gospel of Yahweh is basically about the Yahshua Messiah.
You cannot have the gospel without Yahshua Messiah! Christianity is Yahshua Messiah. John R. W. Stott, a Bible commentator, wrote : “The person and work of Messiah are the rock upon which the Christian religion is built. If he is not who he said he was, and if he did not do what he said he had come to do, the foundation is undermined and the whole superstructure will collapse. Take Messiah from Christianity, and you disembowel it; there is practically nothing left. Messiah is the center of Christianity; all else is circumference.” Paul describes Yahshua Messiah by two contrasting thoughts in verses 3-4. The first is in the second part of verse 3: “who as to his human nature was a descendant of David,” while the second is in verse 4: “and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of Yahweh by his resurrection from the dead: Yahshua Messiah our Lord. In other words, we have in these two verses one of the most clear summaries of the two natures of Yahshua Messiah: his human nature and his divine nature.

The gospel is for all nations. Paul says in verse 5b that he “received grace and apostleship to call people from among all the Gentiles. This implies that the Christians in Rome were mostly Gentile, since he specifically mentions them in verse 6: “And you also are among those who are called to belong to Yahshua Messiah.”  Paul also describes the gospel as “the power of Yahweh for the salvation of everyone who believes, first for the Jew, then for the Gentile”.Paul is telling us that the gospel is for everybody. Clearly he was aware of Yahshua’ Great Commission to “go and make disciples of all nations”.

The Immediate Purpose of the Gospel is Obedience (1:5c) Many people these days say that the gospel is all grace. But they are mistaken. The gospel does not tell us to disobey Yahweh’s laws.. The gospel produces obedience that comes from faith. Obedience is at the very heart of the gospel. It is inseparably bound to faith.
The Ultimate Purpose of the Gospel is the Glory of Yahweh. The gospel is for the glory of the name of Yahshua Messiah. Our purpose is to glorify Yahweh. When Scripture speaks of doing something “for his name’s sake,” it means doing it “for the glory of Yahweh. Paul wanted to bring the nations to the obedience  for the sake of the glory and honor of Yahweh’s name. For Yahweh had “exalted Messiah to the highest place” and had given him “the name that is above every name,” in order that “at the name of Yahshua every knee should bow . . . and every tongue confess that Yahshua Messiah is Lord, to the glory of Yahweh” (Philippians 2:9.)
We can say that the good news is the gospel of Yahweh, about Messiah, according to Scripture, for the nations, to the obedience of faith, and for the glory of Yahweh.

The origin of “Lent”
The word Lent comes from a Germanic root meaning Spring but is more often associated with the 40 days from Ash Wednesday to Easter Saturday. It originated in the Babylonian pagan religion, but was folded into Christianity when the Roman Empire adopted Christianity as its official religion.  According to tradition Semeramis, the wife of Nimrod the King of Babylon, claimed she had been supernaturally impregnated by the Sun god and gave birth to Tammuz. One day while hunting, Tamuz was killed by a wild boar. Semeramis mourned for 40 days, at the end of which Tammuz was supposedly brought back from the dead.
Read Ezekiel 8:12-14, “Then He brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord’s house which was towards the north; and behold, there sat  women weeping for Tammuz.”
So what do these passages have to do with Lent and Easter? The period leading up to the feast of Tammuz was forty days in which the participants would celebrate by alternate weeping and rejoicing. Today the period of forty days is called Lent, and the feast in honor of Tammuz is now called Easter. These same gods that the Israelites were worshipping as seen throughout Scripture are the Babylonian gods that set the foundation of what we now call Lent and Easter.