903 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 Part 3 Book 76 - Connecting the Dots of Scripture - Part 27

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LESSON 1 * PART 3 * BOOK 76
CONNECTING THE DOTS OF SCRIPTURE – APRT 27
Genesis – Revelation (Dispensational View)

Okay, it is good to see everybody back again. We’re going to keep right on going. We’ve got so much to cover, and of course it’d be great if the Lord came before we finished today. I’m ready, so I wouldn’t mind a bit.

We’ll pick up where we left off on Paul’s revelation of what we call the Dispensation of the Grace of God. It is something totally different from what God was doing with Israel. That is that He would now offer salvation to the whole human race without a Temple, without a set of rules and regulations. Grace is simply a matter of believing the work of the cross as the basis of our salvation—placing your faith in His death, burial, and resurrection.

And it’s working, because the girls in the office hear it everyday. How many people are finally seeing it for the first time, and it just thrills us beyond your imagination. All right, chapter 3 of Ephesians, we’ll pick up where we left off, but we’ll go back to verse 1 as a refresher.

Ephesians 3:1
“For this cause (because of the first two chapters) I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles.” Paul is in prison in Rome, remember, and he’s there because of the gospel of Jesus Christ that he’s been taking out to the Gentiles.

Ephesians 3:2
“If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:” Well, we covered that in the last half hour. It’s obvious that we pick up all of these doctrines of Paul in his epistles. You can find them nowhere else, and we’re going be looking at them this half hour. One of our brothers has been kind enough to put them on the board for me.

Ephesians 3:3a
“How that by revelation (from the ascended Lord in Heaven) he made known unto me the mystery;…” Now there the word is singular, so it envelopes all the mysteries that become part of this Dispensation of the Grace of God. All right, we’ll just run over them quickly.

Here we start with eight distinct mysteries that Paul reveals in various places throughout his letters. We’re going to look at them one by one, but let’s just go over them quickly. Number one, right back there in Ephesians chapter 1, we have the Mystery of His will. In other words, the will of God concerning mankind.

We’re going see the Mystery of Christ in our next verse in Ephesians 3. We’re going to see the Mystery of the Body of Christ in Colossians 1. We’re going to see the Mystery of God in Colossians 2 and the Mystery of Godliness in I Timothy. The Mystery of Israel’s Blinding, which we talked about in the first half hour this afternoon—it was a mystery, a secret. We’re going to talk about the Mystery of the Rapture.

And that’s exactly what Paul calls it in the very first verse that he begins in I Corinthians 15 verse 51, where he says: “Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all die, but we all shall be changed.” Well, it’s a mystery.

And then the final one, the eighth one is the Mystery of Iniquity that he speaks of in II Thessalonians—when he makes the only reference in all his epistles to Old Testament prophecy and that concerns the Mystery of Iniquity.

So, we’re going be looking at all these mysteries. If you put them all together in a circle, then you could call them singularly The Mystery—how all of this composite work of God was poured out to this apostle, and by whom we have received it. They become, then, our dispensational directions or instructions or however you want call it. All right, verse 4:

Ephesians 3:4
“Whereby, when ye read, (In other words, we read his letters of Romans through Philemon.) ye may understand my knowledge in (What?) the mystery of Christ.” Now, I hope I can do this right. What word triggers knowledge? Wisdom!! If you’ve got wisdom, you’re going to practice what? Knowledge!

Now go with me to a verse that we look at so often. I use it when people accuse me of making too much of the Apostle Paul. Keep your hand in Ephesians. Now remember what words I’m talking about—wisdom and knowledge—how that it is all part of this revelation of these truths that were totally kept secret until it was given to this apostle. All right II Peter chapter 3 verses 15 and 16.

II Peter 3:15-16
“And account (or know) that the longsuffering (patience) of our Lord is salvation;…”
God is not willing that any should be lost, you know that. Now reading on.

II Peter 3:15
“And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even (Now watch this carefully.) as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom (and knowledge) given unto him hath written unto you;” Well, where did he get it? From the ascended Lord. And who is recognizing the fact?

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