905 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 Part 1 Book 76 - Connecting the Dots of Scripture Part 29

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 1 * BOOK 76 CONNECTING THE DOTS OF SCRIPTURE – PART 29 Genesis - Revelation (The Mysteries) Okay, it’s good to see everybody in again this afternoon. We’ve got quite a few new folks that have never been here before. So those of you out in television, if you look over the audience, you’re going to see a few new faces this afternoon. For all the rest of you who’ve come in routinely, again we thank you for helping us out and being so supportive. We always like to let it be known, every once in a while anyway, that we’ve still got the Questions and Answers book for $11. I don’t like to peddle them, but on the other hand we want to make people aware that they are still available and very useful and informative and make wonderful gifts. Again, I always have to thank my audience, all of you here and those of you out in television, for your prayer support, for your letters, your comments…my, what an encouragement it is to know that the Lord is using us to open the Scriptures to so many. And we thank you for your financial help. After all, television is not free. And we do thank you for all of that. All right, now for those of you in the audience here in the studio, you can see on the board that we are going to start with the mysteries today. These mysteries are scattered throughout Paul’s epistles. I had the studio audience turn to Ephesians 1 verse 9, but I just happened to think I’d better go back to Deuteronomy 29:29 once again for the sake of new listeners. Most of you regular listeners know this by memory, just from rote repetition. But it’s one of the most descriptive verses for understanding what Paul calls the mysteries that were revealed to him and him alone. Deuteronomy 29:29—I always have to give credit for finding this verse to a dear gentleman who was in one of my Oklahoma classes. He was not only a retired Army General, but he was a retired College President. He came up one night and he said, “Les, I’ve found a verse that just fits the way you teach.” And I said, “What is it?” Deuteronomy 29:29. And I’d never seen it before. Now, of course, I use it hundreds and hundreds of times, because it just says it all. Deuteronomy 29:29a “The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: (Now stop and think a minute. What does that mean? Well, exactly what it says. God is Sovereign. God is in total control; and He can do whatever He wants, however He wants, whenever He wants. Now that’s what it means. He can keep things secret if He wants to. But, see, the flip side is--) but those things which are revealed (and are no longer secret) belong unto us and to our children forever,…” Of course Moses is writing, so he’s speaking of the children of Israel. But nevertheless, it’s still appropriate for us in this Age of Grace to understand. Now come back with me to Paul’s epistles in Ephesians chapter 1 verse 9. We’re going to be looking at mysteries all afternoon. And the first thing I have to qualify is that the word mystery is also the same identical word for secret. That’s why I took you to Deuteronomy 29:29. Now in Ephesians chapter 1 verse 9, we have an instance—it’s not the only one, not even the first as far as that goes—but in Ephesians 1 verse 9 he says: Ephesians 1:9 “Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, (or the secret of His will) according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:” Now see how I’ve already explained that with my opening remark? Why is it according to His good pleasure? Because He’s Sovereign, and He can keep things secret until He’s ready to reveal it. Now here’s one of the revealed secrets that you will find only in the letters and the epistles of Paul. It’s referred to here as “the mystery of His will.” Now, if you just read that casually, you don’t think anything of it. But hopefully I’m getting people to understand that you’ve got to stop and analyze these things without just running by them. So what in the world is he talking about that God’s will has been kept secret? Now maybe I’d better qualify that. Oh, I’ll make it easy for you. Just turn over in this same Book of Ephesians. There’s another one in Romans 16, but let’s use the one in Ephesians chapter 3 verse 9. We’ll be coming to it probably later this afternoon. If we don’t get it here today, we’ll get it at our next taping. But here is exactly what we have to understand—that these things that Paul refers to as the mysteries are doctrines and tenets of our faith that were never known anywhere else in Scripture. This is what makes Paul’s apostleship so set apart from all the rest of our Bible. It is that all these things were kept secret until revealed to this Apostle. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible