775 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 Part 3 Book 65 But God! The Body of Christ The Mysteries 3

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 3 * BOOK 65 BUT GOD! – (The Body of Christ -The Mysteries) - PART 3 Okay, we’re going to continue right on in our study of the various aspects of the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Heaven, and the Body of Christ. "…power, 20. Which is his body,…" The Church, which is His Body. You’ll never find it anywhere else. All right, so He, Christ, has been all things to the church. Verse 1: Ephesians 3:1a Ephesians 3:1 "For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for (Whom?) you Gentiles." Now verse 2, the verse we started out with this afternoon. Ephesians 3:2 How did God give the Law to Israel? Through Moses. You’ve got Moses. Well, just as God gave the Law to Moses and Moses gave it to Israel, so this whole body of truth we call the revelation of the mysteries, was given to this one man, only instead of being sent to Israel, He was sent to the whole human race. Now verse 3: Ephesians 3:3a The Holy Spirit is particular. Ephesians 3:3-4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)" Now, this is what we are unfolding. What are all these fundamental truths that comprise the body of truth that we call the dispensation of grace? All right, now verse 5, watch this carefully. Ephesians 3:5 "Which in other ages (What’s another word for ages? Dispensations. All right, now verse 6. Ephesians 3:6 All Jewish. should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, (See, there’s that Body of Christ, again.) and partakers of his promise in Christ (How?) by the gospel:" And you don’t hear the Gospel of Salvation much anymore. That Jesus Christ, God the Son, the Creator of everything, went to that Roman cross, shed His blood and died, was buried, and rose from the dead! That transforms people the moment they believe it. All right, read on, verse 7. Ephesians 3:7 "Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power." Ephesians 3:8a (Remember, at that time Paul detested Him.) The Jewish leadership was putting these Jewish believers to death? A persecuting death. No, they put their own people to death all the time. Put them to death. Torture. "I compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, (these Jewish followers of Jesus) I persecuted them even unto strange cities. Ephesians 3:8a Ephesians 3:8b Now, I can’t emphasize this enough, that all the way from Genesis 12 to Acts chapter 9, it’s Israel, Israel, Israel! Acts chapter 11 verse 19, when I say that everything was Jewish, I want Scripture to back me up. traveled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word (Now, how much Word did these Jews have? Old Testament. Paul’s letters haven’t been written yet. So, all they’ve got are the Old Testament Scriptures, and are preaching--) to none but unto the Jews only." Only Saul of Tarsus was. All right, back to Ephesians chapter 3. Ephesians 3:8b "…that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;" See the big difference? The Jewish believers wouldn’t speak to anybody but Jews. But Saul, or Paul, was sent to the Gentile world with these revelations of the mysteries. "The unsearchable riches of Christ" What does that mean? We’ll never understand, and you’ve heard me say it over and over, we’ll never understand all that Christ accomplished at the cross of Calvary. We will never comprehend the power of His shed blood to cleanse men from sin. We will never comprehend the power of His resurrection. Now verse 9. Ephesians 3:9a mystery, (This whole volume of truth that is all wrapped up in the Body of Christ. It’s not given to Israel. It’s given to the non-Jewish world, to you and I.) "The secret things belong to the Lord our God. Well, that’s exactly what Paul is saying. Ephesians 3:9b "…Which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, (The same God) who created all things by Jesus Christ:" Isn’t it amazing? For example, John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was God and the Word was with God. We just saw in Ephesians 3:9 that, "God created all things by Jesus Christ." Hebrews chapter 1 verses 1 and 2 is another one, "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;" That’s the Christ that we serve! All right, we’ve got one minute left, verse 10. Ephesians 3:10 "To the intent (all of this was in God’s Divine purpose) that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places, (Or, I prefer the word heavenlies.) might be known by the church (That is, the Body of Christ.) the manifold wisdom of God," Those are the only ones that can understand this. "The natural or unsaved man cannot comprehend these things." #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible