900 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 4 Book 75 - Connecting the Dots of Scripture - Part 24

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 4 * BOOK 75 CONNECTING THE DOTS OF SCRIPTURE – PART 24 Genesis – Revelation Okay, program number 4, and I’m still on two feet. So we’ll just see where the Lord takes us in this half hour. Again, we like to always thank our television audience for your prayer support and your financial help. You’ll never know what it all means. Now again, my little wife is the one that’s the promoter of these things. I’m going to put it on her shoulders. But she wants me to keep reminding you that this Q & A book is still available. We send it out without any charge for postage or handling for a flat $11, and that’s it. All right, we’re going to keep right on going where we’ve been. We’re still connecting the dots of Scripture. We’ve been coming all the way through the Scriptures. In this taping we’ve gotten to Saul’s conversion, his time out in the desert with the Lord, and how God’s in control of everything. We’re making the transition from God dealing with Israel and all the Israeli covenants. And we saw that Gentiles were getting interested up there at Antioch. Then from the Antioch church four or five years later, Paul and Barnabas begin their first of what we call missionary journeys. As a real result of those missionary journeys, of course, Paul established Gentile churches throughout the area of Turkey and Greece predominantly, which was the major part of the Roman Empire. So, I’m going to take you up to the result of his ministry among the Gentiles in one of his letters, I Corinthians. Let’s start reading in chapter 1. Now, of course, this isn’t the earliest letter, but it’s earlier than some. Verse 17. I Corinthians 1:17-18 “For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect. 18. For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who are saved it (the preaching of the cross) is the power of God.” Have you heard anything like that in the Old Testament? Have you heard anything like that in the four gospels? Not even in John, but the world can’t see that. They just refuse to see it. My goodness, I get a call every once in awhile that says, “Les, you make too much of Paul. I’m following Jesus.” Well, that’s all well and good. But listen, Jesus doesn’t give you the gospel of salvation for the Body of Christ! It wasn’t time for it. So we have to constantly be reminded that all of this is in God’s divine purposes that, yes, coming out of the Old Testament everything was Jewish. Romans15:8 tells us He came to fulfill the promises, but through divine purposes Israel rejected Him. They crucified Him which brought about everything that needed to be done for this gospel that we must now believe. But now here we have a whole change in direction. God did not let Paul have the Twelve influence him at all. Paul had to be taught something totally different, and he’s going to be referring to it over and over as the “revelation of the mysteries” that was given to him and him only. We’re going to be looking at this for the next several programs, so get ready. The mysteries—and in the Greek its musterion, which is also translated secret. All these things that have been kept secret in the mind of God are now going to come from the pen of this apostle. Now, that’s why I’m always reminding you people—don’t go back to the Book of Acts to get your doctrine, because Luke wrote Acts, and Luke is not the apostle of the Gentiles. It’s that simple. Luke was simply the instrument that God used to record that transition. He wrote the gospel, but, you see, Luke is not the apostle of the Gentiles, Paul is; as we saw in Romans 11:13. So we have to constantly come back to Paul’s apostleship. Now, I’m going to run right ahead of any criticism and comment by showing you—now if you’re going to condemn me for making too much of Paul, then I’m going to say, then you don’t know your Bible. Go back with me to II Peter. And I’m reminded as you look for it of a lady from one of our Western states. She sent me a clipping out of her newspaper, and it was a letter to the editor. Evidently, some pastor had written a letter to the editor where he had emphasized some of these things from Paul’s epistles. And this letter, oh, wow! You talk about a mouth full of venom from start to finish—just venom of hatred for the Apostle Paul. Saying what an idiot he really was. How he got kicked out of Greece—he got kicked out of Turkey—he got kicked out of Jerusalem. The lady that sent me the article wrote across the top of the page. She said, “Now I see what you mean when you say that people hate Paul.” Yeah, they do. They just can’t stand the man, because they don’t like his doctrine. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible