418 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 3 - Part 2 - Book 35 - The Counsel of the Godhead - Part 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 2 * BOOK 35 THE COUNSEL OF THE GODHEAD - PART 2 Remember, Ephesians 1:10 is where Paul writes - Ephesians 1:10 Now you can be turning to Galatians chapter 1, and while you do that I want to remind you that all the way up through the Old Testament dealing with the Nation of Israel under the Abrahamic Covenant, including Christ's earthly ministry, including the early chapters of Acts, all of that is God dealing with His earthly people, Israel. Remember, Israel had nothing but earthly promises. Job 19:25-26 So all the promises given to Israel were earthly, and never lose sight of that. Their Temple was in Jerusalem, it was earthly. At that time He will be King of Kings, and Lord of Lords when everything of the heavenly and earthly will come under His reign, and rule. We know Israel rejected it, they crucified their Messiah, and God immediately turned to the apostle Paul to go to the Gentiles. Now Paul has been out among the Gentile world, and at this time we are some 28 or 29 years after Pentecost. Galatians 1:11-12 Well what's Paul saying? You don't see that term until you get to Paul. Now once Paul begins his ministry never does he use the term, "The Gospel of the Kingdom as Jesus and the Twelve did." Why? Just as they couldn't use the term the Body of Christ, Paul can't use the term the Gospel of the Kingdom. God comes up to the point where Israel rejected everything of the Covenant promises, and when that happened God says, "I'll do something totally different." So with the apostle Paul, He went to the Gentile. Now Paul lays this out so beautifully here in these verses. Galatians 1:13a What's a religion? Religion is always a compilation of the effort of man to somehow appease a Holy God. Now that's religion. Religion is always man's attempt to somehow merit favor with God. Now you want to remember that the Jews religion at the time that Paul was practicing it here in Christ's earthly ministry, and shortly after, that's all it was. There was nothing left of the power of God in it. I've been sharing with my Oklahoma classes the last few weeks that even Israel's religion came up into God nostrils as a stench. I'm in Isaiah chapter 1, and let's just begin with verse 11. Isaiah 1:11-13 saith the LORD: (well didn't God instruct them to bring sacrifice? (I'm sure God is speaking of the Temple complex. Now look at verse 13.) incense is an abomination unto me; (now listen weren't they instructed to burn incense as a sweet smell to God? Isaiah 1:14-15 Now what was the major point of controversy God has here with the Nation of Israel? Faith! Now coming back to Galatians chapter 1 if you will. Paul says that he was such a religious Jew. You've heard me say so many times that Israel should have known Who Jesus was. Now continuing in Galatians chapter 1. Galatians 1:13-15-17a "For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church (church here is the Jewish assemblies.) of God, and wasted it:" 14. Galatians 4:25a Then Paul goes on through the rest of the chapter, and says in verse 18 - Galatians 1:18-19 Paul had 3 years alone with the Lord. I always have said, that God evens everything up. Here we've got 2000 years, where God dealt primarily with the Nation of Israel. It was Jew only with a few Gentile exceptions. Now since Paul and the beginning of the Body of Christ again it's been nearly 2000 years that God has been filling the Body of Christ with Gentiles, with a few Jewish exceptions. God is never out of balance. So everything that God is in is always balanced. Paul had three years here at the onset of his Gentile ministry. Now verse 19. Galatians 1:19-21 From among the Gentiles. What's happening to those people? In verse 12 Paul uses the human body as a comparison. I Corinthians 12:12 "For as the body (human body) is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ...." Or the Body of Christ. Next verse - I Corinthians 12:13a are we all baptized into one body,..." Paul says that by the one Holy Spirit we're all baptized into one body. Not just some, but all believers are baptized into the Body of Christ. For 9 months what does that mother's body do? Adding cells to that little body in her womb. A full term baby delivered, now it's like that for the Body of Christ. For the last 1900 + years now God has been adding believers into that Body. Now reading the rest of verse 13. I Corinthians 12:13b Let's go back to Romans chapter 11. Romans 11:13 "For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office: In other words Paul takes a back seat to no one. Romans 11:25 Colossians 1:13 Well it's in Heaven, and so we have that heavenly connection, with heavenly promises. #lesfeldick #biblestudy #bible