859 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 Part 3 Book 72 - The Big Picture: Pre-Tribulation Rapture 3

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 3 * BOOK 72 THE BIG PICTURE PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE (CONTINUED ...) - 3 I Cor. 9:17; Eph. 1:10; Eph. 3:2; Col. 1:25 It is good to have everybody back. We can get started on our third program this afternoon. For those of you joining us on television, if this is the first time you’re catching us, why, we we’re just an informal Bible study. Our only goal is to get folks to study their own Bible on their own and get over the idea that you can’t understand it. Because if you know how to open it up, rightly divide it as we call it, and keep some of these areas separated one from the other, it’s really not that difficult. That’s really our approach in this series of programs. It is to show why this dispensation of the Grace of God is so uniquely different from all the rest of Scripture. You know, I always use the word – it’s insulated. It is just literally insulated from all the rest of Scripture. No other part of the Bible has any reference to it. You can’t find it but only through the revelation given to the Apostle Paul. So, that’s what we’re honing in on for these series of programs. Okay, my little wife is the one who always keeps things on track. She just reminded me to again remind our listening audience that the one and only book that we have produced is available for only $11. My, we’ve had a tremendous response about how people enjoy that little book. It answers 88 or so questions that most people have about the Bible. All the answers come from our previous television programs. It also makes a great gift for others. We get so many phone calls asking if we have something that is particularly related to Paul. Well, I would have never thought of it, but she did. And that was our Aegean Cruise a couple of years ago. All of our Bible lessons were in answer to the question, “Why Paul?” I’d like to remind even you today—Why the Apostle Paul? Jesus had Twelve. They had the Old Testament prophets, and John had already written Revelation. Why do we need the Apostle Paul? Well, we answer that in a series of eight hours on our Aegean Cruise, and it’s been well received. Otherwise, we wouldn’t even suggest to people to buy it. But it’s well worth the few bucks that we ask for that one. All right, now we’re going to keep right on where we’ve been all afternoon on this dispensation of the Grace of God, and why it is so different from everything else in Scripture. Come back with me to Colossians chapter 1 dropping in at verse 24. Remember that way back in the previous taping, we put on the board the four references in the New Testament that use this word dispensation, so that someone doesn’t come and say that’s not even a biblical word. Oh, yes it is. It’s Holy Spirit inspired and it means what it says and it says what it means. A dispensation is a period of time during which God is dealing with the human race under its own set of directions. The dispensation of grace we’re in today is totally different from the directions under the dispensation of law. Totally different than the dispensation directions that God gave to Adam and Eve or even some of the other Old Testament economies. But here in Colossians chapter 1 verse 24 the Apostle of the Gentiles is writing to Gentiles. I guess I should read the last part of verse 23. Colossians 1:23b “…whereof I, Paul am made a minister;” Now I just happened to think. Come back with me, keep your hand here. This is what I call Bible study. Romans chapter 15, this is a verse that we’ve used a lot of times in other circumstances, but the same word. It’s what I like people to learn to do, compare words with words. And if it means one thing in one place, it means the same thing in another place. It’s the same word. You’ll recognize it as soon as you see it. Paul says: Romans 15:8 “Now I say that Jesus Christ was (What?) a minister (a sent one) of the circumcision (Israel) for the truth of God, to confirm (or to bring to fruition, or to fulfill) the promises made unto the fathers:” Now that was the purpose of Christ’s ministry in coming to the Nation of Israel at His first advent. All right, now back here at Colossians, Paul, too, is a sent one—not to Israel, but to the Gentile world. That’s what I want folks to see. You don’t just jumble this all up together. Christ had His ministry to Israel. This man’s ministry is to the non-Jewish world. All right, so he says in verse 23. Colossians 1:23b “…whereof I, Paul am made a minister;” By whom? By the ascended Christ. He’s the one that designated him. He’s the one who spoke to Ananias back there in Acts chapter 9, and what did He tell him? Don’t be afraid of him, Ananias, I’m going to send this man far hence to the Gentiles. So, that’s been the name of the game since it started. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible