910 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 2 Book 76 - Connecting the Dots of Scripture - Part 34

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Fedick LESSON 3 * PART 2 * BOOK 76 CONNECTING THE DOTS OF SCRIPTURE – PART 33 Genesis – Revelation (The Mysteries Continued) Okay, good to have you all back from your coffee break. For those of you joining us on television, I always have to remind folks that we are just an informal Bible study. Hopefully we teach the Word in a way that you can study it on your own and enjoy your Bible. Don’t just read it because you think you have to. Let it be a joyful experience. Okay, we only have one book that we always continue to let people know is available. It’s our Question and Answer book. It covers a lot of things, and it’s had a lot of good response. A lot of people use them. People say it’s the best $11 they ever spent. They make wonderful gifts. Okay, in our teaching of the mysteries, the studio audience has let me know that I not only skipped number 5, which we did in the last half hour, but I also skipped number 4! Somehow or other that didn’t come out in my bookkeeping. So, we’re going to pick up number 4 now. It doesn’t make any difference in the order they are taught. Turn with me to Colossians chapter 2, and we’ll spend a few moments, probably not as much as I would have had my thoughts been all in order, but Colossians chapter 2 verse 2. We’re going to start with verse 1. Colossians 2:1 “For (Paul says) I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, (Which, of course, were two little cities, sister cities almost, right out there east of Ephesus in Turkey as we know it.) and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;” In other words, Paul was not instrumental in starting these two little congregations. Colossi and Laodicea were evidently begun by converts from maybe Ephesus or some of his other churches. He had never been there to see them face-to-face. Now verse 2: Colossians 2:2-3 “That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, (We’ve been stressing that.) and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement (or ready to accept the fact of this mystery) of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; 3. In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” Now, I think all the apostle is doing here is reminding us again of the Triune God. In fact, you can just go a little further in this same chapter, go on down to verses 8 and 9. Because you see, these are things, as I said in the last taping, you do not find anywhere else in Scripture. It was left for this apostle to reveal these things that God had providentially kept secret. And that’s why I just told a gentleman yesterday, a Jehovah’s Witness. The wife was only in it about nine years, so she had a better chance. But the husband had been in it since birth. After watching my program for not all that long, she saw the truth of all this and was genuinely saved and came out of it. But she wanted me to talk to her husband. She said he’s starting to look at it, but he’s been in it all his life. He is having such a hard time. Would you talk to him? Yes, gladly. And he was a real nice gentleman. You know, a lot of times these people are abrasive, and they’re against you. But he was real open. So we talked a good long while—over half an hour. Finally, I left the conversation with him this way. I said, “Look, if for the next three or four weeks you will just read nothing in your Bible but the Book of Romans. And then for another week or two read the rest of Paul’s epistles on through Philemon. Then call me back, and we’ll just pick it up on the phone.” Well, fortunately, they’re in an area in Wisconsin where I’m going to be in August and September, so they promised that they would be coming to one of my seminars up there. Now here’s where prayer comes in. You just pray that these people will get this full understanding of who God is. Those of you who have been approached by Jehovah Witnesses at your door, or wherever, I think you’re all aware that they cannot accept the fact that Jesus Christ is God. He was something less than God. He was through an act of reproduction, somewhere along the line. But they can’t accept that He was part of the Godhead, and that’s what made me think of them. What Paul is talking about here as being the mystery of God is His Triune-ness, if I can put it that way. That He’s One God according to Deuteronomy. Absolutely, He’s One God. But He is still in Three Persons. Now there’s no way we humans can understand that, because it’s into the realm of the Spirit. So, how do we take it? By faith. God says it. That settles it! Why question it? Like I tell more and more people when they come up with these things that are not definitely answered in Scripture #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible