410 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 - Part 2 - Book 35 - Reproof In Righteousness

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 2 * BOOK 35 REPROOF IN RIGHTEOUSNESS Instead of the timeline of all of Scripture, we're going to look at a different timeline that covers Paul's Church Epistles. Now we're going to see that there are seven of Paul's epistles that were written to the Church, and they're called the Church epistles. Paul didn't do that, I mean Paul just wrote those letters as it was appropriate and it just fell out that there were seven of them that were written directly for the Church. Our lesson is going to be in Ephesians chapter 1, and we'll be looking at Ephesians verse by verse, but before we do that let's look at II Timothy, where the apostle Paul writes in verse 16 - II Timothy 3:16 "All scripture (the whole Bible from cover to cover) is given by inspiration of God,..." Remember Luke wrote a good portion of our New Testament, the Book of Luke and Acts and I've said for years that he was not a Gentile, but rather he was a Jew. I always just based it on a verse in Romans where Paul says - Romans 3:1-2 "What advantage then hath the Jew? 2. Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them (the Jew) were committed the oracles (Word) of God." Now granted he had a Roman name, but Paul did also (see Saul was Paul's Jewish name). Paul was a Roman name and I think much of the same thing happened with Luke. Luke wrote the Scripture as the Holy Spirit inspired him to write it, and it was the same way with the gospel writers. Correct. "...for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:" Now it's kind of unique then that all of Paul's Church letters especially the seven that we're going to put on the board, all fall into doctrine, reproof, correction and instruction in righteousness. I've said before that all Scripture from Genesis to Revelation is a progressive revelation. We come into the New Testament, and God begins to reveal things that weren't in the Old Testament, and especially when we get to the apostle Paul's writings. Revelations that were never hinted in the Old Testament, revelation that Jesus never spoke of. First doctrine, then reproof, then correction, and last instruction in righteousness. I don't think the apostle Paul, when he wrote his letters, even realized that he was writing Scripture. Paul just wrote as the Holy Spirit inspired him to write, and fired the letter off to these various Churches by courier. The Book of Romans he sent to Rome from Corinth with Phoebe, a lady. Romans was written about 64 AD, and Galatians was written earlier than that in about 60 AD. Then the Corinthian letters were written somewhere around 61 or 62 AD. By virtue of the Jews being in every city in the Roman Empire, wherever the apostle Paul went, where did he go first? Even the Four Gospels weren't written until after Paul had written his letters, so he couldn't even tell people, "If you want to know a little more about Jesus and His earthly ministry, then read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John." During those years from 40 AD until he goes to prison probably in about 64 AD, but during this period of time of about 25 years, he is constantly appealing to the Jew on the basis of the Old Testament, but he has now written Romans which is the Book of Doctrine. You'll remember when we studied the Corinthian letters, what did they need reproof in? So Paul had to reproof them with those two letters of I & II Corinthians. Do you remember what the Galatians needed to correct? Legalism. Remember Paul had arrived at Rome after all the shipwrecks and turmoil of getting from Caeserea in Israel. Acts 28:17 Now you all remember how the Jews hated the apostle Paul. Now verse 18 & 19. We find in verse 25- All right now, verse 28. Now remember where Paul is. He's in Rome in prison. "Be know therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it." On our timeline we have Romans, I & II Corinthians and Galatians. Once Paul makes this jump up into higher or deeper spiritual truths you will find there is no longer any mention of a Jew or the Old Testament. "Be it know therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles and that they will hear it." There is not another word out of the Old Testament, and not once is the Jew mentioned again in the inspired letters of Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians, and what's the purpose? there is no dividing between Jew and Gentiles. So in our next lesson we're going to start a verse by verse study of Ephesians and be constantly aware that God is no longer making any reference to the Jew or to the Old Testament, and it's for His own purposes. #lesfeldick #biblestudy #bible