904 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 Part 4 Book 76 - Connecting the Dots of Scripture - Part 28

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 4 * BOOK 76 CONNECTING THE DOTS OF SCRIPTURE – PART 28 Genesis - Revelation (Dispensational View) Okay, we’re ready for the last program this afternoon, and then we’ll be heading out for home. For those of you joining us on television, again we want to thank you for your prayers more than anything, but also for your letters and your financial help. Naturally, we can’t do this without it. You know, when we first came up here—I’ve got to tell things like this! This is what makes our program. When we first came up here to talk to these station people—they’re the ones that called. They wanted us to make a program. So we came up and had a breakfast meeting with them and found out it was going to cost us like $2,000 a month for one program a week and the production end. Iris hadn’t said anything about the meeting until we got to the car and she said, “Les, I thought they’d pay us!” Well you know, I imagine a lot of people think that. Because where do people get all their funds? Well, from what they do. So it was a logical response. We didn’t know anything about TV. You know, as I always tell people, we were the takers of a clod of dirt when it came to television. But anyhow, here we are, and we have to pay for TV time. The television people don’t pay us a dime. Okay, we’re going to keep on the dispensational view. We’re going to come back to these mysteries that we started in our last lesson. For this next half hour, at least the first part of it, we’re going to start at I Corinthians chapter 4. This is a little different approach. Paul is writing to the believers at Corinth who were not exactly the most spiritual of all the people. And he says: I Corinthians 4:1 “Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers (See, there’s that word again.) of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.” What’s a steward? Well, let’s look at Scripture. Go back to Genesis chapter 15 – Abraham. Genesis chapter 15, but first let’s stop at chapter 12 and the Abrahamic Covenant. Just for a second so that you’ll know what Abram, as his name was still, what he was up against. Genesis 12:2 “And I will make of thee a great nation,…” Now, that’s as far as we’ve got to go to make my point. What would Abraham have to have if a nation is going to come from him? Children! How many did he have? None! All right, so here he’s getting almost befuddled with the idea—how could people come from me and even my own wife Sarai when we don’t have a child? All right, now you come over to chapter 15 in Genesis and still no child. Still the promises keep ringing in his ears. Genesis 15:1 “After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.” Now verse 2, don’t forget the fact that Abram is 90 and Sarai is 80, and they still won’t have a child until he is 100 and she’s 90. But nevertheless, they’re already past childbearing age. Genesis 15:2 And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?” What’d he mean? What’s a steward? A manager, an overseer, an administrator. And we know that Abram had tremendous wealth. He had men servants and women servants. He had cattle and sheep and goats, and he couldn’t run it all himself. So he had this steward, this overseer, this manager, Eliezer of Damascus. All right, now come back to I Corinthians 4 and maybe this verse will mean a little bit more to you. I Corinthians 4:1 “Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards (Or managers, overseers, promoters, all the things that make an operation go. That’s what we are to be. Not of a business, nor of a farm and ranch operation, but of what?) of the mysteries of God.” So every one of us as believers are stewards of this body of truth. It’s up to us to get it out in front of people every opportunity that we get, in one place or another. You don’t have to use all of them at once. But let people know – hey, this is where it’s at! You won’t find this back in the four Gospels. You won’t find this back in the Old Testament. You won’t find it in the Book of Revelation. You find it only between Romans and Philemon. That’s why I’m constantly stressing—study Paul’s epistles. Now, you don’t throw the rest of your Bible away. You know I don’t teach that, because I just used it. Man, I love to use Genesis. I love to use the prophets. But I’m not going to take people back there to show them how to be saved. I’m not going to take them back there to show them how to live the Christian life in 2,000—wherever we are. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible