1Corinthians
2:13
"Which
things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teaches,
but which the Holy Ghost teaches; (and how does the Holy
Spirit teach?) comparing spiritual things with spiritual."
We
have to constantly compare these various concepts of scripture with
other concepts and then we will see how they all fit. They fit
just like a jigsaw puzzle. But when the church and it's miss guides pastors can not get them to work as they suppose they should they will cut corners and make the pieces fit when in actuality they do not. We know it has been a long time since we
have put a jigsaw puzzle together, but how would you like to put one
together if somebody had taken out a few of the pieces and put in a
few from another puzzle, and had no picture to go by? What would that
be like? Oh it would be pandemonium, it would drive you up the wall.
Because number one, you would have no frame of reference, you would
have no idea where this color is on the edge unless you have the
picture. And number two, after you get a lot of it together you have pieces that do not belong in the puzzle. No matter how hard
you try to fit them in they simply won’t fit! From my own past experiences, of over forty years, this is what most denominational and non-denominational preaching does, it leaves one thirsting and hungry for more but we do not know what. We just know almost instinctively that there is something missing, or that the message fell short, it just did not hit the bulls-eye.
Listen,
that is what too many Bible studies do. It does not take us very
long to recognize, "Hey this doesn’t fit."
Of course it does not, because it is not supposed to. But when we
keep the scripture with scripture, and not just a word search only kind of
thing but rather comparing scripture with scriptures and keeping Law
and Grace separated. Then it all falls into place so beautifully from
cover to cover with no contradictions. Remember God changes His
programs but God never changes like we have said earlier here in Ephesians. Of course the Dispensation of Grace that
was given to the Apostle Paul is a whole different economy than the
Dispensation of Law and the accompanying Jewish economy. For Jesus was the promised one to come who would bring an end to that dispensational economy. Remember
several lessons ago we showed how ridiculous it is when people say,
"But I go by the whole Bible, and not what Paul teaches?"
And we took you to the book of Leviticus chapter 5, where if anybody
touches something that is dead, then he has to bring a particular
sacrifice to the priest. That is what the Bible says! But when
people say things like that they put their foot in their own mouth. Because they are simply repeating what they have heard someone else say, in ignorance, because they are repeating the phrase they had heard as well. In other words it has no foundation of scripture to back it up.
It is the same way with the teachings of Jesus’ earthly ministry.
He was teaching directly to the Nation of Israel, and not to the church. As it had not come onto the scene until after His ascension and the revealing of the secrets through the opening of the seals of the small book. In
Matthew chapter 21, He is teaching one of His parables. This
just says it all.
Matthew
21:45
"And
when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they
perceived that he spake of them."
Not to
us in the Church Age, but them, the Nation of Israel. It was to
them that it was appropriate, not to us. A lot of His teachings
are applicable, do not get us wrong. Jesus never taught anything
that was completely out in left field, but He is constantly driving
His teaching home to the Nation of Israel. In all of His
parables, the only true meaning was that they spoke to the Nation of
Israel and even more pointedly to the priesthood of that wayward nation. Because for the most part the people were not free thinkers but were rather followers. Now there are a few that have a double and deeper meaning but
they are few. When we take those things out of the four synoptic gospels
and try to bring it into Paul’s teachings we have got some puzzle
pieces that just do not belong, and they will not fit, although
preachers and teachers try to make them fit. Here is the secret
to why they will not fit.
Matthew
21:45
"And
when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they
perceived that he spake of them."
This is what the book says. Now coming back to 1Corinthians chapter
2, and finish the study on the deep things of God, in verse 13. This is all part and parcel of what Paul is enlarging
on in Ephesians chapter 3, when he prays, "That we have the
might and the power of the height, and depth, and length, and breadth
of spiritual discernment."
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