This study goes
along with Israel’s Blindness as they both now run in parallel to
each other in this dispensational period called the Age of Grace or
the Church Age. What I mean by this is that natural man walks about
his daily life separated from God and His rule or sphere of
influence. He remains out from under the covering of the new
covenant, unaware of the promises of God which form the foundation
upon which the true Church of God stands and that they are redeemed
from the sin nature that they are born into. When the first Love
which was lost but lingers in the heart of hearts of man as the seed
of woman planted there by God shortly after Adam and woman fell and
is witnessed to in Genesis 3:15 is satisfied by the being restored to
its lover. This lost Love is witnessed to in the Song of Songs and
other related areas of scripture as the love of the chase virgin
seeking to be restored in union with her lover and which man if he'll
not remain but a fraud will freely acknowledge as his true state. In
his need for this union and restoration of this Love. This is the
Love Jesus restores through the sacrament of the Lord's Last Supper,
in the Marriage Feast of the Lamb when rightly divided when He both
as the propitiation and consummation of the ages gone before
inaugurated in the New and Living Way through Love to the very heart
of God for all man kind by His vicarious death.
Ephesians
2:19
"Now
therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but
fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;"
What a
position, and we don't work for it. We don't strive for it, we don't
brow beat ourselves, we don't grovel in the dirt, we don't somehow
cause physical misery. We just step in by faith, and God does it all!
Always remember that it's not what we do, but rather it's the fact
that "GOD DOES IT ALL." For He works Hid works through the Agape Love restored within our heart of hearts through the ontological essence of His Son restored in and through Love and our receptivity of His Faith and God's Faithfulness in and by Grace in all Truth which are but Christ in us. So as stated Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians are on a higher plan than the foundational teaching found in Hebrews, Romans, 1&2 Corinthians and Galatians because they reveal our being in righteousness and spiritually conjoined to Christ and hid with Christ in God. And though still in a physical house on earth we are true citizens of the Heavenly realm and heirs of Christ.
For we even
operate by His faith and not our own.
If we can get a
grasp of Genesis chapter 3, which
gives us the account of the fall of man, and the beginning of sin,
and the curse (and Romans chapter 3, which gives the remedy for it,
and where we find the first real instance of salvation by faith, and
faith alone), then we’ve got a good share of the Bible understood.
But the thought, that we must add Ephesians chapter 3 to the other
chapter 3’s that we just mentioned escapes me.
This
chapter just simply explodes with things that most people never hear
in Church. We can’t think of a single Sunday School lesson in all
of our years in Church, nor a single Sunday morning sermon that was
taken from Ephesians chapter 3. It’s a fact, preachers
and teachers ignore this like it’s a plague, it’s as if they
don’t want to be bothered with it. But here it is, and it’s just
so full of what we as Grace Age believers have to understand.
What it really amounts to is that all of these revelations that have
been given to the Apostle Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles, had been
kept hidden and secret in the mind and heart of God until revealed to
this man. And to those who would be the willing to take the Way of the Cross
through the Lord's Supper and on through His ascension back to the
Holiest in the heavenliest.
Now we know and understand that people don’t
like to admit that, and it’s simply because they’re so much more
comfortable in preaching and teaching Christ’s earthly ministry.
And teaching His earthly ministry is all well and good. But to remain bond by the traditions of man in mans religion is just what our Lord separated us from at His table and alter the tree and resurrection then within our heart of hearts, when we decide to no longer play the fraud game of man. We never take
anything away from Jesus Christ and His ministry, and the people who
hear us
us sharing the
Truth know that. In fact we probably elevate Him far above
what most people do. We’ve always used the expression, would to God
that more people would ask, "Who in the world is Jesus
Christ?" If you really ask, most Church people do not really
know Who He is. They do not know Him as the Creator of everything.
He’s the sustainer of everything as well as the Person of the
Godhead who stepped out of that Triune God, and became flesh in order
to go the way of the Cross and make away of entry into the promised
New Covenant through the Last Supper. Part of which we've shared
earlier in this study but can be found in a study of its own if the
Lord tarries and is willing to allow us to share it. Well all of
these things come out in Ephesians chapter 3.
Ephesians
3:1a
"For
this cause..."
What’s Paul
speaking of when he says, "For this cause?"
Well everything that he’d just expounded on in the first two
chapters. Back up to chapter 2, verses 8 and 9 and we’ll see what
we're talking about. These are verses we're sure you’ve seen in
salvation tracts and so forth, but again this is the highlight of
these two chapters.
Ephesians
2:8-9
"For
by grace are ye saved through faith; (and that’s where we
get + nothing, because there’s nothing after that word
faith) and that not of yourselves: (there’s nothing
we can do. Why? Because) it is the gift of God: (now
how much work do you do for a gift? Nothing. The minute you do even a
penny’s worth it’s no longer a gift, but rather it something
you’ve worked for.) Not of works, lest any man should boast."
Well you don’t see that brought out anywhere else in scripture
until we get to the Apostle Paul, and his letters to Gentiles. Now
back to chapter 3.
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