Ephesians Lesson 22 of 39 part 7

Covering our question; Why are You so mindful of man?

Ephesians 3:9a

"And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery*, which from the beginning of the world (ages)** hath been hid..."

* these revealed Pauline truths ** This only goes back to Adam. The hidden reason of God's being mindful of man has the do solely with mans origin as revealed in Genesis 1:26-28; 2:7-8, 15-24, 3:1-15, 16-24. and the promised seed of woman which holds the ontological essence of the Spirit of Christ and the promise that some day that seed would come as mans redeemer. The revelation upon which this Gospel of God's Grace is seen in the face of Christ.

Have you noticed how often this word "mystery" is coming along? We know people think we repeat a lot, we do it purposely, because it is the only way we learn, and that is what the Bible does also. Do you realize how many times the scriptures repeat and repeat? Sometimes it is in a short span, and other times over a period of 4 or 5 different books, but it is still repeating, and repeating, and repeating. It is God's way of getting our attention and is for our learning. Why? Because it is the only way that the Truth soaks in. We are getting less apt to apologize for repeating. 

For a lot of us, we have heard it ever since we were little, but we also have to remember that there are a lot of people out there who have heard none of this. So all these revelations were hid in the heart and mind of God until He revealed them to this Apostle. God did not reveal the fulness of these things to the Old Testament prophets though some had a glimpse of it, nor did Jesus share these things with His disciples in His earthly ministry. He did not reveal it to Peter and the eleven because there is nothing of them in the book of Acts. It was not until God was ready to turn to the Gentile world, that He spoke of them to Paul. He chose to allow Israel go out into a dispersion, and into a spiritual blindness, and now He is revealing for His own intent and purposes things that had never been revealed before. And this is what we have to look for, and only Paul is the one to whom He reveals them.

In fact let’s go back to Galatians chapter 1 where Paul makes it so plain that it was a revelation from the ascended Lord and not from the twelve in Jerusalem. We know that when Paul first began his ministry and the missionary journeys and so forth, the only scriptures that he had to use were the Old Testament. Based in those Old Testament scriptures are found the promises, that Christ had to come and had to die, shed His blood. These things the Holy Spirit alone is the bearer of Truth and the revealer of Christ. It is only through the ontological essence of the Spirit of Truth, who is Christ restored that Paul or anyone else for that matter is able to speak, and now proclaim these mysteries. Paul's letters did not become a printed fact until Paul's church messages began to appear, and that is why we can stand without argument and say that you will not find these things written previously. Because they are not back there, and yet these things are all building on them, the Old Testament scriptures. Just as all the Covenants build upon the promise spoken to Adam. When the Holy Spirit says that He will put all things straight this is what He has done. He enables us to bring the scriptures together and in there proper order to make all this now visible for our understanding. We have to be first willing, willing to forsake all others and then cleave only onto Him to be receptive as a young child in order to receive. And this does cost us something for even Jesus said to count the cost before building a castle or entering a battle, then to become a doer and not a hearer only. Paul was a doer and he asks us all to do as he has done for he imitates Christ. 

Galatians 1:11-12

"But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ."