We have recapped the secret of GOD spoken of in Deuteronomy 29:29 and by doing so we found that in part 3 we looked at a few of Paul's mysteries revealed. They were in Romans 16:25 as GOD's power, in 1Corinthians 2:7 as GOD's wisdom, in Ephesians 1:9 as the mystery of Christ, in part 2 and 3 in Ephesians 2:11-3:13 the understanding of the mystery of Christ, and in Colossians 1:26 the Indwelling Christ. These I may look at again towards the close of this section, the LORD willing. I want to look at Mark 4 where Jesus speaks to His students (disciples) about their receiving the mystery of the kingdom of GOD. Which happens when ones heart has been circumcised and sealed by the Holy Spirit, through which mans spirit is awakened and his spiritual eyes and ears are restored as in being opened, by the action of GOD's hand and the Holy Spirit's installation of the essence of Christ being restored to man, as He was in Jesus as a special seed, as promised man in Genesis 3:15.
These things we have seen in part 2 and 3. Also it bears repeating that when any passage is repeated again in close proximity it is vary important, just when Paul uses either a therefore or a wherefore we need to look back to his original discourse, to see what it is therefore.
Mark 4:10-12 states this; "When Jesus was alone, those around Him with the twelve asked Him about the parables. To this He said to them, "To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables, so that "they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand, lest they should turn and be forgiven." In this passage our attention is turned to a passage in the Psalms chapter 25 where we find this in verses 12 through 15, I will increase the scope just a bit to cover 8-11, 12-15; "Good and upright is the LORD; therefore He instructs sinners in the way (of the law they are to go). He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble His way. All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep His covenant and His testimonies. For Your name's sake, O LORD, pardon my guilt, for it is great.
Who is the man who fears (reverences and reveres) the LORD? Him will He instruct in the way that he should choose (the law as seen in the ancient Hebrew Strong's number H 8451). His soul (spirit) will abide in well-being, and his offspring shall inherit the land (promises of God). The friendship of the LORD is for those who fear Him, and He makes known to them His covenant. My eyes are ever toward the LORD, for He will pluck my feet out of the net (the snare of mans religions)."
From this point we find these subtopic areas for our study, Special Privileges, Spiritual Knowledge, and then repeated the Mystery of Christ, the Revelation of Christ, Secret Things, and finally Knowledge withheld which we looked at in part 3 so I will not repeat them here. Within verse 12 we find Spiritual Blindness (quoted by John in 12:40), hearing, dullness, no understanding, conversion and sin forgiven. Like I have done before I will look at each one individually where necessary do to length.
Special Privileges, afford to believers,
Matthew 13:10-17 "The disciples came and said to Him, "Why do You speak to them in parables?" To this Jesus answered them, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. For to the one who has, more will be given, and he will have an abundance, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. Indeed, in their case the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says: "'"You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive.(Isaiah 6:9) For this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.' (Isaiah 6:10) But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. For truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it."
Luke 10:23-24 "Then turning to the disciples He said privately, "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see! For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it."
Romans 5:1-5 "Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through Him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love (rules us from within because it) has been given (restored) to our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us."
1Corithians 2:6-13 "Yet among the mature we do impart (the light of God's) wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the LORD of glory. But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him (Isaiah 64:4, 65:17)"—For these things God has revealed in us through the His Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit Who is God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual."
Colossians 1:19-20, 21-23, 24-29 "For in Jesus all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell (Emmanuel and Messiah), and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of His cross.
And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, He has now reconciled in His body of flesh by His death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before Him, if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of His body, that is, the Family in His Church, of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known, the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to His saints. To them God chooses to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Him (this being singular not plural such as Elohim referencing the essence of Christ as El) we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ. For this I toil, struggling with all His energy that He (El) powerfully works within me."
1John 2:15-17, 18-25 "Do not love the things of the world. For, If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is of the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. For the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us. For if you have been anointed (that is to have the Messiah you also have Emmanuel in you) by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge. (this being the High Priestly Prayer of John 17) I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.
No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also. Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father. (John 17) And this is the promise that He made to us—Eternal Life (the essence of EL in Christ and Christ's Life was in Jesus the messenger of Life Love and Light of El, being restored to humanity as promised in Genesis 3:15)."
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