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Hi @Doug, I believe that in the Bible we have the sum total of all Divine revelation. reading it is my source of joy in the Lord. I am not affiliated to any Christian denomination. Like the psalmist, I take the stand that, 'On Christ the solid rock I stand all, other ground is sinking sand...

'And be found in Him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:' (Php 3:9) Hello @rebuilder 454, Forgive me, but I have not read your previous entries, so don't know where you are...

Hello @Doug, I have read different explanations of this, but no authoritative conclusion given. The one was, that there was no reason to leave the Epistle of Ephesians to find the answer, that Paul was simply referring to what was said previously, in the chapters before. Punctuation also...

Hello again, @Doug, Like the Bereans of old, who were commended in Acts 17, I endeavour to receive what I hear with all readiness of mind, and search the Scriptures to ensure that what I am hearing is true. Yes, I find the web site, believer.com sound, and have also been blessed by other...

'For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: How that by revelation He made known unto me the mystery; as I wrote afore in few words, whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my...

Hello again, @Doug, Yes, Paul made known 'The Mystery' concerning the church which is the Body of Christ, in the Prison Epistles, following it's revelation to him alone, It is not the subject of any other Scriptures written prior to that. We have covered this in previous posts, so I won't say...

'Now to Him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of...

'Then He said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into His glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning...

3) separated unto the gospel of God, 4) (Which He had promised afore 5) by His prophets in the holy scriptures,) Hi @Doug, * The content of Romans 16:25-26 answers that question, I do not need to say anything. The revelation of the mystery was divinely wrought, but it was by the scriptures of...

@Doug. 'Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the...

Hi @Doug, 'Now to Him that is of power to stablish you 1) according to my gospel, 2) and the preaching of Jesus Christ, 3) according to the revelation of the mystery, 4) which was kept secret since the world began, 5) But now is made manifest, 6) and by the scriptures of the prophets, 7)...

Hello @rebuilder 454, We are discussing what is said in the Scriptures concerning the gospel that Paul preached, and why he should define it so catagorically as, 'My Gospel'. We have been saved by God's grace, of that you may be assured. Thank you for your concern. In Christ Jesus Chris

'Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to His saints: To whom God would make known what is the riches of the...

'How that by revelation He made known unto me the mystery; ... ... ... That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ by the gospel:' (Eph 3: vv. 3 & 6) Hello @Doug, The mystery that Paul made known, by divine revelation, is summed up by...

Hello @Doug, There are two verses, which I have quoted before, so you will be familiar with them, they are, Ephesians 3:9, and Colossians 1:26:- 'Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ...

Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.' (1Co 15:51-52) Hello @Doug, When 1...

'Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers. Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun...

'Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers. Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun...

Hello @Doug, Yet as I said in a previous post (#410), Justification by faith can be found in the book of the Prophet Habbakuk, Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just (ie., a righteous one) shall live (ie., live forever in resurrection life) by his faith.'(Hab...

@Doug re:- #429. #430. 'they shall gather' (Matt 24:31) related to:- 'And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath...