9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
What was Paul's mission or calling: to make all men see the fellowship of the mystery, which was hid in God. You know what makes the mystery that has been revealed still a mystery to some? They have not seen it, it is in plain daylight and stands before their eyes and they treat it like it is some mystical thing from a sci-fi movie.
Paul said the mystery is Christ in you and that the mystery has been revealed. Remember Paul never uses the term born again for what ever reason? I believe he saw something far deeper in the mystery of Christ in you. We see how the term born again is used and thrown around and abused by politics and the world. But you will be hard pressed to find someone talking about the mystery. Can you imagine a politician making and speach; "and in closing I would like to thank the mystery of the fellowship for being birthed in me and becoming my only life." "Oh and the plan and purpose of God from the foundation of the world coming into effect the moment I believed, I am now born again."
You know what that would never happen because they do not know it, and if they do they do not talk about. The best test there is according to scripture is; "out of the abundance of the heart a man speaketh." So what you know will come out sooner or later. You can try to keep quite for a moment but it will burn in you like a fire. The Prophet Jeremiah said when he was not going to speak for God anymore "it's like fire shut up in my bones." He had to speak, God didn't have to do anything, his word to was Jeremiah enough.
You can try to shut up but when the things of God hit you you will speak. You may sound as crazy as the prophets of old but it flows like a river and you speak. Paul was one that knew this kind of message and treatment. He spoke by revelation, everything he said came from the glorified risen Christ. If he spoke from out of revelation he said so, "this is me not the Lord" he would say. We don't understand Paul the Apostle to the Gentiles, his many revelations are to us directly. We should shut ourselves away with our father and the scriptures until we get some revelation and understanding of what he wants and is doing in this world.
We are get so confused and don't understand what he is doing we get it backwards sometimes. We think he is there just for us, it is all about me, help me, my bills, my kids, my body, my mind, my my my. It don't work like that, haven't you figured that out yet. Religion makes it all about you, you must retrain your thinking. He does help us but that is not the reason for all things, you are not the reason for all things.
Don't you know there is something He, our father, wants. Did you ever stop in the middle of your mess and think "hey there may be something he wants." Have you ever entertained that thought. The world is not going to stop because you have trouble, the world is a schoolhouse and the sooner we learn the sooner we can move on into the understanding of God. It really is not rocket science as they say, it's very simple as you read the scriptures as their written.
Ephesians 3:4,
4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
Such as the chapter our text came from; when you read Paul said! That you may have the same understanding as Paul. You cannot get any clearer than that. But when you read what or who? When you read Paul. He said when we read him, his letters, his epistles, we will know and understand, is that plain enough. No man can explain it to you, it has to happen to just like it did with the apostle Paul. That is how you will know, revelation is a knowing no man can explain.
What was Paul's mission or calling: to make all men see the fellowship of the mystery, which was hid in God. You know what makes the mystery that has been revealed still a mystery to some? They have not seen it, it is in plain daylight and stands before their eyes and they treat it like it is some mystical thing from a sci-fi movie.
Paul said the mystery is Christ in you and that the mystery has been revealed. Remember Paul never uses the term born again for what ever reason? I believe he saw something far deeper in the mystery of Christ in you. We see how the term born again is used and thrown around and abused by politics and the world. But you will be hard pressed to find someone talking about the mystery. Can you imagine a politician making and speach; "and in closing I would like to thank the mystery of the fellowship for being birthed in me and becoming my only life." "Oh and the plan and purpose of God from the foundation of the world coming into effect the moment I believed, I am now born again."
You know what that would never happen because they do not know it, and if they do they do not talk about. The best test there is according to scripture is; "out of the abundance of the heart a man speaketh." So what you know will come out sooner or later. You can try to keep quite for a moment but it will burn in you like a fire. The Prophet Jeremiah said when he was not going to speak for God anymore "it's like fire shut up in my bones." He had to speak, God didn't have to do anything, his word to was Jeremiah enough.
You can try to shut up but when the things of God hit you you will speak. You may sound as crazy as the prophets of old but it flows like a river and you speak. Paul was one that knew this kind of message and treatment. He spoke by revelation, everything he said came from the glorified risen Christ. If he spoke from out of revelation he said so, "this is me not the Lord" he would say. We don't understand Paul the Apostle to the Gentiles, his many revelations are to us directly. We should shut ourselves away with our father and the scriptures until we get some revelation and understanding of what he wants and is doing in this world.
We are get so confused and don't understand what he is doing we get it backwards sometimes. We think he is there just for us, it is all about me, help me, my bills, my kids, my body, my mind, my my my. It don't work like that, haven't you figured that out yet. Religion makes it all about you, you must retrain your thinking. He does help us but that is not the reason for all things, you are not the reason for all things.
Don't you know there is something He, our father, wants. Did you ever stop in the middle of your mess and think "hey there may be something he wants." Have you ever entertained that thought. The world is not going to stop because you have trouble, the world is a schoolhouse and the sooner we learn the sooner we can move on into the understanding of God. It really is not rocket science as they say, it's very simple as you read the scriptures as their written.
Ephesians 3:4,
4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
Such as the chapter our text came from; when you read Paul said! That you may have the same understanding as Paul. You cannot get any clearer than that. But when you read what or who? When you read Paul. He said when we read him, his letters, his epistles, we will know and understand, is that plain enough. No man can explain it to you, it has to happen to just like it did with the apostle Paul. That is how you will know, revelation is a knowing no man can explain.
