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The Mystery Revealed...
What is a mystery?
We actually use the word mystery in many different ways.
Who loves a good mystery?
I love mystery novels
Mystery used in different ways:
“a piece of fiction dealing usually with the solution of a mysterious crime”
“something not understood or beyond understanding: ENIGMA”
“a religious truth that one can know only by revelation and cannot fully understand”
Not fully understood?
How is it used in the Bible?
I invite you to turn with me in your Bible to Romans 16, the last three verses of the letter.
In this passage we find Paul using the word mystery, and we want to pay attention to what he says about it.
…in accordance with my gospel, the message I proclaim about Jesus Christ...
The Mystery has been...
Revealed
Shown
Made Known
Revelation - apocalypsis
Revealed / Manifested / Shown
Related to the word for shine, like you shine the light on something to make clear what it is
dog barking at night, shine the light on it
Made known - you are given understanding or knowledge
How was it revealed?
As we go through different passages today, we will see that God tells us that He has used multiple ways to reveal the mystery.
The first is found in this passage.
The Scriptures of the prophets
Through the scriptures of the prophets is an interesting way of saying it.
Today, we call the scriptures that Paul and the early church had, the Old Testament.
They did not refer to it as the Old Testament.
It was referred to a few ways, but one of them was calling it the writings of the prophets.
So, if this was revealed through the prophets, then how was it “hidden”.
The word hidden here, means unspoken, or secret.
How did the prophets speak and write it, and it was still a secret?
Cumberland Gap Trail
Mountain peaks of prophecy
mountain peaks of prophecy
This is a graphic representation by Clarence Larkin.
Even the suffering and death of the Messiah, though prophesied in the Old Testament was not clearly understood, as they looked at the other peaks, when the Messiah would come and reign.
Hidden from the worldly wise and proud
Hidden from those Satan has blinded
Though it was there in the scriptures, it was hidden.
It was hidden because they could not distinguish all of the future events clearly from one another.
It was hidden because too many were wise in their own eyes and proud.
It was hidden because Satan wants to keep people blind from the truth and work of God.
But has bee revealed.
It was revealed in in the writings of the prophets, and...
Jesus taught it
Jesus taught it to His disciples.
He tried telling them on numerous occasions who He was and what was going to happen to him.
He told them repeatedly that He would be betrayed, beaten and crucified, and that He would rise again.
He told them what was coming, and even told them that He would build His church in Matthew 16.
He taught them in parables because He wanted them to get it, while those who did not believe would not.
Jesus revealed much of the mystery while He taught.
However, even the disciples did not get much of it at the time.
In fact, it wasn’t until after the resurrection that they finally got what He was saying.
Jesus said that the prophets had spoken, but they were slow to believe it.
Then He explained it to them in detail, and showed how it all pointed to Him, and what He had done and will do.
The Mystery has been revealed, made known, the light shone on it through the writings of the prophets, and through Jesus’ teaching.
There is another way it has been revealed.
Please turn to Ephesians 3:2-3.
Paul was given revelation
How and when, we are not given specifics, however, Paul tells us in Galatians chapter one that he was given this revelation by Jesus.
He was likely referring to his encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus, but he also speaks of going to Arabia after being saved, and then returning to Damascus.
The point is, the mystery Paul proclaimed was not something he got from other people, but what Jesus revealed to him.
Paul goes on to say,
Once again, Paul mentions how it was hidden in the past.
It was not made manifest to them like it has been now.
Why?
Because of another of means of revelation.
Spirit revealed
Not only did Jesus teach it while on earth, but just like Jesus said in John, He was going to send another, He was going to send the Spirit to guide His people into truth, and remind them of all that Jesus taught.
The Spirit has come, and the Spirit taught the apostles, and prophets.
Now, the Holy Spirit is at work in each of us, making it clear to us.
Paul talks about this in 1 Corinthians 2.
The mystery has been revealed in the scriptures of the prophets.
It has been revealed by Jesus when He taught.
It has been revealed to Paul, who writes about it in his letters.
It has been revealed by the Spirit.
What is the mystery?
So just what is this mystery that has been revealed?
What is it that God has freely given to us, and wants us to know?
Let’s look back at Romans 16.
The Gospel of Jesus Christ!
The whole of the letter of Romans is Paul’s largest and clearest explanation of the Gospel.
Now, at the conclusion of the letter, Paul is saying that this gospel, the message he proclaimed about Jesus is the mystery that has been revealed.
Jesus death, burial and resurrection to pay the penalty for our sins, and to give us peace and fellowship with God is the mystery that was spoken of by the prophets, but hidden from plain sight as it got overshadowed by other mountain peaks which seemed to be more impressive, like when He comes and carries out vengeance, and when He comes and establishes His kingdom.
The suffering isn’t quite as appealing as that glorious kingdom, is it?
But, without the suffering of Jesus, there would be no one to be in the kingdom.
There would be no one righteous enough to enter, and live at peace and in fellowship with God!
There is another aspect of this mystery which Paul speaks about in Ephesians 3.
Gentiles heirs together with Jews
Wow!
Over the past weeks, we have seen how God revealed to the prophets that other nations would seek
flows out of 2 two one new man
The Church
church is body of christ,,,
baptized into by hs
The hardening of Israel
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