오늘의 단상_만세만대로 부터 감추어졌던 7가지 비밀

 

안녕하세요, 오늘은 사도 바울에게 계시된 7가지 신비에 대해 알아보겠습니다. 이미 모세율법이 있고, 아브라함 등 조상에게 약속하셨던 왕국복음을 전하던 예수님의 제자들이 있었는데, 왜 부활 승천하신 후 하나님 보좌 우편에 계시던 예수님이 친히 하늘에서 내려오셔서 이방인의 사도로 사올을 불러서 바올이라 부르시며 은혜복음을 전하게 하셨을까?

 

만세와 만대로 부터 감추었던 이 비밀이 사도바올을 통해서 예수님이 계시로 알게하셨다고 하셨는데 이 내용은 무엇인가? 이 주제는 현대 교회에서 자주 다루어지지 않지만 , 초대 교회에서는 중요하게 여겨졌고 이 차이때문에 유대인들로부터 모진 고난 박해를 받았습니다. 바울에게 계시된 이 비밀들은 우리의 구원과 신앙생활에 깊은 영향을 미치는 중요한 진리들입니다. 함께 성경을 통해 이 놀라운 계시들을 살펴보며, 우리의 신앙이 더욱 깊어지고 풍성해지기를 바랍니다.

 

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복음의 신비: 예수 그리스도의 죽음과 부활을 통한 구원

그리스도 안에 거하는 신비: 성령을 통해 우리 안에 거하시는 그리스도

그리스도의 몸의 신비: 모든 믿는 자들이 하나의 몸을 이루는 교회

그리스도의 신부의 신비: 교회와 그리스도의 연합

휴거의 신비: 그리스도의 재림 시 믿는 자들의 변화

불법의 신비: 적그리스도의 활동과 최후의 심판

이스라엘의 회복의 신비: 하나님의 이스라엘을 향한 계획마무리:

 

 

1. Introduction to the Mysteries:

 

[Romans 16:25 (KJV): "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," "나의 복음과 예수 그리스도를 전파함은 영세 전부터 감추어졌다가"]

 

[1 Corinthians 4:1 (KJV): "Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God." "사람이 마땅히 우리를 그리스도의 사역자요, 하나님의 신비들을 맡은 청지기로 여길지어다."]

 

[Ephesians 3:3-4 (KJV): "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 knowledge in the mystery of Christ)" "곧 계시로 내게 그 신비를 알리셨으니 (내가 전에 간단히 쓴 것과 같으니라. 그것을 읽을 때에 너희가 그리스도의 신비 안에서 내가 알고 있는 바를 깨달을 수 있으리라.)"]

 

[Colossians 1:26-27 (KJV): "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 glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:" "이 신비는 과거의 여러 시대와 세대에 숨겨졌다가 이제는 그분의 성도들에게 드러났으며 하나님께서는 이방인들 가운데서 이 신비의 영광의 풍성함이 무엇인지 자신의 성도들에게 알리려 하셨으니 이 신비는 너희 안에 계신 그리스도시요, 곧 영광의 소망이니라."]

 

2. Historical Context:

 

[Acts 2:14 (KJV): "But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:" "베드로가 열한 사도와 함께 서서 소리를 높여 그들에게 이르되, 유대 사람들과 예루살렘에 거하는 모든 사람들아, 이것을 너희에게 알려 주겠노니 내 말에 귀를 기울이라."]

 

[Acts 3:19 (KJV): "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;" "그러므로 너희가 회개하고 돌이켜 너희 죄들을 지워 버리라. 그리하면 새롭게 하는 때가 주의 앞으로부터 이를 것이요,"]

 

[Acts 10:34-35 (KJV): "Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him." "이에 베드로가 입을 열어 말하되, 내가 진실로 하나님은 사람을 외모로 취하지 아니하시고 모든 민족 중에서 자신을 두려워하며 의를 행하는 사람은 그분께서 받아 주시는 줄 깨달았도다."]

 

[Acts 15:7 (KJV): "And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe." "많은 논쟁이 있은 뒤에 베드로가 일어나 그들에게 이르되, 형제들아, 너희도 알거니와 하나님께서 이방인들이 내 입을 통해 복음의 말씀을 듣고 믿게 하시려고 오래 전에 우리 가운데서 나를 선택하셨느니라."]

 

3. Paul as the Apostle:

 

[Galatians 1:15-16 (KJV): "But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:" "그러나 내 어머니의 태에서부터 나를 구별하시고 자신의 은혜로 나를 부르신 하나님께서 자신의 아들을 내 안에 계시하사 내가 그분을 이방인들 가운데 선포하는 것을 기뻐하실 때에 내가 즉시 혈육과 의논하지 아니하였고"]

 

[Romans 11:13 (KJV): "For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:" "내가 이방인인 너희에게 말하노라. 내가 이방인들의 사도인 만큼 내 직분을 영화롭게 하나니"]

 

[1 Timothy 2:7 (KJV): "Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity." "이를 위하여 내가 선포자와 사도로 임명을 받았고 (내가 그리스도 안에서 진실을 말하고 거짓말하지 아니하노니) 믿음과 진리 안에서 이방인들의 교사가 되었노라."]

 

[2 Timothy 1:11 (KJV): "Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles." "내가 이 복음을 위하여 선포자와 사도와 이방인들의 교사로 임명되었노라."]

 

4. The Mystery of the Gospel:

 

[1 Corinthians 15:1-4 (KJV): "Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:" "또한 형제들아, 내가 너희에게 선포한 복음을 너희에게 밝히 알리노니 너희 역시 그 복음을 받았으며 또 그 가운데 서 있느니라. 너희가 만일 내가 너희에게 선포한 것을 기억하고 헛되이 믿지 아니하였으면 또한 그 복음으로 구원을 받았느니라. 내가 또한 받은 것을 무엇보다 먼저 너희에게 전하였노니 그것은 곧 성경 기록대로 그리스도께서 우리의 죄들로 인하여 죽으시고 묻히셨다가 성경 기록대로 셋째 날에 다시 살아나시고"]

 

[Romans 1:16 (KJV): "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek." "내가 그리스도의 복음을 부끄러워하지 아니하노니 이는 그 복음이 믿는 모든 자를 구원에 이르게 하는 하나님의 권능이기 때문이라. 먼저는 유대인에게요 또한 그리스인에게로다."]

 

[Ephesians 1:13 (KJV): "In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise," "그분 안에서 너희도 진리의 말씀 곧 너희의 구원의 복음을 들은 뒤에 믿었으며 믿은 뒤에 또한 약속의 저 거룩하신 영으로 봉인되었느니라."]

 

[Galatians 1:11-12 (KJV): "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." "그러나 형제들아, 내가 너희에게 확실히 알리노니 내가 선포한 복음은 사람을 따라 나지 아니하였느니라. 나는 그것을 사람에게서 받지도 아니하였고 배우지도 아니하였으며 오직 예수 그리스도의 계시로 받았느니라."]

 

5. Christ in You:

 

[Colossians 1:27 (KJV): "To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:" "하나님께서는 이방인들 가운데서 이 신비의 영광의 풍성함이 무엇인지 자신의 성도들에게 알리려 하셨는데 이 신비는 너희 안에 계신 그리스도시니 곧 영광의 소망이니라."]

 

[Galatians 2:20 (KJV): "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." "내가 그리스도와 함께 십자가에 못 박혀 있으나 그럼에도 불구하고 사노라. 그러나 내가 아니요 그리스도께서 내 안에 사시느니라. 나는 지금 내가 육체 안에서 사는 삶을, 나를 사랑하사 나를 위해 자신을 주신 하나님의 아들의 믿음으로 사노라."]

 

[Romans 8:10 (KJV): "And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness." "그리스도께서 너희 안에 계시면 몸은 죄로 인해 죽었으나 성령은 의로 인해 생명이니라."]

 

[2 Corinthians 13:5 (KJV): "Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?" "너희가 믿음 안에 있는지 너희 자신을 살펴보고 너희 자신을 입증하라. 예수 그리스도께서 너희 안에 계신 줄을 너희가 스스로 알지 못하느냐? 그렇지 않으면 너희는 버림받은 자니라."]

 

6. The Body of Christ:

 

[1 Corinthians 12:27 (KJV): "Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular." "이제 너희는 그리스도의 몸이요 개별적으로 지체니라."]

 

[Ephesians 1:22-23 (KJV): "And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all." "또 모든 것을 그분의 발아래 두시고 그분을 모든 것 위에 머리가 되게 하사 교회를 위해 주셨느니라. 교회는 그분의 몸이니 곧 모든 것 안에서 모든 것을 충만하게 하시는 분의 충만이니라."]

 

[Colossians 1:18 (KJV): "And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence." "그분은 몸 곧 교회의 머리시니라. 그분께서 시작이시요, 죽은 자들로부터 처음 나신 분이시니 이것은 그분께서 모든 것에서 으뜸이 되려 하심이라."]

 

[Romans 12:5 (KJV): "So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another." "이와 같이 우리 많은 사람이 그리스도 안에서 한 몸이 되어 서로 지체가 되었느니라."]

 

7. The Bride of Christ:

 

[Ephesians 5:31-32 (KJV): "For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church." "이런 까닭에 남자가 자기 아버지와 어머니를 떠나 자기 아내와 결합하여 그들 둘이 한 육체가 될지니라. 이것은 큰 신비니라. 그러나 내가 그리스도와 교회에 대하여 말하노라."]

 

[2 Corinthians 11:2 (KJV): "For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ." "내가 하나님의 질투로 너희에게 질투하노니 이는 내가 너희를 한 남편에게 정혼시켰나니 이는 순결한 처녀로 너희를 그리스도께 바치려 함이라."]

 

[Revelation 19:7 (KJV): "Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready." "기뻐하고 즐거워하며 그분께 존귀를 돌리세. 어린양의 혼인 잔치가 이르렀고 그의 아내가 자신을 예비하였도다."]

 

[Revelation 21:9 (KJV): "And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife." "마지막 일곱 재앙을 가득 담은 일곱 병을 가진 일곱 천사 중 하나가 나아와 내게 말하여 이르되, 이리로 오라. 내가 신부 곧 어린양의 아내를 네게 보여 주리라, 하고"]

 

8. The Rapture:

 

[1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 (KJV): "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord." "주께서 호령과 천사장의 음성과 하나님의 나팔 소리와 함께 친히 하늘로부터 내려오시리니 그리스도 안에서 죽은 자들이 먼저 일어나고 그 뒤에 살아서 남아 있는 우리가 그들과 함께 구름 속으로 채여 올라가 공중에서 주를 만나리라. 그리하여 우리가 항상 주와 함께 있으리라."]

 

[1 Corinthians 15:51-52 (KJV): "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." "보라, 내가 너희에게 한 가지 신비를 보이노니 우리가 다 잠자지 아니하고 마지막 나팔 소리에 눈 깜짝할 사이에 순식간에 다 변화되리라. 나팔 소리가 나매 죽은 자들이 썩지 아니할 것으로 일으켜지며 우리도 변화되리라."]

 

[Philippians 3:20-21 (KJV): "For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself." "우리의 시민권은 하늘에 있느니라. 거기로부터 또한 우리가 구원자 주 예수 그리스도를 기다리노니 그가 만물을 자기에게 복종시키는 그 능력의 역사로 우리의 천한 몸을 자기의 영광스러운 몸과 같이 변화시키시리라."]

 

[Titus 2:13 (KJV): "Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;" "저 복된 소망과 위대하신 하나님 곧 우리의 구원자 예수 그리스도의 영광스러운 나타나심을 기다리게 하셨느니라."]

 

9. The Mystery of Iniquity:

 

[2 Thessalonians 2:7-8 (KJV): "For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:" "불법의 신비가 이미 일하고 있으나 지금 막는 자가 길에서 옮겨질 때까지 막으리라. 그 때에 저 사악한 자가 나타나리니 주께서 자기 입의 영으로 그를 소멸하시며 친히 오실 때의 광채로 그를 멸하시리라."]

 

[1 John 2:18 (KJV): "Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time." "어린 자들아, 지금이 마지막 때라. 적그리스도가 오리라 함을 너희가 들은 것과 같이 지금도 많은 적그리스도가 일어났으니 이로써 우리가 마지막 때인 줄 아노라."]

 

[Daniel 9:27 (KJV): "And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate." "그가 많은 사람과 더불어 한 이레 동안 언약을 확정하리니 그가 그 이레의 한중간에 희생물과 봉헌물을 그치게 하며 또 가증한 것들로 뒤덮어 황폐하게 하리니 심지어 완전히 끝날 때까지 이르리라. 작정된 그것이 황폐한 자에게 쏟아지리라."]

 

[Revelation 13:5-7 (KJV): "And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations." "또 그가 큰 일들과 신성모독을 말하는 입을 받았고 마흔두 달 동안 활동할 권세를 받았더라. 그가 입을 벌려 하나님을 대적하여 신성모독하되 그분의 이름과 그분의 성막과 하늘에 거하는 자들을 신성모독하더라. 또 그가 성도들과 전쟁하여 그들을 이기는 것을 허락받고 모든 족속과 언어와 민족을 다스리는 권세를 받았더라."]

 

10. Restoration of Israel:

 

[Romans 11:25-26 (KJV): "For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:" "형제들아, 너희가 스스로 지혜 있다 하지 않게 하기 위하여 이 신비를 너희가 모르기를 내가 원치 아니하노니 이 신비는 이방인의 충만한 수가 들어오기까지 이스라엘의 일부가 굳어졌다는 것이라. 그리하여 온 이스라엘이 구원을 받으리라. 이것은 기록된 바, 구원자가 시온에서 나와 야곱에게서 경건치 않은 것을 돌이키시겠고"]

 

[Jeremiah 31:31 (KJV): "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:" "주가 말하노라. 보라, 날들이 이르리니 내가 이스라엘의 집과 유다의 집과 새 언약을 맺으리라."]

 

[Ezekiel 37:21-22 (KJV): "And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:" "그들에게 이르기를, 주 하나님이 이같이 말하노라. 보라, 내가 이스라엘 자손을 그들이 간 민족들 가운데서 취하고 사방에서 그들을 모아 그들의 땅으로 데려가 이스라엘의 산들 위에서 그들을 한 민족으로 만들겠고 한 왕이 그들 모두의 왕이 되게 하리니 그들이 다시는 두 민족이 되지 아니하고 결코 다시는 두 왕국으로 나뉘지 아니하리라."]

 

[Zechariah 12:10 (KJV): "And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn." "내가 다윗의 집과 예루살렘 거민들 위에 은혜와 간구의 영을 부어 주리니 그들이 나 곧 자기들이 찌른 나를 바라보고 사람이 자기 외아들을 위하여 애곡하듯 그를 위하여 애곡하며 사람이 자기 첫아들을 위하여 슬퍼하듯 그를 위하여 쓰게 슬퍼하리로다."]

 

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이상으로 바울에게 계시된 7가지 신비에 대해 알아보았습니다. 이 신비들은 우리의 구원, 교회의 본질, 그리고 하나님의 미래 계획에 대한 중요한 통찰을 제공합니다. 이 진리들을 깊이 묵상하고 삶에 적용함으로써, 우리의 신앙이 더욱 견고해지고 하나님의 뜻을 더 잘 이해할 수 있기를 바랍니다. 여러분은 이 신비들 중 어떤 것이 가장 흥미롭고 의미 있게 다가왔나요? 댓글로 여러분의 생각을 나눠주세요. 다음 포스팅에서는 이 신비들 중 하나를 더 자세히 살펴보도록 하겠습니다. 함께 성경의 깊은 진리를 탐구해 나가는 여정에 동참해 주셔서 감사합니다!

 

 

 

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What God Revealed to Paul (THE 7 MYSTERIES GIVEN TO PAUL)

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(00:02) and welcome back to the cloud church I'm Robert breaker missionary evangelist of Spanish and english- speaking people we got a good message for you today something very very important something very few people preach on but something that is oh so important for us today this is something that the early Christians preached a lot on and as time went on um throughout the church history there's a lot of preaching on this but

(00:22) only in the last couple hundred years have people stopped preaching about this message and I think it's time we got back to the preaching the word of God so what I wanted to do today is preach you a message about what God revealed to Paul what God revealed unto Paul and we're going to look at what are called The Mysteries of the Bible God revealed some Mysteries to Paul because Paul is our Apostle now I'm not going to talk

(00:47) about the seven mysteries in the Bible I believe later I'll I'll begin a sermon series on the seven mysteries in the Bible and when we get to the to those we'll find that one of them was not revealed to Paul one of them was revealed to John the Apostle John but I just want to stick with what was revealed to Paul today so we're going to look at what God revealed unto Paul and let us remember where we are today

(01:11) here's Jesus Christ he died on the cross he was buried and rose again the third day according to the scriptures what we call the gospel 1 Corinthians 15 1-4 then the church started and then the church began to go on at the end of the church we have the Rapture so we today are in the church a time period a dispensation see our past sermons on dispensations and see the different dispensations in the Bible we're about

(01:34) right here we're at the very end of the church age waiting for the Rapture of Jesus Christ and oh is he coming soon we're seeing biblical prophecies fulfilled in front of our eyes daily things going on in Israel in the Middle East and Iraq and Iran and all these U different uh prophecies being fulfilled gigantic Army coming against Israel so we are in the very end of the church period and Jesus Christ is coming very

(02:02) soon now let us remember that when the book of Acts started and I just finished the message on understanding the book of Acts go to the cloud church.org go to past it's not under past sermons go to Bible studies and what we learned in the Bible is that when Jesus Christ started the church he used Peter to go out a lot and the early Apostles and what they were preaching is not the same thing that we preach today

(02:29) because over here here we have God choosing Paul and according to Romans 11 and: 13 the Bible says this is so important Paul tells us that he is the Apostle to the Gentiles and so we see Jesus Christ a Jew who said he came only to the lost sheep of the House of Israel and he sent out his early disciples to Jews but then Peter even went to some Gentiles as well so there are Jews and Gentiles in the church but because the nation of Israel

(03:02) rejected their Messiah God chose Paul to take the gospel of Salvation to the rest of the world and God chose Paul to show people how to be saved the gospel of course is 1 Corinthians 15 1-4 so there is a difference of the preaching of Peter and Paul now Peter eventually began to preach what Paul did which is salvation by salvation by grace through faith alone um Acts chapter 15 so when the church started all the emphasis was on who

(03:35) Jesus was go to the cloud church.org past sermons and look at the sermon on the difference between The Who and the what of Salvation because and we'll look at this this is actually one of the things that that God revealed un Paul is when the church started all the emphasis was to Jews and it was who Jesus was it was all about believing in the name of Jesus why because Jesus Christ was the Messiah of the

(04:01) Jews but then the emphasis went from who Jesus is and trusting in who he was which by the way he is also God manifest In the Flesh the emphasis became trust in what Jesus did and what did Jesus do he's the gospel what Jesus did is the gospel it's the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ and over here there was Heavy influence in water baptism you had to be baptized in water to receive the Holy Spirit if you were a

(04:29) Jew but as the book of Acts continued we see people getting saved without being baptized in water now let me rephrase that so that people understand correctly they were baptized in water to receive the Holy Spirit we receive the Holy Spirit today not by water baptism but by faith in the gospel you can find that in Ephesians 1:13 at the very moment that a person trusts the gospel today they are baptized with the Holy Spirit of God so

(05:00) with that stated a little bit of a of a summary but also an introduction to what we'll look at today what God revealed unto Paul and I found seven things in the Bible that God revealed unto Paul seven things seven Mysteries that God revealed unto Paul now let's go to 1 Corinthians chapter 4 and look at verses 1-2 and again this is the Apostle Paul speaking and the Bible says let a man so account of us as of the Ministers of

(05:29) Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God verse two moreover it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful so according to this we are stewards of the Gospel excuse me of the Mysteries and we're to be found faithful preaching the Mysteries m s t e r y s Mysteries that God revealed unto Paul so let ask you something are you preaching the Mysteries uh there's a lot of preachers that would look at this sermon and say

(06:05) what what is he talking about what are those Mysteries well we as Christians are to be found faithful being stewards of these Mysteries preaching them to everybody well how can we do that if we don't know what they are a lot of preachers have no idea what the Mysteries are that God revealed un Paul so we're going to look at those today the Mysteries revealed into the Paul and I have to say this before I continue

(06:27) this is not the Mysteries of the pagans years and years and thousands of years ago the devil as he does he tries to imitate everything God does the devil set up a pagan system of religion and you go and you look at that Pagan system of religion and it's called the Pagan Mysteries it's called the um elisium Mysteries it's the mystery religion there's a good book called Babylon

(06:53) mystery religion and all throughout history the pagans have taught oh there's certain mystery that you can only learn if you're illuminated and they believe that the illumination comes from Guess Who Lucifer all those fake mystery religions eventually lead you to Lucifer and they claim that Lucifer is the savior the lightbearer the great architect well those are false Mysteries those are imitation Mysteries of the true

(07:23) mysteries in the Bible and I will not be teaching the false Mysteries I'm teaching only the true Mysteries that God revealed for us today from the Bible the word of God this isn't New Age this isn't rosac crucian this isn't masonry this is just Bible Bible Mysteries so if you're in those false Mysteries they're going to lead you to a different place but these Mysteries the true mysteries

(07:47) of God will lead you to Jesus Christ for salvation so that's something so important to say because we've seen a rise in the world of luciferianism people following Lucifer and they believe in what they call the luciferian doctrine and the the The Madam laty and the Mysteries the old Pagan mysteries of pergamos and all that we're not interested in those Mysteries we're interested in the true Mysteries that

(08:14) God himself gave to us the church so let's begin what is the first mystery well the first mystery and I found seven Mysteries that God revealed into Paul is the mystery of the Gospel now this is an interesting thing here and like I said you probably won't hear this preached on Sunday morning in your church many ministers have began preaching something other than the Bible and and many churches today try to follow Peter when

(08:42) the Bible tells us we should follow Paul why does the bible tell us to follow Paul because God revealed to him the mysteries for the church age for us today so don't get messed up in following Peter because Peter was preaching to Jews a a gospel to the Jews and he got straightened out and in Acts 15 he says you know what it's no water no longer water it's we believe you're saved by grace through faith and that's

(09:06) how we're saved today by faith not by works so we can't follow Peter we've got to follow the Apostle Paul our Apostle so let's quickly look at this and I wish I could go into detail on every one of these Mysteries but I've only got about an hour's time so I'm going to go as quickly as I can through these Mysteries but the first one is the mystery of the

(09:26) gospel and hopefully later I'll preach a series on the seven mysteries in the Bible and they'll be a little bit different because one of them won't be one revealed to Paul one of them will be one revealed unto John as well and but a lot of them overlap with what I'm teaching today and we will go into detail and I'll take in one U sermon message on each one of those Mysteries

(09:47) so we will go more in detail into in detail later but now I'm just mentioning the Mysteries that God revealed unto Paul so Romans 16: 25 Romans 16:25 the Bible says now that him that is of power to establish you according to my gospel my gospel the Apostle Paul is saying and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery which was Kept Secret since the world began but is now made manifest and by the

(10:14) scriptures of the prophets according to the Commandment of the Everlasting God made known to All Nations for The Obedience of Faith so this mystery is talking about the gospel that God revealed un Paul to go into all nations to preach it's a mystery that was Kept Secret since the the world begin go to Galatians chapter 1 and I apologize if I'm going very quickly but this is a u very long message got seven points so I

(10:40) need to go as quickly as I can but I do want to mention as quickly as possible every one of the seven Mysteries there might be more I've heard me many people say well I found 10 well I found 12 well these are the seven most important Mysteries that God gave to Paul that we should be preaching today and faithful steward of these Mysteries so Galatians 1 verse 9-12 we read this Galatians 1 verse 9-2 and as we be said before so I say

(11:11) now again if any man preach any other gospel new than that you than that which you have received let him be ACC cursed for do I now persuade men or God or do I speak to please men for if I yet pleased men I should not be the servant of Christ but I certify you Brethren verse 11 that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man look at that neither was I received it of man neither was I taught it but by the revelation of Jesus

(11:37) Christ so he says by the revelation of Jesus Christ God revealed unto me the gospel what is the gospel 1 Corinthians 15 veres 1-4 that is the gospel and it is that Christ died for our sins was buried and rose again the third day according to the script scures so the gospel is the death burial the resurrection of Jesus Christ but it says in the passage whereby you are saved so you are saved by trusting the death

(12:08) barriel and resurrection of Jesus Christ otherwise known as the blood atonement of Jesus Christ so when you're trusting the death barrel and resurrection of Jesus Christ you're trusting the blood of Jesus Christ so it's trusting in what Jesus did here on the cross so the gospel for us today isn't what it was for the early Jews trusting who Jesus is trusting in Him as the Messiah it is

(12:28) trusting what Jesus did the sacrificial blood atonement our Lamb slain for us for our sins and our plag it's trusting what Jesus did um I said I'd read verse 12 and I did so let's go to Galatians chap 2: 1-5 Galatians 2 verse 1 and then 14 years after I went up again Jerusalem to Jerusalem with Barnabas and took Titus with me also and I went up by Revelation here's a revelation God revealed unto

(12:55) Paul hey go to Jerusalem and communicated unto the them that gospel now when he says he went to Jerusalem where's that that's where Peter and the early apostles were he said I went up to Jerusalem he said I communicated unto them that gospel we have gone verse by verse through the book of Galatians as we're going through our verse by verse Bible study and it talks about that and in Acts chapter 15 we find Paul going to

(13:22) Jerusalem and talking with the early church and that's when we see Peter stand up and Peter says we believe that they Gentiles shall be saved by grace even as we grace through faith so Paul was revealed this gospel and he took that gospel to the early Apostles and so the early Apostles realized okay no longer do we preach to Jews uh trust in the name of Jesus and get baptized in water now we preach to the Jews Jesus

(13:48) Christ the lamb slain before the foundation of the world Jesus Christ death barel Resurrection for your sins and that's what saves you is trusting what he did not doing something something yourself so you see how according to the Bible when the church began it would begin by preaching a different message to Jews but yet when Peter was preaching he was saying this same Jesus that you crucified and you

(14:11) killed that rose again but he was preaching the death barrel and Resurrection as a murder indictment he was saying you guys killed that guy well that guy is the Messiah so trust him and then be baptized in water so there were two different messages beginning in the church but Paul was the one to whom God revealed now this is the gospel and this is what we preach and this verse we just read Paul says I took that to the early

(14:34) Apostles they accepted it and began to preach it as well let's read it again chapter 2 and verse two of Galatians and I went up by Revelation and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles but privately them which were of reputation lest by any means I should run or had run in vain and then he says but neither Titus who was with me and and then on and on and on but look at verse four and that

(14:57) because the false Brethren unaware is brought in who came in privil to spy out our Liberty which we have in Christ Jesus that they might bring us into bondage verse 5 to whom we gave place by subjection know not for an hour that the truth of the Gospel might continue with you so he's saying look this is what God told me to preach he said I took it to them by revelation God revealed to me take this to them and tell the early

(15:23) Apostles that that's what's to preach and that's what they preached I don't know if this helps but I see a line in my Bible from verse 5 all the way across to verse 14 and in verse 14 it says but when I saw that they walk not uprightly according to the truth of the Gospel I said unto Peter before them all if thou being a Jew livest after the manner of the Gentiles and not as the Jews Why

(15:42) compell Us thou the Gentiles to live as the Jews so that's even more proof that it's Paul told Peter this is what God Said to preach God revealed that to me that this is the gospel it's all about what Jesus did we need to preach that and he chewed Peter out because Peter was being a hypocrite and not walking uprightly according to the truth of this gospel so that's the revelation of the

(16:08) Gospel it's the difference between who versus what and it's God choosing Peter to be our Apostle and saying now excuse me CH choosing Paul to be our Apostle and God said Paul this is why I died on the cross I died for the Jews in order to come back and set up my kingdom but the Jewish Nation rejected me so now I reveal to you this is what I want preached until I come back and begin working with the Jews again and what is

(16:36) it 1 Corinthians 15 1-4 um I can't remember right now the actual verse but there's a verse I believe it's well is it Romans 2:16 let me look it up the verse in which Paul says that we will be judged according to that gospel that God revealed to him that's it Romans 21:16 Romans 2:16 in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my did you hear what he

(17:03) said my gospel we are only saved today through this gospel that's the only way to have salvation and that was revealed to Paul and Paul revealed that to the early Apostles they all got on the same page and they all went out in the whole world preaching that now yes Peter preached more to Jews but he also preached to Cornelius a gentile Paul preached more to Gentiles but everywhere he went Paul went to the Jew first and also the Greek

(17:31) he went to the synagogue so this is the gospel for us today can you see how important that mystery is how many preachers actually preach this gospel for salvation well let's go look at a couple more things about this 1 Peter chapter 1 and I'm going to go a little bit more in detail in this one than the others but in 1 Peter chap 1: 10 through2 look what Peter says in 1 Peter 1: 10-12 he says of

(17:59) which salvation because that's what the gospel is it's salvation for us today of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently that prophesied of the grace that should come unto you that's what we're in right now we're saved by grace not by water baptism not by works not by the law we're sa by grace and it says that should come un you searching what or

(18:19) what manner of time the spirit of Christ which was in them did testify when it testified did signify when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow thereafter to whom it was revealed that not unto themselves but unto us they did Minister the things which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven which things the Angels

(18:40) desire to look unto look at what Peter says he says this gospel is revealed unto us but we just read Paul and Paul said no no no that that mystery of the Gospel was revealed to me so how could Peter say that that 1 Corinthians 15 1-4 was revealed to him the only way he could say that is God revealed it to Paul and as we read in Galatians Paul took it to the early Apostles and in chapter 15 and verse 11 of Acts Peter

(19:07) says we believe that we are saved by grace through faith without works uh 1 Peter 1:1 18-20 for as much as you know that we're not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation received by Traditions from your fathers but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot who verily was for ordained before the foundation of the world but was manifest in these last

(19:29) times for you well how was Jesus manifest he was revealed to Paul that the death bual and Resurrection is what saves us and we trust in that we trust in what Jesus did and that's how we were saved today so that's the mystery of the gospel and it was revealed to Paul and Paul took it to the church in Jerusalem and said this is what God told me to tell you to preach to the lost both Jew and Gentile

(20:01) alike so yes Peter began preaching something different and Paul told him to preach this but God did straighten out the early Apostles and tell them to preach something else preach the gospel God revealed to Paul to preach 1 Corinthians 15 1-4 now what's the next mystery well the second mystery still has to do with salvation but it has to do with what happens after salvation and the second mystery that God revealed

(20:27) unto Paul is the mystery of being in Christ and Christ being in you so let's put it as this as Christ in you Christ in you but it's also has to do with you being in Christ as well so this is another thing that God revealed unto Paul and what did he reveal unto Paul he revealed what happens after you get saved after you trust this gospel what happens well let's go to Colossians chapter 1: 18 and

(21:03) it says he is the head of the body the church that's Jesus Christ who is the beginning the first boor from the dead and in all things he might have the preeminence for it pleased the father that in him should all fullness dwell and having made peace through the blood of his cross by him to reconcile all things unto himself by him I say whether they be things in Earth or things in heaven and you that were sometimes

(21:23) alienated and enemies in your mind by Wicked Works yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through the death to present you holy and unblamable unprovable in his sight through his body in his death he he produced What's called the body of Christ continue reading here if you continue in the faith grounded and settled and be not moved away from the hope of the Gospel which you have heard and which was

(21:46) preached to every creature which is under Heaven whereof I Paul and made a minister now let's uh look at verse 24 who now rejoice in my sufferings for you and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake which is the church verse 25 whereof I am made a minister according to the dispensation of God which is given to me to you word um which is given to me to fulfill the

(22:12) word of God now verse 26 even the mystery which has been hid from ages and from Generations but is now made manifest unto his Saints and look at the colon there's two dots after verse 26 that means 27 it's going to tell us what the mystery is this is the definition of the mystery to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles which is Christ in

(22:36) you the hope of glory so this is being in Christ or having Christ in you and this is what's called the body of Christ the body of Christ is all safe people it began at the cross you can go to Bible studies and uh we've just finished a sermon there on when did the body of Christ start there's another one called when of the church start these people here Peter and these early Christians when they were saved they

(23:04) received the Holy Spirit they were baptized in the holy spirit with the Holy Spirit when you get saved today you get baptized in the Holy Spirit Well when you're baptized in the Holy Spirit you become part of the body of Christ so these people back here the Jews who were trusting in who Jesus was they got into the body trusting in who Jesus is but we get in the body trusting in what Jesus did but we're all in What's called the

(23:29) body of Christ and that's a mystery that God revealed unto Paul it says Christ in you when you're saved Jesus Christ comes into you and dwells inside of you and lives in you but even though he's in you you are in him you're in his body the body of Christ and the body of Christ will leave at the Rapture so the body of Christ is all Sav people who come to Jesus Christ after he died and trusted him as

(24:00) Savior uh I I mentioned Ephesians 13 earlier but we're so close let's go to Ephesians 13 and look at how we are saved today Ephesians 1: 13 says whom you also trusted after that you heard the word of Truth The Gospel of your salvation in whom also after that you believed you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of Promise so we are sealed with the Holy Spirit the moment We Believe according to the gospel so first

(24:28) you hear the gospel you believe the gospel and when you do you're sealed with the Holy Spirit and when you become sealed with the holy spirit of God you become part of the body of Christ so you're in Christ but Christ is in you let's go to Romans chapter 8 Romans chapter 8 like I said I don't want to go too much in detail because there's so many different Mysteries we have to

(24:50) cover in this one session but Romans 8: 9-1 look what it says but you not in the flesh but in the spirit if so be that the spirit of God dwell in you right 8 n yep now if any man have not the spirit of Christ he is none of these and if Christ be in you the body is dead because of sin but the spirit is life because of righteousness but if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you he that raised up

(25:14) Christ from the dead shall also Quicken your mortal bodies by his spirit that dwelleth in you so the holy spirit is the spirit of Christ so Christ dwells in us that's the mystery God revealed but he dwells in Us in the form of of the holy spirit all throughout this Old Testament period the Holy Spirit could come and go and come and go and come and go upon people that's how we got the Old Testament the holy spirit of God came

(25:39) and spoke through the lips of those early prophets so it was God the holy spirit in them speaking his word but today when we get saved we get the Holy Spirit and it can't leave it says we're sealed till the day of redemption Ephesians 4:30 and that was a mystery that God revealed to Paul that when you get saved in the church age through trusting this gospel you are sealed with the holy spirit of God that means the

(26:05) holy spirit of God is inside you and it cannot leave it's there forever look at 1 Corinthians 3:16 for who hath known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct them we have the mind of Christ oh I'm sorry I'm in 2:16 3:16 3:16 Says know ye not that you are the temple of God and the spirit of God dwelleth in you so when you're saved you have the Holy SP spirit of God dwelling inside of you and how are you saved

(26:31) through this gospel so if you've never heard the gospel how can you believe in something you've never heard we've looked at verses that say you have to hear the gospel to believe the gospel and when you believe the gospel is when you're sealed with the holy spirit so if you don't know the gospel never heard the gospel not trusted in the gospel then you're not saved so you have to be

(26:49) saved by hearing the gospel first understanding and believing it under the cloud church.org look up past sermons and look up the sermon the order of salvation because the Bible clearly teaches that Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God and you've got to hear the gospel before you can believe the gospel to be saved I can talk a lot more about that but let me continue to the next one so this is the

(27:12) mystery of being in Christ or Christ in you but the next one we're going to look at is the mystery of the body of Christ so I'm going to split those into two different ones I kind of got ahead of myself a little bit this is the mystery of having Christ in you now we're going to look at the mystery of being in Christ or in the body of Christ let's look at that um Ephesians chapter 3 Ephesians chapter 3

(27:39) so I kind of lump these two together but they are kind of distinct and different first God revealed the gospel to Paul then he revealed after you're saved this is what happens the Holy Spirit dwells in you but God also revealed to Paul this mystery that there is a thing called the body of Christ and all saved people are a part of the Christ body so we are in Christ or in his body Ephesians chapter 3 and verse

(28:07) 29 or excuse me verse 2-9 Ephesians 3:2 if you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you were how that by Revelation he God made known unto me the mystery so Paul says by revelation God revealed unto him a mystery what is it well he continues in verse three it ends in a semicolon as I wrote a four and few words but then he tells us what the mystery is verse four whereby when you

(28:36) read you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ which in other Ages was not made known Unto the Sons of man as is now revealed unto His Holy Apostles and Prophets by the spirit now Paul said God revealed this mystery to me Paul but he says now it's revealed to the Holy Apostles and Prophets how whatever God revealed to Paul he took it straight back there to them and said look this is what God Said and they

(29:00) accepted it you've got to remember that that's why Paul can say it's revealed to the Holy Apostles and Prophets but it was revealed through Paul to them now in Ephesians chapter 3 in verse five which in other Ages were not made known Unto the Sons of men as it is now revealed unto His Holy Apostles and Prophets by the spirit semicolon now here is the definition of this m mystery that the Gentiles should

(29:27) be f fellow heirs and of the same body and partakers of his promise by Christ in uh by Christ in Christ excuse me by the gospel so by the gospel that God revealed to Paul the Gentiles can be fellow Hees into the same body the body of Christ well to be a fellow Heir means someone must have been an heir before who are The Heirs back here well before God revealed unto Paul the gospel there were people getting saved they were all

(29:56) Jews and guess what they were HS to Salvation they had eternal life how did they get that eternal life believing who Jesus was and when they did they got the Holy Spirit just like we get the Holy Spirit today but with Paul there was a change no longer are we getting the Holy Spirit by water baptism now to be saved receive the Holy Spirit and become part of the body of Christ and have Christ in you it's by trusting the gospel so fellow

(30:22) airs so there are heirs here and there's heirs here so the body of Christ started at the cross go to cloud church.org look up Bible study um videos and we have one there called when did the body of Christ start and it shows without any shout of a doubt that it had to have started with Jesus Christ probably no one in it until Pentecost but no one knew anything about it until Paul because God revealed into

(30:44) to Paul look I set up a body by my death on the cross and I put people in my body as it pleased me and today the only way into my body is by trusting the gospel and then you become a fellow with the ones that were already in the body so that's the body of Christ now did I read all the way down to verse 9 well let's read starting at verse 7 wherefore I was made a minister according to the gift of the grace of

(31:14) God given unto me by the effectual working of his power unto me whom am less than least of all the saints is this Grace given that I should preach among the Gentiles The unsearchable Riches of Christ and to make all men look at verse n see what is the fellowship of the mystery which was from the beginning of the world and hath been hid in God who created All Things by Jesus Christ so this was a mystery that God hid from the foundation of the world

(31:38) and God did not choose to reveal this mystery even though it was taking place there were people being saved into the body until Paul and then God said Paul I'm going to tell you about something called the body of Christ that I've set up and I'm going to tell you how to get into it for the people that get saved later but there were some people back here that I put into it so the people

(31:57) that get saved this preaching of the Gospel will'll be fellow heirs fellow HS Ephesians chap 1:22 like I said I could just go into all these and take an hour on each one of these but uh first Ephesians 1:22 and it says and hath put all things under his feet talking about Jesus and gave them to be the head over all things to the church which is his body the fullness of him that filth all and all so the body is the church and the church

(32:23) is the body and Jesus Christ is the head of the body Colossians 1:8 18 tells us what the body is Colossians 1:18 says and he is the head of the body comma the church who is the beginning the firstborn from the dead and in him and in him all things he might have the preeminence on 1 Corinthians 12 1 Corinthians 12 tells us how do you get into the body Jews and Gentiles were put into the body in different ways until

(32:51) Paul began preaching the go right gospel that God revealed unto him the Jews were getting into the body a different way and then they all got on the same page so we today can only get in the body One Way 1 Corinthians 12 verse 12 and 13 for as the body is one and hath many members and all the members of that one body being many are one body so also is Christ for by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body whether we be

(33:15) Jews or Gentiles whether it be Bond or free and have been all made to drink into one spirit so by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body who is the all Jews and Gentiles alike when they were baptized with the Holy Spirit became part of the body of Christ but as we've seen the book of Acts is a transition book it's a change and there was a a a progression that took place where the Jewish Nation could still have

(33:42) received their Messiah and he would have come back and set up his kingdom that happened at the end of Acts chapter 7 and then Steven was stoned and Steven says I see Jesus Christ standing on the right hand of God Jesus Christ was standing up ready to come back and set up his kingdom had the Jews accepted him but they didn't so Jesus Christ sat back down and God said now to the Gentiles so these Jews got into the body of Christ

(34:08) by being baptized but they got in by believing who Jesus was and water baptism gave them the Holy Spirit we are not saved that way today we are saved through what God revealed unto Paul this gospel and the only way for us Gentiles to get into that body of Christ is by trusting the gospel and there are many many other vers versus uh since we're real close let's just go back to Ephesians chapter 2 real fast Ephesians

(34:33) 2:16 look what it says and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross having slain the enmity thereby one body he said reconcile both by one body in one body here's the body of Christ offered up for us shed his blood for us that he might reconcile both into one body who's the both Jews and gentiles and the only way for us to be safe today is follow Paul our Apostle the gospel God revealed

(35:03) unto him when we do it's revealed through Paul that God puts us in the body of Christ but we are in Christ and Christ is in us so that's amazing that's amazing what God revealed unto Paul look Ephesians chapter 4 since we're in Ephesians go to Ephesians 4 verse 4 One Lord One Faith one baptism uh excuse me I read verse 5 verse four there is one body one one body one body and one

(35:30) Spirit even as you are called in one hope of your calling so there is one body the body of Christ and it's made up of both Jew and Gentile we that get in the body through the preaching of Paul are fellow airs with these folks who are also in the body of Christ because that's the church the church is the body um verse 11 is talking about in context the body in verse 11 says and he gave some Apostles and some prophets and some

(35:57) evangelists and some pastors and teachers what for what for verse 12 for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ so it starts out he says he gave some Apostles where were the apostles right here right after Jesus and some prophets you look at the book of Acts there was a guy named agabus and the Bible says he was a prophet he's talking about this time

(36:20) when the church started these Jews and it says they were for well it says and some evangelist Phil Phil is called an evangelist Philip shows up in chapter 8 of Acts all before Paul and it says for the edifying of the body of Christ so the body of Christ must have began but they were saved into it differently until Paul and God revealed to Paul no this is the way I want people saved you see here they had to trust who I was

(36:47) because there was still the possibility that I could come back but the Jewish Nation rejected Jesus so God said okay all save the Same by believing in what I did trusting in the go gospel that I revealed to Paul do you see how important Paul is go to cloud church.org and look up past sermons I believe there's one called the difference between Peter's Ministry and Paul's Ministry and and the importance of

(37:09) following Paul um most churches nowadays they do not understand the Mysteries and you can't be saved until you understand the Mysteries because the number one mystery is the gospel and you can't get saved unless you trust this gospel how important is the Apostle Paul well next is the mystery of the Bride of Christ and that we'll find in Ephesians 5 which by the way the bride is the body and the body is the bride a

(37:39) lot of preachers I know that don't know about this that don't preach the body of Christ go to Ephesians 5:22 Ephesians 5:22 says wives submit yourselves to your own husbands unto the Lord for the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church and he is the savior of the body so the Bible's saying that as you have Christ in the church it says that the Christ is the

(38:06) type the of the husband or the head just as the man is the head of the wife and the church is the type of the wife so as the woman the wife is to submit to her husband so the church should submit to Christ so what does that mean that means that the church is a type of a bride in the marriage relationship ship so the church is the bride of Christ there's a lot more that I could read here but let me skip down to verse 32 he's talking

(38:37) about well no no no no let me back up to verse 27 that he might present it to himself a glorious Church who is he talking about the wife the bride not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that it should be holy and without blemish verse 32 now this is a great mystery but I speak concerning Christ and and the church so Christ and the church is a type of a head of a man with his wife which means the bride is the

(39:06) church so there are many many things I'd like to go into here I could probably take a whole hour on this um but I'll try to go quickly go to 2 Corinthians chapter 11 and verse 2 in 2 Corinthians chap 11 and verse 2 look what the Bible says the Apostle Paul says to us that are saved the church the body of Christ for I am jealous over you with a Godly jealousy for I have espoused you to one husband that I may present you as a

(39:33) chased virgin to Christ so who is the husband of the body of Christ us saved people it's Christ so what does that make the church his bride I mean it's that simple now there's a lot more here you can tell I've got from here down is just verses to cover this but I'm afraid if I continue won't be able to finish this sermon so let me uh just quickly skip ahead to Revelation

(40:00) chap 2 Revelation Chapter 2 as it's talking about the bride and it says it's the Lamb's wife well who is Jesus Christ he's the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world and the Bible says that when you're buried you're one flesh you're one body so when you come to Jesus and accept Jesus as your savior you're part of the one body you're part

(40:21) of his body he's in you and you are in him you're one with him just as a wife is one with her husband the body of Christ is one with the lamb and who is the Lamb Jesus Christ so in Revelation 2: 1 and 2 look at this let's see Revelation 21 excuse me Revelation 21 verse 1 and 2 and I saw a new Heaven and new earth for the first Heaven and the first Earth were passed away and there was no more

(40:48) sea and I John saw the holy city New Jerusalem coming down from God out of Heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband so there is a bride and the bride is called New Jerusalem so maybe that's why in Galatians 4: 25 and 26 the Apostle Paul says that Jerusalem above New Jerusalem coming out of Heaven is the mother of us all and like I said we don't have much time to go into this but let's look at uh chapter 21 where we are

(41:19) and look at verse 9 and there came unto me one of the Seven Angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues and talked with me saying come hither I will show Thee the bride the Lamb's wife the lamb has a wife the lamb is Jesus who's his wife well he is the husband so what's that make us the wife Ephesians chapter 5 now Revelation 219 says I will show Thee the bride the Lamb's wife and he

(41:46) Carri him away in the spirit to great and high mountain and showed me that great City the holy Jerusalem descending Out of Heaven from God and then it says on and on and on and I don't have time to read it but that the B bride of Christ is like a city is like a city so maybe that's why in 2 Corinthians 5 1-2 it talks about the the bride of Christ or or the church being a building of God a house Heavenly in the heavens that's

(42:11) why the Apostle Paul says our house which is from Heaven Ephesians chapter 2 talks a lot about the household of God and the foundation the building the Holy Temple builded together so the Bible says the body of Christ is like a building that God built together and it's a city that comes down from Heaven someday well lot more that I could say about that maybe someday I'll make a video on who is the bride of Christ and

(42:34) devote it completely to that so we have the mystery of the bride of Christ who is the bride of Christ the church now we have the mystery of the Rapture now that is found in two places and it's something that God revealed unto Paul and do you do you see what's going on everything God revealed to Paul it all happens after the cross so even the cross was a mystery I just read in Corinthians had the had the

(43:02) princes of this world known they would not have crucified the L of Glory they didn't know that when Jesus died on the cross he was going to rise again had Satan known that he would not have killed Jesus Christ so from then on we have Mysteries revealed many of them and guess who they're being revealed to Paul and then Paul is revealing them to the early Apostles why is Paul so important why didn't God reveal these Mysteries to

(43:25) Peter well like I told told you there was a period here which was a transition in which the Jews could have accepted Jesus and this parenthesis period could not have happened had the Jewish Nation accepted Jesus he would have come right down and set up his Millennial Kingdom right there might have been seven years of tribulation first because that did have to happen according to Daniel so there was an opportunity for these Jews

(43:49) to accept their Messiah so you see why God waited to reveal things until Paul till God showed for sure it set in stone the Jews will not accept me so now the gospel is for Jew and Gentile alike so these things were revealed after Jesus and Paul was so important so let's go to 1 Corinthians chapter 15 and this is what we're talking about the mystery of the Rapture 1 Corinthians 15 verse 50 now I say Brethren that

(44:18) flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God neither does corruption inherit incorruption verse 51 behold I show you a mystery hm God revealed this to Paul we shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed in a moment in a twinkling of eye at the last Trump for the Trump shall sound and the dead shall be raised Incorruptible we shall be changed for this corruption corruptible must put on incorruption and this Mortal

(44:38) sh shall must put on immortality so when this corruption shall have put on incorruption and this Mortal shall have put on immortality then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written death is swallowed up in Victory oh death where is thy sting o grave where is thy Victory The Sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law but thanks be to God which giveth with us to the victory through our Lord Jesus

(44:58) Christ so this verse here these verses are talking about the Rapture the time in which when Jesus Christ comes back we get a glorified body and we're changed would love to go into that more detail but got to hurry got to hurry got to get these seven Mysteries out there 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 you see how important these Mysteries are without these Mysteries revealed to Paul we know nothing about anything we don't even

(45:24) know how to get saved without these Mysteries revealed to Paul we don't know that we're in the body of Christ we don't know that we have the Holy Spirit unless this is revealed to Paul we don't even know that we have a blessed hope in the future there's some people that say well we don't follow Paul a lot of the Methodist people they they look at people like me and say well you're too

(45:44) Pauline no I'm just a Bible believer and I realize that God gave us the books of Romans through philimon and that's the heart of New Testament Doctrine because it's all about the Mysteries God revealed unto Paul and those are for us today for salvation 1 Corinthians chapter 4 I'm Excuse Me 1 Thessalonians chap 4: 13 but I would not have you ignorant Brethren concerning them which

(46:06) are asleep and you sorrow not even as others which have no hope for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him those who die during the church age their bodies down here but their souls in heaven and guess what when Jesus comes at the Rapture he's bringing their souls with them and their B shall reunite and they'll have a glorified body so the Rapture is a time

(46:28) in which we to get our glorified bodies um verse 14 for this we say unto you by the word of God that we which are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep for the Lord himself should descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel with the Trump of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first therefore um excuse me then we which are alive and remain shall be

(46:52) caught up together with them in the crowds to meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord wherefore come for one another with these words so this also applies to the Rapture but 1 Corinthians 15 we saw the word mystery so the mystery of the Rapture must move on must move on the next one is the mystery of iniquity which is also the mystery that talks about the Antichrist which we know will come in

(47:19) this period called the tribulation then Jesus will return at the battle of Armageddon and Rule and Reign for a thousand years in the millennium so this seven years this time period is when the Antichrist will come but we're told in first John that there are many antichrists and there's the spirit of antichrist so even all throughout this time there is a spirit of antichrist but there is one Antichrist that will

(47:45) come in the future so this is an interesting mystery let's go to Second Thessalonians chapter 2 you see there are many antichrists but one Antichrist that will rule in in the tribulation period but there are many antichrists plural many people who are against Christ and they're that way because they're denom demonically led by evil spirits 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 and verse 7-9 let's see I'm in first if I can find

(48:19) it 2 Thessalonians 2 7-9 Paul says for the mystery of iniquity doth already work so the mystery of iniquity is already working Paul says in the day he lived so from where Paul is living till today there is a spirit of antichrist that is against anything and everything that God wants and it says the mystery of iniquity that all already work only he who now lth will let until he be taken out of the way and then shall that

(48:47) Wicked be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders the Bible teaches that after the Rapture the Antichrist will come in and according to the Bible there's one week remaining so there's 3 and 1/2 years here and three and 1/2 years here and during that time

(49:11) the Antichrist will be killed but he will come back to life after three days just like Jesus Satan always imitates everything God does and that Antichrist will come back to life and according to the Bible he'll go and he'll sit down in Jerusalem on The Mercy Seat on the throne well actually on the Ark of the Covenant and say I am God and the world will believe him and many people will follow him because he comes on in with

(49:39) signs and wonders but guess what he will be defeated when Jesus Christ returns at the battle of Armageddon so the Bible has a lot to say about the future and about prophecy but it's interesting that not only is this mystery of the anr future but Paul said it does already work there's already the spirit of antichrist working the prince and power of the air and the Bible says in the last days in which we live

(50:07) there'll be seducing spirits and doctrines of devils as the devil tries to deceive people with false Doctrine well that brings us to our last of the seven Mysteries that I found that God revealed into Paul and this is the mystery of the restoration of Israel Jesus Christ was a Jew the Bible says he came only to the lost sheep of the House of Israel he went to Jews he chose 12 Jewish disciples he sent them to Jews to try to

(50:40) get them to believe who he was to believe that he was the Messiah they had to trust in his name and they received the Holy Spirit by water baptism but round about Acts chapter 7 the end of chapter 7 when God was standing up on his throne he sat back down he was standing next to the throne he sat back down because the Jews as a nation rejected for the third time I can show you that sometime the three different

(51:08) times that the Jewish Nation rejected their Messiah they rejected John the Baptist one sent from the father voice of one crying in the wilderness they rejected God the son Jesus Christ by crucifying him and even even in chapter 7 of Acts Stephen says why do you resist the Holy Ghost so strike three Israel three times they rejected God so God says strike three that's it I'm going now to the whole world with the gospel

(51:35) that I'm revealing un Paul and that's what God did but God has not done with Israel God is not finished with the nation of Israel go to Romans chapter TW chapter 11 out here in this tribulation time period even though the devil is reigning and ruling on this Earth for seven years the Bible says there will be a Remnant saved and that will be the people of Israel the nation of Israel God will begin to deal with again and save

(52:07) because there's prophecy after prophecy after Prophecy in the Old Testament and even in Revelation and other places that in this Thousand-Year Reign God will have the nation of Israel as his Nation again and Jesus Christ will rule and Reign on his throne this is supposed to be a throne here and he'll sit on the throne and for a thousand years he'll Rule and reign in Israel and his chosen

(52:29) Nation Israel will gain what belongs to them so God's not done with Israel but yet there's a lot of churches today that say oh well we are the nation of Israel now God's finished with Israel so all their promises go to us no no God promised that he would do some things for them and they rejected him so the church age is for us to get saved Gentiles sure Jews as individuals can get saved today too but they all have to

(52:55) come through this gospel but God will deal with Israel again after the Rapture he will go back to his Nation that's how longsuffering and loving God Is So 11 Romans chap 11 I say then hath God Cast Away his people that's talking about the Jews God forbid for I also am an Israelite of the Seed of Abraham of The Tribe of Benjamin verse two God hath not Cast Away his people which he forew what ye not what

(53:23) ye not that the scripture saith of Elias how he make intersection to God against Israel saying and then it goes on and it begins to talk about this let's look at verse 14 well actually let's go to verse 11 I see say then have they stumbled that they should fall God forbid but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles for to provoke them to your jealousy so because the Jews as a

(53:45) nation not all individuals but the nation the religious leaders rejected their Messiah God said let's take salvation to the Gentiles well if you want to be safe today and you're a Jew you still have to come through this way but it says for If the fall of them be the riches of the world and diminishing of them The Riches of the Gentiles how much more their fullness he says for I speak unto you

(54:08) Gentiles and as much as I am Apostle of the Gentiles I magnify my office yes Paul is our Apostle you say what's a gentile anybody that's not a Jew is a gentile so if you were born in this world and you weren't born of Jewish ancestry you're a gentile and you need to be saved and the way to be saved is through the gospel of Paul but look at verse 14 if by any means I may provoke

(54:28) to emulation them which are in My Flesh and might save some of them so the nation of Israel as a nation God's done with but there are individual Jews that can be saved just like these apostles were God's individual Jews and they won other Jews Paul won Jews to Jesus Christ through this gospel but the nation will be saved again over here when God begins to deal with the nation of Israel and he

(54:53) saves all the Jews so there's a lot here um but let's skip ahead to verse 20 oh I want to read it all but it's just so wordy let's let's look at verse 24 for if thou W cut out of the Olive Tree which is Wild by nature and wor grafted contrary to Nature into a good Olive Tree how much more shall these which be the natural branches grafted into their own Olive Tree the picture

(55:19) here is that the nation of Israel is like an olive tree and they were cut off and we Gentiles were grafted in and so God says so what if they're cut off they're the natural Branch they will come back so it's like a rebirth of the nation of Israel is what it's saying and then it says there in verse 25 for I would not Brethren that you should be ignorant of this mystery lest you should be wise in your

(55:45) own conceits that blindness in part is happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles become in so once the fullness of the Gentiles happen then God Will Save Israel and a nation again and that's a mystery that God revealed unto Paul the restoration of Israel 26 and so all Israel shall be saved that is is written there shall come out of Zion the deliverer and shall turn away in godliness from Jacob this is my

(56:15) Covenant to them when I shall take away their sins so when do Jews get their sins taken away well the Jewish Nation will have their sins taken away over here that's the nation but each individual Jew if you're alive today and you're a Jew you have to come through the gospel of Paul or you could wait until the Rapture but there's no guarantee you'll make it what if you die

(56:41) without it Bible says you'll be judged by this gospel you're going to go to hell if you reject the Apostle Paul well not the Apostle Paul reject the Gospel of Jesus Christ revealed unto the Apostle Paul and so there it says in verse 27 this is my Covenant in verse 28 as concerning the gospel that's 1 Corinthians 15 1-4 they are enemies for your sakes but as touching the election they are beloved for the father's sakes

(57:07) for the gifts and calling of God are without repentance for as in times past you have not believed God yet have now obtained Mercy through their unbelief even so have these all and continues on and on and on so the gospel most Jews today reject Jesus Christ and want nothing to do with them but guess what's going to happen in the future just as soon as the Rapture takes place guess what's is going to happen what we were

(57:31) preaching right here will be preached again right here and these the Bible says the two witnesses will come the Bible says 144,000 will come all this that was preached right here will be preached here and it will be trust in who Jesus is trust in the Messiah be baptized in water and let's show you some signs and wonders because the Bible says the Jews seek after us sign so the very same thing that Peter began

(57:59) preaching will be preached again right here and all the nation of Israel will have to accept the fact that they killed their Messiah Jesus Christ there was a famous famous Jewish leader a big Rabbi that died a year or two ago and on his deathbed the last words he said this Jewish rabbi was Jesus was the Messiah and a lot of Jews are looking at that and saying wow he was our our Rabbi and he said that we we should believe it and

(58:27) so Jews worldwide are starting to wake up and say hey Jesus Is God he was the Messiah and all this thing we're seeing on the news today all these Muslim countries completely outflanking Israel all the way around it and Israel's this little Dot and they're all going to come against it to fight it and the book says the Bible says God Will Save Israel when he comes back in Armageddon he will

(58:51) defeat all his enemies and the Jews will have the land under Jesus Christ in the Millennium they're going to have to endure to the end in this time period and some of them might even be killed they'll have to flee to sa La Petra the city of the rock but God will feed them with Mana from Heaven just like he did Moses all these things are future they were all a mystery but they revealed to Paul so let's end on this what did God

(59:18) reveal to Paul a lot of people don't understand oh why Paul why is Paul in the Bible I just don't get him I don't understand him well Paul was kind of a kind of like what this is he was kind of this parenthetical thing that could have happened or couldn't have happened all depending what Jews did and as the Jewish Nation reject Jesus then God says okay Paul I have a reason for you being

(59:38) and it's for you to preach the gospel for this time and it's for you to expose and and tell some Mysteries that I'd have known Paul was really I guess you could call him a prophet because God prophesied unto him the Mysteries that he kept secret since the foundation of the world what were they the gospel 1 Corinthians 15 1-4 trust the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ the only

(1:00:04) way to be saved is trust what Jesus did for you on the cross of Calvary the next thing that God revealed unto Paul was that when you're saved Christ is in you I'll go ahead and take that off because that was more this one Christ is in you when you're saved today through trusting the gospel the Holy Spirit dwells in you when the moment you believe these people had to speak in tongues to get the Holy Spirit not today

(1:00:30) tongues are for a sign the Bible says the sign is for the Jews we're not Jews we live by faith not by sight not by signs the moment We Believe Ephesians 1:13 we are sealed with the Holy Spirit of Promise the body of Christ which is the bride of Christ was revealed un Paul this is what we're saved into we're the Lamb's wife we're the body of Christ The Rapture is coming someday all who are

(1:00:54) saved and who aren't dead yet will be raptured out of here and we'll get a glorified body God revealed the mystery of iniquity he told us all about the Antichrist albeit in few words but that someday the Antichrist is coming just as prophesied in Revelation but guess what the spirit of antichrist is alive today and is working diligently to make people not listen to Paul to make people close their ears and say oh Apostle Paul no I

(1:01:23) don't accept him unless you accept accept him you can't get the gospel of salvation for us today you must follow the Apostle Paul also the resurrection restoration of Israel you might be a Jew watching this and you've wondered why has it been 2,000 years since we've been able to get in our Temple why do these Muslims have their own building over there and we can't rebuild our temple in

(1:01:46) our own country don't worry about it God revealed unto him that someday your temple will be rebuilt and God will sit there and in the Book of Revelation for us thousand years it says God will sit there so God will rebuild the nation of Israel don't worry about whether that will happen or not it will God foretold that all Israel will be saved in Romans chapter 11 to the Apostle Paul so I appreciate you listening to this message

(1:02:12) I hope it's been a blessing I know I had to go fast to but I just wanted to present the things that God revealed to Paul and I hope this message will show you how important it is to follow the Apostle Paul have a lot of friends that are Baptists and a lot lot of them Don't Preach Paul I hope after watching this video they will because we started with this verse 1 Corinthians 4 1-12 and it told us that we were to be faithful

(1:02:37) stewards of the mysteries of God the mysteries of Christ well there they are if you're a Baptist preacher if you're a Methodist I don't care what kind of preacher you are if you're a preacher and if you're saved and you love God you need to be a faithful Minister preaching these Mysteries the only way to do do that is to put Paul in his proper proper place and proper perspective we don't

(1:03:01) worship the Apostle Paul we worship Jesus Christ but the only way we can come to Jesus Christ is through what God revealed to Paul simply stated that's the best way to say it so thank you so much for watching come back every week to the cloud church.org we have a new sermon in English and Spanish every week and I hope this has been a blessing to you God bless you