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Subject: MYSTERY DISPENSATION BY REVELATION


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J. C. O'Hair
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Date Posted: 20:48:36 11/24/04 Wed


MYSTERY DISPENSATION BY REVELATION
Pastor J. C. O’Hair


Perhaps every saved person really needs to receive the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, to have the eyes of his understanding so enlightened (Ephesians 1:15 to 17) that he can understand the meaning of “the dispensation of grace” of Ephesians 3:1 to 3, called “the dispensation of the mystery” in Ephesians 3:9.
Warning: Systems/people may save your message--keeping it for years. "Faith Alone in Christ Alone" Believing Christ died, that's HISTORY. Believing Christ died for YOUR sins and rose again, that's SALVATION. Read 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 AIU Forum timezone: GMT-8Before posting please read our privacy policy.VoyForums is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.Copyright © 1998-2004 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.The Greek word translated ‘dispensation’ is, in Luke 16:2, ‘stewardship’. The apostle Paul was the Lord’s steward. He was Christ’s faithful steward of the mysteries of God. (I Corinthians 4:1 to 4). Every minister of Christ should be. Paul testified, in I Corinthians 9:17, “a stewardship is committed unto me.” As we read Paul’s testimony in I Corinthians 3:10, we must surely believe that, so far as the grace gospel and dispensation for Gentiles is concerned, Paul was Christ’s ‘chief steward’. He magnified his office as the apostle to the Gentiles. (Romans 11:13 . . . I Timothy 2:7 . . . II Timothy 1:11). God called Paul, by His grace, to reveal His Son in Paul, that Paul might preach Him among the Gentiles. (Galatians 1:15 and 16). In II Timothy 1:12, the apostle Paul spoke of his ‘deposit’. Paul suffered as an evil?doer in jail, for Christ and the Gentiles. (Ephesians 3:1 6:19 and 20 . . . II Timothy 2:8 and 9 and Colossians 4:3 and 4).
Why was the ‘dispensation’ or ‘stewardship’ or ‘administration’ of the grace of God for Gentiles called “the dispensation of the mystery’ from the beginning of the world ‘hid in God’? (Ephesians 3:9). Why did the omniscient God wait so long before He revealed the two great mysteries of Romans 11:25 and Ephesians 3:1 and Colossians 1:24 to 26 . . . “a blindness in part to Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles come in” . . “the dispensation of the grace of God for Gentiles” . . . “the secret hid from ages and from generation.”
Note why, in II Corinthians 12:4 to 11, God permitted Paul to suffer with a thorn in the flesh . . . “lest I should be exalted above measure, through the abundance of revelations.” Little wonder that Paul testified that he was less than the least of all saints, so that he might by the grace given to him preach the unsearchable riches of Christ among the Gentiles. (Ephesians 3 :8).
By the pen of Paul justified saints are instructed, in Romans 16:25, how to be established . . . “by Paul’s Gospel, the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery from the beginning of the world kept secret.”

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