Writing these letters is the greatest thing the apostle ever did, for it is these which have changed our lives. "You have broken with all that. The remarkable thing about it is that you can experience it right now. We can learn how to handle our environment, even, on the basis of this new creation yet today. There is always an element we don't understand. That is the first thing he wants them to know. The Mystery of His Will—Ephesians 1:9-10 Juli Camarin March 24, 2015 Ephesians 1. When you read this you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; that is, how the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel. This is particularly true of this passage, because Paul begins "For this reason ..." -- but he doesn't give the reason toward which he is moving until Verse 13! (Ephesians 3:4-6 RSV). It consists of this great truth: When they come to Christ, Jews and Gentiles together are joint heirs, joint members of one body, and joint partakers of the promise. This is what gives Paul his authority. What is it? Ephesians 3:9 1. Paul was a minister of this gospel according to God's grace (Ephesians 3:7). So perhaps the reason the Lord Jesus kept him a prisoner was that he might have time to write. This is a picture of life in the flesh, the natural human life. He saw that Caesar was not the one who had the final say about him; Jesus did. The word here, in Ephesians 3, is not identical to the modern use of the word "mystery," which often means something that cannot be known at all. Finally, the apostle touches the matter of power: "partakers of the promise." Therefore the understanding of this great mystery is the key to the ultimate solutions for which men are seeking today. It may be compared with the other more solemn doxologies in the New Testament: as Romans 16:25; 1Timothy 5:15-16; Jude 1:24-25; Revelation 1:6. Do this in remembrance of me,'" (1 Corinthians 11:23-24 RSV). The apostle was concerned that the Christians to whom he was writing at this time in his life, the Ephesians, Philippians, and others, would understand why he was going through the struggles he was. This is the struggle of humanity which is answered by our becoming "joint-members of one body." This is a great parable that God teaches us in nature. No, the word "mystery" in Ephesians 3 means – something that was hidden, but has now been revealed. Paul is concerned first about his role as a teacher of this mystery, and then about the mystery itself, about what it is he teaches. This is where we get our understanding of the authority of this great apostle. Now I am called by God to make known the fellowship of this mystery. EPHESIANS 3:1-13 THE MYSTERY OF THE GOSPEL REVEALED THROUGH PAUL As you start this study, ask the Holy Spirit to help you understand what God has said through Paul. This may seem like old stuff to you, for unfortunately these words have come so frequently to our ears that we've lost the impact of them. What is he talking about? Ephesians 3:4-6 In these verses, in brief form, is Paul's statement of the mystery that lies at the heart of all life. But how much more are there great riches in store for us who will give some time and thought and effort to grasping this great secret which Paul sets forth before us here -- the ultimate secret behind all things: the mystery of Christ. This is Paul's explanation of the great mystery. Cross references. This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet:   "I will open my mouth in parables,   I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world." So here he was in Rome, a prisoner of Caesar, awaiting trial before Nero. As Paul came to understand the One whom he served, he knew that Jesus is in control of history. There, in very brief form, is his statement of the mystery which lies at the heart of all life. But they didn't know what kind of life, what it would be like. There is no way we can break through this law. He was a responsible steward. Rather, it is something that is drastically and terribly and deeply wrong. But personally I think it is a reference to what he has written previously in this letter. Furthermore, he wants these Ephesians to know that they were benefiting by his arrest. Hence, God is here described as He "who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think," and to do all "by His power dwelling" and working in us. When we begin to "walk in the Spirit," as we understand what that phrase really means, then we can love, forgive, begin to reach out to others. It is not new to us -- we have been discussing and discovering aspects of it all along in this letter. And he recognizes that they were written on behalf of the Gentiles. DAY 1 Read Ephesians 3:1-13 three times. This is why Dr. Francis Schaeffer has written a book called Pollution and the Death of Man, and related this subject to the Christian answer. In this next sentence he gives us a brief summary of this great mystery: When you read this you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; that is, how the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel. The, the definite article. Read verse in New International Version (Ephesians 1:9-10 RSV). If you read that as merely theological language, you have missed the import of what he is saying -- that every bit of life finds its final solution in the person and being of the Lord Jesus himself. It states that we never can discover fully the truth about anything; there is an element of hidden information about every subject we go into. In Christ, God is beginning a new creation, one that lives by a wholly different principle and is not subject to this law. "That you'll die, that you'll come to the end, that somehow all your old life as a caterpillar will decay and you will be left lifeless and dead, in a cocoon of your own spinning, hanging on a limb, and apparently it will all be over." But the reason they cannot grasp the answer is that they have never dealt with the heart of the problem, the great secret to all things. Why can't we get along with one another? In First Corinthians 4 he says, This is how one should regard us [apostles], as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. This is an apt description of the way we live our lives as natural human beings. In Ephesians Paul speaks of mystery from many viewpoints, including the revelation of the mystery (3:3), the mystery of Christ (v. 4), the economy of the mystery (v. 9), the great mys-tery (5:32), and the mystery of the gospel (6:19), but he begins with a discussion of the mystery of His will (1:9). This is the mystery, as Paul describes it to us, and as God wants us to understand it. We struggle constantly trying to understand what are the great realities they represent. This is the great mystery. (Romans 16:25-27 RSV). And I wonder if sometime the Lord isn't going to lock me up to give me a chance to write some of the things he has laid on my heart. God understands us so thoroughly that he has hidden mystery in everything in life. To do so, it will first provide a definition of the word, then highlight key insights from each occurrence. But, as we have already seen, it was the Lord Jesus who began to unveil it. Don't go on any longer subject to all the heartache and misery and malice and hatred and resentment and oppression which comes from the old creation. If we begin to understand what Christ is, who he is, what he does, how we can lay hold of him -- we will begin to see the solutions of these problems unfold, as they are indeed unfolding in many of our lives. So he was writing to settle their fears and to show them what it was all about. Message transcript and recording © 1972 by Ray Stedman Ministries, owner of sole copyright by assignment from the author. His first statement is this: "I am a prisoner for Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles -- ." The Lord Jesus himself began to unfold the mystery. This secret was first mentioned in Genesis 3:15 and was gradually unfolded in all the Scriptures till in the dispensation of the mystery Christ is fully revealed as Head of the church. And, he says, they added nothing to him. This was information not known in the past (Ephesians 3:4–5). Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. This he did with the rituals and symbols in the Old Testament -- the giving of the Law and the sacrifices -- which helped us to understand that we human beings have something inherently wrong with us, which cannot be cured by our making a few good resolutions. Nobody has yet ever found out what goes on inside a cocoon that transforms a caterpillar into a butterfly. What is the purpose of the mystery? This is a tremendous lesson to us, who sometimes become worried and anxious about what the political powers-that-be are doing in the world today. You are a new creation in Jesus Christ. Some of you have learned truth you ought to write down and pass along. Right in the midst of that cocoon something happens. He understood everything they did, knew everything Jesus had taught them in the days of his flesh. But we know that one of these days, when the sun begins to shine, all these dead-looking cocoons will begin to break open, and there will emerge a beautiful creature, designed no longer for life on the lower level, crawling along over every obstacle, but able to rise above them, able to spread its wings and fly as an expression of beauty and joy throughout the world and nature. It has already begun. This secret was given EXCLUSIVELY to the Apostle Paul BY REVELATION” (Eph. Then he is carried along from one truth to another until finally he gets back to what he started to say in the beginning. Men and women today can live on the basis of this new creation. The first is that he was a prisoner on behalf of the Gentiles. 1For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles—. We are unable to stem the tide of broken marriages, and so our divorce rate is higher than that of any other nation in the world. How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery. It wasn't until fourteen years later that he ever had an opportunity to sit down and compare notes with all the other apostles. Paul tells us, "All things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future, all are yours;" (1 Corinthians 3:21b-22 RSV). Ep). An unveiling, uncovering, revealing, revelation. . Then all hell broke loose again. This is the only way these problems can be worked out. So when Peter and James and John and the other apostles began to compare notes with Paul, they were astonished that this apostle, this man who had been the persecutor of the church and the chief murderer of the saints in Jerusalem, understood not only the doctrine they had been taught, but also the very events they had gone through. I think this is a hint that he recognized that if it were not for the fact he had been made a prisoner, he would never have had time to write these letters which have changed the course of history. He didn't talk with the apostles; in fact, it was three years before he ever went back to Jerusalem after his conversion. 11 This fits God’s purpose for … The Apostle Paul describes the greatest mystery of life to the Ephesians in these words: For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles -- assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God's grace that was given to me for you, how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly. In other words, Jesus himself had appeared to Paul and had told him all that went on in the Upper Room. As we will see, this is the greatest secret ever presented to the minds of men. Sometimes it is difficult for those who do not read Greek to see how Paul builds his letters. It is the mystery of the goal toward which God is moving in human affairs; therefore, it encompasses space, time, matter -- all of life." Ephesians 1:17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: Acts 22:17,21 And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance; …. Ephesians 3:13 is the conclusion of Paul’s parenth… We don't know how to break loose from this syndrome. Note Ephesians 3:11, “GOD’S ETERNAL PURPOSE.” Then God’s will in His eternal purpose should no longer be a mystery, that is, a secret. "It was made known to me by revelation." Thus they had to acknowledge that he was an apostle on equal terms with them. The mystery is speaking of the three heaven and earth ages which remain a mystery to most. God had to prepare this race to be able to grasp that fact and to be ready to believe it. This was hidden from them. The mystery that God hid from the Pats and the prophets and kept this secret to himself all this time. They could not understand why the mighty apostle had to be a prisoner -- limited, unable to come to them in their need as a growing young church -- and why all communication with him had to be by correspondence. Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because. Hence, in English, the idea would be more clearly expressed by "I have written above." Do not forget that the reason Paul was charged by the Jews with sedition against the emperor was because they were so angry that he would carry any message from God to the Gentiles. He has a wonderful plan for its life. Well, in those three terms you have the answers to the greatest struggles with which we humans are engaged today: "Joint-heirs" has to do with possessions. The reason is obvious when you read his letters. Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Singular. Even terms we commonly use, such as love and joy and life itself, are basically mysterious to us. Put in these terms, this means that the present "civilization" we are living in secular life, with its politics, its education, its legislative system, its reportage of news events can be likened to a cocoon, clinging lifelessly to the branch of history. I know that sometimes we are so blinded by familiarity with these terms that we miss the impact of this. He had been arrested because he was charged by the Jews with sedition, or treason, against the emperor. He starts out to say one thing but then is captured by the truth of something else he is going to say. The second thing Paul says about himself, so that they might understand what he was going through, is that he was a steward of God's grace. As I wrote afore in few words.--The reference is to the brief notice in Ephesians 1:10-14, and to the further explanation in Ephesians 2:11-22. May God help us to make it personal in our own lives. A striking example of this is found in First Corinthians 11, where he writes about the Lord's supper. 6This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus. A little was revealed in the past, but the great secret was kept hidden. In Ephesians the mystery refers to God’s secret plan to integrate Jew and Gentile into one body. There is a line of teaching called ultradispensationalism, in which certain teachers (who are genuine believers in Christ) teach that only the Apostle Paul knew this secret, that to him was given the privilege of unveiling it for the first time to human minds and hearts. Website © 2021 by Ray Stedman Ministries. 3. MARE: PAUL'S MYSTERY IN EPHESIANS 3 79 In the canonical Old Testament the only book where the Septuagint • translate s the original by µÌÛÙÁÒÈÔÌ is in the Aramaic section of Daniel. The answer is, in Jesus Christ. Acts 23:9 And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees' part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God. One of these days, Springtime is going to come to the world, and when it comes, what God as already been preparing will then become manifest. So it is obvious, from what the apostle says here in Ephesians, that God needed to prepare human beings for the unfolding of this secret. I have a small writing assignment due Friday, thought I'd take some notes here. "A people who sat in darkness saw a great light," (Isaiah 9:2 RSV). It is not a period of time at all; it is a responsibility to dispense something, a stewardship. The gospel was revealed to him as he had previously mentioned (Ephesians 3:3). Ephesians 3:6 The words This mystery is are inferred from verse 4. It is all in Christ, even the blessings (Ephesians 1:3). It is why the Scriptures say, "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing; but the glory of kings is to search it out," (Proverbs 25:2 RSV). According to the manner in which, in the degree that, just as, as. What we are to inherit from God, ultimately, is the world. Ephesians 3:9 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] Ephesians 3:9, NIV: "and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things." 3 For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles— 2 assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God's grace that was given to me for you, 3 how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly. We can come before God with confidence that he hears us (Heb. It is a breakthrough, a new and marvelous way of life which has already begun in our experience, and which, ultimately, will solve all the problems facing humanity. I refer you to Matthew 13, where you have it recorded that our Lord spoke these amazing words. We all love mysteries. Ephesians 3:12. in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through faith in Him. A steward was a servant to whom a certain responsibility was committed, certain goods were given, that he might dispense them, might give them out to other people. 2:11–22, Paul reminded his Gentile readers that they had previously been outside of God’s unfolding plan of redemption—at least in an ethnic and practical sense. God has set his Son at the heart of all things. What are the three aspects of the mystery as seen in verse 6? But God has a program for a caterpillar. Because God is teaching us things in nature, if we could only see. A primary pronoun of the first person I. They had been listening carefully to him as he spoke of his conversion, of how he had been called by God, until he stated that he had been sent out unto the Gentiles. And the book of Hebrews tells us that we do not yet see all things subject to Christ, but we do see Jesus, the One who has been made heir of all things, and in him we share that heirship, so that one day all things subject to this new law will be ours. From apokalupto; disclosure. It is mystery which makes life entrancing, fascinating. So he invents new ones. Any time we know there is something we ought to do, something we should do, something it would be right for us to do, but which we don't want to do -- if we then cast ourselves in helplessness upon the Lord Jesus and trust his word, we can assume the power of the Spirit to do that thing. It is referring back to Eph ch 1 and Romans 8. Not even the Angels knew about it, Paul said. (1 Corinthians 4:1 RSV). Those three ages or eons of time are mentioned in 2Peter ch 3 and are part of the key of David, or the key to understanding scripture. 1:18) to the throne of grace. Even physicists tell us that, hidden away in every physical manifestation of the world and universe around us, is mystery. Each has its distinctive character. And there is much yet to be learned, even in this realm. It's a letter that captures so much of God's plan right across redemptive history and the fulfillment that has come in Jesus Christ. It is made known through the people God has called out. He saw him as John did in the book of Revelation -- as sitting on his throne, holding the reins of government in his hands. If God has made known His precious, glorious secret, which He purposed for us in Christ before the foundation of the world, why should any child of God be ignorant concerning the mystery of God’s will? Ephesians 3:9 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: Romans 11:25 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. The key mystery is Christ, says the apostle. In Verse 34, Matthew tells us this: All this Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed he said nothing to them without a parable. They died in hope, but that hope was not very well defined. It is the only hope you will ever have of living according to the glory God designed for man when he created him in the beginning. Because when we are still living in the old creation those things are inevitable. This is God's lesson regarding what he is doing now. He had to get them ready for it. It cannot see very far, and doesn't know which turn to take. Romans 16:25 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, Ephesians 1:9-11 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: …, Ephesians 2:11-22 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; …. If you fulfill the flesh, there is no way by which you can keep from living in disharmony with people around you. It is at the heart of all human existence. St. Paul refers them back to these passages as embodying his "understanding," or conception, of the mystery thus revealed especially to him. And you are either a part of the new creation, or you are a part of the old; one or the other, but never both. Verse 6 - This mystery is that through the gospel: the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus; DAY TWO Questions and Answers. Ephesians 3:9 Or by. This is the great mystery. We don't know what to do with the millions of people who have been shoved off into ghettos, areas of our cities where economic pressures force them to live, and prevent them from having available to them the resources of life that many of us enjoy. Instead, God’s will or plan was a mystery in the sense that it was once not revealed or known, but is now revealed. And he sums it up in these words: "the mystery of Christ" -- Jesus Christ, at the heart of all things. And this creation has already begun! Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 1st Person Singular. The only thing that can cure it is death itself. This is what they never understood. There is something about human beings which causes us to be fascinated by something hidden, secret, by cryptic truth which needs to be discovered and revealed. It is not new to us -- we have been discussing and discovering aspects of it all along in this letter. Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular. The promise was of the giving of the Holy Spirit -- that God's Spirit himself would live in us, and empower us to do everything God wants us to do. Our Lord, then, began to unfold this mystery, to tell us things that were hidden from the very foundation of the world. This is the way the apostle's mind worked. This is what Christmas is all about. C. The Mystery of Christ (3:4). But Paul says this is not true. And the one thing they did not know at all was that the life beyond death, resurrection life, could be made available to us while we are still living. That is, "You can understand that I have great grasp and understanding of what this mystery is, that it is really the secret of all things, touching everything in life. Rather, break loose and be free in Jesus Christ.". Jewish scruples and prejudices were terribly offended by the fact that Paul had the nerve, the effrontery, to say to the Jews that the Gentiles were received by God equally as they, that the Gentiles could have equal standing before him. Eph. Now we come to the actual mystery itself. He says, "For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, 'This is my body which is for you. Our whole modern era was brought about by the discovery of a secret which was hidden in nature until the time when Einstein stumbled upon a few hints of it. When you do, you will understand the practical import of this fantastic mystery which is at the heart of all life, and which God will begin to unfold to us more and more as we go on, until it simply 'blows our minds' with the wonder of what is waiting for us. Therefore, eventually, he was remanded to the care of the palace guard, the personal bodyguard of the emperor. You will never find that taught in the Old Testament in those terms. We continue to make automobiles even after they have filled the highways and poisoned the air. And the power of the Spirit will always come flowing through right at that point, to enable us to do what otherwise we could never do. There are those who tell us that the Apostle Paul learned his gospel from the other apostles, who in turn had heard it from Jesus, and that, therefore, Paul's apostleship is somewhat less than theirs. 4:16; 10:19; 1 Jn 5:15). The first paragraph in Chapter 3 is, in many ways, the key to this great letter of Paul to the Ephesian Christians. The mystery he spoke of was that Gentiles are now fellow family members of the church in Jesus through the gospel (Ephesians 3:6). From a derivative of muo; a secret or 'mystery'. But I pray that God will open the eyes of your understanding, that you will see how fantastic is this great mystery, and how important it is to understand it thoroughly, and to enter into it. Now, you can't wait till that time to get on the bandwagon; it has already started. He says, "When you read this you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ." I ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering for you, which is your glory," you will understand what he is trying to say in the intervening sentences. The first breakthrough was on Christmas Day, when in the darkness of the world -- sunk in apathy and misery, in superstition and blindness, and in death -- a light broke through. 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