The three churches in the world established by God for man in the different dispensations of Time and we’ve been commanded to follow the correct dispensation as commanded in order to be approved by God as accepted as His children being predestinated since the beginning of the world to be sons and daughters of God.
The word Church has but one meaning and that meaning is of God for the called out ones and never was to be a building with a denomination stuck to it for no building since the death of Christ is a holy place for the only Holy building was the Temple of God in Jerusalem Israel were God put His name on it. But it was destroyed after God left it and was ended for now in this dispensation of God. So let’s get a closer look at the three church dispensations and who they were for.
1. Stephen talking, (This is The First Church The Mosaic LAW Church for all of Israel, and it was only for the children of Israel no Gentiles.
Act 7:37 This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.
Act 7:38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:)(A mixed multitude of Israelis)
And to get into that church was found in [1Co 10:1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
1Co 10:2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; [Not a water Baptism but a dry Baptism]
Mat 3:11 1, I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: 2, he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with 3, fire:
Yet Paul says there is only One Baptism but now you see 4 baptisms in scripture now which is for YOU in what dispensation to be the correct One chosen by God for YOU.
Eph 4:5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
Eph 4:6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
1Co 10:3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
1Co 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
1Co 10:5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
1Co 10:6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
1Co 10:7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
1Co 10:8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
1Co 10:9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
1Co 10:10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
1Co 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
1Co 10:12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.]
John the Baptist starts the 2nd established Church still in and under the LAW given Israel by God through MOSES that in the bible is referred to as The Little Flock in scripture was entered by Johns Baptism and the recognized Jesus as The Christ Believing and accepting Him as The MESSIAS and to be Israels KING of PROMIS, that is the Spiritual church out of the Israeli Nation for the Jew only of which Jesus is the leader of along with His handpicked Apostles to set over the 12 tribes of Israel (No Gentiles were invited)
Mat 3:11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
Mat 3:12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. [(Also 2Th 1:8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:)
This is a Church out of Israel Called “The little Flock Church” started by John the Baptist, headed by Jesus an the 12 Apostles selected by Jesus for Jews only.)]
Mat 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: { Jehovah is salvation” for Jesus is Jehovah in the flesh, GOD} for he shall save his people from their sins. [This was for the Jews only because of the covenant promises not the Gentiles because the Gentiles do not have covenant promises with God, only JEWS]
The Messiah was to come and save them from their SINS.
For they are already His people His covenant nation, but not spiritually saved and must be born of God spiritually by the SAVIOR The MESSIAH.
Mat 16:15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
Mat 16:16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
Mat 16:17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock (1Pe 2:8, 1Co 10:4, Deu 32:3&4) I will build my church; [This ROCK, is the statement Peter made in his confession of FAITH that saved him was “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.”] and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. (The Believing ruminant of believers Born through the promised Blessed son of Abraham, Isaac and as those the are out of Isaac is born of God to be Israel who has to be Born of Israel and then Born-again spiritually.
Joh_3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Joh_3:7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
1Pe_1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
(Mat 1:2 KJV) Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;
braham.Gen_21:2, Gen_21:3. Rom_9:7, Rom_9:9.
begat. Greek. gennao. When used of the father = to beget or engender; and when used of the mother it means to bring forth into the world; but it has not the intermediate sense, to conceive. In verses: Mat_1:2-16 it is translated begat, and should be so in verses: Mat_1:16 and Mat_1:20 also. In Mat_1:1 the noun genesis means birth.
Jacob. Gen_25:26.
Judas = Judah. Gen_29:35; Gen_49:10.
and his brethren. Because the promise was restricted to the house of Judah; not extended to the whole house of Abraham or of Isaac.
(John Gill) Matthew 1:2
Abraham begat Isaac,.... The descent of Christ from Abraham is in the line of Isaac; Abraham begat Ishmael before Isaac, and others after him, but they are not mentioned; because the Messiah was not to spring from any of them, but from Isaac, of whom it is said, "in Isaac shall thy seed be called", Gen_21:12 and who, as he was a progenitor, so an eminent type of Christ; being Abraham's only beloved son; and particularly in the binding, sacrifice and deliverance of him.
Isaac begat Jacob. The genealogy of Christ proceeds from Isaac, in the line of Jacob. Isaac begat Esau, as well as Jacob, and they two were twins, but one was loved, and the other hated; wherefore no mention is made of Esau, he had no concern in the Messiah, nor was he to spring from him, but from Jacob, or Israel, by whose name he is sometimes called, Isa_49:3
Jacob begat Judas and his brethren. The lineage of Christ is carried on from Jacob in the line of Judah; the reason of which is, because it was particularly prophesied that the Messiah, Shiloh, the prince and chief ruler, should be of him, Gen_49:10 1Ch_5:2. And it is evident beyond all contradiction, that our Lord sprung from his tribe, Heb_7:14. The reason why the brethren of Judah, who were eleven in number, are mentioned, when the brethren of Isaac and Jacob are not, is, because though the Messiah did not spring from them, yet the promise of him was made to the twelve tribes, who all expected him, and to whom he was sent, and came. These made but one body of men, and therefore, though the Messiah came from the tribe of Judah, yet he is said to be of them all, Rom_9:4.
a man = any one.
born = begotten. See note on Mat_1:2.
again = from above. Greek. anothen = from above: i.e. by Divine power, as in Joh_3:31; Joh_19:11, Joh_19:23. Mat_27:51. Mar_15:38. Luk_1:3. Jam_1:17; Jam_3:15, Jam_3:17. The Talmud uses this figure, as applied to proselytes.
(Joh 3:3 KJV) Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
(Cambridge Bible) John 3:3
Jesus answered] He answers his thoughts before they are expressed. See on Joh_2:25, and on Joh_1:51.
born again] The word translated ‘again’ may mean either ‘from the beginning,’ or ‘from above.’ By itself it cannot exactly mean ‘again.’ S. John uses the same word Joh_3:31; Joh_19:11; Joh_19:23. In all three places, (see especially Joh_19:11), it means ‘from above,’ which is perhaps to be preferred here: ‘from the beginning’ would make no sense. To be ‘born from above’ recalls being ‘born of God’ in Joh_1:13, (comp. 1Jn_3:9; 1Jn_4:7; 1Jn_5:1; 1Jn_5:4; 1Jn_5:18). Of course being ‘born from above’ is necessarily being ‘born again;’ but ‘again’ comes not so much from the Greek word, as from the context. Comp. ‘verily I say unto you, except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven,’ Mat_18:3.
There is a probable reference to this passage (3–5) in Justin Martyr, Apol. I. lxi. If so, we have evidence that this Gospel was known before a.d. 150. See on Joh_1:23 and Joh_9:1.
he cannot see] i.e. so as to partake of it. Comp. to ‘see corruption,’ Psa_16:10; to ‘see evil,’ Psa_90:15; to ‘see death,’ Joh_8:51; Luk_2:26.
the kingdom of God] This phrase, so frequent in the Synoptists, occurs only here and Joh_3:5 in S. John. We may conclude that it was the very phrase used.
1Co 4:15 For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
Mat 16:19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Mat 16:20 Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ
See Gods plan was that the 12 tribes were to be kings and priest an Holy Nation unto God to go out into the whole world and bring every gentile to the salvation of GOD
Exo 19:3 And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
Exo 19:4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.
Exo 19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
Exo 19:6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. [A kingdom of Kings and priests had to be washed with water, anointed with oil, and sprinkled with Blood to be A King or Prist]
Moses church they only had Hope and a yearly covering of sin for under the LAW is the knowledge of Sin the comes Jesus and John the Baptist prepairing the way for The Messiah and Jesus establishes his Jewish church for those that believe he is the Messiah and are saved by hope in the kingdom to come
Act 3:17 And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.
Act 3:18 But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.
Act 3:19 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;
Act 3:20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:
Act 3:21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
Act 3:22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
Act 3:23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
Act 3:24 Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.
Act 3:25 Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
Act 3:26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
Then Jesus stood up as Stephen say in heaven for this was the fall of Israel turning their back on the King, The Messiah that was promised them so instead of pouring out His wrath He called out Saul of Tarsus the zealot of the Law to be converted by The Grace of God to be anointed and appointed as the Apostle to the Gentiles to begin a New Church called “The Body of Christ, outside the mosaic Law, but unto the Law of Love which fulfills the Law Of God in the dispensation of the Grace of God Given to Paul to give to the Gentile world.” Paul the thirteenth Apostle wrote 13 Books of the Bible to the Gentiles for in this New Church of the Body of Christ there are no difference between humans. We as Gentiles have no Covenants with God BUT we were given all spiritual Blessings in Heavenly Places in Christ Our Head
Eph 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
Eph 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Eph 1:5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Contents: Believer’s position in grace. The prayer for knowledge and power.
Characters: Christ, God, Holy Spirit, Paul.
Conclusion: The believer is vitally united to Jesus Christ by the indwelling Spirit, through the redemptive work of the cross, and has in Him all spiritual blessings, including the assurance of an eternal inheritance and the working of His mighty power in and through him.
Key Word: Spiritual blessings, Eph_1:3.
Strong Verses: Eph_1:3, Eph_1:4, Eph_1:7, Eph_1:13, Eph_1:14, Eph_1:22, Eph_1:23.
Striking Facts: Eph_1:22-23. Jesus is Head of the Church which is His Body and His Bride. As Eve was of Adam’s body, yet was his bride, so the Church born out of His opened side, is both the Body and the Bride. This gives Him complete disposal of all the affairs of the true Church to the designs of His grace.
us — all Believers
blessings — Greek, “blessing.” “All,” that is, “every possible blessing for time and eternity, which the Spirit has to bestow” (so “spiritual” means; as the term is now used, as opposed to bodily).
in heavenly places - a phrase five times found in this Epistle, and not elsewhere (Eph_1:20; Eph_2:6; Eph_3:10; Eph_6:12); Greek, “in the heavenly places.” Christ’s ascension is the means of introducing us into the heavenly places, which by our sin were barred against us. Compare the change made by Christ (Col_1:20; Eph_1:20). While Christ in the flesh was in the form of a servant, God’s people could not realize fully their heavenly privileges as sons. Now “our citizenship (Greek) is in heaven” (Php_3:20), where our High Priest is ever “blessing” us. Our “treasures” are there (Mat_6:20, Mat_6:21); our aims and affections (Col_3:1, Col_3:2); our hope (Col_1:5; Tit_2:13); our inheritance (1Pe_1:4). The gift of the Spirit itself, the source of the “spiritual blessing,” is by virtue of Jesus having ascended thither (Eph_4:8).
in Christ — the center and source of all blessing to us.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ - This commences a sentence which continues to the close of Eph_1:12. The length of the periods in the writings of Paul, is one cause of the obscurity of his style, and renders an explanation often difficult. The meaning of this phrase is, that God has laid a foundation for gratitude for what he has done. The ground or reason of the praise here referred to, is that which is stated in the following verses. The leading thing on which the apostle dwells is God’s eternal purpose - his everlasting counsel in regard to the salvation of man. Paul breaks out into the exclamation that God is worthy of praise for such a plan, and that his eternal purposes, now manifest to people, give exalted views of the character and glory of God. Most persons suppose the contrary. They feel that the plans of God are dark, and stern, and forbidding, and such as to render his character anything but amiable.
They speak of him, when he is referred to as a sovereign, as if he were tyrannical and unjust, and they never connect the idea of that which is amiable and lovely with the doctrine of eternal purposes. There is no doctrine that is usually so unpopular; none that is so much reproached; none that is so much abused. There is none that people desire so much to disbelieve or avoid; none that they are so unwilling to have preached; and none that they are so reluctant to find in the Scriptures. Even many Christians turn away from it with dread; or if they “tolerate” it, they yet feel that there is something about it that is especially dark and forbidding. Not so felt Paul. He felt that it laid the foundation for eternal praise; that it presented glorious views of God; that it was the ground of confidence and hope; and that it was desirable that Christians should dwell upon it and praise God for it. Let us feel, therefore, as we enter upon the exposition of this chapter, that God is to be praised for all his plans, and that it is “possible” for Christians to have such views of the doctrine of “eternal predestination” as to give them most elevated conceptions of the glory of the divine character. And let us also be “willing” to know the truth. Let us approach word after word, and phrase after phrase, and verse after verse, in this chapter, willing to know all that God teaches; to believe all that he has revealed; and ready to say, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ for all that he has done.”
Who hath blessed us - Who does Paul mean here by “us?” Does he mean all the world? This cannot be, for all the world are not thus blessed with “all” spiritual blessings. Does he mean “nations?” For the same reason this cannot be. Does he mean the Gentiles in contradistinction from the Jews? Why then does he use the word “us,” including himself, who was a Jew? Does he mean to say that they were blessed with external privileges, and that this was the only object of the eternal purposes of God? This cannot be, for he speaks of “spiritual blessings;” he speaks of the persons referred to as having “redemption” and “the forgiveness of sins;” as having “obtained an inheritance,” and as being sealed with the “Holy Spirit of promise.” These appertain not to nations, or to external privileges, or the mere offers of the gospel, but to true Christians; to persons who have been redeemed. The persons referred to by the word “us,” are those who are mentioned in Eph_1:1, as “saints,” - ἅγίοις hagiois - “holy;” and “faithful” - πιστοῖς pistois - “believing,” or “believers.”
This observation is important, because it shows that the plan or decree of God had reference to individuals, and not merely to nations. Many have supposed (see Whitby, Dr. A. Clarke, Bloomfield, and others) that the apostle here refers to the “Gentiles,” and that his object is to show that they were now admitted to the same privileges as the ancient Jews, and that the whole doctrine of predestination here referred to, has relation to that fact. But, I would ask, were there no Jews in the church at Ephesus? See Act_18:20, Act_18:24; Act_19:1-8. The matter of fact seems to have been, that Paul was uncommonly successful there among his own countrymen, and that his chief difficulty there arose, not from the Jews, but from the influence of the heathen; Act_19:24. Besides what evidence is there that the apostle speaks in this chapter especially of the Gentiles, or that he was writing to that portion of the church at Ephesus which was of Gentile origin? And if he was, why did he name himself among them as one on whom this blessing had been bestowed? The fact is, that this is a mere supposition, resorted to without evidence, and in the face of every fair principle of interpretation, to avoid an unpleasant doctrine. Nothing can be clearer than that Paul meant to write to “Christians as such;” to speak of privileges which they enjoyed as special to themselves; and that he had no particular reference to “nations,” and did not design merely to refer to external privileges.
With all spiritual blessings - Pardon, peace, redemption, adoption, the earnest of the Spirit, etc., referred to in the following verses - blessings which “individual Christians” enjoy, and not external privileges conferred on nations.
In heavenly places in Christ - The word “places” is here understood, and is not in the original. It may mean heavenly “places,” or heavenly “things.” The word “places” does not express the best sense. The idea seems to be, that God has blessed us in Christ in regard to heavenly subjects or matters. In Eph_1:20, the word “places” seems to be inserted with more propriety. The same phrase occurs again in Eph_2:6; Eph_3:10; and it is remarkable that it should occur in the same elliptical form four times in this one epistle, and, I believe, in no other part of the writings of Paul. Our translators have in each instance supplied the word “places,” as denoting the rank or station of Christians, of the angels, and of the Saviour, to each of whom it is applied. The phrase probably means, in things pertaining to heaven; suited to prepare us for heaven; and tending toward heaven. It probably refers here to every thing that was heavenly in its nature, or that had relation to heaven, whether gifts or graces. As the apostle is speaking, however, of the mass of Christians on whom these things had been bestowed, I rather suppose that he refers to what are called Christian graces, than to the extraordinary endowments bestowed on the few. The sense is, that in Christ, i. e. through Christ, or by means of him, God had bestowed all spiritual blessings that were suited to prepare for heaven - such as pardon, adoption, the illumination of the Spirit, etc.
Gal 3:22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
Gal 3:23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
Gal 3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Gal 3:25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
Gal 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Gal 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Gal 3:28 1.There is neither Jew nor Greek, 2.there is neither bond nor free, 3.there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. [of One Body of One New Man]
Gal 3:29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Act_15:9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
Rom_3:22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
Rom_10:12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
Rom_3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Rom_5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
All must come into the Body of Christ knowing that they are sinner and that they need a savior by hearing the Gospel of Grace given to Paul to us word whereby God then will open our heart as he did Lydia and then we can be saved by Believing in our heart.
Act_16:14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
Rom_10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Act_10:43 To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.
Rom_1:16 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.
Rom_3:26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Rom_4:5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
Rom_9:33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
Rom_10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Rom_10:10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Rom_10:11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
1Co_13:7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Our Doctrine for the Body of Christ today is from Romans through Philemon.
We only have One Baptism to go through, the Jews have 3 to go through.
We are looking for the Head of the Body of Christ to come so we shall forever be with Him, The Jews are looking for their KING to come and defeat there enemys and establish the Kingdom of God on the Earth.
Eph 2:12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
Eph 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Eph 2:14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
Eph 2:15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
Eph 2:16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
Eph 2:17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
Eph 2:18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
Gentiles Grafted In
Rom 11:11 I 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 jealousy.
Rom 11:12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
Rom 11:13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
Jesus Sends Out the Twelve Apostles
Mat 10:5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
Mat 10:6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
This was the great commission had they repented instead of stoneing Stephen and falling out of their position becoming enemies of the church The Christ
Mat 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Mat 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Mat 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
This is what could or would have happened (Mat 28:18 through 20) if they had repented as a nation to become the priest of God as was promised in Exo 19:5&6 , but they rejected it all……
Listen, The Bible does not care how you say you are saved if you haven’t been saved by the Gospel that Paul preaches then it doesn’t matter what you say nor claim you’re not saved and going in the Body of Christ when Christ comes for us. The only way to be saved is by the Gospel that Paul preaches
The Death, Burial, and The Resurrection of Christ
By the Risen Christ through Paul Gospel of Grace are you saved
1Co 15:1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
1Co 15:2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
1Co 15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
1Co 15:4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
For there is no other way………
Gal 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
Gal 1:9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
There are 2 Gospels in Scripture and 2 Jesses’ in scripture and only one of each is For the Gentiles and the whole world today during this Dispensation of the Grace of God
Paul the first Ambassador for Christ
Pro_13:17 A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
Eph_6:20 For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
2Co_5:20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
Psa_95:3 For the LORD [JEHOVAH] is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
Pro_26:10 The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.
This is our great commission given us through Paul in the Body of Christ to spread the Gospel of GRACE of our Great God Christ Jesus.
Tit_2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
(Jamieson-Fausset-Brown) Titus 2:13
(Php_3:20, Php_3:21).
Looking for — with constant expectation (so the Greek) and with joy (Rom_8:19). This will prove the antidote to worldly lusts, and the stimulus to “live in this present world” conformably to this expectation. The Greek is translated, “waiting for,” in Luk_2:25.
that — Greek, “the.”
blessed — bringing blessedness (Rom_4:7, Rom_4:8).
hope — that is, object of hope (Rom_8:24; Gal_5:5; Col_1:5).
the glorious appearing — There is but one Greek article to both “hope” and “appearing,” which marks their close connection (the hope being about to be realized only at the appearing of Christ). Translate, “The blessed hope and manifestation (compare Note, see on Tit_2:11) of the glory.” The Greek for “manifestation” is translated “brightness” in 2Th_2:8. As His “coming” (Greek, “parousia”) expresses the fact; so “brightness, appearing,” or “manifestation” (epiphaneia) expresses His personal visibility when He shall come.
the great God and our Saviour Jesus — There is but one Greek article to “God” and “Savior,” which shows that both are predicated of one and the same Being. “Of Him who is at once the great God and our Savior.” Also (2) “appearing” (epiphaneia) is never by Paul predicated of God the Father (Joh_1:18; 1Ti_6:16), or even of “His glory” (as Alford explains it): it is invariably applied to Christ’s coming, to which (at His first advent, compare 2Ti_1:10) the kindred verb “appeared” (epephanee), Tit_2:11, refers (1Ti_6:14; 2Ti_4:1, 2Ti_4:8). Also (3) in the context (Tit_2:14) there is no reference to the Father, but to Christ alone; and here there is no occasion for reference to the Father in the exigencies of the context. Also (4) the expression “great God,” as applied to Christ, is in accordance with the context, which refers to the glory of His appearing; just as “the true God” is predicated of Christ, 1Jn_5:20. The phrase occurs nowhere else in the New Testament, but often in the Old Testament. Deu_7:21; Deu_10:17, predicated of Jehovah, who, as their manifested Lord, led the Israelites through the wilderness, doubtless the Second Person in the Trinity. Believers now look for the manifestation of His glory, inasmuch as they shall share in it. Even the Socinian explanation, making “the great God” to be the Father, “our Savior,” the Son, places God and Christ on an equal relation to “the glory” of the future appearing: a fact incompatible with the notion that Christ is not divine; indeed it would be blasphemy so to couple any mere created being with God.
Col 1:25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
Col 1:26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
Never mentioned in the 4 gospels not the Old Testament but is reveiled to us through Paul from the RISN CHRIST JESUS in heaven (Deu 29:29)
Col 1:27 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:
Col 1:28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
Col 1:29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Mystery and Victory
1Co 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
1Co 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1Co 15:52 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.
1Co 15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
1Co 15:54 So when this corruptible 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.
Eph 1:10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
He might gather together in one = to sum up (literally: "head up"). Greek. anakephalaioomai. See Rom_13:9. The verb in this place being in Mid. voice is reflexive, implying "for Himself" (compare verses: Eph_1:5, Eph_1:9).
Contents: Believer’s position in grace. The prayer for knowledge and power.
Characters: Christ, God, Holy Spirit, Paul.
Conclusion: The believer is vitally united to Jesus Christ by the indwelling Spirit, through the redemptive work of the cross, and has in Him all spiritual blessings, including the assurance of an eternal inheritance and the working of His mighty power in and through him.
Key Word: Spiritual blessings, Eph_1:3.
Strong Verses: Eph_1:3, Eph_1:4, Eph_1:7, Eph_1:13, Eph_1:14, Eph_1:22, Eph_1:23.
Striking Facts: Eph_1:22-23. Jesus is Head of the Church which is His Body and His Bride. As Eve was of Adam’s body, yet was his bride, so the Church born out of His opened side, is both the Body and the Bride. This gives Him complete disposal of all the affairs of the true Church to the designs of His grace.
The Mystery of the Gospel Revealed
Eph 3:1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
Eph 3:2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
Eph 3:3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
Eph 3:4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
Eph 3:5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
Eph 3:6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
Eph 3:7 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
Eph 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:
Col 1:25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
Col 1:26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
Col 1:27 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:
Col 1:28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
Col 1:29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
1Co 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
1Co 1:23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
2Co 5:14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
2Co 5:15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
2Co 5:16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
2Co 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; [The old nature] behold, all things are become new [We have newness of LIFE IN CHRIST In the BODY of CHRIST and SEALED THERE in HIM].
2Co 5:18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
Reconciliation is the message for all Ambassadors’ of Christ
Final Words
2Pe 3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
2Pe 3:15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
2Pe 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
2Pe 3:17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
2Pe 3:18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
Act 3:19 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;
Peter's Sermon at Pentecost
Act 2:14 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:
Act 2:15 For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
Act 2:16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
Act 2:17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, [seven years before the millennial reign] saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: [but it was delayed when Christ stood up as Spephen saw Him as He was stoned to death]
Act 3:12 And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?
Act 3:20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:
Act 3:21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
Act 5:34 Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, [Pauls teacher in the law] a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space;
Act 5:35 And said unto them, Ye men of Israel, take heed to yourselves what ye intend to do as touching these men.
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