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11-29-2020 weekly message

Meditation of the week: Psalms 91:1-16

Text: Ephesians 6:10-24

Title: The mystery of the gospel to be preached by the ministers of  Christ boldly

        The Apostle Paul finally asked the Saints to pray for him to boldly preach the mystery of the Gospel. At that time, Apostle Paul was imprisoned because of  preaching the mystery of the gospel.

        When he wrote to the Saints of the Corinthian church, he testified that the devil of the world blinded mind of  people:

” 3But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

4In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” (2 Corinthians 4:3-4)

          Apostle Paul was the only one that  received the gospel of Christ directly from Christ. All the messages he preached are mysteries revealed in the Gospel. The mysteries he preached are hated by Satan the devil.. Therefore, even in the end times today, Satan  is constantly persecuting the ministers who preach the mysteries of the gospel condemning them who preach the mysteries of the gospel as heresy. The devil disguises his servants as  Christ’s servants so that they try to blind people from the mysteries of the gospel of Christ. How blessed are those who understand the mysteries of the gospel?

         Apostle Paul testified of the mystery of godliness:

          “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.” (1 Tim. 3:16)

     This mystery of godliness is the one that the devil hates most. In the past,  Satan’s servants such as the Pharisees and the Scribes, persecuted Jesus, because he claimed to be God, and agitated the Jews  and executed him on the cross.

         When Apostle Paul wrote to Titus, he clearly testified that Jesus Christ is God:

” Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.” (Titus 2:13-14)

          Apostle John, who testified of himself as a beloved disciple, also testified of the mystery of godliness:

“And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.” (1 John 5:20).

            In addition, Apostle Paul testified that within them all that believe in Christ and receive Him as the Lord and Saviour wholeheartedly, through the Holy Spirit, Christ dwells mysteriously:

” Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:

27To 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. 1:26-27).

“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.” (Gal. 2:20)

         Apostle Paul testified to the members of the Corinthian church that they have to examine themselves whether they are in the faith:

” 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?6But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.” (2 Corinthians 13:5-6)

           Apostle Paul testified that Christians living with Christ on earth in the church of God have  mysterious spiritual relationship with Christ, and  he also  made the church as a pure virgin to be led to Christ:

” For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 32This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.,” (Ephesians 5:30-32)

“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.” (2 Corinthians 11:2).

           Apostle Paul also testified of the day of Christ when Christ appears in the air to marry with the church of God unto the churches of Thessalonica and Corinth:

”   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: 17Then 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. 18Wherefore comfort one another with these words.” (1 Thessalonians 4:16-19).

“Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52In 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.

53For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.” (1 Corinthians 15:51-53).

         Apostle John testified of  the day of Christ that is the day of Rapture saying he heard the voice of Christ, and   he ascended to heavenly throne of God in a twinkling eye:

” After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.

2And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.

3And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald..” (Rev. 4:1-3)

           Apostle Paul testified to the Thessalonians church members about the day of the rapture as well as the mystery of iniquity. He testified that the Antichrist, the son of perdition, shall appear. There shall be an appearance of the antichrist who is going to take the whole world into the Great Tribulation for the judgment of God.  But our Lord Jesus Christ will lift up his bride, the Church, into heaven before the Great Tribulation to come:

” For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

8And 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: ” (2 Thessalonians 2:7-8)

         Apostle John wondered when he saw another Roman Empire as the Great Babylon appearing during the Great Tribulation. He shouted at seeing another Roman Empire that had persecuted him and sent him to Patmo island:

“And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: 2With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

3So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

4And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: 5And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

6And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration..” (Rev. 17:1-6)

         A woman called as whore, dressed in purple and scarlet, decked with gold, precious stones and pearls, holding a gold cup in her hand, calling herself the Holy Father. It is so easy to know who is. It is he that is ruling the whole world in the City of Vatican. This woman is drunken with the blood of the saints (Jews), and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus (Christians) under the  rule of Roman Church as well as in the World War II by Nazi supported by the same church.

           Apostle John more concretely testified of this whore’s identity:

” And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth..” (Revelation 17:18)

         Apostle John testified that during the Great Tribulation the devil shall be cast down to the earth, and persecute  God’s people:

” And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.

14And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.” (Revelation 12:13-14).

         Knowing that the Israelites shall inherit the earth forever, Satan the Devil has been relentlessly pursuing plans to sweep away  the Jews from the face of the earth. Even most of the churches of God have been corrupting their theology to be replaced with replacement theology arguing the promise of God for  Israel already void so that the church of God received the promise of Abraham instead. But even if God had been disciplining them because of their sins But when they repent in the future, God will restore them and make them a nation of priests in the kingdom of Christ. Apostle Paul testified of the mystery of Israel:

” 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. 26And 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: 27For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.” (Romans 11:25-27).

            Apostle Paul testified of the vocation of the ministers of Christ:

“Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the myteries of God. Moreover it is requried is stewards, that a man be found faithful.”(1Cor, 4:1-2)

Therefore whosoever called as preacher must preach the mysteries of God boldly overcoming persecution whatever kinds may be. And saints have to support preachers with prayer and supplication with endurance.

Amen! Hallelujah!