^{WHAT DID YOU THANK THE LORD FOR?}

^{By: Bishop Albert Gran}

^{Colossians 1:12-13}

¹² Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

¹³ Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

This series of lesson was believed to be in gratitude and in appreciation of God’s wonderful blessings in our life which is something not made by our own but that which He had made for our benefits. Last time, we end up verse 11 and understand what seems our understanding would be regarding “God’s might according to his glorious power” corresponding all patience and long-suffering. The groaning without are His already designed will brought by the corrupt nature due to “sins punishment”. However, such groaning can be clothed upon with the might and power of God working in us by overcoming them through patience and long-suffering. Today’s discussion stressed out Paul’s continuing prayer for the saints at Collosae which in tune something made us think about God’s sovereign power working in us through His will written down in Paul’s epistles.   

  

¹² Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

The saints’ life services are down to earth humbly in appreciation and recognition to God’s special purpose which God had made for our completion. God the Father made us all very special because His plans are really for your sake. His plans caused every saint to live a life of gratitude after His will was known through us especially when you know the set heavenly blessings which He provided for you.

It’s evident in the fact mentioned above that the Father (whereby we cry Abba Father) authored today’s saints’ victory due to special form of completion along with His might and power brought by the effect of understanding His word and His will. This kind of understanding allows you to forbear sufferings and endure the same sufferings in life classified as our daily groaning while waiting patiently for God’s deliverance of our body which is the “adoption” (Rom. 8:22-24).

There’s a relative fact which I would like to reiterate for all the saints in particular who are members of the Body of Christ that the cause of our thanksgiving is in effect of the blissful inheritance of the saints in light.

The Body of Christ was designed by God Himself for His glory after that He protected His saints by giving them complete protection through all spiritual equipping in light with the gospel declaring our inheritance which for me something we possessed eternally in the heavens. That’s the nature of His blessings “heavenly” (Eph. 1:3).

The basis why each believer might and should be thankful to God the Father is because he truly understand what God had made him qualified for that inheritance He provided to the saints after becoming member of the church, the Body of Christ.
  

Many believers’ motivation causing them to thank much to God because of the reason of the supposed PHYSICAL BLESSINGS such as the substances they possessed and owned, healing from different infirmities as supposed God’s special miracle working in them. This is the concept taught way back under God’s physical dealing to Israel for the earthly kingdom. Let me clarify that I myself believed healing as far as God taught how we could be healed today. I also believed physical provision in accordance to how we could have physical provision today. Misconception lies when one conjectured that “we pure grace believers” didn’t believe any more physical healing and physical provisions.      

At the onset, these are not the real cause why every saint today should be thankful to God. We must be thankful because God MADE AS NEW IN CHRIST AND WE’RE QUALIFIED AS PARTAKERS OF THE INHERITANCE WITH THE SAINTS IN LIGHT. He made us all victorious each day in our life with the provision of special qualities which are the fruit of the spirit so we know how to live peaceably and godly in our devastated society. He provided us sound wisdom how to attain our physical needs which He entrusted in our hands and to sum up, these are all in effect of HIS WORD WORKING IN US THAT BELIEVED.   

The reason why we became partakers of the inheritance because it is His will and we all knew about this and in order to materialize, God revealed His will to us in His word. And, our understanding cause to obey in all truth because it’s His word or God’s word by all means. It’s His word telling you what caused your life offered how God made you His life-like image based on His will.

Now, let me expound to you any further what Paul calls “Inheritance of the saints in light”.     

  

¹³ Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

These things are God’s enactment how He made you partaker of the saints in light. God delivered us from the power of darkness and had translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son.

The reason why our life was classified as “more triumphant” because God after our completion  (as we are complete in Him) changed our status as no longer in agreement with Satan’s policy of evil which is the power of darkness. He already informed us that opposite to Satan’s cunning craftiness we can overcome it by doing what God wanted you to do in accord to Him and Him alone. Again, to be in accord with God it needs understanding what specific information from Himself only what He wants you today and in the context of where you must fit in God’s plan over the ages. Let’s all stick to Pauline instructions and believe it’s the recent instruction of God if you want to live UNDER GRACE.

Why as though many believers today still live in darkness? The reason for that is that they lack understanding as to the full capacity God had offered to them when they trusted the gospel of salvation. Appreciating more and more what God had made for yourself will cause you to all the more behave yourself in the household of God doing what is pleasing to Him.

Another noteworthy statement of Paul is …and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son”. We’re all sure that Jesus Christ’s kingdom promised to the members of the Body of Christ is not the kingdom he taught to the disciples which is to “COME ON EARTH”  but this kingdom signifies relative to the inheritance where we are seated in the heavenly places. That’s the fact why we are blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places.

Imagine that, when God takes you away from Satan’s control He also destined you to the kingdom of Jesus Christ. That’s the reason why Jesus Christ is our head. He’s the head of all members in particular. This is the real kingdom where everybody has to become a part of and not the sense where you are part of a denomination or religion made by man.

Just simply your alternative!

Grace and peace

        

   

UNDERSTANDING THE WILL OF GOD TODAY

^{UNDERSTANDING THE WILL OF GOD TODAY}

^{By: Bishop Albert Gran}

^{Colossians 1:10-11}

¹⁰ That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

¹¹ Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;

Let me continue this study folks through this point by point presentation of which you and me can dig treasure of wisdom in light with God’s plan. In our past episode I made emphasized Paul’s nature of prayer which is but for understanding of God’s nature and dealing in this dispensation of grace and that every believer must be filled with all wisdom and spiritual understanding.
  

On the other hand, relative to understanding, knowledge, and wisdom of God’s will these  things which I would like to expose were God’s enactment how he truly does in the life of every believer in this dispensation of grace.  

¹⁰ That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

The real sense effecting God’s word working in the life of every believer will produce a special kind of life pleasing unto the Lord. How can we be pleasing before the sight of the Lord? Many thought that as long as they are filled with God’s services, doing Christian pious and religious services regardless of understanding God’s plan in this dispensation of grace is already something they thought pleasing before God. This is just a speculative thought without God’s basis from the written word if it thus God would conclude man’s thought as something accredited to be the real basis of His approval. There’s no doubt if it thus the basis is GOD’S WORD. 2 Tim. 2:15 is respectively the answer for this “how to please God” cause and issue. The count of being worthy and pleasing before God comes FIRST IN RIGHT HANDLING THE WORD OF TRUTH (2 Tim. 2;15). Doctrine of knowing who God is  and His nature most especially what he’s doing today is the inquisition to know “WHAT IS HIS WILL” in the lives of His people (Body of Christ) without racial distinctions. Doctrine classifying what God is doing before in time past and what He is doing today is the primary privilege responsibility of man so he could determine that everyone’s works are counted before Him. This is the principle of being “ever zealous but have not come to the knowledge of the truth” (2 Tim. 3:7). However, this is not the principle through which every believer  must think about ”doing a work-based” thought without understanding first what sense God could count anyone worthy before the Lord BY FAITH (2 Cor. 5:7). In this dispensation of grace the emphasis is “UNDERSTANDING HIS WILL” in light with the revelation of the mystery for the Body of Christ with the reconciliation message offered to all lost sinners in this world, proving doctrines and manner of life in the tenet of GRACE and not LAW ( Eph. 5:17; Romans 6:14). This is the formula as far as I learned this verse proving our pure belief in accordance to God’s plan for the members of the Body of Christ in this dispensation of grace.

KNOWLEDGE OF GOD’S WILL       +         WALK  WORTHY    +          INCREASING IN THE  KNOWLEDGE OF GOD

(God's dealing Today)

Based on the above formula the basis of “worthy walk” is the knowledge of God’s will and that the end point is to produce an increased knowledge of God. Why increase knowledge? Because the foundation is the knowledge of His will which was made available in His word.

In this formula, Paul’s epistles will help us understand the light what “God’s will” today in this age of grace really suits His plan for the Body of Christ before the foundation of the world (Eph. 3:3-5; Eph. 1:4). What if the walk of every believer matches the time when God superintends Israel under the law? Is it right that it’s not in accord to the present time where God had set a new plan for Paul how every lost sinner could avail the sufficiency of God’s grace and him to have completeness of life through the glory which is in Christ Jesus?  

There’s a great contribution of Paul’s epistles which will aid your faith’s foundation if it’s your prerogative to please God in all your life. As addressed to all God’s called “workman”, God through Paul has instructed them to “RIGHTLY DIVIDE THE WORD OF TRUTH” and therefore he himself shall not be ashamed and BE APPROVED IN HIS SIGHT ( the idea of well pleasing) 2 Tim. 2:15. Proving what quality of work after being saved through and based on doctrine of grace with Paul is definitely the basis of a worthy walk when life comes out in the test of fire (doctrines of grace with Paul) with the foundation made of gold, silver, and precious stones. Thus, the idea of mixing doctrines is really out of His will in the context of today’s plan as grace and law working together to produce a life of defeat instead of victory.    

¹¹ Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;

There’s a sense I could share you in effect of those who walked in accord to physical-supernaturalists’ view with their doctrines of physical direct intervention with their so called faith-based principle “to see is to believe”. The strength they supposed to include in this verse or the might according to his glorious power could also mean physical strength. If it thus, then why the sense included “unto all PATIENCE AND LONGSUFFERING WITH JOYFULNES. If God acted directly in the provision of your physical affairs similar to the economy of law then why patience, longsuffering with joyfulness characterized each believer's life? If in your faith God’s might is something must be described to strengthen you so that you could move in accordance to what you wish for physical equippings through God’s special power of operation acted in your physical life then why as though many believers are destitute of those physical things? Where’s the idea of patience and longsuffering with joyfulness when God at the instance grant your physical complains in the supernatural way? Is your prayer doctrinal belief really suffice to meet the standard of God in our physical affairs to ‘GLORY IN TRIBULATION’, to labor with our own hands and eat our own bread, to charge not the gospel of Christ? Is the power of your prayers must be an exemption to change the ordained WILL OF GOD in our physical condition in our present time and to change the idea of what God had declared ….we’re suffering in pain together until now?

The fact is that there’s an idea you need to be informed what was really the ordained purpose and dealing of God today. The Scripture did not say it requires a supernatural giant or such like a member of Billy Graham’s prayer warrior team, or Pastor Rick Warren’s back up prayer lord in order to change what is the written will of God he revealed for us today through Paul’s written epistles so that the condition you wished to happen in your physical life shall be granted? Where is fairness in the sense or idea you succumb as the supposed major belief which thought to be traditionally right when one fails to comprehend to know His will with all wisdom and SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING? Is that not PHYSICAL UNDERSTANDING destroys our cause for SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING through which your concern would appeal to God in order to change HIS REAL CONCERN FOR YOUR LIFE with a body service OFFERED AS A LIVING SACRIFICE, HOLY AND ACCEPTABLE UNTO THE LORD?(Rom.12:1-2)  

Romans 8:5-8

 ⁵ For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

⁶ For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

⁷ Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

⁸ So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

Just to let you understand the sense of TRADITION  VS. TRUTH!

Grace and peace!

My thoughts about the Book of Collosians ( LET OTHERS LEARNED FROM YOU)

  

^{EXPOSITION OF COLOSSIANS 1:7-9}

^{By: Bishop Albert Gran}

^{This is a continuation message of yesterday’s exposition in the 1st chapter of Colossians}

⁷ As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;

Paul had set Epaphras a true ministerial pattern when he worked with the Colossians. He primarily set his life for the work of the ministry so that he could be learned by them. One thing they thought him about was his being a faithful minister of Christ. How interesting to consider you can be a faithful minister of Christ when believers learned from you about Christ. This is all believed that everything is in effect of the gospel. In this scenario wherein Paul is writing the epistle, Epaphras was with him and that Paul knew his affairs and the believers' spiritual establishment through him (Epaphras).   

    

⁸ Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

When Epaphras was with Paul he declared to Paul and Timothy about the Colossians love in the Spirit. It’s interesting to discuss “love in the Spirit” as many spiritualized and had sort of gimmicks in loving the Spirit. Many thought to love the Spirit connotes deep emotional and passionate feeling which characterized physical manners and action. Many thought it leads to speak tongues or utter words hard to understand. 

As the bottom line where Paul made sense the importance of the gospel which results fruit corresponding action in their respective service for Christ and through the commitments of God’s faithful minister Epaphras, Timothy and Paul, the Colossians' love in the Spirit can be made sense for their wholehearted acceptance of the truth of the gospel which they heard about by which it’s something made significant for them to obtain wisdom and enable them to be established in Christ for maturity.    

To love in the Spirit is to be affectionated by the things in the Spirit which is available in the tool of the Spirit which is the Word of God, and as fully equipped, it will produce fruits of the Spirit which make possible to a kind of sweet smelling service pleasing to God (Eph. 6:17; Eph.5:2,9)

⁹ For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

This kind of godly edifying report from Epaphras caused much Paul’s affectionate response so we might know his intents for the saints at Colossae. First thing he did is that he mind them through his prayer.And, his prayer corresponds to an intent, petition or request what believers opted to have for themselves as supposed they have to continuously acted upon. This is not something what he asked God to do for them but something what they must do to have known God’s will in their lives.Let me quote:  

“…. and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding”.

The question is whose desire is to be filled with God’s will, wisdom, and spiritual understanding? Obviously, it’s in US (believers). God gave already knowledge of His will, wisdom, and understanding considering the fact that we had his WORD, THE WRITTEN WORD (2 Tim. 3:16, 2 Tim. 2:15). But what man had lacked is the DESIRE TO KNOW HIS WORD AND HIS WILL.

To besought the Lord and ask for His will for HIS WORD without knowing the fact he already provided us His WORD is something ridiculous, senseless, and ignoring His will of giving us His complete WORD.

The written WORD IS ENOUGH for us to understand about the spiritual blessings of God and what condition the Body of believers had in this devastated society with the natural physical tendencies of the current worldly affairs brought by sin, and how we could live godly in it.

Many believers today besought the Lord to do something not in His mind or out of His will like PRAYING WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING (as the fact they supposed to pray IN THE SPIRIT in line with what it says in His word),and SINGING WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING.

More inspiring thoughts next….

Thanks for reading folks!  

My thoughts about the Book of Collosians (SAINTS AND FAITHFUL IN CHRIST)

SHORT EXPOSITORY MESSAGE

By: Bishop Albert Gran

Colossians 1

King James Version (KJV)

1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother,

Paul’s apostleship in matters of divine revelation cannot be disputed just to be an ordinary designation.

However, it’s a special privilege given to him as one born out of due time to dispense the truth of the gospel of God’s grace in this dispensation of grace. He was with a trusted co-worker Timotheus who’s Paul’s son in the faith when he wrote this book. 

         

² To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

This epistle was deliberately addressed to  believers at Colosse by whom Paul called them as “saints” and “faithful brethren”. These descriptions are worthy to glimpse who we are and how we could achieve it on the basis of the gospel of Jesus Christ. His knowledge caused spiritual maturity and edification so that we can be cheered by Paul in accordance to the will of God like the saints and faithful believers at Collose.

Another interesting feature as described in this verse is the inner might which God allow to produce within us to govern our heavenly position as saints and faithful believers in Christ, His "GRACE and PEACE". There’s no amount of physical things in this world which could overflow such tremendous blessing of God endowed to each believer in this dispensation of grace. “Grace” is something which God favorably offered to us as a privilege gift which we can’t do by and among ourselves while “peace” corresponds settlement of issues pertinent to our inadequacies through which God made in Christ on our behalf, and thereby it satiates God’s divine standard and His moral attribute being a righteous and magnificent creator.

It’s enhancing to consider that “grace and peace” were God’s supernatural intervention causing us to be always triumphant in every affair of our life as we walked with God as His dear sons in all His will.     

            

³ We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

Paul and Timotheus had their lives set as thankful servants of Christ. Thanking God for what He has done for us (that which we can’t) motivates among ourselves to passionately examine the noteworthy blessedness He gave us. Correspond to the purpose God set to Paul and Timothy pertinent to the truth of the gospel, they set their longings and consciousness by praying for the saints especially the faithful believers at Colosse. Paul and Timotheus’ prayers had much to say about the purpose of God in effect of the truth of the gospel opposite to what others prayed for them to be materially and physically equipped.

        

⁴ Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,

Paul and Timothy’s prayers are colored with these senses having intents always in result of the truth of the gospel ever since they heard it. They heard the Colossians “FAITH IN CHRIST”. Faith motivated by the truth and the purpose of which God actively involved in the lives of believers today, intervening their inner man to produce quality characteristics as ultimate adult sons of God. Their love which they have to all the saints were expressions of how they have known Christ in light with what they heard with Paul and Timothy regarding God’s revelation in the mystery of His will.   

⁵ For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;

This is the real purpose as being saints and faithful believers in Christ producing qualities in effect of the gospel set forth by Paul in view of direct revelation from Christ. Our victory through Christ in effect of “Grace and Peace” or the settlement motto Christ afforded to us today is something that leads to heavenly hope. Our prayers should be akin to the heavenly purpose through which the gospel preached by Paul, producing grace and peace in all areas of our life so that as we see and realize the heavenly calling of God it would produce COMFORT and JOY. And, we’re all the more rejoicing. How could it be made possible? It’s through the word of the truth of the gospel.      

⁶ Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:

It’s really significant that the truth of the gospel was appeared to all men. However, there’s much more blessings in effect of this gospel. Paul made it plain that such “bringeth forth fruit”. Believer’s lives must be colored in effect of the gospel through which Paul had received for the truth of this dispensation of grace and not based on the past administration of God revealed to Peter and the twelve for the earthly kingdom with its purpose. Colossians had this kind of life founded upon the truth which they heard with Paul and Timothy.

Another interesting feature is the description in bulk of truth which they heard about. Paul plainly emphasized with the phrase “KNEW GRACE OF GOD IN TRUTH”. It’s not about the grace brought in response to asking material blessings, prosperity, jobs, etc. This is about the grace of God which we have to know from Apostle Paul. The knowledge we received from Paul and his epistles were able to produce FRUITS in us. Why as though there were many doctrines in TIME PAST in the account of God’s previous administration leads and governed by many believers today directing towards EARTHLY HOPE AND CONDITIONS? Did we really know the grace of God in truth?

Thanks for reading folks!   

UNDERSTANDING DISPENSATIONAL TRANSITIONS

        By: Bishop Albert B. Gran

This issue is a very good topic which I emancipated especially for those who had background about Paul's revelation and the account in which the dispensation of the grace of God was committed to him (Eph. 3:2). I pray that this ministry of sharing Pauline truths through the ambassadorship commission that our Lord had entrusted on our behalf, and the cause to make known the fellowship of the mystery in this dispensation of grace, may have been chosen as one of the priorities and concern from among our folks who loved to study God's word rightly divided ( 2 Cor. 5:19-21, 2 Tim. 2:15, Eph. 3:9). This pure grace perspective embraced the profound marks of obeying the truth based on maturity and unity in the spirit through Pauline revelation.    

This delineation of truth in the "But Now" program has its unique presentation. You may ask why should you take today's instruction from Paul's epistles, Roman through Philemon? Reasonably, it's in the time of Paul by which the dispensation of the grace of God was committed to him. Dispensation would refer to the time management and a specific program of which you and me today both Jews and Gentiles gained delight and favor from our Almighty God. The purpose of God from ages to ages points you today who belonged and became part of Paul's time of which God designed you to become a heavenly citizen who declared the rightful joint heir with Christ. 

Many presumptive thoughts as per deliberated from our Christian folks cast doubt about the pure grace believers' stand for the cause of perfection and maturity in the doctrines. We called ourselves pure grace believers believing that Paul's revelation from Roman through Philemon was God's direct endowment of truth to us in view of comparisons brought by transitional delineation of revelation from fleshly manifestation to spiritual maturity or perfection. We followed Paul's scheme of handling the truth in all the scriptures or its entirety without corruption and deception (2 Cor. 4:2). Since not all of the revelation of God were written to us, we believed those as written for us. Rightly dividing the word of truth principle unveils complexities in understanding the scriptures. It's all but the "key" instructed by God for us to use and handle His word. Dispensational consideration of rightly dividing God's program in time also would help you find the truth and treasure of today's divine wisdom which is suffice to make your faith grounded in faith and love.

Let me explain to you what is a pure grace believer. The term itself pure grace believer was not found word by word in scriptures but it's all but the right identity for the members of the Body of Christ who really give importance to convey the truth of the gospel of the grace of God without mixing truths of scriptures which is classifying which truths were for our learning and which were for our application especially those of God's type of dealings with the physical nation of Israel having the principle "see the salvation of the Lord". I was once an ultimate preacher of God's word, through out of ignorance,  believing those instructions which were for us as though written to us and those instructions written to us were those same instructions revealed for us (the people not in our age or time in the dispensation of grace). You may find complexities to my statement how God revealed His words between "for us" and not "to us". We acknowledged that the truth of God's word to us and its application was revealed to Paul exclusively, and the prophets writings in the OT until John the Baptist with the 12 apostles headed by Peter represent the 12 tribes of Israel and those accounts recorded by Luke in the Pentecostal era until Acts 7-8 were for us and for our learning. Their distinctive objectives were far different to God's purpose which He purposed with Paul and his ministry. In God's dealing throughout ages, we give proper equation and value of the two sets of distinctive truths between prophecy and mystery, and we properly adhere today's application after knowing the time of Paul which we presently fit when God communicated to you directly through Paul's revelation.     

TRANSITION IN GOD'S DISPENSATIONS:

This idea is collaborated to the issue below as:

WHY PAUL QUOTE OT SCRIPTURES?

I have to lay the premise that Paul himself instructed us this principle of learning especially in dealing with previous accounts and other historical events under prophecy.

Romans 15:3-5

King James Version (KJV)

³ For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.

⁴ For WHATSOEVER THINGS WRITTEN AFORETIME WERE FOR OUR LEARNING, THAT WE THROUGH PATIENCE AND COMFORT OF THE SCRIPTURES MIGHT HAVE HOPE.

⁵ Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:

Mark well how sensible to believe that Paul knew how to apply past dealing accounts of God which were for our learning that we (members of the Body of Christ) might have hope. Clearly, it holds the idea to learn accounts in the past, declaring who God is in the past, how His magnificence, grandeur and glory was made known to all people THROUGH ABRAHAM'S SEED UNTIL CHRIST.     

"THAT WE THROUGH PATIENCE AND COMFORT OF THE SCRIPTURES MIGHT HAVE HOPE"

As we learn those accounts and past dealings of God during the commonwealth of Israel from the time God gave His PROMISE to Abraham and His seed purposely set to become a great nation, then on the accounts when the LAW was added, until its fulfillment through the seed who's Christ , it appears that the Gentiles and its independent blessedness, directly from Christ apart from the Jews and its rise,  underwent the process through patience and comfort so that the promised Christ who is the seed of Abraham might be our hope today through Paul's ministry. Take note that it's based on the promise when Abram believed God that his seeds will be like the stars in heaven and as the sands on shore. Our link to Abraham's faith occurred when he was yet in uncircumcision.  

The preaching of Christ today is relative to the gospel of uncircumcision which is called the gospel of the grace of God. "CHRIST" which is in you today is the "HOPE OF GLORY". How come? That's I believed through the gospel declared by Paul.

Let us be wise to determine the reason why is it that through Paul's apostleship, the mercifulness and grace of God was freely given to us so that the promise of eternal life will work to whomever believe the preaching of Jesus Christ in accordance to the revelation of the mystery. It's not on the account of knowing who was Christ on the flesh, though we had known Him as such during his earthly ministry.  

So, our understanding about prophetic scriptures is this: It's all but learning God's superintendence to His own people set by God as His channel of blessings to people in all nations through which principle declared by God in Gen 12:1-4. Know the fact that those blessings were categorically had physical and fleshly manifestations as those were for SIGNS  ( 1 Cor. 1:22).

The manifestation and declaration of our present hope has no connection whatsoever through Israel's blessings but contrarily through their "UNBELIEF" ( Rom. 11:29-31).      

TRANSITION UNDER THE LAW     

Galatians 3:23-25

King James Version (KJV)

²³ But before FAITH CAME, we were KEPT UNDER THE LAW, SHUT UP UNTO THE FAITH WHICH SHOULD AFTERWARDS BE REVEALED.

²⁴ Wherefore the LAW WAS OUR SCHOOL MASTER TO BRING US UNTO CHRIST, that WE MIGHT BE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH.

²⁵ But AFTER THE FAITH IS COME, WE ARE NO LONGER UNDER A SCHOOL MASTER.

Let's face the truth stated in this verse and see how the time in God's dealing with humanity encompasses transition. Having its light of understanding, I'm certain you would stick to listen to God's instruction pertinent to grace walk.

Notice that the present time we're in is called FAITH. Relative to this sense is the person of Christ who had justified us (remnants of grace), the present dispensation contrary to the past time of law, and the revealing of God's grace to us as the basis for our justification. The "faith" mentioned above is the FAITH OF CHRIST revealed and used by Paul as the basis of our salvation and justification (Gal. 2:16, 20). This faith is available in the "MY GOSPEL" of Paul.

Before "faith came", which I believed the revealing of Christ in this period of Grace or dispensation of grace wherein Christ has to be declared in accordance to the revelation of the mystery, we were KEPT UNDER THE LAW. There is actually a contrast between FAITH CAME  and KEPT UNDER THE LAW same type or contrast which is NOT UNDER THE LAW BUT UNDER GRACE or vice versa (Rom. 6:14).    

SHUT UP UNTO THE FAITH WHICH SHOULD AFTERWARDS BE REVEALED.... (The door of the ministry of the apostle Paul was yet closed when we were kept under the law.)

Instead of going back to the reverse scheme in the establishment of our grace ministry today ministers should know the very significant fact to acknowledge the truth that in God's time and dispensation with the past when we were kept under the law we're SHUT UP UNTO THE FAITH WHICH SHOULD AFTERWARDS BE REVEALED. This is I believed the revealing of the mystery of truth for both Jews and Gentiles without distinction in Christ's program for THE BODY OF CHRIST. Consider this passage:

Galatians 1:15-17

King James Version (KJV)

¹⁵ But when IT PLEASED GOD, who SEPARATED ME FROM MY MOTHER'S WOMB, and CALLED ME BY HIS GRACE,

¹⁶ To REVEAL HIS SON IN ME, (This is the account in Acts 9)  that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:

¹⁷ Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.

I was persuaded solidly that teachers and ministers who believed the sound message of God's grace must not go back to the time when they were KEPT UNDER THE LAW because THE FAITH has already come. Today is the time of FAITH or the present time where you can be justified by grace through faith apart from the law and the works of the law.

THE LAW WAS OUR SCHOOL MASTER...... Before faith came the law was our school master to bring us unto Christ. When we were under the law we were tutored what the law and its righteousness portrayed the real source of righteousness and justification which could be made available in Christ and something revealed by Paul in consonance

with his "MY GOSPEL". This mode of preaching was brought and delivered to us BY PAUL. Why Paul, because he's the minister and an apostle to the Gentiles wherein the dispensation of the grace of God was made known to him.

There is a dispensational transition when we're KEPT UNDER THE LAW or when we were SHUT UP UNTO THE FAITH. We cannot alter, invert, and mix them together. We need purity of understanding regarding this very important education that God wanted us to know. In the dispensational transition we're already IN THE FAITH and no longer KEPT UNDER THE LAW. So, what's the challenge of our very own apostle today for you grace ministers and preachers?         

²⁵ But AFTER THE FAITH IS COME, WE ARE NO LONGER UNDER A SCHOOL MASTER.

After knowing this dispensational distinction, know the fact brethren that WE ARE NO LONGER UNDER A SCHOOL MASTER

Instead of doing the reverse order or regressively uphold the fleshly doctrines under the law, stand independently by acting like a true matured soldier of Jesus Christ with the shining doctrines of grace. Go for purity and perfection through which your walk should be based on the pure message of grace not mixed with time when you were dependent by the rules and commandments under the law. The choice is yours and simply believe the gospel of the grace of God.

WILL PAUL SCOLD YOU OF YOUR IGNORANCE?

Galatians 3:1-3

King James Version (KJV)

3 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

² This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW, or BY THE HEARING OF FAITH?

³ Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

Where's the astute soundness of grace teaching and preaching when you commenced for the works of the law? Many grace preachers and teacher taught that the principles of the law in view of emphasis is something applicable in every dispensation. Folks, our grace walk has no law which could ever be violated because grace walk was motivated by LOVE. Such law principles as appeared to be in every dispensation or inter-dispensation could be dangerous because it might be an element of doubt to put yourself back to the time when you were KEPT UNDER THE LAW. Stick to the HEARING OF FAITH folks through the message of grace delivered by Paul to you based on the preaching of Jesus Christ in accordance to the revelation of the mystery.

I hope and pray many would see the light of this message. Thank you.

Grace and peace!