Administration Ages Beginning Bring Cause Christ Clear Concealed Create Created Creator Dispensation Enlighten Fellowship Hid Hidden Kept Lay Mind Mystery Ordering Past Plan Secret Stewardship Throughout Truth
3:9 And to make all [men] see. Jews as well as Gentiles.
What [is] the fellowship of the mystery. The office or stewardship of this mystery. It was demonstrated in his apostleship to the Gentiles.
Which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God. It was from the beginning God's purpose to save the Gentiles by the gospel, but it had been kept hidden.
3:9 What is the fellowship of the mystery - What those mysterious blessings are whereof all believers jointly partake. Which was, in a great measure, hidden from eternity by God, who, to make way for the free exercise of his love, created all things - This is the foundation of all his dispensations.
3:8-12 Those whom God advances to honourable employments, he makes low in their own eyes; and where God gives grace to be humble, there he gives all other needful grace. How highly he speaks of Jesus Christ; the unsearchable riches of Christ! Though many are not enriched with these riches; yet how great a favour to have them preached among us, and to have an offer of them! And if we are not enriched with them it is our own fault. The first creation, when God made all things out of nothing, and the new creation, whereby sinners are made new creatures by converting grace, are of God by Jesus Christ. His riches are as unsearchable and as sure as ever, yet while angels adore the wisdom of God in the redemption of his church, the ignorance of self-wise and carnal men deems the whole to be foolishness.
Administration Ages Beginning Cause Christ Clear Concealed Created Creator Enlighten Fellowship First Hid Hidden Jesus Kept Light Mind Mystery Ordering Past Plain Plan Secret Show Stewardship Throughout Truth World
Administration Ages Beginning Cause Christ Clear Concealed Created Creator Enlighten Fellowship First Hid Hidden Jesus Kept Light Mind Mystery Ordering Past Plain Plan Secret Show Stewardship Throughout Truth World
