Not exact matches
Let others, fulfilling a function more august than mine, proclaim your splendours as pure Spirit; as for me, dominated as I am by a vocation which springs from the inmost fibres
of my being, I have no desire, I have no ability,
to proclaim anything except the innumerable prolongations
of your incarnate Being in the world
of matter; I can
preach only the
mystery of your flesh, you the Soul shining forth though all that surrounds us.
The phrase «Paschal
Mystery» presumably means everything involved in our Lord's passing over from this world and entering into his glory: his death, the descent
of his soul
to Limbo, his
preaching to the spirits who were in prison, the freeing
of the just souls, the Resurrection, the Ascension and perhaps also the sending
of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.
I thought straight away this is a joke as scriptures tell us only the father knows the time
of his sons return and hes keeping it
to himself he hasnt even told his son yet.Mark 13:32 This a
mystery isnt God all knowing and isnt Jesus God it is a
mystery.Yet I like that that is the case because it proves that the father is not the son and the son is not the father they are separate yet they are one just like the holy spirit.I have come across denominations that believe the father son and holy spirit are the one person i asked them how they can say that when Jesus was baptized we see 3 separate persons.We have enough information
to know that we are in the last days the signs are present and increasing.Ever since Israel became a nation the countdown has begun.The verse the enemy will come like a thief in the night i have heard
preached many times and i believe the preachers have got it wrong because they
preach it from the view for the church
to get there act together or you will miss out.This view is incorrect because if you are a born again believer following him in obedience and relying on the holy spirit you are not walking in darkness but are walking in the light so you will not be caught unaware as those who are sleeping this is a warning for those who are sleeping or walking according
to the flesh they are in darkness.Remember the 10 wise virgins the ones who were alert and keep refilling there lamps went in with the bride those who slept were left behind and so it will be when the Lord returns.Now is the time
to prepare our hearts and lives
to be ready for his return.It is an exciting time
to be living and we are
to live in the expectation that the Lord could return at any time brentnz
According
to I Timothy 3:16 (KJV); «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.
Paul's parenthesis has so far explained why he is a prisoner, what the plan
of the
mystery revealed
to him was, and how he individually was called by God
to preach to the world about this
mystery, Jews and Gentiles.
Second, in verse 9, he was
to preach about the fellowship
of the
mystery which is the truth found in Ephesians 2.
Jeremy thanks for your comments alot
of this i never really thought about before until you provoked me
to seek the truth in the word it is what we all should be doing finding the truth for ourselves God wants
to reveal
mysterys if we are open
to hear.If we have been christians awhile we just take the word
of whoevers
preaching or whichever clip we see on god tube its knowledge but not revelation.Because the story sounds plausible we tag that on
to our belief for example for many years i believed that the rich young rulers problem was money so the way
to deal with that problem is
to give it away and be a follower
of Jesus sounds plausible.Till you realise every believers situation is different so the message has
to be universal.So the reason its not about money because it excludes those that do nt have it and does nt make room for those that do have it but do nt worship it.The rich young ruler was not a bad person he lived by a good moral code but he made money his idol he put that before God.The word says we shall not have any idols thats a sin and a wicked one.In fact there wasnt any room in his heart for Jesus that is a tragedy.So when we see the message is about Idolatry we all have areas that we chose not
to submit
to God thats universal everyone
of us whether we are rich or poor.I believe we are unaware that we have these idols what are some
of them that was revealed
to me our partners our children our work our church our family i can sense some
of you are getting fidgetty.
Paul, the prisoner
of Jesus Christ, was revealed the plan
of the
mystery and as a result he
preached about this
mystery to all.
that I should
preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches
of Christ, and
to make all see what is the fellowship
of the
mystery,
Your (task) is this:
to complete the
mystery of preaching!
«
To confidently live in the light
of the
mystery that we
preach: Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again... Persevere onward; follow the way.
He then goes on
to draw out certain implications
of these fundamental beliefs, part
of which he describes as a «
mystery,» that is, surely, as belonging
to that «wisdom» which should follow upon the apprehension
of the
preaching of «Christ and Him crucified.»
I thought
of Paul on his first
preaching trip
to Corinth: «When I came
to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming the
mystery of God
to you in lofty words or wisdom.