Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Faithful Ministers of the Mystery

The ‘mid-Acts-ers’ spout about Paul being the ONLY ONE who had ‘the mystery’ .... well, not according to the scriptures! In this passage, we see that Paul, Apollos, and Cephas were ALL faithful stewards of the mystery:

1 Cor 3:21-23 Therefore let no man glory in men.
For all things are yours;
22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
23 And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's. (Keep reading on into the next verse in the passage.)
1 Cor 4:1-2 Let a man so account of us
(us, who? us in the context =Paul, Apollos, and Peter),
as of the ministers (Greek [huperetes] also translated ‘servants’) of Christ,
and stewards (Greek [oikonomos] like ‘dispensers’ from the same root word as [oikonomia] for ‘dispensation’)
of the mysteries (Greek [musterion] also translated in the singular, mystery) of God.
2 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

Do you listen to a FAITHFUL minister, who is TRUE to God’s Word (as found in the English language in the KJV), or do you hear an unfaithful servant?

Prov 20:6 Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness:
but a faithful man who can find?

If you’ve given your attention to ‘mid-Acts-ers’ .... you need to be looking around somewhere else.

This is David Dowell saying, "Think about it!"

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