So the Apostle said, I want you to account of us as stewards of the Mysteries of God. Now some people are going to get all shook up with the word “Mystery”. Because that word has attached to itself something that is rather spooky. It simply means a secret. A secret that once your told you know all about it. There is no mystery about it. It is something that God has kept some part of His purpose to Himself, as a wise General would do if he had a ruthless enemy. You don’t expect that a man who is in charge of a force to tell the whole wide word what his plans are before they start. Unless he is going to alter them all and deceive the enemy, which might be a good policy I suppose. And so God, as far as you get in the book, started with Genesis and by the time you reached Abraham your halfway through the old testament in time. Eleven chapters. And the rest of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, right away through to Malachi are the same length of time. Just the same length of time. From Abraham to the so called end of the old testament. God is specially concerned with that one nation and that one people. And their land. And their position that they are going to occupy one day by grace, a kingdom of Priests with all the world under their care. But then you know as well as I do that they failed. But was God taken unawares by that? Well, if He can foretell as He did so many things as the scriptures indicate we know full well that he wasn’t taken by surprise. He knew. But that doesn’t mean to say that they weren’t responsible. And so He had a secret purpose that He didn’t divulge. It wasn’t put in scripture. Until it became necessary and that is connected with the defection of the people of Israel.

So I am going to suggest to you for your own study, and if your helping some one else, that there are three mysteries, you see steward of the mysteries, there are three that should be considered together and in a certain order. Now if you come straight away into Ephesians 3 the person will say, I don’t know what your getting at. Or he or she will begin to bring in things which have to do with the New Covenant. Or he or she will link the mystery up to the New Jerusalem and speak about the bride. No, that is putting the cart before the horse. The first mystery that you will want to look at is found in Romans chapter 11. verse 25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery,..... Now what mystery is this? Ignorant of this mystery. What is it? Leave there and you might guess anything. But he goes on to say. lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. 26: And so all Israel shall be saved:..... So the Gentiles are coming in to a gap that was left by the defection of Israel, but God is going to keep His word with Israel and in the fullness of time they would be redeemed and saved and blessed.

So the first mystery that you should deal with in your own study or with others is this question of Israel’s blindness. Because the temptation of the person listening to you really doesn’t recognize that is to keep on bringing in something to do with Abraham or something to do with being a Jew or something to do with Jerusalem or something to do with prophecy. But you say, oh well prophecy, but presently we will see that this mystery was so effectually hid that no one could find it. Not even in the bible for it wasn’t there. Now this mystery of Israel’s blindness reaches its critical point in the last chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. Up to that period there had been, humanly speaking, a possibility that Israel would repent. You know that is the key word of the Kingdom. John the Baptist, “repent”. The first message of Christ, “repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand”. After Pentecost, “repent” “rend your hearts and not your garments”, “you are the children of the prophets”. And so we get right near to the end with the Apostle standing before his judges and speaking about the hope of resurrection. He said, unto which hope our twelve tribes instantly serving God day and night hope to come. By the way, with a little sarcasm to its sound, I think the Apostle wasn’t very well instructed because today the twelve tribes don’t exist. Two of them we don’t know where they are and the other ten are lost and we are supposed to be one and Great Britain the other and which is which I don’t know. But evidently the Apostle didn’t know anything about the lost ten tribes and neither did James for he wrote his epistle, James, or as his name is really, Jacob to the twelve tribes scattered abroad, greetings. And there is no suggestion that it ever came back, unknown. He knew, he was addressing people.

So the people of Israel remained as a people right through the Acts of the Apostles. So that Paul could speak right to the end of his period in the Acts of the Apostles. Unto our twelve tribes instantly serving God day and night hope to come. He had written to the Roman church and said, he longed to see them. But when he got there he sent for the elders of the Jews. Although he was longing to see the church at Rome he sent for the elders of the Jews. And he said to them, for the hope of the church, No, for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain. The hope of Israel begins in chapter one of the Acts of the Apostles, Acts 1:6 wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? ..... The people who said that had a 40 day bible study with the risen Christ as their teacher. And you mean to say that after 40 days of instruction out of the old testament they completely understood him, for you can read comments on the Acts of the Apostles that this was the Apostolic mistake number one. They aught to be talking about the “church” and instead of that they spoke about the kingdom. They said, therefore, as a consequence of 40 days of teaching they said wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?... And He answered And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. ..... And so we get Jew only. There were Jews from out of every country under heaven at Pentecost Acts 2:5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. ..... And there would have been a riot if there was any gentiles there. And yet you can read books that at that time the Jew and the Gentile was baptized in to one body and made the church. Pentecost is explained in Leviticus chapter 23. It was a law given by Moses to the people and they kept it the same as they did the others. When you get to the thirteenth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles the Apostle Paul is speaking, and he said verse 26 children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God,..... And the Gentiles asked him to speak again.

So the first part of Acts is Jew only. The second part of Acts is Jew and Gentile together. Now we get to the last chapter. He saw the elders of the Jews at Rome and he spent a whole day with them. Opening the old testament scriptures concerning Jesus. Notice it, Acts 28:23 And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening. ..... When they still manifested a hardness of heart and unbelief he quoted for the last time Isaiah chapter 6 Acts 28:26 Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive: 27: For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. ..... There eyes hardened and he said verse 28 Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it. ..... And he continued in his own hired house and he didn’t speak about Jesus, he spoke about the Lord Jesus Christ and he never said about the law and the prophets because what he was going to say wasn’t found in the law and the prophets. It was a secret or a mystery. That is where the Acts of the Apostles end. So when we are dealing with our selves in our studies or with one another remember the mystery of Israel’s blindness must be understood.

Lets look in the old testament to a book that will give us a hint. This is the prophet Hosea. Well it says that there are children born to this couple and in chapter one verse 9 Call his name Lo-ammi:..... “Lo” in the Hebrew language is the negative, not. “Am” is the word for a people or a nation. Like Abrah “am”. And Lo-ammi is near enough to “my” . Not people of my. Call his name Lo-ammi..... not my people. for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God. ..... When you read the Acts of the Apostles would you say that started at the first chapter? Second Chapter? Third Chapter? Well the God of Abraham is there. The God of the covenants is there. And the Apostle Paul who had a direct message to the Gentiles says, Romans 1:16 to the Jew first, and also to the Greek...... When you get a hint of the nature of the unity when he wrote the epistle to the Romans he spoke about an Olive tree. And the Gentiles were like a wild graft in to the true Olive tree. Well that’s not a picture of fellow members of One Body on equal terms. We’re not graphed in to any Olive tree of Israel. We are members of the body of Christ. There not on similar terms. So we have in this Hosea this fore shadowing. Lo-ammi, not my people. Lets look at chapter 3 verse 4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince,..... That seems to mean with out there own king and with out another king ruling them. Outside. The people of Israel are not now ruled by one Monarch. For the poor Jews in that army is fighting his brother in that army.

That is their position to day. without a prince, and without a sacrifice,..... A sacrifice must be offered at Jerusalem and it can not be offered in this country or that country. So there synagogue service is just a ritual and a consciousness that it is empty. Without shedding of blood there is no remission, in the old testament all over again, over and over again. So they are without a sacrifice. without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image,..... Israel went it to Idolatry early, but never since their blindness have they become Idolaters any more. They do withstand all idea of Idolatry. Then it says and without an ephod,..... And ephod is priests garment. They have no priest. If you went to a synagogue the man in-charge is the reader, not a priest. If he is there, the priest, one of the things he can do is pronounce the high priest blessings and take the redemption shekel . No work for the priest. That’s what has happened to Israel. They’ve got no priest. No king. No prince. And there is a speculation about the teraphim become some think, and it is possible, that its the genealogies of the people showing there relationship to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and so on. But any how they are devoid of these things. They haven’t got. verse 5 Afterward ..... Oh there is an afterward to it. Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days. ..... So the first mystery to be clear about is the mystery of Israel’s blindness. That it happened at Acts 28 and in the interval God is blessing you and me irrespective of covenants made with Abraham or relationship with Jews or their hope.

What is the next mystery that we should have in view. If you look at Ephesians chapter 3 you would find that there are two. Not one. Ephesians 3 where the Apostle claims as the prisoner of Jesus Christ for us Gentiles saying verse 3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; ..... So he is claiming that to him and to himself only had been revealed this mystery, this present purpose of God. Now when a person stands up and says, take it from me friends I have a revelation from God and nobody knows a word about but me, well you would be a little bit suspicious wouldn’t you. And so the Apostle, and so our Savior, do you remember that a man was once brought to Him sick of the palsy. They laid him at His feet and you know what our Savior said to him? Son, thy sins be forgiving thee Matthew 9:2 Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee. And Mark 2:5 Son, thy sins be forgiven thee. ..... Oh they said, this is blasphemy, nobody can forgive sins but God Matthew 9:6 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house...... If God permitted that then He proved His other case hasn’t He. So now lets follow this same line of argument here. Ephesians chapter 3 verse 4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) 5: Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed ..... leave that bracket out, that has only been put there by man. Don’t you see, he says there is a mystery of Christ quite separate from the mystery of the present dispensation. Its been unveiled in the scriptures from Genesis chapter 2. The seed of the Woman. Isaac and Abraham. And so on right away through. And he says, you compare my knowledge of the secret of Christ with any thing that has ever been written before. I’ve got the last word, he says.

Lets look at Psalm chapter 8. verse 4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? 5: For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. 6: Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: 7: All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; 8: The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. ..... Well you say, what does this have to do with our calling. Well, Ephesians 1:22 And hath put all [things] under his feet, and gave him [to be] the head over all [things] to the church, ..... In the old testament all things under His feet were sheep and oxen. What does Paul say in 1Corinthians chapter 15 verse 27 For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith, all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. ..... That is an extraordinary conclusion to draw isn’t it. All things under His feet were sheep and oxen in the old testament. He says that it is manifest that there is only one who is not under His feet.

Now some cleaver person had a brain wave. He said, lets get the computer to decide whether Paul wrote the epistle to the Hebrews. Lets look at Hebrews and see if we can get anything there. Hebrews Chapter 2 verse 7 Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands: 8: Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet...... Sheep, oxen? No. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him...... Then the computer said Paul couldn't have written the Hebrews. Well it’s the exactly the same thing he says in Corinthians. One exception only, I think that computer got mislead, don’t you? And again in Corinthians he said in chapter 3 verse 2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat:..... and in Hebrews it says your babes and you’ll be fed on milk and not meat. Oh, I think there is enough evidence that the Apostle Paul wrote the epistle to the Hebrews and the epistle to the Galatians was the covering letter because he wasn’t an apostle to the Hebrews. But that is another story.

The next thing is, first of all the mystery of Israel’s blindness. Now there is a mystery of Christ which has been growing through the scriptures. The mystery of Christ unveiled at His birth at Bethlehem, Emmanuel, God with us. That is a part of the secret of Christ. And so it comes through until you get the Apostle saying , now compare my knowledge of the secret of Christ with that of anybody else. Lets go back to chapter 3 again of Ephesians. You see he slips in this reference to the secret of Christ as a proof that the secret that had been hidden altogether had been given to him. Just the same as our Lord appealed to the man who was sick with the palsy. verse 1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, ..... Oh he says, I know I have made a claim. I have made a claim to be the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles. So he says verse 2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to youward: 3: How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, ..... Now then verse 4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) 5: Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed ..... That is a comparison. But this mystery that the Apostle says belongs to you and to me at this present time was hid in God and was hidden away from the generations. Well if it is hid in God how can you say it was partly revealed in the old testament? That is a contradiction. So the mystery of Christ was partly revealed but now is fully revealed. Going with that, when you get the full revelation of the mystery of Christ you’ve got that secret part of God’s purpose that belong to the seated Christ in heavenly places far above principalities That is where the Apostle comes in.

So we have the mystery of the people of Israel and their blindness. We have the mystery of Christ revealed to the Apostle with a fuller sense than any one else could claim. Then we have the Mystery with regard to the present dispensation. Lets look a little bit further down this chapter then. verse 8 Unto me,.... Once again the Apostle is making a claim. Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints,..... We can give him credit for being a humbled minded man. But if he was less than the least I don’t know where you and I come in, do you? Earthen vessels, and yet we can understand his attitude. When you are in the presence of the living God and the revelation of His word, the glory of Christ, the difference between one and the other is very small. So he said Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I..... that I..... that I should preach among the Gentiles the un searchable riches of Christ; ..... Paul says, I’ve got something that has never been searched out by anybody. Why? Because God never told it to anybody, but He has revealed it to me. And if you don’t like to except the Apostle’s word well then there is no other point is there.

So he goes on. verse 9 And to make all men see..... Our version says, what is the fellowship of the mystery. Now the word fellowship begins with the word “koi” and the word dispensation begins with the word “oik” and that is what happened. Have you ever copied out page after page after page hand writing? I am sure you wouldn’t be able to do it with out getting some little slips. And so practically all the manuscripts that have come down to us through the early ages, you see one poor slave has written the verse out twice and forgotten that he done it. And another leaves the verse clean out. But you say, oh we understand that. And this particular manuscript which the Authorized version had gotten the fellowship of the mystery and the manuscripts which had been brought to light with much more authority read the word dispensation. Well, you can take you choice for it comes about to the same thing in the end, but the evidence is that he said dispensation. what is the ..... dispensation  of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world..... Well that is far enough back, isn’t it. From the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:..... That couldn’t be shared by anybody could it. It was hid in God, till it was made known to Paul. So that means to say that you can’t listen to anybody who says, oh I know all about this mystery, there is Rebecca taking back as the bride of Isaac, say, tell me something else. Rebecca was a bride. Oh you say, the church of the body is the bride. Is that so? The church of the body is the bride? Lets have a look. It says of this body, this church, chapter 4 verse 13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man,..... Well you may say, well “man” includes woman and children. Oh yes, one word does. But this particular word is used in the next chapter two or three times and is translated “husband”. Now I am perfectly certain that if Paul was trying to emphasize that the church was the bride he wouldn’t have used the word that he was going to say in the next chapter that it was the husband. If that is not mixing things up, what is? Don’t you see, folks have been so obsessed by the Bride of the Lamb that there will be no poor Bridegroom up there when Paradise is restored again. People clean forgot that there can not be a bride with out a bridegroom. And so, the body of Christ is the perfect “husband”. Oh to think in chapter 4 the church is likened to a perfect husband and in chapter 5 it says, verse 25 Husbands, love your wives,..... And if you stop there you say, well what is the idea of putting that in scripture? Your supposed to love your wives aren’t you? Ah, but he didn’t say that. Oh didn’t he? No! Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; ..... Ah, that is a bit deeper than the average ordinary every day love of man to wife isn’t it? As Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it . So, there is the husband and there being prepared to be the perfect “man” or “husband”.

So we have the Mystery of Israel’s blindness being used by God to introduce the mystery of the present dispensation which when it runs its course and every member of the body is called and placed in its position, that will come to an end, and God will pick up the threads that have been laid down so long. And we are told that all Israel shall be saved. The old testament says that they shall look upon Him whom they have pierced and they shall morn for Him. And the nations that are left, oh what a tragedy in those words, after these people touch the buttons and let these things go off that they are all playing about, will go up to Jerusalem three times a year to keep the feasts of tabernacles and Israel will be a kingdom of Priests. And that is there destiny. In this particular witness, we are stewards of the mysteries of God. And if we are going to be stewards and be faithful we should have some conception of what has been placed in our trust. This is the peculiar ministry that we have been given. We do not set aside the gospel of the Grace of God. God forbid. We do not set aside the glorious doctrines of justification by faith. It is all there. But we say that in connection with that and resting upon that God has been putting something on that which He never told anybody. Till it looked as if the whole purpose of God had collapsed. Then He reveals as it says in the Acts of the Apostles, “no man forbidding him”.

Lets look at that last chapter which is Acts 28, because you do remember that Mark 16 says, verse 17 these signs shall follow..... Not may follow And these signs shall follow them that believe;..... And He picks out two things. verse 18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. ..... Now can you pick up serpents. Some people do try because they think it true and sometimes they are fatally bitten and die. But it doesn’t say, these signs may possibly but they shall. If Mark 16 is true of you none of us in congregation has any evidence that we are saved people. These signs shall follow them that believe. Now Acts chapter 28. The shipwreck has taken place and when they were escaped then they knew the Island was called Melita. verse 2 And the barbarous people..... You like that? They are barbarous people. But they showed no little kindness And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold. And when Paul had gathered..... Paul? The only one who had any gumption was the Saint, the Apostle, here are prisoners, here are sailors, here are these rough men but not one them, it is the Apostle Paul that gets a bundle of fire wood. And look what happened verse 3 And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. ..... Well you say, it might be just a grass shake, but you wait a minute and read this verse 4 And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live. 5: And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm. 6: Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly:..... These people knew what that serpent was if Paul didn’t. They looked to see if he would have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly. Don’t you see that miracles if they are not brought in to harmony with the will of God produce idolatry. These people said he was a god. Then verse 7 In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three days courteously. ..... They were a lot of nice people, barbarians with no little kindness then courteously verse 8 And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him. .....

The last chapter of the Acts of the Apostles is still fulfilling Mark chapter 16. You shall take up serpents and you shall heal diseases. For the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain. Israel goes right through the acts of the Apostles from chapter one to chapter 28. And there is the all day conference. Now at the very last verses, verse 30 And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him, 31: Preaching the kingdom of God,..... And some persons says, oh that is preaching the same thing because he has preached the kingdom of God up there in verse 23. But the kingdom of God is inclusive of all His sovereignty whether in earth or heaven or far above all. Whether it is men or angels or principalities you can’t be out side the kingdom or sovereignty of God. But he said, verse 31Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ..... The full title. You see, in the same context in verse 23 And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening. ..... But there is no law and prophets now mentioned. Is that an accident or is it part of the truth.

The mystery of the Church of the one body of the present dispensation of the mystery is not found in the law and the prophets. It is a mystery revealed the first time to Paul the prisoner and made know through his writings. So that ends up saying with all confidence, “no man forbidding him”. You say, you don’t need to bother about that. Wait a minute, that very word is used earlier in the acts of the Apostles when a Gentile came and Peter is a bit concerned. He says, Acts 10:28 And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew ..... I never called Peter A Jew, he called himself that in the Acts of the Apostles long after Pentecost And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; ..... Oh but Peter, don’t you know that the church started at Pentecost? He said, did it? I must have been a sleep then. Here is Peter, one of the leading ones at Pentecost telling a Gentile who asks him, asks him, the way of salvation. He says, I don’t quite no what to do about it. This is putting me in a bit of a fix. I’m a man that is a Jew, I, I, can’t deal with another from another nation. While he argued the point with him, God stopped the whole lot. And the man was baptized by the Holy Spirit and he had the gifts. What did Peter say, can any man forbid water. Can any man forbid, that was his attitude. No man forbidding. The same word. We live in a dispensation when no man forbids. The distinction between the Jew and the Gentile is wiped out. A Jew can believe the testimony of the Apostle Paul and become a member of the Body of Christ. Paul himself was a Jew and he was a member of the body of Christ. But he doesn’t come on with any terms of covenant privilege. He comes in just exactly the same as you or I who are Gentiles without hope, without Christ, without God, without covenants, without promises.

And so we have three mysteries entrusted to us. Stewards of the mysteries of God. The mystery of Israel's blindness, Acts 28, the dividing line. When they go out, the mysteries are revealed. The mystery of Christ made known in old testament, made know in the Gospels, but made known in its fullness to the Apostle Paul as he challenges. He says, where will read anywhere else that sheep and oxen in Psalm chapter 8 is pointing to all things under His feet to speak such an extent that God alone is the exception. And he says it twice over, once in Corinthians and once in Hebrews. Then we have the claims. In Ephesians. And in Colossians. verse 24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church: 25: Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfill..... Not to fulfill, that sounds if your filling a prophecy that has already been made. This is the other way around. To fill full. This completes the word of God. Now you upset some nice Christian people and they don’t know anything about the mystery, and you say, you haven’t got a complete bible. What do you mean, they say. This man says that this dispensation completes the word of God. And you don’t know a word about it so as far as your concerned you have got a incomplete bible. Of course do it gently. Even the mystery that has been hid from ages and from generations, in Ephesians it says hid in God, well if God hides can you find? I think not. It was revealed by God in His own time and in His own way to this man. But now..... that is present time  verse 26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: 27: To 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: 28: Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: .....