<TITLE>10. Par 96-103</TITLE>L-96   Now I want you to turn to the Book of Colossians, the 1st chapter of Colossians. And then while we read this, beginning with... I want you, when you go home, to read the entire chapter of these Colossians. But I want you to read this morning, with me, from the 15th verse, 29th, inclusive.

L-97 And now just be as patient as you can, for I feel that in this here, if God will help me, will reveal and bring into your mind all these other things that I have talked on all through the days of the tabernacle; why I have said what I've said, and why I have done what I have done. This is why.

L-98 Now from the 15th verse.
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in the earth, visible... invisible, whether they be thrones,... dominions,... principalities,... powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminences.
For it pleased the Father that in him should be all fulness dwelt--should all fulness dwell;

L-99 Let me put a little emphasis on that again, this 19th verse.
For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
Watch where that reconciliation went.
And you, that were sometimes alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, you now has he reconciled
In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy... unblameable... approvable in his sight:
If you continue in the faith grounded and settled, and not be moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is bound... behind of the affections of Christ in... flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:
Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
Even the mystery which has been hidden from age and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:

L-100 And I want to read that verse again.
Even the mystery which has been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
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:
Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we might present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
Whereunto I also labour, striving according to the working, which worketh in me mightily.

L-101   Now for a text I want to take out of there, this for a text, basing it upon the entire Bible, but I want us title this: Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed. Christ being the mystery of God revealed! Now, I took it in order as a Sunday school lesson, so we could all read together and--and have this fellowship together.

L-102   Now, God's secret mystery, He had before the world began. Now, back in the back part of God's mind, there was something that He was trying and was going to achieve, and He had a motive in doing it, in order to let Himself be expressed. Because, first, there wasn't even a moon, star, atom, molecule, or anything. He was God. But He exactly wasn't God at that time, because God is an object of worship, and there wasn't nothing to worship Him.

L-103 So, in His great mind, He wanted these attributes to be expressed. And in Him was love; in Him was to be Father; in Him was to be Son; in Him was to be a Saviour; in Him was to be a Healer. And all these great attributes that we see already expressed, they were in God.


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