Stewards of the Mysteries of God

Cor. 1 4:1-2, Cor. 2 4:1-7, and 5:17-20

Blind trumpeter of Pasadenia, (1741 Beya Reconsile).
The greatest mystery of the Ages is the mystery of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

I: The Mysteries of the Ancient Past:
1. It seems that we live in a day when everyone likes a mystery.
2. We have the mysteries of the past told by Archeology.
3. We have the mysteries of Science, that are guarded with great care.
4. There is the mystery of the A and H bombs.
5. There is the mystery of Biological Warfare.
6. There is the mystery of inhuman machines.

II: The greatest mystery of the Ages and Eternity is how a soul can be born again.
1. The Israelites were keepers of that mystery for hundreds of years.
a. They had the formula by which men could come to God.
b. They became self-centerd and indifferent.
c. They refused more light and God took away their Stewardship.
2. The Church has the Stewardship of the good news in this age.
a. It’s more mysterious than all the mysteries of the World.
b. It’s more powerful than the A and H bombs.
c. It cures the deadliest of all diseases known to man.
d. The Gospel means the difference between Eternal life and Eternal death.
e. Ambassadors of Peace.

III: Stewards of the Mysteries: Keepers of the springs.
1. “We have received mercy, we faint not.”
2. “We have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty.”
3. “We preach not ourselves but Christ, Jesus the Lord.”
4. “We have this treasure in an eathern vessel that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us.”

“But if our Gospel be hid, it’s hid to them that are lost.”
We are Ambassadors of Reconcilation. Priest