{"id":1851,"date":"2013-12-21T14:43:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T20:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1851"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:20:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:20:44","slug":"stewards-of-the-mysteries-of-god-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1851","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Stewards of the Mysteries of God.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cor. 1 4:1-2. Cor. 2 4:1-7, &amp; 5:17-20<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blind trumpeter of Pasadena 1941: Be ye reconcile. The greatest mystery of the ages is the mystery of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The greatest healing of all times is the healing of the soul.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I: The Mysteries of the Ancient Past:<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. It seems that we live in a day when every one likes a mystery.<br \/>\n2. We have the mysteries of the past told by archeology.<br \/>\n3. We have the mysteries of science that are guarded with great care.<br \/>\n4. There is the mystery of the A and H bombs.<br \/>\n5. There is the mystery of biological warfare.<br \/>\n6. There is the mystery of inhuman machines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II: The Greatest Mystery of the Ages and Eternity is How A<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Soul Can Be Born Again.<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. The Israelites were keepers of that mystery for hundreds of years.<br \/>\n<strong>a. <\/strong>They had the formula by which man could come to God.<br \/>\n<strong>b. <\/strong>They became self-centered and indifferent.<br \/>\n<strong>c. <\/strong>They refused more light and God took away their stewardship.<br \/>\n2. The Church has the stewardship of the good news in this age.<br \/>\n<strong>a. <\/strong>It is more mysterious than all the mysteries of the world.<br \/>\n<strong>b. <\/strong>It is more powerful than the A &amp; H bombs.<br \/>\n<strong>c. <\/strong>It cures the deadliest of all diseases known to man.<br \/>\n<strong>d. <\/strong>The gospel means the difference between eternal life and eternal death.<br \/>\n<strong>e. <\/strong>Ambassadors of Peace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: Stewards of the Mysteries: Keepers of the Springs.<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. &#8220;We have received mercy, we faint not.&#8221;<br \/>\n2. &#8220;We have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty.&#8221;<br \/>\n3. &#8220;We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord.&#8221;<br \/>\n4. &#8220;We have this treasure in an earthen vessel that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;We are Ambassadors of reconciliation.&#8221; Priest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>02\/07\/1971<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cor. 1 4:1-2. Cor. 2 4:1-7, &amp; 5:17-20 Blind trumpeter of Pasadena 1941: Be ye reconcile. The greatest mystery of the ages is the mystery of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The greatest healing of all times is the healing of the soul. I: The Mysteries of the Ancient Past: 1. It seems that we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1852,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions\/1852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}