INTRO: In the last message we began to look at Paul’s second digression from sharing his prayers for the Ephesians. In sharing his prayers for them, when he was reminded of the marvel of the salvation of the Gentiles he took time to speak of it. And so it took us through chapter 2.
Then in chapter 3 he set out once more to share of his prayers for them, and once more his thoughts were interrupted. This time the thought that caught him was how the Lord had some years ago revealed something to him that had never been known from the foundation of the world. That was the mystery of the Church. When Paul got saved, one would think that he would have remained with the Apostles to get trained by them. But instead the Lord removed him from them, led him out to a place by himself, and there He trained him Himself. And there, I believe, God revealed the mystery of the Church to him. We will see this later.
We considered the meaning of what a mystery is. It is that which only the initiated understand. The longer I preach and teach the greater the wonder of the Church becomes to me. There is the universal Church. But it has no central city or country here on earth. There are no preferred customers. There is no head, such as a pope or a bishop over all the others. The capital city of the Church is in heaven and the leader is in heaven.
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