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Paul wants the Gentiles in the BoC of Christ to remember who they were and what God has done for them. Anyone who is disobedient and does not believe the gospel are "children of wrath." Paul talks about how God has spiritually quickened them in Christ who were spiritually dead. Salvation is a gift of God that is received by faith, it does not depend our our works, it is separate from and works we have done, it is 100% the work of God and 0% man. The Son of God, Jesus Christ, shed His blood on the cross so we can receive His Spirit. Christ's life gave dead spirit in a new group of people . . . life! Our sin was in our mortal flesh so God could give us a new body. Paul explains that the body of Christ is composed of both saved Gentiles (uncircumcised) and individual saved Jews that have believed what the Son of God did (1 Cor. 15:3, 4). Three Time periods: Time past (2:11, 12), but now (2:13), ages to come (2:7) In this section (2:19-22) Paul returns to writing about the mystery of His will (Eph. 1:9-11). Jesus Christ is the Chief Cornerstone (Eph. 2:20; 1 Peter 2:6). The body of Christ has an inheritance in the Kingdom of God (1:10, 5:5), the household of God (2:19), the Temple of God (2:21), the Habitation of God through the Spirit (2:22) the Family of God (3:15).

Apostle Paul introduces us to the Father's purpose and destiny for the body of Christ and plan to exalt His Son as preeminent ruler over heaven and earth. We often find the Son more approachable than the Father, of whom we have holy fear and respect, but the Father loves us just as much. It is essential to know that both the body of Christ (boC) and the dispensation of grace began in Acts 9 with the salvation of Saul of Tarsus (Paul) on the road to Damascus. Jesus Christ is our Saviour but He mad Paul our apostle. Apostle Paul salutes the Ephesians and any other believer who reads this letter. Paul had probably heard about the new believers in Ephesus from Tychicus. The growth of the body of Christ was exceedingly encouraging to Paul. After an outflow of praise for our spiritual possessions (1-14), Paul prays for our spiritual enlightenment to understand the mystery our formation and place in heaven (15-23). Spiritual Blessings: 1) Chosen (Eph. 1:4) 2) Predestinated (1:5) 3) Accepted (1:6) 4) Redeemed (1:7) 5) Purposed (1:9) 6) Sealed (1:13) 7) Inheritance (1:14)

God is not mocked Do not be fooled into thinking that God does not know who is serving Him in obedience to Pauline doctrine, because He does. Sowing and reaping. Works of the law by self effort reap corruption (they are useless, with no eternal value). But those who walk in the Spirit produce fruit with everlasting value. We reap a reward at the Judgment Seat of Christ (2 Cor. 5:10). What the flesh produces will burn, but what the Spirit produces will last. Only the fruit of the Spirit yields eternal benefit. We need to stand fast (firm) in our position in Christ and to live by faith following our risen Lord's instructions through Apostle Paul. New creatures have the Spirit of the Son of God and are in the body of Christ. The "Israel of God" that existed in Paul's day died out in the 1st century. We cannot be who God intends us to be without the Spirit of the Son of God. A "fair shew in the flesh" is Jewish rituals. We are not under Israel's instructions. Paul glories in the cross of Christ, not in what he can do in the flesh. John 3:16 is about Gentile salvation into the kingdom on earth through Israel during Prophecy, and is not about Gentile salvation into heaven during Mystery apart from Israel. John 3:16 does not mention Christ's death, burial, and resurrection for our sins in Mystery. Today, God is saving all lost people (Jews and Gentiles) into the body of Christ during Mystery. Satan does not mind if we follow Peter (and preach Israel's doctrine) or mix Peter and Paul . . . for only rightly dividing Pauline believers are a threat to him.

How can we produce the fruit of the Spirit? What does it mean to be lead by the Spirit? Apostle Paul had receive word that the Galatians were trying to control their flesh by keeping the Jewish laws. When they listened to the instructions of the Judiazers they (1) removed themselves from Paul (2) were troubled by teachers of the law (Gal. 1:6-9). Now that Paul has corrected their error of leaving the grace and going under God's instructions to Israel, Paul says "stand fast" or stay where you are.

Paul explains that Christ (the promised Seed) that in the "fullness of time" (according to Daniel's timeline) Christ came to redeem them that were under the law. The law of Moses was in effect when Jesus Christ was on earth. At the prophesied fullness of time (Dan. 9:24-27) Jesus Christ came into Jerusalem riding on a donkey on Palm Sunday proclaiming to be Messiah the Prince 483 years after Nehemiah finished the wall (Neh. 2:6). We are living in a gap before the last 7 years of Daniel's 490 years. The allegory has to do with two covenants. The Mosaic is works of the law done in the flesh (earning our righteousness) the other Abrahamic is the imputed righteousness of Christ (the Spirit of the Son of God in us) received by faith and lived by faith in the good news God gave us (1 Cor. 15:3, 4) and Christ’s instructions through Apostle Paul to us who will live in heaven (Rom. 15:16; 2 Cor. 5:1; Eph. 2:6). After Israel had a chance to be redeemed under the law, then grace could be offered to the Gentiles by faith. The Tribulation will begin when Antichrist signs the 7 year agreement with unbelieving Israel to offer animal sacrifices in the rebuilt temple in Jerusalem. Antichrist will break the agreement in the middle of the Tribulation at the end of 7 years is Christ's 2nd Coming. In chapter 5 we will learn how to live a victorious life now.

How are we Abraham's Seed? Galatians is a pencil drawing of the oil painting that Romans is. Apostle Paul received progressive revelation from Jesus Christ. Paul asks the Galatians 5 questions to make them think. The Galatians were dissembling and not being loyal to Paul and his instructions to them from Christ. Like Peter, they were going back to eat at Israel's table. But the Israel of God (circumcision) was on hold and God is forming the New Creature (uncircumcision) which is neither Jew nor Gentile. Paul calls Peter's group the "Israel of God" (Gal. 6:16) because they believed God in prophecy, but they were placed on hold or paused in Acts 15 at the Jerusalem Conference (Acts 15:1-32; Gal. 2:7-9). During mystery, God is forming a "new creature" (Gal. 6:15) of saved Jews and Gentiles to live in heaven. Today, Gentiles are saved apart from going through Israel's priests or blessing Israel, by simply believing directly on Jesus Christ (1 Tim. 2:5).

Did Peter and Paul preach the same thing? Why was it significant that Peter left Jerusalem to go to Antioch? Paul withstood Peter to the face, why? Paul would not have gone up to communicate "that gospel" which he preached among the Gentiles if it was the same gospel that Peter preached. The Holy Spirit in the apostles helped them understand God's secret program him from Satan. At the Jerusalem Conference, Peter understood not only Paul's gospel and the mystery, but that his group was on hold so God could form His heavenly group, the body of Christ.

Expository teaching of Galatians Chapter 1. Paul is our God-appointed apostle. Pervert the gospel of Christ? Accursed? Apostle Paul had received word that the Galatians were trying to control their flesh by keeping the Jewish laws. Paul hurriedly wrote the Galatian letter to try to keep them from following Israel's instructions, like being circumcised (which is not the instructions for the body of Christ). The Judaizers did not recognize Christ's dispensational shift or Apostle Paul. Satan was trying to make the body of Christ unable to serve God (Rom. 6-8). We cannot mix Peter (law) with Paul (grace).

Apostle Paul wants the Corinthians to understand the ministry that Christ gave to him, and separate from false teachers before he arrives. Reprobate? How do we examine ourselves to be sure we are in "the faith"? Paul wrote, "That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us" (2 Tim. 1:14).

Paul said "paradise" is in the third heaven (2 Cor. 12:4). "Paradise" is mentioned two other times in Luke 23:43 and Rev. 2:7. What was Paul's "thorn in the flesh"? Believers "sinned already," what does that mean? While on earth Jesus Christ gave Israel the sign of the prophet Jonas, "For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth" (Matt. 12:40). Paul knew that if the believers in the body of Christ did not listen to him they would end up in spiritual darkness and ignorance of Christ's instructions to them through him in Romans to Philemon. We are commanded to "Study . . . rightly dividing the word of truth" (2 Tim. 2:15). The major divisions in the Bible are between prophecy and mystery.

Godly jealousy. Warning of false teachers. Boasting in the Lord. The battle is for their minds, right thinking precedes right action. Another Jesus, another spirit, another gospel? Paul wanted to present the body of Christ as a chaste virgin (purely Pauline) to Christ. Why was Paul offended? How can we tell if someone is a false minister? If they do not preach Christ according to the revelation of the mystery given to Paul (Rom. 16:25, 26a).

How do we pull down Satan's strong holds? What does casting down imaginations and bringing every thought captive to Christ mean?

Paul says "be ready" two times. What is the reaping and sowing principle? What is the "unspeakable gift"? Is God intervening today? Is God silent? Christ's thoughts are in the wisdom and poetry books (Psalms to Song of Solomon). God used the body of Christ to help the "little flock" (Luke 12:32). Rightly dividing Pauline believer

Expository teaching of the book of Revelation verses in the King James Bible regarding the Great White Throne Judgment of the lost and the Lake of Fire. Jesus Christ said that Lake of Fire was created for the Devil and his angels in Matthew 25:41. Dispensational teaching "rightly dividing the word of truth" (2 Tim. 2:15). Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

Does God care about how we spend what is in our wallet? Why were the kingdom on earth saints poor? God used the body of Christ to help the "little flock" (Luke 12:32). World . . . upside down? . . . These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also" (Acts 17:6b). It is NOT just a fairytale, all believers will live happily ever after in the Kingdom of God, in Heaven or on Earth (Eph. 1:9, 10). Expository teaching of 2 Corinthians Chapter 8. That is why God wants you to be saved, just believe "For I [Paul] delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how [by crucifixion] that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures" (1 Cor. 15:3, 4).

Paul continues his discussion of the doctrine of separation. What is the "filthiness of the flesh and the spirit"? Flesh = sinful actions Spirit = thoughts contrary to God Paul discloses his own worries and fears. If we put ourselves under the law then we become like the Pharisees, judgmental, legalistic, and critical. If our eyes are on ourselves we can have the "sorrow of the world" which leads to self-pity, blaming others or ourselves which leads to depression, self-absorption, defeat, and suicide (remember Judas?). We need to turn our eyes upon Jesus know what He is doing now. Paul sent Titus to tell the believers to follow him to follow Christ (1 Cor. 11:1).

Did the body of Christ begin at the cross, in Acts 2, or in Acts 9? How can a believer be an enemy of the cross? What is "the unclean thing"? What is the doctrine of separation? Why does Paul say that God can be our Father, isn't He already our Father? Paul is a Father to all believers, but right dividers are especially useful to Him. Paul is talking about not being yolked together with believers that are not Pauline, he is not talking about marriage (Paul already said that believers should only marry in the Lord in 1 Corinthians chapter 7), but that we should depart from ministers who are not following Paul. Paul said in essence we tell you all the truth Christ has reveled to us because our heart is full of love for you. Paul knew that if they did not listen to him they would end up in spiritual darkness and ignorance of Christ's instructions us in mystery 1 Cor. 14:37, 38; 2 Tim. 2:15, 16.

Paul warns about the battle for our minds. Satan always opposes what God is doing. What is the "glorious gospel"? What is the treasure in earthen vessels? Paul said both "faint not" and "life of Jesus" twice in this chapter. We are not going to be cowards but we are going to share the gospel and the mystery so others can be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. We want as many as possible to join us in glorifying Jesus Christ in heaven. We are ministering His Spirit, no one can take part in the Rapture if they do not have the Spirit of the the Son of God (Romans 8:9).

In 2 Corinthians Chapter 3, Paul contrasts the Law of Moses with his New Testament ministry. Christ's instructions through Paul is what is valid today, not the preaching of the Hebrew legalists in the past or in the present. How does the New Covenant differ from the New Testament? A testament is a will that goes into effect after the testator dies (Heb. 9:16). A covenant is an agreement or contract made between two or more persons. Commend means to confidently speak in favor of one that has demonstrated trustworthiness and performed to satisfaction. Paul does not need letter to or from the Corinthians since he saved them and they received the Spirit of the Son of God. Paul is approved of God and does not need man's approval (1 Cor. 4:3).

How can Satan get an advantage over us? Paul opens his heart to the saints. Paul has anguish of heart that part of the believers at Corinth followed the Hebrew preachers who did not follow him to follow Christ. The Hebrew preachers did not recognize but denied Paul's apostleship and were oblivious to the new dispensation that had been a mystery. Paul suffered for trying to tell the world that Christ had begun a new ministry and a new dispensation to a new group to live in a new place, heaven.

Feeling depressed and defeated? Then this is the letter for you. God comforts us, so we can comfort others. In order to be saved we must believe the gospel (1 Cor. 15:3, 4). After we are saved, then we are chosen for service to help others be saved. Paul was worried that Satan would disrupt his ministry in Corinth as he had at Ephesus. This letter comforts us today when we are attacked for sharing "rightly dividing the word of truth" (2 Tim. 2:15). This video answers the question: Why do God's ministers suffer? Apostle Paul wanted the Corinthians to understand the ministry that Christ gave to him, and separate from false teachers before he arrives.

Verse by verse commentary on the entire chapter with verses written in black ink.

Paul gives the proof of the resurrection, process of the resurrection, and pending possession of Christ over His two realms heaven and earth. The Father has a Glory Plan to exalt His Son in both realms. Some at Corinth said that there was no resurrection of the dead. Paul says that Christ's resurrection had eyewitnesses and that the believer's resurrection is tied to Christ's. Paul said I am making a defense of the resurrection wo we can rejoice in Christ Jesus. I assure you that I die daily to my sinful flesh and put myself in subjection to the truth of what God said. Sin and spiritual death came upon all mankind through Adam but spiritual life and resurrection to eternal life came through Jesus Christ. The twelve apostles preached the gospel of the kingdom, that Jesus Christ of Nazareth is the Messiah, but they preached the resurrection in early Acts, and wrote about His resurrection in the four gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John). Paul preached "Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery" (Rom. 16:25).

Paul contrasts prophesy with tongues. Paul discusses spiritual gifts in chapters 12 to 14. In his letters Paul uses the word "ignorant" ten times, but in 14:38 he says "ignorant" two times. What is the worlds largest denomination? It is that of the ignorant brethren. Who are the ignorant brethren? What is it that Paul does not want the Corinthians or us in the body of Christ to be ignorant of?

What is meant by "perfect is come"? When will the spiritual gift end? When was the book of Revelation written? What was the purpose of the spiritual gifts? After commenting on all the verses, the end of spiritual gifts during the diminishing of Israel during Acts is explained explicitly.