65 02 14 0273A STS Comparison Of Epistles & Gospels Feb 14 1965 Dr. Wierwille bible english lesson

Scripture Index: 2 Peter 1:21; (John 3); Mark 11:25; Romans 10:9, 10; Matthew 16:18
In order for the Word of God to live abundantly within men and women, we will have to rightly-divide it and have the true Word. To the end we rightly-divide the Word of truth we will have the true Word. To the end we wrongly divide it, we will have error. And as I have taught my people all over the nations of the world, that sincerity is no guarantee for truth. It is wonderful to be sincere, but sincerity alone is not enough. We have to have The Word of God.
In my life and in my ministry, one of the things that disturbed me for many years was the place of the Gospels in relationship to the Church Epistles, as well as the Old Testament. I could not harmonize, I could not put together, the record of the Gospels with the record that was set in the Epistles for instance, the Church Epistles. Nor could I reconcile it with the Old Testament. And so for me, the Gospels stood out like a sore thumb. Very wonderful. Tremendous. But I could not put it together.
Tonight, by the grace of the Lord, we want to see the relationship of the four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, to the Church Epistles. I believe that the greatest literary miracle of ages is the four, the presentation of the four Gospels. The thing that astounds me about the four Gospels is that they were written much later than the death, the resurrection and the ascension of Christ; many years after Paul had already received the revelation as to what the church of the body really was.
Take for instance the Gospel of Luke. Luke was a companion of the Apostle Paul. Right? In the book of Acts it says how ’we traveled’ here, there and yonder. Luke traveled with the Apostle Paul, and therefore the teaching of the Apostle Paul was heard by who? By Luke. And the remarkable thing is that there is not one thing of the Pauline revelation in the Gospel of Luke. And yet Luke wrote it after he had heard everything that Paul had to share and teach, yet there is not one word of the revelation that was given to Paul in the Gospel of Luke.
You see why I used to question these things. Why I thought them through with my reason and with my mind. Because after all, if you and I traveled together for two or three years, and you were writing a book, 9 chances out of 10, not even 9 out of 10, 10 out of 10, would you include some of the things that we had talked about and fellowshipped, and worked out in the last three years in your book. Sure you would. And yet when it comes to the Gospel of Luke, there was not one record, there isn’t one great truth in the Gospel of Luke which we see manifested in the Church Epistles.
Secondly, take Mark. Mark was very beloved of the Apostle Paul. Late in the ministry of the Apostle Paul, he writes back to a certain city, I forget now where it is. It is written in the Book of Acts. He writes back to that city, if I remember correctly, or is it in Timothy? Someplace, and he says that John Mark, when Timothy comes, he should salute John Mark or something like this. I forget the essence of it. But the point is that Mark was a real friend and beloved companion of the Apostle Paul. And yet the Gospel of Mark has not one, not one of the great revelations that were given to the Apostle Paul, in it.
Take John. John the great scholar. He had heard of the ministry of Paul. He had what he taught. The Epistles that Paul had written had been in circulation for 25 to 30 years, and yet in the Gospel of John, there is no specific reference to any of the great revelation which was given to the Apostle Paul. With the exception of perhaps two little indications which I will cover later on tonight.
You see, these men - Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John - writing many, many years after the ascension of the Lord Jesus Christ, and yet not including anything of the greatness of the revelation which is recorded in Romans, Corinthians, Galatians, and Ephesians, and so forth, this was what I could not understand. Until one day I learned from 2 Peter chapter 1, verse 21, that the prophecy, the prophecy came not in old time by what? The will of men, it didn’t come by the will of man.
2 Peter 1:21 ...the prophecy came not in [olden] time by the will of [what] man: but holy men of God [holy men of God] spake [holy men of God spake] as they were [what?] moved by the Holy Ghost.
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