Stewards of the Mysteries

The mysteries of God are not known just by a casual reading of the Word of God. His Spirit reveals his mysteries to the person that takes time to wait unhurried in His presence. When our God and Christ becomes our passion, His mysteries will be made known to us. “The secrets of the Lord is with them that fear Him.” (Psalm 25:14) The very word “mystery” or “mysteries” is a unique word in Scripture. The word appears twenty-seven times and only in the New Testament. Its meaning is beautiful because it implies something known only by revelation. No one will ever know His mysteries except those individuals that are devoted lovers of truth.

The Son of God, rightly so, was the first to speak of His mysteries. He explained why He spoke in parables to show that His pearls of truth are not cast before those that have no heart for truth. They are not given for debate and human design but for the transformed heart. This is why putting Scripture in street language is futile humanism. It only reduces Scripture, it never elevates the readers. The disciples asked Jesus, “Why speakest thou unto them in parables?” He answered, “Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.” (Matthew 13:10-13) He did not blind their eyes; they had blinded their own eyes because they did not love truth.

Lovers of truth will never find the understanding of the Bible to be impossible. It was never meant to be cheap, but it is one of the most exhilarating experiences of human life. The true beginning point can never be other than a “Born Again” experience. If you find the Bible to be impossible for you or that it is creating in you a spirit of argument, then cease your study and wait before Him for a transformed heart. I would suggest reading the first chapter of John or at most the Book of John until you know that He has changed your heart from an unrepentant one to a surrendered one. The born-again life is a transformed life and then a deep hunger for truth takes hold of your soul. Peter said, “As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby” (I Peter 2:2) Start with the milk (simple truth) and grow naturally as His Spirit works in your life. The Holy Spirit will wisely lead you into all truth. “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” (John 14:26)

The church world is desperate for godly leaders that mine the deep and life-changing truth of Holy Scripture. Apostle Paul saw ministers as “Stewards of the Mysteries of God”. (I Corinthians 4:1) If we encumber ourselves with many things, then our true stewardship is going to suffer. A man of God must not have an office, he must have a study. Our business is the “mysteries of God”, and if that becomes our life, then our life will become mighty for God. Every believer is a priest, and all of His saints should have “a love of truth” that fills their waking hours, even as they go about their God-given profession.

Saving faith is a faith that “loves truth.” The naked Bible will not save you but the love of truth will. We read in II Thessalonians of a multitude that will miss the rapture and be eternally damned. Strong delusion is prophesied of those that do not love truth. The Prophet’s words warn of an Anti-Christ spirit that is so deceiving that many will be swept away in his error. “And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the LOVE OF THE TRUTH, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” (2 Thessalonians 2:10-12) Once the soul is open by Divine Revelation, truth will be simple to understand. Isaiah stated, “And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.” (Isaiah 35:8)

Any doctrine that is so intricate and different that it must be supported with an endless study of words and great human design is most likely to be false. Simple truth manifest by Divine revelation is the unfailing picture of the Holy Bible. The Divine Scripture is indeed profound mysteries revealed by the Holy Spirit in simple logic to save the eternal soul.