Christianity is about God's working in history, electing a people, the Jews, working with them in all kinds of ways to reveal his nature,

bringing the Messiah to the Jews, for the Jews, putting him to death for his people, unleashing a gospel which,

to our great relief, is not just for Jews. And the glorious good news of the gospel in Romans

in all of Paul's letters is nations. You can have it too.

Hi, I'm your host, Dan Kroover.

Why is the gospel bigger than we often imagine?

In this episode of Light and Truth,

John Piper turns to Ephesians 1 verses 8 to 10 to show how the work of Christ unites Jews and Gentiles into one redeemed people. This teaching was originally delivered on a

Wednesday night at Bethlehem Baptist Church on January 21, 1998.

In chapter 3, Paul says, by revelation there was made known to me the mystery.

You hear the same language, same word here, mystery, made known, same revelation.

Made known to me the mystery as I wrote before in brief. By referring to this, that is what I wrote, and he may mean chapter one. I'm not sure whether this refers to something else he wrote or back in chapter one.

By referring to this, when you read, you may understand my insight into the mystery.

I a couple Sundays ago got on my high horse and turned my sermon into a plea for learning how to read.

And I had one mom come up to me and thanked me profusely because it caused her kid to believe in reading, who'd been struggling with whether this was worth it or not.

And he heard this pastor saying, reading is one of the most important things

theologically that is essential to worship. It's essential to obedience and things like that.

And she was grateful, but I won't do that again. Here. When you read, you can understand

my insight into the mystery of Christ which in other generations was

not made known that's why it's called a mystery now get this mystery the word musterion in the

new testament is not called mystery because it's unintelligible it's called mystery because for a long time it was secret. And now in Christ,

it is being made known. So, which in other generations was not made known. That's why it's a

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