If you've ever watched someone weave a tapestry, you realize that you're not going to

have a tapestry. You realize it involves thousands of threads woven together to create a

design that is finally revealed at the end. Today on Truth For Life we'll see how the

unfolding purposes of God are similarly being woven together and displayed to the world

through His Church.

Alistair Begg is teaching today from the Book of Ephesians and we're focusing on Chapter

3 verse 10.

I read John Stott and he had a wonderful little analogy that so fixed in my mind that I decided

that's fine, I can't improve on it, I will use it. So this is what he says. He says,

the world is the theater in which God is at work. And what we have here are the spectators,

namely the rulers and authorities. We have the play written and directed by God which

is His manifold wisdom and we have the players or the actors in the program, namely the church.

So we'll look at each of these in turn and we'll do it in reverse order. First of all,

who are the spectators? To whom is this being made known? He says it's being made known

to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. In other words, the angelic powers

are spectators of the drama of salvation. I think that it is more likely that He has

in mind the good angels, the angels who had been the companions of God in eternity.

The angels who are described by Peter and first Peter one as wishing they knew what

salvation was really about. Now, in a quaint old hymn, you get something of an inkling

of it. We've never sung this hymn and I only know this one verse. It goes like this.

Well, it goes something like this. There is singing up in heaven, such as we have never

known. As the angel sing a victory and a lamb upon the throne. But when we sing redemption

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