In his letter to the Ephesians, the Apostle Paul talks about a mystery that had been

veiled to previous generations but was revealed to him. So what is this great mystery?

And how is it significant for us thousands of years later? We'll find out today on Truth for Life.

Alistair Begg is teaching from chapter 3 in the Book of Ephesians, but he begins with a reference in

1 Corinthians. He is explaining to the Corinthians when he writes in 1 Corinthians how men and women

will never come to the truth of the gospel on their own. Now you see this explains why educated men

and women are able to pick up the Bible to read it, to make all kinds of deductions from it and

never actually to bow before Jesus Christ and acknowledge him as a Savior and a King.

There's hardly a week goes by when somebody says to me, well why is it that people would simply not

believe? Well the answer is because the God of this age has blinded their understanding and their

minds and the only way that they will ever come to an understanding of the gospel is a result

of God's amazing grace and goodness. It is tremendously humbling and it is at the same time reassuring

because if the burden were to be laid upon the proclaimer of the gospel to take the veil from

the eyes of those who are unbelieving, the burden would be unbearable. But the promise of the Bible

is that the entrance of God's word actually brings light. But men and women do not come to it

by their unated human wisdom. David Wells from Gordon Cornwell is helpful to us in this regard,

wonderfully helpful, where he says essentially that there is no we possess no intuitive radar

that there is an invisible boundary between ourselves and God, that we are separated from God

both in terms of his wrath towards sin and in terms of our rebellion towards him.

That barrier is an impenetrable barrier from our side. We have no intuitive radar whereby we may

engage God. Therefore we are without God and without hope in the world. The story of the gospel

is that God has taken the initiative and broken through that impenetrable barrier in the person

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