Embark on a theological exploration with us as we delve into the unique ministry of Paul and the revolutionary message of grace he brought to the Gentiles. In this episode, we contrast the law-focused Israel with the grace-filled body of Christ and reveal the mysteries Paul received through divine revelation. Discover how these powerful teachings redefine faith, expand understanding, and inspire a deeper commitment to spiritual growth. Join us for an enlightening study of Scripture that challenges and enriches.
00:00:00 Introduction and Reflections on Broadcasting
00:28:10 Conclusion of the Segment and Future Plans
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Greetings to the brightest audience in the country and welcome to Bob Benyart Live. Today is my second to last broadcast on KLTT Radio. Where do the years go? I can hardly believe we’ve reached this point. So many memories, so many prayers, and so much of God’s work has happened here. It’s bittersweet, but the ministry is alive and growing, as we’ve mentioned, and the Any Art Theology YouTube channel, the Real Science Radio YouTube channel, the daily podcast at kgov.com with hundreds of thousands of downloads, the YouTube channels with millions of views. And I want you with us for this next chapter. Listen at kgov.com, visit www.anyart.shop, and subscribe to Any Art Theology, subscribe to Real Science Radio on the YouTubes, uh producing content at this scale is really costly so if you can subscribe donate especially monthly donations they allow us to know what exactly we can do in the future or more powerful than any of that is pray for us today we share segment number nine of part one of the plot bible overview the plot has been behind the paywall for all of these years But as a parting gift, we are airing it live on KLTT. This is the only place you can get this where it’s not behind a paywall. And we’re giving this as a parting gift to you guys. We love you so, so dearly. This is segment number nine of the plot Bible overview.
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I’d like to end our morning session with. I shouldn’t have said that because there are three passages. It’ll take us a little bit of time to get through them. But the first is in Romans 16, very short, the very end of the Epistle of Romans. Paul, later on this afternoon, we might get to the verses where Paul repeatedly says things that sound very egotistical. He says, my gospel. He calls it my gospel. And he says, the gospel was given to me and to me first. And I was the first one here in this body of Christ. And I’m the pattern of all those who should hereafter believe. Like, Paul, where are you getting off saying these things?
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And I’m the pattern of all those who should hereafter believe. Like, Paul, where are you getting off saying these things? Well, we’ll start in the first of a number of those verses we’ll look at. It’s right here, Romans 16, 25. Now, to him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret since the world began. Now, this mystery… Paul speaks of the mystery, and you could talk to Christians and say, do you know what the mystery is? And they’d say, you know, they have no idea what you’re talking about. And Paul talks about a mystery of the body of Christ, how that Jew and Gentile would be one in one body, saved by grace and not under the law. That’s the mystery. And part of that mystery, there are other mysteries. Like when he speaks in 1 Thessalonians and 1 Corinthians 15, and he speaks of what looks like something like a rapture, something like that. He says that he wants to share with us a mystery, something that was never before revealed or hidden. So there’s this mystery. God had clearly prophesied everything, all the major aspects of Israel’s kingdom. So back in Acts 3, when all these amazing things were happening regarding Israel and their kingdom, Peter says that all these things had been prophesied. All these things. Over and over he says, this is that which was prophesied by Joel. This is that which was prophesied by Samuel. All the prophets who spoke prophesied of these things. And now Paul comes on the scene, and we’re going to see that he repeatedly says that there was a mystery that was kept secret since the world began, and it was revealed by God to Paul. And Paul recorded it for us, and it’s the mystery according to my gospel. Do you think Peter ever said, my gospel? He never said that. It’d be utterly foreign to come from his lips. My gospel. James? No. John? No. My gospel? Why would they say that? It’s the gospel. But Paul repeatedly refers to it as my gospel. Let’s go to Ephesians chapter 3. Ephesians 3. For this reason, I, Paul. Paul says this a lot. I, Paul. I, Paul. And he typically says it when he’s going to introduce something very different. Like with Israel in the law, God had said that you’re only to marry a Jew. A Jewish man was not to marry a Gentile. They’re unclean, unbelievers. You only marry a Jew. That’s part of the law for Israel. And in the book of Ezra, some of the Jews had married Gentiles and the prophet rebuked them and commanded them to divorce their wives according to the law. And so the Jews divorced their wives at the command of the Hebrew prophet Ezra because they had married outside of the law, Gentiles. And so the text says, and they divorced them according to the law. So the law for Israel was that you’re not to be married to a Gentile. You’re not to. And if you did, you should divorce. You’re only to marry a Jew. Now, is that true in the body of Christ? What if in the body of Christ, you’re married to an unbeliever? Or you’re an American and you’re married to someone from Japan. Are you to divorce that person? No, of course not. Because Israel, they had a physical, Israel was a physical organism. It’s genetically related. The Jews were won by race. From one blood, God made many nations. One of those was Israel. And God wanted to keep that nation, keep its identity. So it was Jews. And the Jews were not to intermingle with Gentiles. But in the body of Christ, we are not a physical organism. We’re a spiritual organism. And so if someone in the body of Christ is married to an unbeliever, that’s not going to dilute the body of Christ. So… God tells us clearly, don’t marry an unbeliever. Don’t marry an unbeliever. But if you are married to an unbeliever, you don’t need to divorce that person. You stay with that person. If they leave, if they abandon you, you’re no longer under bondage, Paul says in 1 Corinthians 7. But it’s in that context, see the difference? So there’s a bit of a difference. Under Israel in the law versus in the body under grace as to whether you divorce an unbeliever. And when Paul is explaining this, he says in 1 Corinthians 7, now the Lord says this regarding divorce and remarriage, but I, Paul, say, and not the Lord, don’t divorce your unbelieving spouse. You get it? When he says, I, Paul, it’s often because he’s about to present something that’s different in his ministry versus that which came before him for Israel. Because he’s preaching grace, they were preaching the law. Under the law, you divorce your unbelieving wife. Under grace, you don’t. Now, Ephesians 3. For this reason, I, Paul, uh-oh, we’re ready to be hit by another dose. Another dose of something new and different happening and another source of potential tension. But Paul’s going to lay it out for us. For this reason, I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles. Notice Paul’s the apostle to the Gentiles. He has the gospel of the Gentiles. He goes to the Gentiles. But let me ask you this. Does he go to the Jews also? No. Everywhere he goes. Everywhere he goes to the Jews first, then the Gentiles. Everywhere, always. So why does he always say, for the Gentiles? Because the Jews are identified with the law and circumcision. And Paul’s ministry was grace and no circumcision, not law. So Paul’s ministry was more easily identified with the Gentiles because they never had the law. They didn’t receive the law. So even though he did not discriminate between Jews or Gentiles, he went to all equally with the same message of grace. He would characterize his ministry as to the Gentiles. I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles, if indeed you have heard… Now we’re going to hear about something very few Christians have heard about. If indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God, which was given to me for you, you cannot get more explicit. There’s something called the dispensation of grace. Moses received the dispensation of law. On Mount Sinai, he came down with two tablets of law. It’s the dispensation of law. Moses received it and gave it to Israel. Paul received the dispensation of grace and gave that to the body of Christ. If indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God, which was given to me for you… how that by revelation he made known to me the mystery, as I have briefly written already, by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ, which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets.” That the Gentiles, now he’s going to reveal something here that’s new. It’s a mystery and it had never before been revealed. Up until this point, what had been put in the Bible and prophesied was that God would bless Abraham and his seed and all those who wanted to be blessed by God would come through Israel. You had to become a proselyte. You had to go through Israel’s law, through their priesthood and prophets, through their book, through the Jews to the God of Israel. That’s how you’d be saved. Even as late as Ezekiel, a thousand years after Moses, God said that if a Gentile wants to come to the Lord, he must be circumcised. You had to become a Jew, a proselyte Jew. And that’s how you could come to God, through Israel. But now there’s something being revealed. In verse three, Paul calls it again, the mystery, the same mystery he referred to in Romans, which in other ages, verse five, was not made known as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets, because Paul got it very clear, even Peter sort of got it, but he had a hard time with it, “…that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs of the same body and partakers of his promise in Christ through the gospel, of which I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of his power.” To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ and to make all see what is the dispensation of the mystery. And that’s the word there in the Greek, the dispensation, the oikonomia in the Greek. To make all see what is the dispensation of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ. that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs of the same body. The body of Christ. Is it an important organism, a concept? We’re in the body. That’s how we become Christians. We are in Christ. The Holy Spirit baptizes us into the body of Christ when we put our faith in the Lord and we get saved. Do we read about the body of Christ in the Old Testament? No. We read about Israel’s kingdom. Do we read about the body of Christ in the four gospels? No, we read about Israel’s kingdom and that Christ will rule and he’ll set up 12 thrones on which the 12 apostles will rule over the 12 tribes of Israel. That’s promised to them. Is the apostle Paul gonna sit on a throne and rule over us? No way, because we’re not a kingdom. We’re under God’s overall kingdom of everything God does, but we’re not a part of the technical kingdom of Israel that will be on earth that will have 12 tribes. The 12 apostles are a part of that. Paul’s not going to rule or reign over us. We’re equal members in the body of Christ. And it’s a different organism. It’s a living organism. And the kingdom’s under law. We’re under grace. What if somebody sins? During the break, some of you guys came up and said, well, what if a Christian is sinning terribly? Well, what if you’re under law versus what if you’re under grace? Under law, if you sin terribly, you’re cut off. You’re killed and put out of the kingdom. Under grace, you’re not under law. So even if you sin, if you’re not under law, you’re not held accountable. You cannot be punished for breaking a law if you’re not under it. You could still destroy people by your sin and you could destroy your own life here on earth and you could grieve God, but you can’t be punished for breaking a law that you’re not under. So in the kingdom and in the gospels, Jesus says, every branch in me that does not bear fruit is cut off and cast into the fire. That’s what you do in a political organism. But in your own body, Paul uses the analogy of a living body. And you don’t gouge out your eye. You don’t cut out your heart. You don’t take out your mind and get rid of it because you don’t like it. But rather, the whole body suffers and groans together to restore the one that is hurting.
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Colossians chapter one, verse 24. I now rejoice in my sufferings for you and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ for the sake of his body. Again, it’s only Paul who writes about the body of Christ for the sake of his body, which is the church of which I became a minister according to the dispensation from God, which was given to me for you. to fulfill the word of God, the mystery which has been hidden from ages and generations, but now has been revealed to his saints. And that word dispensation, it comes from a Greek word, oikonomia, which means house rules. And if you go over to somebody’s house and they have a pool table, and you’re going to play eight ball, And you better find out before you start what the house rules are. Because you get a ball in the pocket and the owner of the house says, you didn’t call the pocket. What do you mean I didn’t call it? You didn’t tell me how to. That’s the house rules. You got to know what the house rules are when you’re in that person’s house. And God had one set of house rules for Israel and another set of house rules for the household of faith, the body of Christ. And for the house rules for Israel had to do with the law, circumcision. which is a synonym for the entire law. Because circumcision means the cutting off of the flesh, and that’s what the law was designed to do, cut off the flesh. Only if you look at the history of Israel, it never worked very well. Because the more God gave them the law, the more they rebelled and the more sinful they became. And the house rules for the body of Christ is not law, but grace. It’s a dramatic difference. Law and grace are not synonyms. So, and once again, here in Colossians, Paul calls it the mystery. And this is the dispensation that God gave to Paul for us. And he says that over and over. Now, you know, I realized that this Bible study, for those of you who are here today, it takes a lot of work to attend a Bible study like this. It’s not easy. A typical Bible study in America today, or in the world, we’ve been to Israel and Italy and New Zealand. Typical Bible study in the world today in the church is a leader will read a Bible verse and he’ll go around the room. He’ll say, now, Cindy, what does that mean to you? And John, what do you think that means? Mary, what do you think that means? Could you imagine Moses doing that? I just can’t comprehend it. Not even Peter. They just didn’t do that. Paul went to Troas, and he was given a Bible study. And the place was packed, and it was a three-story building, and there was a guy up on the third floor listening in a windowsill. And Paul went on and on. It was a lot of work to be there. And this guy fell asleep. And he fell off the sill, hit the ground, and died. Now that’s a Bible study. If there are no casualties… Lightweight. God in the Bible revealed a plan. We could call it his plan A for Israel. Plan A focused on Israel, their salvation, their ministry to the world, and their kingdom. But that nation let God down, just as every nation has let God down. Israel let God down, so he went to plan B. where the gospel went to the world, not through Israel, but in spite of Israel. He cut off Israel because of unbelief. And when he cut off Israel, he reconciled the world. So now anyone, any Gentile, any person from around the world could go directly to God. They don’t need to go through Israel’s law, through Israel’s priesthood, through Israel’s covenant, they go directly to Jesus Christ. And that’s the difference. Because for centuries, if you were a Gentile, you had to become a proselyte Jew for God to reconcile you. Let’s go to Matthew chapter 15. And in this story, this is one of a handful of places in the gospels where we see Jesus come into contact with a Gentile. And I’ve been saying during the seminar that Jesus was not sent to the Gentiles. He was sent to the Jews. And because of that, he kept very focused. And he wanted Israel to receive him. He’d rise from the dead. They would believe in their Messiah and then take the gospel message to the world. That was his plan. And it’s hard enough to get the whole world, it’s hard to get your family saved, never mind the whole world. So before you go to the whole world, start on your family. And Christ’s family was his nation of Israel. So just as God had focused on them for centuries, he wanted to minister to Israel, and hopefully they would go out and minister to the world. So he was very focused. Now I’m going to read this story, and you could glance at it or not. If you don’t look at it as I read it, you’ll be able to answer questions I ask in your mind. And it’ll be a very interesting exercise. Behold, a woman of Canaan came from that region and cried out to him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, son of David. My daughter is severely demon-possessed. So here’s a mom who’s concerned about her daughter so much so that even though she’s a Canaanite, a Gentile woman, she goes out of her way to find this Hebrew prophet and pleads with him to heal. It wasn’t a selfish prayer, right? She wasn’t asking something selfish. She was asking for her daughter and not even that her daughter would have a successful career or be healed of blindness or some physical need. This was a spiritual need of the utmost urgency. My daughter is severely demon possessed. Please help her. So if someone is a new Christian and they’ve gotten to know Jesus somewhat through the Bible and they love him and they’ve learned about him, And then they start reading this story and they get that far. What would the average Christian think that Jesus would do at that point? Well, here’s this mom saying, please have mercy on me. My daughter is severely demon possessed. Jesus is going to heal the daughter and cast the demon out. Definitely, without a question. But that’s not what happens when we read the next verse. But he answered her not a word. What does that mean? that would qualify, if it happened today, a Christian who behaved like that would be told he’s being rude. How could you be so rude? This woman has a need, but you see, she’s a Gentile and Jesus was only sent to the Jews. So he was not inclined to help her. It’s not that he hated her. It’s not that he didn’t have a love for her, but she was not in his target ministry. He was focused on Israel. So rather than, she says, my daughter’s demon possessed, please have mercy. Rather than healing her, he ignored her. And his disciples came and urged him, saying, Lord, what do you think they’d urge him? Lord, why are you ignoring her? Help her. Cast the demon out. That’s why we’re here. Let’s get going. But is that what they said? That’s not what they said. They said, send her away, for she cries out after us. In other words, they were embarrassed. She was a Gentile, a Canaanite. The Jews did not like the Canaanites. For one thing, God had told them not to mix with them. And for two, they were evil and wicked and they were embarrassed. They didn’t want her. Here’s this Canaanite woman following around us. Please, Lord, send her away. She’s embarrassing us. And now Jesus hears that. And of course, he’s going to rebuke them for a lack of compassion. Right? No, he doesn’t rebuke him. He says, Jesus answered and said, I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. I was not sent to the Canaanites. I wasn’t sent to the Egyptians. I wasn’t sent to the Greeks. I was sent to Israel. I’m here to minister to Israel. He only had a public ministry for three years. There’s no way he could get through all the villages of Israel in that time before he was going to be crucified and raised from the dead. But he said, if I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto me. So at that point, once I am now the risen Savior who’s overcome sin and death, then my followers could go out to the Canaanites and to the ends of the world, bringing people in through the gospel. But that is not my mission now. I’m here to train these 12 and to preach the gospel to Israel so that once I rise from the dead, they will be ready to go to the world. And that’s why whenever Jesus comes in contact with a Gentile in the gospels, he’s aloof. He puts them off. He’s not inclined to help them. Just like with this woman. Lord, have mercy on me. I’m a Canaanite woman, but my daughter is severely demon possessed. Jesus ignored her. And his apostles say, she’s embarrassing us. Get rid of her. He doesn’t rebuke them. Rather, he says in this verse 24, Matthew 15, 24, would be so good for Christians to really commit to their heart and their mind that they know this truth. Jesus answered and said, I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Jesus was sent to Israel, not to the Gentiles. He died for us. He loves the whole world. He died for us, but he didn’t come for the Gentiles. He was sent to Israel. Then she came and worshiped him saying, Lord, help me. That’s pretty neat, huh? She didn’t give up like any good mom. She was persistent. And Jesus at that point, obviously he’d have to help her. But he answered and said, it is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs. Wow, that’s pretty harsh. And it doesn’t mean, oh, you cute little puppy, come here, let me give you something else. It doesn’t mean that. This was a rebuff. He was turning her aside. He was saying, I was only sent to Israel. I have a ministry to perform.
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Stop the tape. Stop the tape. That was segment number nine of the Plot Bible Overview. Tomorrow is my final broadcast on KLTT. I hope you can join me there. The ministry does continue, though, and Yart Theology, the YouTube channel, make sure to subscribe. subscribe and keep in touch the real science radio youtube channel both of these with millions of views the daily podcast at kgov.com with hundreds of thousands of downloads visit www.ednyart.shop to get the entire bible study library including the full plot study listen at kgov.com and please subscribe to the youtube channels if you can support this mission Please subscribe, donate, and pray for us. My name is Dominic Enyart, reminding you to do right and risk the consequences.
