A 4-Part Study Series

How to Rightly Divide the Word of Truth.

Is Right Division of the Word of Truth Really So Important That We Should Stand Up for It?

Learning for the first time of Paul’s gospel of “Christ according to the revelation of the mystery (Gk. musterion, secret)” is an eye-opening experience.

It is a commonly said that learning to “rightly divide” that in the Bible which concerns Prophecy about Israel... from “The Mystery” concerning “the Church, the Body of Christ,” makes the Bible “so clear.” After being a Christians and “in church” for sometimes 30-40 years, people testify that learning how to “rightly divide the words” of the Bible is like having a stained-glass window become clear for the very first time.

Where people were once confused and essentially “blind” to what the Bible said, they can now understand and see the truth of the gospel.

Paul was sent to open eyes of the blind. This eye-opening doctrine of “the revelation of the mystery” and “the dispensation of the grace of God” is what Christ sent Paul to preach among the Gentiles (Eph 3:2).

“If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me (Paul) to you-ward:” (Ephesians 3:2)

“To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light …” (Acts 26:18)

Paul prayed without ceasing for the Ephesians, that “the eyes of your understanding would be enlightened” would be opened to the dispensation of the gospel God delivered to him.

“The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; (so) that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints…” (Eph 1:18)

This “mystery of Christ” (Eph. 3:4) concerns “the hope of glory” (Col. 1:27) in heaven for anyone who believes “the gospel of the grace of God” (Acts 20:24) unto salvation.

“Whereof I (Paul) am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you… To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery (Gk. musterion, secret) among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:” (Col 1:25-27)

Many people and churches are filled with confusion about what is the ‘true gospel’ and what the Bible teaches and for whom. This ‘doctrinal confusion’ is the result of ‘devilish doctrines of false teachers’ who do not recognize or esteem “the mystery of Christ” revealed to Paul.

“In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” (2 Cor 4:4)

“Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.” (2 Tim2:7)

The “gospel of the grace of God” is a light to the religious blind. The truth of what God is doing today should be eye-opening, it should make the things of God very clear.

If the “gospel” you have been taught has been dragging you through the confusion of religion and the frustration of self-justification, then you don’t understand the glorious truth that Christ can make you free of all that … by the true gospel.

If your Bible is a closed book to your understanding, then your eyes have not yet been enlightened to understand what God has revealed in “the mystery of Christ.”

There’s a fascination these days with performing miracles of healing to make blind men see. Yet, the so-called healer who has 20/20 vision cannot himself see “the mystery of Christ.” What profit is there in making the blind to see, when both are ignorant of “the mystery”?

It is only by the preaching “the mystery of Christ” that eyes are opened to the clarity of the gospel and the truth of the Bible “rightly divided.” It is our duty “to make all men see” …

“…to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:” (Ephesians 3:9)