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The Mystery of God’s Grace - Colossians 1:26-28

Will Nielsen
February 23rd, 2008
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This was the mystery long hidden from the world in the secret counsels of God and the wisdom that Israel did not expect. Israel expected the Jewish Messiah to come, to exalt the Jews to a place of prominence in the world (with the Gentiles as their servants) [much like some Christians today], and to reign physically from the city of Jerusalem. the full glory and political prominence would come with the first appearance of the Messiah. (That was what the Jewish crowds were expecting when they welcomed the Lord into Jerusalem on that fateful Palm Sunday; see Mark 11:10.) They did not suspect the riches of the glory of God’s mystery, or the overflowing generosity of His grace. They did not suspect that God would pour out His grace upon all flesh — even the Gentiles, thereby abolishing the distinction between Jew and Gentile.

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Farley, Lawrence. The Prison Epistles, The Orthodox Bible Study Companion Series. (Ben Lomond, Calif.: Conciliar Press, 2003) , p. 162. Commenting on Colossians 1:26-28.

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