What was the mystery that had been kept secret since the world began in Romans 16:25?
Paul writes that the mystery was his gospel—the preaching of Jesus Christ according to revelation—God's plan to save the whole human race through Christ's shed blood, death, burial, and resurrection. It had been kept secret since the world began and was not revealed to Peter.
Les teaches that everything concerning the gospel was still hid in the mind of God until He revealed it. No one can believe something God has not said; people believed after He said it. In Romans 16:25, Paul writes to the Gentile congregation in Rome about “my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery or secret which was kept secret since the world began.” Les explains that Paul is preaching something God had kept secret: salvation for the whole human race based on Christ's shed blood, death, burial, and resurrection. Peter did not know it because it had not yet been revealed. Les then points to Ephesians chapter 3 as another example.
Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
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What mystery was revealed in Romans 16:25?
Romans 16:25 says that Paul's gospel and preaching of Jesus Christ was according to the revelation of a mystery or secret which had been kept secret since the world began.