What does Colossians 1:25 say Paul was made a minister for?
Colossians 1:25 states that Paul was made a minister according to the dispensation of God given to him, in order to fulfill or complete the Word of God. That completion concerns the mystery hidden from ages and generations but now made manifest.
Les explains from Colossians 1:25 that Paul was made a minister according to the dispensation of God given to him. The order matters: it was given to Paul, and then to his readers, to fulfill or complete the Word of God. Les then connects that completion with verse 26, even the mystery, the secret hidden from ages and generations and now made manifest. He notes that these Pauline truths were held in the mind of God, that Israel never had a concept of them, and that the Twelve had no concept of them either. But God saved Saul of Tarsus by grace and revealed the secrets or mysteries to him. Therefore Paul was given authority to pen these epistles, which become the central part of the Scriptures, because he is the one to whom God revealed the mysteries. Les also reads verse 26 again: the mystery hidden from ages and generations is now made manifest.
Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;