Les Feldick Bible Study

Who did God finally reveal the secrets He had kept hidden in His mind?

God finally revealed the secrets He had kept hidden in His mind to Paul. The context speaks of Paul’s epistles being treated like an unlovely stepchild, then says it was to this man that the secrets held in the mind of God were finally revealed. Ephesians 3:8–9 is the cited passage.

Les explains that many people spend 90% of their time in the Gospels and the Old Testament while treating Paul’s epistles like almost waste paper, or as one rancher put it, an unlovely stepchild. But Les stresses this is where we have to be, because it was to this man—Paul—that the secrets held in the mind of God were finally revealed. He then directs attention to Ephesians 3:8–9, noting that the word “unsearchable” cannot be traced to its beginning; it goes back so far that it began before Christ ever created anything.

Ephesians 3:8

Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

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