ACTS 29 TODAY

coming to the knowledge of the TRUTH

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Speaking Divine Mysteries

The spiritual link between praying in tongues and

revelation knowledge is in the understanding of the

word “mysteries.” To help us understand this link, Paul

mentioned this word three times between chapters 2

and 14 of First Corinthians.

We have already read the first mention in First

Corinthians 2:7:

But WE SPEAK THE WISDOM OF GOD IN A MYSTERY,

even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before

the world unto our glory.

The second time Paul mentioned “mysteries” is in First

Corinthians 4:1:

Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ,

and STEWARDS OF THE MYSTERIES OF GOD. So in the

same letter that Paul told the Corinthian church he was

thankful he spoke with tongues more than all of them,

he also stated that he had been made a steward of the

mysteries of God.

A steward is an administrator. A rich man of that day

would employ a steward, who acted as an administrator

over the rich man’s wealth and goods. The steward

guarded the rich man’s goods against waste, misuse,and

thievery.

In order for Paul to be a good steward of the mysteries

of God, he had to protect those mysteries against

infiltration of false doctrine, legalism, Satan’s hatred

for the Church, etc. How did Paul do that? By allowing

the Holy Spirit to pray these very same mysteries

through him hour after hour in tongues. He knew it

would affect his spiritual understanding of the

revelation of Christ to the Church.

The third time mysteries is mentioned is in First

Corinthians 14:2:

For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh

not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth

him; howbeit IN THE SPIRIT HE SPEAKETH MYSTERIES.

Notice that the moment you start praying in tongues,

you put yourself in the Spirit. The Holy Spirit bypasses

your flesh, soul, and intellect and goes right to your

spirit. There He starts creating that supernatural

language as soon as you open your mouth, and you

begin to speak mysteries to God.

But what mysteries is Paul speaking about in this

verse? Well, the word “mysteries” basically means

divine secrets. These divine secrets aren’t the kind that

can never be told; rather, they are secrets that are

hidden on the inside of God. These secrets have been

made accessible to us by the blood of Jesus and the

power of the Holy Spirit.

W. E. Vine in his Expository Dictionary of New

Testament Words gives another good scriptural

definition for these mysteries: “…that which, being

outside the range of unassisted natural apprehension,

can be made known only by Divine revelation, and is

made known…to those only who are illumined by His

Spirit.”

So suppose you spent eight hours praying in the Holy

Ghost, speaking mysteries that are out of the range of

unassisted natural apprehension and that can only be

known by divine revelation to those illuminated by the

Holy Spirit. Well, I can tell you this much about those

mysteries you’re praying: They’re certainly not for

God’s benefit!

Are you going to sneak up on God’s blind side and

whisper some deep spiritual secret in His ear that He

didn’t know at least a couple of millennia before this

planet became graced with your presence? No, I don’t

think so.

So if these mysteries are not for God’s benefit, they

must be for ours. Therefore, praying in tongues must be

like any other kind of prayer in that it is designed by

God to be answered just as much as is the mighty,

mountain-moving prayer of faith or the “I’ll go where

You want me to go” prayer of consecration.

John 16:13 says this:

Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will

guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of

himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he

speak: and he will shew you things to come.

The Holy Spirit is the intermediary between us and

Jesus, and He will only speak what He hears. His

commission as the Spirit of Truth is to glorify Jesus by

receiving truth from Him and then transferring these

mysteries of Christ from His understanding to ours

through the supernatural language of tongues.

Also, Hebrews 7:25 says that Jesus our High Priest “ever

lives to make intercession” for us. So the Holy Spirit

hears the intercession Jesus is making for us and then

pours it through our spirit as we pray in other tongues.

DAVE ROBERSON

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NEXT WEEK WE WILL THE REST OF SPEAKING DIVINE MYSTERIES.

( LB ) SORRY ABOUT THE DELAY IN THIS EDITION, AS MY COMPUTER

WENT SOUTH ON ME AND I HAD TO INSTALL A NEW WINDOWS

PROGRAM.

I AM BELIEVING FOR A NEW COMPUTER NEXT YEAR, AS THIS ONE IS

VERY OLD AND TIRED.