All Truth by J Eustace Mills
Notice below how this book highlights the TWO mysteries [God ordained secrets] found in Paul’s epistles.
In John 16:12 the Lord told His disciples: "I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear." That being the case, we need to go beyond the four Gospels, and the ministry of Christ when He was on earth if we wish to find out what it was that the Lord wanted them to know. Jesus went on to tell them in the next verse, "But when He, The Spirit of Truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth." It is from the promise in this verse that the title All Truth has been taken for the book,
It should be common knowledge to our readers that we believe it was given to the Apostle Paul “to fulfill [Gk., pleroo, complete] the Word of God” (Colossians 1:25).
The Post-Acts Pauline epistles reveal to us our hope as members of the “One Body” of Christ today and our various responsibilities as to our walk. The book “All Truth” that puts forth these truths very simply.
All Truth, by J. Eustace Mills, is an exposition of Colossians 1:24-29 divided into 8 chapters. His approach is to contrast what the Spirit of Truth has revealed before and during the time of Christ, with the Truth that was later revealed to the Apostle Paul, which was after the Lord's resurrection (John 16:13).
The book starts with an explanation of the time after the Lord's resurrection when He said that He would send "The Comforter," the “Spirit of Truth,” who would speak about the things that were to come and that would glorify the Lord.
This first contrast is between the truths in the Gospels and the words spoken by the Lord in person while on the earth, and … the revelations given to the Apostle Paul both during the Acts period and after the Acts period.
Mr. Mills then suggests that God desires to share His secret purpose with His saints, but that not all are initiated into this calling and some refuse to respond to the message of The Great Ephesian Mystery (Eph. 5:32).
The contrast is between those mysteries revealed “from [i.e., since] the foundation of the world” (Acts 3:21) and those revealed “before the foundation of the world” (Romans 16:25).
What is this Mystery?
For there is more than one mystery revealed in Paul's writings. Mr. Mills explains the contrast here is between “the Mystery of Christ” which is hidden in the Old Testament Scriptures, the Gospels, and Paul's earlier writings and … “the Mystery” of the “One Body” of Christ revealed in Paul's last seven epistles. Whenever we try to make these two secrets the same, we have confusion, not the light the Father desires for us.
The “Body of Christ” is said to be raised, seated, and manifested with Christ in Glory. We are not told that “we will meet the Lord in the air” (1 Thessalonians 4:17). The time when the Lord returns at His Second Coming to earth will be glorious, but this is not our hope, ours is a heavenly hope (Eph. 1:3; Col. 3:4).
The last chapter of “All Truth” contrasts the presentation of the perfect man, one of “full age” and “the babe” that is spoken of in Hebrews 5:13-6:1. For one to remain a babe is a very sad thing. We need to grow up in Him (Eph. 4:14-15) so we will not be easily deceived.
Certainly, “All Truth” is found in the Word of God.
Mr. Mills would have us “rightly divide the Word of truth” as Paul instructs us in 2Tim. 2:15, to find our hope and calling, to grow into full-grown sons fit for the Master's use.
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