Dearly beloved congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, I know that many of you love a good mystery. Some of you, of course, are or were professional detectives. Others of you simply watch detectives on TV. But when Paul uses the word “mystery,” as he does in our passage this morning, he is not referring to the kind of thing Dame Agatha Christie wrote. For him, a mystery is some truth about God and His works that was once hidden but has now been revealed. A mystery for St. Paul is not something we have to figure out, but rather something God has now told us. The mystery which he describes for us this morning “transcends mere metaphysics,” as one commentator put it. Indeed, this mystery refers to God’s plan for the entire cosmos. So do you want to know what God has planned? Come into the library with me, as it were, and I will explain the whole thing — who’s going to do what when. Indeed, in this morning’s sermon we will see God’s formerly hidden master plan to sum up everything under one Head(ing) in Christ — the disclosure of that plan, the root of that plan, and the content of that plan. And we will then see that because everything is being summed up under the one heading of the Messiah, you and I ought to submit to His headship right now!
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Caleb Nelson grew up in Ft. Collins, CO. Born into a Christian home, where he eventually became the eldest of 11 children, he has been a lifelong Presbyterian. He professed faith at the age of six, and was homeschooled through high school. He then attended Patrick Henry College...