Welcome back to the podcast. Thanks for listening. And if you joined us in reading the Bible together this year, thank you for joining us in that as well. We are, we're using the Navigator's Bible Reading Plan, which is a schedule you can find online. You can print it off and join us any time. You don't have to start on January 1st. So we would love for you to join us.

And as we read our Bible together, a lot of questions emerge, as you can see in this email from

Matt in Concord, New Hampshire, who writes in based on what he saw last year in the Bible reading

this time of year, he puts together five texts, five texts, the same five texts that we're

going to encounter over the next three weeks in our reading. That's got to be a record, five texts, five texts, the same five texts that we're going to encounter over the next three

weeks in our reading, that's got to be a record, five texts. Pastor John, hello, and thank you

for the APJ podcast. I have a question about how much of the Christian faith is revealed and how much of

it is hidden and not revealed. Of course, we are told that the secret things belong to God,

things he does not reveal, but there are some things he reveals to us.

That's Deuteronomy 29, 29.

We read that Paul says,

The creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.

That's an eager anticipation of a future revealing in Romans 819.

And Jesus promises us that we will see the Son of man seated at the right hand

of power and coming on the clouds of heaven. That's in Matthew 2664, a revelation of Christ's

physical radiance in the future, as I understand it. But as Paul did ministry, he celebrated the

gospel as the quote, the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages, but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations.

As Romans 16, 25, 26.

And he talks about imparting, quote, a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.

That's 1 Corinthians 2.7.

That secret wisdom, the secret of the gospel long held, is now out.

So how much of the faith is revealed and how much of it remains a secret unrevealed?

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