Now about this matter of a mystery, it doesn’t represent something you cannot know. When the Bible uses the word mystery, it’s something that you can’t know by yourself but which God wants to open up to you.
Did you know that when people pray together, they get along better? Did you know that when the church gets on its knees, church politics seem to diminish, and if not, disappear altogether?
What is the basis for healthy Christian growth? Well, you know, don’t you? It’s the Word of God, “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.”
So if you want access into the very presence of God, number one, you have to want to; number two, you have to ask God for it through the Lord Jesus; number three, you have to go to the place where God speaks to you, and that’s in His word.
What is the key to getting direct access into the presence of Almighty God? The indwelling Holy Spirit, praying through you, brings you right straight into the very presence of God, and there your petitions are heard and answered.
Yes, He said He has raised us up together, made us sit together in the heavenlies that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace. So then what are the riches of His grace?