Section 17
has "power to establish you." In Romans 16 our need is no longer salvation or sanctification; our need is to be established. Everything has been accomplished, and we only need to be es tablished. We are not established according to doctrines or dispensational truths, but accord ing to the gospel, the preaching of Christ, and the revelation of the mystery. Oh, how the saints today need to be rescued from the divisive doc trines and dividing practices and to be estab lished by the pure and full gospel of God, by the preaching and ministering of the living and all- inclusive Christ, and by the revelation of God's mystery! Only the pure gospel, the living Christ, and God's revealed mystery can establish us and keep us in unity for the church life.
This mystery, which has been kept in silence in the times of the ages, and has not been re vealed, is mainly of two aspects: one is the mys tery of God (Col. 2:2), which is Christ, who is in the believers (Col. 1:26-27) as their life and their everything that they may become the members of His Body; another is the mystery of Christ (Eph. 3:4-6), which is the church as His Body to express His fullness (Eph. 1:22-23). Therefore, Christ and the church are the great mystery (Eph. 5:32). Romans firstly tells us how the believers