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Dive into the concept of dispensations, their definition, purpose, and the seven dispensations in biblical history. Discover how dispensationalism intersects with faith and the stewardship of God's grace.
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Boasting and Dying! • Fighting: • Farming: • Faith:
Continuing to die to the world “For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes” 1 Corinthians 11:26.
Dispensational Comparison – why? Biblical Theology
Some Questions about Dispensations? • What is this term ‘Dispensation’? • How do you define it? • How many Dispensations are there? • Why did God make Dispensations?
Some Questions about Dispensations? • What is this term ‘Dispensation’? • How do you define it? • How many Dispensations are there? • Why did God make Dispensations?
An ‘Administration’ • Ephesians 1:9-10: “He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him, with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth.” • Ephesians 3:2: “For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles— if indeed you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace which was given to me for you.” • Ephesians 3:9: “and to bring to light what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God who created all things; so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places.”
Some Questions about Dispensations? • What is this term ‘Dispensation’? • How do you define it? • How many Dispensations are there? • Why did God make Dispensations?
Does not save you, but may indicate you are saved!!! • Definition #1: “A dispensation is a period of time during which a man is tested in respect of obedience to some specific revelation of the will of God” (C. I. Scofield, 1909). • Definition #2: “Dispensations are stewardships by which God administers His purpose on the earth through man under varying responsibilities” (Dallas Theological Seminary, 2017). • Definition #3: “A biblical time period wherein God applies distinct ethical imperatives to His people although salvation is always by grace through faith.”
Some Questions about Dispensations? • What is this term ‘Dispensation’? • How do you define it? • How many Dispensations are there? • Why did God make Dispensations?
Some Questions about Dispensations? • What is this term ‘Dispensation’? • How do you define it? • How many Dispensations are there? • Why did God make Dispensations?
2 Converging Plans • The nation Israel • The Church Earthly Glory The Millennium Heavenly/Eternal Glory
2 Converging Plans • The nation Israel • Romans 4:13: “The promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law.” • Romans 8:21: “That the creation itself also will Be set free from is slaver to corruption into The freedom of the glory of the children of God.” • Revelation 21:1-2: “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heave and the first earth passed away . . . And I saw the holy city . . .coming down out of heaven . . . ‘the Tabernacle of God is among men . . .” • The Church The Millennium
You Are a Dispensationalist Lewis Sperry Chafer: “Any person is a dispensationalist who trusts the blood of Christ rather than bringing an animal sacrifice” and “who observes the first day of the week rather than the seventh.”
