Dispensation
Wednesday 072325
Acts 9:5 ‘…But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel…’ AKJV
Ephesians 2:8 ‘…For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God…’ AKJV
Romans 10:9 ‘…that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved…’ AKJV
Jesus, we begin this morning on a journey that has been made for Your glory. Jesus over this next month, maybe more, Your Message is so important to so many in this world today. Help me Jesus present Your Message so others can HEAR and keep my own biases away. I love You Jesus. Amen.
The Bible verses we’re going to use this morning are:
1 Corinthians 9:17; Ephesians 1:10, 3:2; Colossians 1:25; Acts 9:15; Romans 11:11.
1 Corinthians 9:17 ‘…For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me…’ AKJV
Ephesians 1:10 ‘…that in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him…’ AKJV
Ephesians 3:2 ‘…if ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward …’ AKJV
Colossians 1:25 ‘…whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God, which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God…’ AKJV
A DISPENSATION is a period of time during which God deals with the human race in a particular way.
Easiest and maybe the best example is if we were to compare a dispensation to a prescription.
Example a man goes to the doctor for a bad cough. The doctor writes him a prescription for some medicine with directions. The man goes home.
A short time later, the man has a battle with his arthritis. The doctor again writes him a prescription for some medicine with directions. The man goes home.
After a while, both bottles of medicine, are halfway empty/full, so to save space, the man combines both bottles into one, but by doing so, he loses the directions that the doctor gave him for how to take the medicine.
This is what our churches have done today to the Word of God. They have taken the entire bottle (the entire Bible), and they’ve told their followers to apply the entire bottle (Bible) into their lives, they’ve taken the entire Word of God, put it in a blender and tuned the blender onto high … nowhere are we told to do that in the Word of God. Nowhere in Scripture have we been told to obey the entire Bible.
Here is an example of a dispensation:
Adam and Eve were in the garden and God told them to NOT eat the fruit from that one tree. That’s all they had to believe in. From what we know from the Word, Adam and Eve did eat the fruit from that tree and they were dispelled from the garden.
Those of us alive today, we have no tree that we are not to eat from. That demand was from an earlier dispensation.
Here is another dispensation:
The Israelites (Jews) were given the ten commandments. There is no other people that were supposed to keep the commandments because they were never given them, ONLY the Jews (Israelites) were given the law. From what we can determine from the Word of God, we know the Jews were unable to keep the law.
God gave many things to the Jewish people; God gave the Jews Jesus Christ as a gift to free them from their sins. Again, from history, we can read in the Word that the Jews didn’t believe Jesus was the
Son of God and eventually, God turned His back onto His beloved people, and He looked to the Gentile nation.
There are two (2) types of people defined in the Word of God. There were Jews (Israelites, the Jewish people) and non-Jew (Gentiles, everyone NOT Jewish).
Acts 9:15 ‘…But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel…’ AKJV
In Acts 9:15, we are shown a new dispensation of God. God is no longer ONLY interested in saving His Chosen people (the Jews). God CHOSE to save ALL mankind. Not ALL mankind to replace the Jews. God changed so that now, He was going to save ALL mankind, period.
Romans 11:11 ‘…I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy…’ AKJV
‘…I say then, Have they (the Jews) stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their (the Jews) fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them (the Jews) to jealousy…’
God made a CHOICE to make a change. God didn’t have to ask us if that was okay, God is SOVERIGN, He can do whatever He desires.
Through the entire Word of God, we have been instructed to FOLLOW. But for so many in this world, in their own man-made churches and religions, many people have decided to go out on their own and follow their own rules.
Too many individuals have decided to go off on their own.
They have decided to select human individuals they would rather follow and obey instead of FOLLOWING the words that God has given us in His Word, the Word of God.
God gave us, those living today, a new dispensation that we were to follow and there are so many that have turned their backs onto what God wants from us.
They instead have decided to follow their pastor, their priest, their church or their denomination; but none of those things can ‘GIVE’ Everlasting Life.
Only God can give life.
This morning is a short lesson, but rather than just going off on your own, keep your Bibles open and continue to study the words that God has given us.
Continue to read how He wants to save us.
This group of lessons I have prepared for the next month, I hope are able to open your eyes and show you what is written in the Word, so maybe you can stop listening to the lies and half truths spoken in your churches.
I love ALL of y’all.
I will be back next Wednesday with more.
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Jesus, bless those people reading this lesson. Help them Father get on board with how You want us to live our lives for You and let them turn their backs to all the falsehoods claimed by Satan and his evil false prophets spreading nothing but lies. We love You Jesus. Amen.
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