Now I want to preach about a word that's used in the Bible four times and there's a lot
of confusion about this word and I've had many, many people come to me and ask me about
this and they don't understand this and people have confused them about this and people have
often asked me, you know, do you have a sermon where you preach on this and explain this
and I didn't really know what sermon to direct them to, sometimes to go back and listen to
it and so I'm preaching about it tonight and I'm going to make this really clear tonight
for you and really break it down to you and that word is the word dispensation. We just
read it in Ephesians chapter 1 verse 10. We're going to come back to that but there's a doctrine
out there that's called dispensationalism. Who's ever heard of that before? Yeah, pretty
much every hand in the room goes up and this is a false teaching. It's completely false.
It has no truth in it and I'm going to expose that tonight and show you that and prove it
from the Bible. Now a lot of people will say to you, well, you know, the word dispensation
is in the Bible, therefore you must be a dispensationalist. Well, I'm here to tell you the word presbytery
is in the Bible. It doesn't make me a presbytery, okay? And the word Nazarene is used twice in
the Bible. That doesn't make me a Nazarene. The word Jehovah and the word witness are
in the Bible. I'm not a Jehovah's Witness. The word Pentecost is in the Bible. I'm not
a Pentecostal and so we can go on and on. People can take words in the Bible and they
can twist them and they can use them for things that they don't mean and they can use
them to mean things that have nothing to do with the Bible and nothing to do with scripture
and I'm going to show you that that's exactly what's going on with this word dispensation.
Now I've brought with me tonight the Scofield Reference Bible. Now this is pretty much one
of the main sources of where dispensationalism comes from. Did you ever have one of these?
Put up your hand if you've ever had one. I grew up with this Bible. In fact, when I
grew up, this was the Bible I read every day from. It's a King James Bible but it has notes
in it at the bottom by a guy named Scofield. And a lot of dispensationalism, it comes from
this book right here, this Scofield Reference Bible. This is a really popular record. I've
gone to churches where literally when they started to read the scripture, they would
tell you, turn to Ephesians 1. By the way, that's page number so and so in your Scofield
Reference Bible. That's how popular this is. It's everywhere. Like I said, I grew up owning
one. Everywhere you go, you see. And a lot of the notes in this book are completely false
but people just read it and they just think that it's the truth because they're reading
his little footnotes at the bottom and it gives a lot of false teaching. And really,
if you want to know who the fathers of this false doctrine are, it's a guy named John
Darby and then this guy Scofield and then this guy named Clarence Larkin. These guys
are theologians from the 1800s who made up this doctrine of dispensationalism. Now, turn
if you would in your Bible to John chapter 1 and I'm going to show you from the Bible
that this is false. Now, here's what's amazing to me. Most of the people that I run into
who are really big on this dispensationalism, they're using the King James Bible but dispensationalism
does not have its roots in the King James Bible. The guy who started it, John Nelson
Darby, he made his own version of the Bible called the Darby Translation and it pretty
much lines up with just like the NIV. And that was John Darby. The guy that made this
book, the Scofield Reference Bible, he says at the beginning how the revised version of
the Bible is so much more accurate than the King James but because the King James is so
popular, he said I pretty much had to put it out in the King James because that's what's
so popular. And he explains how he's corrected all the mistakes by, he says here these wonderful
theologians like Westcott and Hort and Greaseback and Lachman have corrected the mistakes he
said in the King James and he puts that in the column for us where he corrects and changes
the Bible. But here's what I want to show you first of all. Now, a lot of dispensationalists,
they'll claim that they don't believe what I'm about to show you right now but Darby
believed it and the Scofield Bible that they get all their dispensations from believe it
and this is the main teaching of dispensationalism that a lot of them will reject and call hyper-dispensationalism
but it's the doctrine number one. I'm going to get this out of the way because a lot of
dispensationalists don't believe this but it's like they want to hang on to dispensationalism
even though they're growing out its main core teaching that Darby and Scofield believed,
they want to cling to it and say well I don't believe the part about people being saved
by works in the Old Testament but I still believe parts of a lot of dispensationalism.
It's like they just let it go. Quit hanging on to it. Just let it go. Why do you believe
this? But anyway, let me give it to you from Scofield. This is what Scofield says. You're
in John 1. Let me read for you from the Bible. Look at John 1.17. The Bible reads, For the
law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. Here's what Scofield
says in his little note at the bottom. Listen carefully. As a dispensation, grace begins
with the death and resurrection of Christ. The point of testing is no longer legal obedience
as the condition of salvation but acceptance or rejection of Christ. So he says right here
that before Jesus died on the cross, it was whether you obeyed God's law that got you
into heaven. And that after Jesus died and rose again, you just have to accept or reject
a free gift. Just believe on Christ. But before he died and rose again, you had to obey the
law. Well let's get into the Bible now. Here's the problem with that. Turn if you would to
John chapter 3. Here's the problem with that. There's been no one who's ever lived who has
kept God's law except the Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible said, even though it says there's
not a just man upon the earth that doeth good and sitteth not. It says in James 2.10, For
whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit
no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. He says maybe you
broke one and you didn't break the other. Either way, you broke enough of it to be a
transgressor of the law. And the Bible teaches that all have sinned and come short of the
glory of God. There's none righteous to know not one. So if obedience to the law was a
way to be saved, then nobody would be saved. But they claim, well, before Jesus died on
the cross and rose again, people had to be saved by works. They had to be saved by obedience
to the law. But now in the so-called dispensation of grace, because they believe in seven different
dispensations, in the dispensation of grace, we're just saved by grace or faith. Look at
John chapter 3. Let's see if this doctrine lines up with scripture. In John 3.36 is what
I want to show you. This is John the Baptist preaching. He says right here, He that believeth
on the sun hath everlasting life. And he that believeth not the sun shall not see life,
but the wrath of God abideth on it. Now, let me ask you this. Is that in the present tense
or the future tense? That's the present tense. He didn't say that those who believe are going
to get everlasting life later. He said he that believeth on the sun has everlasting
life. That's right now. And he says in John 5, flip over to John chapter 5, verse 24.
Now you say, well, what's your point, Pastor Anderson? Well, the point is that this is
all preaching before Jesus died on the cross. I mean, had Jesus died on the cross in John
chapter 3 when John the Baptist was preaching? This is three years before Jesus died on the
cross. And here we've got John the Baptist saying, hey, if you believe on Jesus Christ,
you're saved. You have eternal life. Look at John 5, 24. Verily I say unto you, and
by the way, this verse was shown unto me when I got saved as a six year old boy. Verily,
verily I say unto you, he that heareth my word and believeth on him that sent me, is
this present tense or what, hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation,
but his past from death unto life. What's the context? Jesus is preaching to a big group
here. Jesus had gone up to the temple. He's done signs and wonders. He's preaching to
a crowd in John 5. Go to John 6 where he's preaching to another crowd, verse 47. This
is after Jesus had fed the 5,000. Remember when he fed the 5,000 with just five loaves
and two fishes? There were 5,000 men, not including women and children. That group follows
him. He goes to the other side of the Sea of Galilee. They follow him. They want to
see more miracles. They want to eat more bread. They like that free food, so they come across.
And Jesus even said, I know that's why you're here. It's for the food. He's talking to this
multitude of literally thousands of people. And here's what he tells them in John 6, 47.
Verily, verily I say unto you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life. Now this is not
a different plan of salvation. Yet supposedly, according to them, this is the dispensation
of the law. Because Jesus hadn't died on the cross yet. So this is work salvation. No,
he's making it clear. It's belief. It's faith alone. Go to John 11. These dispensationalists
will try to say, well, in the Old Testament, they didn't have eternal security of the believer.
And I'm talking about the hardcore dispensationalists, the hyper-dispensationalists. Basically, translation,
the ones who actually believe in the stuff, as it was invented by Darby and Larkin and
Scofield and so forth. And I read for you where Scofield said it out of the horse's
mouth. But here's the thing. They'll say, well, they didn't have salvation the same
way we have it, and they could lose it. Man, how did Solomon get to have it? You know King
Solomon, who was a guy who was used to pen down three books of the Bible, Proverbs and
Ecclesiastes and Solomon and Solomon. And the Bible says holy men of God spake as they
were moved by the Holy Ghost. And the Bible said that the prophets would be all in the
kingdom of heaven, including Solomon. But Solomon later in life, remember he married
all those strange wives? And the Bible says that because he married wives that were not
safe, and that's why it's so important that you marry the believer, that you marry somebody
who's safe. Very important. Because Solomon married these unbelieving wives, they turned
away his heart, and at the end of his life, he began to worship other gods, and he built
altars unto false gods. And yet the Bible says that he's in heaven, and he was safe.
How did he get in if it weren't for the eternal security? How can Saul go? And I don't even
need to remind you of that. I mean, that's clear. Look at John chapter 11, verse 25.
Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He that believeth in me, though
he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die.
Believest thou this? Now I believe it, Jesus. I believe that whoever believes on you is
safe. But there are a lot of people who think that that didn't kick in until years later.
Now go to Romans chapter 4, if you would. Romans chapter 4 is a few pages to the right
in your Bible. Now I showed these verses to somebody that was one of these dispensationalists,
and I showed him these verses, and I said, look, these are all verses where Jesus is
saying that all you have to do to be saved is just believe, and this is years and years
before he died on the cross. And he's saying, you already have everlasting life. If you
believe on me, you're already saved. You don't need to do anything else. You're saved. He
that believeth on me has everlasting life. And you know what that person told me? Because
they're probably wondering, what in the world did they tell you? And here's what they said.
Well, Jesus just said that because he knew that people would quote him later during the
right dispensation. Like later, he wanted us to be able to look back at those verses
and see that, and that the apostles could quote that stuff, and that it would mean something.
But at the time, it wasn't really in effect yet. Okay, well that would make Jesus a liar.
Look, he didn't just say things so that they could be written down in the Bible someday.
He was talking to people. When he was with Nicodemus, he was talking to a human being.
And you know what? I believe that Jesus Christ cared just as much about Nicodemus as he cares
about me, and he cared about you. And I think that he cared about these people, and he's
telling them the truth. He's not lying to them. And when he told a crowd of thousands
of people that if anyone believed on them, they would have eternal life, right then and
there, he wasn't lying. He was telling the truth. And he wasn't just saying, well, this
is just so somebody can quote me later, when this really becomes true a few years from
now. No, it was true when he said it. And thank you, Brother Jordan, blame. That's the
word that I refuse to describe that. Very lame. But look at Romans 4, verse 1. Here's
a great passage to show that anyone who's ever been saved always has been and always
will be saved by grace. And it's always through faith. Even in the Old Testament, they called
upon the name of the Lord to be saved. They called upon the name of Jehovah or God Almighty,
different names. First he was God Almighty is what he revealed himself. It wasn't until
the burning bush when he referred himself as Jehovah. Then they called upon Jehovah.
Today, of course, we have to call upon the Lord Jesus Christ because now he's come in
the flesh. We have to acknowledge the Son in order to acknowledge the Father. We have
to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. In the Old Testament, they called upon the Lord by
faith. Jehovah, God Almighty. Today, we must call upon the name of Jesus Christ. You see,
there is a difference today in the New Testament versus the Old Testament. But the difference
is that it's still by faith. It's still calling upon the name of the Lord. It's just the difference
is that now we call upon the name of Jesus looking back to what he's done on the cross,
looking back to the finished work of Jesus Christ. Those in the Old Testament, they didn't
know all the details like we know them. They didn't know the name of Jesus. They didn't
know everything about salvation, but they still called upon the Lord by faith, trusting
in him as their Savior. And look how many times in the Old Testament, the Lord says,
I, even I am the Lord. Beside me, there's no Savior. He said, he's the Savior. Call
upon him and be saved. He said, look upon me and be saved. Believe on me. And that's
what they did. They did not get saved by their good works. Because here's what's silly about
that. If they can be saved by their good works in the Old Testament, why can't they get saved
by good works now if they're so good? But the truth of the matter is they've never been
good and they never shall be good. And there is none that doeth good, no not one. And there's
none good but one, and that's God. And Jesus Christ was God in the flesh. Look at Romans
4, 1. The Bible says, what shall we say then that Abraham our father as pertaining to the
flesh hath found? For if Abraham were justified by works, if he were saved by his works, he
hath were up to glory, but not before God. For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed
God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. So how did Abraham get saved? He believed
God. Now did he know the name of Jesus? No. But he believed God. He believed and called
upon the Lord. In Genesis 12 he called upon the name of the Lord. And that's how he got
saved? That's how I got saved when I was a six year old boy. I believed on the Lord Jesus
Christ and called upon him to be saved. He said Abraham believed God and it was counted
unto the righteous. He said, well Pastor Anderson, that was in a different dispensation because
that was before the law. That was the dispensation of promise. Okay, well here's the thing. David
was during the law. Because David was after Moses. Let's get David. It says in verse number,
well let's keep reading, verse 4. Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of
grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justified the
ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. So today we're saved by faith. Even, he says,
him that worketh not. Even if we don't have any works. But if we believe, we're saved
by faith. But he says, even as David also. In verse 6. So was David saved in a completely
different way than us by obeying the law? David was saved the same way I'm saved. The
same way you're saved. Even as David also described the blessedness of the man unto
whom God impudeth righteousness without works. Saying, blessed are they whose iniquities
will be forgiven someday after Jesus dies on the cross. No! David said blessed are they
whose iniquities are forgiven! And blessed are they whose sins are covered now! Blessed
is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. Cometh this blessedness then upon the
circumcision only? Or upon the uncircumcision also? For we say that faith was reckoned to
Abraham for righteousness. How was it then reckoned? When he was in circumcision or in
uncircumcision? Not in circumcision but in uncircumcision. And he received the sign of
circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised
that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised, that
righteousness might be imputed unto them also. I mean, how clear can you get? Abraham was
saved before he was even circumcised. He was saved by believing by faith, the Bible says.
Then he got circumcised afterward just as a symbol of his faith, a token of his faith.
And then James 2 talks about the outward sign of his faith when he offered Isaac his son
upon the altar. Which was, by the way, about 70 years at least after he got saved. Because
he got saved in Genesis 12, long before he was circumcised, long before he offered Isaac
his son upon the altar. And so we see here that this falls apart really fast. We are
saved by faith and anyone who's ever been saved, they went by grace. We're not living
in the age of grace. The age of grace started with Adam and Eve. When Adam got saved, that
was grace. When Seth got saved, that was grace. Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
Abraham was saved by grace. David was saved by grace. It goes on and on and then Jesus
is constantly saved. Just believe. You'll be saved right now. Was he lying or was he
telling the truth? I believe it. He was telling the truth. This doctrine is so easy to prove
false. That's why today a lot of dispensationalists, they're getting away from this and they're
saying, well I'm a dispensationalist, but I don't believe in that stuff about people
being saved by works in the Old Testament. I mean, you know, we've always been saved
by grace, but you've still got to be a dispensationalist because the word dispensational is used. Well,
let's go to all four times that the word dispensation is used in the Bible. Now, turn if you would
to the first one that I want to show you, which is Colossians chapter one. Go to Colossians
chapter number one. Colossians chapter number one because you say, well Pastor Anderson,
people are talking about these dispensations and these periods of time and I don't know
what it means and, you know, what is the deal with this? And this is how they'll try to
get you to think you have to believe it because, well, it's in the Bible. Now here's the funniest
part about it to me. Supposedly there's seven dispensations according to these people, okay?
There's the dispensation of innocence, conscience, human government. Why does human government
get its own dispensation anyway? How far? I don't like that one. Innocence, conscience,
human government, promise, law, and grace and kingdom. So there's a set. But here's
the funny thing is, there's seven dispensations but the word is only used in the Bible four
times. Now, I'm trying to make this word math wise. The word is only used four times but
supposedly there's seven of them. Is my math, can somebody help me with my math here? I'm
a little confused. So anyway, before I even get into this, let's just be real here. Does
anybody know what the word dispense means? Okay. Now, look, I think a big mistake that
people make when they go to the Bible is when they go to the Bible, they think that somehow
the Bible is written in this mystery magic language where things don't really mean what
they say. But in reality, if you read the Bible and just take it for what it says, it's
really not that hard to understand these things. And we all know the word dispenser. Is that
better for you? Dispenser? Who knows the word dispenser? Everybody knows that word, okay?
And I've got a little illustration to help you with that, okay? In fact, I've got seven
dispensations. No logic. But before we get to that, put that away. Let's go to the Bible
first of all. We're going to look at four mentions. Now, dispensation is used four times
in the Bible. Now, there are two meanings of dispense or dispenser. And I'll bet you
once I give you the examples, you've used these in your daily speech or you've heard
these. This isn't some mystery magic word. Dispensation. Now, according to these phony,
lying false teachers, dispensations are these periods of time, these seven phases where
if you don't understand these seven phases, these dispensations, like you can't understand
the Bible, and if you try to quote anything from the wrong one, they'll tell you that
doesn't apply. Like you'll try to quote from the book. Like books like Matthew, Mark, Luke,
John, they'll tell you that was all another dispensation, all of it. That's the words
of Christ. I mean, I don't know about you, but my favorite part of the Bible is Matthew,
Mark, Luke, and John. Is that what they say, your favorite part? I love that part. I love
the red letter part where Jesus is talking, his preaching, his teaching. Oh, wrong dispensation,
doesn't apply to you. Sorry. I don't believe that stuff. Every promise in the book is mine.
Every chapter, every verse, every line. I love every part of the Bible, and I apply.
And people will say, well, not all of it's good for doctrine. Hey, all scriptures might
be my inspiration of God, and it's profitable for doctrine. So I'm going to show you the
real meaning of dispensation tonight. Let's look it up in the Bible. Let's see for ourselves.
Colossians chapter number 1, verse 25. The Bible says this, whereof I am made a minister
according to the dispensation of God, which is given to me for you to fulfill the word
of God. Now, this doesn't talk anything about periods of time or epochs or phases of God's
plan. The word dispensation, and the first definition of the word dispense, is to give
you something. Now, if I went to a soap dispenser, it's going to give me soap, right? It's going
to put out soap. It's going to dispense soap. It's going to give me soap. If I were to go
to a soda dispenser or a water dispenser, I mean, it's going to give me water. It's
going to give me whatever is in there, soda, whatever the case may be, okay? Now, that's
the first definition we see here. Look how the definition is right there in the verse.
It says, whereof I am made a minister according to the dispensation of God, which is given
to me for you to fulfill the word of God. So, the dispensation of God is what God is
giving him, because God is dispensing something unto him, or giving him something. So, it's
clear. The dispensation of God, that's not even one of their seven on the list. So, look
at 1 Corinthians chapter 9. So, that's the first mention. Does anybody see something
in that verse about some period of time, or any of those things about the age of grace
and all this? Nothing. Look at 1 Corinthians 9, verse 16. This is a great verse. 1 Corinthians
9, 16, the Bible says, for though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory up, for
necessity is laid upon me. Yea, woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel. Now, the pastor
of the church, where I first learned soul winning and I went there for years and years
in Sacramento, California, this was his life verse. 1 Corinthians 9, 16, woe is me if I
preach not the gospel. Great verse. Look at verse 17. For if I do this willingly, I have
a reward. But if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me. Now, what
is to commit something to someone is to give them something for safe keeping. And the Bible
says that God has committed unto us the ministry of reconciliation. It also says He's given
to us the word of reconciliation. He gives us the definition of two words apart, committed
and given. Same thing. A dispensation is something that's given to you. The Bible said in the
other verse, I showed you in Colossians, that the dispensation of God was given unto Him.
And here we see that this task, this responsibility of preaching the gospel, which is a big responsibility.
And he said, woe is unto me if I don't do it. I mean, I've been committed and entrusted
with the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. I've been given the gospel to preach it and
woe is unto me if I don't preach it. And that's why I'm a strong believer in soul winning
by the way. Woe is unto you if you don't preach it. We ought to be giving the gospel to people.
We ought to be out there preaching the word to be getting people saved. And that's what
he's saying here. God has given to him a dispensation of the gospel. Nothing to do with periods
of time. None of the seven on the list. Nothing. So we've already got two down, two to go.
Look at Ephesians chapter three. And so far has it not been consistent with its definition.
It meant the same thing both times we looked at it. Look at Ephesians chapter number three.
It says in verse one, for this cause I call the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles.
Chapter three verse two. If you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God, which
is what? Given me to you word. How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery
as I wrote it for in few words. Whereby when ye read ye may understand my knowledge in
the mystery of Christ. Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men as
it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the spirit that the Gentiles
should be fellow heirs and of the same body and partakers of the promise in Christ by
the gospel. Whereunto I was made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God
given unto me by the effectual working of his power. So here he explains that in the
Old Testament they didn't know all the details of the fact how the Gentiles and the Jews
would both be joined into one body. And Jesus said, other sheep have I that are not of this
fold. Them also must I bring and there shall be one shepherd and one fold. And the Bible
teaches that today in the New Testament there is neither Jew nor Gentile. We're all one
in Christ. Now you say, wait a minute Pastor Anderson. Different things in the Old, no
Old and New, here's a word for you, Testament. Did you get that? That's a Bible word. Not
dispensations, testaments. And there's not seven of them, there's two of them. Old and
New. And the Bible makes it clear that there are differences between the Old Testament
and the New Testament. He tells us what those differences are. Guess what, it has nothing
to do with salvation because everybody's been saved by faith. It just has to do with they
didn't know the name of Christ. They couldn't look back on the finished work of Christ.
They just knew they had a foreshadowing of it through the sacrifices that they could
look at and see the blood on the altar and get an inkling of an idea. But the main thing
was that their faith was in the Lord and they called upon it. They didn't know every detail
but they knew enough to be saved by faith and by calling upon the name of the Lord.
But he says here very clearly in Ephesians chapter number three, he said if you've heard
of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you, now did God give him a
period of time? Did God say okay Paul, here's a couple thousand years of history, let me
give this to you. That doesn't make any sense, but that's what they'll tell you the dispensation
means. Dispensation is a period of time where the dispensation of grace is a time where
salvation by grace or God's dealing with the Gentiles, above all. No, he didn't give him
a period of time. That doesn't make any sense, you know that doesn't make sense. He said
you've heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you, jump down
a few verses, he said, verse seven, where have I made a minister according to the gift
of the grace of God? So here he defines again that dispensation or dispensing is to give
something out, a gift, to give something to someone, to dispense something. Now turn to
Ephesians one, there's a fourth mention of dispensation. So we've already seen three
of them and clearly not a period of time. Clearly, clearly it was giving something out.
God's giving him grace, God's giving him a message to preach, God's giving him things.
He's got a dispensation of the gospel meaning hey, he's being given the gospel for his safe
keeping to preach and to minister. He's being given the grace of God to preach unto the
Gentiles how that now they're going to be part of the group and they can be part of
the body of Christ which is the local church and that there can be Jew and Gentile joined
in one church and so forth in the congregation. See in the Old Testament, and I love that
word, the Old Testament, the Gentiles, they weren't in the congregation. Remember the
Moabites and the Ammonites, they weren't allowed in the congregation. That was their church
back then. Congregation means church or assembly. But in the New Testament, people of all nations
are welcome and he said his house would be a house of prayer for all nations. Now, there's
another definition of dispense. Have you ever heard this saying, and I bet you have, hey
let's dispense with the formalities. Who's heard that before? Put up your hand. Why don't
we dispense with the formalities? Now, dispensing with the formalities basically means what?
They're doing away with the formalities. So the word dispense has two different meanings.
One of them is to give something out like a soap dispenser, a PEZ dispenser, a whatever
dispenser. And by the way, let me get out of my seven dispensations because this is
critical to understanding the Bible. You've got to know these seven dispensations. So
I wanted to do this in a way that you could really understand. So first of all we've got
innocence. Here's our first dispense. What could be more innocent than R2D2? And then
I've got, now this is a conscience. This is when they sinned. This is their stormtrooper.
So you know, I've got C-Gripio. I've got Obi-Wan Kenobi. Hey look, this isn't good.
You don't need to take this home afterward. Now I need a volunteer. These are the seven,
now look, I'm not a dispensationalist, but I do believe in these seven dispensations
because you're about to see something literally dispensed here. So who wants to be my volunteer?
Who's a volunteer for me? I think my kids. Solomon, come on up here. Alright Solomon,
I'm going to teach you all about dispensationalism son. Okay we're going to start out with R2D2
here. So look, watch this. I open it up and look what comes out. Alright, there you go,
pop it in your mouth. That's the most unhealthy thing you've had in your life. Artificial
color, artificial light. And you know, you say, why do you do that Pastor Aronson? Why
are you making a mockery? Well, because I'm just trying to drive this point home. Because
it just seems like people just don't get it sometimes. So I'm just making it real easy
for you to understand what a dispensation is. This is a dispensation. Okay? That's a
dispensation. Okay? Why? Because this is dispensing pens. It's giving me pens. I receive pens.
That's what it means. And then the other thing is, you know, and maybe that will stick
with you. But the other meaning of dispense is basically to use something up or to do
away with something. When something is used up. Now you can understand why these two words
would both be related. Because as the PEZ dispenser dispenses PEZ onto me, PEZ is used
up in the process. So PEZ is being dispensed means, number one, it's being given onto
me. Number two, I get to a point where, hey, it's gone. You know what I mean? This is
the last thing. Because it's dispensed. It's been totally dispensed or used up or done
away with. There's none left. So those are the two meanings of dispense and they both
can be illustrated with PEZ. You know? Okay? So it's not hard to understand, folks. And
that's what we see. The second definition is what we see here in Ephesians chapter one.
So the first three we went to, it was clear God was giving something. He was giving something
that Paul was receiving. He was dispensing something unto him. Look at Ephesians chapter
one verse ten. It says that in the dispensation of the fullness of times, he might gather
together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are in earth,
even in him, in whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according
to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will, that we should
be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ, in whom ye also trusted,
after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom after ye
that ye believed ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest
of our inheritance, until the redemption of the purchased possession unto the praise of
his glory. Keep your finger here. This is going to make perfect sense. Keep your finger
here. Go to Revelation chapter ten. Revelation chapter number ten. Because God here, when
he talks about the dispensation of the fullness of times, he is predicting something in the
future when he's going to gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are
in heaven and which are on earth, and when basically the part I want to focus on too
is in verse fourteen of Ephesians one where he said, which is the earnest of our inheritance
until the redemption of the purchased possession unto the praise of his glory. Look at Revelation
ten. See how interesting this is. It says in verse number five of Revelation ten, and
the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven
and swear by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven and the things that
therein are, and the earth and the things that therein are, and the sea and the things
which are therein. Watch this. That there should be time no longer. But in the days
of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should
be finished as he had declared to his servants the problem. So when there's going to be
time no longer, when the seventh angel begins to sound, he says the mystery of God will
be finished. There will be time no longer. Flip over the page to chapter eleven. In chapter
eleven, that seventh angel is going to sound that trumpet. He says in verse fifteen, and
the seventh angel sounded, and there were great voices in heaven saying, the kingdoms
of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign
forever and ever. So here's the thing. The kingdom of Christ comes at the sounding of
the seventh trumpet. That's when there's time no longer. That's when the mystery of God
is finished as he had declared to his servants the prophets. That's when the time of Ephesians
is predicted. It comes to pass. When the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our Lord
and of his Christ, when basically he rules and reigns on this earth for a thousand years,
he brings all the believers from heaven down to the earth. They're all gathered in one,
and he sets up his earthly kingdom. That is the fullness of time. That's when he said
there's time no longer. Here we are. The mystery of God is finished. That's the dispensation
of the fullness of time. The dispensation of the fullness of times means that there's
time no longer, sort of like the dispensation of the fullness of Pez means there is Pez
no longer. If I said to you, the dispensation of Pez which is given unto me, does anybody
have a hard time understanding that? I know we don't talk that way, but if I said, according
to the dispensation of Pez which is given unto me, you'd know that Pez was dispensed
unto you. Somebody gave you Pez. When I said the dispensation of the fullness of Pez has
come, that there should be Pez no longer, you wouldn't have any trouble understanding
that either. Why do people have so much trouble understanding the Bible? Because somebody
put this idea into their head and lied to them that there's these seven dispensations
and it's these long epochs of time. That's just simply not what the Bible teaches and
it doesn't make any sense with what the scripture says. And so let me move on to the second
and I gotta hurry. I can't even deal with this whole subject tonight obviously. I'm
just giving you a little taste of it. I think I've told you enough that you can see that
this doctrine's not going anywhere. It's kind of doing a crash landing. But I can't
go into all the heresies and false teachings of dispensation. I'm just kind of striking
at the root of the tree here. And I'm showing you just the key doctrine. So number one,
we showed you that the key doctrine was that salvation was by works in the Old Testament.
That's not true. That's false. That's what Schofield said in this book. It's false. It's
a lie. Like I said, today's dispensationalist, because it's so easy to prove that false,
they're getting rid of that part, but they want to hang on to C3PO and Chewbacca. They're
willing to give up that one part of it, but they want to hang on to all their other dispensations.
Well, the second teaching, and this is what dispensationalists teach that I've ever talked
about, is they believe that people did not go to heaven in the Old Testament in these
other dispensations, so called. And here's their logic. Well, if Jesus hadn't died on
the cross yet, how could they be saved? You know, that was for point one. And then for
point two, well, if Jesus hadn't died on the cross yet, how could they go to heaven? Well,
here's the problem with that. The part about Jesus having not died on the cross yet, because
the Bible says that Jesus Christ is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Now,
in the Old Testament, had Jesus, you know, physically been on this earth yet and been
crucified? No, that hadn't happened yet. But because God's Word is so true, God speaks
of the things which be not as though they were. God talks about future events in the
past tense, because God is eternal. God is outside of time. And that's why in Isaiah
53, when it talks about Jesus dying on the cross, you remember where it talks about Him
being beaten and whipped in Isaiah 53? And in Psalm 22, it uses the past tense. He was
despised and rejected. He was bruised for our iniquities. He was killed, because in
God's mind, okay, and in God's view, it had already happened. I mean, look, if you read
the Bible, the Bible takes you, you don't just get to an ending like, okay, what's going
to happen next? It takes you all the way to the great white throne of judgment. Has that
happened yet? But notice the past tense, the small and great stood before God. You see,
God said that Jesus was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. We know that
He actually physically, literally died on the cross about 2,000 years ago. But here's
the thing, God could let people go to heaven before that, because He already knew that
He was going to die on the cross. And Jesus Christ, when He died on the cross, He died
for people in the past, He died for the people of the present, and He died for the people
of the future. He died for me before I was even born. So if He can die for me 2,000 years
before I was even born approximately, you're telling me He can't die for somebody in the
Old Testament sins? He knows the end from the beginning. If He could die for everybody's
sins in all history, then obviously people could be saved in the Old Testament. They
don't have to just, man, I'm just waiting until He actually dies on the cross. And a
holding tank. And here's the crazy thing, they believed that they were in this holding
tank called paradise. Now, go if you would to Luke chapter 23. Now, paradise, here's
another funny thing about dispensationalism. And you know, the whole thing of dispensationalism,
you have to be a mental acrobat to believe in this stuff. Like, you gotta believe in
dispensations even though the word's only mentioned four times. And three of them don't
even sound anything like a period of time. Okay, three out of four. The other one is
easily explained with a couple of pest dispensers. You gotta believe that in the Old Testament
for thousands of years, according to these people, people didn't go to heaven. Believers
when they died or whoever did enough works or whatever they believed they had to do,
the people who were saved in the Old Testament, they don't believe they went to heaven, they
believed they went to this holding place. Okay? And they've also described it as a prison.
So, you know, I guess you do everything right. You know, you're Elijah or you're, you know,
or you're Elisha or you're one of these great men of God from the Old Testament. Like, let's
say you're Moses and you go to prison. You know, you gotta wait for Jesus to come. And
you go to this holding tank and they have two names for this holding tank. They call
it either Paradise or Abraham's bosom. Now, Abraham's bosom is a body part, not a place,
just to break that down for you. But here's the amazing thing. Neither of these places
are ever mentioned in the Old Testament. Isn't that interesting? So for a thousand years,
that's where everyone in the Old Testament supposedly didn't go to heaven and went to
Paradise. But the funny thing is the word Paradise is only used in the New Testament.
Go figure. I mean, does anybody understand what I just explained? For 900 and some odd
chapters, the Bible says over and over, heaven, heaven, heaven, heaven. I think it started
in Genesis 1-1. In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. And it mentions
heaven hundreds of times over and over. Heaven, heaven, heaven, heaven, heaven, heaven, heaven,
heaven. And it talks about Elijah going up in a whirlwind to heaven. It talks about the
sons of God being up in heaven presenting themselves before God. And it said heaven
and heaven never said the word Paradise. It's mentioned three times in the New Testament.
But it's where they went in the Old Testament. Don't you know that? Don't you know that
they didn't go to heaven in that dispensation? They went to Paradise even though it's not
mentioned in the New Testament. It's mentioned three times. Let's look at all three. And
I'm proving tonight that these people did not get what they believed from the Bible.
Because if they got what they believed about dispensations from the Bible, they would have
seen the four verses we looked at. And if they got what they believed about Paradise
from the Bible, they'd look at these three verses, the only time it's mentioned. Luke
23 43. And Jesus said unto him, verily I say unto thee, today shalt thou be with me
in Paradise. Now this is Jesus talking to the thief on the cross. He has believed on
Christ. He looked at him and said, Lord, remember me when thou comest my kingdom. And Jesus
says to him, today shalt thou be with me in Paradise. Everybody got that? Everybody understand
that? Let's go to the next one because we're going to look at all three and then talk about
it. So far we have Jesus telling the thief, hey, you're going to be with me in Paradise
today. 2 Corinthians 12. We're going to see the second mention. And remember, according
to these people, Paradise is a holding tank in the center of the earth where people went
to prison, where people went waiting for Jesus to die and rise again so that they could go
to heaven. Because they couldn't go to heaven until we died for them. So they had to go
to Paradise, okay? Let's see if that holds up. Remember, it's only mentioned three times,
folks, and they're all in the New Testament. 2 Corinthians 12 verse 1, it says, it is not
expedient for me doubtless to glory. I would come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
I knew a man in Christ above 14 years ago. Whether in the body I cannot tell or whether
out of the body I cannot tell, God know it. Such a one caught up to the third heaven.
So where was this guy caught up to? The third heaven, right? Now I believe that the reason
why he says the third heaven is because the Bible calls three different things heaven.
He calls the sky heaven, right? He also calls outer space heaven. And then he also calls
the place where he lives heaven. So the third heaven is the place where he lives. The first
heaven would be the sky. The second heaven would be outer space. And then the third heaven
would be where he lives. So he says that this guy was caught up to the third heaven,
verse 3. And I knew such a man, whether in the body or out of the body, I cannot tell
God know it, that he was caught up into paradise. So where was he caught up to? The third heaven.
Where was he caught up to? Paradise. You're not going to believe it. Paradise is the third
heaven. That's what the Bible says, does it not? And it's only mentioned three times.
One of the times Jesus said, hey, you'll be there today with me in paradise. The second
time he said, hey, I was caught up to the third heaven, caught up to paradise. The third
time, you don't have to turn there, is Revelation 2.7. He that hath an ear, let him hear what
the Spirit saith unto the churches. Tim that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree
of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. So here's what we know about it. The
thief on the cross went there the day he died because he was a believer. Second mention,
it's equated or equivalent to the third heaven. It's the same place. Thirdly, we see that
that's where the tree of life is. Makes sense to me. It's heaven. Paradise is heaven. It's
another name for heaven. But they'll say, no, no, no, it's this other place in the Old
Testament they write there. But it's not mentioned in the Old Testament. And this stuff goes
on and on. Go to Genesis 6. I've got to get one more point of this. There's so much to
preach about. I mean, there's so many false teachings of this sensationalism. This Scofield
Reference Bible is filled with so much false documents. All you've got to do is turn to
page 1. And he tells you that there's a gap between Genesis 1-1 and 1-2 and that there
are other people or other civilizations living on this planet before Adam and Eve. That should
be enough just to close this thing up and just put it away and just get rid of it. And
that there was some other stuff going on on earth before Adam and Eve. That's enough right
there to just throw this thing out as heresy and lies. He goes on. I mean, there's so much
heresy in this thing. I don't have time to go and do it. But that's in the Scofield Bible.
And again, this is just one of the main sources of dispensationalism. Not everybody believes
these things. But here's a doctrine that every dispensationalist I've ever talked to,
Scofield doesn't have this one, but everybody I've ever talked to in modern day that's a
dispensationalist, they all believe this. They all believe that in Genesis 6, because
remember, they don't believe people went to heaven in the Old Testament. Remember point
1, they believed that people were saved by works in the Old Testament. Point 2 was that
they didn't believe people went to heaven in the Old Testament. They went to this paradise
holding tank, known as Abraham's bosom or whatever. Thirdly, because they don't believe
people went to heaven, well, what about all those verses about the sons of God being up
in heaven? Well, that can't be Christians, because Christians didn't go to heaven. They
went to paradise. So those people are angels. Who's heard that doctrine, that the angels
are the sons of God? Well, here's the problem with that. It's not told us that anywhere
in the whole Bible. Now, the Bible, I base what I believe on what the Bible says. And
the Bible says in John 1, this is my last point, I'll be done. I'm sorry that this is
kind of a deep, dry sermon, but I threw in a little pen to try to sweeten it up. But
anyway, you see, the Bible says, this is what the Bible actually tells us, not some theologian
told us. In John 1-12 it says, but as many as received Him, to them gave He power to
become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name. So are we all God's children
as the Mormons teach? Every person on earth? No. The Bible says when we believe on Jesus
Christ, we become the sons of God. What's that verse that you always quote, Brother
Chris? Quote that verse to me. We're all children of God by faith. What verse is that?
We're all children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Yeah, we're all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. So when you have faith in
Christ Jesus, that's when you become a son of God. You become a child of God. The Bible
says, behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called
the sons of God. The Bible says that God has begotten us again unto a lively hope. We are
born again. We're born into God's family. We're begotten again. We are God's children
because we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Adam was made in the image of God. He was
created in God's image. And then he sinned, and there was a goal fixed between man and
God. And then man, by believing on Jesus Christ, is reconciled unto God through Jesus Christ
and becomes his son, becomes his child. He said, I'll be to them a father, and they shall
be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord. That's what the Bible clearly teaches. But
dispensationalism teaches in most cases that the sons of God are angels. Now, here's the
problem with that. First of all, there's no verse in the whole Bible that says the sons
of God are angels. That should be enough to tell us that it isn't true. Because we should
base what we believe on stuff the Bible says, not on stuff that we just guessed about. But
number two, the Bible says in Hebrews 1.5, when it's explaining how much better Jesus
is than the angels, he says, unto which of the angels said he at any time, thou art my
son this day of my begotten me. So the Bible's real clear that God has never said to any
of the angels at any time, thou art my son this day of my begotten me. So if the angels
were the sons of God, wouldn't God be contradicting himself if he says, I never said at any time,
thou art my son this day of my begotten me, to the angels. Now, could that be said unto
us, thou art my son this day of my begotten me? Absolutely. Because we are begotten again
unto a lively hope. We are born again. We are saved. We are his sons and daughters,
as God has promised us. So that is not something that the angels have. The angels aren't
saved. The angels are not human. The angels were not created in the image of God and made
in his likeness and his children. Never is that said. In fact, the Bible explicitly says
in Hebrews 1.5, hey, I never said that to any of them that they were my sons or that
I begotten them. But he did say that to us. Behold what manner of love the Father had
bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God. Look at Genesis 6.1. I'll
quickly explain the story of what we've done. It says in Genesis 6.1, and it came to pass
when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair, and they took them
wives of all which they chose. Now, the dispensationalist will teach you that the sons of God here
are angels, and that angels came down and got married unto humans. Maybe I should get
out my Star Wars pez stuff again now that we're into this kind of sci-fi where angels
are coming down and marrying humans. Or, I don't know, maybe this belongs in the Twilight
series or something of vampires and goblins. But they believe that the sons of God here
are angels coming down and marrying humans. Well, here's the problem with that. Jesus
said you do err not knowing the Scriptures or the power of God because he said in the
resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angels which
are in heaven. So do the angels marry? No. They don't get married. Now, they say, oh
yeah, these angels came down and they fornicate with human beings. Is that what it says? It
says that they took wives. They took them wives. So are you going to tell me that angels
came down? And by the way, these are bad angels. According to them, because these are
the devil's angels. These are demons. Because these are the ones who are making God so mad
he's going to destroy the whole world. And they're saying these angels came down. And
I guess they had a little ceremony. Because they got married. They didn't fornicate. It
says they got married. Now, I don't believe that angels married human beings. Because
the Bible says that angels are ministering spirits. Sent forth to minister for them who
shall be heirs of salvation. Angels are spirits. And let me explain something to you. That
which is born of the flesh is flesh. And that which is born of the spirit is spirit. My
spirit is born again. My flesh was born of a human being. And the Bible says that angels
don't get married. And the Bible also says that a spirit hath not flesh and bone as you
see me to have. So angels do not come down and go to bed with human beings. But let me
just show you, even from the surface here, how ridiculous this is. Let's keep reading.
So the Bible says here the sons of God married the daughters of men. They're saying that's
just marrying humans. Well, let's keep reading. It says, and the Lord said, my spirit shall
not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh, yet his days shall be a hundred
and twenty years. So who's God mad at? Who's he mad at? Man. So why is he mad at man if
this is supposedly the angels marrying women? Why would that make him mad at man? Okay,
let's keep going. There were giants in the earth in those days. And also, after that,
when the sons of God came in under the daughters of men and they bared children to them, the
same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. Now people say, see, when the
angels married humans, their children were giants. Now hold on a second. That's not what
it says. Because it says this, it says, there were giants in the earth in those days. Look
at this now. And also, after that, when the sons of God came in under the daughters of
men and they bared children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of
renown. So which came first, the giants or the sons of God marrying the daughters of
men? The giants were there first. He said there were already giants in the land. And
then also after that, also in addition to the giants that were in the land, when the
sons of God went in under the daughters of men, the product of that union was these great
mighty men, men of renown. So in addition to giants, there were also mighty men that
were born, men of renown. The Bible used the word men of renown just about well-known or
powerful, important men, like leaders and warriors and whatever. And it says in verse
5, and God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth. So who's God mad at?
Angels? Has there been any mention of angels in this whole chapter? No. He said God saw
that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts
of His heart was only evil continually, and it repented the Lord that He made man on the
earth, and it grieved Him at His heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have
created from the face of the earth, because I don't like what angels did. I'm going to
destroy man. That doesn't make any sense, because it isn't true, because it's a lie,
because it's false. Let me tell you what's really going on here. If you get the context
of the passage, in Genesis 4, Cain kills Abel. Do you remember that? And when Cain kills
Abel, Cain is completely kicked out from the presence of his family. Cain is sent away
to be a fugitive in a vagabond. Cain has to go run away and live somewhere else, and
he goes and dwells in the land of Nod, east of Eden. Cain is over there, and he's got
his wife, and he has children, and they have children, and they have children, and they
have children. He becomes a whole group of people. The Bible lists off just generation
after generation. I mean, we're talking a thousand-some years goes by, because from
the creation to Noah's Ark is like 1,656 years. So, over a thousand years go by, so
they're multiplying into a great nation of people. And it's listing off his descendants
and some of their accomplishments. In Genesis 4, it talks about their accomplishments and
musical instruments and metallurgy and some of their advancements that they make in that
group, a separate group. Then in Genesis 5, we see Seth, the godly son, not Abel, Abel
died, of course, he didn't have any children. Seth, and it goes through his godly descendants
and all the righteous people that, you know, Asaac, Enos, Masuthiel, Jared, Lamech, all
the way down to Noah. We see all that group. And the Bible talks about in that group that
the men were calling upon the name of the Lord in Seth's family. Seth begat Enos and
then began men to call on the name of the Lord. So, in Genesis 4, we have all of Cain's
descendants. In Genesis 5, we have all of Seth's descendants. And then in Genesis 6,
we start right out with the sons of God looking upon the daughters of men and taking wives
which they chose. And then the result of that is that the Bible says that the whole earth
becomes wicked and that all the men on the earth are wicked except for Noah only found
grace in the eyes of the Lord. And everybody else is wicked in the sight of God. Why? Because
what you have taking place in Genesis 6 is an intermarriage of the sons of God, which
is the saved believers. That's why they're sons of God, just like the Bible always says
consistently, whenever it says sons of God, Genesis to Revelation, we're talking believers
every time. We're the only sons of God. There's Jesus Christ, first and foremost, he's the
original son of God of course. And then we're in Christ, we're begotten as his son. So,
we've got the godly men, godly young men coming up here. They're the sons of God. They're
looking over at the daughters, not the daughters of God, not saved Christian girls. They're
looking, and I use the word Christian, obviously they were first called Christians in Antioch
thousands of years later, but they look over at the saints, the saved, the righteous, I
mean they looked over at the ones who were not saved. They skipped over the godly girls
that were around them, and they said, boy, let's go get into some fresh pickins over
here. This group, we've seen all this, let's go over here and get with these girls. The
unsaved girls, maybe they were dressed a little more promiscuously, maybe they were a little
more enticing to them, and the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. They
took wives of that group, pretty soon the whole world became wicked. And God looked
at man and got angry at man and said, why did I even destroy man? Or why did I even
create man? He's ruined the whole earth and turned it into a bunch of sin and wickedness
and ungodliness. Because let me tell you something, when you mix the saints with the unsaved,
it ends up, the saints don't straighten out the unstaved. Oh no, everybody becomes wicked.
When you start hanging around with a bunch of ungodly, wicked people, you're not going
to reach them, they're going to reach you. And you'll start learning their ways. You'll
learn, when the children of Israel were next to the heathen and started intermarrying,
they all became wicked. You go ahead and marry that unsaved girl, marry that unsaved guy,
you're not going to change them. And maybe God will bless you and maybe that person will
get saved, but I've seen a lot of people where that person will not get saved. And it ruins
the interest in life. And that's why young people listen to me. Marry a believer. Marry
someone who's saved. Marry someone who loves God. Marry someone who loves the Bible so
that your children will grow up and be righteous and godly and so that you can have a home
that's in one accord, that's equally yoked together. This is not a sci-fi story of angels
coming down in spaceships and mating with human beings. And by the way, that's a Mormon
doctrine. That's Mormonism. Mormonism teaches that the angels are God's sons and that
they come down and do this stuff. This is what paganism teaches. This is Greek mythology.
It's of the devil. It's not biblical. But the Bible deals with human beings that are
the sons of God. The angels are the spirit. The angels don't have the privilege of being
saved like we do. They are not even involved. And I'm going to wrap it up with this. I've
got a bunch of other points I need to hit on about this, but you know what? I'm not
going to just sit here and go on and on. If you haven't gotten it by now, I give up. But
let me just break this down to you real quick. Dispensationalism is not biblical. It's a
false doctrine. And it's practiced by people who practice a lot of mental acrobatics. Here's
dispensationalism in a nutshell. Let me just break it down to you real simple. There are
seven dispensations, but it's only mentioned four times. All the Old Testament people went
to paradise, but it's never mentioned in the Old Testament. It's only mentioned in the
New Testament. But the New Testament people, they go to heaven. And the sons of God? They're
demons. They're fallen angels, including Satan. Did you get that? Did you catch that?
If they're saying that these fallen angels are called the sons of God... By the way,
I went to Howells Anderson College. I was taught this in Bible Doctrines 1. In Howells
Anderson College, Chris Tefft was my Bible teacher, and anybody who went to the class
can say that they were taught this. Bible Doctrines 1, Professor Chris Tefft at Howells
Anderson College said that the sons of God are fallen angels or demons. Now, I can think
of somebody who would like to be called the son of God. His name is Satan. And any doctrine
that calls Satan the son of God, that's a satanic doctrine. That's a wicked doctrine.
And if you're going to sit there and tell me that a doctrine that says... By the way,
they say that the word hell is sometimes used to refer to paradise. Well, okay, if
you're going to believe dispensationalism, you believe that paradise is hell, Satan is
the son of God. I mean, this is the kind of garbage that this doctrine teaches. I'm sorry,
but that's satanic. That's false. And so you say, why do you preach on this pastor? Because
when you see this dispensationalism stuff, you need to get away from it. You need to
run screaming in the other direction. And when you get these churches that want to teach
you about dispensations, man, get out of that. You need to get to something that's teaching
you the Bible. Because they didn't get that from the Bible. They got it from Schofield.
They got it from Ruckman. They got it from Larkin. They got it from everywhere else.
They got it from Darby's and hell. They didn't get it from God, my friend. And you see how
when you start tampering with doctrine, you get into some scary places? I was showing
somebody this doctrine, and they were like, I don't know, I think you're wrong because
you're disagreeing with 90% of independent Baptists. So you must be wrong. And then I
showed them, oh, okay, so you believe Satan is the son of God? And they were like, oh
man, no. They were like, yeah, the sons of God are fallen angels. I'm like, oh, okay.
So you believe Satan is one of God's sons. So Satan is the son of God. Oh, oh, oh, well,
hmm, this is kind of a scary doctrine. And then I showed this person verse after verse,
and then they said, oh yeah, you're totally right. I mean, there it is. It's right there.
That's right there. And I can go on and on and on. I'm not going to. The bottom line
is believe the Bible. Read the Bible. Don't read theology. Don't let people talk to you
about seven dispensations and seven gospels and seven mysteries and seven kingdoms and
seven, and they got all their charts and they got all their doctrines and all their little
terminology. You need to just get in the old Bible, get rid of your scopia box, and don't
read a Bible with a bunch of notes in it. See, my Bible is just text, just plain. Just
get the plain Bible, read it, and don't let anybody tell you all this weirdo stuff that's
not in the Bible. Let's bow our heads in that word of prayer. Father, we thank you so much
for your word and for the Holy Spirit that you've given unto us so that we can read your
word. As New Testament believers, we're indwelt by the Holy Spirit, and we thank you for that
message. Please help us to read the Bible, not to go on theological websites and read
commentaries and books written by man. Help us to just read the word of God. Just read
the Bible. Please, God, just teach it to us and help us to understand it and not to be
confused by man's wisdom, but to just get the things that are straight from your word
by the Holy Ghost. We love you and thank you so much for saving us and dying for us and
giving us the free gift of salvation. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.