Hello everybody, it's Mr. Tall23 back with another video.
I want to do a quick sound check first to make sure that the sound is working on the
video.
All right, so it is working.
So anyway, in this video I want to talk about a word that's used in the Bible, explain what
it means based on what the Bible actually teaches and actually says, and not on some
magical, mystical, unclear, unclearly defined theological nonsense that isn't found in God's
word, and that is, as you can probably tell from the title, the word dispensation.
I'm sure most Christians have heard this word before, and especially Baptists, because there's
a lot of churches out there that teach a doctrine known as dispensationalism.
And dispensationalism is the idea that history has been divided into different periods of
time in which God deals with the world in different ways, which they call dispensations.
And classical dispensationalism typically divides time into seven dispensations, and
those would be the dispensation of innocence, conscience, human government, promise, law,
grace, and kingdom.
Dispensationalists say that we are now in the dispensation of grace, as they call it,
which is also called by some the church age, and they believe that one day when the millennium
begins after Christ's return, then we'll begin a new dispensation known as the dispensation
of the kingdom.
People who stick with the traditional doctrines and teachings of men like John Nelson Darby,
C.I.
Schofield, and Clarence Larkin believe that salvation was different in different dispensations.
For example, in the dispensation of the law, they'll say that one was saved by obedience
to the commandments of God, and it's only now in the dispensation of grace that we're
saved by grace through faith.
Most Baptists will reject that teaching, which they call hyper-dispensationalism, but what
they really mean is real dispensationalism.
The type of dispensationalism which is subscribed to by many free grace teachers who understand
the clear biblical teaching that salvation has always been by grace through faith is
just watered down from the original doctrines of the system's founders like John Nelson
Darby and C.I.
Schofield.
So instead of saying that a man has been saved in different ways throughout time, they'll
say that salvation has always been by faith, but God just deals with his people in different
ways.
So dispensationalism and the dispensation of the law, for example, they say they were
under the law, but now we're not under the law before that man was under promise and
before that human government, et cetera.
Often times some dispensationalists will use their system of dividing of the Bible
to justify a rejection of clear biblical teachings.
I've read a lot of articles and I've heard a lot of sermons where one will say that a
certain verse in the Bible doesn't apply to us because it's a different dispensation.
It does a convenient way to kind of explain away things that they don't like or to ignore
certain parts of the Bible that they don't like.
Some of those who are really into the doctrine will sometimes even ignore all parts of the
Bible but the epistles of Paul because according to them, the Old Testament and these other
parts of the Bible are written to the Jews and not the church, which is kind of weird
to say that because the founders were universal church believers.
They believed in that false doctrine and yet most Baptists don't believe in the universal
church doctrine and yet they still subscribe to these strange teachings of the church age
and separation of Israel and the church and things like that.
That's another video.
I've already kind of talked about that in some videos on my channel but the problem
with dispensationalism is simply that it's not taught anywhere in the Bible.
It's completely made up by man.
The only reason why it's so popular among Baptists and other evangelicals is because
of the spread of the Scofield reference Bible and a lot of Christians have the faulty methodology
of study in which they'll rely on man's word and man's commentary such as the Scofield
reference Bible and other books written by dispensationalists, they'll rely on those
for learning the word of God rather than just reading the word of God and letting the spirit
guide them.
So later this week, probably on Saturday or Sunday, I'm going to be exposing Scofield
for the heretic that he is in further detail and that he's not trustworthy for anything
so stick around for that but today I just want to talk about the doctrine and not the
Scofield reference Bible in particular.
Now the primary problem with dispensationalism is first of all their misunderstanding of
the word dispensation so that's the main focus of this video, just to define what that word
means in the Bible and to dispel the myth that it means periods of time.
The word dispensation is used in the Bible in a way in which they do not say what it
means.
So they say that it means period of time, the word does appear in the Bible but that
doesn't make me a dispensationalist and it shouldn't make you a dispensationalist because
their definition is not the definition that is used in the Bible.
In fact, for those who believe in classical dispensationalism or seven different dispensations,
it should be noted that the word only appears four times in the Bible and three of the four
times mention terms which aren't even close to anything that's part of their framework.
There's a verse which says the dispensation of the grace of God, which has nothing to
do with what they say it means, first of all, but then there's not a single verse in the
Bible about the dispensation of the law or the dispensation of promise or the dispensation
of conscience or ignorance or human government or kingdom or anything like that.
None of those phrases are used ever in the Bible.
They're all made up.
But before I get to those verses and explain what the word dispensation means, I want to
look at a verse which is misused and which is typically quoted and forced upon people
in order to teach them that this is something that they have to believe.
In 2 Timothy chapter 2 verse 15 it says, study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman
that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Now if you ever talk with a dispensationalist and you use a verse which they don't like,
they'll say, well, you're not rightly dividing the word.
Their definition of rightly dividing the word is dividing into dispensations.
The problem is that there's nothing in the verse or in the context of the verse which
indicates that or says that.
Again, it's literally just made up.
They're forcing their interpretation of dividing the Bible into different periods of time and
different dispensations onto the text instead of just believing what the text clearly says.
So what is dividing the word of truth?
What is rightly dividing?
Well, what is a dividing or a division?
It's when you take a part out of a whole.
You split it into parts.
So when I quote a verse, I'm dividing the word of truth.
Every time we teach or talk about the Bible, obviously we can't quote the entire Bible.
We quote passages and verses and sometimes chapters, and in doing so, we are dividing
the word of truth.
There's nothing wrong with dividing the word of truth, but when we do so, we should do
so rightly, meaning correctly or justly.
There is a wrong way to divide the word and there is a right way to divide the word.
The wrong way to divide the word is what we would say in our modern vernacular as taking
a verse out of its context.
When you quote a scripture and you say it means one thing, when the context indicates
that you're interpreting it wrong, that is a wrong division of the word.
It is twisting what the scripture is actually teaching to make your own point instead of
making the point that the Bible is making.
That is why 2 Timothy 2 verse 15 says, rightly dividing the word of truth.
It has absolutely nothing to do with dispensations.
Again, the verse and other verses around it do not indicate that at all.
In fact, they are incorrectly or wrongly dividing that particular verse in the word
of truth in order to teach dispensationalism.
By the way, the idea that we should divide up the Bible and say certain portions of the
Bible don't apply to us is ridiculous because it says in the very next chapter of 2 Timothy
in chapter 3 verse 16 to 17, all scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable
for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness that the
man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
Now what part of all scripture do you not understand?
What part of is profitable do you not understand?
I don't want to hear this nonsense of oh that scripture is to the Jews, that scripture is
to Israel, it's not to the church or it's to this group or that group or that's a different
dispensation.
Look, this verse clearly says I can learn doctrine, I can be corrected by, I can be
taught how to live righteously, instructed in righteousness, I can be reproved by all
scripture, everything that is written in the Bible, all writings of the Bible can teach
me and perfect me and thoroughly furnish me to all good works.
Do you believe that the Bible is the word of God or not?
Do you believe that the Bible is inspired or not?
Do you believe 2 Timothy 3.16 or not?
I'm sick of people saying that they are, they believe this verse and they constantly quote
this verse and they use it when talking about the King James Bible but then in the next
sermon they're like oh well you got to just ignore this part of the Bible because it's
a different dispensation, that's nonsense.
If you truly believe that then you don't believe 2 Timothy 3.16 apparently.
There's no division of dispensations, it's all scripture, all of it applies to us, we
can learn and we can use all of it from cover to cover, every single book, every single
verse in this Bible is for us, not for a different group, not for a different dispensation, it's
for us.
As we'll see in a moment, the word dispensation has nothing to do with different periods of
time or different ways of administration throughout history and the word is not really that difficult
to understand either and just to prove to you what it actually means I'm going to be
doing four things, looking at the etymology, looking at the dictionary definition, most
importantly looking at what the verses that use the word dispensation actually say and
then I don't really like doing this but looking at the Greek word which is translated as dispensation
to see how it's translated in other verses.
If you don't understand what the biblical word dispensation means after this video then
I don't know what to do.
It seems like you care more about the puffed up lying theologians out there and what the
actual truth says or what the actual truth is.
So first of all of course we always go into the Bible because as usual many verses or
many terms which are used in the scriptures are defined in the first verse in which they
appear.
There's many examples of that and even in the first use of the word dispensation the
word is defined by the context clues.
What says in first Corinthians chapter nine verse sixteen to eighteen, for though I preach
the gospel I have nothing to glory of, for necessity is laid upon me, yea woe is unto
me if I preach not the gospel, 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.
What is my reward then?
Verily that when I preach the gospel I may make the gospel of Christ without charge that
I abuse not my power in the gospel.
The key to understanding this is verse seventeen where it says a dispensation of the gospel
is committed unto me.
The word dispensation simply means a provision or a commission of something or giving out
of.
In Ephesians chapter three verse two which also uses this word it says the dispensation
of the grace of God is given to me.
Colossians one twenty five says the dispensation of God which is given to me.
So in every verse in which it appears it's about something being given unto Paul.
The etymology of the word dispensation is pretty simple as well.
The root word is the word dispense.
It comes from the Latin word dispensare meaning to dispense, to distribute or to dispose of.
The primary definition of the word dispensation is the act of dispensing or distribution or
something that is given out.
Only in a theological context is it used to mean the way in which God administers the
world or an age in which God administers the world in a certain way.
Synonyms for dispensation as given in the Merriam Webster Thesaurus include allocation,
disbursement, distribution and issuance.
Not a difficult word to figure out.
Dispensation means the dispensing or the giving or the commission of something to someone.
In first Corinthians chapter nine when it says a dispensation of the gospel is committed
unto me it simply means that it was given unto Paul to preach the gospel.
We see that from the context as well.
He says woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel.
God has commanded him to preach the gospel.
He's been called to be an apostle so the gospel has been given unto him.
That is the dispensation of the gospel.
The dispensation of the gospel is not an age in time in which the gospel is the basis for
how God oversees the world and how people are saved.
You can't commit a divine administration or period of time to Paul.
That doesn't make any sense.
The fact that the dispensation of the gospel was committed unto him is why Paul calls it
my gospel in Romans chapter two verse 16, chapter 16 verse 25 and second Timothy two
eight and it's called our gospel in second Corinthians four three verse Thessalonians
one five and second Thessalonians two 14.
It's called that because it was his task as committed unto him by the Lord to share
the gospel with the lost.
He was called to be an apostle as it says at the beginning of most of the epistles of
Paul.
And that definition fits very clearly with other appearances of the word as well such
as in Ephesians chapter three it says in verse one to six for this cause I Paul the prisoner
of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles if you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of
God which is given to me you were how that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery
as I wrote a four in few words whereby when you read you may understand my knowledge of
the mystery of Christ when in other ages was not known unto the sons of men as it is now
revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the spirit and the Gentiles should be fellow
heirs and of the same body and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel where
if I was made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by
the effectual working of his power.
Now this one is pretty simple too.
As we see in verse two it's written that the dispensation of the grace of God which is
given to you were or given me to you were.
Now interestingly this is the as I mentioned earlier this is the only dispensation or use
of the word dispensation which even resembles the periods of time which the dispensational
is have made up according to Scofield which who is the source of a lot of these dispensational
teachings there is innoncy, conscience, human government, promise, law, grace and kingdom
and the only of the seven which actually appears in the bible is grace the phrase dispensation
of the grace of God is used here in Ephesians 3 to however it's still not in the bible simply
because it has nothing to do with the period of time as seen in first Corinthians chapter
nine the dispensation of the grace of God is something given unto Paul notice in verse
seven it uses pretty much the exact same language but it replaces the word dispensation with
the word gift it says the gift of the grace of God given unto me instead of the dispensation
of the grace of God which is given me so what does dispensation of grace mean in the bible
it simply means the giving of or providing of grace when Paul believed on the Lord Jesus
Christ he received the grace of God and now he's a minister of that grace preaching the
gospel of Jesus Christ that the grace of God might be given or dispensed also to others
as well it has nothing to do with the period of time or division in the bible what about
the next one in Colossians chapter one it says in verse 24 to 28 who now rejoice in
my sufferings for you and fill up that which is behind to the afflict where have I made
a minister according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you to fulfill
the word of God even the mystery which has been hid from ages and from generations but
now has made manifest to his saints to whom God would have would make known what is the
riches of his glory of this mystery among the gentiles which is Christ in you the hope
of glory whom we preach warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom that
we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus notice the similarity in the language
of Colossians one with Ephesians chapter three instead of saying the dispensation of the
grace of God which is given to me to you word he says dispensation of God which is given
to me for you so it's basically the same thing in verse 24 he mentions the body of
Christ which is the church and then he says where have I made a minister minister according
to the dispensation of God which is given to me so again the word dispensation in this
verse is used to mean something committed unto Paul by God the dispensation of God is
not a special period of time in which God rules the world in a certain way it's the
giving of the office of apostleship unto Paul by God just like it's used in the other three
verses all three of them in context have something to do with Paul's preaching and Paul's ministry
all three of them have to do with God committing or giving something onto Paul the definition
isn't even close to what dispensationalists claim they just make up a meaning of the word
in order to promote their false doctrine now another definition of dispensation which I
mentioned earlier is to dispose of we can see how the word relates to the act of dispensing
because when someone or something gives something or distributes something out they're getting rid
of it and that secondary definition is used in the following verse the last verse in the Bible
which uses the word dispensation Ephesians chapter 1 verse 10 it says that in the dispensation of the
fullness of times you might gather together in one all things in Christ both which are in heaven
and which run earth even in him there the dispensation of the fullness of times is referring
to the end of the times of the Gentiles as Jesus said in Luke 21 verse 24 and they shall fall by
the edge of the sword and shall be led away captive into all nations and Jerusalem shall be
trodden down to the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled now if we compare this
with Revelation chapter 11 the Gentiles trampled down Jerusalem for 42 months during the reign of
the Antichrist from the midst of the week when the abomination desolation is set up which of course
in the context which is the context of Luke 21 when Jesus is talking about the tribulation the
abomination of desolation so the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled at the end of Daniel
70th week which is when the kingdom of God is established and the millennium begins this of
course is when all things are gathered together in Christ which are in heaven and which are on earth
Blatant chapter 4 verse 4 the fullness of times is mentioned in regards to Christ's first coming
it is stated when the fullness of the time was come God sent forth his son so the phrase fullness
of time simply means when the time is fulfilled or completed when it's time for something to take
place that is the fullness of time so the dispensation of the fullness of times in Ephesians
1 10 is simply talking about the completion of the time in which Jesus was to come and set up
his kingdom which when comparing with other scripture is evidently the end of the 70th week
when also the time of the Gentiles is fulfilled it's not saying the fullness of times itself is
disposed of but that there is a dispensation or disposing of at the fullness of times that a time
will come at the time of the seventh trumpet that the kingdoms of the world will shall become the
kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ now earlier I said what I would also look back at what the
Greek word translated dispensation means go away make a fiat okay there we go anyway earlier I
said that I would look at the Greek word and usually I don't like doing that usually I don't
do that in these videos because we speak English but usually the same type of people who believe
the nonsense called dispensationalism are people who do this even though 99% of them can't even
speak a single sentence in Greek and those who can can't even pronounce anything right and yet
they're the ones who want to say what the Greek says I don't even know Greek language it's silly
I don't want to get off on a rant about that but I'll probably make another video about that
another time but if you claim to believe the King James Bible if you believe that this Bible is the
inspired Word of God then the question what does it say in Greek is ridiculous if you believe that
the English Bible is God's Word if it's the perfect preserved Word of God in the English
language then who cares what it says in the Greek it says the exact same thing in Greek as it does
in English if it says dispensation in English it says dispensation in Greek the word has the exact
same meaning we don't have to jump through different languages to figure out the definition
if we know what it means in English which we just clearly saw what it means we know what the word
means but just to prove to you beyond a shadow of a doubt that the word dispensation means the
giving out or distribution of which of course period of time would not fit within any of these
sources which we've read but the Greek word is eco is a economia or as the the fake Greek
speakers would say oikonomia so word is also used in Luke chapter 16 verse 2 to 3 it says
and he called him and said unto him how is it that I hear this of thee give an account of thy
stewardship for thou mayest be no longer steward and the steward said within himself what shall I
do for my Lord taketh away from me the stewardship I cannot take today I am ashamed word stewardship
is the same word economia as dispensation in the other verses well what's a stewardship a
steward is one who has been entrusted with taking care of something if hypothetically the other
verses which use the word dispensation and instead it used the word steward it would still have the
same definition since God committed the dispensation of the gospel unto Paul meaning he gave or
entrusted the ministry unto him the gospel and the grace of God were things from God given to
Paul by commission or by stewardship if you replace the word it's been stationed in those
verses with the word stewardship it would have the exact same meaning but it would still not
mean a period of time which God deals with the world in different ways so no matter how we look
at it if we look at it from different angles it's not that difficult to figure out what the word
dispensation means the etymology the dictionary definition the context and the Greek all agree
that the word dispensation does not mean divide up the Bible and say this part doesn't apply to
us it only applies to certain people or whatever it means the giving out of something and it has
nothing to do with the division of the Bible every single time the word dispensation is used
it's talking about except for the except for Ephesians 1 10 which is talking about the
dispensation at the fullness of times but the other three verses are all talking about God
committing something on to Paul for his ministry has nothing to do with the dispensation of the
law and all this other junk you'll never find the use of that word in the in the way of the that
the dispensational use it so John Nelson Darby invented dispensationalism the idea of the
dispensation and of this dispensation of that dispensation and all that you know the seven
different dispensations that's simply taught nowhere in the Bible it's invented by man and
it's a convenient excuse to not have parts of the Bible apply to you and that's how people will use
it today they'll abuse it and can you this doctrine this doctrine is kept alive by Bible
colleges and by preachers who are preaching from the Schofield reference Bible instead of preaching
from the actual Bible without any notes and commentaries and acting like that is the final
authority when as we'll see in the following video on Saturday or Sunday of this week Schofield was a
heretic who had no knowledge of biblical teaching and obviously his system of dispensationalism is
completely unbiblical now if we're going to divide the Bible into different parts let's just say we
were going to do that would the dispensation of the law the dispensation of grace be an appropriate
thing to do would it be an appropriate way to divide the Bible if we use the real definition
of the word dispensation we would know that the word dispensation of the law just means the
giving of the law which would have taken place at Mount Sinai but to the dispensationalist the
dispensation of law is a period of time between the giving of the law and Mount Sinai and the
death of Christ and then it began and then after that began the dispensation of grace now the
implication of that is that prior to Christ ministry there was no grace but only the law
that's what dispensationalism implies and this is where modern Baptist dispensationalists have
trouble because they're half in and half out of the doctrine what they believe contradicts the
teachings of the original dispensationalists and the Schofield reference Bible which they
love so much but they just want to stubbornly hold on to it I'm again I'm going to talk more
about CI Schofield in a later video but for now understand that he taught some very wrong things
about salvation and I'm going to quote from his reference Bible this is page 1115 this is a note
for John 1 17 where he talks about the dispensation of grace he says 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 with good works as a
fruit of salvation the immediate result of this testing was the rejection of Christ by the Jews
and his crucifixion by Jew and Gentile the predicted ending of the testing of man under
grace of the apostasy of the professing Church and the resultant apocalyptic judgments according
to this heretic there was no grades before the dispensation of grace and at a future time when
the church apostatizes grace shall end but beforehand according to Schofield legal obedience
was the condition to salvation which contradicts a multitude of scripture so true dispensationalism
is the complete separation of grace from law and pretending that they're only in these certain
periods of time so the dispensation of the law is the period of time in which Israel had the law
and needs to keep it for salvation according to the traditional definition of the doctrine and
then the dispensation of grace is a period of time in which grace is the means of salvation
and is given unto the church until the time of the kingdom and that the law does not apply in
this new dispensation heresy and false doctrine is based on a misunderstanding of two things
firstly a misunderstanding of this verse John 1 17 which is Schofield's main verse about dividing
these two dispensations and then also a misunderstanding of the term not under the
law the truth is that man has always been saved by grace through faith since the time of Adam and
that the law was never given for the purpose of salvation and could never save anybody and that
the law although given to Israel in the Old Testament is not done away with in the New
Testament and we should still obey God's law not in order to be saved because the law was never
meant to save people in the first place so I'm gonna prove all that right now first in John 1
17 it says for the law was given by Moses but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ so in the
eyes of a dispensationalist this is a dividing of the law and of grace and truth how one thing I
want to note first of all about the faulty interpretation of this verse is that it doesn't
just say grace came by Jesus Christ it says grace and truth came by Jesus Christ so if they're going
to apply the same rule unto the word truth as they do unto the word grace then we're to conclude
that there was no truth in the Old Testament which was obviously incorrect is it said thy
word is truth the Word of God no matter what Testament it's in is the truth now looking at
the verse again let's also read the context which is about something which John the Baptist says in
verse 15 verse 18 it says John bear witness of him it cried saying this was he of whom I spake
he that cometh after me is performed before me for he was before me and of his fullness of all
he received and grace for grace for the law was given by Moses but grace and truth came by Jesus
Christ no man has seen God in any time the only begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father
he hath declared him I want you to notice that all these verses are in past tense this is John the
Baptist speaking about Christ when he comes on to him he says he that cometh after me is preferred
before me for he was before me that last phrase there for he was before me is key to understanding
these verses John 1 is a whole chapter declares multiple times that Jesus existed before his
incarnation before being made flesh in the beginning was the word and the word is with
God and the word was God the same was in the beginning with God over the first few verses of
John 1 Jesus Christ existed before he became flesh and dwelt among us that's what the Bible clearly
teaches but with that thought in mind we go to verse 16 where John continues talking about Jesus
Christ and says of his fullness have all we received and grace for grace now what is Jesus
his fullness well if we go back a bit further to verse 14 it says and the word was made flesh and
dwelt among us and then there's a parentheses which talks about God's glory and then after
the parentheses it says full of grace and truth so the word was made flesh full of grace and truth
so what is Christ fullness grace and truth according to John we have all received of his
grace and truth then he says in verse 17 for the law was given by Moses the grace and truth came
by Jesus Christ the word for means because it's a continuous thought that we've all received of his
grace and truth for grace and truth came by Jesus Christ now I want you to understand that here John
the Baptist is speaking at the beginning of his ministry on the very first day when Jesus Christ
is first revealed unto Israel the dispensation of grace had not even begun according to the
dispensationalist scheme and neither had Christ's ministry and yet the whole passage is in past
tense he says of his fullness have all we received that's past tense why is it in past tense well
because as John says right before that because he was before him even though he came after him
meaning he was born and he began his ministry after John he always existed Jesus existed before
John he was God in heaven before he became flesh upon this earth before Abraham was I am Jesus said
so then he explains in verse 18 no man hath seen God in a time the only begotten Son which is in
the bosom of the Father he hath declared him what does that show us that all Old Testament
appearances of God are of Christ and not of the Father in Genesis 18 Genesis 32 Exodus 24 Exodus
33 Numbers 12 Judges 13 Ezekiel 1 Isaiah 6 etc it's all the Lord Jesus as a pre-incarnate Word
of God who declared the Father unto the world so how did in past tense before the so-called
dispensation of grace began we all receive of Christ's grace and truth because Christ was in
the Old Testament and grace and truth were in the Old Testament as well I mean do you really
the law of Moses and the law of God when it says the law was given by Moses it's not saying that
Moses made up the law or created it but it was given by him in the sense that he was the prophet
chosen by God to preach the law to Israel but where does the law actually come from from God
the same God who appeared unto these seventy elders of Israel in Exodus 24 verse 10 to 11
well here and in many other scriptures and in John 1 18 and many other scriptures like John 5 37
John 6 46 1 Timothy 6 16 1 John 4 12 Exodus 33 20 when God speaks to Moses they all agree all these
verses all agree that nobody has seen or can see the Father so who did the 70 elders see Jesus
Christ no man has ever seen the Father no man has ever seen God but they did see Jesus Christ the
only begotten son which is the bosom of the Father he's the one who's declared him that in
Galatians 3 19 that the law was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator now who is the one
mediator according to the Bible it's a man Christ Jesus as it says in 1st Timothy 2 5 Jesus Christ
personally gave the law of God unto Moses at Mount Sinai and he gave the law for a reason which
we'll talk about here shortly it was not the reason so that the Israelites might be justified
by the law salvation has always been my grace through faith and there's literally dozens of
verses in the Old Testament which talk about salvation by trusting in the Lord even in the
time of the so-called dispensation of the law I made a video about a year and a half ago about
salvation in the book of Psalms I think it's literally just called salvation in the book of
Psalms and there's a lot of verses which I talked about about being saved simply by calling upon
and trusting in the Lord God and all those verses are in the Old Testament but classical
dispensational wants to divide the two periods in an unbiblical way and there is a right way to
divide the the Old and the New Testaments which is the old and the New Testament and I'll get
into that a bit later but the point is that John 1 17 is misinterpreted it does not mean in the
past there was a law and now grace has replaced that that's wrong there was grace in the Old
Testament and the law is still to New Testament believers does that make sense but wait we're not
under the law this is what the dispensationalist will say and they'll use that phrase and abuse
that phrase to try to justify sinning and doing things which are clearly command in the Bible
and say well that's the Old Testament that doesn't apply to us according to who is there I mean there
are things in the Old Testament which don't apply to us but those are specifically outlined in books
like the book of Hebrews but if it doesn't say that it's done away with then it's not done away
with again we'll get to that a little bit later in the video but a lot of people will just mindlessly
repeat the phrase we're not under the law but what does that actually mean a lot of people will just
throw that term around without actually studying it in the Bible they just wrongly conclude that
not being under the law means that the law is done away with and we don't need to follow the
laws of God and whenever you say we should whenever you say we should obey the law which
is what I'm saying the law of God still applies to us against second Timothy 3 16 all scripture
whenever you say that they'll like well we're saved by grace through faith amen I agree with
that we are saved by grace and everybody is and has been always saved by grace through faith the
Bible says without faith it is impossible to please God that's why in Romans 4 when Paul is
proving that we are not saved by the deeds of law and that we're not saved by works but we're
justified by faith he quotes from the book of Genesis and he quotes from the book of Psalms to
show that Abraham and David were also justified by faith and most Baptists who call themselves
dispensationalists agree with that they're opposed to the hyper dispensational view of different
plans of salvation but why then use the argument that we're not under the law and that means that
we shouldn't obey the law at all of course we're not of course we're not under the law I mean but
neither hold on okay my notes are kind of messed up here okay so we're not saved by the laws what
I meant okay so they say we're not saved by the law and that proves that we don't have to follow
the law well of course we're not saved by the law but neither were the Israelites but they were still
commanded to obey the laws of God let's see what the phrase under the law and under grace actually
mean and see if this division of the dispensation of law and grace is really biblical it's written
in Romans chapter 6 verse 14 to 15 for sin shall not have dominion over you but under grace what
then shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace God forbid now the importance
of this particular verse is the fact that sin is defined in the Bible as a transgression of the law
in 1st John 3 4 that is what sin is disobedience to the commandments of God so Paul is directly
saying here that because we are not under the law that does not mean that we are to break or to be
disobedient to the laws of God the phrase not under the law does not mean the law has been
eliminated and we don't have an obligation to obey the law of Moses it's written in the book
of Romans also in Romans 3 31 do we then make avoid the law through faith odd forbid yay we
established the law at the beginning of Romans 3 all answers hypothetical questions by Jews who
are failing to understand this concept because they believed that the law is what saved them or
that they got a special pass simply because they were Jews but Paul is explaining to them no it's
impossible to be saved by the law because all have sinned so we're saved by faith and not the
law but he makes it especially clear to those who are twisting his words that this does not mean we
make avoid the law yay we established the law Paul is not an antinomian if any Christian supposed
to be an antinomian absolutely not we are not saying it is right to sin against God that the
law is useless or that we do not know God has nothing to do with salvation but that doesn't
mean that in our Christian life after we're saved and when we serve God that we shouldn't
obey and be obedient to the commandments of God it's written in that same chapter in Romans 3 19
it says now we know that what thinks over the law saith it's safe for them were understand what
under the law means and why also why the law even existed and why was even given to Israel it says
what it says to them that are under the law that every mouth might be stopped and all the world
may become guilty before God so what is the primary purpose of the giving of the law to get
us to understand that we are guilty sinners before God as it says in the next verse by the law is the
knowledge of sin we wouldn't know that what we've done wrong against the Lord unless we knew what
sin was and we know what sin is based on the law of God so therefore due to the weakness of the
flesh we cannot submit to the law of God and we understand that we are guilty and must therefore
seek not our own righteousness but the righteousness of God and trust in Jesus
Christ to make us just a very similar thing is stated in the book of Galatians in chapter
3 verse 23 to 25 it says but before faith came we are kept under the law shut up unto the face
with faith which should afterwards be revealed wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring
us unto Christ that we might be justified by faith but after that faith has come we are no
longer under a schoolmaster so notice what it says in verse 23 before faith came we are kept
under the law then in verse 24 it again tells us what the purpose of the law is to bring us unto
Christ that we might be justified by faith but after that faith has come we are no longer under
a schoolmaster that is under the law so based on both Romans 3 and Galatians 3 being under the law
simply refers to those who have not been justified by faith people who are unsaved this is further
proven by chapter 5 of the book of Galatians in verse not 8 18 rather it says but if you be led
of the Spirit you're not under the law of course we know from the Bible that those with the Spirit
of God within them are saved and when somebody believes on the Lord Jesus Christ the Spirit of
Christ indwells them let's summarize what we've learned so far that those who were under the law
are those who have not been saved who have not yet been justified by faith the law is supposed
to help them understand that they cannot be saved by their own righteousness to show unto them that
they are guilty sinners and therefore come unto Christ in order to be justified by faith those
who are justified are not under or no longer under the law but the Bible specifically tells us so that
we don't misunderstand what the phrase means that this does not mean that the law is void or that
we do not need to obey the laws of God being under the law simply means those who are justified by
the law the world who thinks that their good works will get them into heaven but who in reality are
condemned by the law due to their sinfulness the Jews to whom Paul was speaking to in the book of
Romans believed that in order to be justified it was by their own righteousness which is of the law
they were under the law it does not mean that they were actually saved by the law in the Old
Testament it does not mean that they could ever be saved by the law of God or that God had ever
ordained it to be so that people should be saved by the law no but until we are truly justified in
the sight of God through face or by grace through faith we are under the law and therefore we are
all condemned because we've all broken the law which we seek to be justified by the point I'm
trying to make is that there's no compensation of the law dispensation of grace in the way that it
is defined in dispensationalism it is not so that the law was only given to Israel and that they
were all under the law during the Old Testament and is not so that grace has now been given in
this period of time to the church and that the law is not for us the law was dispensed or the
law was committed the dispensation of the law was at Mount Sinai when the commandments of God were
given on to Moses but it still applies today so even if you want to use the word dispensation
incorrectly we could say that the dispensation of the law from Mount Sinai continues even till now
and that the dispensation of grace begins at Adam even until now so we're under both the dispensation
of the law and the dispensation of grace but of course that would as I already explained in this
video and it be an incorrect and confusing use of the word dispensation so in conclusion on that
point in the Old Testament just as a kind of another summary in the Old Testament people were
saved by grace and they had the law to bring them to grace to be justified by faith the law was never
for salvation in the New Testament we are still saved by grace through faith and the law is still
for us but it does not save us so there's no difference in terms of salvation and the obedience
of the law so what is the difference between the Old and the New Testament you may be asking well
I want to conclude the video about the difference between what it was like in Israel and the Old
Testament and now with believers in Christ and the New Testament so it's not different dispensations
but different testaments or different covenants imagine that that the Old and the New Testament
that would be the right way to divide the word not dispensation of law dispensation of grace
the difference between back then and now is that there has been a change to the law the covenant is
offered and preached unto all nations now as opposed to just Israel and additional promises
are given for example the gift of the indwelling of the Holy Ghost is a distinct New Testament
thing so there is a difference if you want to say or a division in time between the time of Christ's
death before Christ death and the time after that but it's not different dispensations it's different
covenants and the important distinction between these two words is that the Bible actually teaches
the concept of an old and new covenant and it does not teach dispensation of law dispensation
of grace it's written in Hebrews chapter 8 verse 6 to 13 but now hath he a more excellent ministry
by how much else he is the mediator a better covenant which was established upon better
promises for if that first covenant had been faultless and should no place have been sought
for a second for finding fault with them he says behold the days come saith the Lord when I will
make a covenant make a new covenant with the house of Israel with the house of Judah not according to
the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out
of the land of Egypt because they continue not in my covenant and I regarded them not saith the Lord
where this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days saith the
Lord I will put my laws into their mind and write them in their hearts and I will be to them a God
and they shall be to me a people and they shall not teach every man his neighbor and every man
his brother saying no the Lord for all shall know me from the least to the greatest probably
merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their iniquities while I remember no more in
that he saith a new covenant he has made the first old now that which decayeth and waxeth old is
ready to vanish away let's break down this the different details in this passage first there is
a clear distinction between the Covenant made at Sinai that is the older as it says the first
covenant and the New Covenant or the New Testament it made with the house of Israel in verse 6 it
states first of all that the New Testament is more excellent and established on better promises in
verse 9 we see that the giving of the New Covenant is not according to the old covenant with Israel
which who disobeyed and broke the Covenant in verse 10 we see the implications of the
New Covenant the writing of the laws in our hearts and minds that is being born again and
being given the Spirit of God to and dwell within us of course the scriptures teach that like in
Romans chapter 7 that we with the mind serve the law of God and that which is born of the Spirit
or born of God does not commit sin as it said in 1st John 3 that there's an inward change in the
heart as a result of being given the gift of the Holy Ghost something which those in the Old
Testament did not have now in verse 13 it states that the first covenant is old and ready to
vanish away so the old covenant is indeed done away with and replaced by the new covenant but
what does that mean for us does that mean that the law of Moses which was given at Sinai and the
commandments commanded unto us no longer apply does that mean that we should just ignore the law
and the prophets because it's part of a different covenant absolutely not in fact the next chapter
as well as really all the book of Hebrews makes it very clear what has changed from the Old
Testament to the New Testament and it's mostly the result of a change in the priesthood as stated in
Hebrew 7 22 the priesthood being changed there is of necessity a change also of the law what those
changes are are given specifically in chapter 9 of the book of Hebrews as in verse 1 to 20 and
verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service and a worldly sanctuary for there
was a tabernacle made the first wherein was the candlestick and the table and the showbread which
is called the sanctuary and after the second veal the tabernacle which is called the holiest of all
which had the golden sensor in the Ark of the Covenant overlaid roundabout with gold wherein
was the gold pot that had manna and Aaron's raw that budded and the tables of the Covenant and
over at the cherubim of glory shadowing the mercy seat of which we cannot now speak particularly now
when these things were thus ordained the priest went always into the first tabernacle accomplishing
the service of God but into the second with the high priest alone every year not without blood
which he offered for himself and for the heirs of the people the Holy Ghost this signifying that the
way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest while as the first tabernacle was yet
standing which was a figure for the time then present in which were offered both gifts and
sacrifices that could not make him that did the service perfect as pertaining to the conscience
which stood only in meats and drinks and diverse watchings and cardinal ordinances imposed on them
until the time of Reformation but Christ being common high priest of good things to come by a
greater and more perfect tabernacle not weighed with hands that is to say not of this building
neither by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood he entered it once into the holy
place having obtained eternal redemption for us for if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes
of an eifer sprinkling the unclean sanctify after the purifying of the flesh how much more shall the
blood of Christ who through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God purge your
conscience from dead works to serve the living God and for this cause he is the mediator of the New
Testament that by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the First
Testament they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance for where a
testament is there must also must also a necessity be that death of the testator for a testament is
a force after men are dead otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth where
upon neither the First Testament with desert was dedicated without blood for Moses had spoken every
precept to all the people according to the law he took the blood of calves and of goats with water
and scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled both the book and all the people saying this is the
blood of the testament which God has adjoined unto you ever given more information about the
subject of the New Testament first of all in the first few verses of this chapter it makes it very
clear that the ordinances of divine service and the tabernacle in the temple temple the the
sanctuary of the menorahs and the Ark of the Covenant and the sacrifices and all that those
things were of the first covenant in the next chapter it states in verse 1 that they were
shadows of things to come but not the very image of things and back in verse or chapter 9 it says
in verses 9 and 10 that the service which were given including the meats and drinks and diverse
washings and carnal ordinances were imposed unto the time of Reformation now what is the time of
Reformation well the word Reformation simply means a change made in order to improve something we've
already seen in the book of Hebrews that there is a change of the law and in chapter 8 that the
new covenant is also called the better covenant so simply put the bringing in of the New Testament
is the time of Reformation and it began at Christ's death according to verse 16 and 70
Christ's death and the beginning of the New Testament abolished these carnal ordinances
these ordinances of divine service so the rituals and the commandments of divine service which
pertain to the flesh were done away with the same thing is taught in 2nd Corinthians 3 also that the
Old Testament was according to the letter but the New Testament is according to the spirit as Jesus
said we must worship God in spirit and in truth according to the scripture the difference between
the Old and the New Testament simply regards the things of divine service and divine ordinances
list in the book of Hebrews are the Levitical priesthood the sacrifices the diverse washings
and the meats and drinks and then in Colossians 2 14 to 17 it speaks of the same thing that the
ordinances were nailed at the cross and that therefore no man should judge us in regard to
our observance of the feast days or new moons or Sabbath days so instead of dividing the Bible
based on dispensations saying well back then the dispensation of the law and now is the
dispensation of grace how about we divide the Bible according to actual biblical divisions
and terminology and that would be the old covenant and the new covenant there are differences between
these two covenants which are clearly outlined in the scriptures the differences are in regards
to divine service and ordinances another difference as taught in Ephesians 2 is the opening up of God's
people to all nations and not limited to physical Israel but it's based on salvation and not on
ethnicity and a third difference is the giving of the Holy Ghost to indwell within believers
but what is not changed is the law first of all believers in the Lord are saved no matter what
testament it is without faith is impossible to please God the Bible says and grace is given to
all who believe salvation has always been by grace through faith what is not changed is what
scriptures we are to use the New Testament clearly tells us that all scripture is given for our use
and there's never a statement or a command anywhere in the Bible indicating that we should ignore
certain parts of the Old Testament and what is not changed is the establishment of the law in
general only the commandments containing divine service the priesthood the sacrifices the things
of the temple the tabernacle the washings the meats the drinks the Sabbath the new moons holy
days things like that those are the only things given in Scripture as being changed from the old
to the New Testament dispensationalism no matter how you may try to downplay or twisted you might
say oh well I'm only 20% dispensationalist look dispensationalism is a doctrine that's invented
by heretics who tampered with the scriptures and who believe that people used to be saved by works
dispensationalism is based on a distorted view of the meaning of the biblical word dispensation
which isn't that hard to understand no clear verse in the Bible which teaches dispensationalism stop
holding on to your stupid doctrine and just believe the whole Bible all of it so that's it
for today's video it seems like there's some comments here Church of Christ occult yes believe
it is do you know the truth behind what proof do we have that the dietary laws of the Sabbath are
done away with I talked about that and heavers and collosions chapter two can you give a clear
definition of dispensation I did earlier in this video so I don't know if you watched the whole
video or not also is there faith work salvation in the tribulation no we're always saved by faith
it is impossible to be saved by works so thank you buddy for watching and goodbye god bless you