But for you to talk about, like Mr. Schofield did, that there was one day a dispensation of the law and now a dispensation of grace, that irks the fire out of my Baptist brain.
I used to sit and hear preachers talk about the dispensation of law and the dispensation of grace, and I had the same idea that you have, many of you.
You have the idea, and I had it, that there was a day in the Old Testament when men were saved by keeping the law.
But in the New Testament, they're saved by grace.
If you didn't have a Schofield Bible or Larkin's charts, you would never in this world come up with any such thing as a dispensation of grace.
Bless your little pea-picking, cotton-picking heart. The dispensation of grace started as soon as man fell in the Garden of Eden and will continue until the last man is saved in the Millennium.
The dispensation of grace always has been, always will be. God's grace did not begin with the coming of Bethlehem.
God always was saving people by grace through faith.
And the purpose of the law in the Old Testament is the same purpose of the law in the New Testament to show man that he's exceeding sinful and cannot save himself and cause him to get to Jesus in a hurry.
Now I said, with the coming of the book of Acts, there was no new gospel.
I said, with the coming of the book of Acts, there was no new church.
I said, with the coming of the book of Acts, there was no new dispensation.