BIBLE DOCTRINE WITH PASTOR ROBERT R. MCLAUGHLIN

BIBLE DOCTRINE WITH PASTOR ROBERT R. MCLAUGHLIN

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  • WHY THE CHURCH-AGE, THE DISPENSATION OF THE MYSTERY, IS SO IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO MASTER
    Why the Church-Age, the dispensation of the mystery, is so important for you to master.
    Wednesday, June 18, 2008
    f. The divine division and provision of the different dispensations.
    These divine divisions of different dispensations are periods of times in human history expressed in terms of divine revelation for that period.
    The inerrancy of the Word of God is the only true source for looking at history from the divine viewpoint.
    Dispensations are the means that God uses by which believers living at a specific time in history can adjust to God’s will, and God’s plan and God’s purpose for their lives.
    The whole key to understanding every dispensation is based upon the courtroom trial of the angelic conflict and how the biblical interpretation of history relates to the different dispensations and to that conflict.
    The oldest book in the Bible from the standpoint of writing is not the book of Genesis but the book of Job which is written in Archaic Hebrew.
    The very first book that God gave man starts out with a scene in the courtroom of heaven and the angelic conflict and a man being entered into evidence testing.
    The very first passage of human history began in a courtroom, actually the Garden of Eden, with two individuals, Ish and Ishshah, or Adam and the woman, being interrogated by Satan, whose name means attorney, accuser, and who is called serpent, Gen 3.
    Then human history ends with the last book of the Bible, Revelation, with mankind standing in another courtroom, the Supreme Court of Heaven, before the Great White Throne Judgment to plead their case before God as to why they did not think they needed Him.
    Since God is light, and since He won’t be there, there will be no light where they live.
    Since God is love, and since He won’t be there, there will be no love where they live.
    Since God is holy, and since He won’t be there, there will be no holiness, where they live.
    a. The sovereignty of God.
    b. The integrity or holiness of God.
    c. The love of God.
    d. The life and personality of God.
    e. The omnipresence of God.
    f. The omniscience of God.
    g. The omnipotence of God.
    h. The faithfulness of God.
    i. The happiness of God.
    j. The grace of God.
    The Church-age, the dispensation of the mystery = the intensified stage of the appeal trial of Satan and the angelic conflict.
    Oikonomia - “the management of a household or of household affairs” (oikos, “a house,” nomos, “a law”).
    The Theological Dictionary of the New Testament = it is used for the “divine plan” of salvation and spiritual instruction or training in faith.
    Theocentric Dispensations refer to the Old Testament periods of time emphasizing and glorifying God the Father’s purpose in the divine provision of dispensations as they relate to the angelic conflict.
    Two Theocentric Dispensations -
    1. The age of the Gentiles in the Old Testament, Adam to the Exodus generation, 1441 B.C.
    2. The age of the Jew, 1441 B.C. to the first Advent of Christ, 4-5 B.C.
    Two Christocentric Dispensations where TLJC is the center of the dispensation -
    3. The Hypostatic Union, 4-5, B.C. to His death, burial, resurrection, and ascension, 30 A.D.
    4. The Church-age, 30 A.D., to the Rapture, ? A.D.
    Two Eschatological Dispensations:
    5. The Tribulation, from Rapture to the Second Advent of Christ.
    6. The Millennium, from the Second Advent to the last Judgment.
    There are basically six dispensations, which is interesting because in the Bible, 6 represents the number of man and therefore it can refer to history of man.
    7 represents God’s perfection, His sovereignty and holiness, and therefore the after human history is completed we will enter into the eternal state.
    God the Holy Spirit restored the earth in seven days.
    The seven-day week is a reminder of our creator.
    God blessed the seventh day, making it holy, EXO 20:8-11.
    Noah took every clean beast and every bird by sevens, and in seven days it rained; where’s that in the Bible? Gen 7.
    The New Testament has the seven loaves; seven devils exorcised from Mary Magdalene; forgiveness seventy times seven.
    Revelation has seven churches.
    Luke’s Gospel demonstrates that Jesus was predestined for greatness because great men occurred in multiples of seven generations starting from Adam, Enoch at 7, Abraham at 21, David at 35 and Jesus at 77.
    Also in Acts, there were seven deacons of the church.
    LUK 6:40 “A pupil is not above his teacher; but everyone, after he has been fully trained, will be like his teacher.”
    Six dispensations divided into three categories:
    1. Theocentric
    2. Christocentric
    3. Eschatological
    Our Lord accomplished the strategic victory of the angelic conflict through His salvation ministry on the cross plus His physical death, burial, resurrection, and ascension.
    The believer accomplishes the tactical victory of the angelic conflict through his advance to spiritual maturity in the PPOG; at this point he becomes an invisible hero.
    In the Church-age, if enough believers grow to spiritual maturity to form a pivot, there will be prosperity in certain portions of the earth.
    (1) Angelic power, manifest by a lot of demon possession among unbelievers and a lot of demon influence of believers.
    (2) Human power, organized for influence and control.
    Our Lord will have representation on earth until the Second Advent when the devil’s kingdom comes to an end.
    Jesus Christ does not come down to the earth today to bail you out as He did with believers in the past.
    You have a portfolio of invisible assets and the PPOG.
    If God performs a miracle, it is an insult, for it can never be compared to your portfolio of invisible assets.
    During the Old Testament, Jesus Christ was present many times on earth, including His incarnation, which occurred in the dispensation of Israel.
    In the Millennium He will be on the earth ruling for 1000 years.
    The provision for the Royal Family of God is infinitely greater than any grace provision of any other dispensation in history.
    God’s grace provision of the portfolio of invisible assets plus the PPOG in time duplicates the grace provision of eternity past and the prehistoric angelic conflict.
    All the demon activity, wars, invasions, and violence of the coming Tribulation period is absolutely nothing compared to your challenge in the Church-age. As a winner, you demonstrate the validity of the sentence to fallen angels in eternity past.
    The Church-age exists to challenge Satan during the absence of Christ from the earth.
    This is why you have many problems and difficulties in your life, EPH 6:12, 2CO 10:3-4.
    While Jesus Christ is seated at the right hand of the Father, the Church exists to challenge and to utilize divine power to defeat Satan’s purposes. Because of the great power experiment of the Church-age, this dispensation is the crossroads of history, the intensified stage of the angelic conflict, the final blow to Satan’s power on earth in the spiritual realm.
    In the angelic conflict, Satan tries to convince people that God is unfair, unjust, and a God who is not merciful or gracious.
    In this dispensation of grace, the Church-age, the dispensation of the mystery, God demonstrates the fallacy of the satanic lie through people who are graced-out totally.
    There has never been a time in human history where so much power has ever been released toward merit-less objects for the fulfillment of the plan of God.
    There is an infinite gap between divine perfection and human imperfection and grace is the infinite filler that fills the gap.
    EPH 3:2 - calls this the dispensation of the total grace-out.
    2CO 6:9 we are unknown yet well-known,
    1 hr
  • All is Well

    The cruelness of an Autumn leaf
    The stillness of the falling leaves
    There's peacefulness surrounding me
    God is whispering to my soul

    Peace is a place, a harbor safe
    For riding out the storms
    For each there's a grace, a strong embrace
    The comfort of the Lord

    He's ordained the paths we take
    What father would his child forsake
    Emmanuel, God is with us, all is well

    When life is like a tempest sea
    His spirit calms the storm in me
    God sets my anxious soul at ease
    When the winds of trouble blow

    Peace is a place, a harbor safe
    For riding out the storms
    For each there's a grace, a strong embrace
    The comfort of the Lord

    He's ordained the paths we take
    What father would his child forsake
    Emmanuel, God is with us, all is well

    In God I have assurance
    His nearness is my good
    And my confidence is knowing
    In His will, all is well

    Peace is a place, a harbor safe
    For riding out the storms
    For each there's a grace, a strong embrace
    The comfort of the Lord

    He's ordained the paths we take
    What father would his child forsake
    Emmanuel, God is with us, all is well
    Emmanuel, God is with us, all is well

    5 min
  • All is Well
    The cruelness of an Autumn leaf
    The stillness of the falling leaves
    Theres peacefulness surrounding me
    God is whispering to my soul
    Peace is a place, a harbor safe
    For riding out the storms
    For each theres a grace, a strong embrace
    The comfort of the Lord
    Hes ordained the paths we take
    What father would his child forsake
    Emmanuel, God is with us, all is well
    When life is like a tempest sea
    His spirit calms the storm in me
    God sets my anxious soul at ease
    When the winds of trouble blow
    Peace is a place, a harbor safe
    For riding out the storms
    For each theres a grace, a strong embrace
    The comfort of the Lord
    Hes ordained the paths we take
    What father would his child forsake
    Emmanuel, God is with us, all is well
    In God I have assurance
    His nearness is my good
    And my confidence is knowing
    In His will, all is well
    Peace is a place, a harbor safe
    For riding out the storms
    For each theres a grace, a strong embrace
    The comfort of the Lord
    Hes ordained the paths we take
    What father would his child forsake
    Emmanuel, God is with us, all is well
    Emmanuel, God is with us, all is well
    5 min
  • THE DISPENSATION OF THE CHURCH-AGE IS THE MOST DIFFICULT YET EXCITING TIME IN HISTORY

    The dispensation of the Church-age is the most difficult yet exciting time in history.

    Friday, June 13, 2008

    EPH 3:9 and to make all men see what is the dispensation of the mystery which for ages hath been hid in God who created all things;
    - ASV

    “Pass me not, O gentle Savior,
    Hear my humble cry;
    While on others Thou art calling,
    Do not pass me by.”

    Verse 9 - “ALL” are to see what is the dispensation of the mystery which from the beginning of the world has been hidden.
    “Which has been hidden” - per-pass-part - apokrupto = to conceal; to hide; to keep secret.

    He said, “You are Peter or petros, a chip out of the stone or a part of the rock, and upon this rock, Petra, the massive rock, [the fact that He is Messiah, as Peter said in MAT 16:16 ‘Thou art the Christ the Son of the living God,’]
    I will build My church.”

    “Upon this rock I will build my church” - fut-act-ind - oikodomeo [to build] = the church did not exist at the time that the Lord said it; it was future.

    Every system of theology which tries to start the church in Abraham’s tent or with Noah or with Moses has an erroneous understanding of the Scripture and does not understand the correct biblical interpretation of history.

    The Church-age is the most difficult yet exciting time in history; for God’s plan for the Church is superior in every way to God’s plan for previous and future dispensations.

    Never before in human history and never after the Rapture of the Church has so much divine power been available to each believer.

    The Church is not an organization; it is an organism.
    The Church is every believer in union with Christ, the royal family of God.

    Christ, while absent during the Church-age, is Head or Ruler over the Church, EPH 1:22; COL 2:10.

    1. The great power experiment of the Hypostatic Union overflows into the Church-age as the challenge to Satan.
    2. The strategic victory of our Lord in the angelic conflict terminated His residence on earth.
    3. He left behind the Church to challenge Satan, with the potential to attain the tactical victory of the angelic conflict.

    There are two parts to the angelic conflict as it extends into human history: the strategic side of the angelic conflict and the tactical side.

    The chief witness in all of human history is the humanity of Jesus Christ in hypostatic union.
    Our Lord = the strategic witness.

    Strategic - He came up with strategy to defeat Satan and executed that plan magnificently and He defeated Satan.

    The other witnesses are the invisible heroes, those believers who execute the PPOG in the Church-age.
    Mature believers are classified as tactical witnesses.

    Tactical = relating to combat tactics as involving actions or means of less magnitude or at a shorter distance from a base of operations than those of strategy.

    Our Lord accomplished the strategic victory of the angelic conflict through His salvation ministry on the cross plus His physical death, burial, resurrection, and ascension.

    The believer accomplishes the tactical victory of the angelic conflict through his advance to spiritual maturity in the PPOG; at this point he becomes an invisible hero.

    When our Lord was on the Cross, He won the strategic victory, when our Lord returns, there will be the Second Advent and the tactical victory.

    In the meantime, anyone who believes in Christ is a winner strategically in the angelic conflict, so that in effect, all Christians today, all believers in the Tribulation are strategical victors, but it is the tactical victory that is in view with Bible doctrine.

    Your daily attitude toward Bible doctrine, in both perception and application becomes the tactical victory. You can be a strategic winner and a tactical loser. The importance of application of doctrine to the different momentum tests that every believer must pass before he becomes a winner.

    In most generations, like ours, and probably the Tribulational generation, the minority of believers are tactical winners. But the tactical winners are the ones who are going to be decorated with the order of the morning star, the various crowns.

    They are going to be the ones who will have the uniform of glory. They are the ones who are going to be on the honors list, so that while the Tribulation is occurring on earth, they will be presented in the court of heaven.

    Not all believers will be presented in the court of heaven, only those on the honors list, and then at the Second Advent, those who are tactical winners are going to rule a nation in this world.
    It may be a small nation; it may be a large nation.

    The strategical winner has eternal life and cannot lose it, and will have a resurrection body in heaven forever and forever. The tactical winner is going to have much more. The concept is, RHIP, rank has its privileges, and there is no equality in heaven.

    Equality ends with the strategic victory; all believers have the strategic victory by virtue of having accepted Christ as savior; it is the tactical winners who are going to have higher rank and greater privileges forever, and ever, and ever.

    Heaven is a perfect place, and a perfect place is based upon self-determination. That is a one-shot decision, and that is your strategic victory, but after that, tactically you have to make a lot of decisions, and the decisions you make on earth determine your status quo in eternity.

    MAT 6:1 “Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.”
    1CO 3:8 Now he who plants and he who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

    1CO 3:14-15, If any man’s work which he has built upon it remains, he shall receive a reward. If any man’s work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved, yet so as through fire.

    COL 3:23-24, Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men; knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.

    HEB 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please {Him}, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and {that} He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.
    2JO 1:8 Watch yourselves, that you might not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward.

    You must be self-motivated from your self-determination to accomplish a tactical victory. If you have the tactical victory; it wipes out fear in your life.

    The First Cycle of Discipline, LEV 26:14-17.

    52 min
  • THE DISPENSATION OF THE CHURCH-AGE IS THE MOST DIFFICULT YET EXCITING TIME IN HISTORY
    The dispensation of the Church-age is the most difficult yet exciting time in history.
    Friday, June 13, 2008
    EPH 3:9 and to make all men see what is the dispensation of the mystery which for ages hath been hid in God who created all things;
    - ASV
    “Pass me not, O gentle Savior,
    Hear my humble cry;
    While on others Thou art calling,
    Do not pass me by.”
    Verse 9 - “ALL” are to see what is the dispensation of the mystery which from the beginning of the world has been hidden.
    “Which has been hidden” - per-pass-part - apokrupto = to conceal; to hide; to keep secret.
    He said, “You are Peter or petros, a chip out of the stone or a part of the rock, and upon this rock, Petra, the massive rock, [the fact that He is Messiah, as Peter said in MAT 16:16 ‘Thou art the Christ the Son of the living God,’]
    I will build My church.”
    “Upon this rock I will build my church” - fut-act-ind - oikodomeo [to build] = the church did not exist at the time that the Lord said it; it was future.
    Every system of theology which tries to start the church in Abraham’s tent or with Noah or with Moses has an erroneous understanding of the Scripture and does not understand the correct biblical interpretation of history.
    The Church-age is the most difficult yet exciting time in history; for God’s plan for the Church is superior in every way to God’s plan for previous and future dispensations.
    Never before in human history and never after the Rapture of the Church has so much divine power been available to each believer.
    The Church is not an organization; it is an organism.
    The Church is every believer in union with Christ, the royal family of God.
    Christ, while absent during the Church-age, is Head or Ruler over the Church, EPH 1:22; COL 2:10.
    1. The great power experiment of the Hypostatic Union overflows into the Church-age as the challenge to Satan.
    2. The strategic victory of our Lord in the angelic conflict terminated His residence on earth.
    3. He left behind the Church to challenge Satan, with the potential to attain the tactical victory of the angelic conflict.
    There are two parts to the angelic conflict as it extends into human history: the strategic side of the angelic conflict and the tactical side.
    The chief witness in all of human history is the humanity of Jesus Christ in hypostatic union.
    Our Lord = the strategic witness.
    Strategic - He came up with strategy to defeat Satan and executed that plan magnificently and He defeated Satan.
    The other witnesses are the invisible heroes, those believers who execute the PPOG in the Church-age.
    Mature believers are classified as tactical witnesses.
    Tactical = relating to combat tactics as involving actions or means of less magnitude or at a shorter distance from a base of operations than those of strategy.
    Our Lord accomplished the strategic victory of the angelic conflict through His salvation ministry on the cross plus His physical death, burial, resurrection, and ascension.
    The believer accomplishes the tactical victory of the angelic conflict through his advance to spiritual maturity in the PPOG; at this point he becomes an invisible hero.
    When our Lord was on the Cross, He won the strategic victory, when our Lord returns, there will be the Second Advent and the tactical victory.
    In the meantime, anyone who believes in Christ is a winner strategically in the angelic conflict, so that in effect, all Christians today, all believers in the Tribulation are strategical victors, but it is the tactical victory that is in view with Bible doctrine.
    Your daily attitude toward Bible doctrine, in both perception and application becomes the tactical victory. You can be a strategic winner and a tactical loser. The importance of application of doctrine to the different momentum tests that every believer must pass before he becomes a winner.
    In most generations, like ours, and probably the Tribulational generation, the minority of believers are tactical winners. But the tactical winners are the ones who are going to be decorated with the order of the morning star, the various crowns.
    They are going to be the ones who will have the uniform of glory. They are the ones who are going to be on the honors list, so that while the Tribulation is occurring on earth, they will be presented in the court of heaven.
    Not all believers will be presented in the court of heaven, only those on the honors list, and then at the Second Advent, those who are tactical winners are going to rule a nation in this world.
    It may be a small nation; it may be a large nation.
    The strategical winner has eternal life and cannot lose it, and will have a resurrection body in heaven forever and forever. The tactical winner is going to have much more. The concept is, RHIP, rank has its privileges, and there is no equality in heaven.
    Equality ends with the strategic victory; all believers have the strategic victory by virtue of having accepted Christ as savior; it is the tactical winners who are going to have higher rank and greater privileges forever, and ever, and ever.
    Heaven is a perfect place, and a perfect place is based upon self-determination. That is a one-shot decision, and that is your strategic victory, but after that, tactically you have to make a lot of decisions, and the decisions you make on earth determine your status quo in eternity.
    MAT 6:1 “Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.”
    1CO 3:8 Now he who plants and he who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
    1CO 3:14-15, If any man’s work which he has built upon it remains, he shall receive a reward. If any man’s work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved, yet so as through fire.
    COL 3:23-24, Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men; knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.
    HEB 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please {Him}, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and {that} He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.
    2JO 1:8 Watch yourselves, that you might not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward.
    You must be self-motivated from your self-determination to accomplish a tactical victory. If you have the tactical victory; it wipes out fear in your life.
    The First Cycle of Discipline, LEV 26:14-17.
    52 min
  • UNDERSTANDING THE DISPENSATION OF THE MYSTERY DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH-AGE

    Understanding the dispensation of the mystery of the Church-age.

    Thursday, June 12, 2008

    6. The Divine Provision of the Different Dispensations.

    A dispensation is a period of time in human history expressed in terms of divine revelation for that period. The term dispensation is a technical theological term used primarily by the apostle Paul in the presentation of the mystery doctrine of this Church-age.

    Dispensations are divine categories of human history; therefore, both the divine outline and the divine interpretation of human history.

    The term “revelation” indicates in what manner the dispensation of the mystery of the Church-age is to be studied and searched out.

    First, you must have a strong foundation with a basic understanding of the dispensation (period of time) of the mystery of the Church-age which will not be fully understood until we get to heaven.

    The dispensation of the mystery of the Church-age as taught in the word of God is something that we all need to grow in on a continual basis through the communication of Bible doctrine.

    We need to grasp the mystery of the dispensation of the Church-age, and then we will have the foundation to obtain even a deeper understanding of this mystery dispensation through the process of diligently seeking the mysteries God has hidden in His word.

    Apokalupsis - “revelation” no longer refers so much to the uncovering of something previously concealed, but rather, to the “opening up” of realities and spiritual truths in even more detail which have been hidden in the word of God which has never and will never fail.

    EPH 3:9 and to make all men see what is the dispensation of the mystery which for ages hath been hid in God who created all things;
    - ASV

    “See” - aor-act-inf - photizo = to illuminate or to bring to light, to make clear; to clarify. It means to teach until something is very clear.

    The doctrine of dispensations emphasizes what God wants you to do after salvation and also answers the question, “After salvation, what?”

    Active voice - photizo = the apostle Paul produced the action of the verb; however here it is the pastor who in2TI 2:15, studies to present himself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

    Infinite - infinitive of purpose = indicates the aim or the objective of the pastor i.e., to communicate the dispensation of the mystery.

    In the dispensation of the hypostatic union one individual is emphasized, and He is TLJC. In the dispensation of the Church-age every believer is emphasized as a part of the body of Christ.

    COL 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the confidence of the glory.

    The power and the assets which were given to the humanity of Christ are now given to each one of us.

    Regardless of their background, color, handicaps, every believer has been given greater assets, power, and blessings than anyone ever before.

    Administration - predicate nominative singular - oikonomia = dispensation.

    “Mystery” - musterion or the mystery dispensation = the Church-age; the true meaning and purpose and definition for your life depends on you understanding the doctrine of dispensational truth.

    1 hr
  • UNDERSTANDING THE DISPENSATION OF THE MYSTERY DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH-AGE
    Understanding the dispensation of the mystery of the Church-age.
    Thursday, June 12, 2008
    6. The Divine Provision of the Different Dispensations.
    A dispensation is a period of time in human history expressed in terms of divine revelation for that period. The term dispensation is a technical theological term used primarily by the apostle Paul in the presentation of the mystery doctrine of this Church-age.
    Dispensations are divine categories of human history; therefore, both the divine outline and the divine interpretation of human history.
    The term “revelation” indicates in what manner the dispensation of the mystery of the Church-age is to be studied and searched out.
    First, you must have a strong foundation with a basic understanding of the dispensation (period of time) of the mystery of the Church-age which will not be fully understood until we get to heaven.
    The dispensation of the mystery of the Church-age as taught in the word of God is something that we all need to grow in on a continual basis through the communication of Bible doctrine.
    We need to grasp the mystery of the dispensation of the Church-age, and then we will have the foundation to obtain even a deeper understanding of this mystery dispensation through the process of diligently seeking the mysteries God has hidden in His word.
    Apokalupsis - “revelation” no longer refers so much to the uncovering of something previously concealed, but rather, to the “opening up” of realities and spiritual truths in even more detail which have been hidden in the word of God which has never and will never fail.
    EPH 3:9 and to make all men see what is the dispensation of the mystery which for ages hath been hid in God who created all things;
    - ASV
    “See” - aor-act-inf - photizo = to illuminate or to bring to light, to make clear; to clarify. It means to teach until something is very clear.
    The doctrine of dispensations emphasizes what God wants you to do after salvation and also answers the question, “After salvation, what?”
    Active voice - photizo = the apostle Paul produced the action of the verb; however here it is the pastor who in2TI 2:15, studies to present himself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
    Infinite - infinitive of purpose = indicates the aim or the objective of the pastor i.e., to communicate the dispensation of the mystery.
    In the dispensation of the hypostatic union one individual is emphasized, and He is TLJC. In the dispensation of the Church-age every believer is emphasized as a part of the body of Christ.
    COL 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the confidence of the glory.
    The power and the assets which were given to the humanity of Christ are now given to each one of us.
    Regardless of their background, color, handicaps, every believer has been given greater assets, power, and blessings than anyone ever before.
    Administration - predicate nominative singular - oikonomia = dispensation.
    “Mystery” - musterion or the mystery dispensation = the Church-age; the true meaning and purpose and definition for your life depends on you understanding the doctrine of dispensational truth.
    1 hr
  • THE SIXTH BASIC PRINCIPLE THAT THE LORD HAS ESTABLISHED WHICH GUARANTEES THAT THE HUMAN RACE WILL NO
    The sixth basic principle that the Lord has established which guarantees that the human race will not self-destruct: The divine provision of the different dispensations.
    Wednesday, June 11, 2008
    1. Division of languages,
    GEN 11:6-8.
    2. Nationalism.
    3. Client nations to God.
    4. Salvation work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
    5. The pivot of mature believers.
    6. The Divine Provision of the Different Dispensations.
    A dispensation is a period of time in human history expressed in terms of divine revelation for that period.
    Dispensation = technical theological term used primarily by the apostle Paul in the presentation of the mystery doctrine of this Church-age.
    Dispensations are divine categories of human history; therefore, both the divine outline and the divine interpretation of human history.
    Dispensations are the vehicle by which believers living at a specific time in history can orient to God’s will, plan, and purpose for their lives.
    This is very important to understand because God’s plan is not the same for every dispensation.
    Old Testament believers were under the ritual plan of God.
    Our Lord Jesus Christ was under the incarnation plan of God.
    The Church-age is the dispensation of the mystery plan, and the pre-designed plan of God, for every believer in the Church-age.
    A dispensation is defined traditionally as a period of time during which a particular revelation of God’s mind and God’s will is operative, and during which man is tested as to his obedience to that specific manifestation of God’s will, purpose, and plan.
    ROM 11:13 But I am speaking to you who are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles,
    ROM 15:16 - Paul said he was a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles,
    1TI 2:7 - for this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying) as a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
    Revelation” indicates in what manner the dispensation of the mystery of the Church-age is to be studied and searched out.
    In order not to miss anything essential, we must first lay the foundation of a basic understanding of the dispensation of the mystery, of the Church-age mystery, which will not be fully understood until we get to heaven.
    JOH 21:25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books which were written.
    2TI 2:15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, handling accurately the word of truth.
    1TI 5:17 Those pastor-teachers who have ruled well with the result that they keep ruling honorably, they must be considered worthy of double honor, most of all those who work hard to the point of exhaustion in the study of the word and the teaching of doctrine.
    The dispensation of the mystery of the Church-age as taught in the word of God is something that we all need to grow in on a continual basis through the communication of Bible doctrine.
    You have to understand that revelation is a divine manifestation of deity.
    We need to comprehend the true basic essentials of the dispensation of the mystery of the Church-age, and then we will have the foundation to achieve even a greater understanding through the progression and unfolding of our desire to seek for God.
    HEB 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.
    DEU 29:29 The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever,
    PSA 25:14 The secret of the Lord is for those who respect Him, And He will make them know His covenant.
    AMO 3:7 Surely the Lord God does nothing Unless He reveals His secret counsel To His servants the prophets.
    ROM 16:25-26 Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret for long ages past, but now is manifested, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, has been made known to all the nations, leading to obedience of faith;
    We need to comprehend the true basic essentials of the dispensation of the mystery of the Church-age, and then we will have the foundation to achieve even a greater understanding through the progression and unfolding of our desire to seek for God.
    This advanced understanding of the dispensation of the mystery of the Church-age is a goal that we must all seek to attain on the basis of the relevant facts that have been made known to us through the epistles of the New Testament, especially Paul’s.
    Apokalupsis - “revelation” - no longer refers so much to the uncovering of something previously concealed, but rather to the “opening up” of realities and spiritual truths in even more preciseness and detail, veiled in the word of God which has never and will never fail.
    It can only be discovered through dedication and devotion to doctrine from the Poimen-didaskalos to the Mathates - pastor-teacher and the disciple.
    GAL 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all equal in Christ Jesus.
    2CO 12:1,7 - apokalupsis also denotes the unveiling of heavenly matters which Paul experienced in an ecstatic state.
    EPH 3:8-9 To me, though I am the very least of all the saints (God’s consecrated people), this grace (favor, privilege) was granted and graciously entrusted: to proclaim to the Gentiles the unending (boundless, fathomless, incalculable, and exhaustless) riches of Christ [wealth which no human being could have searched out], Also to enlighten all men and make plain to them what is the plan [regarding the Gentiles and providing for the salvation of all men] of the mystery kept hidden through the ages and concealed until now in [the mind of] God Who created all things by Christ Jesus.
    EPH 3:10 [The purpose is] that through the church the complicated, many-sided wisdom of God in all its infinite variety and innumerable aspects might now be made known to the angelic rulers and authorities (principalities and powers) in the heavenly sphere.
    EPH 3:9 and to make all men see what is the dispensation of the mystery which for ages hath been hid in God who created all things;
    - ASV
    “See” - aor-act-inf - photizo = to illuminate or to bring to light, to make clear; to clarify. It means to teach until something is very clear.
    The doctrine of dispensations emphasizes what God wants you to do after salvation and also answers the question, “After salvation, what?”
    Active voice - photizo = the apostle Paul produced the action of the verb; however, here it is the pastor who in2TI 2:15, studies to present himself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
    Infinite - infinitive of purpose = indicates the aim or the objective of the pastor i.e., to communicate the dispensation of the mystery.
    In the dispensation of the hypostatic union one individual is emphasized - TLJC.
    In the dispensation of the Church-age every believer is emphasized as a part of the body of Christ.
    COL 1:27 “To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the confidence of the glory.”
    The power and the assets which were given to the humanity of Christ are now given to each one of us.
    Regardless of their background, color, handicaps, every believer has been given greater assets, power, and blessings than anyone ever before.
    Administration - predicate nominative singular - oikonomia = dispensation.
    “Mystery” - musterion - mystery dispensation = the Church-age; the true meaning and purpose and definition for your life depends on your understanding the doctrine of dispensational truth.
    The sooner you become briefed on how royalty functions, and what your role is in history, the better chance you have to glorify God and be the recipient of the most fantastic blessings ever.
    Verse 9 says that - “ALL” are to see what is the dispensation of the mystery which from the beginning of the world has been hidden.
    Pass me not, O gentle Savior,
    Hear my humble cry;
    While on others Thou art calling,
    Do not pass me by.
    Again verse 9 says that - “ALL” are to see what is the dispensation of the mystery which from the beginning of the world has been hidden.
    “Which has been hidden” - per-pass-part - apokrupto = to conceal; to hide; to keep secret.
    “You are Peter or Petros, a chip out of the stone or a part of the rock, and upon this rock, Petra, the massive rock, the fact that He is Messiah, or what Peter said in MAT 16:16 ‘Thou art the Christ the Son of the living God,’ I will build My church.”
    “Upon this rock I will build my church” - fut-act-ind - oikodomeo [to build] = the church did not exist at the time that the Lord said it; it was future.
    Every system of theology which tries to start the church in Abraham’s tent or with Noah or with Moses has an erroneous understanding of the Scripture and does not understand the correct biblical interpretation of history.
    The Church-age is the most difficult yet exciting time in history; for God’s plan for the Church is superior in every way to God’s plan for previous and future dispensations.
    Never before in human history and never after the Rapture of the Church has so much divine power been available to each believer.
    1 hr 2 min
  • THE FIFTH BASIC PRINCIPLE THAT THE LORD HAS ESTABLISHED WHICH GUARANTEES THAT THE HUMAN RACE WILL NO
    The fifth basic principle that the Lord has established which guarantees that the human race will not self-destruct: The impact of the invisible hero.
    Friday, June 6, 2008
    e. The invisible impact and influence of the invisible hero or spiritual champion, whereby God blesses the client-nation through the pivot of mature believers.
    The greatest function and service in time is invisible to the general public.
    The mature believer may not be recognized by the world or for that matter even the church, but he is the unseen hero of the Church-age as a part of the pivot of mature believers.
    As goes the believer so goes the nation.
    MAT 7:25 “And the rain descended [a reference to the storms of trouble],”
    and the floods came [the floods represent adversaries and opposition against the members of the household], and the winds blew [the unexpected adversities],
    Earthly things and the ways of the world look good until the trials and difficulties of life prove their vanity.
    Heavenly things look inadequate until the trials and difficulties reveal their glory.
    In death, the winner or the invisible hero called the overcomer in the KJV, or He who overcomes, in the NAS, receives his blessings from his escrow count and takes them with him forever - this is the meaning of their deeds [ergon] following them.
    They live, not with a gnosis of doctrine, which puffs up many individuals, 1CO 8:1, but with a epignosis doctrine, which is metabolized doctrine producing wisdom.
    1. The will of God for mankind is two-fold.
    For the unbeliever: Salvation.
    For the believer: Metabolized doctrine.
    1TI 2:3 This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the epignosis knowledge of the truth.
    TIT 1:1 Paul, a bond-servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of those chosen of God and the [epignosis] knowledge of the truth which is according to living the spiritual life,
    EPH 4:13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the epignosis knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fulness of Christ.
    2. The cosmic believer fails to metabolize doctrine,
    2TI 3:2-7; 2TI 3:7 always learning and never able to come to the epignosis knowledge of the truth.
    They are always learning academic subjects and doctrine, but it is all gnosis and only academic. They are never able to come to epignosis doctrine.
    3. Only metabolized doctrine can be useful for problem solving,
    EPH 1:17.
    EPH 1:17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the epignosis knowledge of Him.
    4. PHM 1:6 - all genuine fellowship with believers is based on metabolized doctrine and virtue.
    PHM 1:6 {and I pray} that the fellowship of your faith may become effective through the epignosis knowledge of every good thing which is in you for Christ’s sake.
    5. Only metabolized doctrine can fulfill the mandate of virtue first in the PPOG, PHI 1:9.
    PHI 1:9 In fact, I pray this, that your virtue-love may excel to the maximum still more and more by means of epignosis knowledge metabolized doctrine resulting in all spiritual discernment,
    2PE 1:8 for if these {qualities} are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge epignosis knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
    6. Only metabolized doctrine can fulfill the PPOG, COL 1:9-10.
    7. Only metabolized doctrine can provide blessing under the PPOG; if you have only gnosis doctrine, there is no basis for blessing, 2PE 1:2-3.
    2PE 1:2-3 Grace and peace be multiplied to you by means of the epignosis knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the epignosis knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.
    2PE 3:17-18, you therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard lest, being carried away by the error of unprincipled men, you fall from your own steadfastness, but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him {be} the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
    8. You can have a zeal to know God, but if you do not have metabolized doctrine it is useless.
    ROM 10:2 For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not in accordance with knowledge.
    9. True wealth and prosperity comes from epignosis doctrine,
    COL 2:2 that their right lobes may be confident, {attaining} to all the wealth that comes from the full assurance of understanding, {resulting} in a true knowledge or epignosis knowledge of God’s mystery, Christ,
    10. The new man can only be renewed and energized through metabolized doctrine.
    COL 3:10 and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge or according to epignosis knowledge according to the image of the One who created him.
    MAT 16:23 But He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me; for you are not setting your mind on God’s interests, but man’s.”
    PSA 119:63 I am a companion of all those who respect Thee, and of those who keep Your doctrines.
    PSA 101:6 My eyes shall be upon the “faithful” of the land, that they may dwell with me; he who walks in integrity is the one who will minister to me.
    PSA 101:7 he who practices deceit shall not dwell within my house; he who speaks falsehood shall not maintain his position before me.
    2SA 1:26 You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was more wonderful than the love of women.
    1SA 20:23 “As for the agreement of which you and I have spoken, behold, the Lord is between you and me forever.”
    Actually the greatest destroyer of homes is the person who destroys their own.
    It is that over a period of years, they are so full of gnosis and no epignosis that they destroy everything around them that is destroyable.
    JOH 15:13 “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.”
    1JO 3:16 We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
    GAL 6:10 So then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, and especially to those who are of the household of the faith.
    They realize death has lost its sting, 1CO 15:55.
    They believe and understand that there is a difference in dying and after the resurrection.
    JOB 5:19-27 = a dissertation on the invisible hero or spiritual champion and the fantastic blessings that come to the mature believer especially in times of difficulty.
    Deliver - hiphil imperfect - natsal = to rescue, to deliver, to come through for; it emphasizes logistical grace.
    In “six troubles” - man’s number = all the problems we create for ourselves, as well as the problems we encounter from others.
    Famine - kaphan = times of emptiness and pain or economic disaster.
    Redeem - Qal - paddah = to buy your life and to guarantee that you will survive economic depression.
    At the time in which it was written, wild animals or beasts simply represented an instrument of death or a means of dying.
    Today beasts could represent violent death such as murder, warfare, nuclear weapons, and even terrorism, etc.
    This laughing at death and disaster is +H in the soul, i.e., the ultimate PSD and a great sign of spiritual maturity as an invisible hero or spiritual champion.
    This is not foolish laughing or the phony hysterical laugh of the facade of many believers; this is the R.M.A. of a believer who has a true sense of humor even while under pressure.
    These stones or wild animals cannot harm the believer with doctrine or in spiritual adulthood unless the sovereignty of God permits it to happen.
    Job 5 - neither historical or natural disaster, nor any instrument of death, nor any dangerous environment can hurt or remove the believer from this life apart from divine consent.
    In the biblical interpretation of history and the fact that Jesus Christ controls history, God gives the loser the same chance as the winner.
    Only the integrity of God can transfer any believer from time into eternity.
    This does not mean that you will have a lot of children; it is a Hebrew idiom which says that your children will prosper.
    The invisible hero or spiritual champion also has a personal impact on others or blessing by association.
    The illustration is taken from the agricultural economy of the ancient world.
    The farmer knows when the corn should be picked.
    The separation of the corn from the sheath is a picture of the soul and the spirit leaving the body to be absent from the body and to be face to face with the Lord.
    In dying we accept the wisdom of God as mature believers just as we did while living.
    59 min
  • THE FOURTH PRINCIPLE THE LORD HAS ESTABLISHED WHICH GUARANTEES THAT THE HUMAN RACE WILL NOT SELF-DES
    The fourth principle the Lord has established which guarantees that the human race will not self-destruct: The salvation work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
    Thursday, June 5, 2008
    d. The salvation work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross, which divides the human race into two categories, believers and unbelievers, JOH 3:18,36.
    COL 4:5 “Conduct yourselves by means of doctrine toward unbelievers, making the most of the opportunity.”
    If you really believe in God and His word, you have to believe that the unbeliever will go to a place described as a place of torment, LUK 16:28.
    LUK 16:27-28 The rich man said, ‘Then I beg you, Father, that you send him to my father’s house - for I have five brothers - that he may warn them, lest they also come to this place of torment.’
    LUK 16:24 - the rich man “cried out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue; for I am in agony in this flame.’”
    It’s a place of unspeakable misery indicated by the term, “everlasting fire,”
    MAT 25:41.
    It’s a place where the worm [conscience] never dies and the fire is never quenched, MAR 9:44.
    It’s the Lake (which many believe to be a liquid form of lava) which burns with fire and brimstone, REV 21:8.
    This place of eternal suffering is also called:
    2) A bottomless pit, REV 9:2,
    3) Outer darkness, MAT 8:12
    4) Fire unquenchable,
    LUK 3:17
    5) Furnace of fire, MAT 13:42
    6) Blackness of darkness, Jud 13
    MAT 13:42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire; in that place there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
    MAR 9:49 “For everyone will be salted with fire.”
    REV 14:11 - “the smoke of their torment ascends up for ever and ever and they have no rest day or night.”
    REV 20:10 And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are also; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
    REV 20:15 And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
    REV 21:8 “But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
    EPH 6:19 And pray on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness [confidence] the mystery of the Gospel,
    ROM 1:16 I am not ashamed of the Gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Gentile.
    ACT 1:8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be my witnesses
    2TI 4:5 But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry [your full time Christian service].
    a. The witness of the life, 2CO 3:3.
    b. The witness of the lips, 2CO 5:18-20.
    There are three areas of evangelism in which the power of God the H.S. functions in witnessing, given precisely in JOH 16:8-11.
    He will convict the world of three things;
    1. Concerning sin (not sins)
    2. Righteousness
    3. Judgment
    The gospel is good news, and the good news is that every personal sin in human history was judged on the cross.
    It says that the Holy Spirit will convict the world of “sin”...singular.
    There is only one sin that takes a person to the eternal lake of fire and that is rejection of Jesus Christ as Savior.
    All personal sins were judged once and for all on the cross, 2CO 5:14,15, 19; 1TI 2:4; 2:6; 4:10; Titus 2:11;HEB 2:9; 2PE 2:1, 1JO 2:2.
    My Lord and Savior allowed every infant to be born into sin because condemnation must precede salvation.
    My Lord and Savior imputed Adam’s original sin to the genetically formed OSN, so that ROM 5:18-21 is the reality -
    So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men.
    ROM 5:19-21, For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous. And the Law came in that the transgression might increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, that, as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
    MAT 22:42 “What do you think about the Christ?”
    TLJC is said to be “non posse peccare,” meaning “not able to sin.”
    This refers to the deity of Christ.
    Jesus Christ is also said to be “posse non peccare,” meaning “able not to sin.”
    This refers to the humanity of Christ inside the PPOG for His life.
    The humanity of Christ was both temptable and peccable; i.e., He had the ability to sin because His humanity had volition.
    The deity of Christ was neither temptable nor peccable; therefore, He was impeccable.
    He became “the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.”
    The perfect resurrected humanity of TLJC ascended into the presence of God the Father where His righteousness was totally accepted in heaven forever and ever.
    In witnessing the only righteousness that we have the right to make an issue out of is the righteousness of Christ!
    If you’re going to live with God forever you have to be as good as God is, and the only way you can do that is to have God’s righteousness.
    In verse 10, God the H.S. reveals in common grace the principle that the righteousness of God is the only righteousness accepted in heaven, and the righteousness of God is imputed to us at the moment that we believe in Christ.
    Satan is the ruler of this world, JOH 12:31; 14:30; 16:11; 2CO 4:4; EPH 2:2.
    MAT 25:41 “the eternal fire has been prepared for the devil and his angels.”
    Like angelic creatures, mankind was given free will to demonstrate to Satan and all fallen angels the validity of God’s judgment on them.
    The human being who rejects TLJC as Savior will share the condemnation of Satan and the fallen angels, REV 20:10-15.
    The judgment of Satan and the angelic conflict is an excellent subject to deal with in witnessing.
    JOH 16:9-10 Concerning one sin, the sin of unbelief,....because they do not believe in Me; concerning one man’s righteousness, the righteousness of TLJC Concerning one judgment, the ruler of this world [Satan] has been judged.
    We are to communicate the proper information, and the Holy Spirit acts as a human spirit, so that the unbeliever can comprehend the Gospel properly, 1CO 2:14.
    1 hr 4 min

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