After comparing the dispensation given to Paul and the dispensation of the fulness of times, we arrive at a scriptural definition of what a dispensation may be. Although this definition will require further scrutiny and discussion, it is based only on the Word of God, and ignores the wisdom of man’s created definitions.
To make all men see….. Ephesians 3:9
To make all men see….. Ephesians 3:9
Sermons by Keith Shoop
The Theological definition of ‘dispensation’ can’t stand up to the scrutiny of scripture alone. One has to create what isn’t found in the Word of God to get the standard definition. Even then, there are dozens, if not hundreds of definitions of the word. But if we leave Theology behind and use only scripture to find a definition, a clearer picture begins…
In I Corinthians 9:17, Paul says that “a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.” How is that gospel any different from other gospels? Why is it a dispensation of the gospel and why was it committed only to Paul. Every gospel mentioned in the scripture always comes down to faith. Believing what God has revealed to man is always the…
If the theological definition of “a dispensation,” that it is how God is dealing with mankind during a certain age or period of time, then from Adam until the resurrection of Christ would have to be called the dispensation of the forbearance of God. Romans 3:24-25 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 Whom…
What if the theological definition of dispensation is wrong? What if there are actually only two dispensations, and both are revealed to us in God’s Word? If we aren’t going to add or take away from His words, couldn’t that be true? What if Paul’s office as the apostle of the Gentiles was to dispense the gospel of grace to the heathen,…
Most modern Bibles change the faith of Christ in Romans 3:22; Galatians 2:16,20; 3:22; Ephesians 3:12; Philippians 3:9 and Titus 1:1 to faith in Christ. In Titus they change who God’s elect is, making the verse senseless. The few who remain faithful to the correct text put a footnote by these verses saying the faithfulness of Christ. This not only changes and…
There are many challenging passages in I John. He saves a real doozy for the end. That is: “There is a sin unto death” and “there is a sin not unto death”. It doesn’t really matter where your starting point is, these verses can throw you for a loop. First, how is there a sin not unto death? Doesn’t Paul and James…
If you understand what the parable of the wheat and the tares means, it helps you to see what John is teaching ‘the little children’ in I John. There is going to be infiltrators into the remnant church in the last days. Peter and Jude describe what these children of Satan will be like on the inside. John is teaching the newly…
1 John 3:8-9 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.…
One of the main themes of I john is loving each other and loving your brethren. But when he begins to introduce this topic, it seems confusing because first he says that he’s not giving a new commandment, then in the next verse he says he is giving a new commandment. The new commandment he is giving isn’t to love your brother,…