What Is a Dispensation?: Page 14


What Is a Dispensation?
In the Bible, a dispensation is a unique administration, a stage in the outworking of God’s plan throughout history during which man is tested in respect to obedience to a specific revelation of the will of God. 
 
A dispensation concerns the accountability, responsibility and faithfulness of man to that revealed will of God, and is incorporated into a literal interpretation of prophecy and mystery in the Bible. 
 
Each new administration is a new dispensation. 
 
The book of Ephesians offers three divisions, three distinct dispensations: TIME PAST, BUT NOW, and the AGES TOo COME, which is concluded with the FULLNESS OF TIMES. 
 
Studying the Bible’s dispensations is the key that unlocks the hidden wisdom of God revealed in the BUT NOW Dispensation of Grace.
 
God has always had a Good News plan for sinful mankind. 
 
He has always offered the gift of eternal life to anyone who would choose to trust in what He has told them. 
 
When man has refused to receive by faith each Gospel, he has rejected God. Inevitably, God placed a judgment on those who failed to have confidence in what He said is true and reliable. 
 
After each judgment, God has always made a new offer, has provided a new way to please Him, a new way to come to Him by faith, a new way to receive eternal life. 
 
All God has asked of man is to have faith in the information, the provision He has given him. Hebrews 11:6 states, But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.
 
God’s top priority since the fall of man has been the restoration of His relationship with each person and to reward every believer with gifts. 
 
It is not His will that anyone should be separated from His righteous nature because of sin in their life. 
 
God offers His grace, His love, and an eternal relationship with Him at the moment one places their trust in their received gospel. 
 
With rejection of the gospel offered in each dispensation, God has judged man. 
 
God has continued to reveal to man, through progressive revelation, a new gospel, how to come to Him by faith, but there is only one gospel offered during each dispensation to those who are looking to Him for salvation. 
 
To better understand the cycle of gospel offered, man’s rejection, and God’s judgment, we will explore how the TIMES PAST dispensation can be divided into smaller intervals.
 
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