Proof Continues

As we conclude this most vivid, open, and embracing week of daily facts which must be embraced in faith, we need to complete our final dictionary meaning of the word dispensation. Yesterday, we viewed the meaning of the word as receiving or being given exemption from a rule or some usual requirement.

Our other dictionary meaning speaks of a new order, a different arrangement, a better set up, if you like. The Law, given to Moses, is good, right, holy and true. However, when sin took hold of the Law, it became powerless to do what it was intended to do – to save us, for one thing - so God came Himself in Jesus Christ as our New Law, thereby, giving us a New Dispensation to fulfil the intention and purpose of the Law. It’s as simple and straightforward as this.

Your house has been built, a lovely house and steps have been erected to allow all who can climb them to come in and go out freely. However, those good, strong steps have been taken over by a number of blockers, which made it impossible for anyone to reach the door of your house to enter. You find a better, surer and more fool proof way, which allows all who will accept it, and use it, to enter. Yes, you have a new way and it is only through and by this new way that whosoever will, may come in and enter your house.

Again I ask, does God give dispensation, in this matter? The answer comes in two ways – Yes, He does and No, He does not.

Yes, God does, in that we are told that we are no longer obligated under the law to do works which bring our salvation, for we are saved by grace and not works. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – not by works, so that no one can boast. Ephesians 2: 8 – 9.

On the other hand the answer is no. No, God does not, for no one is exempt from the intention and purpose of the law. Here is what we are told in Romans 8: 3 – 4. For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. Indeed, the requirements of the law stand firm in fulfilment.

Therefore, we are now under a New Dispensation, the law of grace where, by faith in Jesus, we receive the fulfilment of the law. The full and complete intention and requirement of the law are met in us through Jesus Christ, who is our New Dispensation. It is Jesus we thus obey and through His Abiding Spirit, each believer is guided, controlled and made fruit-bearing witnesses of the Victorious, Risen, King Jesus.

Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days and they will prophesy. Acts 2: 18