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As a new, young Christian, I attended an evangelical church that taught dispensational interpretation of Scripture. I remember being totally confused and wondering why I was so dull I couldn’t understand it. Now I think the good Lord was protecting me from believing and promoting it. Thank you for this series of How to Read the Bible.
Angela,
Thank you for the encouragement. Your comment is why I wanted to do the series.
This is an absolutely crucial point, there are not various ways or dispensations of God dealing with his people, rather there are only two, law and gospel. Throughout the Bible these two ways are contrasted and expressed as Mosaic compared to Abrahamic, old covenant compared to new covenant, works compared to grace. The point of this is the contrast between the covenant of works, which no mortal can obey perfectly as God requires and the only perfect obedience that can truly satisfy God’s requirements, which is the perfect obedience of His Son, which is imputed to us when we trust in Him as our righteousness. The seven dispensation model of the Dispensationalists is an awful confusion and distraction from the central theme of the Bible that there is only one way to please God, through grace, by trusting in His promise of the Savior, who would obey the covenant on behalf of His people.
Thank you! I agree and appreciate you posting this for folks like me who were raised in either unchurched homes or those who don’t understand Covenant Theology. I’m so glad the good Lord led me on a path of learning the truth, even though I wandered off in a few areas. May the good Lord bless you for sharing the Gospel. 🙂