A DISPENSATIONAL CHANGE
Pastor J. C. O’Hair
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If the message of Matthew 10:5 to 8 is the Lord’s message for this age and dispensation of grace, there are no obedient Christians on earth. They were told to preach “the kingdom of heaven is at hand,” “heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons” - “take no money for your expenses,” etc. This program belonged to a dispensation different from the dispensation for Gentiles which Christ later committed to the apostle Paul. (Ephesians 3:1 to 8).
We use the word “dispensation.” This is the Greek noun “OIKONOMIA” a “house law” or “government,” “an economy.”
In I Corinthians 9:16 and 17 and Colossians 1:24 to 26, the apostle Paul has told us that an “economy” or “dispensation” was committed unto him. In II Timothy 1:12, in the Greek, he calls it “my deposit.”
Any student of the Scriptures, who has studied Paul’s Epistles even casually and superficially, knows that the risen Christ deposited with Paul something different from any other Divine deposit. Yes, Christ committed unto Paul a dispensation. In Ephesians 3:9, it is called “the dispensation of the mystery.”
Now read Ephesians 3:1 to 4: “For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: How that by revelation He made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words. Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ).”
The dispensation of the grace of God for Gentiles was God’s secret (mystery) until Christ in glory revealed it to the apostle Paul. After that it was no longer a secret. It should not be a secret to any member of the Body of Christ. But every Christian should obey Ephesians 3:9 and make known what was for centuries God’s sacred secret “but is now made manifest to his saints.” (Colossians 1:26).
To Israel the Twelve were sent to preach the kingdom of heaven at hand, to heal and raise the dead. (Matthew 10:6 to 8).
The dispensation of grace was not revealed to Paul until after Peter had used the keys of the kingdom of heaven, (Matthew 16:16 to 19), not until Israel fell (Romans 11:11), not until the kingdom proclaimed by the Twelve was postponed. (Compare Acts 3:24 with Colossians 1:26).
During this parenthetical, unprophesied “grace” period God is building the Body of Christ and not building again the tabernacle of David, (Ephesians 4:9 to 13 - Acts 15:13 to 18). This tabernacle will again be built, but not during this economy.
Members of the Body of Christ are expected to preach now the gospel of the grace of God. (Acts 20:24). They are not cleansing lepers, casting out demons, and raising the dead, and they are certainly going to Gentiles, all of which is a radical change from Matthew 10:5 to 8.
In the days of the flood Noah “found grace” in the sight of God. God’s grace has always been manifested to sinners, even under the law. But there is a great difference between grace in a former dispensation and the present dispensation of grace.
No servant of the Lord, while Christ was on earth, or up to the thirteenth chapter of Acts, until after Paul’s message to Israel in Acts 13:46, could have preached with Divine authority Titus 2:11 to 14: “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us, that, denying ungodliness and wordly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed Hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God our Saviour Jesus Christ: Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.” The grace of God for all men is so different from the kingdom of heaven at hand for the Jews. Compare the message of Matthew 10:6 and 7 with the wonderful gospel of Romans 10:4 to 10 and you should understand and appreciate the dispensational change.
What is the Gospel?
Believing Christ died, that’s
HISTORY.
Believing Christ died for YOUR sins
and rose again, that’s SALVATION.
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel
which the preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you,
unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all
that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the
scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day
according to the scriptures. 1. Corinthians 15:1-4
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