433 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 - Part 1 - Book 37 - Paul Dispenses Grace

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LESSON 1 * PART 1 * BOOK 36
PAUL DISPENSES GRACE
This chapter just simply explodes with things that most people never hear in Church. What it really amounts to is that all of these revelations that have been given to the apostle Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, had been kept hidden and secret in the mind of God until revealed to this man.
I’ve always used the expression, would to God that more people would ask, "Who in the world is Jesus Christ?" If you really ask, most Church people do not really know Who He is. Well all of these things come out in Ephesians chapter 3.
Ephesians 3:1a
What’s Paul speaking of when he says, "For this cause?" Well everything that he’d just expounded on in the first two chapters. Back up to chapter 2, verses 8 and 9 and you’ll see what I’m talking about. These are verses I’m sure you’ve seen in salvation tracts and so forth, but again this is the highlight of these two chapters that I think Paul is talking about.
Ephesians 2:8-9
"For by grace are ye saved through faith; (and that’s where I get + nothing, because there’s nothing after that word faith.) Because) it is the gift of God: (now how much work do you do for a gift? 9. Not of works, lest any man should boast." Now back to chapter 3.
Ephesians 3:1a
"For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for (what people?) you Gentiles."
Most people don’t like to admit that. Most people can’t see that his apostleship was uniquely directed to the Gentiles. Now Paul still had a heart for his Jewish people. So don’t ever accuse Paul of having turned his back on his own people, but always remember that God was the One that designated at the Damascus road conversion that Paul was going to send him far hence to the Gentiles. God dealt with the Nation of Israel though the prophets, and through Christ’s earthly ministry, through Peter and the eleven, but the Jews continued to reject their message of that day. So now God does something totally different, and that’s the best word that I can put on it. Philippians 1:10
Now coming back to Ephesians chapter 3.
Ephesians 3:1-2a
"For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles. 2. If ye have heard..."
You want to remember that by the time Paul writes Ephesians it’s somewhere around 64 or 65 AD. Ephesians 3:2
"If ye have heard..."
Ephesians 3:2
"If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward."
Remember Paul uses that word even in chapter 1 verse 10, so it’s very Scriptural.
Ephesians 1:10
"That in the dispensation of the fulness of time..."
We dealt with that several lessons back, but now in chapter 3 he deals with the dispensation of the Grace of God. Well to quality a dispensation, it’s just a simple word from which we get the word stewardship or dispensing. Now bringing it back into the Scriptures, a dispensation was a period of time during which God laid particular dispensational instructions to the human race.
For a moment let’s go back to the Carter years, as he builds his own administration. What counted was the kind of ideology that his administration promoted for the country. So in short what makes an administration was, "What were they dispensing?" When God called Moses and the Nation of Israel out of Egypt, he brought them around Mt. Sinai. Law. And Law was a dispensation. It was a dispensing to the Nation of Israel, God’s demands upon the Nation as to how they were to worship, how they were to live; and all these things were part of that dispensation of Law. What’s important is, what did God give Moses to tell the children of Israel? The Law.
And of course the Law was in 3 parts. It was the ritual law - how to worship, and how to approach God with the sacrifices, and priesthood and so forth. The Cross ended the Law, because that was when everything was fulfilled dispensationally of Law. "The secret things belong unto the LORD our God:..."
That means God can keep things totally secret as long as He wants to. When God was approaching Abraham, about beginning a nation through him and he didn’t yet have a son, and so what did Abraham say to God?
Genesis 15:2
Eliezer was the man who managed all of Abraham’s wealth. Have you got I Corinthians chapter 4? Let’s start with verse 1.
"Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and (what’s your next word?) stewards of the mysteries of God."
Now if you’re a Bible student you will catch on real quick that Paul is always referring to the mysteries that were revealed to him. Secrets. God did. Of course this is a whole new administration or dispensation.
Well so is Grace and Law! God never changes, but He changes His programs. Now I’m talking about salvation.

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