A New Heart – FBR Podcast #73

So last week we finished up our very long exhaustive study of the fifth dispensation, the dispensation of the law that culminated in the advent, life, death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus of Nazareth, our Redeemer.

And so in this week, we're going to begin our study of the sixth dispensation, which is called the dispensation of the church or the dispensation of grace.

And so since it's been a while, let's just quickly go over what the dispensations are.

The dispensations are God's contrastive way of proving that his plan for man is the right one.

His plan for man is the meaning of life, which is to be with God and to be like God.

In order to be like God, we have to be always and completely right and just.

And that can happen on our own because we are not always and completely right and just, but we can choose to be with our free will.

The question is, can we do it on our own or do we need God to change us? And of course, the answer is we need God to change us.

And that's God's plan.

It's the right plan.

But the dispensation of God's contrasted way of showing that that plan is right.

How? By allowing man the opportunity to choose to be godly on their on his own.

And in the first three dispensations, the dispensation of innocence with Adam and Eve, the dispensation of.

Knowledge and with the flood, the dispensation of Babel, where man was united in one purpose, they all in all three of those God gave me a fairly free reign during these periods.

each time man, however, chose themselves over God by eating the forbidden fruit or by doing mischief with the Nephilim and choosing their knowledge over knowledge of fallen angels over the knowledge of God or choosing to get to heaven on their own by using their vast knowledge and cooperation and purposeness to build that tower of Babel to basically invade heaven.

So each time They chose God and he chose themselves over God.

And furthermore, each dispensation resulted in man becoming more evil.

And God gave him that free hand.

So it would only be right for God to start to give man progressive guidance.

So in the fourth and fifth dispensation, he gave them guidance through earthly representatives like Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

And then by giving them the law, writing his laws actually down so that there'd be no problem.

confusion about what God considered good, what he considered evil, what was right and wrong, and then culminating in that law being embodied in a human being, the God-man, Jesus of Nazareth, God in the flesh.

And if they accepted him, they would have passed the test.

But by rejecting him, they failed the test.

And we've talked about that in the last year or so.