The Dispensation of Grace
by
Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
Many people have a mistaken notion that a dispensation is a period
of time. This is not so, however, for the word “dispense” means
simply “to deal out”. The word “dispensation”, then,
means “the act of dispensing or dealing out”, or “that which is
dispensed or dealt out”.
There are medical dispensaries, for example, where medicines are
dispensed to the poor. Sometimes these dispensations are conducted on
a particular day of each week. Such a dispensation of medicine may
take a full twelve hours each week, but it does not follow from this
that a dispensation is a period of twelve hours! It is rather the act
of dispensing or that which is dispensed.
The word “dispensation” is used many times in the
Bible, although it is not always translated the same way. In
Ephesians 3:2, Paul writes of “the dispensation of the grace of
God, which is given me to you-ward”. God had committed to him
wonderful message of grace to dispense to others. Thus we read in
Acts 20:24 his stirring words, spoken in the face of persecution and
death:
ve me, neither count I
my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy,
AND THE MINISTRY WHICH I HAVE RECEIVED OF THE LORD JESUS, TO TESTIFY
THE GOSPEL OF THE GRACE OF GOD.”
The “gospel” or “good news” of the grace of God: This was
the dispensation committed to Paul for us by the risen, ascended
Lord. This is always Paul’s message.
“Where sin abounded GRACE did much more abound…the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His GRACE… justified freely by His GRACE, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus…by GRACE are ye saved, through faith” (Rom.5:20; Eph.1:7; Rom.3:24; Eph. 2:8,9).
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