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House Rules
by Pastor Kevin Sadler
"If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward" (Eph. 3:2).
God's Word must be understood in the way God revealed His will to mankind. Therefore, it needs to be understood dispensationally. There is the broad division in Scripture between God's two programs, Prophecy and Mystery, but then there are dispensations which must be broken down within it as well.
The term "dispensation" is the Greek word, oikonomia, which means "house law" or "house management." At different times and stages in God's Word, God dispensed to mankind a different and distinct rule of life.
Within
each of our homes we have a certain set of rules that we expect our
children to abide by. These are the house rules, the law of the
household. Our house law may be different than your house law. For
example, one time one of my kids came to me and said, "My friend's
family does it this way in their home, can't we do this?" My response
was "That's their rules. We don't do it that way in our house." That's
the case in the dispensations of God. They each have their own set of
house rules. We shouldn't try to live by the house law belonging to
another time and dispensation.
Within
each dispensation of God, God dispensed a new set of "house laws or
rules" that needed to be followed, and was the responsibility of those
who lived under them to carry out and obey. God has given different
commands to different people at different times throughout the
Scripture.
It
is also similar to presidential administrations. With the
administration of our newly-elected president, there will be changes in
how they govern and operate from the previous administration. It's the
same with the dispensations of God. God, according to His will, at
different points of time in history, revealed a new administration in
which there were changes in how man was to live and what was required to
be saved.
Today
we are under "the dispensation of the grace of God." This current
administration is an administration of grace. The house is managed by
grace. Grace dominates everything about this dispensation under which we
live. Our salvation is by grace, our walk is a grace walk, we are
blessed by grace, our speech is with grace, and we sing with grace in
our hearts, etc. There are countless principles to be applied throughout
God's Word, but the letters of Paul provide us with our "house rules"
that we are to directly live by in this dispensation of Grace.
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