The Time Element In Scripture
by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
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How many Scriptural problems would be solved, how many seeming
contradictions explained, if we were more careful to note the time
element, emphasized so strongly in the Word of God.
In Romans 5:12 we learn that sin entered the human race by Adam. Then
later “the law entered” (Ver. 20). But still later the Apostle Paul
arose to say: “But now, the righteousness of God without the law is
manifested” (Rom. 3:21).
Early in man’s history blood sacrifices were required for acceptance
with God (See Gen. 4:4; Heb. 11:4), later circumcision and the Law (Gen.
17:14; Ex. 19:5), and still later, repentance and water baptism (Mark
1:4; Acts 2:38). But not until Paul do we learn of salvation by grace
through faith alone, on the basis of Christ’s finished, all-sufficient
work of redemption.
This is why the Apostle refers in Gal. 3:23 to “the faith which should
afterward be revealed.” This is why he declares that our Lord “gave
Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time”, and adds:
“whereunto I am ordained a preacher and an apostle” (I Tim. 2:6,7).
It is only as we recognize the time element in Scripture that we see
the difference between “the kingdom of heaven” and “the Body of Christ,”
between “the gospel of the kingdom” and “the gospel of the grace of
God,” between the “dispensation of law” and “the dispensation of the
grace of God.”
A comparison of Romans 3:21 and 26 shows how this time element is
emphasized in Scripture. After discussing the function of the Law in
Verses 19 and 20, the Apostle Paul declares: “But now the righteousness
of God without the law is manifested…” Then, in Ver. 26 he states that
it is God’s purpose: “To declare, I say, at this time His [Christ’s]
righteousness; that He [God] might be just and the Justifier of him that
believeth in Jesus.”
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