The Dispensation of Grace
by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
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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:
“But none of these things move 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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