Paul’s epistles are the words of Christ to us today…we are to follow the Words of Christ, as they were revealed to the Apostle Paul. We must preach and believe the gospel as was revealed to the Apostle Paul. Christ taught a gospel – the Gospel of the Kingdom. But under that gospel, He taught [...]

Ephesians 3 is a key text for hyper-dispensationalists because it marks the beginning of the Dispensation of Grace.[1] Paul unveils the mystery of the church, and this ends the ancient Dispensation of Law and introduces a new structure, a new gospel, and a new basis for doctrine in the church. It also suggests (according to [...]

Is Hyper-Dispensationalism a “heresy”? Is it a “false teaching”? Or, is it just a “denomination,” “sect,” or a “cult”? Hyper-dispensationalists do not outright deny the core doctrines of orthodox Christianity. They believe in the deity of Christ, the Trinity, justification by faith alone, etc. They also worship in the same type of setting as a [...]

“Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.” – II Timothy 2:15 In 1896, C.I. Scofield published the book Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth. In it, Scofield establishes the major divisions of Scripture.  Since then, II Timothy 2:15 [...]

As we’ve been learning in this series, Dispensationalism is a particular theology that evolved out of the cultural environment and personal experience of John Darby in the 1840s. I suggested that Dispensationalism was a poor way doing theology since it ignores the internal structure of God’s covenants and replaces them with man-made “dispensations.” Nevertheless, the [...]