Reference: Dispensation
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The charge of proclaiming the gospel of Christ, 1Co 9:17; Eph 3:2. Also the scheme or plan of God's dealings with men. In the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations, God has commenced, enlarged, and perfected his revelation of himself and his grace to this world, Eph 1:10; Col 1:25. The whole development of his great plan has been gradual, and adapted at every stage to the existing state of the human family.
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For if of free will I do this, I have reward: and if unwillingly, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.
For the arrangement of the completion of the times, to unite in a whole all things in Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon earth; in him:
If ye have heard of the distribution of the grace of God given to me for you:
Of which I was a servant, according to the stewardship of God, given to me for you, to complete the word of God;
Easton
(Gr. oikonomia, "management," "economy"). (1.) The method or scheme according to which God carries out his purposes towards men is called a dispensation. There are usually reckoned three dispensations, the Patriarchal, the Mosaic or Jewish, and the Christian. (See Covenant, Administration of.) These were so many stages in God's unfolding of his purpose of grace toward men. The word is not found with this meaning in Scripture.
(2.) A commission to preach the gospel (1Co 9:17; Eph 1:10; 3:2; Col 1:25).
Dispensations of Providence are providential events which affect men either in the way of mercy or of judgement.
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For if of free will I do this, I have reward: and if unwillingly, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.
For the arrangement of the completion of the times, to unite in a whole all things in Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon earth; in him:
If ye have heard of the distribution of the grace of God given to me for you:
Of which I was a servant, according to the stewardship of God, given to me for you, to complete the word of God;
Morish
?????????. This is literally 'administration of a house,' an 'economy,' and hence an ordered dealing with men by God in the varied administration of his ways at different times. In reviewing God's administrations with man, we may notice the state of innocence in Eden, though it hardly partook of the character of a dispensation. One law was given to Adam and Eve, and obedience was required, the penalty being announced if they failed.
This was followed by the lengthy period of nearly 1600 years till the flood
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You only did I know from all the families of the earth: for this I will review over you all your iniquities.
The law and the prophets until John: from then the kingdom of God announces good news, and every one is forced into it.
And in the day of Pentecost being completed, they were all unanimously in one and the same place. And suddenly was a sound from heaven as of a wind moving violently, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. read more. And seen to them were tongues divided as fire, and it sat upon Each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them to utter.
Paul, servant of Jesus Christ, called sent, separated to the good news of God,
Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, every one judging: for in what thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou judging doest the same.
For if of free will I do this, I have reward: and if unwillingly, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.
For the arrangement of the completion of the times, to unite in a whole all things in Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon earth; in him:
If ye have heard of the distribution of the grace of God given to me for you: That by revelation he made Known to me the mystery; (as I before wrote briefly,
Of which I was a servant, according to the stewardship of God, given to me for you, to complete the word of God; The mystery hid from times immemorial, and from generations, and now has been manifested to his holy ones:
They having been once unbelieving, when the longsuffering of God waited in Noah's days, the ark being prepared, in which few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain in his hand. And he seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, read more. And he cast him into the abyss, and shut him up, and affixed a seal above him, that he should no more deceive the nations, until the thousand years be finished: and after these things he must be loosed a little time. And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given them: and the souls of them beheaded with an axe for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and who worshipped not the wild beast, nor his image, and took not the stamp upon their foreheads, and upon their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. And the rest of the dead returned not again to life even till the thousand years be finished. This the first rising up. Happy and holy he having a part in the first rising up: over these has the second death no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and they shall reign with him a thousand years.