1. Galatians 6:15

2. Boasting and Dying!
Fighting:
Farming:
Faith:

4. Continuing to die to the world
“For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes” 1 Corinthians 11:26.

6. Dispensational Comparison – why?
Adam
Methuselah
Noah
Abraham
Moses Us
One
Command
None
Capital
Laws
Circum-cision
Circumcision
Baptism
Sacrifices
Meat
Eating
Priesthood
Com-munion
Sabbath
Kosher
Great
Commission
Festivals
Biblical Theology

7. Some Questions about Dispensations?
What is this term ‘Dispensation’?
How do you define it?
How many Dispensations are there?
Why did God make Dispensations?

8. Some Questions about Dispensations?
What is this term ‘Dispensation’?
How do you define it?
How many Dispensations are there?
Why did God make Dispensations?

9. An ‘Administration’
Ephesians 1:9-10: “He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him, with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth.”
Ephesians 3:2: “For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles— if indeed you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace which was given to me for you.”
Ephesians 3:9: “and to bring to light what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God who created all things; so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places.”

10. Some Questions about Dispensations?
What is this term ‘Dispensation’?
How do you define it?
How many Dispensations are there?
Why did God make Dispensations?

11. Does not save you, but may indicate you are saved!!!
Definition #1: “A dispensation is a period of time during which a man is tested in respect of obedience to some specific revelation of the will of God” (C. I. Scofield, 1909).
Definition #2: “Dispensations are stewardships by which God administers His purpose on the earth through man under varying responsibilities” (Dallas Theological Seminary, 2017).
Definition #3: “A biblical time period wherein God applies distinct ethical imperatives to His people although salvation is always by grace through faith.”

12. Some Questions about Dispensations?
What is this term ‘Dispensation’?
How do you define it?
How many Dispensations are there?
Why did God make Dispensations?

13. 7 Dispensations C. I. Scofield (1909) – Charles C. Ryrie (2007)
Innocency
Adam
Genesis 1-3
God’s glory – Creation
sin – 1 Commandment
Conscience
Pre-Flood
Genesis 4-8
God’s glory – Judgment
sin inability of conscience
Human Government
Noah
Genesis 9-11
God’s glory – Restoration
sin – Murder & Meat Laws
Promise
Abraham
Genesis 12-Exodus 19
God’s glory – Promise
Abahamic Covenant
Law
Moses
Exodus 20-Matthew 27
God’s glory – 1 Nation
sin – sacrifice & Sabbath
Gospel
Christ – 1st Coming
Matthew 28 – Revelation 3
God’s glory – the Cross
Baptism/Great Commission
Kingdom/Millennium
Christ – 2nd Coming
Revelation
God’s glory – Eternity
Heaven on Earth

14. C. I. Scofield (1909) – Charles C. Ryrie (2007)
7 Dispensations
C. I. Scofield (1909) – Charles C. Ryrie (2007)
Innocency
Adam
Genesis 1-3
God’s glory – Creation
sin – 1 Commandment

15. 7 Dispensations C. I. Scofield (1909) – Charles C. Ryrie (2007)
Innocency
Adam
Genesis 1-3
God’s glory – Creation
sin – 1 Commandment
Conscience
Pre-Flood
Genesis 4-8
God’s glory – Judgment
inability of conscience

16. 7 Dispensations C. I. Scofield (1909) – Charles C. Ryrie (2007)
Innocency
Adam
Genesis 1-3
God’s glory – Creation
sin – 1 Commandment
Conscience
Pre-Flood
Genesis 4-8
God’s glory – Judgment
inability of conscience
Human Government
Noah
Genesis 9-11
God’s glory – Restoration
man needs government

17. 7 Dispensations C. I. Scofield (1909) – Charles C. Ryrie (2007)
Innocency
Adam
Genesis 1-3
God’s glory – Creation
sin – 1 Commandment
Conscience
Pre-Flood
Genesis 4-8
God’s glory – Judgment
inability of conscience
Human Government
Noah
Genesis 9-11
God’s glory – Restoration
man needs government
Promise
Abraham
Genesis 12-Exodus 19
God’s glory – Promise
Abahamic Covenant

18. 7 Dispensations C. I. Scofield (1909) – Charles C. Ryrie (2007)
Innocency
Adam
Genesis 1-3
God’s glory – Creation
sin – 1 Commandment
Conscience
Pre-Flood
Genesis 4-8
God’s glory – Judgment
inability of conscience
Human Government
Noah
Genesis 9-11
God’s glory – Restoration
man needs government
Promise
Abraham
Genesis 12-Exodus 19
God’s glory – Promise
Abahamic Covenant
Law
Moses
Exodus 20-Matthew 27
God’s glory – 1 Nation
The King, Types, Kingdom

19. 7 Dispensations C. I. Scofield (1909) – Charles C. Ryrie (2007)
Innocency
Adam
Genesis 1-3
God’s glory – Creation
sin – 1 Commandment
Conscience
Pre-Flood
Genesis 4-8
God’s glory – Judgment
inability of conscience
Human Government
Noah
Genesis 9-11
God’s glory – Restoration
man needs government
Promise
Abraham
Genesis 12-Exodus 19
God’s glory – Promise
Abahamic Covenant
Law
Moses
Exodus 20-Matthew 27
God’s glory – 1 Nation
The King, Types, Kingdom
Gospel
Christ – 1st Coming
Matthew 28 – Revelation 3
God’s glory – the Cross
King came/coming Kingdom

20. 7 Dispensations C. I. Scofield (1909) – Charles C. Ryrie (2007)
Innocency
Adam
Genesis 1-3
God’s glory – Creation
sin – 1 Commandment
Conscience
Pre-Flood
Genesis 4-8
God’s glory – Judgment
inability of conscience
Human Government
Noah
Genesis 9-11
God’s glory – Restoration
man needs government
Promise
Abraham
Genesis 12-Exodus 19
God’s glory – Promise
Abahamic Covenant
Law
Moses
Exodus 20-Matthew 27
God’s glory – 1 Nation
The King, Types, Kingdom
Gospel
Christ – 1st Coming
Matthew 28 – Revelation 3
God’s glory – the Cross
King came/coming Kingdom
Kingdom/Millennium
Christ – 2nd Coming
Revelation
God’s glory – Eternity
Heaven on Earth

21. A Brief History Period Years Persons Foundational Period 1885-1920
John Nelson Darby
James H. Brookes
Classical Period
Cyrus I. Scofield
Lewis Sperry Chafer
Defining Period
Alva J. McClain
John F. Walvoord
J. Dwight Pentecost
Charles C. Ryrie
Progressive Period
1990 – present
Darrell L. Bock
Craig A. Blaising
Robert L. Saucy

22. Some Questions about Dispensations?
What is this term ‘Dispensation’?
How do you define it?
How many Dispensations are there?
Why did God make Dispensations?

23. Heavenly/Eternal Glory
2 Converging Plans
The nation Israel
The Church
Earthly Glory
The
Millennium
Heavenly/Eternal Glory

24. 2 Converging Plans The Millennium The nation Israel The Church
Romans 4:13: “The promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world
was not through the Law.”
Romans 8:21: “That the creation itself also will
Be set free from is slaver to corruption into
The freedom of the glory of the children of God.”
Revelation 21:1-2: “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heave and the first earth passed away And I saw the holy city . . .coming down out of heaven ‘the Tabernacle of God is among men . . .”
The Church
The
Millennium

25. You Are a Dispensationalist
Lewis Sperry Chafer: “Any person is a dispensationalist who trusts the blood of Christ rather than bringing an animal sacrifice” and “who observes the first day of the week rather than the seventh.”

26. Soli Deo Gloria!!!