434 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 - Part 2 - Book 37 - Paul Dispenses Grace - Part 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 2 * BOOK 37 PAUL DISPENSES GRACE - PART 2 So after these believers hear Paul they searched the Scriptures (of course that was the Old Testament in those days) to see if what Paul was teaching was in accord with the Scriptures. So now let’s just pick the Scriptures apart word by word, Ephesians 3:2a "If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God..." Now always remember every word that Paul writes, as well as every word that the Old Testament writers write, was inspired by the Holy Spirit. "For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles,..." Now that’s not an egotistical man talking, but rather that’s the Holy Spirit speaking exactly what He wants Paul to write. Ephesians 3:2a "If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God..." Now what is so different about Grace? In Exodus chapter 3, up on Mount Sinai, God, spoke to Moses, and gave to him the Law, and then Moses takes the Law down the mountain and dispenses it to the Nation of Israel. Now some 1500 years later after the Damascus Road experience for Paul, the same God does something different, which is His prerogative, because He’s Sovereign. Now He calls out to Mount Sinai, a different man whom we know as the apostle Paul. And to Paul God reveals these doctrines of Grace, and Paul in turn dispenses these doctrines of Grace, not so much to the Nation of Israel, but to the Gentile world. (Mt. Sinai -Moses - Law - Nation of Israel) (Mt. Sinai - Paul - Grace - Gentile world) Now in all the other places in Paul’s writings he may refer to this Gospel as the Gospel of Christ, the Gospel of God, My Gospel, and various others, but here in Acts chapter 24 and in Ephesians he refers to it as the Grace of God. Acts 20:24 Paul’s whole ministry was to proclaim the Gospel of the Grace of God. Ephesians 3:2a "If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace..." Now like I said in the last lesson, "very few people have any idea of the Grace of God." Now listen, that’s GRACE! GRACE! So everything that God does, and the patience of God toward the human race is all because of His Grace. Now I call that one of God’s attributes. GRACE! Law was demanding, Law as I’ve said so often is what? Severe! Now some people say, "Well don’t you make too much of Paul?" Leviticus 5:1-2 Does God expect you to do it? You’ve got to separate Law from Grace. Paul will never tell you that if you touch something dead, you go and offer a sacrifice some place does he? It’s what Peter called it in Acts chapter 15, and it’s what Paul called it in Galatians. It was a yoke of bondage, but now under Paul’s teaching of Grace, we’ve been set free from all that. Ephesians 3:2 "If ye have heard of the dispensation (or the economy, or the administration) of the grace of God (and like I’ve shown that Law came to Israel through Moses. How in the world did the doctrines of Grace get to the Gentiles? Remember just like Paul had to deal in I Corinthians with the Corinthian believers who wanted to follow Peter’s teachings rather than Paul. Others wanted to follow Jesus’ earthly ministry teachings rather than Paul, and their whole concept was that Paul was something less than those fellows at Jerusalem. II Corinthians 11:5 Now if Paul’s not behind him, where is he? II Corinthians 12:11 "...the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:" And the you-ward is speaking of Gentiles. Galatians 1:11 (Paul is saying he’s not following in some other man’s footsteps) 12. Paul got all of his doctrines of Grace, to include this Gospel we must believe for salvation, from Jesus Christ Himself. So here in verse 12 that’s what Paul is claiming. So now let’s look at what Paul says in verse 15. Galatians 1:15 "But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace," From Acts chapter 9 until the end of Paul’s letters I counted eighty-four times Paul had used that word. Six times more is the word Grace referred to in Paul’s epistles than everything that went before his writing. It was a biography of the apostle Paul. Galatians 1:16a (Gentiles) That’s Paul specific calling, to take this Gospel of Grace to the Gentile world. And that’s why I put it this way over the years, that as the Law was given to Moses on Mt. Sinai for Israel, Paul goes out to Mt. Sinai, and God gave him the doctrines of Grace for us. Now finishing the verse. Then Paul goes on to say that this whole mystery of the Gospel was revealed to him, and that why I’m always stressing Paul’s apostleship, and spending most of our time in his letters. #LesFledick #BibleStudy #Bible