INTRODUCTION TO DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY

 INTRODUCTION

The word dispensation comes from the Latin words: dispersion: distribute; arrangement or division of time; maintenance; exceptions.

Dispensasionalism are:

 1.       teaching that salvation history developed stage by stage, according to the division of time by God.

 2.       revelation of God (Dispensing) of His will for a certain period in which God offers to people of a certain race. It is a determinant is whether they (men) accept or reject the bid or revelation of the will of God.

Key verse: 2 Timothy 2:15
"Learn to confront yourself acceptable in the sight of God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth."

B.     THE IMPORTANCE OF KNOWING DISPENSATION

 1.         Solving the Bible passages or verses which seem contradictory and confusing.

 2.         Enable us to apply the Bible properly and with truth.

 3.         Protect us from false teachings / wrong.

 4.         Protect us from worry, hope that one or the absence of hope.

 5.         Help us realize God's purpose in this present dispensation and His message to us today.

 6.         Helps us know how we can implement the service and live according to His will.

 7.         Shows us where we are in world history.

C.     INTERPRETATION QUESTIONS DISPENSATION

   1. What does he say?
   2. Who says?
   3. When it is said?
   4. To whom these words addressed?
   5. Why it is said.

D.     COMPOSITION OF EACH DISPENSATION

ü      Revelation of God's particular and bid or a new rule of God.

ü      Human failure.

ü      Punishment.

ü      A group of people ("Remnant"), to those who accept the gift or the offer of God in which God's love expressed.

E.      MEANING OF COMPOUND WORDS = Oikonomia = home; nomos = rule; set
       

ü      Okonomia mean household settings.

ü      Oikonomos in English is a steward, which means the leader / manager households (Luke 12: 42; 16:1,3,8; Rome 16:23; 1Corinth 4:1-2; Galatians 4:2; Titus 1:7.

ü      Oikonomia or Dispensation = sometimes translated position (1Chor. 9:17; Eph.1:10; 3:2,9; Col.1: 25; 1Tim.1: 4)

ü      Dispensation is not a period of time, but God in human affairs as a household.

F.      PRINCIPLE TWO BIBLE DISPENSATION

ü      1Timothy 3:16-17

ü      2Timothy 2:15