Transcribed excerpt from an audio message by Bro Ron Knight...
True and proper teaching of the scriptures is a verse by verse
expository type of teaching which means you take a book, particularly an
epistle of the apostle Paul, and study verse by verse.
In order to understand Paul’s ministry, a study of the book of
Acts would be good, because what we see there are the acts of the
apostles. ‘Acts’ is short for the actions or the activities of the apostles.
Which apostles? The 12 apostles
of the Lord Jesus Christ and that
one, new distinct apostle Paul.
Years ago a man told me that the bible is written in past, present
and future. You won’t hear that outside
of a dispensational bible church. If
you’ve been confused about the bible it’s because you haven’t been studying it
God’s way. Paul says1 to…
2 Timothy 2:15
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be
ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
You
are to divide the word of truth. God is
a God of division. The Lord said…
Luke 12:51
Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth?
I tell you, Nay; but rather division:
People
say that Jesus came to bring peace and love.
No, he came to divide some people in Israel: the believing remnant from the
unbelievers. Back in Genesis chapter 1
God divided the light from the darkness; he divided the dry ground from the
waters.
God
is into dividing.
The
thing that you need to divide the most is the word of truth, God's word. It is all true, but you need to make
divisions in order to understand it. The
reason all the denominations and cults are in confusion is because they don’t
rightly divide.
Your
life is time past, but now and the ages to come. You have a past you live in the present,
and you have a future. God’s word is that way. The apostle Paul is the one that explains
that in time past God made a distinction between the nation of Israel (Jews)
and gentiles.2
When
you come to the ministry and message of the apostle Paul, he does not make a distinction between Jew and
Gentile. He looks at all men as in Adam.
Actually, you’re either in Adam
or in Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:22
For as in Adam all die, even so in
Christ shall all be made alive.
Today,
in the present, God has a word to all
nations (aka, gentiles), including Israel – everybody. He didn’t do that back in time past. When you’re reading the books of Genesis
through Acts you are reading a time-past program when God made a distinction
between mankind, starting with Abraham in Genesis 12. Until you come up to the message and ministry
of the apostle Paul in his 13 epistles of Romans through Philemon, God does not
make a distinction between men.
But
God is going to finish this (mystery)
program someday3 so that he can continue on with his prophetic program4 with the
nation of Israel. We’re coming close to
those days, I believe; but he has to finish our program first. When he does, he will go back again and make
a distinction between Jew and gentile.
Those are the books of Hebrews through Revelation.
Unless
you study the Bible this way, you’re confused.
How do I know? Because if you
don’t, I could ask you 1,000 questions you couldn’t answer. The only way you can answer the hard Bible
questions is by dispensationally understanding your Bible.
The
book of Acts explains how you got to the apostle Paul. Acts has a focus on the actions of the 12
apostles before the fall of Israel, the diminishing of their program once Paul
is saved, and then Christ’s salvation going out to us gentiles through the apostle
Paul. The reason you can trust Christ in
Minnesota or in California, or anywhere in the world today, although God
started in Israel in the Middle East, is because God gave Paul a message of
grace for you today. That’s how we’re
saved today.
Ephesians 2:8-9
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that
not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.
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Transcribed
excerpt from Bro Knight's message...
1 1 Corinthians
14:37 If any man think himself to be a prophet, or
spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the
commandments of the Lord.
2
Ephesians 2:2 Wherein
in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the
prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of
disobedience:
3 Romans
16:25 25 Now to
him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching
of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
4 Acts
3:21 Whom the
heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God
hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
Hopefully this helps!
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