WEEK 3---DAY 2>> Morning Nourishment Rom. 5:14 But death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned after the likeness of Adams transgression, who is a type of Him who was to come. John 1:17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and reality came through Jesus Christ. In the Bible there are four different ages...[In John 1;17] we see that law is related to Moses and grace to Jesus Christ. Two ages are implied here: the age of the law and the age of grace. When Moses was raised up, that was the beginning of the age of the law. When Christ came, that was beginning of the age of grace. Romans 5 mentions Adam and Moses (v.14). Sin is related to Adam, and as we have seen, the law is related to Moses. Therefore, we have three persons--Adam, Moses, and Christ--and three things---sin, law, and grace. Adam is related to sin, Moses is related to the law, and Christ is related to grace. This indicates that from Adam to the second coming there are three ages: the age of sin, the age of the law and the age of grace. TODAYS READING Many of you are familiar with the theological teaching of the seven dispensations, the dispensations of innocence, conscience, human government, promise, law, grace, and the kingdom. It is not incorrect to say that there are seven such dispensations. But according to the record of the Bible, we may say that prior to the millennium there are just three ages, the ages of Adam, Moses, and Christ. After the age of grace, the age of the kingdom will come. This will be the thousand years of the heavenly reign on earth. Therefore, altogether there are four ages: the age of sin, the age of the law, the age of grace, and the age of kingdom. The four ages are the times. Before the first of these ages began, there was not time but eternity past. And after these four ages there will no longer be time instead, there will be eternity future. Between the two ends of eternity, eternity past and future, there are four ages, four time....When these four times have ben fulfilled, that will be the fullness of the times the completion of the ages. The ages of Adam and Moses have been complete, and the age of the millennium has not yet begun. After the completion of the fourth age, there will be a dispensation called by Paul the fullness of the times. God dispensed Himself into Abel, Enosh, Enoch Noah, and Abraham. He had an even grater dispensation with Moses and, of course, with the Lord Jesus. The dispensing continues in the New Testament Epistles. It may surprise you to know that Gods dispensation at the present time is eve greater than it was at the time of the apostle Paul was on earth there was on earth there congregation who had the privilege of hearing the things that you hearing today. Today there is a deeper, higher, and wider dispensation of the grace of God. This dispensation will continues through the millennium until the fullness of the time. The dispensation of the fullness of the times will be highest and the broadest. This dispensation will be in eternity, as revealed in Revelation 21 and 22. The New Jerusalem is actually a great mountain...At the top of the mountain there is the throne of God and the Lamb (Rev. 22:1). Out of the throne flows the river of the water of life....In the water of life grows the tree of life (Rev. 22:2)....When you drink the water, you receive the life supply. Here we see the ultimate, the consummate, dispensation: the dispensing of the Triune God into the whole city of New Jerusalem. This will cause the city to be filled, saturated, permeated and soaked....This is the highest dispensation purposed by God for the fullness of the times. We enjoy a miniature of this consummate dispensation in the church life today....We have the flow of life, we drink the water of life, and we eat the tree of life....As I enjoy the living water in the church, I am awaiting the ultimate dispensation. We shall all be in this consummate dispensation,....fully saturated with the Triune God. Lee, Witness (2014-10-18). The Holy Word for Morning Revival - The Vision, Practice, and Building Up of the Church as the Body of Christ. Living Stream Ministry. Edición de Kindle.
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