You know, firm of foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

You know, some words in scripture need to be explained in today's language to really understand

their true meaning or true role. In this study on through the Bible, we're going to learn what it

means that Jesus is our high priest and how we are all really priests when he's our Savior. In just a

moment, Dr. J. Vernon McGee is going to lead us through a meaningful discussion in Hebrews 5,

but first, here's his third introduction from his seven-part series on the dispensations.

Now, I come back to this subject of dispensations.

Now, we've made it very clear that a dispensation is not only a period of time, but it also has to do with the method of

God's dealing with mankind. And it's very easy to see that in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve

were under a dispensation. They were created innocent.

They didn't know good from evil. And therefore, they were given a test. And that was relative to eating

the fruit of a certain tree. And as we said before, it wasn't the apple on the tree, but the pear on the ground.

That was the problem.

The fruit was good, and it was not an apple tree either, by the way.

And obviously, when they were put out of the Garden of Eden, that was no longer a test.

And you find a man following his conscience now and doing that which comes naturally as the song

has it, the worldly song has it, doing that which comes naturally. And when man does that,

why he produces a world of violence, a lawlessness, and a world that we're living in right now

that has tried to get rid of God's law. And therefore, conscience was not a safe leader. It led

to the flood. And then man was put under human government at the time of the flood.

He says, whosoever sheddeth man's blood,

by man shall his blood be shed.

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