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

Welcome to Through the Bible. Dr. J. Vernon McGee picks up our study in Hebrew 7. But first, here's

another intro on how God works over times and seasons. I want to continue, that which I began

some time ago, about the dispensations, that it's necessary to understand the dispensations of Scripture, and especially when we come

to an epistle like we're studying now, the epistle to the Hebrews.

This is an epistle that was directed to a nation that had been under law, And it was answering questions for them.

It was saying all the way through that Israel, with all the ritual that God had given them

and he'd given them a great deal, all of that is being fulfilled in Christ now.

In other words, Christ is the end of the law, in the sense,

he's the one that the law was really pointing to. You see, God gave to Israel what we call a mosaic

system. And that mosaic system was just for a period of time.

I'll see that in a moment.

It wasn't a permanent arrangement at all.

And it was in three parts.

Actually, there were the commandments.

They governed Israel's moral life.

And then there were the judgments which governed Israel's civic life. And then there were the

ordinances which govern Israel's religious life. And that is the way God is dealt with man.

God is a holy God. He demands certain things of his creatures, and he has demanded certain things

of man, and he's put him under these different economies, these different administrations, and they

are actually in contrast. Law and grace are definitely in contrast.

And we see that this nation that had been under that are now told

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