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 begins our study with another introduction on dispensations

that will help us understand how God works and what he's communicating in Hebrews.

Let's get to it.

I've been taking time out here in Hebrews to talk to you about dispensations

and a word that I have used very little in our study,

but it's an important word, it's a Bible word, and today I want to state the thing that we've

said before that there are three dispensations that are brought before us in the New Testament

and a failure to make a proper distinction and division leads to a hopeless and confused

interpretation of scripture. God, you see, is the one who runs the dispensary,

and a dispensary is where dispensations are dispensed with. And he's given certain systems,

certain administrations, certain economies to man down here upon this earth.

Now, these three that we've been concerned with, the first one was the dispensation of law.

It began with Moses, and it ended with the Lord Jesus.

The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. That's the way

John puts it in his gospel. And that is so clear, it seems to me, that even any seminary

professor ought to be able to get that. And we today find in many churches the so-called

Lord's prayer used. There's no sin using it, but I feel like it's a sort of a useless procedure.

It's just a ritual to go through. The Lord gave it to his disciples to teach them to pray.

And in it it says, thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Now, obviously, the kingdom has not arrived yet if we are to pray this prayer because we're to pray for it to come.

And I find today that the liberal, the armolentalous and the paranoid premillanalysts,

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