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

Welcome to Through the Bible on the eve of the day we celebrate the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ.

Our study continues in the book of Hebrews, and it's a great place for us to linger a bit, because Hebrews points us to Jesus.

This season we're celebrating what actually began in eternity past when God set a grand plan in motion to save us, the people he loves.

We'll start with an introduction by our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee.

We have another word today, friends, on the subject of dispensations.

Maybe some of you getting tired of hearing about it, but I trust not because it's so important,

but it's very much like the young

man was proposing to his girlfriend, and he concluded his speech by saying, he says, I do not have

a Cadillac convertible like Harry, and I do not have a yacht like Harry, but I love you.

She said, I love you too, but tell me more about Harry.

So we're going to tell you more today about dispensations. There are three dispensations that

concern us in the New Testament, and there's apt to be confusion. The dispensation of law, which ended with the coming of the

Lord Jesus and his death upon the cross and the day of Pentecost. Then we have the dispensation

of grace, and that dispensation of grace is where we are today. But ahead of us is the dispensation of the

kingdom when God's kingdom will be established here upon the earth. And there's certain standards

and certain rules and regulations that concern all of these. Now, the wonderful dispensation of grace that we are in, and I want to talk first about

the standard that God has given to those of us that are saved by the grace of God. The standard

here is above all human ability. For instance, let me give you just some verses that reveal the standard

under grace. We're told in 2 Corinthians 10.5, casting down imaginations and every high thing

that exalted itself against the knowledge of God, and bringeth into captivity every thought to the obedience

of Christ. Have you reached that high, a level of living today? Well, that's what's set before

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