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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Actual Salvation, #11
There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. (Ephesians 4:4-6)
There is one Bride, one Body of the Christ, one fold, one Shepherd. Our destiny is proclaimed by the Prophets; we are an integral part of Israel; we are part of the one Kingdom of God. We are of the same body as Abraham, Moses, Elijah, Peter, and Paul.
The context of the above passage will reveal that Paul was speaking of the Jews and Gentiles becoming "one new man" in Christ.
The work of God is one from Abel to the youngest saint today. God never has justified any individual other than through faith, and that is why God teaches us faith by the examples of the old-covenant saints. In fact, God goes all the way back to Abel (Hebrews 11:4). What sense would this make if the Church is a "mystery," as they put it today, that God treats differently from the godly of the pre-Christian ages?
The model of "dispensationalism" is incorrect in its theory, destructive in its fruit.
Scriptural understanding and interpretation is simple, clear, and straightforward, if we view the working of God as one progressive restoration of what was lost to man.
Restoration always has been and always will be brought about by means of faith and patience. We learn the meaning of "the righteous shall live by faith," an expression found both in the Old Testament and the New Testament confirming that the principle is common to both, by the examples of the lives of the patriarchs and prophets of previous eras. The things that happened to the elders took place in order that we, upon whom the climax of the age has come, may have concrete illustrations of spiritual facts and principles.
They, the patriarchs, the beginning of the work of restoration, are an integral part of us and the witnesses who surround us. Through their example we are being made perfect and they apart from us cannot be made perfect. They are watching us from the spirit realm and learning of God's plan just as we have learned from them.
And, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias: Who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem. (Luke 9:30,31)
The Lord's "decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem" affects Moses and Elijah as directly as it does us.
The Kingdom of God consists of all of us, of all the godly, regardless of the time period in which we have lived and served. God never changes. Christ never changes. Their way of dealing with mankind never, never changes.
The Kingdom of God, of Heaven, is one Kingdom. It is the bringing of God's will into the earth, the restoring of spiritual life to the dead material creation.
New-covenant grace is not a different means of dealing with men; rather, it is a crown on all that has gone before. We are the beneficiaries of all the elect who have gone before us. We owe a very great debt to them, particularly to the Hebrew Prophets.
To be continued.