STATEMENT OF FAITH

Section: The Dispensations

RHC Statement of Faith

The Dispensations

The dispensations are stewardships by which God administers His purpose on earth through man by varying responsibilities; that they are chronologically successive; that they are not ways of salvation nor different methods of the administration of the Covenant of Grace but are a test of man’s submission to God based on progressive revelation; that they are a necessary view of Scripture based on literal interpretation, a consistent distinction of Israel and the Church, and that the ultimate purpose of God is His own glorification; that they are not different ways of salvation but in every dispensation the basis of salvation was always the blood of Christ, the means of salvation was always by grace through faith, the object of faith was always God, but the content of faith changed in different dispensations dependent upon progressive revelation.

Genesis. 12:3; Deuteronomy. 28:25, 64, 65; 30:1-4; 2 Samuel. 7:8–16; Psalms. 89; Is. 2:1–5; Jeremiah. 31:31-34;; Ezekiel 40-48; Daniel. 9-12; Matthew. 11:13; 16:18; 18:15-18; 24-25; 26:26-28; Mark 2:21-22; Mark. 7:18-19; 14:22-24; Luke 22:19-20; Acts. 2: 2:16-21; 2:34-5; 15:13-17; Acts. 13:46-47; 17:30; Romans. 9-11. 1 Corinthians. 11:23-25; 1 Corinthians. 15:51-52; 2 Corinthians. 3:5-6; Galatians. 3:1-6:2; Ephesians. 1:7-14; 2:11-18; 3:1-11, Colossians. 1:24-28; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5; Hebrews. 7:1-28; 8:6-13 10:14-18; 12:22-24; 1 Peter 2:9-12; Revelations. 4-22