Dr. Bailey's comment, and I am paraphrasing, as I do not have this as a direct quote, went something as follows: Just think, the angels that have been with God and Christ in heaven, from the beginning, still to this day have reason to fall on their face before Him and worship Him.
Think about that. From the beginning, they have worshipped Him and to this day they worship Him and for all of eternity they will worship Him. As John notes in Revelation 4:8, "And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within; and day and night they do not cease to say, "HOLY, HOLY, HOLY is THE LORD GOD, THE ALMIGHTY, WHO WAS AND WHO IS AND WHO IS TO COME" (NASB).
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And yet we can treat God like a "Supernatural Sugar Daddy," and only call upon His name when we need to call upon His power. I am not excluded, but we really are a sick people. God is worthy, not because of what He can do, but because of who He is.
Press on, brother.
Thank you for the encouragement. I think that you are right and I believe that every Christian falls into this trap at some point. I believe much of this stems from complacency. Complacency leads to stagnation and stagnation leads to you to a point were everything is on the same plane, or a static point. So we begin to ignore, or fail to recognize our need for God in our lives. Only when our "apple cart" gets upset do we call on Him.
I know of cases in my own life, even to this day, where I am guilty of this very thing, and I can give fair warning that nobody ever wants to reach a spiritual static point where they think they can go it alone. I have been slowly learning this these past few days. We must not neglect our relationship with God.
Everett was asked to define dispensationalism for youth group! Can you help him? He so enjoys challenging all his teachers (and me!)
Hey Margaret, I will definitely try. Here are a couple of definitions from class.
First, a Dispensation is defined by Ryrie as "...a distinguishable economy in the outworking of God's purposes." This definition comes from Ryrie's "Dispensationalism Today." As my professor noted, a dispensation can be described as period of time in God's dealing with humanity.
The definition of dispensationalism that Dr. Bailey gave us in class is, "A system of analyzing and synthesizing the Scriptures which seeks to understand both the unity and the diversity of the historical workings of God on earth." This was the definition that was given to us in class last week.
Hopefully this helps a little bit. If you have a Scofield study Bible or a Ryrie study Bible, you might look in one of those to see if there is any mention of dispensationalism. Also, most Bible dictionaries will have a definition for "dispensation" and "dispensationalism." That will have more that he could read and it may give him a better definition.
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