Course


10500 Dispensational Theology (Level 3)


Speaker: Renald Showers

Description: This is a 5 part series taught by Dr. Renald Showers. He leads the student to see that God's Word can be better understood and explained by understanding the different times and ways (dispensations) God dealt with His people in the past, present, and future. Dr. Showers was an international Bible conference speaker, respected author and Bible teacher. He was on staff with the Friends of Israel gospel ministry for many years. He went to be with the Lord in 2019.

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There are 5 lessons in this course.

Lesson 1

Christians above all people should be interested in history, since God has a purpose in history and is working out major events in accord with His will. Dispensational theology attempts to develop the Bible's philosophy of history based on God's sovereignty.


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Lesson 2

Most dispensationalists have recognized 7 different dispensations of God's rule revealed in God's Word. The 1st dispensation of God's rule began with the creation of man up through the fall of man. Man before the fall, was favorably disposed toward God, though that disposition was unconfirmed. Why was this disposition unconfirmed?

Lesson 3

The second dispensation of God's rule has traditionally been called The Dispensation of Conscience. Conscience taught pagan Gentiles to do instinctively the things in the Law, without having Law. Since man has a conscience, does this mean he can come to God in his own way?

Lesson 4

The fourth Dispensation of God's rule has been traditionally known as the Dispensation of Promise beginning with God's call of Abraham and lasting until the giving of the Law at Sinai. Through Abraham's line of descent, the Redeemer would come into the world.

Lesson 5

The sixth Dispensation has been traditionally called the Dispensation of Grace, beginning at the cross of Christ and will continue until His second coming. The Law was never given as a means of salvation. No matter the Dispensation, if a man was saved, it was God's Grace that saved him.

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