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GOD AND HIS STORY
We believe that the Bible is an authentic Book, written under the Divine inspiration of the Spirit of God, telling the people of the world the wonderful story of God’s dealing with mankind
This section is all about setting us free! Let me explain – you as an individual were designed from the very beginning as a person that is created in His image to function in His likeness. Every fibre of your being cries out for Christ to be revealed in you… in your everyday walk of life!
These teaching notes are here to enrich your daily life… and not only enrich, but to bring forth the very thing you were created to do. This all made possible through the magnificent power of the Holy Spirit.
Deon Gerber takes us on this journey of God’s story. All this is captured in the teaching notes and is categorized into three dispensations - The first, the second and the third dispensation.
First Dispensation
Creation & Mandate: Created in His image to function in His likeness
In the beginning, God the Almighty Father, created the heaven and the earth and all that is on the earth as is recorded in Genesis 1: 1-25.
He then created man in His own image and likeness and gave them a profound mandate:
Gen 1:28 And God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it [using all its vast resources in the service of God and man]; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth. (AMP)
We believe that God has never ever deviated from this plan and purpose for mankind.
This first dispensation tragically ended with man’s transgression (recorded in Genesis 3) when they were driven out of the Garden of Eden.
Second Dispensation
Dispensation of the Law: The road to recovery to bring us back to His original creative purpose, God’s Promises, His Covenant and the Law of Moses
The start of this dispensation is recorded in Genesis 3 where God announced that the Seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent’s head.
This exciting dispensation takes us on a journey where we experience the calling of Abraham, the Covenant that God cut with him and the Oath swearing.
During this dispensation, Israel was established as a nation – with the promise that the Saviour, Jesus Christ will be born from among them.
This was the time of the Tabernacle (the Religious Order of Israel), the Law of Moses (the Laws and the Principles they lived by) and the Prophets (keeping Israel on track with God’s ordinances).
This dispensation was drawing to an end when our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ was born and was dramatically ended when Jesus cried out on the cross – “it is finished” and He died.
The Law is completely fulfilled and the life and abundance of Jesus Christ inaugurated.
Third Dispensation (the one that we are living in now)
The Christ-Centered Holy Spirit Dispensation of Grace, where the Holy Spirit is constantly revealing and declaring to us the fullness and completeness of the finished work of Christ
Christ has paid the ultimate sacrifice, once and for all. In Christ, we have been fully restored and enabled to walk in the original intent and purpose of God.
He (Christ) is now our Advocate (Greek: “Parakletos”) with the Father and the propitiation of our sins. (1 John 2:1-2)
The Holy Spirit is our Comforter and Advocate (Greek: “Parakletos”) here on earth and dwells in us and is always with us. (John 14:16-17).
All the fullness of the Godhead dwells in Jesus Christ and we are complete in Him (Col 2:9-10). The Holy Spirit applies everything that Christ has done for us, to our everyday walk of life and takes us practically into this completeness and fullness of Christ.
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