Cut off from what's genuine

"When you see God's plan and purpose, (getting saved) becomes ancillary almost because there's something so much bigger than just your salvation.

"Ephesians 2 says, [10] For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

"God's got this cosmic plan to exalt His Son and what He's done is given you the privilege to be a part of it! That would make a grace preacher want to shout, run an aisle maybe.

"The big stuff that you begin to understand is with the Father's plan to make His Son everything and that takes your vision off of me, myself and I, and you look off instead to this big plan. That becomes your vision," explains Richard Jordan.

"But when you abandon a clear understanding of dispensational truth, you abandon the divinely prescribed method of gaining the profit from God's Word that He's put in His Word just for your profit.

"You give up the opportunity for the genuine, real, authentic working of the excellency and the power of His Word in your life in its details.

"You go through Paul's epistles and you see Paul talk to people about what happens when they abandon what he teaches them and you see them biting and devouring one another. You see them multiplying questions with no answer; you see strife of words to no profit.

"I Timothy 6: [3] If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;

[4] He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

[5] Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

"You know what that list describes? The condition of modern evangelicalism. Can I tell you that where you are, whether you've got a little assembly of people or an outreach that includes thousands, that issue of the excellency of the power of God in His word working is to be put on display in your life. That's why I keep telling you it isn't enough to be a Mid-Acts Dispensationalist.

"We get it through Paul, but you got to get the message of grace that he teaches that produces the life grace is designed to produce."