I have been studying and teaching Bible for over 30 years and every time I hear words Dispensationalist or Ultra-Dispensationalist or Charismatic or even Cultist those little hairs on back of my neck stand up. Labels are what today’s so called Christian leaders use to discredit doctrine that if they themselves were to discover it in Word of God they would have to not believe it because doing so would ruin their acceptable ministries.

Many years ago I read a book by what is considered one of best Bible researchers who ever lived, C. H. Welch. The book was titled Dispensational Truth. The book is about principle of right division, which can best be described as cutting aright Word of God. “When we use right division to understand purpose of God for mankind, we see two distinct lines of redemptive operation; redemption unto heavens or earth. Already, we can see opposition to traditional thinking.”

Mr. Welch explained that to understand Scriptures correctly we need to use methods of answering these questions: Who is writing? To whom is it written? Why are they writing? When was it written? What are circumstances and context? To simply go ad hoc and assume that everything in Bible pertains to and is written to you goes against everything that God wrote in 2 Timothy 2:15 to "Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing Word of truth." The rightly dividing is “Cutting Aright” that Welch refers to in his book.

May I ask you a question?

Is character important to you? Think about your character for a moment. Most people when asked to consider importance of character agree that everyone should have a good character. And why shouldn’t everyone to have character. Everything benefits from it. However if you aren’t on list, there isn’t much point in preaching character to others. Unless you consider character important in your life, then you can’t demand it of others.

For example, suppose you like to “fudge” your integrity. Every now and then, you take home a few items from work. You justify your actions by saying that your employer makes good profits and won’t miss small items you take from his shop. In your mind you are not stealing from your employer, just helping yourself to small items of insignificance.

Then one day your son takes $10 from your wallet without your permission. When you discover what he has done, you call him to account for his actions. He tells you it’s no big deal. He tells you that he has seen items you bring home from shop and listens to you justify your actions. Then he says, “Dad if you can take things from your job, then why can’t I take money from you without asking?”