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What I understood:

a false convert doesn't want to be born-again/sanctified. They want to live in contradiction to or lead astray from the teachings and sound doctrine left behind by both Jesus and the apostles (what springs to mind: those who deny that hell exists, who deny that Jesus is coming back in a literal sense, deny the judgment he brings along with him or that there will be a literal resurrection, that we don't need to leave behind our lives of sin; false converts are people motivated to live for pleasure instead of what God says, who don't care about God's standards but the world's, who are in love with the world and have tight-knit fellowship with worldly people).


What I found confusing:

- Why does it matter what age you came from if everyone will be living by the same thing in the millenial age? He made a comment about Matthew 7:22-23 speaking of the millenial age, not the church age, but what is the difference? Workers of iniquity won't be living with him regardless of whether or not you existed in the church age (Rev 20:4-6; Rev 21:25-27). A true convert in the "church age" has been sanctified: they're not a worker of iniquity anymore, they don't want to be a worker of iniquity, they've repented and become dedicated to YHWH's way. So what is making him say it only applies to one "age"? Iniquity / doing evil is never approved of. No matter the age.

So, to lay it out, what are the different set of instructions?

The pre-millenial age (church age) instructions being, and I'm paraphrasing, "go and make disciples out of all nations; preach to them the good news, the eternal life that awaits anyone who repents and believes in Messiah, and tell them of the resurrection that awaits both the righteous and the wicked" (Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 20:15) vs. millenial reign (after the first resurrection has occurred) "you're tasked to be priests and judges alongside Jesus" (Revelation 20:4-6; 1 Corinthians 6:3). So, "dispensations" deal with the "tasks" / "responsibilities" at hand, not issues of adding, removing or changing the law (especially if the law is what will be lived by in the future).

Something else: the disciples were characterized by the following,



Paul was bitten by a snake and was unaffected (Acts 28:5); Paul casted out demons (Acts 16:16-18; Acts 19:13 wink ; Paul miraculously healed the sick (Acts 19:11-12); Paul spoke in tongues (1 Corinthians 14:18 ). Is Paul a part of the church age? were those for a specific group of people? or a specific group of people in a certain age? should these signs characterize all disciples still to this day? I also wonder, were they physical signs done to represent something else, like the Old Testament prophets who conveyed a message via physical demonstration (2 Kings 13:17) ? Namely, that snakes (liars) will try to poison us, but we will recover from their venom (lies); his believers will speak different languages because it would disperse to gentile nations, etc...? or both (literal and symbolic)?

I'll listen to the sermon now.

Paul was the last to actually 'see' Christ. After Judas Iscariot gave up his position as an apostle God moved it to Paul. He was then told by God to preach/minister the Gospel of the Kingdom and teach the Gentile Nations about Jesus and his Kingdom through their false religions/beliefs. Paul was able to receive Apostle gifts by God. Some are symbolic and other times it was literal, whatever to prove God in said circumstance.