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Right division simply allows the Bible to say what it says. Right division explains the Bible, rather than explaining it away.

Right division allows for the recognition that there are two programs in God's purpose for Israel and the body of Christ. God was reconciling heaven and earth to himself.

1 Chronicles 29:11 Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.

The kingdom of God is composed of both the earthly and the heavenly.
 
Revelation 5:10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. 

The believing remnant of Israel composed of Jews and Gentile will inherit the prophetic Davidic kingdom on earth (Exodus 19:6) and will reign with Christ (Revelation 20:4). The remnant will be kings and priests unto God.

2 Timothy 4:18 And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

The body of Christ, the church, will be in heavenly places.

Matthew 4:23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.

The gospel of the kingdom was preached to Israel by the Lord Jesus Christ.

Galatians  2:7 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;

2:8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)

Peter was the apostle to the circumcision, the Jews. Paul was the apostle to the uncircumcision, the Gentiles, and as such, taught differing gospels.

Colossians 1:20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

Christ, by the cross, has reconciled all things in heaven and earth to himself.

Genesis 12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

God established Israel to be a blessing to the nations; through Israel the nations would come to God.

Matthew 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

God established Israel to be a blessing and a light to the Gentile nations of the world.

Matthew 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
 
Romans 15:8 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers.

Jesus Christ came as a minister to Israel to fulfill the promises of God to Israel, bring in the kingdom of heaven, and establish Israel as that light to the nations.
 
Israel rejected Christ and stones Stephen in Acts 7.

Acts 13:46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

God set Israel aside temporarily and turned to the gentiles.
 
Colossians 1:25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;

God has interrupted the timeline to establish his Kingdom by the dispensation of the grace of God, to which Paul has been made a minister to the Gentiles.

Paul preaches his gospel in this dispensation, by which we are saved by simply believing it and trusting Christ for a completed salvation unto eternal life;

1 Corinthians 15:1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;

15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

15:4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

Christ paid in full the penalty for our sin, and rose again to give us eternal life and the forgiveness of sin. The Lord Jesus Christ is our complete salvation.

Jeremiah 31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

Israel failed to keep the first covenant. The LORD will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and Judah.

Matthew 26:28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

Jesus came to fulfill all that was written and shed his blood on the cross for the remission of sins Israel committed under the first covenant (Hebrews 9:15). Jesus died to put in force the new testament.

Matthew 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

A time of tribulation, will in the future, prepare Israel to accept Christ; God will establish his Kingdom; God will fulfill all the prophetic promises given to believing Israel.

Mark 1:15  And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.

Zechariah 12:10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

Israel was unable to achieve it's purpose on it's own, so God will do it for Israel. God will empower Israel to be righteous, to be a light, to be that blessing to the Gentiles in the kingdom.

Ezekiel 36:24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.

36:25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

36:27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

36:28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

The coming of the Lord Jesus Christ will be the fulfillment of the new testament promised to Israel. Jesus will blot out all sin from Israel (Acts 3:19) and forgive all their iniquities (Jeremiah 31:34). A new heart will be given to Israel so they can be righteous and keep his commandments. Israel will inherit all their promised land. Israel will be a blessing to the world.

Ephesians 1:9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

1:10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

God will have fulfilled his purpose; heaven and earth will have been reconciled to himself and will gather together in one all things in Christ.

Rightly dividing is to separate one from another. We can see a biblical example of rightly dividing as the Lord will rightly divide the nations (also at the second coming):

Matthew 25:31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

Matthew 25:32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:


As far as what Paul writes that  needs to be rightly divided/seperated one from another is the word of truth

2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Rightly dividing the word of truth means to separate out the gospel that is "the gospel of your salvation" (1 Corinthians 15:1-4 KJV) as mentioned in Ephesians 1:13, from other gospels in the Bible or you could be believing the wrong gospel that is not the gospel that is the power of God to save you.

For example, you could think that your gospel is that you need to be water baptized for the remission of sins (Acts 2:38 KJV), sell all that you have (Matthew 19:21 KJV, Acts 2:45 KJV), endure to the end to be saved (Matthew 24:13 KJV) wait for the times of refreshing that shall come from the presence of the Lord (the second coming) that your sins may be blotted out (Acts 3:19-21 KJV). But, that's not your gospel (good news)! It's not the gospel of YOUR salvation, the power of God to save you today!

The gospel that is the power of God to save man today is the gospel of Christ; how that Christ died for our sins and that He was buried and was raised again the third day (1 Corinthians 15:1-4 KJV)! It is the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation that was given by revelation of Jesus Christ to the apostle Paul (Galatians 1:11-12 KJV).

We must also rightly divide the word of truth in Paul's epistles. For example, there was a time that certain Gentiles (called Greeks in a KJB) had ordinances to keep so as not to offend the Jews, but then in Paul's later epistles when writing to the alien gentile (who Paul was a prisoner of Jesus Christ for, people like you and me who in time past were without hope and without God in the world Ephesians 2:11-12 KJV), you can eat anything as the middle wall of partition was broken down between us (Ephesians 2:14-16 KJV). The handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, was taken out of the way, nailed to His cross (Colossians 2:14-16 KJV). This is also why it is that it wasn't until 2 Timothy that Paul wrote to rightly divide the word of truth.

Quote from: Jesus Truth on September 04, 2020, 05:12:06 pm