Special Topic 6 The Key to Unlock the Bible? God

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Special Topic 6The Key to Unlock the
Bible?Gods Economy
Mainland Scholars Gospel
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Main Content

• What is Economy?
• Bible Translations of Oikonomia
• Paul uses Gods economy to unlock the Old
  Testament
• Gods Economy as the key to unlock the Bible
• Examples in the Recovery Version
• Conclusion

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What is Economy

• It is a word in the Bible (Gk. ??????µ?a, or
  oikonomia) (Luke 162-4 1 Cor. 917 Eph. 110
  32, 9 Col. 125 1 Tim. 14).
• Unto the oikonomia of the fullness of the times,
  to head up all things in Christ, the things in
  the heavens and the things on the earth, in Him.
  (Eph. 110)
• Nor to give heed to mythswhich produce
  questionings rather than Gods oikonomia, which
  is in faith.

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What is Economy

• It is a compound of two nouns, oikos and nomos
  oikos means house or household, and nomos
  means law, administration or management.
• Thus oikonomia means household administration
  or household management, denoting a plan with a
  process of distributing or dispensing to reach
  its goal.
• Out of this word came the English word economy.

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What is Economy

• It is a compound of two nouns, oikos and nomos
  oikos means house or household, and nomos
  means law, administration or management.
• Thus, oikonomia means household
  administration or household management,
  denoting a plan with a process of distributing or
  dispensing to reach its goal.
• This became the English word economy.

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Bible Translations of Oikonomia

• Bible translators have employed a variety of
  English words in their attempts to translate the
  term oikonomia.
• In 1 Tim. 14 and Eph. 110 and 39, it is more
  precisely rendered economy or dispensation for it
  denotes Gods overall plan.
• In 1 Cor. 917, Eph. 32, and Col. 125, it is
  more accurately described as stewardship for it
  refers not to Gods economy in a general sense
  but to mans participation and service in Gods
  economy.

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Bible Translations of Oikonomia
King James Version New International Version New American Standard English Standard Version Recovery Version
Eph. 110 Dispensation Put into effect Administration Plan Economy
Eph. 39 Fellowship Administration Administration Plan Economy
1 Tim. 14 Edifying Work Administration Stewardship Economy
Eph. 32 Dispensation Administration Stewardship Stewardship Stewardship
Col. 125 Dispensation Commission Stewardship Stewardship Stewardship
1 Cor. 917 Dispensation Trust committed Stewardship Stewardship Stewardship

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Paul Uses Gods Economy to unlock the Old
Testament

• Whenever Paul wanted to explain the mystery of
  God, i.e., to unlock the Old Testament, he used
  the word oikonomia.
• Of which I became a minister according to the
  oikonomia of God, which was given to me for you,
  to complete the word of God, the mystery which
  has been hidden from the ages and from the
  generations but now has been manifested to His
  saints (Col. 125-26).

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Paul Uses Gods Economy to unlock the Old
Testament

• Making known to us the mystery of His will
  according to His good pleasure, which He purposed
  in Himself, unto the oikonomia of the fullness of
  the times, to head up all things in Christ, the
  things in the heavens and the things on the
  earth, in Him (Eph. 110).
• And to enlighten all that they may see what the
  oikonomia of the mystery is, which throughout the
  ages has been hidden in God, who created all
  things (Eph. 39).

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Gods Economy

• The Source is God Gods plan.
• The Process is Dispensing God in Christ
  dispensing Himself into His chosen and redeemed
  people to be their life, life supply, and
  everything
• The Goal is the Corporate Expression of God so
  that they may be built up as the church, the Body
  of Christ, consummating in the New Jerusalem.

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Gods Economy is the Key to Unlock the Bible

• Grasping the central revelation of the
  BibleChrist and the church
• The Lord Jesus You search the Scripturesit is
  these that testify concerning Me. (John 539)
  And I also say to youupon this rock I will
  build My church. (Matt. 1618)
• The Apostle Paul a man shall leave his father
  and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and
  the two shall be one flesh. This mystery is
  great, but I speak with regard to Christ and the
  church. (Eph. 531-32)

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Gods Economy is the Key to Unlock the Bible

• II. The central process of Gods economy?
• Gods dispensing
• Christ is life, and the church is produced
  through the dispensing of Christ into the
  believers as life.
• All-embracing Gods economy includes forgiveness
  of sins, cleansing of sins, justification,
  reconciliation, positional sanctification,
  regeneration, shepherding, sanctification,
  renewing, transformation, building up,
  conformation, and glorification this embraces
  both the justification emphasized by the Western
  Churches and the sanctification emphasized by
  Eastern Churches.

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Apostle Pauls Charge

• Icharge certain ones not to teach different
  things other than Gods economy or to give heed
  to myths and unending genealogies, which produce
  questionings rather than Gods economy, which is
  in faith.
• (1 Tim. 13-4)

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The Recovery Version Uses Gods Economy to
unlock the Bible

• Ex. 1 Exodus
• The pattern of the tabernacle and all its
  furnishings is a full and complete type of both
  the individual Christ as the Head and the
  corporate Christ as the Body, the church,
  including many details of the experience of
  Christ for the church (259 note 1).
• The measurements of the Ark are halves of the
  numbers three and five, the numbers of Gods
  building. This signifies that the Ark is a
  testimony, another half being needed to make a
  complete unit, a full testimony. This implies
  that Christ, typified by the Ark, needs the
  church as His counterpart, His bride, to be a
  testimony in full in humanity (Exo. 2510 note
  3).

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The Recovery Version Uses Gods Economy to
unlock the Bible

• Ex. 2 The Subject of Romans

The Gospel of God 11 The Source God
To Make Sinners Sons of God Chapter 1-8 The Process Dispensing (through justification, sanctification, and glorification)
To Constitute the Body of Christ, Which is Expressed as the Local Churches Chapter 9-16 (with the insertion of ch. 9-11 on Gods selection) Goal The Corporate Expression of God (the Body of Christ expressed as the local churches)
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Conclusion

• The economy of God, as revealed in the Bible and
  particularly exemplified in Pauls writings, is
  the key to unlock and to interpret Gods Word.
• The Recovery Version, following the patterns of
  the Lord Jesus and the Apostle Paul, is a unique
  Bible translation which focuses on Gods economy.
• Through the study of the Recovery Version with
  the enlightenment of the Spirit, the readers may
  see the vision of Gods economy and thus acquire
  the key to cut straight the word of the truth
  (2 Tim. 215).