The Big Transition in the Early Church

https://sermons.wordofgracestudies.org/p/a-letter-to-the-believers-scattered

We're going to start. We're actually going to start the Book of Gains. And I thought this would be an interesting book to start after going through Acts because there is a transitional period going on. It is not... We're not... There's not a difference between the church and at the beginning from Acts chapter 2 until the church we have today. But there is a transition period going on. Because in the beginning of the church, they did not have all the revelation that related to the church. So, of course, we had some spiritual gifts at the beginning of the church that functioned to provide that. That would be prophecy. The gift of speaking in tongues was actually for evidence of healing. The gift of knowledge and wisdom. These were all gifts that were given to the church so that it could function because it didn't have all of the information about the dispensation it was in at this point. because it was a transitional period. Now, this is a unique dispensation in that sense. All other dispensations, there was a catastrophic end to the previous dispensation, and then the new dispensation begins. And catastrophic, a good example of this is the flood. That's very catastrophic, you know, and it is kind of the same thing, even with law.