1 Peter 4:10 Each one, as he has received a gift, ministering it among yourselves as good stewards of the varied grace of God. (Recovery Version Bible)
Altogether there are four ages: the age of sin (Adam), the age of the law (Moses), the age of grace (Christ), and the age of the kingdom (the millennium). God dispensed Himself into Abel, Enosh, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob with Joseph, Moses, and, of course, with the Lord Jesus. This dispensing continues in the New Testament Epistles; God’s dispensation is even greater than it was at the time of the apostle Paul; today there is a deeper, higher, and wider dispensation of the grace of God (cf. Ephesians 3:2; 1 Peter 4:10). This dispensation will continue through the millennium until the fullness of the times; the ultimate, the consummate, dispensation will be the dispensing of the Triune God into the whole city of the New Jerusalem (Revelation 22:1-2). We enjoy a miniature of this consummate dispensation in the church life today; as we enjoy the Spirit as the living water and eat Christ as the tree of life in the church life, we are awaiting the consummate dispensation, in which we shall be fully saturated with the Triune God. (2014 Fall ITERO, msg. 3 outline)
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