You heard me! Don’t study dispensationalism, study the Bible dispensationally. Rightly dividing the Word is the key to understanding the Bible, but what do you do with a key? You don't study it. Once you know how it works, you use it to unlock the lock for which it was designed. Well, once you understand the principle of right division, use it to unlock the Scriptures it was designed to open to your understanding.
If you are a grace pastor or teacher, don’t teach dispensationalism, "preach the Word" (2 Tim. 4:2) dispensationally considered. Brother Les Feldick has done a tremendous job of reaching people with the truth of the rightly divided Word, grounding them in it, and helping them grow in it, all by simply teaching through the Bible, verse by verse, "according to the revelation of the mystery" (Rom. 16:25). The saints to whom you minister can flourish under the same type of ministry.
So whether you are a grace believer or even a grace pastor, don't study the grace message. If that's all you do, you will never be able to answer the challenges our opponents raise to the truth. But the man of God who has studied every verse they cite in its context will be thoroughly equipped to "fight the good fight of faith" (1 Tim. 6:12), "war a good warfare" (1 Tim. 1:18), and "please Him who hath chosen him to be a soldier" (2 Tim. 2:4)
