Believers are told to plead the blood over their homes, their children, their fears, even their thoughts. But where did the practice come from, and does Scripture, rightly divided, command it in any dispensation? A study of the blood across Passover, Israels program, and the mystery revealed to Paul.

The Bible speaks about marriage to mankind before the law, to Israel under the law and the kingdom, and to the Body of Christ under grace. Read as one rule to one people, it binds commandments God never gave us. Rightly divided, the Lord's strict word to Israel and Paul's word of grace each fall into place — and grace gives far more than the law.

Tradition stacks archbishop over bishop and a clergy over the laity. Paul is simpler: two offices, bishop and deacon; bishop, elder, overseer, and pastor are one man and one work; the qualifications are for entering the office, not a standing audit; and ordination is the recognition of a proven man, never a sacrament.

Much of what Christendom calls prayer was given to Israel — kingdom petitions, conditional forgiveness, and an anxious checklist of unanswered prayer. Paul gives the Body of Christ its own doctrine of prayer, continual and thankful and interceding, asking chiefly for wisdom and the inner man, on the ground of a finished work.

Because the Body of Christ is already forgiven of all trespasses, the believer does not confess sin to regain standing before God. This article shows what Paul actually teaches about godly sorrow, reckoning, and yielding as the proper response to sin under the dispensation of grace.

Paul is the apostle specifically commissioned to reveal the distinct truths of the dispensation of grace. This article shows what that forgiveness looks like — complete, unconditional, and based entirely on the finished work of Christ — and why mixing it with the law or the kingdom program corrupts the gospel.