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.

Matthew stands at the seam of right division. Peter Ruckman hands much of it back to Israel — the Sermon on the Mount, the Disciples' Prayer, conditional forgiveness — then pours the Body of Christ back in through his method of spiritual application. How a book gets wrongly divided even by a man who can see where its parts belong.

Popular readings make the pearl of great price into salvation, or Christ, or the Body of Christ. But the parable names its own subject — the kingdom of heaven — and presses its surpassing worth on the generation to whom it was offered. A study in rightly dividing the mysteries of the kingdom.

When a believer first hears that the Body of Christ began with Paul, the objections come fast. This study takes the strongest arguments against Mid-Acts right division — Pentecost, one body, two gospels, the Great Commission, novelty, and more — and answers each from the Scriptures rightly divided.

The church is called the body of Christ, never the bride. Ephesians 5 ends not in betrothal but in one body, His own flesh and bones. The bride, the Lamb's wife, is the New Jerusalem, the covenant people of Israel married, put away, and brought home. Rightly divided, the wife is Israel and the Body is nearer than a bride.

Right division is not the discarding of Scripture but the right placing of it. Three tiers — present truth, dispensational truth, and universal truth — and two plain questions sort any passage: does it govern or describe, and does it reach every age or belong to a program. Keep all of Scripture; obey only what is addressed to you.

Why would God create man, knowing he would fall — and would it not have been kinder never to create at all? Answered on the only ground where it can be answered, the revelation given to Paul: God made the world to display the exceeding riches of His grace, and grace must have something to redeem. The fall was man's, not God's; the cross is God ente…

Tradition makes the deacon a board member with a vote. Scripture makes him a servant. The word appears only in Philippians and 1 Timothy, and Paul defines the man, not a board — a proven, faithful servant-minister of the local assembly, not a teacher, not a ruler, and never one of the gifts given to the Body of Christ.