Contravening the Warnings of Jesus and Paul
I don't like to use unfamiliar terms like "contravening" but it so fits the situation I am tempted to use it. In case the word is unfamiliar to you, to contravene is to "act or be counter to, to violate, to oppose in argument, to gainsay" (American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language).
Jesus and Paul warned us clearly concerning our behaviour. Today we are assuming that grace contravenes these warnings. We have been taught that Divine grace supersedes the warnings of Christ. This is terribly, terribly, incorrect. All the commandments and warnings of Christ, as far as I know, can be found in one form or another in the Epistles. How could it be otherwise seeing that the Spirit of Christ was in the Apostles?
The philosophy of Dispensationalism, I am told, implies that all such warnings are to the Jews after the flesh. This is a totally unscriptural idea, completely impractical in application.
The warnings we will mention in a minute are all-without exception-directed toward the Lord's servants, the saints, the elect, the members of the Church, the Body of Christ. They are not addressed to any unbeliever, including Jewish unbelievers, they are directed toward us who belong to the Lord Jesus Christ, who are serving Him.
If you do not believe the admonitions of Christ and His Apostles are addressed to you as a Christian your understanding of the Scriptures is not coherent. Your belief comprises verses taken here and there to support your philosophy. You are outside the mainstream of Divine truth. You are interpreting the Scriptures according to your whims or the notions of a misled teacher.
But let's look at what the Lord said.