We study in the book of Acts.

Someone wrote to me “I am still not convinced from your way of teaching that Christ gave Paul only one ministry and not two”

Convinced is = certain about something. Many think that it is up to the preacher, teacher, or even the salesman to do his best and be convinced.

It is the opposite. It is up to you up me to listen to any message and decide if we are willing to accept it or not.

I came to know Christ in 1979 in Israel. Right from the beginning, I did not have the illusion that now all my family or friends will listen to the gospel that I just learned. In 1981 I learned about the dispensation of Grace from hearing and reading C.R. Stam books. Suddenly I understood much better what is all about. My eyes were open to see the difference between Christianity and the word of Grace. My all family from my mother's side were murdered during the Jewish genocide in Moldova east Europe in 1941. So I had to explain to my mother that the Lord Jesus that I believe is not the same Jesus that she heard as a Jewish girl during her childhood in eastern Europe before the war. Also then I did not have the illusion that people will listen. Convinced is something that only we can do and not someone else.

When my son was murdered together with other 398 people. We talk much about our faith in Christ. Many visited us and saw our walk in that situation. Even then I did not have the illusion that my son's death can convince anyone to trust Christ and accept the gift of eternal life.

In the last 40 years, I saw many who started convinced and with full conviction about the dispensation of Grace. They are not anymore there. Lords know why. Some even divorced and started a new life without Christ. Saved but empty.

Acts 13 is a very important chapter. It became the basis for the wrong teaching. I say wrong but I could say also falls teaching or heresies. Yes if you for some reason do not teach that bread and wine (so-called lord supper) is not part of the dispensation of grace. You are into wrong teaching: For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you. 1 cor 11:19. You are not approved even if in your eye you are approved because you “rightly dividing the word of truth”

Why is ACTS chapter 13 so important? Why is Acts chapter 2 so important.? The answer is because of some wrong teaching. To say that Acts 2 is the beginning of the dispensation of grace. I think is the reason that the charismatic / Pentecostal movement became so popular.

Acts 13 is very important because it is there where E.W bullinger / bullingerisem start with his teaching about two bodies. It is very simple. Those Jews and Gentiles who came from the synagogue are not in the same body as those saints in Ephesians 2and 3. Very simple and very logical to teach that there is a different body in Paul's early letters and prison letters.

Bullingerism/ACTS 28 teaching is much older than i. they are there I think more than 100 years. So here I am a young man 22 years old who just learn from reading in C.R. Stam that the dispensation of grace started in acts chapter 9. This is what I am teaching till today. I never had the illusion that I can convince anyone of anything. During my 40 years in the Netherlands, I saw more people accepting ACTS 28 as the “rightly dividing” than asking me or reading C.R. Stam books. I saw evangelists that were famous acts 2 preachers turning into ACTS 28 mixed with universalism (Knoch) together with Calvinism. For some reason, they were not convinced that the so-called “mid acts” like C.R. Stam is teaching in his books are the right way. Who cares. I remember giving and translating books from English “the dispensations” H. Brown. As far as I understood she turn to be ACTS 28.

Acts chapter 13 is very important if you want to stay tuned on Christ's words to Paul in all his letters.I do not have much money but I think I have the truth. ACTS 28 publish company with E.W. bullinger books and A.E Knoch books are very popular in the Netherlands. I think that many see it as interesting teaching and they can stay where they are. Very strange. A very famous act 2 preachers that have acts 28 book print house still preach at his small church mostly about the old testament typology.

Acts chapter 13 is very important. it is there where we start to learn that Christ gave the apostle Paul only one ministry.

The problem is that we have first to learn to listen to the apostle Paul and not to manmade doctrines.