1. First Baptist Alcoa Equipping –U 2007 God’s Covenants with His People

2. God Has Always Had a Plan

3. His Plan is Revealed Through His Covenants and Prophecies.

4. Backbone of Divine Revelation and Understanding of God’s Word

5. God Has Always Had a Plan

6. God Has Always Had a Plan

7. God Has Always Had a Plan

8. God Has Always Had a Plan
The Challenge is Understanding How He Presented His Plan

9. God Has Always Had a Plan
Personal Testimony and Preparation for Such a Time as This.

10. God Has Always Had a Plan
My Call and Commission
I CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 15
57     But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58     ¶ Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

11. God Has Always Had a Plan
My Goal
To present Truths contained in the Word of God pertaining to God’s Everlasting Covenants. To provide building blocks that provide a solid foundation for our faith and a practical systematic theology. To encourage and strengthen everyone that has chosen to invest their time in this study. To encourage personal faithfulness and Holiness, to encourage witnessing to the lost and provide a solid scriptural foundation for study of God’s Holy Word, The Bible.

12. God Has Always Had a Plan
Method of Biblical Interpretation
II Timothy Chap 2: 15
“Rightly Dividing God’s Word”
15     Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
1. Accept the meaning of Scripture in its most normal, natural and customary sense
2. Take Scripture in Context
3. Compare Scripture with Scripture – Acts 17 :11 Be a Berean
4. Before truth is realized, all seeming scriptural contradictions must be harmonized. If Scripture Appears to Conflict with another Scripture, The Scriptures are not being read in Context.

13. God Has Always Had a Plan

14. According To The Scripture
1. God’s Word…Through His Covenants and Prophecies. A complete Revelation of His Plan and Purpose for all Ages to the Earth and the Human Race.. It is God Inspired and without error.
2. The Old Testament and New Testament Compliment
3. Written by 40 Different God Inspired Authors, over a period of 1600 years and in three languages.
4. There are 66 different books, 39 OT, 27 NT, they are not in chronological order.
5. Jesus came to Earth, Lived His Life, Died For Our Sins, was resurrected from the Grave and will come again, all According to the Scriptures.

15. God Has Always Had a Plan
Dispensations
Salvation has always been by Faith..
In the OT in God and What He Told Them Specifically to Do at that time (Dispensation) and in the NT in God the Son – Jesus Christ
Recognize “Israel and Church”
Differences and Grafted Together
Romans Chapters 9 -11

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Dispensations
Innocence …Gen 1:1 – 3:7
Conscience … Gen 3:8 – 8:22
Human Government … Gen 9:1 – 11:32
Promise … Gen 12:1 – Exodus 19:25
Law … Exodus 20:1- Acts 2:4
Grace & The Church… Acts 2:4-Rev 20:3
Millennial Kingdom… Rev 20:4 – 6
These Dispensations are not ways of Salvation but manners in which God Choose to Relate to Man

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Master Time Line

18. God Has Always Had a Plan
Definition of a Covenant
In simple terms, it is a formal agreement. It may be an agreement between two people, a treaty between nations, or a relationship between God and a human individual or nation. A covenant is more personal than a contract — it involves loyalty and allegiance, not just a financial exchange.

19. God Has Always Had a Plan
Covenants
(A) CONDITIONAL
A covenant which guarantees that God will do His part when the human requirements stipulated in that covenant are met.
Key Phrase …If you do, I Will …
(B) UNCONDITIONAL
Distinguished from a conditional covenant by the fact that its ultimate fulfillment is promised by God and depends upon God's power and sovereignty for its fulfillment.
Key Phrase… I Will

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Conditional Covenants
If you do, I will….
LEVITICUS CHAPTER 26
3     If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; 4     Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5     And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. 6     And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

21. God Has Always Had a Plan
Conditional Covenants
II CHRONICLES CHAPTER 7
14     If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

22. God Has Always Had a Plan
Un-Conditional Covenant
I Will
GENESIS CHAPTER 12
1     ¶ Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: 2     And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3     And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

23. God Has Always Had a Plan
God’s Major Covenants
The Edenic Covenant – Conditional – Man’s Dominion over Creation
The Adamic Covenant – UnConditional – Impact of Sin on our World
The Noahic Covenant – UnConditional – Noah Found Grace in the Eyes of the Lord
The Abrahamic Covenant – UnConditonal – Promise of The Land, The People, The Seed
The Mosaic Covenant – Conditional – The Commandments, The Judgments & Ordinances
The Davidic Covenant – UnConditional – Royal Lineage to the Everlasting Throne and King of Kings
The New Covenant – Unconditional – We are Saved Through Grace, Not by Works

24. God Has Always Had a Plan
Edenic Covenant
Conditional Covenant
Man’s Dominion Over Creation & Tree of Life
Gen 1: , 2: 15
GENESIS CHAPTER 2
15     And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. 16     ¶ And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17     But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

25. God Has Always Had a Plan
Edenic Covenant
Conditional Covenant
Man’s Dominion Over Creation & Tree of Life
Gen 1: , 2: 15
Edenic Covenant – Responsibilities of Adam
Propagate the Race
Subdue the Earth for Man
Have Dominion over the Animal Creation
Care for the Garden and Eat its Fruits and Herbs
Abstain from eating of one tree, tree of the knowledge of good and evil, on penalty of death for disobedience.

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Adamic Covenant
Un-Conditional Covenant
Gen 3: Impact of Sin
GENESIS CHAPTER 3
14     ¶ And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: 15     And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. 16     ¶ Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. 17     ¶ And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 18     Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 19     In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

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Adamic Covenant
Un-Conditional Covenant
Gen 3: Impact of Sin
Consequences
1) Enmity between Satan and Eve and her descendants.
2) Painful childbirth for women.
3) Marital strife.
4) The soil cursed.
5) Introduction of thorns and thistles.
6) Survival to be a struggle.
7) Death introduced.
8) Death will be the inescapable fate of all living things.