The Plan of the Ages

God’s Dispensational Dealings with Humanity

God’s Grace in Creation

Part I

Lesson II

May 29, 2005

 

 

Review

From the Scriptures we learn that for this earth and its people God has:

Ø  A Plan

Ø  A Program

Ø  A Purpose

The First Dispensation is the Dispensation of Innocence.  Each is marked by four words: Grace, Responsibility, Failure and Judgment.

I         God’s acts of grace at the beginning of the first dispensation.

1)      God in grace created heaven and earth.  From Genesis to Revelation this fact is declared

Genesis 1:1In the beginning God created; the doorway into the Bible; God is named 31 times in Genesis chapter one

Nehemiah 9:6 Note the word all

Job 26:7 is that statement true?

Job 38:4 God laid the foundation

Psalm 33:6-9 God breathed all into being

Psalm 90:2 God formed the earth

Psalm 148 is this not the order of Creation?

Isaiah 40:18,21,26 who hath created these things?

John 1:1-3 all things made by Him

Acts 4:24 made heaven and earth

Acts 17:22-24 all things therein

1Corinthians 8:6 all things

Ephesians 3:9 created all things

Colossians 1:16 all things

Hebrews 3:4 all things

Revelation 4:11 all things

The Creation proves that God is

Psalm 19:1-7

Romans 1:18-20

cf Hebrews 11:6


 

2)      God in grace prepared the earth for man

Genesis 1:3-31

Psalm 24:1; cf 1 Corinthians 10:26, 28

Psalm 50:12

Psalm 89 11 all belongs to God

Psalm 115:16 He has given it to men

Ecclesiastes 5:9 for all

Revelation 11:18

3)      God in grace creates the first man, forming his body from the dust of the earth

Genesis 2:7

Genesis 3:19

Deuteronomy 4:32

Psalm 33:13-15

Isaiah 45:12

4)      God in grace prepared a garden for the man to keep

Genesis 2:8

Man was placed in a perfect environment; good environment therefore does not keep man from evil

5)      God in grace makes a woman for the man

Genesis 2:21-25

1 Corinthians 11:8-9

II      There is no place or ground for evolution in all this

1 Corinthians 15:39 true or false?