The Plan of the Ages

God’s Dispensational Dealings with Humanity

Failure, Fall, Judgment

Lesson V1

June 26, 2005

I Review: each dispensation

Begins with God acting in grace

God giving man a specific responsibility

Man always is a failure

Then God sends His judgments

II Adam and Eve failed when they ate the forbidden fruit; the result is seen in the history of the human family

Genesis 12:13 Abram lies to save his skin

Exodus 2:12 Moses kills a man

2 Samuel 11:4,15 David commits adultery and murder

Jonah 1:3 Jonah flees from the presence of God

Luke 1:47,48,52 Mary rejoices in her Saviour, speaks of her low estate

Matthew 26: 74 Peter denies, curses and swears

Acts 13:13 Mark runs from the work

2 Timothy 4:10 Demas forsakes Paul

Acts 15: 36-39 Paul and Barnabas have sharp contention

C.H.S “The best of men are men at the best”

III The fall of Adam and Eve brought a fallen condition to all humanity

The Bible spells it out and men do not like what they hear

Jeremiah 17:9-10 men say “their heart is good at the bottom”

Genesis 6:5 God says “evil continually”

1 Kings 8:46 there is no man that sinneth not

Job 14:4 who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?

Job 25:4 how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

Psalm 14:2-3 when God looks what does he see?

Proverbs 20: 9 who can say I have made my heart clean

Ecclesiastes 7:20 not a just man

Ecclesiastes 8:11 set to do evil

Ecclesiastes 9:3 heart is full of evil

Isaiah 53:6 “all” to “all”

Isaiah 64:6 All, all, all

Matthew 15:18-19 out of the heart

Romans 3:10-12 “none” “all”

Proverbs 28:26 he that trusteth his own heart is a fool

Ecclesiastes 10:2 how do you measure up?

Unless one really knows the character of one’s heart, one will never value the gospel as one ought

IV Adam’s position in Eden was not the same as our position in Christ

He did not have eternal life and then lose it

Genesis 2:19-20 Adam had great intelligence

Genesis 2:25l cf 3:10 In the garden - innocent, no fear and no shame

Genesis 2:17 Adam was on probation

Romans 5:1 Christ went on probation for us, we believers are not on probation, we are on the ground of justification

John 3:18 “not condemned” “condemned” both words imply the trial is over

V See how God Judged Adam and Eve

1) Eve Genesis 3:16

Multiplied sorrow with child birth

Multiplied conception and added submission

2) Adam Genesis 3:17

A cursed earth

Sorrow living in it

Thorns and thistles

Toil and hard work

Finally physical death

Romans 8:22 the whole creation groans

Galatians 3:13 does not mean we are delivered from Adam’s curse

These things are still true. The reality of judgment cannot be overlooked

Hebrews 9:27