The Bible is all about a covenant not about a group of dispensations.
As Christians in the 21st Century Church we must wake up and realize that God has made an Everlasting Covenant with each one of us.
From the very first moment the mankind (Adam and Eve) disobeyed God, we call this the fall, we weren't good anymore. But instead of swift and utter destruction and judgment, God met man with an everlasting covenant that applies always and forever.
Genesis 3:15
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.
This covenant, the promise of a coming Messiah that would redeem the human race from their sin, was offered thousands of years before the birth of Jesus, yet under no circumstance can time erode away God's original and eternal covenant with our father Adam. There will be times in our lives when Satan, sin, and life itself snip painfully at our heels, but God has promised, ordained, and spoken, that Christ on Calvary and Christ in us has overcome this world. We are more than conquerors through Christ, who has placed all things including the head of Satan under His feet. It is time for the people of God to wake up from the slumber of doubt and awake to a new world where all things are possible with God.
God is not a liar, He does not, will not break His covenants. This covenant, this promise is for you and for your children.. And to all who are afar off, even as many as He will call.
God is a covenant maker... While He will not break His word or take away from it He does add special and personal promises to each and everyone of His children based on the relationship He has with them. One such child of God was named Abram.
Genesis 12: 1-3
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 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: 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.
Abram was called to be first... Most people also would like to be first, the status symbol and the power. Abraham is considered the father of all three major monotheistic religions- Judaism, Christianity, Islam. Most want to be first. Called and covenanted like Abram to become a Dynasty. No one wants to be called last. But here is the perfect and perplexing part of God's plan: He says that the first shall be last and the last shall, be first. Jesus tells a parable of the workers that are called but an hour before the end of the work day- yet all received the same wages as those called in the morning.
Whether God has called you to preach, teach, cook, or clean... We all receive the same reward. It is about waking up our faith and when God makes a covenant to accept.
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