Discipleship Course 21
Sunday, July 11, 2021 Evening Service
God’s Expectation of Man
God expected different things from man during different dispensations. God always expected obedience.
- Age of Innocence (Creation to the Fall)
- Responsibility - don’t eat of the tree - Genesis 2:17
- Failure - they ate of the tree - Genesis 3:6, 1 Timothy 2:14
- Judgment - the curse and death - Genesis 6:17-19
- Age of Conscience - (Fall to the Flood)
- Responsibility - do good and offer blood sacrifices - Genesis 3:5-7, Genesis 3:22, Genesis 4:4
- Failure - wickedness - Genesis 6:5-6, Genesis 6:11-12
- Judgment - universal flood - Genesis 6:7
- Age of Human Government - (Flood to Babel)
- Responsibility - scatter and multiply Genesis 8:17, Genesis 9:1, Genesis 9:7
- Failure - didn’t scatter - Genesis 11:4
- Judgment - confusion of languages - Genesis 11:9
- Age of Promise - (Babel to the giving of the Law)
- Responsibility - dwell in Canaan - Genesis 12:1, Genesis 12:7
- Failure - dwelt in Egypt - Genesis 12:10
- Judgment - Egyptian bondage - Exodus 1:13-14
- Age of the Law (Law to the Cross)
- Responsibility - keep the Law - Exodus 19:5
- Failure - broke the Law, rejected Christ - 2 Kings 17:15-16, Matthew 27:22-25
- Judgment - world-wide dispersion - Deuteronomy 28:63-64, 2 Kings 17:20, Luke 21:24
- Age of Grace (Cross to the Rapture)
- Responsibility - receive Christ by faith - John 1:12, Romans 10:9-13, Ephesians 2:8-9
- Failure - rejected Christ, trusted in works - John 5:40, 2 Timothy 3:1-2, 2 Timothy 3:7
- Judgment - the Great Tribulation - Matthew 24:21, Revelation 6:17
- Age of the Kingdom - (Rapture to the White Throne Judgment)
- Responsibility - obey and worship Christ - Isaiah 11:4, Zechariah 14:9, Zechariah 14:16
- Failure - final rebellion - Revelation 20:7-9
- Judgment - eternal lake of fire - Revelation 20:11-15