| God always has and always will have relationship | | | | sons and all living creatures to go forth out of the |
| and fellowship with man through covenants. When | | | | ark and said unto them, be fruitful and multiply |
| seeking the Lord's will for your life you must find | | | | and replenish the earth. This is the same blessing |
| out what the Bible has to say about His | | | | that he spoke to Adam when he created him |
| covenants. In a covenant relationship between | | | | with the exception of two words: "subdue it".Now |
| two individuals, the weaker always has everything | | | | look what happened concerning the curse of the |
| that the stronger possesses.A covenant is always | | | | ground which came when Adam disobeyed God. |
| established by blood and is forever, which means | | | | Genesis 9:20, And Noah builted an alter unto the |
| that future generations of the covenant makers | | | | Lord; and took of every clean beast and of |
| automatically become a partaker of that | | | | every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on |
| covenant. Nothing can be added to it or nothing | | | | the alter.Now notice what God said, Genesis 9:21, |
| can be taken away from it. To keep the | | | | And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the |
| covenant active in future generations it must be | | | | Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the |
| taught to each family member.A covenant always | | | | ground any more for man's sake; for the |
| has a blessing and a curse. The blessing is in | | | | imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; |
| effect as long as the covenant is not broken. | | | | neither will I again smite any more every thing |
| Death is required if the covenant is broken. When | | | | living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, |
| Adam sinned in the Garden of Eden, God took | | | | seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and |
| animal skins and made coverings for Adam and | | | | summer and winter, and day and night shall not |
| Eve which was the first shedding of blood for | | | | cease. The burnt offering of Noah could not |
| sin.The Law of Moses required the priest to offer | | | | change the evil hearts of men and get back |
| a blood sacrifice of an animal to cover for the sin | | | | eternal life but it did get the curse off the ground |
| of God's people. Jesus came and offered Himself | | | | for ever.Generations later, God raised up a man |
| on the cross for the sin of the world and was | | | | by the name of Abraham and entered into a |
| accepted by God as the final sacrifice for sin.A | | | | covenant with him that would remove the curse |
| covenant always governed by laws. The tithe, | | | | off of every man, knowing there was one |
| which means to give a tenth of all, is always one | | | | coming later, a seed of Abraham, that would |
| of the laws of a covenant between God and man. | | | | offer Himself a sacrifice for sin to remove the |
| A covenant always has a seal, (a sign) where the | | | | curse from man for ever, making eternal life once |
| two parties swear to keep it. Some examples | | | | again available to all mankind as it was in the |
| from the Bible of signs would be circumcision, a | | | | beginning. He would be known as the second |
| rainbow, the planting of a tree, the building of a | | | | Adam, Jesus Christ the Righteous. God would |
| alter and the sending of the Holy spirit to | | | | make a covenant between Himself and His Son |
| earth.When God blesses man He ALWAYS does | | | | that could not ever be broken.Romans 5:17-18 |
| it by saying the blessing. God's words are His | | | | states, "For if by one man's offence (Adam) |
| creative power. The first blessing that He gave | | | | death reigned by one; much more they which |
| man is found in Genesis 1: 28. Note Genesis | | | | receive abundance of grace and of the gift of |
| 1:27-28, So God created man in his own image, in | | | | righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus |
| the image of God created he him; male and | | | | Christ. Therefore as by the offense of one |
| female created he them. And God blessed them | | | | judgment came upon all men to condemnation; |
| and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, | | | | even so by the righteousness of one the free gift |
| and replenish (fill) the earth, and subdue it: and | | | | came upon all men unto justification of life."In |
| have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over | | | | Genesis chapters twelve through twenty two we |
| the fowl of the air, and over every living thing | | | | see God calling a man by the name of Abram |
| that moveth upon the earth."So we see that God | | | | (Abraham) and his wife into covenant relationship |
| created man and gave him the earth as his | | | | with Himself. These passages of scripture of |
| possession. Psalm 115:16 states, "The heaven, | | | | some of the most important in the entire Bible to |
| even the heavens, are the Lords: but the earth | | | | study in order to understand your covenant |
| hath he given to the children of men."When Adam | | | | relationship with God. They are directly related to |
| sinned, a curse came upon the ground and on | | | | the writings of the Apostle Paul who wrote most |
| man, man lost eternal life and the ground would | | | | of the new testament. Study his writings along |
| not produce abundantly. Genesis 3:17 states, "And | | | | with these scriptures in Genesis and the Bible will |
| unto Adam he said, Because thou hast harkened | | | | come alive right before your eyes. God bless the |
| unto the voice of thy wife, and has eaten of the | | | | reading of His word.Fred Fishburne has been |
| tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou | | | | serving the Lord since 1980. He was called by |
| shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy | | | | God in 1983 to New Life Bible College in Atlanta, |
| sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of | | | | Georgia. After graduation in 1985, he was lead to |
| thy life."God told Adam in Genesis 2:15-17 that if | | | | help charter a church in which he raised his family |
| he disobeyed Him he would surely die. As long as | | | | and stills serves with his wife Ann today.Fred and |
| Adam ate only from the Tree of Life he could | | | | Ann have owned a successful natural health store |
| live forever.Generations later, we see Noah living | | | | in McDonough, Ga. since 1994. Helping people with |
| in a cursed land where every thought in every | | | | there health is a big part of their ministry. "It |
| man's heart was evil continually, to the point that | | | | gives us a chance to show our customers what |
| it grieved God that He had created man on the | | | | the Bibles says about good health," says the |
| earth. Sin brought on the flood that destroyed | | | | couple.Read Fred's e-books, Salvation Mechanics |
| every living thing, save those in the ark.In Genesis | | | | and Glory Follows, about God's call to His children |
| 8: 17-22, we read that after the waters from the | | | | to enter into the will of Christ and how God |
| flood had subsided, God commanded Noah and his | | | | always exhalts those that obey. |