JOSEPH STEPHEN

NAAMAN PAUL

ISRAELITES

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. “For as the heavens are

higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your

ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.”

God’s Plan for the Church

• God always has a plan.

• We know that it has always been important for God’s plan to be followed.

• God had and has a plan for the church.

• How do we know what the plan or the pattern is?

• Would you have done it differently?

God’s Plan of Salvation

• Man learned the consequences of sin in the Garden of Eden.

• God taught a lesson about salvation through water in the flood.

• God promised Abraham that through him all nations would be blessed.

• God created a nation where He could teach lessons about Himself and what it meant to obey.

• Through the law of Moses, God used shadows to teach men about future salvation.

• God led this new nation into a Promised land to show His people that God would bless them if they would obey.

• God often punished His people so they would learn the consequences of sin.

God’s Plan of Salvation

• God allowed His people to suffer.

• Even after the destruction of the majority of His people, God made them wait 400 years for their promised salvation.

• God then sent His Son to earth to teach men how to be saved.

• God allowed man to reject His Son and kill Him upon the cross.

• Yet God raised Him from the dead to prove that He was the Son of God.

• Through a series of actions God allows men the opportunity to be forgiven of their sins.

• God promises men that if they will serve Him and obey Him, they can have eternal life.

God’s Plan for YOU

• Does God have a plan for you?

• Yes, He has a plan for you.

• What is God’s plan for your life?

• Is your plan different from God’s?

• It’s all a matter of trust.