We make plans…

What’s missing fromthese plans?

Written over 1500 years…Written by over 40 authors from all walks of life…

Written on 3 different continents…

The Bible

In 3 different languages…

In different locations…

In different moods…

Harmony Throughout!

From the Beginning…God Had a Plan

Sold as a SlaveTo Midianite

Traders

Did the Dreams God Gave Joseph

Fail?

It Appears as though God is NOT working in Joseph’s life.

Joseph was wrongfully accused.

How could God possibly be working in his life?

God Had a Plan!

Genesis 45:5–8… God sent me before you to preserve life…

God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. 8 So now it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has

made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house

Adam & Eve1 Timothy 2:14

And Adam was not deceived, but the

woman being deceived, fell into transgression.

Adam & EveGenesis 3:15

And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between

your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you

shall bruise His heel.”

Adam & EveGenesis 22:18

In your seed all the nations of the earth

shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”

Adam & EveGalatians 3:8–9

And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached

the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you

all the nations shall be blessed.” 9 So then those who are of faith are blessed with

believing Abraham.

Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus

began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

Christ

Matthew 4:23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their

synagogues, preaching the gospel of the

kingdom…

Christ

John 6:66–68 From that time many of His

disciples went back and walked with Him no more. 67

Then Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you also want to

go away?” 68 But Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal

life.

Christ

Prophecies Concerning the Messiah

Seed of a Woman (Gen. 3:15; cf. Gal. 4:4)Seed of Abraham (Gen. 18:18; cf. Ac. 3:25)

Seed of Jacob (Num. 24:17; cf. Mat. 1:2)From Tribe of Judah (Gen. 49:10; Lk. 3:33)

Heir to David’s Throne (Isa. 9:7; cf. Mat. 1:1)Born in Bethlehem (Mic. 5:2; cf. Mat. 2:1)

Approx. Time of Birth Predicted (Dan. 9:25; cf. Lk. 2:1-2 )

Born of a Virgin (Isa. 7:14; cf. Mat. 1:18)Babies Massacred at His Birth (Jer. 31:15;

cf. Mat. 2:16)Comes From Egypt (Hos. 11:1; cf. Mat. 2:14)

Would Have a Galilean Ministry (Isa. 9:1-2; cf. Mat. 4:12-16)

Would Be a Prophet (Dt. 18:15; cf. Jn. 6:14)Priest Like Melchizedek (Psa. 110:4;

cf. Heb. 6:20)Rejected (Psa. 2:2; cf. Jn. 1:11)

Triumphal Entry (Zech. 9:9; cf. Jn. 12:13-14)Betrayed By a Friend (Psa. 41:9;

cf. Mk. 4:10)Betrayed For 30 Pieces of Silver (Zech. 11:12; Mat.

26:15)Betrayal Money Used To Purchase a Potter’s Field

(Zech. 11:13; Mat. 27:6-7)Betrayers Office taken by another (Psa. 109:7-8;

Ac. 1:18-20)FALSE WITNESSES ACCUSE HIM (PSA. 27:12; MAT.

26:60-61)Silent When Accused (Isa. 53:7; Mat. 26:62-63)

Beaten and Spat Upon (Isa. 50:6; Mk. 16:65)Many others…

God Had A Plan!

Galatians 3:16 Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say,

“And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your

Seed,” who is Christ.

Ephesians 1:4 just as He chose us in

Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy

and without blame before Him in love,

Ephesians 3:10–11 to the intent that now the

manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in

the heavenly places, 11 according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ

Jesus our Lord,

Matthew 25:34 Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you

blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from

the foundation of the world:

Ephesians 1:10 that in the dispensation of

the fullness of the times He might gather together in

one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and

which are on earth—in Him.

Philippians 2:5–8 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God,

7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient

to the point of death, even the death of the cross.

From the beginning God hada plan…for YOU!

Romans 5:8 “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still

sinners, Christ died for us.” (i.e. You)

From the beginning God hada plan…for YOU!