Creation is a covenant-based partnership

God said,

“Let us make man in our image after our likeness”

God always works out of partnership

Partnership

“Let them have dominion”

The Third-party

The Serpent gained seed after the fall, and he is the third party who was invited into the partnership.

He planted a thought and a suggestion into the mind of Eve,  Genesis 3:2, “Yea, because God said…” That thought took on a life of its own. It literally became a goal that she reached toward.

The Serpent gained seed, Genesis 3:15

He did the same thing to every human being who was alive at that time. God said,

“Every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”

Where did the thoughts come from? The Serpent sowed seed!

Hagar

Hagar was an invited THIRD PARTY to the covenant that God made with Abraham and Sarah. Who invited Hagar into the covenant? Sarah gave her handmaid to Abraham to be a surrogate mother. Abraham and Hagar produced Ishmael.

Abraham wants Ishmael to be the promised seed. God said NO. The promise was going to be fulfilled through Sarah.

God gave Sarah strength to bear seed in her old age because she judged God faithful.

The question has to be asked: How many third parties have we invited into your covenant with God?

The covenant partnership today

“He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to THEM that believe on his name: which were born, NOT of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, BUT OF GOD.” John 1:11-13

Jesus said,

Matthew 26:28, “For this is my blood of the new covenant…” (NKJV)

It’s God’s original plan. Creation is a partnership based on a covenant!

Grace and peace!