The Blood Covenant Part 7: God Reveals His Plans to Those in Covenant

The blood covenant is how God speaks to His people and reveals His plans to them. In this message, Dr. William P. Hohman teaches that outside the blood covenant people are left with a corrupted world and its influences, but inside it the Holy Spirit tells believers the truth, and even the future, just as God revealed the whole plan of redemption to Abram on the night they cut covenant in Genesis 15. It follows his two-week teaching on The Blood Covenant: Our Inheritance, Part 2 — Mephibosheth at the King’s Table.

Below you will find the full video, a structured summary, the Scriptures he uses (linked to the New King James Version on Bible Gateway), a timestamped outline, and practical steps for taking communion with real understanding.

Sermon at a Glance

This service took place at NTC Ministries on a missions Sunday when it was 26 below zero outside. Before the message, the church heard about an unreached mountain tribe in Togo where over half the people received Jesus after Bible college students shared the gospel, and whose chief gave land for a church.

Pastor Hohman then reviewed the series so far, from the origin and washing of the blood to two weeks on our inheritance. This week’s subject is how God reveals His plans to those in covenant with Him, and the service closes with communion.

Hearing God in the Blood Covenant

Pastor Hohman begins with a contrast. People outside covenant can sometimes know things that are going on, and the world calls them psychics. The Old Testament calls it a familiar spirit, and he is plain that it is demonic, including claims of talking with dead relatives. Outside the blood covenant of Jesus Christ, all anyone can have is the influence of a corrupted world.

Inside the covenant, believers are spoken to by God’s Spirit, and they have to learn to hear Him. The first way is the Bible itself. Read it every day, he urges, and do not let it sit on a shelf, because it feeds your spirit and soul and keeps you alive toward God. The Word and the Spirit always agree, so anything someone claims to hear from the Holy Spirit that contradicts Scripture is not God.

The Spirit also speaks about things the Bible does not name directly, such as whom to marry. He and his wife Pam met when she was 11 and he was 12, and the Spirit of God told each of them they would marry.

Jesus said that in the world we would have trouble, but to be of good cheer because He has overcome the world (John 16:33). Someone who only hears about trouble, he says, is not hearing about overcoming.

Why God Needed a Legal Way In

Going back to Genesis, Pastor Hohman explains that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit planned our salvation before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4). God knew Adam would fall, and our deliverance, forgiveness and victory were written beforehand. Yet God still had to come into the earth legally.

God is capable of anything, he says, but He cannot do just anything He wants, because He lives by His own laws. When He made man in His image, He gave mankind dominion over all the works of His hands (Genesis 1:26). Dominion is a kingdom term describing the extent of a king’s authority. Having given it away, God could not simply walk back in after Adam fell and take over.

That is why Amos 3:7 says the Lord does nothing without first revealing His secret to His servants the prophets. Men and women heard God, believed Him and spoke out “thus says the Lord,” and that gave Him legal right to act. The heavens are the Lord’s, but the earth He has given to the children of men (Psalm 115:16), so the mess in the world is not God’s doing.

He recalls jumping off the garage roof as a boy and meeting the law of gravity. The lesson is practical: if you want better things in your life, start speaking God’s blessings over it, declaring that you are blessed coming in and going out.

Abram Believed, and the Isaac Test

God found His partner in Abram, a man from Ur of the Chaldeans who was told to go to a place God would only reveal when he arrived. Abram was not perfect, since he lied about his wife to save his own neck, but he was willing to believe and trust God. When God promised descendants as many as the stars, the childless Abram believed the Lord, and God accounted it to him for righteousness (Genesis 15:4–6).

A blood covenant, he reminds the church, means total giving: one hundred percent from each side, never fifty-fifty. Marriage is a blood covenant with God as well as between husband and wife, which is why divided lives and divided accounts are not God’s way. In covenant, each one backs the other no matter what. The difference with Christ is that we came with nothing but debt, while His credit was perfect.

Under the old covenant, animal blood atoned for sin, meaning it covered it, because the life of the flesh is in the blood (Leviticus 17:11). Jesus’ blood removed our transgressions as far as the east is from the west. To do that, God needed a man who would give his only son, as He would give His.

So came what Pastor Hohman calls the Isaac test in Genesis 22:1–13. Abraham rose early, took Isaac, about 17 at the time by his account, and told the servants that he and the lad would worship and come back. He was declaring what God had promised. When Isaac asked where the lamb was, Abraham answered, “God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.”

Christians are to talk that way, he says, because life and death are in the power of the tongue (Proverbs 18:21). You cannot speak contrary to what God wants and then blame Him for not doing it. Instead, whatever a doctor reports, declare what God says: He forgives all your iniquities, heals all your diseases, crowns you with lovingkindness and renews your youth like the eagle’s (Psalm 103:3–5).

When the angel stopped Abraham’s hand and said, now I know that you fear God, the fear of God did not mean terror. It means respecting and obeying Him, and he sums it up in one word: worship, which includes presenting our bodies as a living sacrifice (Romans 12:1). Abraham’s trust gave God a legal right to come into the earth, and our trust gives Him the right to come into our lives. God tests before He promotes, so do your work with all your might as unto the Lord.

What God Revealed to Abram in the Blood Covenant

Pastor Hohman explains why God told Abraham to offer a burnt offering. Isaac was a type and shadow of Jesus, an example of the one who would give His life, and the burning pictured what Jesus would go through for us. The Passover lamb in Exodus 12:8–9 had to be roasted with fire and eaten entirely, the bitterness Israel tasted, and Jesus experienced everything we do so He is a faithful High Priest. Now we have a better covenant established on better promises (Hebrews 8:6).

He then returns to Genesis 15:7–12, where Abram asks how he will know he will inherit the land. God tells him to bring a heifer, a goat, a ram, a turtledove and a young pigeon, and Abram cuts the animals in two. As taught earlier in the series, covenant partners walked between the pieces in a figure eight, declaring the blessings and curses. Then a deep sleep fell on Abram, which Pastor Hohman describes as a trance.

Why a trance? Nobody should sign a contract without reading it, he says, and God did not want Abram entering this covenant blind. In Genesis 15:13–18 He tells Abram about four hundred years of affliction and a great deliverance, and a smoking oven and burning torch pass between the pieces. Pastor Hohman reads the oven as the Father and the torch as Jesus, the Word who is a lamp to our feet.

More was shown than was written down, because it was a mystery, now revealed as Christ in you, the hope of glory (Colossians 1:26–27). A mystery, he says, is not something you cannot know; it is something you get to know once you are inside. The table below follows his list of what Abraham saw that night.

He finds the proof in the New Testament. The very first verse calls Jesus the son of David, the son of Abraham (Matthew 1:1). God needed a human womb to come into the earth through, and Matthew records Isaiah’s prophecy that the virgin would bear a son called Immanuel, God with us (Matthew 1:21–23; Isaiah 7:14). Because a man gave dominion away, a man had to win it back.

Before Abraham Was, I AM

Galatians 3:8 says the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand. Pastor Hohman says this happened during the covenant trance, two thousand years before Jesus walked the earth. Abraham heard the gospel: a virgin birth, the cross, the resurrection on the third day, and victory over sin, sickness, poverty and the devil.

Accepting Jesus as Lord, he adds, means accepting Him as owner, master and ruler. He says the Old Testament word Adonai carries that sense, and the Greek kurios means one wielding authority. Galatians 3:15–16 then shows that the promise was made to Abraham and his Seed, singular, which is Christ. Everyone who receives Christ enters Abraham’s covenant and its blessings: the head and not the tail, above only, blessed coming in and going out, and healed by His stripes.

Being born again is more than knowing stories about Jesus. It happens through incorruptible seed, the Word of God that lives and abides forever (1 Peter 1:23), the implanted word that is able to save our souls (James 1:21). The same incorruptible seed came into Mary’s womb when she said, let it be to me according to your word.

In John 8:51–59, the Pharisees mock Jesus for claiming that anyone who keeps His word will never see death. Jesus answers that Abraham rejoiced to see His day, and saw it. Pastor Hohman stresses the past tense: Abraham already saw it, during the covenant. Then Jesus says, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM,” the name God gave Moses at the burning bush (Exodus 3:14).

When they picked up stones, Jesus walked through the thickest part of the crowd, because no one could take His life; like Isaac, He had to give it. For believers, Galatians 3:13–14 says Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law so that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles and we might receive the promise of the Spirit.

More Than Conquerors at the Lord’s Table

Before the cross, Jesus told His disciples He had many things to say that they could not yet bear (John 16:12–15). But when the Spirit of truth came, He would guide them into all truth and tell them things to come, just as God did for Abraham. Only the day and hour of Christ’s return is left to the Father, yet Pastor Hohman says believers can sense when it is close.

1 Corinthians 2:6–12 confirms it. Eye has not seen nor ear heard what God has prepared, but God has revealed it to us through His Spirit, so that we might know the things freely given to us. You are inside that circle, he tells the church. Prayer is not begging; he reads his Bible each morning and asks the Lord to talk with him.

He then reads Romans 8:32–39: the God who did not spare His own Son will freely give us all things, and in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. His illustration is a boxer who trains every day, wins the heavyweight championship and hands the ten-million-dollar check over the ropes to his wife. He became a conqueror; she, who did nothing, became more than a conqueror. All we do is take what Jesus won, and not let the check fall to the ground.

At the Last Supper (Matthew 26:26–28), Jesus gave the bread as His body and the cup as the blood of the new covenant. Paul says that as often as we eat this bread and drink this cup we proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes (1 Corinthians 11:24–26). Earlier in the service he noted that this means as often as you can, not as few times as you can get away with.

From 1 Corinthians 10:15–17, he teaches that communion builds strong fellowship, because we who are many are one bread and one body. Like Abraham giving Isaac, we give first, and communion is the moment to say, Lord, here is my life.

Living the Blood Covenant This Week

Pastor Hohman’s charge is to rise up as genuine Christians, not pretenders. We overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony (Revelation 12:11), and as He is, so are we in this world (1 John 4:17). Here are the steps drawn from this blood covenant message:

• Read the Word daily. Let God speak to you before you ask Him for anything, and test every impression against Scripture.
• Guard what you listen to. Limit the stream of bad news and make room for what God says about overcoming.
• Speak what God says. Like Abraham saying “we will come back,” declare His promises over your health, work and family.
• Pass the test before promotion. Do your present job with all your might as unto the Lord.
• Take communion often and in faith. Come knowing it is a covenant meal, not a quick ritual of matzah and wine.
• Give first. Offer your life and resources to God the way Abraham offered Isaac, and expect Him to reciprocate.

The righteous may fall seven times and rise again (Proverbs 24:16), so in covenant there is no more living under guilt.

Timestamped Outline

• 12:49 Missions Sunday offering
• 14:01 Report from Togo and Ghana
• 21:13 Communion in faith: Hebrews 11:6
• 39:34 God reveals His plans in the blood covenant
• 40:39 The Word and the Spirit agree
• 42:38 Salvation planned before the world began
• 43:49 Dominion and God’s legal access
• 44:57 Amos 3:7: revealed to the prophets
• 49:16 God finds Abram
• 51:23 Genesis 15: count the stars
• 53:34 Covenant means total giving
• 56:10 Covered by atonement, removed by Jesus
• 58:21 Genesis 22: the Isaac test
• 1:02:23 The fear of God is worship
• 1:06:21 The burnt offering and the Passover lamb
• 1:08:48 Cutting the covenant in Genesis 15
• 1:11:52 The trance and the terms of the covenant
• 1:15:09 What Abraham saw
• 1:18:43 Galatians 3:8: the gospel preached to Abraham
• 1:27:21 Before Abraham was, I AM
• 1:33:46 The Spirit will tell you things to come
• 1:42:22 The boxer and more than conquerors
• 1:44:45 Communion: the Lord’s Supper
• 1:55:39 Closing prayer and prophetic words

Blood Covenant Series

This message is part of a long teaching series at NTC Ministries. Start from the beginning or continue where this one leaves off:

• First message: The Blood Covenant
• Previous: The Blood Covenant: Our Inheritance, Part 2 — Mephibosheth at the King’s Table
• You are here: The Blood Covenant Part 7: God Reveals His Plans to Those in Covenant
• Next: The Blood Covenant: The Full Penalty Jesus Paid for Sin

Frequently Asked Questions

Why does taking communion in faith matter?

Pastor Hohman links communion to Hebrews 11:6: without faith it is impossible to please God, and He rewards those who diligently seek Him. When believers take the bread and cup knowing what the covenant means, instead of just eating a piece of matzah and a little wine, he says they can expect greater blessing, because of the knowledge, revelation and faith they bring to it.

Is God in control of everything that happens on earth?

Pastor Hohman draws a distinction here. He says God is in charge, but he does not believe God is in control of everything that happens, because the earth was given to mankind. Much of what is wrong in the world comes from people who have not entered covenant with God. That is why he says to pray and declare God’s will instead of passively asking God to do something.

What does it mean that believers can know the future?

He teaches that the Holy Spirit tells believers things to come, as God showed Abraham. This does not mean fear about bad times. He says it is never God telling you to go hide because bad times are coming. Now is the time to be strong in the Lord, to arise and shine even in darkness, and to run and not grow weary.

Scripture References

All passages open in the New King James Version on Bible Gateway:

• Genesis 15:4–6 — Abram believed and it was accounted for righteousness
• Genesis 15:13–18 — God reveals the future to Abram
• Genesis 22:1–13 — Abraham offers Isaac
• Amos 3:7 — God reveals His secret to the prophets
• Galatians 3:8 and Galatians 3:13–14 — the gospel and the blessing of Abraham
• John 8:51–59 — before Abraham was, I AM
• John 16:12–15 — the Spirit tells us things to come
• 1 Corinthians 2:6–12 — revealed to us through His Spirit
• Romans 8:32–39 — more than conquerors
• 1 Corinthians 11:24–26 — as often as you do this

How this summary was made: written with AI assistance from the sermon’s own transcript and checked against the Scriptures listed above.

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