Your reply interests me. We have been members of a newer Reformed Baptist church that teaches expositorily. We have struggled with reformed teaching on basis of what foreknowledge means. The way they interpret what you say, which is my husband’s understanding, is that foreknowledge doesn’t mean God knows the person would choose to believe because if so that puts the value in the one who believes. That isn’t possible since no one can choose God. I hope I explained what they say.
Let me take a stab. Our theology says that God has perfect knowledge, including who, and who will not, follow him, but that does not affect their free will to choose to follow God/ accept Christ as Lord and Savior. All covenants between God and man were initiated by God, but the fulfillment of each specific covenant requires the acceptance by man and living out their obligation under the covenant. Covenants established by God with man started way back in the Old Testament, but Jesus as our way of salvation is the final and perfect covenant.
God does not need man, but he created man in his image because he desired a relationship with man. God would not be glorified if man had no choice but to follow him. But man's relationship with God is fulfilled, and God is glorified, when any man of his own free will chooses to accept salvation offered through the unmerited grace embodied in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. What glory and honor would there be to God if man had no choice in the matter and was compelled to follow based on a predetermined script?
I hope I answered what you were asking.