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Greetings! My name is Joe Watson and you're listening to the podcast known as Choices

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We Believe. Today we'll be talking about a continuation from the last episode on creation

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and God. We'll be talking today about Adam and Eve, the first couple. So if you want to turn in

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your Bibles or your device to Genesis chapter 1, I'm going to start in verse 27. And although this

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is not purposefully a Bible study, since we're being biblical, we have to look at some of the

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verses. And we won't be going verse by verse. We'll be skipping around from one back to another.

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Let's get started. Genesis 1 verse 27 says, So God created man in his own image, in the image of God,

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he created them, male and female created he them. What does that mean? God created in the image of

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God. How are we in the image of God? There's a couple of pretty good answers on that. The image of God,

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well, if we know that God is triune, then we're made like he is. He made us with a spirit. So we

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are a spirit. We possess a soul. That's our mind, will, emotions, and imagination and intellect.

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That's the part of your soul. And it's housed in a flesh suit called a body. So we're three part just

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as God is a triune. The other part that we're like God is we're like God because we can make a choice.

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He gave us free will and we can choose. So that's why I'm doing this as choices that we believe because

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we have the ability just like God to make that choice. Moving on in verse 28. And God blessed

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them and God said unto them be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it and have

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dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over ever living thing that

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moves upon the earth. A couple of really interesting words want to look closer at is subdue and dominion.

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What does God give us when he said and subdue it and have dominion over? And then he said the fish

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and the birds and stuff that creeps along the earth. So this is in Hebrew, not Greek, but the

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Old Testament in Hebrew. The English word subdue in Hebrew is kabosh. We're going to put the kabosh on

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as slang as that might be, but it's kabosh. And it's a primitive root to talk about to tread down

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or to conquer, subjugate, put into bondage, force, keep under, subdue, bring into subjection.

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So God told us to bring into subjection and to conquer all of the fish, the birds, the animals,

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and the earth. Isn't that something to think about that God gave us that? And he doubled down on it

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when he said have dominion over because dominion in Hebrew is ra'dah. And it means to tread down,

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to subjugate, specifically to crumble off, come to make to have dominion prevail against rain

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or rule over or take. So then we have a man and a woman created in the image of God able to make

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choices. And he's told us to have sub dominion and subdue over all of the other creation, the fish,

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the birds, and the things that creep upon the earth. Now we have this man and woman that are

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reigning over creation. So let's let's kind of take a pause on that and from moving forward,

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but go back to the man and the woman. You see God created marriage with the first two humans.

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And it was a perfect union between himself as the Godhead, the fatherhead, and a male human

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and a female human. It forms a triangle. God's idea of a perfect marriage is three,

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not two, not four, not different kinds of ways. We have a lot of different ways. We try to make

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marriage work, but it only works perfectly the way God created it to. And if you if the man and the

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woman take God out of the picture, you have a marriage, but it doesn't really work as well as

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it would if it was under God. And then there's all these other variations where if you had the man

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submitted to God, but the woman left, you don't have a marriage. If you have a woman submitted

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to God and the man left, you don't have a marriage. And if you try to mix it up with

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any other formulas, it doesn't work right. God created marriage as a triangle with him at the top.

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Any other way and hey, if that can be messed up, I messed it up. I'm not saying I did that perfect

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because I got it wrong. But there's a few people that get it right. Let's look at Genesis

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chapter two and start in verse 21. And we get a little different point of view on this idea

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about marriage. Okay. So Genesis two, 21 says in Jehovah God caused a deep sleep fall on Adam,

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and he slept. Oh, just as a background, we gone through all the animals and every creation,

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and there was no suitable assistant for Adam, the man. So God caused him to sleep. And then God took

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a rib, closed up the flesh underneath and Jehovah God made the rib, which he had taken from men,

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into a woman. And he brought her to the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones and flesh

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of my flesh. She shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man. Therefore shall a man

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leave his father and mother and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

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That's God's marriage right there. So here we go. This is talking about marriage. It talks about how

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we had a man and one of his rib became a woman. In fact, it's interesting for those in Hebrew,

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the word that is translated into man as English is called ish, ish. It means man of or men of.

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It's a prefix in a lot of the Hebrew proper names such as ish, ish, ish, ish, ish, ish, ish, ish,

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ish, ish is also used in Hebrew to refer to a man. And it's written ish. Whereas woman,

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the Hebrew word for woman is ish. Oh, man, ish. I didn't know any saw her the first time he is

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gone is ha ha ha. So the English word woman refers to each and every female could be together,

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or it could be a wife or single female, which often is expressed in English. And we have to

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remember that English translation that we're reading, we get into the New Testament. This

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changes a little bit because it's Greek, which is a different language from Hebrew. And that

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that's another discussion for another day, because it can get really messed up.

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So let's also look at the word or name a d a m Adam or a Dom. A Dom in Hebrew talks about a human

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being as species, individual, common sort, low degree, a person. So if Adam was a person, and

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we want to point out here that God didn't name Eve Eve, when God called Adam, he expected the male

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and female version. If equality was ever in doubt, this is the quality because we had a Dom and we

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had male a Dom and female a Dom and God called one name expecting both whenever he called. So

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let's back up just for a bit and go to Genesis 216 and talk about the Lord's commandment to Adam,

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the male version, because she wasn't around at the time. And it says the Lord God commanded the man

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saying of every tree of the garden, you may freely eat, but the tree of the knowledge of good and

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evil, you shall not eat of it for in the day that you eat thereof, you shall surely die. Surely die.

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Surely die. What a deal. God is talking about what status or what condition that a Dom is in,

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and that if he eats of that fruit, which is now forbidden because he just said don't eat it,

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the condition of humanity will change. And I've had so many people try to tell me all kinds of

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stuff. This definition, that definition. I even had one very intelligent, educated man straight

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up say, well, here God lied because when they ate, they didn't drop over dead. And he said, you will

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surely die. But I don't think that's what God meant at the time. If you look at this, surely die

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happened in stages because sin came into the world. We're going to look at how that happened and what

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was behind it. But there was an immediate action and then there was an ultimate action. God is

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saying surely die by saying that death will come into your life and there's nothing you can do about

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it. You can't get around it. It will happen. So surely you will die. Secondly, part of the definition

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or the understanding about surely died is that they died spiritually. Now there was a chasm created

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because of their disobedience between them and God. So there was an immediate something that happened.

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There was an ultimate something that happened. And then there was a whole tsunami in between.

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Let's look at the Hebrew word here. This surely dies one word. It's M O O T H Muth. It's a got a

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root to die. It could be literally or figuratively causatively to kill, crying, be dead, be dead

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body or man or put to or worthy of death, destroy, be like, kill, necromancer,

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must needs slay surely very suddenly or lastly in no wise in no wise you will die.

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So he's pronounced on them. This is what's happening. And so the longer you study it,

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the more you're going to discover the many different things that happen negatively.

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When Adam, the man decided to eat of the fruit. And why do I say the man?

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Okay, let's continue in Genesis chapter three. Let's look at verse eight and examine this. So

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this is where God walking in the garden. Genesis three eight says, and they heard the voice of the

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Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And Adam and his wife hid themselves

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from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. I don't think this is the

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first time or the only time that God's taking a trip down through the garden. He's kind of

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saundering along. And he calls Adam. Again, when he calls Adam, he's only calling one name expecting

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both human beings male and female to respond. This is amazing. I love it. So they hid themselves

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from his presence. When the male Adam decided to eat the fruit. He did something that he had not

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ever done before. And this is what opened up that chasm. And the man put her word over God's word.

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Ultimately, he took Satan's words because we see in Genesis how the serpent tempted or deceived

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Eve. Now, so he took that word and put it over God's word. You see, she was not around when the

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father God told Adam not to eat of the tree. He was the keeper of the word of God. She only learned

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it from him. So he took the counterfeit word and placed it over the word of God. And that is when

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all the trouble started. You see, it also caused an identity crack between him and her, the man

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and the woman, because he had made a decision contrary to what the father God had told him.

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So moving to verse nine, chapter three, verse nine, the Lord God called unto Adam and said unto him,

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Where art thou? And he said, I heard your voice in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked

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and I hid myself. So God says, who told you you were naked? Oh, a little bit of a side.

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This idea that Adam and Eve didn't know they were naked gets all kinds of stuff because they had the

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glory of God hid their bodies and they couldn't see. I'm I'm like, probably not. They were so focused

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on Father God that they didn't pay any attention to their personal situation. They weren't looking

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at themselves the way they were looking at God. And so they weren't paying attention to their

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condition until the man made the decision. And it says their eyes were open.

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Their eyes both open when he decided to eat the fruit. So that's when sin entered in. And that's

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when their God focus became self focus. Verse 11 says, Who told you were naked? Have you eaten

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of the tree? Where have I commanded thee to that thou should us not eat? God never asked a question

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that he doesn't already know the answer. He's giving us an opportunity to articulate what's

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going on inside of ourselves. Verse 12, And the man said, The woman who thou gave us to me,

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she gave me of the tree and I did eat. Oh, threw her under the bus. Not good. That little crack

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that he did when he first decided to eat the fruit. Yeah, it just got bigger. So we have a new

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identity starting to form. We have this separation between the man and the woman.

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Genesis chapter three, something down to verse 20. And Adam called his wife's name E, because she

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was the mother of all living. A couple of things here already mentioned the first one. Here the man

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names his wife Eve gives her a new identity. He completes the separation. He is not having a good

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day today. He is really messing up and mucking everything up for everybody who's going to come

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after him. Secondly, because she was the mother of all living. I've heard people say, Well, God had

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to have made other people in the world and put them in different places because we see the succeeding

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generations where one guy is taking a wife and moving off and all of that stuff. This just says

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that she was the mother of all living. So all living human beings came originally from Eve.

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But going back to the identity thing, we're in a crisis here. She's never been separated from him.

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They've done everything together. She's going to have to learn what a new identity is. And

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just kind of as an illustration when we talk about identity, you know, we identify ourselves

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these days more by what we do than who we are. In the military, you identify with your rank.

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You're a private or a sergeant, or maybe you're a general. And with each one of those, you have

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a certain identity with who you are and what you do. It's the same thing in the corporate world with

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the titles. You can be a president and CEO, CFO, vice president, some kind of director manager.

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The title identifies you and you cling to that title. But that's not necessarily the case. However,

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there's good news while we're looking at this dilemma of sin coming into the world, separation

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of the man and the woman. They're no longer one, but now they're separate beings. If you want to see

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how the fixed works out, let's look at Revelation 19 verse 7. Revelation chapter 19 verse 7 says,

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Let us be glad and rejoice, and we will give glory to him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come,

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and his wife has prepared herself. Be assured, God will set everything back the way he planned,

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all along by the wedding of the church with Jesus as the husband. Jesus said when he walked here,

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he was the bridegroom. The bride of Christ is the same as the body of Christ and the church.

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So if you're a part of the church of Jesus Christ, your eternal destination is to be the wife

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of him who is our Redeemer. And that is really good news. But we see this as a triangle. God is at the

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top as the Father figure having dominion and Christ is the husband and the wife is the church. It is

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still a triangle and that's what his plan is for eternity. So this is why any other attempt to create

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a marriage differently is wrong. You see Genesis 224 is kind of going backwards there. Back in

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224 says, Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they

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shall become one flesh. Well, the one flesh is illustrated in multiple ways. The first way that

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we see the flesh is becoming one is sexual intercourse coming together. Another one is named

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when a child is produced, that the father and the mother came together and one body comes forth from

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that. That's an illustration. But but God's one is stronger than all of that. Back to the triangle

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that I talked about. Operating as one together in cooperation under the Godhead of or the figure

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head of God makes a perfect marriage in cooperation with each other. That means you're in unison.

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You function together as one doesn't mean your Siamese twins connected that way. It means that

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you are emotionally, spiritually, you're connected as one and you function making decisions and

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moving forward as one unit. And this is the reason why when we have multiple marriages, we, you know,

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have sex outside of marriage or any of the other variations that we are trying to do nowadays,

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it doesn't work. It's it's sin. The rest of the world where sin has come in, it affected all of

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nature. You know, before Adam made that decision, there was no death. The world did not experience

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death at all. Today, we are so calloused and desensitized because we drive down the road and

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there's dead animals inside the road. Doesn't affect us. We just drive on by. We have the

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seasons when we have dead plants, dead leaves, dead grass. There wasn't any of that. Everything was

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like springtime, alive, living, vibrant, coming forth, growing. But now we have sin

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that has entered the world and God cursed the serpent. He cursed the ground and the woman

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became began to have pain with childbirth on top of it all off on Genesis 3 21. And the Lord God

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made for Adam and his wife garments of skin and clothed them Genesis 3 21. God made for them

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garments of skins. Wonder where the skins came from. For the first time in all the world's history,

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which is not very far at this point, but nonetheless, God showed Adam and Eve how to kill.

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He killed an animal and skinned it and used that animal skin to clothe his humans.

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Death had come upon the earth and was never ever going to change until God comes and changes it

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one day. He made the garments form in this way. God Almighty takes sin and deals with it. He

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promised them that he would send a redeemer. And that redeemer would have his head bruised,

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but he would crush the head of the serpent. And the woman took that promise when she became

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pregnant. She thought she had her redeemer. But we know that it was a long time before the redeemer

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came and it's been a long time since he came and went. But we all look forward to the second

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coming of the redeemer. And that is where I am. And where I want you to be today is looking up,

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looking forward. The redeemer lives and he is promised that he would come back and take us all

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home to be his wife for eternity. Thank you for listening to me today. My name is Joe Watson.

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You are listening to the podcast Choices We Believe.