Greetings! My name is Joe Watson and you're listening to the podcast known as Choices
We Believe. Today we'll be talking about a continuation from the last episode on creation
and God. We'll be talking today about Adam and Eve, the first couple. So if you want to turn in
your Bibles or your device to Genesis chapter 1, I'm going to start in verse 27. And although this
is not purposefully a Bible study, since we're being biblical, we have to look at some of the
verses. And we won't be going verse by verse. We'll be skipping around from one back to another.
Let's get started. Genesis 1 verse 27 says, So God created man in his own image, in the image of God,
he created them, male and female created he them. What does that mean? God created in the image of
God. How are we in the image of God? There's a couple of pretty good answers on that. The image of God,
well, if we know that God is triune, then we're made like he is. He made us with a spirit. So we
are a spirit. We possess a soul. That's our mind, will, emotions, and imagination and intellect.
That's the part of your soul. And it's housed in a flesh suit called a body. So we're three part just
as God is a triune. The other part that we're like God is we're like God because we can make a choice.
He gave us free will and we can choose. So that's why I'm doing this as choices that we believe because
we have the ability just like God to make that choice. Moving on in verse 28. And God blessed
them and God said unto them be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it and have
dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over ever living thing that
moves upon the earth. A couple of really interesting words want to look closer at is subdue and dominion.
What does God give us when he said and subdue it and have dominion over? And then he said the fish
and the birds and stuff that creeps along the earth. So this is in Hebrew, not Greek, but the
Old Testament in Hebrew. The English word subdue in Hebrew is kabosh. We're going to put the kabosh on
as slang as that might be, but it's kabosh. And it's a primitive root to talk about to tread down
or to conquer, subjugate, put into bondage, force, keep under, subdue, bring into subjection.
So God told us to bring into subjection and to conquer all of the fish, the birds, the animals,
and the earth. Isn't that something to think about that God gave us that? And he doubled down on it
when he said have dominion over because dominion in Hebrew is ra'dah. And it means to tread down,
to subjugate, specifically to crumble off, come to make to have dominion prevail against rain
or rule over or take. So then we have a man and a woman created in the image of God able to make
choices. And he's told us to have sub dominion and subdue over all of the other creation, the fish,
the birds, and the things that creep upon the earth. Now we have this man and woman that are
reigning over creation. So let's let's kind of take a pause on that and from moving forward,
but go back to the man and the woman. You see God created marriage with the first two humans.
And it was a perfect union between himself as the Godhead, the fatherhead, and a male human
and a female human. It forms a triangle. God's idea of a perfect marriage is three,
not two, not four, not different kinds of ways. We have a lot of different ways. We try to make
marriage work, but it only works perfectly the way God created it to. And if you if the man and the
woman take God out of the picture, you have a marriage, but it doesn't really work as well as
it would if it was under God. And then there's all these other variations where if you had the man
submitted to God, but the woman left, you don't have a marriage. If you have a woman submitted
to God and the man left, you don't have a marriage. And if you try to mix it up with
any other formulas, it doesn't work right. God created marriage as a triangle with him at the top.
Any other way and hey, if that can be messed up, I messed it up. I'm not saying I did that perfect
because I got it wrong. But there's a few people that get it right. Let's look at Genesis
chapter two and start in verse 21. And we get a little different point of view on this idea
about marriage. Okay. So Genesis two, 21 says in Jehovah God caused a deep sleep fall on Adam,
and he slept. Oh, just as a background, we gone through all the animals and every creation,
and there was no suitable assistant for Adam, the man. So God caused him to sleep. And then God took
a rib, closed up the flesh underneath and Jehovah God made the rib, which he had taken from men,
into a woman. And he brought her to the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones and flesh
of my flesh. She shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man. Therefore shall a man
leave his father and mother and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
That's God's marriage right there. So here we go. This is talking about marriage. It talks about how
we had a man and one of his rib became a woman. In fact, it's interesting for those in Hebrew,
the word that is translated into man as English is called ish, ish. It means man of or men of.
It's a prefix in a lot of the Hebrew proper names such as ish, ish, ish, ish, ish, ish, ish, ish,
ish, ish is also used in Hebrew to refer to a man. And it's written ish. Whereas woman,
the Hebrew word for woman is ish. Oh, man, ish. I didn't know any saw her the first time he is
gone is ha ha ha. So the English word woman refers to each and every female could be together,
or it could be a wife or single female, which often is expressed in English. And we have to
remember that English translation that we're reading, we get into the New Testament. This
changes a little bit because it's Greek, which is a different language from Hebrew. And that
that's another discussion for another day, because it can get really messed up.
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
being as species, individual, common sort, low degree, a person. So if Adam was a person, and
we want to point out here that God didn't name Eve Eve, when God called Adam, he expected the male
and female version. If equality was ever in doubt, this is the quality because we had a Dom and we
had male a Dom and female a Dom and God called one name expecting both whenever he called. So
let's back up just for a bit and go to Genesis 216 and talk about the Lord's commandment to Adam,
the male version, because she wasn't around at the time. And it says the Lord God commanded the man
saying of every tree of the garden, you may freely eat, but the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil, you shall not eat of it for in the day that you eat thereof, you shall surely die. Surely die.
Surely die. What a deal. God is talking about what status or what condition that a Dom is in,
and that if he eats of that fruit, which is now forbidden because he just said don't eat it,
the condition of humanity will change. And I've had so many people try to tell me all kinds of
stuff. This definition, that definition. I even had one very intelligent, educated man straight
up say, well, here God lied because when they ate, they didn't drop over dead. And he said, you will
surely die. But I don't think that's what God meant at the time. If you look at this, surely die
happened in stages because sin came into the world. We're going to look at how that happened and what
was behind it. But there was an immediate action and then there was an ultimate action. God is
saying surely die by saying that death will come into your life and there's nothing you can do about
it. You can't get around it. It will happen. So surely you will die. Secondly, part of the definition
or the understanding about surely died is that they died spiritually. Now there was a chasm created
because of their disobedience between them and God. So there was an immediate something that happened.
There was an ultimate something that happened. And then there was a whole tsunami in between.
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
root to die. It could be literally or figuratively causatively to kill, crying, be dead, be dead
body or man or put to or worthy of death, destroy, be like, kill, necromancer,
must needs slay surely very suddenly or lastly in no wise in no wise you will die.
So he's pronounced on them. This is what's happening. And so the longer you study it,
the more you're going to discover the many different things that happen negatively.
When Adam, the man decided to eat of the fruit. And why do I say the man?
Okay, let's continue in Genesis chapter three. Let's look at verse eight and examine this. So
this is where God walking in the garden. Genesis three eight says, and they heard the voice of the
Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And Adam and his wife hid themselves
from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. I don't think this is the
first time or the only time that God's taking a trip down through the garden. He's kind of
saundering along. And he calls Adam. Again, when he calls Adam, he's only calling one name expecting
both human beings male and female to respond. This is amazing. I love it. So they hid themselves
from his presence. When the male Adam decided to eat the fruit. He did something that he had not
ever done before. And this is what opened up that chasm. And the man put her word over God's word.
Ultimately, he took Satan's words because we see in Genesis how the serpent tempted or deceived
Eve. Now, so he took that word and put it over God's word. You see, she was not around when the
father God told Adam not to eat of the tree. He was the keeper of the word of God. She only learned
it from him. So he took the counterfeit word and placed it over the word of God. And that is when
all the trouble started. You see, it also caused an identity crack between him and her, the man
and the woman, because he had made a decision contrary to what the father God had told him.
So moving to verse nine, chapter three, verse nine, the Lord God called unto Adam and said unto him,
Where art thou? And he said, I heard your voice in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked
and I hid myself. So God says, who told you you were naked? Oh, a little bit of a side.
This idea that Adam and Eve didn't know they were naked gets all kinds of stuff because they had the
glory of God hid their bodies and they couldn't see. I'm I'm like, probably not. They were so focused
on Father God that they didn't pay any attention to their personal situation. They weren't looking
at themselves the way they were looking at God. And so they weren't paying attention to their
condition until the man made the decision. And it says their eyes were open.
Their eyes both open when he decided to eat the fruit. So that's when sin entered in. And that's
when their God focus became self focus. Verse 11 says, Who told you were naked? Have you eaten
of the tree? Where have I commanded thee to that thou should us not eat? God never asked a question
that he doesn't already know the answer. He's giving us an opportunity to articulate what's
going on inside of ourselves. Verse 12, And the man said, The woman who thou gave us to me,
she gave me of the tree and I did eat. Oh, threw her under the bus. Not good. That little crack
that he did when he first decided to eat the fruit. Yeah, it just got bigger. So we have a new
identity starting to form. We have this separation between the man and the woman.
Genesis chapter three, something down to verse 20. And Adam called his wife's name E, because she
was the mother of all living. A couple of things here already mentioned the first one. Here the man
names his wife Eve gives her a new identity. He completes the separation. He is not having a good
day today. He is really messing up and mucking everything up for everybody who's going to come
after him. Secondly, because she was the mother of all living. I've heard people say, Well, God had
to have made other people in the world and put them in different places because we see the succeeding
generations where one guy is taking a wife and moving off and all of that stuff. This just says
that she was the mother of all living. So all living human beings came originally from Eve.
But going back to the identity thing, we're in a crisis here. She's never been separated from him.
They've done everything together. She's going to have to learn what a new identity is. And
just kind of as an illustration when we talk about identity, you know, we identify ourselves
these days more by what we do than who we are. In the military, you identify with your rank.
You're a private or a sergeant, or maybe you're a general. And with each one of those, you have
a certain identity with who you are and what you do. It's the same thing in the corporate world with
the titles. You can be a president and CEO, CFO, vice president, some kind of director manager.
The title identifies you and you cling to that title. But that's not necessarily the case. However,
there's good news while we're looking at this dilemma of sin coming into the world, separation
of the man and the woman. They're no longer one, but now they're separate beings. If you want to see
how the fixed works out, let's look at Revelation 19 verse 7. Revelation chapter 19 verse 7 says,
Let us be glad and rejoice, and we will give glory to him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come,
and his wife has prepared herself. Be assured, God will set everything back the way he planned,
all along by the wedding of the church with Jesus as the husband. Jesus said when he walked here,
he was the bridegroom. The bride of Christ is the same as the body of Christ and the church.
So if you're a part of the church of Jesus Christ, your eternal destination is to be the wife
of him who is our Redeemer. And that is really good news. But we see this as a triangle. God is at the
top as the Father figure having dominion and Christ is the husband and the wife is the church. It is
still a triangle and that's what his plan is for eternity. So this is why any other attempt to create
a marriage differently is wrong. You see Genesis 224 is kind of going backwards there. Back in
224 says, Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they
shall become one flesh. Well, the one flesh is illustrated in multiple ways. The first way that
we see the flesh is becoming one is sexual intercourse coming together. Another one is named
when a child is produced, that the father and the mother came together and one body comes forth from
that. That's an illustration. But but God's one is stronger than all of that. Back to the triangle
that I talked about. Operating as one together in cooperation under the Godhead of or the figure
head of God makes a perfect marriage in cooperation with each other. That means you're in unison.
You function together as one doesn't mean your Siamese twins connected that way. It means that
you are emotionally, spiritually, you're connected as one and you function making decisions and
moving forward as one unit. And this is the reason why when we have multiple marriages, we, you know,
have sex outside of marriage or any of the other variations that we are trying to do nowadays,
it doesn't work. It's it's sin. The rest of the world where sin has come in, it affected all of
nature. You know, before Adam made that decision, there was no death. The world did not experience
death at all. Today, we are so calloused and desensitized because we drive down the road and
there's dead animals inside the road. Doesn't affect us. We just drive on by. We have the
seasons when we have dead plants, dead leaves, dead grass. There wasn't any of that. Everything was
like springtime, alive, living, vibrant, coming forth, growing. But now we have sin
that has entered the world and God cursed the serpent. He cursed the ground and the woman
became began to have pain with childbirth on top of it all off on Genesis 3 21. And the Lord God
made for Adam and his wife garments of skin and clothed them Genesis 3 21. God made for them
garments of skins. Wonder where the skins came from. For the first time in all the world's history,
which is not very far at this point, but nonetheless, God showed Adam and Eve how to kill.
He killed an animal and skinned it and used that animal skin to clothe his humans.
Death had come upon the earth and was never ever going to change until God comes and changes it
one day. He made the garments form in this way. God Almighty takes sin and deals with it. He
promised them that he would send a redeemer. And that redeemer would have his head bruised,
but he would crush the head of the serpent. And the woman took that promise when she became
pregnant. She thought she had her redeemer. But we know that it was a long time before the redeemer
came and it's been a long time since he came and went. But we all look forward to the second
coming of the redeemer. And that is where I am. And where I want you to be today is looking up,
looking forward. The redeemer lives and he is promised that he would come back and take us all
home to be his wife for eternity. Thank you for listening to me today. My name is Joe Watson.
You are listening to the podcast Choices We Believe.