1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,100 Good morning. How are you all doing today? Awesome. Hey, we like to start by saying 2 00:00:08,100 --> 00:00:11,700 welcome to anybody that's here in our sanctuary for the first time or if 3 00:00:11,700 --> 00:00:15,040 you're watching us online for the first time, welcome. We're so glad you're here 4 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:20,580 to worship with us at Hosanna. I am Pastor Nathan and today we are going to 5 00:00:20,580 --> 00:00:27,500 be looking at the creation of woman in Genesis chapter 2. If you remember back 6 00:00:27,500 --> 00:00:32,520 in Genesis chapter 1 verse 27 it told us this, so God created man in his own image. 7 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:40,200 He created him in the image of God. He created them male and female. This brief 8 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:45,980 snapshot of the work that God did on day six of creation is what is focused in on 9 00:00:45,980 --> 00:00:52,520 greater detail in Genesis chapter 2. Last week we studied the first part of this 10 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:59,480 zoomed in topical look at day six as we looked at the creation of man or to put 11 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:05,080 it in terms the modern world needs to hear the male gender. And with a focus on 12 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:12,840 God's personal covenant relationship to man and with man and we saw that switch 13 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:18,600 in the designation for God switching from Elohim in chapter 1 which refers to 14 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:24,160 the eternal God Almighty, the transcendent all-powerful creator to 15 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:29,600 Yahweh Elohim which as he's talking about the creation of man and continues 16 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:35,040 to use in his creation of woman it's speaking of his personal, intimate, 17 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:42,600 loving, caring character, the intimate creator God who loves us and provides 18 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:49,800 for us. And really it was all about how he created man. This beloved 19 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:54,720 creation of his was created from dust and we looked at last time how that man 20 00:01:54,720 --> 00:02:00,600 was vastly different than all other living creatures that God created. That 21 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:07,960 he, man, was a living being uniquely, uniquely alive with an eternal spirit 22 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:16,040 that was gently and lovingly breathed into him by God himself. A very unique 23 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:23,360 detail of life that made man unique from anything else alive. I touched on this 24 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:28,760 well as we touched on this last week I mentioned how this uniquely special 25 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:34,560 quality of life that man had its eternal nature implies that animals don't go to 26 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:42,200 heaven to which I received some deeply offended backlash. We saw how God 27 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:48,920 provides for his beloved creation. He provided a garden to live in and to a 28 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:55,280 joy. He provided the means by which man could fulfill his calling to fulfill 29 00:02:55,280 --> 00:03:01,440 his calling to work and to watch over the garden. We saw how God provided the 30 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:07,960 free will by which man would not be forced to love God but have the 31 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:13,800 opportunity to make a decision to do so. And today we're gonna see God providing 32 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:20,680 for what might be man's greatest need in his creation of woman who is like man 33 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:25,660 but also his opposite. We're gonna talk about what that means today as we go 34 00:03:25,660 --> 00:03:31,840 through the word and learn God's definition of what a woman is so that 35 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:35,080 we might go to the public schools in our world today and help them in their 36 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:41,320 confusion. We're also gonna see God's definition of what the marriage 37 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:46,760 relationship is between a man and a woman. What it's intended to be, its 38 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:51,280 purpose, and its definition according to God. But first we're gonna spend some 39 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:54,880 time worshiping him and I encourage all of you guys you know in this world we 40 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:59,880 live in today. The very definitions that God has for some of the most basic 41 00:03:59,880 --> 00:04:05,740 things in his creation are being attacked, are being convoluted, people are 42 00:04:05,740 --> 00:04:11,600 aggressively trying to redefine terms all to justify sin. And we are called to 43 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:17,480 be people that stand solely and firmly on the Word of God. That we would 44 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:21,240 understand what God's definitions of things are and then be people who 45 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:28,280 lovingly and caringly yet boldly go into this dark world and share the truth of 46 00:04:28,280 --> 00:04:33,440 who God is and what he defines things to be with people who are lost in the 47 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:38,120 darkness. And so we want to praise God that he is in us through his spirit, that 48 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:43,000 he dwells within us his people, that he empowers us to understand his word and 49 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,160 then go out and to share that word with people. And so we're gonna do that today 50 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:50,520 before we get into the word. So if you all pray with me this morning. Father God, 51 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:57,720 we thank you so much for creating everything. God we thank you for sending 52 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:04,560 your Son to live on this earth within your creation, fully God and fully man, to 53 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:09,800 ultimately die on the cross, to pay the price for the sin that is in this world. 54 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:15,240 God we know that as this world deviates farther and farther from what you your 55 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:22,320 word you intended and what you define things to be, man and woman, gender and 56 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:28,280 purpose and role and marriage and all of that God. As the world deviates things 57 00:05:28,280 --> 00:05:33,240 get more and more perverse, things get darker and darker. And God although we 58 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:37,840 know that's what's supposed to happen as we studied through Revelation, we are 59 00:05:37,840 --> 00:05:43,760 still called to be people, to be warriors for Christ, to go out into this world, to 60 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:49,520 save those who are trapped by darkness. And so God I pray that you would speak 61 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:54,560 to us today and especially God today encourage the women, the women that are 62 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:58,600 here in our church and those that would hear this message Lord, encourage them to 63 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:04,600 be women who will defend the definition of who they are, who you created them to 64 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:09,680 be, their purpose in this world Lord which is under attack by so many in our 65 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:15,760 culture today. God we love you, we ask that you would just come and speak to us 66 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:24,040 today. We worship you, we praise your holy name because you are awesome. God we love 67 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:30,000 you so much. It's in Jesus name we pray, amen. We're in Genesis chapter 2 picking 68 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:35,180 up in verse 18 and the text we're considering today really it's recounting 69 00:06:35,180 --> 00:06:42,080 the provision of a divine helper for Adam. Last time we looked in the previous 70 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:46,400 verses at the reality of God's provision for man in creation that was really the 71 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:52,280 the theme last time and we saw how God ultimately provided not only in creation 72 00:06:52,280 --> 00:06:55,600 but then we forecasted all the way out through Jesus and we saw that God 73 00:06:55,600 --> 00:07:01,040 provides ultimately for man's greatest spiritual need which was salvation 74 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:05,160 through Jesus Christ coming and dying on the cross for us. Today we're gonna look 75 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:11,280 at what may be man's greatest or God's greatest earthly provision for man and 76 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:16,320 how God defines what that is. So as we're getting into it we have to 77 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:21,760 understand that everything we've seen so far through creation God has been the 78 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:26,400 initiator right. God is the one that initiated at every single moment and 79 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:30,720 every single level and we're gonna see more of that in this section. In verse 80 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:37,040 18 it says the Lord God said. Verse 19 the Lord God formed. Verse 21 the Lord God 81 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:45,240 caused. Verse 22 the Lord God made. Catching the theme? Who did it? God right? 82 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:51,600 Yeah and in each case we see that that personal promise-making, promise-keeping 83 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:58,000 covenant name of God the Lord God Yahweh Elohim and so overall in this entire 84 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:03,360 story of creation it's God who takes the initiative and here in chapter 2 we're 85 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:10,160 zoomed in on God taking the initiative to shape and define man, to shape and 86 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:15,240 define woman, and then to go on and shape and define their relationship and how 87 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:20,560 that's intended to work together. So as he defines these sayings what we see is 88 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:28,720 that God is the one who defines gender. He's the one that defines gender and he 89 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:39,640 defines how many there are. Spoiler alert there's two. Male and female. No more no 90 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:48,800 less. So the word of God tells us that gender is indeed binary. 91 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:53,600 There's two options. Now you know we live in a world today and right now I guess 92 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:58,120 it's pride month right? It's this month that is set aside in our secular 93 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:04,640 society to celebrate all of the perversions of all of this in our culture 94 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:09,400 today and I read that someone in the church said actually this should be a 95 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:14,520 national humility month as we humble ourselves as a church and pray that God 96 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:19,000 would work in our nation and work in the hearts of people. You know as the church 97 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:25,280 we don't hate anybody that is subscribing to these ideologies. We 98 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:31,400 love them and we actually love them enough to warn them about the dangers of 99 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:35,520 this stuff and so but yeah God is the one who defines it and that's really the 100 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:41,440 point of this section is God initiated, God created, and therefore God gets to 101 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:47,440 define it and his definition is the ones that stand. So in chapter one we saw six 102 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:51,800 different times as God was creating all the different elements of creation it 103 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:56,560 told us that God saw that it was good right? We saw that over and over and then 104 00:09:56,560 --> 00:10:02,960 in the very beginning of chapter two all of that was capped with a satisfied, God 105 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:06,920 was satisfied with the perfection on the seventh day and it tells us there or at 106 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:12,320 the end of the sixth day it says and it was very good so God was creating it was 107 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:16,120 good it was good it was good it was good and then after the sixth day he said it 108 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:21,600 was very good. Having already read that in chapter one one might be concerned 109 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:27,160 about the statement we read here in verse 18 read with me Genesis 2 18 then 110 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:34,320 the Lord God said it is not good for the man to be alone. Now again we can't 111 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:39,760 forget that this is not a second creation narrative this isn't a second 112 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:45,560 creation this is simply a zoomed in topical look at the chronological 113 00:10:45,560 --> 00:10:52,000 creation of Genesis 1 specifically a look at that day six moment right? You 114 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:57,680 remember in Genesis 1 27 on the sixth day it says God created them male and 115 00:10:57,680 --> 00:11:04,080 female so if you if you divide that up it says male then there's a space and 116 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:09,720 female all right? Verses 7 through 17 of Genesis 2 is what takes place in the 117 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:14,960 space he created male and then we read all about that in detail and now we're 118 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:19,160 gonna go on and read about him making female but I want to point out 119 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:24,760 something very important in that space of time before woman was not on the 120 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:32,680 scene that is what God is declaring is not good. It's a very very strong language 121 00:11:32,680 --> 00:11:39,920 he's using here it's not referring to just the absence of something what is 122 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:46,560 not good here is he's indicating a substantial deficiency right? A 123 00:11:46,560 --> 00:11:50,560 substantial deficiency and so again I just want to point out again this 124 00:11:50,560 --> 00:11:55,760 observation in verse 18 God's observation and God's declaration it's 125 00:11:55,760 --> 00:12:03,360 all God's it's God's declaration God's summary of the situation from his point 126 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:09,920 of view he didn't ask Adam hey bro you do you feel alone? He didn't ask right? 127 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:17,040 Adam may have had no idea that it was not good for him to be alone possibly 128 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:20,760 wasn't even aware that he was alone as we're gonna see in the next few verses 129 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:26,160 he was in the garden he had every abundant provision that he could possibly 130 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:32,160 want at least in his own mind he had the garden itself right? All of the trees and 131 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:36,960 all this stuff he had an entire zoo of animals that that just adored him as 132 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:41,240 their ruler right? God said he created him to rule over it and so all the 133 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:46,280 animals just adored him and so the assessment of this moment by God in this 134 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:52,120 gap between man and woman this assessment by God was not a response to 135 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:57,960 any complaint by Adam rather right after God creates man and places him in the 136 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:02,480 garden and then gives him instructions on how to live and don't eat from this 137 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:07,680 tree lest you will die it's God alone that deemed that man was incomplete on 138 00:13:07,680 --> 00:13:14,240 his own and he declared this halfway through the sixth day of creation and it 139 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:17,680 just points out an entire or an important point for all of us that it is 140 00:13:17,680 --> 00:13:24,500 God who is ultimately the one who knows our needs better than we do we might 141 00:13:24,500 --> 00:13:29,160 think we know what our needs are and and we often pray to God about those 142 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:32,760 perceived needs that we have and sometimes they're accurate and sometimes 143 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:36,840 they're not they're more wants than needs but we have to remember that God 144 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:42,320 knows our needs he's our creator he knows what we need better than we do it's 145 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:49,000 why we pray after Jesus's example right not my will but your will be done it's 146 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:53,200 why we we with Thanksgiving according to Philippians let our prayers and 147 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:58,560 supplications be known to him and then it tells us when we do that we rest in 148 00:13:58,560 --> 00:14:02,960 the peace that surpasses all understanding it's because God knows 149 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:08,040 there's no better place to go to than God with your needs God this is what I 150 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:13,000 think I need but not my will your will be done God here's all my prayers here's 151 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:16,040 all my supplications and I'm so thankful for what you've already given me and so 152 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:21,200 God I'm gonna put it in your hands and ah peace right that's the relationship 153 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:25,320 that we're called to have it's when we try to determine and define what is 154 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:30,600 right and wrong what is good and bad without reference to God without 155 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:34,560 reference to God's word when we do that it's it's then that we come up with all 156 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:41,240 manner of destructive foolishness and we see a lot of that in our world today 157 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:48,280 God knows what we need God knows how things should be because God created all 158 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:54,240 of it and we as his creation find the most peace the most joy the most 159 00:14:54,240 --> 00:15:02,080 blessing following his way following his word following his plan aligning 160 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:08,200 ourselves with his definitions of things in this world and so now I do find it 161 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:13,320 very interesting that the very first thing in all of creation that God says 162 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:20,040 this isn't good is for man to be without woman it's the first thing male to be 163 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:24,040 without female that's the first thing God says that's not good that's not good 164 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:30,920 now this speaks tons about how important women are to God's design ladies pay 165 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:36,960 attention right the very first thing in all of creation God went that's not good 166 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:43,040 is that you weren't there it shows so much how important you are now he 167 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:48,360 phrases it this way the Lord God said it is not good for the man to be alone and 168 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:55,520 that word alone means isolated it means solitary it means alone now if you 169 00:15:55,520 --> 00:16:01,760 remember back in Genesis chapter 1 verse 26 and 28 God declared they will rule 170 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:05,720 the fish of the sea the birds of the sky the livestock the whole earth and the 171 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:10,840 creatures that crawl on the earth and then it says God blessed them and said 172 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:15,600 to them brief be fruitful multiply fill the earth and subdue it and rule all the 173 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:23,280 creatures God's design for mankind humans male and female he created them 174 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:27,480 was to be fruitful to multiply to fill the earth to subdue it and to rule all 175 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:36,880 the creatures now guess what man male cannot fully do this on his own it's 176 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:45,120 it's it's pretty biologically solid that man cannot procreate on his own he can't 177 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:49,840 fill the earth he can't multiply on his own and in this modern notion that oh no 178 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:54,640 men could get pregnant it's just foolishness it's absolute foolishness 179 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:59,040 it's the height of foolishness and that's exactly what the book of Romans 180 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:04,080 told us would happen in our world that professing to be wise we're so 181 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:10,320 enlightened we're so progressive they became fools right Adam could not fulfill 182 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:14,600 God's will for his life which is much more than procreation but he couldn't do 183 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:21,760 it without woman being there with them and it points out something else that's 184 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:27,360 very important is is God never intended for man to be alone either in a marital 185 00:17:27,360 --> 00:17:34,880 sense or a social sense right we are social creatures by nature man and woman 186 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:42,000 but in the context of this man was was was created to need companionship right 187 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:48,920 guys need to hang out with guys guys need relationship in their life now this is 188 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:56,360 not to say that being a single man or a single woman is sinful or wrong in that 189 00:17:56,360 --> 00:18:02,840 sense first Corinthians 7 Paul had a lot to say about this and he said look some 190 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:09,200 have the gift of marriage some have the gift of singleness but biblically it 191 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:14,400 does seem to indicate that marriage the union of a man and a woman for not just 192 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:20,240 procreation but but life and so much that's God's will for most people in 193 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:25,680 most cases that's what the Bible seems to indicate but in first Corinthians 7 194 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:32,240 Paul did point out that hey if you could remain single without burning in lust 195 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:35,840 without sleeping around without playing the field if you could remain single 196 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:40,320 hey that's a good thing because then your whole life can be dedicated to God 197 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:44,240 right you don't have the the concerns of your wife and your family and so Paul 198 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:47,560 says look if you can do that if God's called you that and gifted you that it's 199 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:52,280 a good thing but still even if you're a single person you still need the 200 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:58,400 community around you to fully fulfill what God has for your life so then he 201 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:02,680 goes on with the rest of verse 18 it's not good for man to be alone so I will 202 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:08,560 make a helper corresponding to him now ladies you might read that kind of verse 203 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:15,160 and not feel very flattered by that right a helper I was created to be a 204 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:22,360 helper corresponding to man you know there's ladies there's many of you out 205 00:19:22,360 --> 00:19:27,000 there that that gosh from a knowledge standpoint from a skill standpoint from 206 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:32,560 an experience standpoint you're blowing the man out of the water right so so 207 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:37,160 what does he mean here you know I mean how would you feel right ladies if you're 208 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:40,080 if you're married and your husband introduced you to somebody this is my 209 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:48,360 helper right with the would you wow I feel so special right it I mean that 210 00:19:48,360 --> 00:19:53,360 word sounds like you're just like an assistant or you're you're like an 211 00:19:53,360 --> 00:19:56,720 apprentice employee you know I read one guy and he goes yeah it would be like 212 00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:01,840 this I take you as my lawfully wedded wife to cook and to launder to have and 213 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:08,160 to fold so let's dig into this word let's dig into this word a little bit 214 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:11,560 because ladies it really is something beautiful in the Hebrew it's the word 215 00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:18,280 either easy er or Ezer it literally means a person who gives support aid and 216 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:24,280 relief to another in a time of need or difficulty right but the the greater 217 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:29,720 application of this is that it's a stabilizing force that that's really the 218 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:35,240 idea of this word see it's an interesting word because it carries like 219 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:38,840 a bunch of different meanings so before anybody checks out here I want you to 220 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:46,360 understand what this word means here first this word helper either is used of 221 00:20:46,360 --> 00:20:52,640 God himself as the helper of Israel so before you think oh this is a 222 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:57,720 derogatory term this is a no no this is the same word God uses of himself as the 223 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:04,840 helper of Israel you see in Exodus chapter 18 verse 4 Moses referred to God 224 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:12,840 as his helper who delivered him from Israel so this word helper in in the 225 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:17,400 rest of the Old Testament it almost has militaristic overtones right because 226 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:19,920 because as you go through the Old Testament you see that God was the 227 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:24,640 helper to Israel it was oftentimes when Israel was in trouble and they had blown 228 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:29,280 it they had done something wrong or the enemies were just coming upon them and 229 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:36,160 God stepped in and helped stabilize the situation he stepped in to accomplish 230 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:41,440 help Israel accomplish what they couldn't accomplish on their own it 231 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:47,840 really is the idea of an allied king royalty coming to the aid of another 232 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:54,800 king royalty and so again in Genesis 1 26 it told us that man and woman were 233 00:21:54,800 --> 00:22:02,200 made in the likeness and the image of God that word likeness there again if 234 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:05,680 you go through the Old Testament you'll see it many times used when when like a 235 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:11,960 king has their has their offspring and that that offspring is in the likeness 236 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:17,280 of their father right it's an idea that they're that they carry similarities and 237 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:21,960 whatnot but not the same Psalm 46 1 it says God is our refuge and strength a 238 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:28,860 helper who is always found in times of trouble now this isn't to say God is a 239 00:22:28,860 --> 00:22:34,720 woman regardless of what pop stars want to write in their songs but that helper 240 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:44,480 helper is in no way implying servitude or a lower status or anything like that 241 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:49,580 so ladies when you read this and it says God's gonna make a helper and it tells 242 00:22:49,580 --> 00:22:54,200 us he made woman that's that's not making you subservient and in some less 243 00:22:54,200 --> 00:23:02,320 important way or inferior not at all you are the thing that brings stability to 244 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:10,280 man the person the creation now Adam needed all the help he could get because 245 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:16,720 like him being alone I don't believe he was even aware of his need for help he 246 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:21,320 was just going about it and doing it and you know taking care of the garden and 247 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:26,920 you know in in guys right we still deal with this today don't we we don't want 248 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:33,560 help I don't need your help with directions I know how to get there we'll 249 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:40,200 just turn on the GPS I don't need your help with the project right it's it 250 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:46,800 you know and the more we deny help the more lost we get you know so but but the 251 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:51,140 idea here is it's a lot more than just physical help right it's there's an 252 00:23:51,140 --> 00:23:56,920 emotional and a spiritual help that woman brings to man it's really because 253 00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:03,800 man can fall to self-doubt self-deprecation extreme condemnation and 254 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:07,120 guilt when they can't provide for their family when they can't protect their 255 00:24:07,120 --> 00:24:13,280 family man often can find himself feeling like a loser or a failure when 256 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:19,360 he looks into the eyes of those he loves the most and he finds criticism there 257 00:24:19,360 --> 00:24:24,400 and he finds challenge there and demeaning words there and what happens is 258 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:30,660 then man gives up turns to things like drinking or drugs to kind of bury the 259 00:24:30,660 --> 00:24:36,120 pain he tries to hide and disappear right when men get upset typically were 260 00:24:36,120 --> 00:24:40,760 the ones that want to go away we want to hide we don't want to talk anymore this 261 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:48,480 conversation is done but the power the effect a woman has in the life of the 262 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:54,600 man who loves her is incredible there's a book out there ladies if you've never 263 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:58,200 read it it's called the power of a praying wife even if you're not married 264 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:03,040 I encourage you to get it it is incredible you see when the woman a man 265 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:11,800 loves believes in him and supports him gosh he can conquer the world everybody 266 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:15,920 could be against him but if that one woman that is that is his helpmate his 267 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:21,440 helper corresponding to him if she's behind him saying honey you could do it 268 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:29,080 this guy's the limit you know Irene my assistant she's a great assistant by the 269 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:34,960 way I said this she goes as woman is made in the likeness of God made to be a 270 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:41,240 helper to man who is made from dirt but also made in the likeness of God one of 271 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:45,480 the greatest roles I can play possibly the greatest role is to be the mirror 272 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:52,120 for man to remind him that he is made in the image of God to not be the one 273 00:25:52,120 --> 00:25:57,440 pointing out that he's dirt because man will often do that to himself but to be 274 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:03,000 a source of everything he is made in the image of God to be his reminder that he 275 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,880 is the imago day that he carries the love and the strength and the compassion 276 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:12,400 and creative ability the image of God himself to continually uplift him and 277 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:18,480 that he would look to me woman and know his value and worth as being made in 278 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:24,840 God's image that beautiful that just sums up this whole idea here and that 279 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:28,320 is really what's summed up in Ephesians chapter 5 that whole section that's 280 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,920 about marriage where it says wives at the end of the section it says wives 281 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:38,160 respect your husbands that's what it's talking about man does a good enough job 282 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:43,400 going I'm a loser I'm a failure I want to quit I'm useless and right and when 283 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:47,600 we pile on that and ladies if you when you pile on that it's it's destructive 284 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:53,600 in so many ways not that man is perfect in any of these things but he needs that 285 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:58,920 encouragement he needs that stabilizing force to offset what the enemy is 286 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:06,680 whispering into his ears all day every day now so it says a helper corresponding 287 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:12,000 to him that word corresponding means literally like opposite she's like him 288 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:19,160 but opposite him so woman at this time of creation was and is today like and 289 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:25,760 unlike man what does this mean it means that one she would share his nature she 290 00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:29,200 would be like him in the fact that they're both created in the image of God 291 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:35,680 they both display God's image in who they are but as his matching opposite 292 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:40,680 perfectly suited to him she would fit with him like like the yin and yang 293 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:44,200 symbol have you guys seen that that like black and white symbol you know and they 294 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:48,800 they fit together perfectly you ever seen those like those cute charms that 295 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,640 people would get it's like two halves of a heart and the guy wears one and the 296 00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:56,960 girl wears one oh right but it's literally that idea click wow what a 297 00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:03,620 perfect picture she would supply what was lacking in him per God's observation 298 00:28:03,620 --> 00:28:08,320 remember God is the one who defined what was lacking in man this isn't an attack 299 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:14,880 on man this is God who created man going yeah he's incomplete without this so as 300 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:19,880 I've stated it seems Adam wasn't even aware of his need and so God intervened 301 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:24,880 to bring him that awareness look at verse 19 then God formed out of the 302 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:28,440 ground every wild animal in every bird of the sky and brought each to the man 303 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,240 to see what he would call it and whatever the man called the living 304 00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:35,700 creature that was its name the man gave names to all the livestock to the birds 305 00:28:35,700 --> 00:28:41,240 of the sky to every wild animal but for the man no helper was found 306 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:47,480 corresponding to him so as as Adam was contemplating his existence and we call 307 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:51,920 him Adam because the word man in the Hebrew is Adam okay that's where he got 308 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:57,360 his name from he was contemplating his existence his calling right I believe 309 00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:01,480 this all happened on the sixth day so he's just freshly created and God put 310 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,560 him in the garden he's like cool I gotta work this place and watch over it and 311 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:08,520 he's just chilling and then all of a sudden God brings these animals to him 312 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:13,080 this is what are you gonna name it now this verse here this is another one where 313 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:17,160 people go no chapter 2 is a different creation because you know he created the 314 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:21,820 animals you know on the beginning of day six and he created birds and fish on one 315 00:29:21,820 --> 00:29:26,360 of the other previous days and yet it's saying the Lord God formed him here this 316 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:29,680 is another section where the language the original Hebrew carries the idea of 317 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:34,580 the Lord God had formed right it's he's topically referring to something that 318 00:29:34,580 --> 00:29:39,880 had already happened and so he brings the animals in and he gives Adam the 319 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:44,420 right to name them you see God was the namer of all creation God is the one 320 00:29:44,420 --> 00:29:49,080 that said this is day this is night God is the one that said this is earth this 321 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:55,640 is sky this is see right God named everything but then here he's bestowing 322 00:29:55,640 --> 00:30:01,360 sovereignty to Adam underneath God's authority and we see that in his naming 323 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:05,480 creatures like Adam you're gonna have rulership over this so you name them you 324 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:09,480 name them it's like you know parents you know you get to you get to name your 325 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:13,020 children when they brought into the world right and you know I know some 326 00:30:13,020 --> 00:30:18,880 parents you know they've they've you know taken that authority you know to 327 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,840 great extents when they get mad and say I brought you into this world I'll take 328 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:28,360 you out right you know but the idea is like like I've I've given you your name 329 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:32,960 and that implies an authority over that that life that creature and it's how 330 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:36,720 Adam was over the over the animals now that word name there as it says Adam 331 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:41,240 named them it means more than just its designation or its outward appearance 332 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:46,520 it's much more than just that right the Hebrew word is sem SEM and it denotes a 333 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:53,480 deep direct insight into the nature of the named meaning that the name of these 334 00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:57,680 creature represented its inward characteristics as well as its outward 335 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:01,680 characteristics it was much more than what it looked like but it was its 336 00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:07,880 behavior and how it acted right this was he didn't just name the animals he 337 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:13,440 interpreted them that's the idea here and so this simply suggests that Adam 338 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:18,640 was brilliant he had deep insight you know I believe that Adam was probably 339 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:22,400 the most brilliant man of all time smarter than anybody that has ever 340 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:28,400 existed at least on the human side of things and and so Adams naming all the 341 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:32,400 animals now there are some conjecture here where people go is it every animal 342 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:37,120 in the world or is it just the Adams are animals local to him I don't know but I 343 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,880 don't put it past God to be able to say all the animals in the world name them 344 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:44,280 you know I don't put that past the Lord's power anyways as he was naming 345 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:48,600 these animals the idea here is that his skill of observation and interpretation 346 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:53,480 and identification just got better and better and better right his his ability 347 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:56,960 to look and analyze and just kind of really name the creature based on its 348 00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:02,600 nature got really really good you'll notice that then when we look around it 349 00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:07,640 doesn't tell us here that Adam named any of the creatures after himself which 350 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:12,560 implies that he understood that he was essentially different than the animal 351 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:16,320 kingdom and so as he named all these animals it tells us that he realized 352 00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:22,160 something one that God did not create the even the animal kingdom according to 353 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:28,640 multiple genders but rather there were two they were male and female every 354 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:34,840 creature had a corresponding helper one that fit to them different but man 355 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:39,720 together they were like one beautiful picture those animals who God said go 356 00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:43,760 and multiply and fill the earth right well they were able to do that because 357 00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:48,000 they had this corresponding helper and then they had this one that was just 358 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:54,000 like them but but opposite but a perfectly complementary fit I believe 359 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:58,920 in his naming of the animals he saw how they had community how they had opposite 360 00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:03,520 roles I'm sure he observed how they had biological differences that supported 361 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:08,400 those those roles in the community and and so yeah in the animal kingdom he 362 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:15,800 just saw so much like but unlike but not for him and in the process of that I 363 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:22,240 believe as Adam started to realize I'm alone I don't have one like but unlike 364 00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:27,080 me I don't have someone that's gonna help me fulfill you know there's this 365 00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:33,400 overall calling in my life and I believe this was to prepare Adam to value his 366 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:41,200 helper to esteem her to honor her to cherish her cherish her to love her to 367 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:47,640 appreciate the differences and celebrate the similarities and this first Peter 368 00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:52,320 3 7 tells us this Peter writes and he says husbands in the same way live with 369 00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:56,040 your wives in an understanding way as with a weaker partner now before 370 00:33:56,040 --> 00:34:00,280 everybody goes pick it you know it's weaker partner simply is referring to 371 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:05,840 the general physical strength difference between man and woman it's it's a 372 00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:09,880 acknowledgement that there are biological differences and over the 373 00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:14,000 entirety of humanity men tend to be biologically stronger and women not in 374 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,960 every case so that's what it means by weaker partner but then right after that 375 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:24,040 he goes showing them honor as co-heirs of the grace of life he goes do that so 376 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:28,520 your prayers should not be hindered she is like him as a co-heir but unlike him 377 00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:33,400 in physical makeup and so God had revealed Adam's need to him I believe 378 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:37,840 Adam understood the need it's reasonable to assume he kind of started to ache for 379 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:43,480 one that was like but and unlike himself and so verse 21 it says so the Lord God 380 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:48,320 caused a deep sleep to come over the man and he slept God took one of his ribs 381 00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:52,200 and closed the flesh at that place then the Lord God made the rib he had taken 382 00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:59,520 from the man into a woman now stop there so he made Adam go into a sleep this 383 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:02,680 kind of sleep we see in scriptures usually kind of like a divinely induced 384 00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:09,000 thing in Genesis 15 Abraham is is put into a sleep like this when God showed 385 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:13,720 him the the idea of the covenant was establishing the Abrahamic covenant Jonah 386 00:35:13,720 --> 00:35:17,800 chapter 1 implies that Jonah may have fallen into one of these deep sleeps 387 00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:21,200 where God revealed some things to him and so the man went to sleep and then 388 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:29,280 God took one of his ribs no man does not have one less rib than woman okay we got 389 00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:34,040 all of them but but this word rib this is this is one of those weird words it 390 00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:40,000 can mean rib right like rib it also could mean side like like the side of a 391 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,600 structure all the left side of the building the right side of the building 392 00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:48,960 and it can also mean load-bearing beam it means all three of these things so 393 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:58,280 this idea of the rib is that it implies stability of an object or a person it is 394 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:04,320 implying that whole idea of woman stabilizes man the same thing we've been 395 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:11,200 talking about and really we see that right especially in younger men they 396 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:15,920 shower once a week sometimes you know they turn their clothes inside out 397 00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:21,200 instead of washing them but then a woman comes into the picture what happens I 398 00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:29,160 got a shower every day twice a day my clothes are dirty I gotta wear cologne 399 00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:37,200 maybe they go from a caveman to to a civilized man but this idea is this rib 400 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:43,120 because it's also the rib inside of the building and load-bearing beam it really 401 00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:47,020 is that idea of stabilizing now if you've ever cracked your rib I've done 402 00:36:47,020 --> 00:36:50,640 that once I was riding a skateboard and I fell and I hit a corner of concrete 403 00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:55,920 and cracked my rib I couldn't walk I couldn't breathe I couldn't do anything 404 00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:59,480 and I realized oh my goodness how important your ribs are right how they 405 00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:04,840 hold you together and allowed you to just function and so this word is is 406 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:09,280 sometimes translated different ways I believe it's actually rib myself but it 407 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:13,640 doesn't have any real big bearing on the idea because it says God took one of his 408 00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:22,320 ribs right and then closed closed closed the flesh at that place but some people 409 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:27,560 do say it means sides you know God took one of his sides so anyways but the 410 00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:31,900 point is is that God took this element out of Adam and made woman and so the 411 00:37:31,900 --> 00:37:37,920 rib is a very significant detail here like Adam wasn't created out of nothing 412 00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:41,720 most of creation was created out of nothing but he was created from the dust 413 00:37:41,720 --> 00:37:46,560 of the ground he was created from something else neither was Eve neither 414 00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:53,440 was woman at least indirectly she was made from man she was made of the same 415 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:59,720 bone and the same flesh and the same DNA yet with unique differences very unique 416 00:37:59,720 --> 00:38:06,000 differences but Eve was the first human to be created from another human Adam 417 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:10,160 was made from the dirt Eve was made from man and because she came from Adam 418 00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:15,320 because she shares his nature she's also equally in the image of God as is every 419 00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:21,320 human that comes from every human sense this is why we as a church believe 420 00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:28,640 abortion is wrong that life in the womb is created in the image of God and it 421 00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:35,320 comes from human Eve was the first one and then woman down the line only woman 422 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:41,720 has the blessed ability to bring life into this world it's a beautiful thing 423 00:38:41,720 --> 00:38:46,560 but again Genesis 127 which summed up the entire chapter God created man in 424 00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:50,120 his own image he created him in the image of God he created them male and 425 00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:57,160 female so woman came out of the side of Adam it's interesting to me that when we 426 00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:01,680 go into the New Testament we see the bride of Christ which is the church the 427 00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:06,560 bride of Christ came from the wound on Jesus's side right it was his blood that 428 00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:10,640 cleansed us of all sin that blood that flowed out of him and so we see the same 429 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:15,300 picture that his bride the church came from his side and it's not that we 430 00:39:15,300 --> 00:39:19,800 stabilized Christ in any way but the idea is that the church came from him 431 00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:25,400 the blood that flowed washed us clean and so the woman being created out of 432 00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:31,280 man is the basis for her equality to man she is an equal as first Peter 3 7 said 433 00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:35,840 an equal co-heir of the grace of life some of you guys have heard this before 434 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:39,200 but this is famous saying and I tried to look up where it came from and 435 00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:42,080 everybody quotes it from a different source so I don't know but it says woman 436 00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:46,960 was not made out of his head to be above him she was not taken from man's foot to 437 00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:51,960 be trampled on by him but she was taken out of his side to be equal with him 438 00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:59,480 under his arm to be protected by him and near to his heart to be loved by him so 439 00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:06,000 spiritually before God man and woman is equal right there's not one that's more 440 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:09,440 superior one that's more inferior they're equal they're equally loved by 441 00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:15,840 God man and woman are equally sinful man and woman are equally saved by Christ 442 00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:22,600 man and woman are equally gifted by God but then verse 22 the rest of it it 443 00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:28,600 tells us so he created woman and he brought her to man I just think that's a 444 00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:32,280 really beautiful picture because you've all been to weddings right who's the one 445 00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:37,960 that brings the bride to the groom the father so we just see this neat picture 446 00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:42,920 of God himself leading the woman to man much like that but again much like man 447 00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:48,520 and woman are are like an opposite much like they're equal before God in their 448 00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:55,600 standing they are different in role and responsibility see Eve was created as a 449 00:40:55,600 --> 00:41:02,240 helper for Adam not the other way around that's a very important concept to 450 00:41:02,240 --> 00:41:07,800 understand when it comes to God's design for the family and even God's design for 451 00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:14,160 the church Eve was created as a helper for Adam Adam was created first then Eve 452 00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:19,200 this difference right they're both equal standing before God but this difference 453 00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:23,920 it's the basis for biblical teaching on things that we call gender roles in the 454 00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:29,560 family in the church in 1st Corinthians chapter 11 Paul the Apostle wrote man is 455 00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:34,280 the head of the woman just as Christ is the head of man in Ephesians 5 that 456 00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:37,960 passage all about marriage it says the husband is the head of the wife as 457 00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:43,720 Christ is the head of the church now the context of both of those passages are 458 00:41:43,720 --> 00:41:51,960 about the responsibility of authority within those contexts as defined by God 459 00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:57,240 that has nothing to do with worth has nothing to do with value has nothing to 460 00:41:57,240 --> 00:42:01,920 do with skill has nothing to do with gifting it's not implying superiority 461 00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:06,600 and inferiority in any way it's simply the context of the responsibility of 462 00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:12,880 authority as defined by God and so biblically in the concepts of both the 463 00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:20,080 family in the church the Bible teaches that male headship or male authority is 464 00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:24,200 is the way God has set it up we see it example in the Bible we see it taught in 465 00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:30,200 God's Word within the church for example in 1st Timothy chapter 2 it speaks of 466 00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:35,040 authoritative doctrinal teaching and leadership within the church and what it 467 00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:40,200 says in 1st Timothy 2 that this type of teaching establishing doctrine and all 468 00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:43,680 of that this type of teaching and leadership in the church it restricts it 469 00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:48,640 to men God restricts it to men where Paul says I don't permit a woman to teach 470 00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:53,440 or have authority over the men in the church and why does Paul say that well 471 00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:59,080 first Timothy 2 13 Paul says for Adam was formed first then Eve he appeals to 472 00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:04,560 the creation order for why God established this order in his church it 473 00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:08,640 doesn't mean women that you're less skilled or you're less anything it 474 00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:14,040 literally is because God said so and truth be told I think most men in the 475 00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:17,600 world were like I don't want that responsibility let the woman do it she's 476 00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:21,320 really good at the bills right and God said no you're and we'll get into that 477 00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:28,040 in chapter 3 and all that stuff but so yes women lead in the church yes women 478 00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:33,560 teach in the church yes even women women even have a gift of shepherding within 479 00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:38,440 the context of the community of the church but not as elders or overseers or 480 00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:44,120 pastors because that's what God said then in the family back in Ephesians 5 in 481 00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:47,560 the very beginning of that marriage section it says wives submit to your 482 00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:53,400 husbands and that's like ooh don't say that in our culture right but in 483 00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:58,240 Ephesians 5 he says why he goes why I'm instructing the wives to submit to their 484 00:43:58,240 --> 00:44:01,760 husbands because the husband is ahead of the wife as Christ is the head of the 485 00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:08,080 church guys you need to understand something your wives are individual 486 00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:12,480 people same standing with you accountable to God for their life but you 487 00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:18,680 are accountable for her and the family if your wife goes off the deep end 488 00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:22,840 somewhere God's gonna say you're the spiritual leader what happened if your 489 00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:26,120 kids go off into the deep end God's gonna say husband you're the spiritual 490 00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:32,040 leader what happened I put you in charge you're responsible for this now yeah 491 00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:35,960 they're ultimately responsible for their own individual decisions but God is 492 00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:40,620 still gonna call you to account because that's how he set it up wives he said 493 00:44:40,620 --> 00:44:46,240 hey you're to yield submit to their leadership in the family now this this 494 00:44:46,240 --> 00:44:51,320 chain of command if you will this chain of authority I see it established here 495 00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:56,040 in God presenting Eve to Adam Adam was formed first and then God created Eve and 496 00:44:56,040 --> 00:45:00,720 he said here she's for you right I created her to be a helper 497 00:45:00,720 --> 00:45:06,640 corresponding to you not the other way around very important distinction so 498 00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:11,680 what we see here is their creation of the same substance the same image the 499 00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:16,680 same likeness of God is God defining their equal standing their equal 500 00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:23,080 spiritual standing their equal value and worth before God but then the creation 501 00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:28,840 order is God defining their roles and responsibilities of authority within the 502 00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:33,800 context of the family and the context of the church and women your role is 503 00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:40,040 critical your your role is immensely equally valuable and it's such a 504 00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:46,680 stabilizing force in the lives of your husbands in the lives of your sons even 505 00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:52,840 as you're raising them it's so critical it's so important and so we go on here 506 00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:56,900 and and we see that this woman that God presented to him was stunning she's the 507 00:45:56,900 --> 00:46:00,760 prototype of all women perfect in every aspect and again we have to remember 508 00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:05,360 Adam was made aware of his need his skills of discernment and identification 509 00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:09,520 that was all honed by his identification of God's creatures and then verse 23 we 510 00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:14,480 get to his response and man said this one at last is bone of my bone and flesh 511 00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:21,200 of my flesh this one will be called woman for she was taken out of man other 512 00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:29,920 translations go wow this is it Adam was overwhelmed it's a shout of 513 00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:35,040 raptures ecstasy and intense intimate deep comprehension of who she is the 514 00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:38,800 treasure she is the perfect corresponding helper that he was missing 515 00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:44,240 and so again I find it interesting the first thing that was not good in 516 00:46:44,240 --> 00:46:50,960 creation was the absence of woman the first human words that were recorded is 517 00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:57,720 how special and amazing and wonderful woman is as uttered by Adam so he 518 00:46:57,720 --> 00:47:02,000 understood that in this thing here we see that although they are they are one 519 00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:06,000 he understood that she was not the same right when he says bone of my bone and 520 00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:09,640 flesh of my flesh that's like us in our modern culture going oh they're blood 521 00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:14,080 right oh they're family they're biological right we we say oh they're 522 00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:17,760 blood relative and sometimes that implies there's a greater connection in 523 00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:21,680 intimacy there when someone else well in the Hebrew they would say bone of my 524 00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:24,560 bone and flesh of my flesh to imply that same thing that there's this deep 525 00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:28,880 intimate connection but then he says this one will be called a woman because 526 00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:35,800 she was taken from man the idea is that that man identified that there were so 527 00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:39,840 close but different that he embedded his own name into hers and it implies 528 00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:44,560 because his skills of of seeing who they are and all that those skills were so 529 00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:50,160 honed he said this is who she is perfectly like an opposite of me and so 530 00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:54,840 Moses now concludes and says this is why a man leaves his father and mother and 531 00:47:54,840 --> 00:48:00,200 bonds with his wife and they become one flesh right this whole description of 532 00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:04,160 the creation of man and the creation of woman and who they are and who they are 533 00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:07,320 before God and who they are to each other this forms the foundation of the 534 00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:11,800 Bible's understanding of marriage and family Jesus quoted this in Matthew 19 535 00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:17,120 5 Paul quoted it in Ephesians 5 as we've been looking at and the idea here is 536 00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:20,520 that marriage is between a biological man and a biological woman as a 537 00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:28,360 perfectly complementary pair not anything else he says a man leaves his 538 00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:33,080 father this doesn't speak of moving out right leaves his mother and father the 539 00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:36,200 idea is in the in ancient times the custom was you got married and you stay 540 00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:40,160 you kept living in your father's house right that was the ancient custom so 541 00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:45,800 this word leaves speaks of leaving in a in a in a relative sense it's a shifting 542 00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:50,000 of loyalties it's a shifting of priorities right the marriage union 543 00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:55,320 between man and woman is so profound that it says he leaves his loyalty and 544 00:48:55,320 --> 00:49:00,280 priority to his family and then assigns that first obligation that first loyalty 545 00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:05,320 that first priority to his wife it's very important because this is one of 546 00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:08,920 the reasons why some marriages fail in our culture right husbands and wives 547 00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:14,960 fail to leave their parents mom and dad have far too much say in that marriage 548 00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:19,840 relationship husbands end up feeling disrespected because the wife will 549 00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:23,880 listen to her mom or her dad over her husband vice versa the wife can feel 550 00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:28,120 unloved because the man is listening to his mom or dad instead of putting the 551 00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:32,560 priority of his wife in place and thus in that we see the creation norm is 552 00:49:32,560 --> 00:49:37,960 ignored and marriage is distorted and we see that in the church too right one of 553 00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:40,560 those statistics that is still hold strong over the years is that the 554 00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:44,600 divorce rate in the church is the same as it is in the world that's a tragedy 555 00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:51,520 but he says he leaves and he bonds that idea bonding it's like sticking to her 556 00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:55,160 it's almost like something being welded or glued together in a way that they 557 00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:58,960 can't be pulled apart physically emotionally spiritually and the idea of 558 00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:03,160 that is marriage is viewed as a covenant it's a public declaration in the sight 559 00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:06,480 of God it's a public declaration of intent and reorganization of my 560 00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:10,680 relationship right that's why we do the whole ceremony it's this whole picture 561 00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:14,320 that she's leaving the father's giving her away she's leaving her mother and 562 00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:19,720 father now she's bonding to her husband and it's a new family unit and you know 563 00:50:19,720 --> 00:50:23,640 that's just been devalued so much in our culture and that's why Christian 564 00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:26,440 marriage should stand apart it should be different Christian marriage should 565 00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:31,040 stand out as this public covenant before God and before the church and you know 566 00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:35,080 even before the family and even before the the state you know it's we are 567 00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:41,080 something different so one flesh is just the idea of the deepest intimacy it 568 00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:44,880 includes transparent honesty it includes the sharing of everything one flesh 569 00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:51,600 means there's no secrets no lies no hidden things no secret bank account one 570 00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:56,440 flesh now God defining marriage right here at the very beginning of creation 571 00:50:56,440 --> 00:51:00,680 plus Jesus and Paul quoting it it just it demonstrates to us how important the 572 00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:05,560 institution of marriages it's really critical and and why it must be defended 573 00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:12,280 and protected by the church at all costs to abuse marriages to abuse Christ in 574 00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:17,200 the church and that's why we can't as Christians we can't bow to or support 575 00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:23,960 or condone any deviations from this creational intention monogamous 576 00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:27,640 heterosexual marriage was always viewed as the norm from the very time of 577 00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:32,800 creation one biological man one biological female joined together and 578 00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:37,680 I'm gonna say this in the greatest love I can because it's a problem within the 579 00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:40,240 church at a large but I don't believe you could really call yourself a 580 00:51:40,240 --> 00:51:47,120 follower of Christ and a believer in God's Word if you don't follow and 581 00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:53,320 uphold this creation intention I really question you being filled with the 582 00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:56,760 Spirit of God if in your heart and mind you're like this is totally okay 583 00:51:56,760 --> 00:52:02,080 because it's it's against God's Word now again not that we're hateful towards 584 00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:07,400 people but we have to stand for righteousness right so for Adam and 585 00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:11,920 Eve sexuality and relationship in God it was all part of the same cloth we see 586 00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:16,320 here in this whole section God defined humanity God defined sex God defined 587 00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:21,440 gender God defined man God defined woman God defined love God defined marriage 588 00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:26,480 and he elevated all of it at the pinnacle of his creation in today's world 589 00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:32,760 men and women have just become sexual users consumers right rather than 590 00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:39,160 participants in this holy union that includes God at the center I really love 591 00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:43,760 without God it reduces love to nothing more than an inward feeling right and 592 00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:46,920 that's what we see today oh I don't feel in love anymore boom cheat I don't feel 593 00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:50,500 in love anymore divorce I don't feel it's it's it's more than just the 594 00:52:50,500 --> 00:52:54,960 feeling so the idea is that when God's at the center of all of it and his 595 00:52:54,960 --> 00:53:01,840 original instruction is followed as the rule man woman marriage will flourish 596 00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:07,680 when we do it according to God's way according to his word and so yeah that's 597 00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:11,600 close Adam and Eve were truly in paradise truly in paradise they were in 598 00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:15,720 fellowship with God that fellowship was as natural as breathing right they walked 599 00:53:15,720 --> 00:53:20,200 with him they lived in this one flesh harmony man and woman together were 600 00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:25,520 reflective of the same image of God but complementary in function each fulfilling 601 00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:31,240 their role and the responsibility and their part in God's design each equally 602 00:53:31,240 --> 00:53:36,660 valuable equally special equally important as the image bearers and the 603 00:53:36,660 --> 00:53:42,920 likeness of God but each uniquely equipped biologically and emotionally to 604 00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:49,480 complement one another perfectly so women never let anybody devalue your 605 00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:56,400 worth don't let this world devalue your worth I find it just strange that this 606 00:53:56,400 --> 00:54:01,400 whole world that is like equality equality wants to then erase the very 607 00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:05,160 identity in women in sports and in competitions and let men compete with 608 00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:12,800 the women and it's a travesty so many women who are the best the best in 609 00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:16,560 their sport or having their their recognition stripped from them some 610 00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:22,160 because some guy who yeah is is biologically stronger or faster wants 611 00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:28,400 to pretend he's a woman and go steal that from her it's horrific it's wrong 612 00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:37,120 so ladies claim your identity that God gives to you don't let this fallen world 613 00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:41,560 devalue your worth as a woman don't let this fallen world and devalue 614 00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:45,840 the importance of your calling within the context of the family as a helper 615 00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:49,160 corresponding to man you know cuz you're ladies you're not called to be 616 00:54:49,160 --> 00:54:54,080 man and men you're not called to be women we're called to be what God created 617 00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:58,600 us to be in his purpose we all function according to these God ordained 618 00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:04,320 definitions when we do God is glorified God is glorified in his people God is 619 00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:08,240 glorified in your family God is glorified in his church and that is why 620 00:55:08,240 --> 00:55:13,300 I believe the enemy is working so hard to erase the definitions change the 621 00:55:13,300 --> 00:55:18,280 definitions and pervert God's definitions and thus we need to stand up 622 00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:24,560 for him even more so at the end of the sixth day after God had created man and 623 00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:32,320 woman his not good became very good and it was very good he says and that's 624 00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:37,300 really the closing admonition you know when God's word defines your life defines 625 00:55:37,300 --> 00:55:41,440 your love defines your relationships your beliefs your values when God is at 626 00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:45,160 the center of all of it it is indeed very very good 627 00:55:45,160 --> 00:55:52,560 amen let's pray father we love you God Lord we know we're in a world that is 628 00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:58,360 assaulting the very identity of women the very identity of man has been 629 00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:02,080 assaulting the the concept of marriage and what that relationship between a 630 00:56:02,080 --> 00:56:08,200 man and a woman is supposed to be Lord we know that it's much more than just 631 00:56:08,200 --> 00:56:14,480 feeling love but it's a representation of you Lord your word even tells us in 632 00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:18,760 Ephesians 5 that the picture of marriage and the man and woman coming together 633 00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:23,840 it's meant to speak of the relationship that you as our creator desire to have 634 00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:30,400 with us as your creation and of course the enemy wants to pervert that the 635 00:56:30,400 --> 00:56:34,800 Lord I just I pray for the women here in our room Lord even those that are 636 00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:39,720 watching this video now or in the future God I pray Lord that they would 637 00:56:39,720 --> 00:56:47,440 understand the great and incredible value they are to God that their identity 638 00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:55,240 as a woman their their created skill sets as a woman they're calling Lord in 639 00:56:55,240 --> 00:57:02,200 the context of marriage to be that helper corresponding that they would 640 00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:06,560 never let anybody take that away from them they wouldn't let the people around 641 00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:12,520 them tell them it's wrong or something is is a miss that they're being put in 642 00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:17,080 bondage by patriarchal man but Lord they would understand that your view is the 643 00:57:17,080 --> 00:57:21,200 right view your definitions of the right definition your way is the only right 644 00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:27,600 way and that God the peace and the joy and the true harmony that is found when 645 00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:34,000 when man and woman do things your way would be a foundation for them to share 646 00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:39,000 the truth the hope that is in Jesus Christ Lord there are so many women in 647 00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:45,880 our world that are so confused and so hurt and told that their identity is as 648 00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:49,920 an individual woman is is such an important thing and at the same time 649 00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:57,280 they're being told we can't even define what you are Lord let us stand up for 650 00:57:57,280 --> 00:58:05,520 the truth in love in compassion but in boldness God bless the women bless your 651 00:58:05,520 --> 00:58:11,120 creation in woman bless the man your creation in man and Lord bless marriage 652 00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:15,100 as you've defined it that the world would truly see the relationship you 653 00:58:15,100 --> 00:58:19,400 desire to have with them as your creation we love you and we thank you 654 00:58:19,400 --> 00:58:27,640 it's in Jesus name we pray amen let's worship church