The Creator of Marriage Part 2

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Part 2 of our series on Biblical Marriage and Family where we look at chapter 2 of Genesis.

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I. Introduction

II. God placed Adam. (Gen 2:15)

Genesis 2:15 ESV
15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

A. Work it.

B. Keep it.

Genesis 1:26–27 ESV
26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

III. God gives Adam a prohibition (Gen 2:16-17)

Genesis 2:16–17 ESV
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

IV. God established Marriage (Gen 2:18-24)

A. God fixes what is not good (Gen 2:18-22)

1. God said it was not good for man to be alone. (v. 18a)

2. God intended to create a helper ‘fit’ for Adam. (v. 18b)

a. helper
1. the Hebrew word means: one who helps, gives assistance or support
2. consequently, the giving of woman to Adam constitutes support and help from God!
b. fit for him –
HALOT Definition: this preposition actually means ‘that which is opposite, that which corresponds; like his opposite; proper for him
BDB definition - a help corresponding to him, i.e. equal and adequate to himself

“Does this mean that the woman is inferior?” Not even the name implies this!

Exodus 18:4 ESV
4 and the name of the other, Eliezer (for he said, “The God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”).
Psalm 33:20 ESV
20 Our soul waits for the Lord; he is our help and our shield.
Psalm 115:9–11 ESV
9 O Israel, trust in the Lord! He is their help and their shield. 10 O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord! He is their help and their shield. 11 You who fear the Lord, trust in the Lord! He is their help and their shield.

3. God allows Adam to execute authority for Him but there is something lacking. (v. 19-20)

4. God performed the first surgery but with no physical tools or anesthesia! (v. 21)

5. God made a woman from the rib of Adam. (v. 22)

Quote: the woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved. (Matthew Henry, Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible: Complete and Unabridged in One Volume (Peabody: Hendrickson, 1994), 10.)

B. Adam receives His wife (Gen 2:23)

1. Bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh!

2. Adam names his helper ‘Woman.’

C. God’s binds Adam to His wife! (Gen 2:24)

1. Leave

a. To leave, forsake or loose

2. Hold Fast

to cling, cleave, keep close, stick to, join with, stay with
be united, joined, i.e., be in a close association, implying a normal continuing relationship – James Swanson, Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains : Hebrew (Old Testament) (Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1997).

carries the sense of clinging to someone in affection and loyalty

3. One Flesh

Genesis 1–11:26 (3) The Man’s Companion, the First Woman (2:18–25)

This unity, however, is not merely sexual; it involves sharing spiritual, intellectual, and emotional dimensions as well

Here the ideal of marriage as it was understood in ancient Israel is being portrayed, a relationship characterized by harmony and intimacy between the partners.

D. The completed state of the first Biblical marriage. (Gen 2:25)

Genesis 2:25 ESV
25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

Naked has do with no shame, no feelings of vulnerability, as well as innocence or integrity resulting in no fear of evil.

Genesis 1:31 ESV
31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
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