Sermon Tone Analysis

I. Introduction

II.

God placed Adam.

(Gen 2:15)

A. Work it.

B. Keep it.

III.

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

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!

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

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)

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