Male and Female (I am Not Alone)

What are your top three strengths?

Would every list of strengths work for everyone in the room?

God has made each of us with different gifts and talents, along with strengths and weaknesses. It might be easier to call out weaknesses then strengths, but God has put us together to lift each other up and help us all grow.

Key Verse: Mark 10.6

Mark 10:6 ESV

But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’

Key Word: Unique- as having no like or equal, unparalleled, incomparable

Genesis 2:18–25 ESV

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

1. God recognized that man should not be alone.

Genesis 2:18 ESV

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

We all deal with loneliness at times. Feeling as if no one understands us, no one cares about us. This is because God built us for community, for relationships. And God knows it.

If you spend time looking through social media, it seems as if everyone else has life figured out. Everyone seems to have the perfect friend group. Everyone is eating the best looking meals, or going on vacations. Everyone has a party happening. Studies have shown that people who spend their lives in social media are known to suffer from higher anxiety and depression and those case numbers in teens skyrocket. The studies show that your brain creates nerological pathways to the joy center of your brain based of human connection. The tech that you use hotwires those connections, so that you stop feeling joy at someones face, rather over the dopimene hit from a like or share notification.

We are not ment to be alone, In the creation account Everything God creates he calls good. Plants, stars, fish, even the ants God calls good. But when God sees Adam alone he says it is NOT GOOD.

When we do not have a community of people there for us, We tend to go to a dark place psycologocally, emotionally, and Spiritually.

2. God made a helper suitable for Adam.

Genesis 2:19–23 ESV

Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”

To solve Adam’s aloneness, God first brought every kind of animal to Adam. Adam used his dominion of the Earth, which we is next week’s topic, to name each of the animals. Imagine this parade of animals. Birds, Mammals, lizards of every kind brought before Adam. He looks each one of them over and says, “Ah yes, This one will be called an Elephant. Ooo, that one will be a Jaguar. Oh this one is my favorite, I’m going to call it a chicken.”

Each animal brought in kind, but none of them fit. None of them were like him. Not even the dogs filled his need for companionship.

So God, made Eve. Taken from Adam’s rib God formed her and brought her to him. Finally, this one matched. She was able to relate to him, her handprints matched his. Her face shown like his did. She could talk with him, and understand how he felt. They were quite literally made for one another.

3. We are uniquely created to serve and love one another

Now lets be honest men and women are very different in how we are made. Boys stink and girls have cooties, right… You guys are just getting old enough to where you will find those differeces not as off putting as you once did. But sexuality is a topic for another day. Today, we are going to look at how people’s differences should not be a cause for conflict, but rather growth.

God has made each of us Unique. We are good at noticing people’s physical differences, but we often overlook other differences. We all have different gifts and talents, some are more athletic, while others are more brainy. Some people are peacemakers, others tell the truth harshly.

These gifts and differences, when brought together become strengths.

Ecclesiastes 4:12 ESV

And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

God built people for relationships. First a relationship with himself, then for a relationship with other people. I’m an introvert by nature, I am normally quite content in quiet and my own thoughts, but That doesn’t mean I don’t need relationships. Joy for one, and then a few close freinds whom i can rely on.

Application:

Do you feel alone? We live in a world of connectivity. Phones, online games, likes, and tiktoks. We swim in wifi soup. Most of us live in two worlds. The physical and virtual. But I’m going to say this wether you like it or not. Your vitual friends cannot give you the connection that you seek. God did not build you to live in an VR world. He built you for real relationships with real people. People with a face, people who are committed to you.

I’m not saying you need to thow your phones away, but I am saying that God knows you. He knows you need relationships with real people, who love you like He loves you. That’s why God gave us the church. Why he gave us eachother, so that we can lift one another up. Help bear our burdens, and point each other toward God.

Here are your think about it questions for this week:

Do I just know facts and information about the people in my life? (address, birthdays, favorite activities)

Or.

2. Do I really know them?