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Introduction
Introduction
At Sunday school they were teaching how God created everything, including human beings.
Little Johnny, a child in the kindergarten class, seemed especially intent when they told him how Eve was created out of one of Adam’s ribs.
Later in the week his mother noticed him lying down as though he were ill, and said, “Johnny, what’s the matter?”
Johnny said, “I don’t feel well, I think I’m having a wife.”
Creation
One of the two central themes in Scripture comprising the backbone of its theological teaching, the other theme being redemption.
Creation is not the same as redemption; nor can redemption so overshadow creation as to cut short its theological validity.
Both doctrines belong together but in a unique relationship.
The God of Israel is also the God who created the heavens and the earth out of nothing.
Redemption occurs within the creation, which serves as its presupposition and backdrop.
The end of redemption is the creation of the new heavens and the new earth.
Human beings unaided by divine revelation cannot arrive at the biblical doctrine of creation by theological, philosophical, or scientific speculation.
According to the Bible, human knowledge of creation must come by God’s revelation (cf.
Heb 11:3).
That creation is known only by faith means that it is known only by revelation.
The account of Creation is a record of how God conquers chaos.
God separates in order to recreate.
What do the following texts say about Creation and Redemption?
God is faithful in keeping His promises.
The account of creation reveals to humanity that by believing in God’s word, we will be new creations.
God separates in order to recreate.
God keeping his word is the foundation to redemption.
What the following verses tell us about God’s faithfulness in keeping his word?
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Refer to Appendix A for reference.
Marriage
And God blessed them.
And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
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Can you remember the first wedding that you ever witnessed?
How many of you were married in a church?
How many in a garden?
Any in Las Vegas?
We often think of a wedding ceremony as a white wedding where the groom waits for the bride to be given away by her father.
It’s a sweet traditional ceremony.
There are numerous traditions around the world which unites a man and woman to a committed relationship.
But I’ve tried to imagine the union of Adam and Even on more than one occasion.
Here we have a wedding where God blessed them directly.
What does that look like when God has blessed a marriage?
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), .
According the creation account, the best marriage is when it has received a blessing from God.
But how do you know when God is blessing your relationship?
The union between man and woman is the foundation to understanding our relationship between Christ and His people.
But let’s be clear.
Our marriages are not to be the ideal picture for Christ and the church to imitate.
Our marriages must imitate the relationship Christ has to the church.
Consider a few of the following examples.
Isaiah 54:5-8
, Song of Solomon, Hosea,
The danger of getting this twisted is that husbands believe that they are an illustration of Christ and wives an illustration of the church.
To understand these illustrations correctly is for the husband to be like Christ!
How many of you would be willing to marry a prostitute like Hosea did?
How many of you are willing to serve your wife like Christ did for the church?
Wash her feet?
Die a pathetic death for her?
The illustration of Christ as husband is not an easy call.
It’s not for men to exert authority and for women to be passive and take shots from abusive men lying down.
This is also important to note because when we understand the model of marriage.
We understand that people that are not in a marital relationship are not necessarily exempt from Christ’s redemption plan.
The point of marriage is that it’s not good for man to be alone.
We have been made as social beings, we don’t just crave community, we need community!
Marriage is the climax of two humans entering into a relationship.
So sacred is this union, that intimacy is experienced in every possible level of human existence.
What happens in these sacred moments is not to be shared with anybody else.
Otherwise, it is no longer sacred.
The Bible uses marriage as an illustration to humanity that service, and sacrifice will lead to a successful relationship.
From this relationship we learn how to expand the kingdom of God to our own children and to our family, friends and community.
All the while, we don’t accept abuse from from anybody.
We learn to pick and choose our battles.
But that’s for another discussion.
What can you do right now in your own marriage to make it more like the illustration of Christ and the church?
Sabbath
And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.
3 So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.
BLESSED (Heb.
˒ašrê, barûḵ; Aram.
berîḵ; Gk. eulogētós, makários).†
To bless means variously to worship or praise, to bestow goodness and favor, and to invoke such qualities upon another.
When applied to God, the terms imply homage or adoration offered in gratitude (Gen.
24:48; Deut.
11:29; Ps. 66:8).
God blesses people by granting prosperity or well-being in the form of both physical and spiritual grace (Gen.
39:5; Ps. 24:5).
People bless one another by bestowing goods and authority (Gen.
27; 48:9, 15, 20) or by wishing goodwill (Gen.
24:60; Num.
23:11, 20) and by commending a person to God (Ruth 2:20; 1 Sam.
23:21).
One might also designate as holy or worthy of honor the Sabbath (Gen.
2:3), work (Deut.
28:8), a sacrifice (1 Sam.
9:13), a place of residence (Prov.
3:33), or food (Mark 8:7).
A standard pattern of blessing or beatitude is often used when invoking a blessing upon another (in the sense “let be praised”; e.g., Ruth 4:14; Matt.
25:34) and in describing the joyful condition of a person “happy” or “fortunate” for having fulfilled certain obligations or lived in an exemplary manner (e.g., Ps. 65:4; Prov.
8:13, 33–34; Matt.
5:11; Luke 11:28).
“Blessed” occurs also as an epithet of the Lord (Mark 14:61).
Christ not only imparts a special goodness and favour on the union between man and woman, but also in the sphere or time.
God understands that time is the most precious gift that we can give to anybody.
Right not we crave and need the time from the people we love.
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