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Genesis 2:18-25
God made a good world.
Everything God does is good.
He made humans in His image.
With amazing creative potential and reason.
He gave us responsibility over his world to manage it and care for it.
He gave us the gift of work to provide for ourselves, and lead by example and gave us the gift of rest to enjoy it and each other.
Genesis 1:27 gives us a summary statement on the creation of “ad-am”, humans:
But in chapter two it gives us some beautiful details about the process.
A man, Ad-am or “Adam”, was made first and given the work to do and the command to be in charge of this good world.
God put him in a garden in a land called “Eden” and told to take care of it.
1.
We were not made to be alone.
a.
We all need companions.
We are incomplete alone.
Couple of things about that….
i. Was this an “oops” on God’s part?
An afterthought?
1.
I think what we’re seeing is God systematically filling creation with what is necessary and good.
First air, then land, then plants, seasons, etc.
2. The next and final step is a man who is alone.
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And I actually think he wanted the man to see it too before he provides.
He’s naming animals, noticing the two genders of each, and maybe wondering….
Are there any more of me?
I wonder if God wanted him to notice.
4. Just because you are experiencing a need, a disappointment, something missing in your life, it doesn’t mean God won’t provide for you.
He just hasn’t YET.
ii.
Quick side note: I don’t believe God is saying to you that you’re not complete unless you’re married.
It’s easy to think that because God is about to give Adam a wife.
We hear these passages at weddings.
iii.
If you’re single maybe God has a plan for you that involves a spouse, and maybe he doesn’t.
In the New Testament Paul talks about that.
What you should take from this statement about being alone is that you need to cultivate friends.
Don’t relationally isolate yourself.
Like marriage, friends:
1. Encourage and build you and celebrate your victories.
2. Lovingly hold you accountable for your failures.
3. Keeps you balanced between confidence and humility.
4.
And yes- have friends from the opposite sex.
5. Men are in the image of God…..
And so are women.
6.
They bring different ways of expressing the image of God and both have incredible value.
b.
If you think you’ll never be truly happy and satisfied until you’re married, you’ll bring your disappointment into that marriage expecting your spouse to fix it for you and they can’t.
Your ultimate satisfaction needs to rest on God.
i. Single people: if you are enjoying singleness and have friends to walk through life with you, enjoy that as a gift from God.
ii.
Single people who do want to get married someday….
That’s ok but check yourself.
Don’t want the idea of marriage.
Want to meet the right person that you’ll want to spend your life with.
It’s better to be single forever than married to someone who isn’t good for you.
Pray and ask God to bring the one who is right for you and for the wisdom to recognize him or her.
THEN WAIT PATIENTLY AND GROW YOURSELF.
c. God’s plan for Adam involved a wife.
A helper “fit” for him in this translation.
2. God made two genders to complete God’s design for humanity.
a.
To complete God’s design God made two humans that are different, and thereby compliment each other and do God’s will together.
a. Adam accepts her as the gift from God made perfectly for him.
Notice this isn’t because he needs to breed.
Technically the “be fruitful and multiply” command hasn’t come yet.
This is just about Him and her.
b.
I’ve used the term “complete” or “compliment”.
Because they are different but together are “fit” or “complete”.
i.
The man came first.
1.
He was to take the lead.
2. Take the responsibility.
Make sure the work gets done.
3. God seems to generally give men strength, determination, a tendency for independent work, processing, etc.
4. Men you have great power to show your family, friends, and community that you want them to reach their potential and you’ll be a part of getting there with them.
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When you don’t, you leave a big hole that cannot be filled in the same way by a woman.
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None of this means the man has to have “the idea” and a woman never should.
Men do not own all the “influence”.
iii.
Ladies don’t be hurt by thinking “we only exist to help men”.
First of all again you carry on yourself and in yourself the image of God.
1. God Himself is described with this word “helper” too.
Exodus 18:4, Deuteronomy 33:7, 26, 29, Psalm 33:20 are just a few.
2. The idea is to come alongside or opposite.
A whole created by two.
To complete God’s will for humans and human relationships.
3.
You are needed!
iv.
The woman came next to meet the need created by the things men generally aren’t built to do.
1. Women seem generally more relational
2. better nurturers.
3. Detail oriented
4. Emotionally attuned
5. Ladies you have great power to show your family, friends, and community that you’ll bring your gifts to the table to help them get to their full potential.
When you don’t, you leave a hole that cannot be filled in the same way by a man.
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Back to the Bible: Adam meets his wife and it’s the first marriage!
He accepts her as a gift from God and they form a family.
Verse 24 Moses now takes a moment to give us a “therefore”.
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