{"id":18556,"date":"2020-10-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sugar-land-bible-church.local\/sermon\/genesis-010-the-creators-marriage-blueprint\/"},"modified":"2020-10-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T05:00:00","slug":"genesis-010-the-creators-marriage-blueprint","status":"publish","type":"sermon","link":"https:\/\/slbc.org\/es\/sermon\/genesis-010-the-creators-marriage-blueprint\/","title":{"rendered":"Genesis 010 &#8211; The Creator&#8217;s Marriage Blueprint"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","book":[12],"series_event":[511],"sermon_service_type":[472],"speaker":[6],"class_list":["post-18556","sermon","type-sermon","status-publish","hentry","book-genesis","series_event-genesis","sermon_service_type-main-service","speaker-dr-andy-woods","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":{"sermon_title":"Genesis 010 - The Creator's Marriage Blueprint","sermon_date":"20201011","sermon_month":"10","sermon_year":"2020","sermon_notes":8498,"sermon_slides":8497,"sermon_mp3":8500,"sermon_id":"1011201434591194","series_or_event":511,"service_type":[472],"speaker":6,"books_of_the_bible":12,"chapter_and_verse":"2:18-25","sermon_transcript":"Genesis #10\nThe Creator\u2019s Marriage Blueprint\nGenesis 2:18-25\nOctober 11, 2020\nDr. Andy Woods\n\nGood morning, everybody. Open your Bible this morning to Genesis 2. We\u2019re looking at verses 18-25. The title of our message is, \u201cThe Creator\u2019s Marriage Blueprint.\u201d There is lots of talk today in the culture about marriage and redefining marriage. Maybe we ought to go back to the owner\u2019s manual at some point and see what God said about marriage\u2014and the very first marriage that He Himself performed even before the Fall here in Genesis 2:18-25.\n\nWe have embarked, as you know, on a verse by verse study through the Book of Genesis. The first 11 chapters are all about the beginning of the human race, and that section has four subsections. Lord willing, we may even finish sub-letter A today, Creation. That's what we\u2019ve been studying: the doctrine of Creation.\n\nGenesis 1, as you probably know, is a description of the whole six days of Creation. God, there at the beginning of Genesis 2:1-3, is resting on Day Seven. Now Genesis 2 comes along so skillfully and doesn't retell the whole story, but it focuses on Day Six, the pinnacle of God's Creation. This is the beginning of the human race, the image bearers of God.\n\nA human being is different than anything that God had created because they bear His very image. And now we get a description (Genesis 2) of Day Six. So we have studied verses 4-7 of Genesis 2, the Creation of man.\n\nLast week we saw verses 8-14, how God placed man in a garden\u2014the Garden of Eden. Then, verses 15-17, He gave Adam responsibilities in that Garden. Eve, at this state of the game, so to speak, has not been created yet. God is dealing specifically with the first man, Adam.\n\nNow we get a description of the first marriage and how Eve came into existence in verses 18-25. We can outline verses 18-25 as follows:\n<ul>\n \t<li>A problem is identified (Genesis 2:18)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nGod says there's a problem. Everything that we've read seems like everything is perfect, and yet God says there's something imperfect (verse 18). The problem with Adam\u2014and most men in general, I might say\u2014is that we have a difficult time recognizing the problem. There's a relational deficiency that you don't recognize. And in verses 19 and 20 God gets man Adam to recognize the problem.\n\nThen, in verses 21-25, after the problem has been identified (verse 18), recognized (verses 19-20), God now solves the problem. It's hard to appreciate God's solution until we first understand there's a problem.\n\nA lot of our lives God spends just trying to communicate to us that there's a problem. Once you understand a problem, then you start to reach out for the solution. But the solution won't make much sense to us unless we understand what the solution supposedly resolves. And in the process what we get is a description of the first marriage.\n\nMarriage, as you know, in the Bible is very significant. In fact, our relationship to the Lord as His church is described in marriage terms (Ephesians 5:22-33). He is the groom; we are the bride. If you want to understand our whole relationship to the Lord, you have to view it through a marriage grid or lens.\n\nIt's interesting to me that in John's Gospel, Jesus performed seven signs. John focuses on seven signs that Jesus performed to communicate to his audience Who Jesus is. The very first sign that Jesus performed was the water to wine at Cana of Galilee; Jesus performed that particular sign at a wedding.\n\nIt's interesting to me that Jesus would choose to launch His entire public ministry from the standpoint of a wedding in Cana of Galilee. It shows you that Jesus, 2000 years ago, had a very high view of marriage. And why wouldn't He? God gives us information here in verses 18-25 of the very first marriage in history.\n\nThe reality of the situation is that a lot of people want to rewrite marriage; they want to redefine marriage, as if it's ours to rewrite and redefine. How do you redefine something that you didn't create? God is the author of marriage, going all the way back to the Garden of Eden.\n\nLet's begin with verse 18 where the problem is identified. Verse 18 says, \u201c<em>Then the Lord God said, \u2018It is not good<\/em>\u2026<em>\u2019<\/em> \u201d If you're and underliner, you might want to underline those words \u201cnot good.\u201d\n\n\u201c <em>\u2018It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper\u2026\u2019<\/em> \u201d That's another word worth underlining there: helper. \u201c <em>\u2018\u2026suitable for him.\u2019<\/em> \u201d Now, this is sort of striking as you read it because everything that we have read thus far is <em>good<\/em>! God has said, \u201cEverything is good.\u201d\n\nIn fact, do you remember what He said at the end of Day Six? At the end of Genesis 1 at the end of Day Six, God says it's not just good\u2014everything that He had made\u2014He says it's what? It's very good!\n\nThen, all of a sudden, you get to verse 18 and suddenly run into something that is <em>not good.<\/em> Well, what is not good? It's simply this: man, when he was designed, was not simply designed for a vertical relationship with God; he was also designed for a horizontal relationship with someone else.\n\nIn fact, 3000 years ago, roughly, Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, outside of Christ, writes this in Ecclesiastes 4:9-12. He says, \u201c<em>Two are better than one, Because they have a good reward for their labor. 10 For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, For he has no one to help him up. 11 Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm; But how can one be warm alone? 12 Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him. And a threefold cord is not quickly broken<\/em>.\u201d (NKJV)\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI realize that there are always exceptions to the rule. But, by and large, God intended us to be in an intimate relationship with someone else, and that's why we have marriage being described here in Genesis 2:15-25.\n\nNow, when you talk like this it automatically takes people that are singles and it seems to put them under some sort of a guilt trip that they are somehow less than what God has designed. And we have to be very careful of that, because there are certain advantages to the single state.\n\nPaul himself accomplish what he did for Christ as a single man. Paul would write in 1 Corinthians 7:7, concerning his single state, \u201c<em>For I wish that all men were even as I myself<\/em>.\u201d This is speaking of his singleness. Paul could do more\u2014he could accomplish more\u2014as a single person that he could as a married person. So, if you're single and listening to this, you're not somehow deficient. You haven't somehow missed the will of God. God could be preparing you for your future marriage, but God can and will use you as you are. In fact, you can accomplish things as a single person that a married person cannot accomplish.\n\nBut with that being said, by and large marriage is a good thing. Marriage is designed by God for the human race to be a blessing. The Apostle Paul acknowledges that in 1 Corinthians 7, and that's why we have a description of the first marriage in Genesis 2:18-25.\n\nSo a problem has been surfaced; a problem has been recognized; God has brought it to Adam's attention. \u201cYes, you have that vertical relationship with Me, but there's more I have for you. I want you to have a horizontal relationship with another.\u201d\n\nNow the problem with men is that we\u2019re somewhat deficient in this regard. We don't see our needs necessarily in this area as fast as we should. So now God has to put Adam through a process so he can see this deficiency. And He does it through having Adam name the animals.\n\nThe naming of the animals is not just a lesson in zoology. This is a marriage context, and you see that described there in verses 19 and 20. It's not just randomly thrown in there; it deals with the subject of marriage.\n\nNotice what it says in verses 19 and 20. \u201c<em>Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man<\/em>\u2026\u201d That's very important! <em>\u201c\u2026to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.<\/em>\u201d\n\nVerse 20, \u201c<em>The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him.<\/em>\u201d Why in the world would God then bring animals to Adam, prior to the creation of Eve, and put him through this process of naming the various animals?\n\nWhat in the world would that have to do with marriage ? I think the answer is very simple: God is trying to get Adam to see his own need. \u201cHey, Adam, did you notice that there's a Mr. and Mrs. Rhinoceros that you just named? Did you notice that there's a Mr. and Mrs. Giraffe? Are you seeing a problem here? There's no Mr. and Mrs. Adam.\u201d\n\nAdam, blinded to his own need, is put through this process so he could see his own need. \u201cMates exists in the animal kingdom and in the animal world. Where is your mate?\u201d\n\nThis is interesting, because there are a great many high-ranking scholars that do this. It\u2019s shocking the number of people who have very good reputations in Christian circles, yet they don't believe in six 24 hour Creation days.\n\nOne of the arguments that they'll give is, \u201cThis could not be a 24 hour day because Adam didn't name all of the animals\u2014could he?\u2014in 24 hours. I mean, that's a ridiculous idea to think that he named all of the animals in 24 hours! Therefore, this sixth day\u2014just like the other six days\u2014must be an age of time.\u201d\n\nIn response to this I would say that people just are not reading the Bible. This never says Adam named all the animals, does it? What it says is, \u201cHe named the beasts of the field.\u201d You'll see that in Genesis 2:20, meaning he didn't name every beast. Because Genesis 1:25 talks about the beasts of the earth. Adam is not naming every beast of the earth; he's naming a subset of the beasts, first of all.\n\nNumber two, it never says that Adam went out and started naming every single animal. The Bible is very clear that Adam only named the animals that God brought to Adam. Well, how many animals were there? I don't know, but it's not as big a category as every single animal.\n\nBeyond that, think about Adam's mind. The Fall of man hasn't happened yet. You know, the scientists tell us that we only use a small fraction of our mind. And I think a lot of that fractionalization of the intellect has to do with the Fall of man. We\u2019re not really in our full potential as fallen human beings.\n\nBut the Fall hasn't happened yet. And think of Adam's mind running in its state of maturity and completion; think of the intellectual feats that he could accomplish. So naming the animals that God brought to him could easily be done in a 24 hour time period.\n\nThe problem with us is we are what we would call uniformitarians, where we take what's normal for us in terms of our own intellectual abilities and we read that back into the Bible. The reality of the situation is we can't do that because we are living post-Fall. Adam is living pre-Fall.\n\nWe have a diminished intellectual capacity today because of the Fall that Adam didn't have. So when people complain that there's no way Adam could have named all the animals in 24 hours, what they're really saying is, \u201c<em>You<\/em> couldn't name all the animals in 24 hours!\u201d But Adam was different in his pre-fallen state; his intellect was at a state of full capacity. He wasn't using just a section of his mind or a fragment of his mind.\n\nBeyond that, I don't think God just kept bringing animal after animal after animal after animal to Adam. I think he named them until he learned the lesson. What's the lesson? Not a lesson in zoology, but a lesson in the fact that, \u201cEverything else in this Garden has a mate, but you do not.\u201d\n\nNow, how long would it have taken Adam to learn this? Granted, we as males and men are a bit slower on these kinds of things, but I don't think it would've taken him 10 billion years to learn this lesson.\n\nYou know, it's interesting that when you actually look at what God did on Day Six, there's no reason to believe that all of these things couldn't have happened within a 24 hour time period. After all, we\u2019re dealing with God!\n\nWhat actually happened on Day Six? Well, God created the livestock, the beasts of the earth, and everything that creeps on the earth. Then He created Adam. God put Adam in a garden. God talked to Adam.\n\nGod brought certain animals to Adam, who named these animals, and then God created Eve. Why would this have to take a billion years? When the list is actually reduced to the seven things that actually happened, it's very easy to see how this could have happened within a normal 24 hour time period.\n\nI've given you the reasons why I think the Creation days are normal 24 hour time periods in Genesis 1. And Genesis 2 doesn't need to be interpreted in any way that would contradict what we said in Genesis 1 concerning the normal 24 hour time period.\n\nBut now that the problem has been identified, and now that Adam has recognized the problem, now God steps in with a solution\u2014a solution he wouldn't have appreciated had he not understood the problem. Notice what it says there in verses 21 and 22 as now God begins to move in with the solution.\n\n\u201c<em>So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place<\/em>. <em>The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man<\/em>.\u201d How is the first marriage in the history of the world accomplished? It is accomplished through God taking the man and putting him into sleep. In fact, the Hebrew word here means a deep sleep. Then God did the work from Adam's side and brought the woman to the man.\n\nOne of the things that's interesting about studying the doctrine of biblical anthropology (which means the study of man) is you see very fast that a human being has three basic components. In 1 Thessalonians 5:23, The Apostle Paul writes, \u201c<em>Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit <\/em>[part one] <em>and soul<\/em> [part two] <em>and body<\/em> [part three] <em>be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ<\/em>.\u201d\n\nGod is triune. We are made in His image. So, to a certain extent, we are triune\u2014or three parts\u2014as well. Adam had the Holy Spirit. He had a knowledge of God at the beginning\u2014a perfect relationship with the Lord. But then he had a soul, or a PSUCHE. The soul would be the seat of his intellect, emotions, preferences, tastes; it's everything that goes into making up a person as an individual that you can't see. It's what we call the part of anthropology which is immaterial. We have a material side and an immaterial side.\n\nThe third thing he had is a body\u2014the seat of taste, smell, sight, the tool that God gave him to relate to the world around him. And I believe that when Adam was put to sleep and God brought Eve to Adam, she was comparable to him, compatible with him, at all three levels. She had the Spirit too, because the Fall of man hadn't happened yet.\n\nThere was a compatibility at the PSUCHE (or the soul) level also. There was no great difference between the two in the sense that maybe he wants to go out and be a missionary and she wants to be the CEO of IBM. Nothing wrong with either of those things, but it's hard for people to stay married under that kind of pressure. There was a compatibility of interests and tastes, vision for life, etc.\n\nAnd the two were united at a physical level. There was physical attraction between the two. As the joke goes, that's why he called her woman, \u201cWoah! ... man.\u201d So the two of them were united. They were spiritually united, they were united at the soul level, and they were physically attracted to each other.\n\nNow, that's what God will do in a marriage if you let Him. The problem with us though, is we don't go to sleep. Do you understand that God does His greatest work while we\u2019re asleep? If Adam had said, \u201cI\u2019m going to meet my own need. I'm not going to follow the pattern and plan of God. I\u2019m going to go out and meet my own need.\u201d\n\nThink about who he would've married here. He probably would have married a gorilla, because a gorilla is more anatomically similar to a human being than any other animal in the Garden. You see, this is why people today are married to gorillas; they don't wait on the Lord!\n\nThey don't wait on the Lord to do the work, and they end up being mismatched with someone. They'll settle for something at the spirit level, \u201cOh, he believes in God. He's used the J word before.\u201d\n\n\u201cBoy, she sure looks good!\u201d \u201cHe looks good!\u201d So they'll settle for something on the <em>body<\/em> level, but God wants to do the work on the soul level also. He wants to join two people together\u2014body, soul, and spirit.\n\nI have reflected on this often. You know, the divorce rate within Christian circles is just as bad. Did you know that? In some cases it is worse than the unsaved world. Christian marriages dissolve constantly. I'm not trying to put anybody on any kind of guilt trip if they have something like that in their past. I'm just stating a fact.\n\nThat's bothered me for a long time. Why is that so? I think a lot of it has to do with a lack of understanding of the blueprint of God. How people are so eager to get that need met that they'll settle for something less than what God has for them. They marry someone where they\u2019re joined at a spiritual level. Maybe they\u2019re joined at a body level, but the soul connection is not there.\n\nAnd when the trial comes\u2014not if, but when\u2014because your marriage is good to be tested by something. When the trial comes, the marriage quickly dissolves. And it has to do with a lack of waiting on the Lord to do His work on the front end.\n\nI know many, many people who are single in the world of Christianity. The number one thought on their mind is, \u201cI need to get married\u2014and I need to get married fast! I need to marry somebody quick because I feel like I'm less than a person unless that happens.\u201d Yet, the fact of the matter is that you're not less than a person. You haven't missed the will of God; it\u2019s just that God hasn't done the work that He wants to do to bring the right person to you.\n\nAdam did not go out and start shaking all the trees. He didn't go out and start getting on all the dating apps. He went to sleep\u2014God put him to sleep! And in that place of being asleep, God did His work. It has to do with impatience and not waiting on the Lord.\n\nGenesis 15:12, should we ever get there before the Rapture, will teach us about the Abrahamic Covenant. This is the covenant that God made with the nation of Israel which carves out\u2014if you understand it\u2014God's future plan for Israel. Why God has preserved Israel to this day is in that covenant.\n\nYou want to talk about the ultimate real estate deal? That's the ultimate real estate deal. There is no more fundamental foundational chapter that you can understand, grasping the totality of God's plan, than Genesis 15! It's hard to overstate how important that chapter is. And yet, that deal was entered into, as we will discover in Genesis 15:12, while Abram was asleep. Are you seeing a pattern here?\n\nGod does His greatest work while we are asleep! We get ourselves into a world of trouble we don't follow His pattern and we step out in human energy and try to make these things happen. We need to be patient; we need to wait upon the Lord. Not just in this area of marriage and finding the right mate, but in all kinds of areas!\n\nWe\u2019re going to see in Genesis 17 how Abram and Sarai just got tired of waiting on God! They decided to fix a problem that only God could fix. What came from that was Ishmael, who begat a group of people that are enemies of the nation of Israel to\u2026this\u2026very\u2026day!\n\nIsaac is the product of faith and waiting upon God; Ishmael is the product of works and impatience and \u201chelping God out.\u201d Here's the deal, folks. God knows you have the need, but He doesn't need your help to solve it. In fact, what He needs you to do is to go to sleep and let Him fix the issue. Yet so frequently we don't do that, and we get ourselves into a world of trouble.\n\nNow, you talk like this, and people will say, \u201cWait a minute. I've already made the mistake. I\u2019m already married to a guerrilla. What do I do now?\u201d The fact of the matter is\u2026there are Scriptures that are for you in those circumstances. One of them is 1 Peter 3:1-6, which talks about a godly wife winning her husband whom she's married to\u2014not by terminating the marriage.\n\nYou talk like this, and people say, \u201cWhat about abuse?\u201d We\u2019re not dealing with abuse right now. If anybody is being physically abused by anybody, I'm always going to counsel them to get out of harm's way. The Scripture is not going to deal with every single issue like that.\n\n1 Peter 3 is a situation where a woman is a believer, and the husband is an unbeliever. Maybe she rushed into something that she shouldn't have rushed into. Or maybe she got saved <em>after<\/em> they were married, and he didn't. What do you do then? What you need to do is you need to leave Scripture verses in his lunchbox as he goes to work, and you need to annoy him about Jesus 24\/7. The Bible doesn\u2019t say that.\n\nWhat it says is that if you entrust this situation to the Lord and let Him work in you a Christlike godly character, that man is going to be drawn to Christianity. So here we\u2019re not dealing with every kind of situation, but it is strong exhortation to a Christian man or to a Christian woman as they\u2019re contemplating marriage.\n\nMarriage is a good thing. God wants to have that relational need met, but we\u2019re not to get ahead of the Lord, we\u2019re not to become so focused on the <em>need<\/em> that we forget the <em>timing<\/em> of God and the <em>power<\/em> of God and the <em>patience<\/em> of God and how God knows what that need is and <em>will meet that need<\/em> in His timing!\n\nNotice in verse 23 that something also very significant happens. It says, \u201c<em>The man said, \u2018This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man<\/em>.\u2019 \u201d Something very significant happens here: Once Eve is brought to him, Adam names Eve.\n\nEve does not name Adam; Adam names Eve! Why go into this? Because, as you know, feminism has got us by the throat. It's a cultural myth that the woman is somehow greater or more important than the man. The other cultural myth, of course, is chauvinism, where the man thinks he's greater or more important than the woman.\n\nWhen the culture screams at us, sadly the evangelical Bible believing church, in its apostate form, will rewrite the Bible to accommodate the culture. So we have this today within Christianity. I'm not talking here about the left wing of the Democratic Party; I'm talking about a movement within Christianity called evangelical feminism. It's a rewriting of the Bible to keep up with feminism!\n\nEvangelical feminism can be defined as a theological movement within the evangelical church that seeks to abolish all gender role distinctions within marriage and the church. \u201cI noticed you all at Sugar Land Bible Church don't have any women on your elder board.\u201d Yeah, that's true, but there's a reason for that. It says in 1 Timothy 3:1-7 that an elder must be \u201cthe husband of one wife.\u201d How could a woman be that? God put that restriction in there!\n\nThat's not saying that women can't be involved in ministry. Women are the backbone of ministry. Women supported, financially, the ministry of Jesus. Did you know that? You\u2019ll see that in Luke's Gospel. There are countless areas of ministry that are open for women. There are a small number that are not.\n\nWhat happens to so many women is that they start to focus on the one thing they can't do instead of all of the things they can do for the cause of Christ. From that sort of mindset what starts to develop is evangelical feminism that wants to eradicate all role distinctions in terms of authority within marriage and within the church.\n\n\u201cGo ahead and have a female preacher.\u201d That's fine according to evangelical feminism. Female elders\u2014on and on we could go. There's a big church down the road; you might've seen it. You drive by on the freeway, and it says, \u201cMr. so-and-so and Mrs. so-and-so, co-pastors.\u201d That\u2019s the trend also, \u201cWe\u2019ll just make them co-pastors.\u201d It\u2019s all a ramification of evangelical feminism.\n\nEvangelical feminism will say, \u201cOkay. There are gender role distinctions in the Bible, but that's after the Fall\u2014not before. That's a result of sin\u2014not before.\u201d And I'm here to tell you that that's not true. There are authority issues taking place in the Bible between men and women that existed before Adam and Eve ever ate from the forbidden tree. They are part of the design of God! They are part of what God always wanted.\n\nOne of those things is male headship in marriage. How do I know that? Because Eve doesn't name Adam; Adam names Eve! And Adam is created first; Eve is created second. You say, \u201cWell, who cares?\u201d You should care, because Paul the apostle, when he's giving guidelines for the church, says this in 1 Timothy 2:12, \u201c<em>And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence<\/em>.\u201d (NKJV)\n\nWhy in the world would you say that, Paul? You must be some misogynistic sexist pig to make a statement like that! But you have to read the next verse. 1 Timothy 2:13, \u201c<em>For Adam was formed first, then Eve<\/em>.\u201d (NKJV) See, what God is doing here is He's putting together a blueprint for the hierarchy of authority. It's very significant that Adam is on the scene first, and Eve is on the scene second.\n\nPaul apparently thinks that order is so significant that he puts a gender limitation within the church at Ephesus on the office of pastor-teacher. It's interesting to me that so many churches that want to have females at the highest levels have thrown out a literal interpretation of Genesis 1 through 11 a long time ago.\n\nYou throw out a literal interpretation of Genesis 1 through 11, you have really no basis for saying there are differences of authority amongst the genders within the church and within the family. But you put Genesis 1 through 11 in its proper place\u2014which is what we\u2019re trying to do here\u2014and you'll start seeing that Paul bases this whole command on a literal interpretation of Genesis 1 through 11.\n\nMy goodness, this man, the Apostle Paul, believed in a literal Adam and Eve! He even paid attention to the chronology about how Adam was created first and Eve was created second\u2014by divine design! Then, looking more carefully at verse 23, it's very clear that Adam names Eve. Not only was Adam created first (pre-Fall), but he is the one that names Eve once Eve is brought to Adam (pre-fall).\n\nWhen you study naming in the Bible, that's a big deal! God did not name Eve. God allowed Adam to name Eve. And when you name something in the Bible, it's a communication of authority. God names all kinds of things in the Bible. Genesis 1:10, \u201c\u2026<em>God called the dry land Earth<\/em>.\u201d God is showing His authority over the earth. Just like He's allowing Adam, through this naming, to demonstrate authority over his wife.\n\nI know some you females are very upset with me right now; just hang in there with me because I'm going to give a big balancing talk in a few minutes. But we have to see this side of the ledger. Go through the Bible and look what happens when someone is given authority to name.\n\nLook at Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. You know what their names originally were? Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, Jewish names that reflected God and His character in Daniel 1:6-7.\n\nWhen those three Hebrew youths went into Babylonian captivity, Nebuchadnezzar renamed each one of them. \u201cYou're no longer Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah; you'll be known by Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, which reflected the character not of the God, Yahweh, the Hebrew God, but the Babylonian pantheon.\n\nWhat Nebuchadnezzar is doing is saying, \u201cI own you, Hebrew youths. You don't work for God anymore; you work for me! I am authority of your lives and not God!\u201d And you know what happens in the rest of the Book of Daniel? God says, \u201cNebuchadnezzar (Nebbie for short), you're wrong. I'm the authority here.\u201d But it's highly significant\u2014the naming the takes place in Daniel 1:6-7.\n\nSo what you start to see is:\n<ol>\n \t<li>Adam is created first, then Eve. Big deal to Paul!<\/li>\n \t<li>It is not Eve who names Adam; it is Adam who names Eve.<\/li>\n \t<li>Eve sinned first, Genesis 3:6. Who does God call out for?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nYou\u2019ll see Eve sinning first (Genesis 3:6). Then you go to Genesis 3:9 and it says, \u201c<em>Then the Lord God called to the man<\/em>\u2026\u201d Now, why wouldn't He call the woman? She sinned first, after all. She gave some to her husband, and he ate of the forbidden tree.\n\nWhy would God call out to the man? Because God understands what evangelical feminists deny: that the authority rested with Adam. And when Enron goes belly up, you don't go after the janitor; you go after the CEO. You go after the person in charge. See that?\n\nSo what I'm trying to demonstrate here is the nonsensical interpretation of evangelical feminism\u2014this idea that male headship is something that happened after the Fall\u2014doesn't make any sense in light of the three reasons I've given.\n<ol>\n \t<li>Adam created first.<\/li>\n \t<li>Adam names Eve.<\/li>\n \t<li>God calls out for the man when things go astray. He does not call out for the woman.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\u201cWell, this is the most sexist, misogynist, woman-hating church I have ever been in! And I pray to God that it's going to turn to 12:30 as fast as it can so I can get out of here.\u201d\n\nWith that being said, let me give you the other side of the story. Here is some balance. For one thing, it's very interesting to me that Eve was created from Adam's side. Not his foot, to be stomped on. Not from his head that she might rule over him, but from his side.\n\nWhy in the world was she created from his side? She came into existence to complete what was lacking in Adam. Isn\u2019t that what verse 18 says? \u201c\u2026\u2018I will make him a helper suitable for him.\u201d\n\nVerse 20, \u201c\u2026<em>but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him<\/em>.\u201d She is there to complete him. She is there to assist him. And it is amazing what the right woman can do in terms of that!\n\nI could tell you countless stories from my own life about how my own wife just via kindness has completely completed what was lacking in me. I remember a situation in Dallas. It was a conservative group, and I was becoming a participant in that group. Tyndale Seminary was involved with that; Chafer Seminary was involved with that.\n\nI remember going out the door, rushing off to this event, and my wife said, \u201cYou know, you ought to put on a suit and tie.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m not going to put on a suit and tie; I\u2019ll be uncomfortable all day! Why would you want me to put on a suit and tie?\u201d \u201cWell, because one of these days you might be president of one of those organizations.\u201d And that's happened.\n\nI'll give you another example. I moved here to Houston, and I was working at the College of Biblical Studies. We were looking for a church. We didn't even know this church existed. My wife discovered it, \u201cWhy don't we try that little church over there?\u201d \u201cI don't want to do that.\u201d Well, look at today\u2014the pastor of the church.\n\nI mean, it's stunning\u2014the <em>influence<\/em> that the right wife can have on a person. And that's why the woman comes into existence. She's not there to tear the man down. She's not there to rival him or compete with him; she is there to make him a success.\n\nSo many younger Christian women who have bought into evangelical feminism are miserable, first of all, because they're living outside of their design. But they don't even understand what they're calling is; they are pursuing their own empire\u2014their own things\u2014the things that they want\u2014and the man is sort of along for the ride.\n\nThat's not a godly perspective. That's a worldly perspective of the definition of manhood and womanhood infiltrating the church of Jesus Christ. If you're married to a man as a Christian woman, your job is to make him successful.\n\nI'm not saying that you can't have your own career\u2014or whatever. I'm saying that your principal responsibility, under God, is to complete what is lacking in him. And the interesting thing about women is that they can see very fast what's lacking in us\u2014right down to the clothes we choose to put on.\n\nDo we understand, as men, that we have almost no ability to solve our own problems? We don\u2019t even know what they are. We don't even know where our car keys are 90% of the time. But a woman, under the direction of the Holy Spirit, as she's brought into that marriage, can complete what is lacking. See that?\n\nThat's what it means, \u201cI will make a helper suitable for him.\u201d I don't mean to go too far out on a limb. I've already gone out on a limb, so I might as well keep walking. Amen? There is a movement today concerning homosexual adoption of children, where it is now becoming legal for a child to be adopted by a homosexual couple.\n\nWhy would they do that? because they can't produce children of their own. Why can't they produce children of their own? They are living outside of the design of God, that's why. Think what is lacking in the lives of those children in terms of a male and a female perspective, with men and women on the same team looking at issues through different lenses.\n\nYou only have the perspective of two men\u2014or the perspective of two women. I personally don't think it's a great idea for our society to move in that particular direction. I think we need to go back to the design of God and the blueprint of God and how God has made men and women differently\u2014by design. And the woman is to be a blessing to that man!\n\nBut the problem with the man? And you ladies are saying, \u201cThank God. Let's get to that now!\u201d The man thinks that the woman is his slave. And that's not what the Bible teaches.\n\nWhat the woman is called (Genesis 2:18) is not the slave, but the what? Helpmate. My wife tells me this all of the time, \u201cDo you know why the wife is called the helpmate? Because you men need help!\u201d\n\nShe is not there to be ruled over ruthlessly or devalued. She is there to be appreciated and embraced based on the high calling that God has given her. In fact, the Hebrew word here for \u201chelper\u201d (Genesis 2:18; 2:20) is the Hebrew word EZER. Watch this now: this is the exact same word used to describe God.\n\nGod is called the Helper also. Where is that? We don't have time to look at every verse. Exodus 18:4, \u201c \u2018<em>The God of my father was my help<\/em>\u2026\u2019 \u201d (NKJV) Deuteronomy 33:7, the Lord will be \u201c<em>a help against his enemies<\/em>.\u201d (NKJV) First Samuel 7:12, \u201c \u2018<em>Thus far the Lord has helped us<\/em>.\u2019 \u201d (NKJV) It\u2019s not a demotion of women any more than that word is a demotion of God.\n\nBy the way, you know what the Holy Spirit is called? The Paraclete. What does that mean? \u201cThe one who comes alongside to assist.\u201d That's what a woman is called here in the helpmate. That is not some sort of slur or bigotry against women any more than it's a slur or bigotry against God Himself.\n\nThis is not demoting women; this is elevating women. You want to go somewhere in the world where women are demoted? You go to a part of this world that has not been penetrated by Christianity, and you'll see it really quick. You even see it here in the Houston area through immigration.\n\nIn the middle of the heat of Houston, you have the woman in a full burka, walking 6 feet behind the man? You want to blame that on Christianity? That's a culture that has never known Christianity!\n\nJesus did more for women than any historical figure I can think of when He did something so simple as to minister to the woman at the well who was immoral and from the wrong race. In fact, when you study John 4 carefully, you'll learn that He went out of His way to find her. He went way out of His way because it was within the providence of God for God in human Incarnation to find her and minister to her.\n\nIt was such a magnificent thing, and it was so anti-cultural that the disciples themselves even started criticizing Jesus and saying, \u201cWhy are You talking to her?!\u201d So this idea that somehow Christianity has destroyed the female gender is about as far removed historically as you could ever discover.\n\nSo when the Lord calls the wife or the woman a helper, He's not devaluing her or demoting her at all. How could He demote her when she comes from the exact same essence as Adam? That's what he is saying here in verse 23, \u201c \u2018<em>This is now bone of my bones <\/em>[they are the same essence] <em>And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man<\/em>.\u201d (NKJV)\n\nNot from his foot, not from his head, but from his side. From the same flesh; from the same bone. By the way, we learned earlier in Genesis 1 that both genders are image bearers of God.\n\n\u201c<em>So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them<\/em>.\u201d (Genesis 1:27, NKJV) By the way, both Adam and Eve were joint rulers over Creation. Genesis 1:26-28, \u201c\u2026<em>let them<\/em>\u2026\u201d Who would that be? It doesn't say, \u201clet him.\u201d It says, \u201clet them.\u201d\n\n\u201c\u2026<em>let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth<\/em>.\u201d (NASB 1995) He says, later on in verse 28, to subdue it and rule over it. He said it to both of them!\n\nSo what do we see developing here in the Scripture? We see that the woman is not to be abused. The woman is not to be neglected. The woman is not the slave, but she is (1 Peter 3:7) a joint heir of salvation! When I fall into chauvinistic tendencies\u2014which happens more than I wish\u2014that verse comes back to me quite frequently.\n\nMy wife is going to enjoy the exact same heaven that I'm going to enjoy; we are joint heirs. In fact, if you go back to the beginning, we were joint rulers! In fact, if you go back to the beginning, we are both image bearers!\n\nNow, does God call men and women to play different roles? Yes. Is there an authority structure? Yes. Is there such thing as male headship before the Fall? Yes. Is evangelical feminism wrong? Yes. All true\u2014but be careful about the balance. She's not a slave. She's not less than you. She's not less valuable than you. She's there to help. She's a blessing. She's a grace gift that God has given you.\n\nVery similar to the Trinity, where God the Son submits to God the Father. Doesn't Jesus say that over and over again? \u201cNot My will be done,\u201d but what? \u201cThy will be done.\u201d But when the Son submits to the Father\u2014watch this now\u2014the Son does not relinquish one iota of deity!\n\nThe Son and the Father are equal in terms of the essence of deity, but the Son and the Father play different roles. That's biblical marriage. Your wife and you\u2014or your husband and you\u2014or your future wife\u2014or your future husband\u2014play different roles. The leadership rests with the man.\n\nBut just because the leadership structure rests with the man pre-Fall, in no way, shape, or form does it mean that the woman is less valuable than the man. Any more than the Son is of less value than the Father, even though the Son plays a different role in subservience to the Father.\n\nVery confused on this in the culture today! Very easy to hear a preacher say one thing and form an inaccurate conclusion, but I would just challenge people to look at the full balance of not what I say. What I say is not important. It\u2019s what God says.\n\nWhat do you not see at the beginning? You don't see feminism where the woman is trying to control the man and assert her authority over the man. What also you don't see at the beginning is chauvinism\u2014where the man mistreats the woman and devalues her. You see, in this, a beautiful symmetrical relationship respecting the value of both parties in this marriage. But at the same time, there's a hierarchy here.\n\nNow, the Fall of man hasn't happened yet, so how can an evangelical feminist blame male authority as a result of the Fall? No, this is in existence before the Fall! This is the design of God; this is the pattern of God. And unless two people are committed to walking this out\u2014moment by moment, by faith, through the resources God gives\u2014a marriage can <em>never<\/em> work.\n\nQuite frankly, once we step outside of the design, how can you be fulfilled? You\u2019re living outside of the way God designed things; there's no fulfillment in that. Fulfillment, or meaning, only comes from pressing into the blueprint of the Creator.\n\nWe conclude here with verses 24 and 25. Notice what it says. \u201c<em>For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh<\/em>.\u201d Leave and cleave. A new relational priority has now been created which transcends all other relationships. It even transcends the former relationship between parent and child\u2014and that's a strong one! But once the marriage comes together biblically, that now is your priority\u2014not what mom and dad think. \u201cAm I fulfilling my ministry to my wife?\u201d that's what's important.\n\nJesus said, in Matthew 19:6, quoting these verses, \u201c<em>So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate<\/em>.\u201d That's pretty heavy language. That's a new relational priority that has come into existence.\n\n\u201c<em>So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate<\/em>.\u201d (Matthew 19:6, NKJV) Then you have the concluding verse, verse 25. \u201c<em>And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed<\/em>.\u201d That's a hinge verse, that's a transition verse, because both of them were unashamed. That raises the question, \u201cHow did they become ashamed?\u201d What went wrong? Moses says, I'm so glad you asked that, here's Genesis 3, explaining what went wrong.\n\nThere is a similar hinge verse at the end of Genesis 1 which says, \u201c<em>God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good<\/em>.\u201d Well, wait a minute; now we\u2019re learning about something not good, Genesis 2:18. So \u201cvery good\u201d is a transition from Genesis 1 into Genesis 2, where we discover something not good\u2014the relational deficiency.\n\nGenesis 2:25 is the hinge into Genesis 3, where now we learn how sin, and how shame, entered God's perfect picture. So that takes us out of Genesis 2. I can't believe we finished it; it only took us 10 sermons to get there.\n\nBut how would we sum up the whole thing? Man and woman are living in a perfect environment. Man and woman are the pinnacle of God's created order, and they are functioning as theocratic administrators, governing God's creation on God's behalf.\n\nSo what went wrong? Genesis 3 is what happened. And the ramifications and consequences of Genesis 3 are spelled out in Genesis 4 and Genesis 5. And if you don't understand Genesis 3-5, you have no understanding as to why we need Jesus. Because Jesus came into the world to get us <em>back<\/em> to Genesis 1 and 2! Do you want to be on a fast track in life, where you're going back to Genesis 1 and 2? Which is better clarified in Revelation 21 and 22?\n\nDo you long for a day where humanity\u2014and you and your life\u2014returns to what God wanted from it originally before man's rebellion entered the picture? I don't know about you, but I sure want that! Yet you only get that by receiving, by faith alone, what Jesus did for you on the Cross 2000 years ago.\n\nThere is no other way to get it. There's no other way to be fast tracked back to the original design. That's why Jesus came into the world: to reverse what went wrong through the first Adam. He came as the Last Adam to undo the problem, and He paid a horrific price to do that.\n\nAnd He only asks us not to try to save ourselves. Adam and Eve, we\u2019re going to see in Genesis 3, are trying to save themselves. And the great lesson out of Genesis 3? You can't fix yourself at all; you have to rest in what God did. So that's our exhortation to people here at Sugar Land Bible Church: rest (or trust) exclusively in what Jesus did.\n\nBecoming a Christian is that easy. It's a condition of the heart, where the Spirit convicts us of our need to do this. And we trust\u2014not in our own ability to save ourselves but\u2014in what Jesus did for us 2000 years ago. And if that happens? Just like that\u2014snap of the fingers!\u2014you're saved. And it can't be reversed.\n\nIt's very simple. The world of religiosity and denominationalism has made it so complex. Yet, when you go back to the Scripture, it's not complex at all; it's simple. So our exhortation for people is to receive that even as I'm talking. If it's something you need more explanation on, I\u2019m available after the service to talk. Shall we pray?\n\n<strong>Closing Prayer<\/strong>\n\n\u201cLord, we\u2019re grateful for Your blueprint. It explains to us why so many times we are unfulfilled, because we neglect the owner\u2019s manual. Help us to walk these things out this week. 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