Saturday 122824
Don’t let me or my writings influence or scare you in any way, instead, allow me to be used as a vessel to open the Word, just a little bit, and hopefully, together we are going to read and study His Word, and let God teach us what He wants us to hear.
Since the beginning of this study, our vision has been that we are ONLY going to follow what is found in the Holy Bible, that pertains to us, and we realize that it’s ONLY from our own effort that we put into this study, that we’re going to take anything away for our own use.
The verses we are going to study tonight:
Genesis 2:1-25, 3:1-7.
So, tonight we’re going to continue our study in Genesis.
Genesis 2
vs1 ‘…And so the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their heavenly lights…’
vs2 ‘…By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done…’
vs3 ‘…Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on it He rested from all His work which God had created and made…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
We begin Genesis 2 with the ending of the seventh day in the Week of Creation.
vs4 ‘…This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made earth and heaven…’
vs5 ‘…Now no shrub of the field was yet on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground…’
We’re told that on Day 3 of Creation, God created the plants, but because of no rain, nothing grew on the land.
vs6 ‘…But a mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground…’
vs7 ‘…Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living person…’
vs8 ‘…The Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed…’
vs9 ‘…Out of the ground the Lord God caused every tree to grow that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil…’
vs10 ‘…Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four rivers…’
vs11 ‘…The name of the first is Pishon; it flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold…’
vs12 ‘…The gold of that land is good; the bdellium and the onyx stone are there as well…’
vs13 ‘…The name of the second river is Gihon; it flows around the whole land of Cush…’
vs14 ‘…The name of the third river is Tigris; it flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates…’
vs15 ‘…Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and tend it…’
vs16 ‘…The Lord God commanded the man, saying, from any tree of the garden you may freely eat…’
vs17 ‘…but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for on the day that you eat from it you will certainly die…’
Now we know that the tree wasn’t poisonous, and if a man ate from it, he would not physically die. It was Spiritually how man would die. Look at this world today in the 21st century, just look at the death that is so obvious from looking around us. Man could so quickly save themselves from this Spiritual death, but this is once again, the results that are so evident of the presence of Satan in this world.
vs18 ‘…Then the Lord God said, it is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him…’
vs19 ‘…And out of the ground the Lord God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name…’
vs20 ‘…The man gave names to all the livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him…’
vs21 ‘…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…’
vs22 ‘…And the Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man…’
vs23 ‘…Then the man said, at last this is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ Because she was taken out of man…’
vs24 ‘…For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh…’
vs25 ‘…And the man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
Now today in almost, if not all weddings, vs24 is used in marriage vows. I’m unsure how many couples I’ve married over the years, the difference, I like using vs18 instead of vs24.
vs24 ‘…For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh…’
vs18 ‘…Then the Lord God said, it is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him…’
It is true that a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, but the woman is not a slave to the man. There is nowhere, where it is said that a woman will cook dinner, clean the dishes, clean the house, take care of the kids, it’s just not anywhere to be found. The woman is a helper, she is to help cooking dinner, help doing the dishes, help cleaning the house, etc.
With the above said, nowhere is it written that the man is the only one responsible for taking out the garbage, for cutting the grass, for painting the house and planting the garden. Actually, the woman is a helper, she is to help take out the garbage, help cutting the grass, help painting the house and help planting the garden.
A marriage is a union between the two individuals. They are only going to get out of a marriage what they put into that marriage.
Years ago, a very good pastor friend of mine taught how a marriage was a 50 / 50 relationship.
Over the years, I have to disagree with my friend. A marriage, a successful marriage is a 100 / 100 relationship.
50 percent times 50 percent is 25 percent. A couple can only possibly achieve 25 percent of what is possible for that couple.
But 100 percent times 100 percent is 100 percent. The couple is going to get ALL that is available to them as a couple.
I’ve not intended for this lesson to turn into a couple’s lesson on how to survive but I simply want to show how God has given us the ability to achieve as much as we can.
Just as we know that the tree was not poisonous and a person couldn’t physically die from eating that tree’s fruit, we should also know that a marriage is so much more than a 50/50 relationship. We’re not going to die in a 50/50 relationship, but it is possible that we may achieve so much more if we work at it.
We’ve been in Genesis now for two chapters and we’ve learned of the PERFECTION that can be found through our God.
We’ve also seen how not everything that we want to know is not necessarily easy to find.
We’re going to have to work for it.
This next lesson in Genesis is going to be on the ‘fall of mankind.’
Satan, in his evil ways, tempted Eve one day into thinking she was smarter than God.
Genesis 3
vs1 ‘…Now the serpent was more cunning than any animal of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God really said, you shall not eat from any tree of the garden…’
vs2 ‘…The woman said to the serpent, From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat…’
vs3 ‘…but from the fruit of the tree, which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, you shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die…’
vs4 ‘…The serpent said to the woman, you certainly will not die…’
vs5 ‘…For God knows that on the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will become like God, knowing good and evil…’
vs6 ‘…When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband with her, and he ate…’
vs7 ‘…Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves waist coverings…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
Today, in the 21st century, we are confronted with more temptations than ever. It is difficult for us to make it through this human life that we live in.
We are fortunate that we know the Bible and it tells us that God knows we’re going to have a hard time getting through this life.
Keep your Bible always handy and near because there’s coming that time when you are going to need the strength from God, and you’ll only find it in the Word.
I love y’all.
Jesus, I pray that those ears and eyes, either listening or seeing this message today would be opened to the very fullest and allow Your love to come inside their lives and comfort them. Teach us Jesus. Protect us. We love You. Amen
InHIM. ><)))o>