So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh.Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof:
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… 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 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 a 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. Okay, truth number one. God created men and women with equal dignity. Truth number two. God created men and women with different roles. Different roles. Clearly, in so many ways, God created man and woman from the very beginning differently. There's a reason why there's male and female here. …
… fit for him so the Lord God caused a deep sleep death like sleep to fall upon the man and he pierced his side, took one of his ribs, closed up its place with flesh, and the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into the church and brought her to the Christ. Therefore, the Christ shall hold fast to his church and they shall become one flesh. And of course, that's not how Genesis 2 reads yet, But Paul does quote verse 24 in Ephesians chapter 5 As you know, this mystery is profound And I'm saying that it refers to Christ in the church So this mystery of marriage that remained an enigma For thousands of years Is now revealed In the coming of Jesus Why did God design the world like he did and us like he did male and female just so basic everywhere It is a losing fight to try to cover it up and pretend like it's not that way And now at the coming of Jesus and the making of his church, the cat's out of the bag. …
… the birds of the air and every beast of the field but for Adam there was not a helper compared to him and the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam and he slept and he took one of his ribs and closed up his flesh in its place then the then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man, he made into woman, and he brought her to the man. God brought Eve to Adam, and Adam said, this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man. When God brings you together, listen, please listen. Are you listening? If your marriage is tough, hard, and difficult, and you have these kinds of thoughts, Well, we shouldn't have gotten married in the first place. Everyone, listen, everyone pulls out some sort of an excuse. Are you in it? Yeah, we're in it. We're going to end it. Don't end it. …
… 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. There's so much here. So I wanna show you four truths about God's design for marriage here and then springing from here all over scripture. Number one, God designs marriage for our good, for the good of humanity. Genesis chapter two, verse 18 jumps off the page in the Bible because over and over again to this point in Genesis chapter one and two, we've read, God saw that what he had made was good. …
… but for Adam, no suitable helper was found. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. And while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs, then closed up the place with flesh. And then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. a lot of things in here are beautiful that we're not really going to spend a lot of time on but God brought the woman to the man what a gift and the man said this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh she shall be called woman or whoa man moving妹 Evansthrough Brady date, been covered dating last week, but the man leaves his father and mother. So if you're still living with your father and your mother, guys, and you're wanting to get married, you might want to make some plans and make some moves. And is united to his wife and they become one flesh. …
… the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him. 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. The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. The man said, "'This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man. For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife, And they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed." So in Genesis chapter 2, God basically creates a man, and then from that man creates a woman, and inaugurates what Peter calls the grace of life, which is marriage. And marriage in Scripture has a number of purposes. …