To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
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… So we're struggling to be what the Lord wants us to be. But I want to take you back to Genesis chapter 3 and verse 16, because I want you to know where this tendency toward rebellion comes from. So if you are a woman and you feel like your husband irritates you, and you just don't feel like always complying with what he wants, you came by this basically because of Eve. She did this to the women, and Adam followed suit. But back in Genesis 3, when Adam and Eve had sinned, God cursed the women, women in general. Verse 16 of Genesis 3, the women, He said, I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. Is that true? Is that a reality? Of course, every woman who's ever had a child affirms that. So that's a validation of Scripture. Yes, that's true. In pain you will bring forth children. And then there's a second part of it, your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you. …
… the leader, and God made the woman to be the enhancer. For example, in Genesis 3 verse 16, God said to the wife, Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. The husband is the leader. But the woman is the enhancer. She is to be the nurturer. Now, I'm going to talk to you about some things that are tendencies. I'm not talking about hard and fast rules. What I'm going to give you now are tendencies between the male and the female. For example, as a tendency the man is stronger than the woman. Isn't that right? That's just one of the tendencies. The man is physically strong. Now not always. I mean there are some women in here who can beat up some men in here. And don't mess with them. I'm telling you, there are some who can do that. I'm just talking now about tendencies. I'm saying as a tendency if we put all the men on one side of the room and all the women on the other side and had a fight. Well, I'm getting in too deep here. But anyway the Bible says in 1 Peter chapter 3 verse 7 that the woman is the weaker vessel. Why? Because of what God made man to do which was what? Tend the garden. Man has to be able to dig and to chop and to carry and to protect and to provide. …
… in this very first book of the Bible, very first family, they played this game. And you'll recall, for example, in this third chapter that Satan has tempted Eve and she has partaken of the tree of good and evil, which God forbid her to do. And of course, gave it to her husband. And so I want us to begin reading in this eighth verse. And the scripture says, and Adam and Eve now have sinned against God. And the Bible says, and they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. Then the Lord God called to the man and said to him, Where are you? And he said, I heard the sound of thee in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, and so I hid myself. And he said, Who told you that you were naked? …