and obviously we're experimenting here so be gracious with us for the audio or video
technical difficulties but we're here in Genesis chapter number two and we just came off of the
creation week but Genesis chapter number two in the first few verses is going to continue with
the same thought that we had here in Genesis chapter number one it says in verse number one
thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of them and so this is just right off
of the same thought of Genesis chapter number one where the bible is telling us that all the things
that God had created were finished in this six days now that's an important statement here in
verse number one that everything was created but I also like this phrase that it says at the
end of there the host of them and now when you think of the word host you could look it up
in a dictionary and the word host could mean army or it could mean a great multitude
and so a host here is really just in reference to a great multitude and it's describing all the
things that were created within the heavens and the earth another thing that's important
to distinguish here is in verse number one it says thus the heavens and the earth were
finished whereas in Genesis chapter one look at verse one it says in the beginning God created
the heaven and the earth yet when we go through the creation week we see that the heavens
are created we have a first heaven second heaven and proverbially known as the third
heaven where God resides and we even learned last week that God is you know outside of his
own creation you know even his own creation he can't be fully encompassed by because he's
bigger than his even creation of all those heavens and earth so in verse number one of
chapter number two we have both all of the heavens and the earth and everything that's inside
of those habitats like what the sun moon and stars we have all the creation on the earth itself
such as the atmosphere and we have the fish and we have the whales and we have the animals
we have the beast and even man which was God's crowning achievement here at the end of his
creation is making something after his own image which was man now it says in verse number two
that it was everything you know it's it's the heavens is the earth they're finished and that's
another clear thing that's important to understand for doctrine because you know our
church believes that everything was literally created in that one week and that that was
just several thousand years ago whereas evolution and google and all these other
atheists they want to try and tell you that we were created through a process of evolution
or that it took you know hundreds of thousands or millions or billions maybe even trillions of
years the number continues to expand over time and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger and
bigger to basically just offshoot the problem that nothing cannot create something and ultimately
the big bang theory and a lot of other evolutionary devices have been you know formulated
hypothesized to try and come up with an idea of why we're here because really you know that's an
important question you know a lot of people ask this question at different stages in their
life as they continue to grow up they start asking this question why am i here how did i
come to be and it's great that we have the bible where it starts out with the first book
genesis which means beginning and then god just tells us very clearly exactly where we came from
exactly how everything was created there's no confusion it's very clear yet science today
so called and what the world would have you to believe is very confusing no one has there's
no consensus there's no book that i can read just a short few chapters or a few verses and
find out exactly where he came from you know they they try to hide behind this pseudo
intellectual knowledge of where we came from but the bible gives us exactly where everything
came from and sometimes christians they try to meld you know false science with the bible
and they come up with strange you know ideas and strange viewpoints like the gap theory or the
day age creation theory or all these strange hypotheses that try to meld evolution with the
bible but we don't want to meld the bible with false ideas we just want to believe whatever
the bible says because all true science will line up with the bible and let me give you some
more evidence here that everything was created in this creation we go to exodus chapter number
20 for a moment keep your finger and go to exodus chapter number 20 and the bible is going
to clearly tell us that everything was created in those six days of what we know as genesis
chapter number one and genesis chapter number two is confirming it hey everything was created
and it said all the host of them so you would ask well when when did dinosaurs when were they
created or when were any beasts created saber-toothed tigers woolly mammoths or whatever
it is the dodo bird which some of these creatures may or may not have existed but
certainly there have been animals of the past that are extinct now but the bio makes clear all
of the host was created then there wasn't any animal that was not created look at excess
chapter 20 verse number uh nine six days shalt the labor and do all thy work but the seventh day
is the sabbath of the lord thy god in it thou shalt not do any work thou nor thy son nor
thy daughter thy man servant nor thy maid servant nor thy cattle nor thy stranger that
is within thy gates for in six days the lord made heaven and earth the sea and all that
in them is and rest of the seventh day wherefore the lord blessed the sabbath day and how did so
again we have another place in scripture and this was specifically given to moses by
god himself if you look at exodus 20 verse 1 which is our memory passage or memory memory
chapter it says and god spake all these words saying and so this is literally from the mouth
of god he writes the ken commandments with his own finger on a tablet handing it to moses
and he's telling him again reiterating the fact that hey in six days the lord made literally
everything now if you believe in a day age gap theory you're gonna have a problem with something
because we get all of our days and times and weeks and everything from genesis chapter number
one and you see okay the earth rotates around the sun about 365 days approximately that's
where we get our year you have the moon going around the earth which is where we get a lunar
calendar and you basically get your month cycles and obviously you know ours a little bit different
but you basically get your years you get your months we have the day we have the evening in the
morning we have the day very clearly laid out but here's this question where do you get the
week you get the week because god said in six days you have the six days then you have the
seventh day that's your week if you believe in a day age gap theory they'll say oh well the
first period was a thousand years and the next period was millions of years next but then if that
was true how would you even get a week you couldn't have a week because they don't actually
have one established but we actually have a literal week where we have seven days approximately
24 hours apart and in those first six days god created everything that exists on this heaven
everything that exists in this earth everything is just everywhere and he rested that seventh day
and it's important to understand this philosophy now i want to go to another place here go to luke
chapter number three luke chapter three some people get really offended when you tell them
you know they'll ask this question well how old do you think the earth is or how old do you
think all the things that are in creation are and people say well i believe everything was created
about six thousand years ago or maybe they say just under ten thousand because they're not
trying to get real specific well i've actually you know tried to come up with an exact date
in the past and i think it's approximately 6 300 years i'm not going to give you
you know a number beyond that because it i think it's impossible to get exactly perhaps because
we have to base it on a few different uh things in even modern history but one thing is for sure
that it's not more than 10 000 years it's impossible it's impossible to get beyond some
number like that say it's millions or billions of years old and obviously god created everything
in a mature creation however the starting point was only approximately 6 300 years
from the present time now you say well how could i prove that you know or how could i know that
well someone believes the bible there's no way to escape this fact the king james bible because
what i just showed you was a few verses i showed you that everything was created in genesis
chapter two verse one there's all the host of them exodus chapter 20 verse 11 tells you for
in six days the lord created the heaven the earth and the sea and all that in them is
so we have those two verses and then if you want to go forward in future we can get within
you know some kind of reasonable range or understand that it couldn't be millions or
billions of years old because at that starting point after six days the bible also has another
list in luke chapter number three that would help us understand that it can't be millions
or billions of years old look what it said we're in luke chapter 3 verse 23 the bible reads
and jesus himself began to be about 30 years of age being as was supposed the son of joseph
which was the son of eli so the bible tells us in luke chapter number three it gives us
a genealogy of the lord jesus christ and this is important because it's going to go all
the way back to that beginning point that we just referenced now i'm going to explain this
verse and then i'm going to continue with what i was teaching you but as it says here and jesus
was being as was supposed the son of joseph which was the son of eli now why is all that worded
that way well first of all we understand that jesus christ is not the literal son of joseph
he's the adoptive son of joseph because god is his father the bible makes it clear that god
was manifest in the flesh that the holy ghost came upon mary and that jesus christ was born of
a virgin and so therefore joseph is not his literal father his physical father he is his
adoptive father or stepfather as it were and that's why it says as supposed so we see jesus
christ was as opposed and then it says which was the son of eli now when you go to matthew
keep your finger go to matthew chapter number one for a moment there is another genealogy
of jesus christ that's how it starts out is with the genealogy of jesus christ
and it says in verse number 16 and jacob begat joseph the husband of mary of whom was born
jesus who is called christ so in matthew we have a genealogy as well this genealogy is the
genealogy of joseph himself and so we start out with a genealogy of joseph but jesus christ
did not physically descend from this this was just an adoptive perspective and notice that jacob
begat joseph so who's joseph's father it's jacob so then we go back to luke chapter
number three and we look at verse number 23 it says which was the son of eli so how is he the
son of jacob or the son of eli well that's because this verse is not referencing joseph
it's representing jesus christ so the best way to understand this is realizing that eli or heli
is the father of mary and so jesus christ being a grandson of eli would be the son of eli
because when the bible says the son of we sometimes would think of that direct descent
good thing like i have four you know i have three sons maybe i have four i don't know
we'll find out but i have you know clayton and i have jackson and i have james and so you
would say james is the son of jonathan right but also my dad is trey and so you could say
that clayton is the son of trey even though he's not a direct descendant he's still a son of
or you could go on to my uh my wife's side you could go on to his maternal or paternal
grandparents and you could look at his mom's father which would be gene and you could say
that clayton is the son of gene both of those are accurate statements he's both the
son of gene he's the son of trey he's the son of jonathan if you go all the way back
to my grandfather robert you know he's the son of robert and so that's why jesus christ
is referred to as the son of david you know it's not saying that he is literally david's
son in a one generation sense but he is in the sense that if he traces genealogy he goes
all the way back to david when it says the son of eli here it's the lineage of mary now
i explained that just for you to understand this passage if you were going to explain to
somebody the age of the earth i wouldn't go through all this detail i'm just giving you
a little bit of detail for these verses but let's say someone wanted to know how do how
come you believe the earth is you know only thousands of years old well first of all genesis
two one then exodus 20 verse 11 and then i'll show them this genealogy which starts with jesus
christ here in verse 23 and then let's hit some high points look at verse 31 which is the son of
me leah which is the son of minan which is the son of me tatha which is the son of nathan
which is the son of david so notice jesus christ is the son of david when you follow this
genealogy it gets to david and we see in verse 34 which is the son of jacob which is the
son of isaac which is the son of abraham which is the son of thera which is the son of nakor
so again we also see was the son of jacob he was a son of isaac he was a son of abraham now
i love this genealogy for a lot of reasons but think about this you're reading this genealogy
and wouldn't you largely ask this question who's jacob and who's isaac and who's abraham
you know the whole book of genesis is going to tell you who abraham was and who isaac was
and who jacob was and so the bible was going to give you all of this history throughout these
genealogies so that you actually understand because when you follow the bible it was all
about jesus and it was all leading us to the of jesus christ and so we'd have a better
understanding because if we didn't have that beginning we would just say who's abraham and
who's isaac and who's jacob and who's all these guys that the bible's referencing
but the bible gives us you know lots of information about these men and god obviously
chose these men for multiple reasons one specifically is that he is a descendant of
these men he's a descendant of abraham and so when he made that promise unto abraham of thy seed
it was about jesus christ okay but then let's go a little bit further look at verse 38 which
was the son of enos which is the son of seth which was the son of adam which was the
son of god so when you see this genealogy in luke chapter number three we see the names and
we see the beginning that's going through how could you say this is millions of years we have
the genealogies even if you attributed to these guys a thousand years old each let's say they
lived a thousand years before they begat the next generation which did not happen we see
the oldest man even recorded in the bible was less than a thousand years old methuselah
and so that even if you attributed that you're only going to have 20 or 30 000 here so for
these evolutionists and these uh you know god-hating atheists to go around and say oh
17 billion years ago nothing exploded and we have the earth today it's all a bunch of lies
now obviously you could say that when adam was formed in the garden you know god didn't form a
one-day-old baby he didn't have a one-day-old baby and he didn't have just a bunch of seeds
planted it wasn't mature creation and obviously the earth itself or the the things that exist in
the the outer space cosmos and stars and the sun they would have some kind of a mature age and if
you could possibly identify what that age was maybe it is millions or maybe it is billions of
years old but that doesn't matter because everything came into existence about 6 300 years
old and so whether you could identify exactly how old the sun is or when it came to be is
irrelevant to understanding the beginning of the creation and if i want to prove to somebody
that everything came into be about 6 300 years ago i'm not going to go through all this science
and you know all this you know philosophy and all this logic really i'm just going to point to
the bible we have genesis 2 1 we have exodus 2011 we have the genealogy here if someone is
not willing to hear the bible why would they be compelled by modern science and all of these
other things that you know the bible says that faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word
of god i'm not going to try to appeal to someone that's illogical with logic anyways
and so let's go back to genesis chapter 2 i gave you a few verses there so
if someone comes at you with wanting to understand oh why are you a young or a
creationist or why do you believe that the earth isn't billions or trillions of years old
you know those would be the few verses that i would choose that's pretty simple genesis 2 1
exodus 21st 11 and then you have luke chapter number 3 which is the genealogy of jesus christ
from his mother's side mary and it goes all the way back to god and shows that adam was a
son of god in the sense that he had no earthly father just like jesus christ because
jesus christ is the second adam adam was that first fleshly earthly adam and jesus christ is
the spiritual adam that's going to save us now let's look at a few more verses here look at
verse number two it says and on the seventh day god ended his work which he had made and
he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made and god blessed the seventh
day and sanctified it because that in it he had rested from all his work which god
created and made so again it also says that god rested and we get into the idea of god
taking a break here and not working anymore and you would ask this question why well the seventh
day has a lot of spiritual significance and we already read in excess chapter number 20 that
that's where the sabbath is derived we have a sabbath day's rest and the bible says for six
days you know we're supposed to do all of our work but then the seventh day was supposed
to be a sabbath rest in the old testament this was the picture a lot of different things
this is where we get our week obviously but let's go back to another place in scripture
let's keep our finger and go to hebrews i want to go to hebrews for a moment hebrews
chapter number four and i'm not going to go back to exodus 20 we already kind of read that
but the bible makes it clear that in the old testament specifically they were to observe
a sabbath and in the sabbath was they were not supposed to do any servile work when you
study this out servile work that would be basically like going to your job you know
going and doing the normal work that you would do but there's obviously going to be even
exceptions to that because the priests themselves did work on the sabbath day they would still
slaughter the animals and do the sacrifices and jesus christ gives reference to this
thing that the priests profane the sabbath yet are blameless because obviously they were given
a special provision and god also tells us the sabbath you know man was not made for the
sabbath but sabbath was made for the man and so you know it wasn't to be a burden it was
to be a blessing and really it's funny because the jews turn the sabbath into a horrible
curse or they turn to where people can't do anything they can't flip on a light switch
obviously they didn't have electricity back then but you know proverbially speaking they
had to do all these weird rituals and these strange things to try to get around doing any
kind of work and they tried to make it so burdensome that people you know were really
stressed out about the sabbath and it was like this big ordeal whereas the sabbath was
intended to be a blessing just like me going to work if i walked into work one day my boss
said hey you're off for the day i wouldn't be like man you know obviously if he's getting
paid right he's saying hey you're getting a paid day off you'd be like sweet you know
i'm just gonna go home i'm gonna relax i'm gonna have a good time and that's really the essence
of this habit is supposed to be a blessing because it's supposed to picture something
spiritual and that spiritual picture is something that's a blessing too look at hebrews chapter
number four and look what it says in verse number three for we which have believed do
enter into rest as he said as i have sworn in my wrath if they shall enter into my rest
although the works were finished from the foundation of the world for he spake in a
certain place of the seventh day on this wise and god did rest the seventh day from all his
works so in hebrews chapter four it brings up what we're reading about how god ceased from
all of his works and so god you know created everything in those six days then he took a rest
day and obviously god still interacts with his creation beyond that but he took a specific
rest on the seventh to picture something and that is spiritual salvation the sabbath was to
picture a spiritual salvation just like god sees from his works we're supposed to seize from our
works now why would we cease from our works because it's to illustrate how salvation is not
based on what we do it's based on entering into god's rest and god is the one that created
everything and did all the work and so we're supposed to do absolutely nothing to represent
what salvation looks like how we do nothing it's apart from works it has nothing to do with
our labor or anything that we're going to try and earn rather it's a free gift that we receive which
is a blessing and the sabbath day was a blessing even in the old testament whenever the israelites
were wandering through the wilderness and they had to gather that manna they didn't have to
gather it seven days they had to gather it six days and the gathering that they made on
saturday would last by a miracle on the sabbath day to where they didn't have to gather at all
it was just basically free uh of labor they didn't have to do anything and they just got
that miracle and the same is with salvation all we do is just believe on the lord jesus christ
it's apart from all works we just enter into his rest and it's a blessing but if you think
about the jews what do they try to do they try to work their way to heaven they try to earn
it and so it's a picture of someone working on the sabbath day is someone trying to earn
their salvation whereas those that are actually saved they just rest from all their works and
so we already have the gospel being preached in genesis chapter two we had it in genesis
chapter number one hey the gospels in every single chapter of the bible it's always about
you know salvation by faith it's apart from works just like god rested on his seventh day
we're also supposed to rest just like god did and he set that example for us go back to
genesis chapter number two go back to genesis chapter number two and let's read a few more
verses here it says in verse number four these are the generations of the heavens and of the
earth when they were created in the day that the lord god made the earth and the heavens and
every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew
for the lord god had not caused it to rain upon the earth and there was not a man to till
the ground now this is where atheists really try to attack the bible and they really have
a fundamental lack or they're really not even trying to understand the bible we have to
understand is that the bible itself will have a unique chronology it'll give you a perfect
chronology of events but then all of a sudden it'll overlap it'll go back in time and start
at a point in the past and then carry the story forward it'll go a little bit further
into the future and really what we have in genesis chapter number two is the first three
verses are kind of just finishing the thoughts of genesis chapter one but when you get to
verses number four and five it's going back in time and this is a very good way to tell a story
is god basically gives you an overview or kind of gives you the high level of events
and then he'll come back and then he'll fill in the details other places in the bible he'll
give you a full line of genealogy he'll tell you about all these different people are going
to live in the future and then he'll kind of come back to some of those people that he mentioned
and then give you the details of their life and kind of explain certain things that have
happened in certain events and so when you're reading the bible you have to understand that
god's constantly going back and then filling in more details and going back and then filling in
more detail and you kind of see this going back and forth even when you look at books
in the new testament like luke and acts and luke the bible is telling us that the lord's
ascending but then when you go back to acts chapter number one it's like a second time that
he's writing but you kind of start a little bit before that again where you have jesus
interacting with them and telling them and then you go through that ascension but with more detail
but with more uh verses and more examination and god's giving us a different look at certain
things and so when you're reading the bible you have to understand that it's going to
have a consistent chronology it's always pushing the dialogue forward however many times
it's going back and retracing certain events or giving you more details about certain events
and pushing the dialogue forward and forward and really you know i feel like everything's
borrowed from the bible even movies do this movies will give you kind of a timeline and
then it'll kind of go back in time and then it'll kind of fill in some of the gaps or some
of the details so you can kind of keep pushing the sword forward and understanding it from
different perspectives and getting details in an unique way and so when we get into verses four
and five we have to understand god is going back to day number six when he had created the
beast and the man and he's kind of going to give you those really specific details because we
already read in genesis chapter one that male and female have been created and the beast
is being created but look what it said in verse number five there was not a man until the ground
wait a minute i thought he already created adam and eve that's because he went back before
he had actually created adam and eve and he's going to give you really specific details here
and we see that it also says this in verse five every plan in the field before it was in
the earth and every year with the field before it grew so what is he telling you he's
telling you nothing had ever been planted yet nothing had ever grown yet he's saying
not only had it not grown it had never rained yet not only not rained no man had ever tilled
the ground and why is that important again god's just hammering the fact everything god
created was just straight up ex-helo or whatever where it just out of nothing where
he just basically he just spontaneously has trees and grass and man and everything
nothing had been planted nothing had grown of itself nothing had been rained on
nothing no man had tilled the ground it was just a complete creation by god
god just created all this stuff by his word it says in verse number six but there went up
a mist from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground so also in the beginning god
you know didn't even have it rain sounds good to me because you know i don't really
want to live in seattle i don't really love the rain but in the beginning god just had a
mist just kind of come up and it would just water the face of the earth and it hadn't even
rained and so that's pretty cool people will speculate because of this verse that it hadn't
even rained until noah's ark which i don't know if that's true or not maybe through our study i
might come to that conclusion too but at this point there hadn't been rain it says in verse
number seven and god the lord god formed man of the dust of the earth of the ground and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul even more good
doctrine here you know other places you know god will tell man that thou art dust and you say
why does he say you're dust because that's what adam was literally created of just dirt and
god ended up breathing into him and he becomes noticed as a living soul and so man is unique
from the beasts of the field in the sense that a man has a soul and that soul will continue
for eternity whether that be in heaven or in hell you know some people would think that dying
is kind of ceasing to exist but the bible doesn't teach that dying is ceasing to exist
it's rather a constant pain and torment and being in agony for the rest of your life rather
than being in heaven which is eternal bliss you either have eternal bliss or you have
everlasting destruction as the bible teaches but your soul is going to continue to exist
throughout all of eternity either in the greatest place ever or the worst place ever but man is
different than a beast because beasts they do cease to exist and the bible tells us that their
spirit you know just descends back down into the ground and i'm sorry to tell you that
fido he's not gonna he's not gonna make it you know but people will and you say well why
do you teach that you're just mean you like hate animals or something first of all i don't
hate animals but there's a sick world that we live in today where they care more about animals
than people and people today they need to realize that that animal is not going to last forever but
souls are going to last forever and really the only thing that we can take out of this world
is the souls that go with us you know the bible makes it clear with joe he says naked came
into this world and there shall i return so joe he's not going to take anything out with him
he came in with nothing and he's going to leave with nothing and really the only thing we
can take is a spiritual aspect it's the souls that we win to christ and so we need to get our
focus off of the things of this earth and and be focused on the living souls on this planet
that's what really matters and all of god's creation was for that you have to understand
while we have this great heaven and earth there's a new heaven and a new earth all this stuff
is going to be completely destroyed and you know god is just going to completely replace it
the only thing that's going to really stay is that soul that's quickened with the lord and so
we need to realize that winning souls of christ is the most important thing we can do it says
in verse number eight and lord god planted a garden eastward in eden and there he put the man
whom he had formed and so god's doing all these different actions we see a little bit more
detail on day number six than we had gotten from genesis chapter one we see god literally
creates a garden he decides to put that man that he created adam into this garden
and gives us some more information about it it says in verse number nine and out of the
ground made the lord god to grow every tree that is pleasant to the site and good for food
free of life also in the midst of the garden and the tree of knowledge of good and evil and
so god creates this garden and he has two trees there a tree of life and a tree of the knowledge
of good and evil now this is what's really interesting is that in this perfect paradise
adam he doesn't have the knowledge of good and evil because the tree is what has that knowledge
of good and evil and so he's absent from this knowledge of good and evil and really
when you consider what's going to happen in the future and consider the end times
we're going to go back to a stat a status where the knowledge of good and evil is not going
to exist anymore and i want to show you a few verses to think about but the tree of life is
still going to be there go if you went to revelation chapter 21 go to revelation chapter
number 21 in order to have perfection we can't really have the knowledge of good or of evil
and really in order to understand good you have to understand evil in order to send evil
you have to understand good because these two things are relative you know what's good to
some may be evil to others and there's always going to be a little bit of a balance here
and god created it where man was you know absent from that knowledge of good and evil
he didn't have that he didn't have this comparison and we really as humans love to
compare everything whether it's good or bad and people like to think that they're all good
everybody thinks they're a good person and they're going to heaven and really they don't
understand god's standard but the the devil wants the temp man with this knowledge the secret
esoteric knowledge or special knowledge is what that means but we don't need that and when we
go back to perfection we're not going to have these type of things look what it says
in revelation 21 and look at what it says in verse number four and god shall wipe away all
tears from their eyes and there shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crying neither shall there
be any more pain for the former things are passed away the bible also says that there's
no remembrance of former things now this is important because to understand if there's no sorrow
if there's no pain then you cannot have evil thoughts you cannot have good thoughts even
because if i can remember you know past loved ones that ended up going to hell that would
bring me sorrow that would bring me you know pain and you see that he's wiping away tears
why would he be wiping away tears right now we just went through the great white throne
judgment and it's going to be sad to see lots of people thrown into the lake of a fire
for all eternity to see them judged according to their works you know obviously there's some
people that right now we might think like i kind of want that guy to be thrown like a fire
but there's plenty of people even aside from him that no one wants to see thrown in the lake
of fire you know you're you're going to have loved ones you're going to have family members
you're going to have neighbors you're going to have those people that you didn't reach with the
gospel you're going to have people that you did try and they were you know resistant to the
gospel and it's going to be sad to watch billions and billions of people just thrown into hell
into the lake of fire for all of eternity to see them judged according to their works
and so we have god in verse number four is going to wipe away those tears
and they're going to all just pass away and everything all the memories everything that's
going with it we're not going to remember the former things anymore we're going to enter into
eternity and it's going to be similar to that first state where there was that absence of the
knowledge of good and of evil and it's going to be completely different and you know it's kind
of hard for us to wrap our minds around all this but i liken it onto being a child go to
Revelation 22 just flip the page for a moment you know as a child you don't really understand
a lot of things and then when you become an adult you forget what your thought process was
as a child you know when i became a man i put away childish things you know when you're a child
you think as a child you speak as a child but when i became a man you know i put away childish
things and so just like that is a is a picture a metaphor to how when we go into heaven and we
go into eternity you know our understanding right now is so minimal it's so minuscule compared to
what it would be in the future that we're really going to have a lot of these things
just completely whitewashed from our brain and we won't even know them you don't remember your
two your second birthday or your first birthday you don't remember your birth actual your actual
birthday you know no one knows what happened that day and just like that we're gonna forget
everything that happened in the past so why would i live for this world when i'm gonna forget it
all why would i want to live for the things in the flesh when they're gonna be destroyed when
i'm gonna forget about them you know well i just want to be a really good person or
whatever it's like well who cares that's gonna you're not even gonna know what that's like
you know you're not gonna understand these different things now it says in revelation 22
look what it says in verse number two in the midst of the street of it on either side of the river
was there the tree of life which bear 12 manner of fruits and yielded her fruit every month
and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations and so the bible tells
us that the tree of life though is going to continue to exist and i like this because the
bible talks about good trees and it talks about an evil tree that doesn't bear fruit it's going
to be what hewn down and cast in the fire and so the thing that was worthless going to be
destroyed but the tree of life is going to permeate and the tree of life is a picture of
jesus christ why because if you eat of the tree of life you're going to live just like
eating jesus christ flesh from a spiritual perspective when you eat of him you're going
to live forever and we have that living in paradise with the tree of life and we're going
to have that forever go back to genesis chapter two a lot of foundational doctrines here
that are kind of being laid out that we can understand you know as much as a human can
understand but just like the world was perfect in the beginning we will go back to perfection
now in the beginning though there's a little bit of difference because god has these two
different trees and he gives man a choice look what let's keep reading it says verse 10 and a
river went out of eden to water the garden and from thence it was parted and became
unto four heads name of the first is paisan that is it which compasseth the whole land of havala
where there is gold and the gold of that land is good there's bedelim and the onyx stone and
the name of the second river is gaihan same is it that compasseth the whole land of ethiopia
and the name of the third river is the deco that is it which goeth toward the east of
iseria and the four river is ufredes the lord god took the man and put him into the
garden of eden to dress it and to keep it and the lord god commanded the man saying of
every tree of the garden now may is freely eat but of the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil thou shalt not eat of it for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely
die and so we have toys given unto man we see also before sin god gave him work
notice that god tells us in verse 15 that he was in the garden to dress it and to keep it
picturing another thing hey when we go back into perfection okay because eventually we'll go back
to this uh garden of eden type status where everything is very good and there's no evil and
man's even apart from this knowledge of good and evil that there's still work to do and we're
still going to serve the lord and the bible even tells us that there's going to be certain
levels of service you know he that is uh least on this earth is going to be greatest in heaven
and the bible talks about people that uh whosoever break the lease of these commandments and shall
teach men so shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven so obviously there's going
to be levels to heaven there's going to be different services that we pertain to but it's
all going to be good it's all going to be very good and you know man's still going to have
a job and it's important to serve god now because guess what you're going to serve god for
the rest of your life you're going to go into eternity and you're still going to have a job
and you know what your job is going to be dependent on how good you work now why would i want
to be the guy that barely makes it into heaven by the skin of my teeth you know the guy that
says but him that worketh not but believeth unto god hey at least he's going to heaven
you know what he's going to have a lot better job if he does some works
and we see that adam was created doing some work and he had work to do but he had
commandments too and he had a commandment not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good
and evil or as the bible says it in the midst right but of the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil thou shalt not eat of it and he says this the day that thou eatest thereof
thou shalt surely die i love that god says this you shall surely die he's not even trying
to say like he doesn't want to make it unclear he's saying as clearly as possible
hey the day you eat you're going to surely die this is a bad thing he's trying to protect
adam he's not trying to harm him he's not trying to hurt him he's not trying to keep
from him that would benefit him and this is the deceitfulness of sin people think like oh
god's trying to keep some really good thing away from him nope god wasn't trying to keep
any good thing away from him he gave him all the trees that were very good he's telling him
not to eat the knowledge of good and evil because it's bad and it's going to bring bad
things into this world but god still gives him a choice man has free will and this is an
important aspect to understand in the bible that man has free will let me show you this word
in the bible go to leviticus chapter number 22 leviticus 22 and you say why would god
give man free will because god does not want a bunch of robots to serve god wants people to
choose to love him choose to accept his free gift of salvation he wants people in heaven that
want to be there and ultimately god is sovereign you know people will say oh god sovereign what
does that mean he's all powerful he has the ability for his will to exist but god ordained it
god decreed it that through his will mankind would have free will and this is what separates
god for man because while i can create many things that are subject to my will i cannot
create something that has free it's impossible for man to give something free will this is what
a distinction between god and man there's two major distinctions one that god can create
something that's alive from something that's not alive or out of nothing and that god can give
something free will these are two things man cannot do and never will be able to do and
this is what also is interesting about god because the calvinist today would say oh god
sovereign that means that everything that happens god wanted to happen exactly like that but
that's a weird doctrine and really it's a satanic doctrine when you get to
some of the very specific instances of this but god is all powerful and his will can be
accomplished through the free agency of man through the free will of man at the same time
that's what truly makes god sovereign if you think about it even though god gives man the
ability to do whatever he wants god's will still accomplished that's way more powerful
than someone manipulating robots than someone manipulating just things that are slaves and
have no free will god is able to give all of his creation free will and yet his will is still
accomplished everything he wants to happen is still going to happen and there's a couple
of things that we have to understand there's things that god wants to happen that aren't
going to happen but everything that god has ordained or decreed to happen is going to happen
and the bible tells us though that god gave us free will this is an important distinction
look at leviticus 22 verse 18 the bible even has this word 17 times and it says speak unto
Aaron to his sons and unto all the children of Israel and say unto them whatsoever he be
of the house of Israel or the strangers in Israel that will offer his oblation for all
his vows and for all his free will offerings which they will offer unto the lord for a
burnt burnt offering so when it comes to the offerings of the lord some of them were
free will offerings meaning that they could of their own volition just decide to offer some kind
of sacrifice to god because they just wanted to bless the lord they wanted to bless the things of
god they wanted to do something special for the lord out of appreciation of thanksgiving or
a cheerful heart look at verse 21 and whosoever offer the sacrifice of peace offerings in the
lord to accomplish his vow for a free will offering on beaves or sheep it shall be perfect
perfect to be accepted there shall be no blemish therein now bees that's just beef that's lots
of cows all right so that's what it means by i always thought it was like beehives or something
i was like bees what is that it's just be it's like lots of cows so it's really good and
not the kind that bill gates wants that are like synthetic these are the real ones all right
because notice it has to be perfect to be accepted no blemish that's the kind of cow that
i want to eat i don't want this fake you know you know synthetic thing that bill gates is
creating a lab somewhere no i want the real uh heifer that's gonna move but go if you would
to psalms 119 go to psalms 119 i want to continue with this thought of free will for a moment
and we have to understand this and this is what's really interesting god is so much better
than we are and we understand that god is good and god is so much more righteous and so much
more holy god is so much more loving than we are and it's interesting that god in all of his
love and all of his goodness and everything that he extends when he gives something free will
notice that the majority choose not to return love for love not to accept his free gift
and that's a sad reality of free will whenever you give someone free will notice
it's often not reciprocated it's often not going to be appreciated or thanked and perfect
example is god himself you know so we also should understand if we give someone free will
we should not anticipate them to take that free will and use it for good and use it and be very
appreciative of it be very thankful of it that's the consequence of free will itself
however there are many millions that will accept god's free gift and are appreciative
of the free will that god has given us and look what it says in psalms 119 verse 108
accept i beseech thee the free will offerings of my mouth oh lord and teach me thy judgments
now in the new testament we don't offer you know a cow we don't offer a lamb we don't have
these type of free will offerings necessarily but the bible gives us a picture here of a
free will offering in my mouth meaning what your prayers you know or thanksgiving you know
just singing a psalm to the lord just singing a praise to the lord you know god created you
god puts you on this earth and as much as a mom or a father they look at their child
and whenever they give them food on the table you know what do i demand my child say thank you
i tell them hey thank your mom hey tell your mom thanks for all the things that you do
yet it's sad that christians today all the things that god gives us
every single day and nobody says thanks for it and nobody wants to sing a song about it
and nobody wants to praise the lord and people want to reject church today they don't want to
go to the house of the lord today and praise the lord and sing praises to his name even
of all his goodness and all of his mercy and all his long suffering and everything that he
gives us we can't even say thank you and you say why because we have free will and it's sad
today that people take free will that god gives them and does nothing with it and we
see people today they're not thankful to the parents they're not thankful to their brother
and sister they're not thankful to the teachers that they had in their life to their
grandparents or their uncles or their aunts or their boss or the people that give them
the things that they have in this world but ultimately people are really not thankful to
the god that gave them everything the god that gives them the the oxygen that they breathe
you know the the power to get wealth and everything that we have today
god gave us free will and we should thank the lord for that everything he gives us you
know god's not going to force you to thank him god's not going to force you to serve him
god's not going to force you to do anything you have free will go to revelation 22 go to
revelation 22 and you also have you also have free will and if you're gonna go to heaven or hell
god did everything that was needed except for one you have the will to be saved you
have to decide to be saved you have to make that decision to accept his free gift
look what it says in revelation 22 verse 17 the bible says this and the spirit
and the bride say come and let him that heareth say come and let him that is a thirst come and
whosoever will let him take the water of life freely so notice the bible is saying hey
the spirit saying come the lord saying come the bible saying come hey we go out into the
highways and the hedges and we preach the gospel of jesus christ to people but you know
what they have to decide i'm gonna come they have to say you know what i want to take of
the water of life freely today and you know what we need to encourage people to make a decision
for christ you know people get mad about uh you you pray with people after you preach them
a gospel you're right i do you're right i compel them to believe on the lord jesus christ
you're right i say hey now that you see the water of life you need to take it hey this is
your opportunity to believe on the lord jesus christ and you know what there's people in
the bible and luke chapter number eight that they hear the word the words you know sown okay
and it goes into their heart but the bible says that the devil is going to come and take
that which was sown in their heart lest they believe and be saved and so there's people they're
hearing the gospel but they decide not to make a decision and then through the deceitfulness of
riches through you know the the whatever the devil's agenda is to come and to take that seed
sown they end up not believing and not getting saved and so you know what when i'm at the door
i compel them to make a decision i try to encourage them to make a decision and you know
it's not when they don't understand the gospel hey i want to make sure they understand the
gospel when they got it and they say that they understand it you know what i want to compel
them to believe in the lord jesus christ i want to compel them to call upon the name of the lord
and to make that decision go through to second peter chapter number three
salvation is not an acknowledgement of the gospel it's an acceptance of the gospel and
that acceptance comes through the free agency of man through the free will of man you know
man has the opportunity to believe or not you know the calvinist today wants to reject this
ideology they want to reject they'll say you did nothing to get saved you know jd greer the
president of the southern uh baptist convention he described salvation in a parable his own
little parable and he said a lot of people think that salvation is a guy drowning in the
water and he's yelling to jesus who's walking on the shore saying help me help me and that
jesus throws him a life uh you know what's the u what's the little uh it's like or the donut
he throws him like the life donut right for the guy to grab on to and for him to pull him to
shore and he throws this little life donut out to the man and the guy grabs it and then
jesus pulls him in and saves him and he's like jd is yours that's the wrong that's the
wrong parable the right parable is you were dead in the water and jesus just came and
picked you up out of the water dead and then just breathed into you the breath of life
well then what separates one dead person from another you know that makes it makes
jesus not the savior of all men then because if that's true then everybody's dead you know what
jesus christ is the savior of all men and that's such a blasphemous weird teaching and
it comes from calvinism day and calvinism's from the pit of hell because they don't believe
in going out and encouraging people to believe on the lord jesus christ no they just say oh
well i don't know if he's elect or not and if he's elect then he's just gonna magically get
saved and magically believe and magically do all of the works but this is not what the bible teaches
look at second peter chapter three verse nine the lord is not slack concerning his promise
as some in count slackness but his long sufferings us were not willing that any should
perish but that all should come under penance first of all his analogy is wrong because that
they should perish notice this is a guy that hasn't died yet jd greer he's not the guy that's
already dead in the water he's drowning and he's needing a lifeline and what god doesn't want any
of them to perish why because jesus christ has already thrown out that lifeline to all mankind
and you know what man has the opportunity to grab onto that lifeline and take it
and if he doesn't he will die and he will go to hell but notice that the lord's not willing
that he should perish he say well how does that make sense well god wants everyone to go to heaven
but because god ordained it that we would have free will not everyone's going to make that
choice and god decided you know what instead of just letting everyone come to heaven or
everyone go to hell this is what i'm going to do i'm going to give everybody a choice
and those who believe will go to heaven and those who do not believe will go to hell
and so his sovereign will is what that those who believe go to heaven and those who don't
go to hell and guess what that's always going to be accomplished everyone that believes going
to heaven everyone does not believe is going to hell and it's in coordination with the free will
or free agency of man just like adam is placed in the garden and he's given this option hey
you can eat of all the trees of the garden hey you can eat as much as you want you know
don't eat of this tree and god gave adam free will and you know what adam's gonna fail that
plan eventually when we get into chapter number three we understand that god gave us free will
go to hebrews chapter number two i want to show you a few more verses here he was chapter number two
calvin is a wicked false doctrine and to say that you know god has ordained people
just automatically go to hell and they have no choice that would be an evil god and it's not
consistent with the god of the bible the only person that just wants people to go to hell
without a choice of the devil that's the only the devil just wants to still kill and destroy
the devil just wants everyone to go to hell with him you know what god wants everyone to
go to heaven he wants everyone to praise him he wants everyone to accept his free gift and he's
done everything he possibly can but you know what he's not going to force you to believe he's not
going to force you to accept his free gift you have to make the right decision hebrews
chapter two look at verse number nine we see jesus who was made a little lower than the
angels for the suffering of death crowned gory and honor that he by the grace of god should
taste death for every man how can you say that jesus christ tasted death for every man of
your calvinist today calvinists don't even believe that he died for every single person
oh he died for the elect he really died for some people now the bible says every man
go to first john chapter number two first john chapter number two i'm going to show you
a few more verses here and we'll get back to our story but we we get this great picture of
free will and i like to illustrate this throughout the bible that man has this choice look at
first john chapter two verse two and he is the pro he is the propitiation for our sins
and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world notice jesus christ truly died
for every single sin and every single person has the opportunity to go to heaven go to first
timothy chapter number four it's those who reject it who break from god's uh
free gift of salvation first timothy chapter number four look at verse number 10 the bible
says for therefore we both labor and suffer approach because we trust the living god who
is the savior of all men especially of those that believe they say well how is he the savior of all
men look he's the only one that can save you and he is your savior whether you accept the
saving or not he is the savior and it's just some people are not going to be saved and notice
he's especially the savior of those that believe look what it says in chapter two verse
number six it says who gave himself a ransom for all to be testified in due time so jesus
christ is there for everyone you have john 316 forgot to love the world that he gave his only
begotten son so we see that god loves the whole world he gives all of man a choice and it's up to
man to accept his free gift just like it was up to adam to make sure that he didn't eat of
the tree of the garden of the knowledge of good and of evil in the garden go back if you would
to genesis chapter number two now obviously in genesis chapter number two you know the man
having to choose to not eat of this tree that's obviously a picture of a lot of different things
i like the fact there's a picture of free will and that's kind of where i ran with it
but obviously it's also giving us the option for sin to enter into the world
now this is something that will not exist when we go to that future creation we won't have this
option of sinning we won't even desire sin because we'll be like jesus christ in that sense
but we see that adam is going to end up failing eventually and we want to pay attention to
that when we get into chapter number three but look what it says in verse number 18
and lord god said it is not good that the man should be alone i will make him and help meet
for him now in verse number 18 we learned something the woman wasn't created yet and notice god gave
the commandments who the man not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and
so one could assume that god's obviously in expecting the man to lead the woman in the
future they tell her the commandments of god and to to rule his house well but i like this
god said it was not good that the man should be alone now what did it say in genesis chapter
number one at the very end if we look at verse number 31 and god saw everything that he made
and behold it was very good so if god's saying the man being alone is not good that means he's
not done that means that the man needs something he needs a helper in order for it to be good
okay and what is this a picture of it's a picture of marriage that he's going to give
us here in a moment and i'll get to that but marriage is good because notice the man being
alone not good the man having a help meet is good which is marriage and so god is literally
telling us that it's good he says here in verse number 21 all right i'm skipping too far
ahead look at verse 19 and out of the ground the lord god formed every beast of the field
and every fowl of the air and brought them into adam to see what he would call them
and whatsoever adam called every living creature that was the name thereof now some people so
even again atheists again they say oh it says in genesis that you know animals are created
and then the man but here it's saying like the man and animals look i believe the whole earth
is filled with animals then god created a garden then god put the man in the garden and then
god created another set of animals in the garden specifically that adam is now naming
it's not getting out of sequence this is just an additional information and details about his
creation and god is creating every single beast of the ground putting it right in front of adam
and saying you know what's its name this is another instance of the fact that god's giving
man free will notice that god is allowing man to make choices and you know what god lets
us do all kinds of different things you know god's not going to force me to name my children
a certain name he's not going to force me to uh pick a pick of the job or what church to go to
you know god didn't say you better name your church pure words baptist church you know when
you go down to houston it was like no i got to make that decision and you know what that's
great god allows us to make decisions you know god allows us to pick whom we're going to marry
and where we're going to go to church what kind of job we're going to have and you know
what me and my wife we pick the names of our children because god gave us that option and it's
great you know god's not going around and dictating you know what color shoes you're going
to wear in the morning and what kind of blue jeans you're going to put on and where you're
going to go to the store you know god gives you the ability to make decisions you know adam
could have gone and eaten up any tree in that garden that he wanted every single day except
for one and whenever you live inside god's boundaries there's a lot of freedom where the
spirit of the lord is there is liberty but those that want to go outside of his boundaries
they end up going into horrible wicked and evil sin and they end up destroying themselves but adam
is given a great privilege here of naming every single animal and that's really a unique
responsibility adam also must have been very intelligent to name every single animal and to
give them all kinds of different classifications but it says in verse number 20 let's keep reading
and adam gave names to all cattle and to the fowl of the air and every beast of the field
but for adam it was not found in help meat for him so the porcupine wasn't a cuddler of a giraffe
the panda bear kangaroo you know it wasn't really suitable even dog sorry to burst your
bubble you know dog's man's best friend sorry it's not because god brought every single animal
and adam looked and he said nope not this one it's not the canine it's not the cat it
certainly wasn't the cat okay it wasn't the goldfish you know for all you dog lovers out
there you know it wasn't that it was something different it says in verse number 21 and the lord
god caused a deep sleep to fall upon adam and he slapped and he took one of his ribs and
closed up the flesh instead thereof and the rib which the lord god had taken from man made
he a woman and brought her under the man 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 the man so god
decided that his rib was way better to marry than a dog and you know it's interesting if you
even look in science modern science today you can abstract parts of your rib or even a whole
rib and if you do it correctly that rib will regrow perfectly that's why god chose a rib is
in part is because it's going to grow back perfectly um but it's also just to represent that
this is literal he says my bone of bones and he's flesh of my flesh and so the woman is made
of the man literally and he even names her he gives her name so he named all the animals of
the field he names the woman and we see that the woman was taken out of the man now this
establishes a very important doctrine go to first corinthians number 11 go to first corinthians
gap the number 11 in the new testament bible references this portion of scripture and it gives
us some important you know understandings about why god created the things that he created what
was the purpose of creating the woman adam was alone he didn't want him to be alone what's
another purpose to make an help meet unto him and the word meat means suitable suitable or you
know appropriate you know the animals were not an appropriate helper to the man he needed
something else he needed something a lot more similar like a woman it was literally his own
bone his own flesh that he is going to have as a help me and the bible says in first corinthians
chapter 11 look at verse number seven for a man indeed ought not to cover his head for as much
as he is the image and glory of god but the woman is the glory of the man that fits in
perfectly because why because adam was created in god's image and then eve was taken out of the
man and is the glory of the man verse eight for the man is not of the woman but the woman of the
man so notice that man didn't come out of woman woman came out of man just like it said
in genesis verse nine neither was the man created for the woman but the woman for the man
so the bible is making it clear that the woman was created for the man so if god created it
that adam would have a helper you know that makes it seem like that he's in charge
and that the helper is there to help him and notice the bible is reiterating it the man was
not created for the woman but who's created for whom the woman is created for the man and
you know what people don't like this doctrine today they don't like the idea of a woman
being there for the man but that's what god ordained that's what god chose and god said you
know what this man needs someone he needs a woman and it's it's strange when people today they get
it backwards you know they have the woman's there and the man's there to help the woman
you know the man's there to you know provide for the ambitions of kamala harris and provide
for the ambitions of hillary clinton and provide for the ambitions of their wife there's all
these women governors and these women house representatives and these women pastors
what kind of nonsense today to have a woman as the pastor of the church when the bible makes
it clear look the man was not created for the woman the woman for the man what kind of weak
man has his wife as the pastor of his church how does he not know the bible how is he not the
one leading in the household today and you know we need men today to lead because adam was
first form and then eve is what the bible says and we need people to understand their position
how god created them now go back to genesis chapter number two go back to genesis chapter
two and you know what god truly gave adam dominion over everything over all the animals
even you know over his wife he is to lead his wife and he was given the first commandment
you know that he wasn't supposed to eat of that tree look what it says in verse 24
therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they
shall be one flesh and they are both naked man his wife and one and so we see that marriage is a
special union is a special bond just like the fact that adam his wife eve is literally his own
body it's his own flesh he came from him and there's this special union this special
coming together that the bible describes in marriage and is describe a lot of things go
through a diffusions chapter number five go to fission's chapter number five
and i want to show you something but you know marriage is under attack today
and in every single way why well it's one of the most important doctrines notice it's right
here in the beginning man's created and what's one of the first thing that god's going to give
him a wife he's going to give him marriage and through marriage you have what family you
have children being born you have all the other things that are you know really important in
this life and really marriage is one of the most important institutions on the planet and it's one
of the most important things for us to realize that the devil's going to attack the devil's
going to attack it people say oh i don't want to get married anymore or marriage is bad or
marriage is going to cause me all these problems that i wouldn't normally have look the
bible said it was not good for the man to be alone look you're going to have problems no
matter what don't tell me the guy that doesn't have isn't married you know doesn't have
problems he has he has problems the women that aren't married they don't have problems they have
problems and you know the guy that's married he has problems we all have problems you know what's
better for the majority of people is to get married if you have a desire to get married the
bible is best to marry it's better to marry than to burn is what the bible says yeah there's
going to be a few exceptions out there but i'm not going to preach for the exceptions because
really most people should be striving to have a good marriage to get married to love their spouse
and it's the most important relationship you'll have in a physical sense on this earth
it's different than just being buddies and being friends than being companions the bible
says you're one flesh and because of this it changes dynamics in your life look what it said
in eph 5 verse 31 for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall be joined
into his wife and they too shall be one flesh this is a great mystery but i speak concerning
christ and the church nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife
even as himself and the wife see that she reverence her husband so the bible tells us
that this marriage this union is a special union and because of it you're going to leave
your father and mother now your father and mother are arguably the most important relationship
you have when you start out when you start out in life your mom and your dad are your
number one most important relationship the closest person in your life is going to be
your mom and your dad and notice that god ends up replacing that intimacy that closeness with
a spouse he says you know what for this cause only this cause would you leave your father and
mother and replace it with a spouse meaning what that your marriage should become more sacred
than your father and your mother your spouse should be at a closer intimacy than your father
and your mother this does not mean that you don't love father and mother you don't appreciate
father and mother it doesn't mean that you don't talk to your father and mother it doesn't
mean that you don't hang out with your father and mother but you know what you've changed
that dynamic that dynamic has changed and no longer are they the closest person to you you
have a new person that supersedes and comes in place of and is now more important than your
father and your mother that doesn't mean that they're not important they're still very important
and you should honor your father and your mother even after you get married but at the
same time you now have a new person in your life that's even more important to you
that is your spouse and notice it's a it's a mystery how you come together and i like the
fact that the bible also says later in genesis chapter five and he called their name adam and
you know it's a tradition that women would take the husband's last name i like that tradition
you know we the shelley family we're now one together and you should look at your life as
being one now not as just being oh we're just two buddies now or two companions no you're one
no you're one family and decisions that you make you should realize as a husband as the
leader they're not going to only affect you now they're going to affect other people so when
you make decisions you need to think about your spouse you need to think about your family
you need to think about all the other people that are now attached to you in a part of your life
and how you're going to live it the bible also says in verse 33 that we're supposed to love
our spouse okay like christ love the church okay because he's saying this picture of marriage is
similar to church and what's interesting is this adam he ended up marrying his rib right
he married his piece of bone okay but look what it said in verse number 30
for we are members of his body of his flesh and of his bone so just like adam said hey you know
what eve is my bone and is my flesh he's saying hey there's another spiritual connection here
where we're literally christ's bone and christ's flesh now how does that work well again we're
not talking about physical things here now we're talking about spiritual things what are you
talking about well the bible just likens the church unto the body of christ and that we're all
members of his body and there's this special union that comes because we're now part of his
body and that union takes place when we believe on the lord jesus christ and we're saved
we're now part of his body we are the body of christ and we shouldn't look at ourselves as
being disunited but rather in unity than that hey i am part of him and what was the purpose
of the woman do you help me for the man okay so then what's my purpose of being part of jesus
christ's body to help him i'm his servant i'm his helper so if you're going to tell me that
a woman serving her husband is degrading then that telling that tells me that me serving
jesus is degrading how is that degrading how is it the evil or or wrong for me to be
subservient to christ and to follow his lead and to be his help me and to go out and to bless him
and do things for him and to serve him and to be under him and to obey his authority now
that's the same picture that we have go to epsilons or go to acts chapter number 20 for a
moment and i'm going to kind of finish there but there's so much foundational doctrine here
that's then picked up in the new testament other places explaining these but these are
great pictures that god gives us of not only physical truths but also a spiritual truth
just like adam you know his wife came of his body we're in the same way from christ's body and we
have this special union with christ just like a wife would have with her husband and that's why
you know people are referred to or the church is referred to as the body of christ as a whole
because we are enjoined unto christ in a similar way now look what it says in acts chapter number
20 and verse number 28 take heed therefore unto yourselves and draw the flock over the which the
holy ghost have made you overseers to feed the church of god which he hath purchased with his
own blood but just in the same way that eve was taken out of adam we are literally purchased
with the blood of jesus christ from his body we're taken out and we become part of his body
and so we should not look at these stories it's just oh it's a cool story no this literally
happened and it represents spiritual truths today and we should understand that we're bought
and purchased with a price the precious blood of jesus christ and that we're enjoined unto him
and you know we have these foundational stories of genesis one and genesis two you need to look
at them and understand them from an intellectual perspective i like that you know i like studying
things like science and young earth creationism and you know studying about dinosaurs and studying
about you know what the world is like before the flood and those things are interesting
but you know what's way more important is the spiritual pictures and you know there's people
they dedicate their whole life to these creation ministries and understanding all these things in
genesis you know it seems like people are not trying to get all the spiritual pictures out of
genesis they're not trying to get all the spiritual understanding that we have and that's
way more important that we focus on the spiritual pictures that we are that body of christ and we
have those pictures of salvation and we understand the only thing that matters is
living souls and so they go out and we preach the gospel and we try to seek and to save that
which is lost and we emphasize the gospel of jesus christ you know what i love genesis
but i don't want to elevate the art i don't want to elevate creation i don't want to
elevate dinosaurs i don't want to elevate younger creation above the gospel because you know what all
that stuff was pointing to the gospel and so if i'm going to have it in his proper role in his
proper place i'm going to picture the christ and all the spiritual pictures that are attached
to it that christ represents let's close in prayer thank you father for your word thank you for
this great chapter genesis chapter number two thank you for the sacrifice of your son jesus
christ and what he did for us and that we get a chance to be a part of his body and that
we're enjoying it to him as eve was with uh adam and i pray that as we read the bible as we read
genesis and we read different stories that we focus more on the spiritual truths and our service
unto you and i thank you for the free will you've given us i pray that we don't take it
for granted rather we choose to take the free will you've offered us and to use it for your
service in jesus name we pray amen