God Saw Adam's Need (Genesis 2:18-24) [2026-4-12]

All right, good morning, church family.

If you would open your Bibles to the book of Genesis chapter 2,

Genesis 2 · chapter mention

Genesis chapter 2, and this morning we're going to be in

Genesis 2 · chapter mention

verses 18 to 24. We've been going through Genesis

for several weeks now. We just started the series and

we've made it through chapter 1 and part of chapter 2.

And this morning we're going to look at Genesis chapter 218 to

24. So let me read the text.

I'll open this in a word of prayer, and then we'll jump into

the sermon this morning, Genesis chapter 2, beginning in verse

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18. Then the Lord God said, It is

not good that the man should be alone, I will make a helper fit

for him. Now out of the ground the Lord

God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the

heavens, and brought them to the man to see what he would call

them. And whatever the man called

every living creature, that was its name.

The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of

the heavens, and to the every beast of the field.

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. Would you pray with me, Father?

I pray this morning as we look at your word and as we ponder

the the statements by the Lord of how it is not good for man to

be alone. As we ponder what it means to be

a helper, as we ponder the mystery of marriage, as we

ponder what it means to to, to leave and cleave and, and all of

these deep, profound statements. God, would you help us to

understand this and to rightly apply it?

God, would you help me to explain the text thoroughly and

succinctly and to apply it in a way that is helpful and

beneficial to all of us. God, we we thank you for your

word. God, we are grateful that we

have instruction from your word. We pray this in Jesus name,

Amen. We have been looking at the

creation story the past several weeks.

Genesis 1 tells us of how God created everything in the

universe and Genesis 2 is kind of a zooming in of Genesis 1.

The narrator tells us they are that, that that God had made man

and he had placed him in the garden to work it and keep it.

And he gives the man every tree in the garden to eat from.

He says I've made all these trees that have food for you to

eat from except one, the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

God tells the man, he says if you eat of this tree you will

surely die. And that's where we left off

last week. We left right off there last

week. So we're going to pick right

back up where we left off last week.

I'm going to start with an exposition of the text where I

basically go through it verse by verse and try to explain it, to

give it meaning. And then at the end I'll give

application of the text for us from this.

So let's start looking at verse 18 a where the narrator says

then the Lord God said it is not good that the man should be

alone. This is such an interesting and

intriguing statement by the Lord.

Such an interesting, such an intriguing statement for at

least four reasons. Number one, for the first time

God said something was not good. In Genesis 14, God saw that the

light was good. Genesis 110 God saw that it was

good. 112 God saw that it was good. 118 God saw that it was

good. 121 God saw that it was good. 125 God saw that it was

good. 131 God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it

was very good. In chapter 2, verse 9, every

tree was good for food. Chapter 2, verse 12, the goal of

that land is good. And then we get to chapter 2,

verse 18, and for the first time in history, God said something

was not good. That's interesting.

Which raises #2 why is it not good for a man to be alone?

You may be wondering that you're like, I, I love being alone.

Why is it not good for a man to be alone?

The text doesn't tell us here, doesn't tell us.

God never. He doesn't say it's not good,

and here's why He just says it. It's not good.

Why is this? I'm going to give my best guess

here. I'm going to give my best guess.

So I'm not, I'm not speaking, you know, in some kind of

authoritative way when I say this, but this is my best

educated guess. God, by definition, is a

relational being. God, by definition is a

relational being. The Trinity has always existed.

God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit.

The Trinity has always existed, and so relationships have always

existed. They've always existed because

we are made in the image of God. I take this to mean that we are

made as relational beings. That part of what it means to be

made in the image of God means to be made as a relational

being. And a relationship by definition

means to not be alone. Now we might say, but Adam

wasn't alone, he had God. Why did he say it wasn't good to

be alone? Adam was not alone, he had God.

Which leads to #3 God made man with specific needs so that God

could meet those needs. God made man with specific needs

so that God could meet those needs.

You ever ask the question of why does hunger exist?

Doesn't have to, right? Hunger is not a product of the

fall. It's not like, you know, Adam

wasn't hungry and then once sin came in the world, he got

hungry. Hunger.

Jesus was hungry. He was perfect.

Why does hunger exist? I think hunger exists.

God created this need so that he could meet that need.

He made needs so that he could meet them.

God created Adam with the need for human companionship.

Why? So that he could meet it.

He gave Adam this need so that he can meet that need #4 Last

thing I want to point out about the statement is that God saw

Adam's need, not Adam. God saw Adam's need, not Adam.

Notice Adam is not complaining to God.

Adam is not bored in the corner of the garden.

God saw Adam's knee before Adam even knew that he had a need.

Look at verse 18. BI will make a helper.

I will make him a helper fit for him.

I want to point out three aspects of the statement.

Make a helper fit for him. I want to point out three

aspects of this. Number one, God says I will

make. I will make Adam didn't find

this helper. Adam didn't create this helper.

God made this helper #2 helper. What does that mean?

What is what is helper mean here?

The Hebrew word is ezer. Ezer.

It's a cognate of the Hebrew word Ezra as that's where the

name Ezra comes from. Ezra's name means helper.

That's what it means. It's an assistant, one who

assist and serves another with what is needed #3 he says I'll

make a helper fit for him. Fit for him.

What does that mean? The Hebrew literally reads

according to the opposite of him.

That's how it reads in the Hebrew.

I will make him a helper according to the opposite of

him. What does that mean?

Translations vary here. Some translations have suitable

I'll make him a helper suitable for him, or matching I'll make a

helper that's matching him, or I'll make a helper that is

corresponding to him. God saw that Adam needed not

just to help her, he doesn't need just to help her, but that

he needed a helper that corresponded to him.

He needed a helper that matched him.

He needed a helper that was suitable for him.

Look at verse 19 to 20. Now out of the ground, the Lord

God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the

heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call

them. And whatever the man called

every living creature, that was its name.

Now what's interesting is that in chapter 1, God called the

light day, and He called the darkness night.

God called the expanse heaven. God called the dry land earth.

God called the waters seas. Up until this point everything

has been named by God. But now that man has been

created, God has entrusted his creation to this man.

And part of entrusting his creation to this man is

entrusting the naming of his creation to this man.

And so God's going to trust naming of these animals to Adam.

Notice God brings the animals to Adam.

He brings them to him. I love how this is worded.

God brought them to the man to see what he would call them.

I love that it's it's as if God is interested in Adam's

creativity. Let us see what names he will

come up with. There's a Christian comedian

many many years ago making a joke about this.

He says that when Adam first started, he was creative

hippopotamus and then 10 hours later, cow.

He finally got so tired he just started naming creatures by what

they were doing. Fly, right?

Whatever Adam called each creature, that was its name.

Keep in mind, naming is a form of exercising authority over As

parents, we name our children. They don't choose their own

name. I mean, maybe some parents let

kids choose their own name, but traditionally we, we, we, we

name our children. We give it to them as their

authority. Adam finishes naming all the

livestock, naming all the birds of heaven, naming all the beasts

of the field. There's only one problem.

There was not found to help or fit for him.

This is an interesting statement.

God said that it was not good for a man to be alone, but Adam

is not alone. He has all these animals with

him. He's got all kinds of animals

with him. So in what sense is Adam alone?

In this sense? There was not found a helper fit

for him. Animals can help us, right?

Horses give us transportation, very good help.

Oxen can help us plow the ground.

Dogs and cats can help us be happy.

But none of these animals wore a helper that was fit for Adam.

So God takes action. God is not done creating.

He made six days. He creates, He rests on the

Sabbath. But God is not done creating.

Look at verse 21 to 22. 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.

Notice this phrase God caused. God caused and the Hebrew, the

verb there is in the hefeel tense.

That's the causative tense. I mean that God Adam didn't just

fall asleep, God caused him to fall asleep, which is why the

ESP translates it that way. God caused him to fall into a

deep sleep. What is that?

What is a deep sleep? The Hebrew word for deep sleep.

It only occurs 7 times in the Old Testament.

It's the same verb that's used in Genesis 1512.

If you remember as the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on

Abram. Or the most well known example,

remember First Samuel 2612 when David sneaks into Saul's camp

and he and he just marches all the way through the camp, goes

all the way up to Saul's head and they take the, the, his

spear and, and the, and the jar of water from his head.

And how did he do that? How did nobody wake up hearing

them coming to the camp? It says the Lord God had caused

a deep sleep to fall upon all of them.

This is kind of like spiritual anesthesia, if you will.

While Adam is sleeping. I love this.

God takes one of Adam's ribs. God performs surgery on Adam.

When I was growing up in the Deep South, they would teach in

church that men have one less rib than women because of this.

I asked my wife, she's like, yeah, we'll talk that too, That

that's not true. Men do not have one less rib.

But they would teach this in the South.

They would teach that men had the 1 less rib because of this.

The rib that God had taken from Adam, God made into a woman.

The Hebrew word for made here this is This is fascinating.

The Hebrew word for made here is literally built.

This word has not been used in Genesis yet.

It's the same word used of Cain building a city or Noah building

an ark or them building the Tower of Babel.

So when God made man, he worked with dust and with working with

clay. God is likened to a Potter.

The the Hebrew verb there is likened to a Potter, but with

working with flesh, God is likened to a builder.

God is a Potter with the man. He is a builder with the woman.

Now what did God build? What did he build?

He built a woman. What is that?

What is a woman? Is it interesting that thousands

of years later, we're still debating the answer to that

question? God made another human.

He made another human. She is like Adam in that she is

human and she is made in God's image, and she is unlike Adam in

that she is a woman and not a man.

And I want you to notice what it says here.

It says that God brought her to the man.

God brought her to the man. Adam didn't find her.

God brought her to him. It's as if God is presenting

this gift to Adam. God gives the best gifts.

Now 2 questions remain #1 why a rib?

You're like, why? Why not a leg, one out of foot,

one out of pancreas, right? Why?

Why a rib? Well, the Hebrew word is

literally side, and that's almost always its meaning.

I don't think rib is actually a good translation.

It may have not been a rib at all.

The NET Bible just doesn't translate.

The NET Bible translates, and he took part of the man's side.

I think that's probably the best translation.

He took part of the man's side. And #2 second question I had is

why did God make man out of the dust but made the woman out of

the man? Why did He do that?

If he can make a man out of the dust, then he can make a woman

out of the dust. But why does He choose to make

man out of the dust but make the woman out of the man?

Why did he do that? Verse 23 perhaps gives us a

clue. Look at verse 23.

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.

These are the first recorded words of man.

The very first words that are recorded of human speaking.

These are them. Now I want to point out a few

things. In verse 19, God made all the

animals out of the ground. The text tells us that all these

animals were made out of the ground, and God brought all

these animals before Adam for two purposes.

He paraded the animals before him for two purposes #1 so that

he could name them. And #2 I think God is doing this

to show Adam that none of these animals are a suitable helper

for him. It's as if God wants Adam to see

this. He wants them to see all these

animals that I'm bringing before you.

None of them match you. None of them correspond to you.

But when God made woman, he didn't make her out of the

ground. He made the animals out of the

ground. But he didn't make this being

out of the ground. He made her out of the man.

It's as if God wanted Adam to see, look, look, I have made a

helper fit for you. I have made someone who is like

you. Now Adam immediately discerns

that this being standing before him, he immediately knows this

is not another animal. I have seen all these animals,

and this is not an animal. This being is different.

This is why Adam says this at last is bone of my bones and

flesh of my flesh. Look at how Adam begins his

statement. I love this.

He says this at last. You know that Etta James song at

last. That's that's, that's how I hear

this. You know, I would sing it for

you, but I can't say it's a great song.

Adam had spent hours, maybe days, maybe weeks, maybe months

naming all these animals. I mean, how long does it take to

name the animals? And at and at last, after all

this, at last there is finally a being that is like him.

Adam says she shall be called woman.

Now that is not her name. That is her classification.

That's her classification. The Hebrew word is Esha, Esha

because she was taken from man. Ish woman is Esha, man is Esh.

So he's saying that Esha was taken from Ish.

So he calls her Esha Woman. He calls her woman.

Now I know this is controversial, but remember he

calls her woman indicating his authority over her.

This is prior to the fall. So this authority is not a

result of the fall. It's a part of God's good

design. Now, one side note, one

commentator argues that the phrase bone of my bones and

flesh of my flesh, when he says that it's actually a covenant

formula and that it speaks not of common birth, but of a common

reciprocal loyalty. In other words, it's the same

meaning. It's if you remember in Second

Samuel 51, all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron,

and this is what they said to David.

David, behold, we are your bone and flesh.

In other words, what they're saying is, is that we are with

you as your own bone and flesh. We are with you till we die.

We are as one with you. So this commentary is suggesting

that what David, what Adam is saying here is that he's almost

taking a form of vows here. He's he's making a covenant with

this woman. I was thinking about this.

I was like, man, I wish I had made that in my vows when I got

married. I was like, you are bone of my

bones and flesh of my flesh. I think it's a good theory.

I don't know if it's true, but it's a good theory.

Look at verse 24, last verse. Therefore a man shall leave his

father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall

become one flesh. There is so much packed into

this one verse. I could preach the entire sermon

on it. I almost was tempted to do it,

but we'd be in Genesis forever. Let's break this down though,

phrase by phrase. First word.

Therefore, what does the therefore tell us?

This should probably be translated.

That is why I thought it's probably That is why I think

it's the narrator is basically saying that is why we do what we

do. In other words, you know, if you

ever wonder like why does marriage exist?

Like this is kind of an existential question that people

are asking today, right? Why do people get married?

And he's saying it. That is why that is why we do

this, this practice we have. That is why, that is why a man

shall leave. A man shall leave.

In Hebrew culture, almost all men were married by the time

they were 20 years old. So they would grow up in their

parents home living under their parents authority.

But once a man found a woman that he wanted to marry, he

would leave his mother and father.

No, interesting enough, not necessarily physically.

It was very common in the culture for them to continue

living with their mother and father, which means here that

leave must not mean just like physically.

It also meant it primarily meant to leave their authority that he

was under his parents authority. But once he got married, he was

now came out from under their authority and he became his own

authority. I think that's the idea here.

He would leave his mother and father.

This. That's interesting because if

you're Adam and Eve, you're like, what is a mother and

what's a father? This verse was clearly written

at a much later time. He would leave his mother and

father and hold fast. Hold fast.

What does that mean? This is the broad term.

It's translated 15 different ways.

It basically means to cling to something, use of glue even.

It means to cling to or to fasten oneself to.

It's frequently used of us holding fast to God.

And Deuteronomy says that that we should cling to God, hold

fast to God. What this tells us is that God

intended marriage to be far more than a financial arrangement,

far more than a sexual arrangement, far more than a

social arrangement. The husband is to cling.

Cling to what? Cling to his wife.

This is actually the same Hebrew word as woman.

Wife and woman of the same Hebrew word can also be

translated as wife. Here we get the earliest

introduction to God's institution of marriage.

He's a cling to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.

Now what does that mean? Paul says.

It's a profound mystery. I wanted to go into this in

Ephesians, but I was like, I'm going to steal my Thunder if I

preach on Ephesians one day, so I won't.

But this is a profound mystery. So what does it mean to be 1

flesh? Let me give a, a very imperfect

metaphor. One way to think of this as a

yoke. You may have seen a yoke before

you take two oxen. They make this kind of crossbars

A yoke and goes on to both animals.

And they do this that the animals are together.

They, they plow together in a straight line, right.

So even though there's two oxen, it's really one unit, it's 1

unit that's working. That's the idea.

It wouldn't make sense for one oxen to go this way and another

oxen to go this way. OK, How is that going to work?

That, that, that won't work. This yoke puts them together.

They are yoked together. They're they're inseparable.

That's the idea here. They are joined together.

When a man and a woman get married, they become one flesh

in the eyes of God. And we'll stop there with the

exposition application of the text application, I have 7

points of application for US. Seven points of application #1

whether we are married, dating or single, it is not good to be

alone. Whether we are married, dating

or single, it is not good to be alone.

Growing up, I was an extreme extrovert by capital E

Extrovert. I can remember spending the

night at my cousin's house and I loved every minute of it.

When it was time to leave, I would be depressed for most of

my life. I always wanted to be around my

friends. That was just most of my life.

But as I got into adulthood, as I got married, as I had four

kids, and as I had a church family with ministry, I have

really come to treasure my alone time.

I imagine we have some in this room who love to be around

people. If you had a choice, you would

always choose to have someone else around.

And I imagine we have some in this room who genuinely enjoy

being alone. Being around other people may

even be very draining for you. One thing I am realizing is that

year after year, especially after COVID, more and more

people fall into the latter camp than the first.

More and more people. Technology has made it so that

we can be alone and like it, hasn't it?

But it is not good to be alone. It wasn't that Adam was an

extrovert and he asked God, God, can I have a friend?

God, I'm kind of bored here in the garden Guy, could you, could

you make me a friend? God made a declaration.

God said it is not good for a man to be alone.

Now often people take this to me, that it is not good for man

to be single or it's not good for a woman to be single.

That's not the case at all. That is not what this is

teaching. God's Son was not married, the

apostle Paul was not married, and both of them said it was

better to be single than to be married.

This statement is not so much addressing the need for marriage

as it is addressing the need for community.

People often point to the fact that Jesus needed alone time.

That's true. But even in his isolation, he

was with his father. He spent his alone time with his

father. Church, family, you need

community. We all do.

We may enjoy, we may enjoy being alone, but it is not good to be

alone. We need community #2 God saw

Adam's need and God did something about it.

God saw Adam's need and God did something about it.

Our biggest extrovert in the family, Lauren, actually might

pass him up, but I'm not sure. Our biggest extrovert in the

family is Ezra by far. The other day his three older

brothers were all gone at basketball practice.

It was the first time in his life that his three older

brothers were gone at basketball and he was at home by himself.

First time in his whole life that his three older brothers

were gone. He was home by himself.

He was so bored. He looked like his girlfriend

had broken up with him. I could see it on his face.

I could feel it in his soul. As a father.

I, I tried to go befriend him, but I realize I'm like, oh man,

you're getting to that stage where like dad's not friends

anymore. Like, like you want like peer

friendship. When God saw that it wasn't good

for man to be alone, it wasn't because God looked down and saw

that Adam was bored. He he didn't look down and and

see, oh man, he's bored. One thing I thought Adam files

no complaint with the Lord. Adam's not sitting in the corner

of the garden twiddling his thumbs because he has no one to

talk to. In fact, one has to even wonder,

did Adam even see his own need for a companion?

But it didn't matter. Why?

Because God saw his need. God saw Adam's need for a

companion, for a friend, for a helper.

And God did something about it. Brothers and sisters, God sees

your need. God sees your need.

In fact, he sees your need even when you don't see it yourself,

when you don't even know that it exists.

And he will do something about it.

We were at the park the other day.

You know, the weather's been great here lately.

We were at the park the other day going for a walk, and there

were these kids playing kickball.

And as these kids are playing kickball, there was this mom who

was asking them, hey, does anybody need lemonade?

Does anybody want a popsicle? And I was telling Lauren I was

like, moms are fascinating to me.

They're they're always asking, can they need a need a dads?

I mean, we're just oblivious. I don't think I've ever asked my

kid, Hey, guys, you don't need any lemonade.

You don't need a popsicle. God is a Father, but He is the

type of Father who not only sees our needs, he meets those needs.

You may have a need for encouragement or affirmation or

community or direction or peace or rest.

You may not even see that you have this need, but God does.

God sees, just as God saw Adam's need and he did something about

it. Brothers and sisters, God sees

your need and he will do something about it #3 it is a

privilege to be a helper. It is a privilege to be a

helper. When God saw that it was not

good for Adam to be alone. How did God meet this need?

God saw that Adam was alone. He had this need.

How did God meet this need? He didn't say to him, I will

make you a friend. He didn't say I will make a

woman. He didn't say I will make a

wife. He said I will make a helper.

A helper. Now, there are some that

absolutely despise this term. They feel it's degrading.

You might despise this term. Feminism has so infiltrated our

society and our culture, even the modern church, that the idea

of calling women or wives helpers is considered toxic.

But let me remind us all that this Hebrew word, Ezzer, helper,

that Hebrew word ezzer, it's used 17 times in the Old

Testament. Did you know that nine of the 17

times it is used of God, nine of the 17 times it's used of God.

Psalm 121, one to two. I lift my eyes to the hell

hills. Where does my ezzer, my help

come from? My ezzer, my help comes from the

Lord. God is willing to be called our

helper, and so for us in Christ. May we never think this term is

beneath us. It is a privilege to be a

helper. We are like God when we are a

helper #4 God was mindful of Adam's specific need, and God

met that specific need. God was mindful of Adam's

specific need, and God met that specific need.

You ever had somebody who wanted to help and they did help, but

their help was really not that helpful?

You ever had that happen? Sometimes people try to help

with words, right? You share about like a hard

trial in your life and they say, well, at least you have your

health. You know, like, thanks, that

wasn't helpful. Sometimes people give you

unsolicited advice. You ever just been venting and

then somebody gives you like a 10 step plan to fix your problem

and you're like, thank you. I wasn't looking for that, but

thank you. Sometimes we take our

preferences and we place them on others in an attempt to be

helpful the way that we we we try to take our preferences and

put them on others. I will try to clean up Lauren's

messes. She doesn't find it helpful and

her mind, it's not a mess. It's like it's where I wanted to

be and I'm like, I was, I was trying to help.

See, I find it helpful. Sometimes you ask someone a

simple question. You ever ask a simple question

and someone gives you a seminar. Sometimes someone helps you with

the project. But at the end you realize, I

could have done this faster by myself.

God didn't just see Adam's need. God saw Adam's specific need.

Adam didn't just need a helper. He didn't need just a helper.

God could have given him an ox or a donkey.

If all he needed was a helper, they could The ox and the donkey

could help him work and keep this garden.

But God saw that Adam needed a specific type of helper, a

helper that was fit for him, that corresponded to him.

God never gives us unhelpful help.

Ever. He's not only sees our need, he

sees our very specific need. And he meets that need.

Psalm 139 says that God is acquainted with all our ways,

which means He's also acquainted with all of our specific needs.

And He meets those specific needs #5 neither animals nor AI

are suitable helpers for us. We need people.

Neither animals nor AI are suitable helpers for us.

We need people. I see two very dangerous trends

going on in our society. 1 revolves around pets, the other

revolves around AI. According to a 2024 Harris Poll,

roughly 43% of Americans with higher concentrations among Gen.

Z and millennials stated they would prefer to have a pet as

their child rather than a human. 143% That's concerning.

That's concerning. This is not just true with

children, it's even true with dating and marriage.

There are some people who will choose not to get married, or

not to date, or perhaps not even to build solid friendships in

their life. Why?

Because they have a dog or a cat that meets those needs.

That's concerning. What's interesting to me is that

God brought all the animals before Adam and there was not

found a helper fit for him. No animal couldn't meet Adam's

need. And yes, I'm not if you, if you

love dogs and cats or birds or I'm not hating on it, OK, I'm

just saying they're not a helper for you and the way that God

designs to have a helper for you.

And the helper doesn't have to be a mate.

It could be the church. No, not everybody's an animal

lover. You're like, don't worry about

me. I'm I'm not an animal lover.

Never going to own an animal, never going to have a pet.

Also, another dangerous trend going on our society in a

completely different category and that is AI.

There is a growing phenomenon where people are finding helpers

in AI. Some of them develop

relationships with AI. The dangers are real.

AI can create echo chambers, right?

And curate this to tell you what you want to hear.

Does AI ever tell you what you don't want to hear?

There can be an atrophy of compassion.

You don't ever have to show compassion to AI.

And then you can that that muscle of compassion can

atrophy. And when you get to humans, you

don't have it. There's monetized loneliness.

You realize that AI benefits from our loneliness.

It's incentivized. There's also a power nature.

I get to be the boss. I get to be the king of this,

this robot. I can even tell it what I wanted

to say. I can tell it like, hey, when

you respond to me, like, like, call me this.

Call me king. It will.

It'll call you king the rest of your life.

There's a power nature there. In the same way that people

exchanged idols for God, people today are exchanging animals and

technology for people. Friends, God designed us for

human interaction. We will always have this need.

We will never outgrow this need. We will always need people.

We will always need human interaction number six.

In one verse God dismantles same sex marriage, polygamy, divorce,

transgender, and sexual immorality.

In one verse God dismantles same sex marriage, polygamy, divorce,

transgender and sexual immorality.

Genesis 224 is one of the most important verses in the Bible.

It's quoted by Jesus for this reason.

In this one verse God dismantles 5 sinful practices.

Today let's take this one at a time.

Same sex marriage. God says therefore a man shall

leave his father and mother and hold fast to what?

His wife, not his husband, but his wife.

A wife is not holding fast to her wife.

She holds fast to her husband. In addition, he leaves what?

He leaves his mother and father. He does not leave his father's,

he does not leave his mother's. He leaves his father and mother.

B Polygamy. The statement that I have given

before about this topic is this. Polygamy was a practice that God

allowed as a concession in the Old Testament due to man's

weakness, but was not part of his original design and it

always had consequences. God's original design was not

polygamy. God's original design was

monogamy. We see it right here.

Notice a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast

to what? His wife singular, not wives

wife singular. See divorce.

The Pharisees one day came to Jesus to test him.

They asked him, they said, teacher, is it lawful to divorce

one's wife for any cause? And the way that Jesus answers

this question is to quote Genesis 224.

He concludes with this statement.

So they are no longer 2, but one flesh.

What? Therefore God has joined

together, let not man separate D transgender.

In Matthew 19, right before Jesus quoted Genesis 224, Jesus

said this. Have you not read that He who

created them from the beginning made them male and female?

Now that's an interesting statement, isn't it?

Because that's not what it says. It doesn't say that He made them

male and female. It says He made them man and

woman. There's a different Hebrew word

for male and female. In other words, Jesus is saying

a man is a male and a woman is a female.

Further, He doesn't say he assigned them male and female,

doesn't say he assigned them male.

He says he made them male and female.

He created them male and female. Gender is not assigned, it is

created and made by God. Last 1 E Sexual immorality In

Corinth, members of the church are engaging in temple

prostitution, and Paul says to them, Do you not know that your

bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of

Christ and make them members of a prostitute?

Never. Or do you not know that one who

was joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her?

For as it is written here, it is the 2 will become one flesh.

Paul's point in there is that one flesh should only exist in

the confines of marriage. That idea one flesh, it should

not exist outside of marriage. It only should exist in the

confines of marriage. And so in this one verse, don't

ever say that the word of God, that one verse is not powerful

and cannot teach us one verse. God dismantles same sex

marriage, polygamy, divorce, transgender, and sexual

immorality. All of it is there if we have

eyes to see. Last point #7 A prudent wife or

husband is from the Lord. A prudent wife or husband is

from the Lord. Then let me start off by

affirming that even though this passage seems to suggest that

marriage is God's design for his people, you read this and it

seems to suggest that God's design for us is to be married.

Both Jesus and Paul affirm that singleness is better.

When the disciples came to Jesus and they said Jesus, it is

better not to marry. Jesus didn't say to them, no,

no, no, no. He said not everyone can receive

it, only those to whom it is given.

In other words, he, he, he, he affirms it is better.

Paul said he who refrains from marriage will do even better.

First Corinthians 738 So this is not teaching that God's design

is for everyone to be married. And if you're not married like

something's wrong or or you're not living in God's will, no.

But that being said, these verses are not intended to

diminish the beauty of marriage when God made this helper.

I love how this is worded. The text says he brought her to

the man. He brought her to the man.

It's as if God is presenting a gift to Adam.

Proverbs 1914 says house and wealth are inherited from

fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

And of course this is also true of husbands.

We have around 11 married couples in our church who

regularly attend around 11. Let me take the time to ask

everyone of you and if you're visiting with us, if you're

married as well, if you're, if you're dating and, and, and

you're going to get married one day or if you're engaged and

you're going to be married one day.

Let me take the time to ask you a very direct question.

Do you see your spouse as a gift from the Lord?

Because they are. Do you see your spouse as a gift

from God? Because they are.

Let's pray.