Genesis 2:18-25 - Cameron Jungles - Sun PM. Dec. 29, 2013

“The First Marriage” - Genesis 2:18-25 –

(Eastside Baptist/Sun PM/Dec. 29, 2013)

 

1. Marriage is intended to be a union of companionship.

 

The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him." (Gen. 2:18, NIV)

 

Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. (Gen. 2:19, NIV)

 

So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam no suitable helper was found. (Gen. 2:20, NIV)

 

2. Marriage is intended by God to be a relationship in which both the man and the woman fulfill their complementary roles.

 

*  The woman was created to be man’s helper.

 

The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him." (Gen. 2:18, NIV)

 

*  The woman was made after the man.

 

*  The woman was made out of the man.

 

So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. (Gen. 2:21, NIV)

Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. (Gen. 2:22, NIV)

 

*  The woman was named by the man.

 

The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman,' for she was taken out of man." (Gen. 2:23, NIV)

 

3. Marriage is intended to be a permanent union between one man and one woman bound by covenant.

 

 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. (Gen. 2:24, NIV)

 

4. Marriage is intended to be a union of holiness and harmony.

 

Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame. (Gen. 2:25, NIV)

 

Main Idea: Marriage is intended by God to be a covenantal union in which one man and one woman fulfill their complementary roles as lifelong companions in holiness and harmony.