THE BEGINNING OF HUMANITY
Genesis 2:15-25
RESPONSIBILITY OF OWNERSHIP
V:15. " The Lord God took the man and put him in the
Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. "
A. Our Creator uses to names to identify Himself.
1. Lord is the
Hebrew name Yehovah self existing and eternal
2. God is the
Hebrew name Elohiym which means supreme and is a
plural noun.
a. We derive
the idea of the Holy Trinity,
b. The Self
Existing Supreme God decides our faith.
3. There is a reason
why God places us in the family we are in.
1. He has a
design for our lives.
2. He
predetermines what we are going to face before we are born.
B. God gave man a
home.
1. With any home
come responsibility.
2. We are responsible
for taking care that which God
has given
us.
C. To work the garden probably meant to maintain its beauty
1. To "take
care of it" probably meant to protect it from the roaming
animals.
2. Animals live by
instinct. Their instinct is to find food where ever they
roam.
3. This would
indicate that the Garden of Eden was a special place separated
from the areas
where animals roamed.
THE ORIGINAL COMMANDMENT
V:16-17. " And the Lord God commanded the man, "You
are free to eat from any tree in
the garden; but you
must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for
when you eat of it you will surely die."
A. God established laws for
man to abide by.
1. God gives us
freedom to follow His will for our lives.
2. He makes
provisions for our existence.
B. God sets the standards for our lives with rules to follow.
1. Rules determine
the quality of life.
2. In this case
the length of life.
C. In the Garden was also the Tree Of Life.
1. Man had set
before him eternity.
2. He also had the
choice of life or death.
D. Originally man only knew righteousness.
1. Man was created
in the Age Of Innocence.
2. Obeying the
house rules would have maintained that innocence.
3. The tree of Knowledge Of Good and Evil set
sin as an alterative
life style.
a. The Tree of
knowledge and Of Good and Evil set a path
for man to
follow his own thoughts and depend on himself.
b. In the stage
of innocence, man was dependant on God.
4. A man with laws can limit his activities to
the law.
5. A man without laws is only limited by his
imagination.
E. Whenever you find in the Word something you don't
understand,
you should ask
questions.
1. Since Adam knew
only life, he should have asked what it means
to die.
2. Adam had life
all around him, but no death.
3. Believe it or
not Satan who had fallen before God made the earth,
was listening
to God's instructions to Adam.
4. Satan uses our
ignorance of the Word to destroy us.
GOD'S CONCERN FOR OUR WELL BEING
V:18 The Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to
be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him
A. The Lord is concerned about our mental well being.
1. We were made
to be social creatures.
2. Man was made
in the image and likeness of the Holy Trinity.
3. Man was made
with ability to communicate.
B. No animal was given the ability to talk or reason.
1. Our mental
health is aided by our conversation with
other
righteous persons.
2. Verbal
conversation puts our thoughts in the open to be
discussed and analyzed.
3. It is through
our verbal conversations that we understand our thoughts
in a different
light.
MAN'S FIRST ASSIGNMENT
V:19-20. Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all
the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. 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.
20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of
the air and all the beasts of the field. But for Adam no suitable helper was
found.
A. Man was given a job to utilize his reasoning skills.
1. Unlike God, I
can only imaging that it took Adam quite some time to name
all the
animals that were created.
2. This would
indicate that Adam had an extensive vocabulary.
B. Not only that, but Adam had a huge memory to recall all the names
he gave the animals.
1. He would
certainly have a lot to teach his wife.
2. God provided Adam
with a sense of worth to impress his help mate.
THE FIRST
V:21. " 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 closed
up the place with flesh.
A. Putting a person to sleep before a medical operation is
the job of a
an
Anesthesiologist.
1. Cutting a person
open and operating on the body is the job of a surgeon.
2. God has X Ray
vision to know where to cut Adam to get the desired bone,
B. The God we serve is a doctor
1. God is the one
who causes the body to heal.
2. God equipped the
body with ability to heal itself
3. The body has the
ability to regrow tissue and skin.
THE ORIGIN OF WOMAN
22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken
out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
A. You should notice that God did not form the female part
of any animal
from the bone or
frame of the male.
1. God only did
this for the man made in His image
2. God intended that there would be harmony in
the marriage.
3. Since the woman
is made from, she is dependant on him.
B. The rib of Adam contained all his DNA.
1. God leaves us
with the question of why He chose a rib bone.
a. The rib bone
is the only bone in the body that can reproduce
itself.
b. Bones carry
bone morrow which reproduce red and white blood cells.
c. According
to Lev 17:10 -14, life is in the
blood.
d. When Christ
died on the cross, He was pierced in the side
and blood
and water came out and His bride, the Church was born.
2. If God had
chosen a head bone, may be Eve would be over Adam
3. If God had
chosen a back bone, maybe Eve would have to walk behind Adam
4. IF God had
chosen a foot bone, maybe Eve would be under Adam.
5. Maybe God chose
a rib bone so Eve could walk side by side with Adam.
B. God does not tell us some things to keep us coming to Him
for answers.
1. God chooses a
partner for each of us.
2. Our job is to
wait on God's choice.
3. God places the
right people into our lives to help us.
THE MARRIAGE, GOD'S DESIGN
V:23. " 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."
A. Adam excepted God
choice for his life.
1. Adam made a
commitment to God's choice.
2. God's design
for marriage is a man and a woman.
B. Here we see God's definition for woman; that which is
derived from man.
1. The DNA of women
begin with Adam.
2. The DNA of the
entire world population began with Adam and Eve.
C. Adam excepted God's design for family.
1. Adam did not
see another man, he saw a woman.
2. Adam recognized
the difference between himself and what God
presented him with.
3. Adam was
pleased with the woman he saw.
a. New
relationships begin with excitement.
b. The question
is how do you keep that first excitement through out
your
marriage.
c. New
relationships start fresh with no history of anger or frustration.
d. It would be
good if we could have a fresh start with each other
every time
we meet.
e. We can, if
we can forgive and forget.
UNITY IN THE MARRIAGE
V:24. " For this reason a man will leave his father and
mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh."
A. God gives us two rules of marriage.
1. A man and his
wife should not live with their parents.
2. The man and his
wife must become one.
B. You will notice that Adam and Eve had no human parents.
1. God was their
parent.
2. God gave Adam
and his wife space to live by themselves
under His
careful eye.
3. God allowed
Adam and Eve to make their own choices without His
interference.
C. There should be one voice in the marriage.
1. The two should
come to an agreement in all decision making.
2. Decisions must
be for the good of both the man and his wife.
3. God made man
first, gave His command to man first and set
man as the head of the marriage. 1 Cor 11:3
3. The marriage is
blessed or made happy by the Lord, who
is the head
of man.
THE STATE OF INNOCENCE
V:25. " The man and his wife were both naked, and they
felt no shame."
A. Adam and Eve were innocence.
1. They were made
with no thoughts of evil.
2. Originally they
did not judge or condemn each other.
B. They saw the difference between each other, but only
considered the
beauty of their difference.
1. It was love at
first sight, for they needed each other.
2. They needed each
others companionship.
3. They needed the
comfort of each other.
4. They needed the
conversation between the two of them.
5. They need to
learn to appreciate their differences.
C. Originally there was nothing hidden between them
because they had
the innocence of the Lord.
1. They did not
look at each other with a critical eye.
2. They accepted
each other as they were made.
3. They had no
human standard for what a man or woman
should be.
4. They were God's
standard of perfection.
5. They were in the
state of think no evil, see no evil, do no
evil and hear
no evil.
6. All Adam and Eve
knew was God and His perfection.
THANK GOD FOR HIS CREATIVE
GOODNESS
Rev. M. Mitchell
Asst Pastor of Greater Macedonia
Baptist Church
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