This Is Us: Adam's Family Series

Today we begin a new family series called This is US.

Here’s what we know – Everyone has a family and every family has a story.

What we want to get pressed deep within our hearts through this series is that God is an integral part in your Family Story.

We’re going to take a look at several Bible Families and see, first, that none of them were perfect and, second, that we can see our own Family Story reflected in these families.

Today we Meet the Adam’s Family (da-da-da-duh, snap, snap) – sorry wrong family – this is the original version found in Genesis at the beginning of Creation – the first family – and our Family of Origin if you will. We all have this in common – our family tree begins with Adam & Eve, and as we’ll see today, we all bear the resemblance well.

Each week we’ll have a Family Key Principles that we’ll work to unpack and apply to all of us – today’s key principles are this:

Every Family has Conflict.

Every Conflict begins with Sin from Within.

In our opening Scriptures we got to see a piece of the family picture and see that what started off so perfect turned into some major family issues.

Let’s pick up the story in Genesis 2 verse 18

18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” 19 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. 20 The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. 21 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. 22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. 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.”

24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed. (Genesis 2:15–25)

Talk about a picture-perfect wedding! In the Garden of Eden; God fashioned the woman; He brought her to the man.

Adam praises God saying ““This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She is like me but way better!

Adam’s joy turns into a bold declaration. He says to his wife I he will leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Adam’s loyalties and priorities change instantly. The union with his wife is so profound that he declares his first obligation and loyalties are to his wife. And they become one flesh—united in every way.

This leads me to my first principle for today.

1. God has a picture—perfect plan for your marriage.

Everything about Adam and Eve’s marriage is perfect. God creates Eve out of the side of Adam which is basis for her equality. She is not made out of his head to top him, not out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved. Eve was taken out of Adam so that he might embrace with great love a part of himself. God himself, like a father of the bride, leads the woman to the man.Eve was stunning. She was fresh out of the Creator’s hands. Every aspect of her was perfect. She was perfect in body and perfect in soul. She was perfectly sinless. I imagine her on the arm of her Father God, ready to see Adam for the first time. He sings praise to God because Eve is absolutely stunning in every way! Adam vowed to make Eve his TOP priority. They are naked and unashamed—meaning everything was PERFECT just as God intended. But there is trouble in paradise.

Genesis chapter 3 verse 1

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths. (Genesis 3:1–7)