The Creation Of Man And Woman - Parts 2 & 3 Series

Man was happy in the garden that God made for him. And God gave him the most wonderful environment, and fed him with the most credible array, and loaded that garden up with the jewels, and the wonders and the beauties of that place were staggering.

Adam knew God as generous. God didn’t make an earth full of riches so that everybody could be poor. God loaded this little planet with so much wealth and so much wonder and beauty. It was all there for Adam to enjoy with just one warning: “Don’t eat of that tree of the knowledge of good and evil.”

In the day that you define the one mandate of God- not to define good and evil- everything wrong ensues. So, all that happened in that garden when Adam and Eve defied God was simply  the denial of God’s prerogative to be the definer of good and evil.  And when you look at the world now, with thousands of laws for nearly every circumstance. What’s really happened, ladies and gentlemen, we are living in a time in where our moral definitions have gone.

Malcolm Muckridge talked about this years ago, "It is difficult to resist the conclusion that 20th-century man has decided to abolish himself. Tired of the struggle to be himself, he has created boredom out of his own affluence, impotence out of his own erotomania, and vulnerability out of his own strength. He himself blows the trumpet, which brings the walls of his own cities crashing down. Until at last, having educated himself into imbecility, having drugged and polluted himself into stupefaction, he keels over a weary old brontosaurus and becomes extinct.” (Zacharias)

So ultimately we are looking to define 4 things in our society: evil, justice, love, and forgiveness. And we have come to a place in our culture where instead of turning to the One that has already defined them in undeniable terms, we are attempting to define them ourselves; the very ones that have perverted God’s definition of good and evil. It’s like asking your 3-year-old to pay the bills: “Do you want to pay the mortgage or the electric bill this week?” and he says, “let's buy paw patrol.”

Do you know of the one place in history where these 4 converge? The one place in history, where evil, justice, love, and forgiveness come down to a hill called Calvary. The evil that is in the heart of man, the justice that God has,  the love that He portrayed to the very end, and forgiveness even in his words, ‘Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they’re doing

III. Man’s Association

Now, I want to spend most of my time here with the creation of woman. Please understand that this is not something that is in the realm of political correctness. Let’s look at it honestly and biblically and apply to our lives carefully.

Genesis 2:18–22 ESV

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.