Dale Partridge - October 14, 2025


Genesis 2_14-24： The Six Implications of Masculine Rule


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00:00:00.000 Today's sermon is titled, The Six Implications of Masculine Rule.
00:00:10.880 Now, I've discussed these implications before in a different sermon series that I did on
00:00:17.120 the covenant household, and so we're not going to go too deep into that dimension of this
00:00:23.120 text, but I do think that it's impossible to get through this without highlighting those
00:00:29.080 elements. And for those who have not heard the Covenant Household series, this might be helpful
00:00:33.160 for you as they appear along the way. Now, my last sermon on Genesis, we saw how Moses shifted
00:00:41.900 from this macro view in Genesis chapter 1, and then all of a sudden he shifted and zoomed into
00:00:49.580 this micro view in Genesis chapter 2. And so we saw that the Hebrew had some really interesting
00:00:58.540 transitions. We saw that in chapter one, God is referred to as Elohim, the creator. And then we
00:01:05.300 saw this shift in chapter two, where you see the word Lord in your English Bible, but it really is
00:01:11.860 Yahweh, the covenant keeping Lord. It's this shift from almighty creator into this relational shift
00:01:19.060 here in chapter two. And we also saw that the order of creation in the last sermon showed that
00:01:26.420 everything was being made for this pinnacle experience in which man was the capstone of
00:01:32.800 that moment. Meaning that the whole world was created for man and not man for the world.
00:01:39.860 We also discussed that Adam was formed from the Adama. When you see this in the Hebrew,
00:01:45.740 you see this really great connection between Adam and the Adama. And the fact that Adam
00:01:51.440 has a relationship with the ground, at least our physical bodies do. And the fact that God
00:01:56.640 actually punishes Adam by cursing the relationship between him and the ground. And so those are
00:02:03.720 really important aspects that we've covered in the past and will be helpful for us as we
00:02:08.800 shift through today and on future sermons. So if last week's focus was a detailed look at Adam,
00:02:17.260 This week's focus is a detailed look at Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
00:02:23.880 Let's look at verse 15 through 17. Let's read it together.
00:02:27.460 It says,
00:02:27.900 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and to keep it.
00:02:35.520 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying,
00:02:39.080 You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat.
00:02:44.800 For in the day that you eat of it, you shall surely die.
00:02:49.500 Now, right at the start, we see this first implication of masculine rule.
00:02:55.400 It says, the Lord God took the man.
00:02:58.260 The Lord God took who? 0.65
00:03:00.980 He took the man. 0.96
00:03:02.780 We can't overlook the fact that God created man before he created woman. 0.53
00:03:08.420 And the interesting thing is that God has enough power to create man and woman simultaneously.
00:03:12.840 But he didn't create God, or he didn't create man and woman simultaneously.
00:03:19.400 In his wisdom, he chose to create in sequence.
00:03:22.740 And this implies, at some degree, a chronology, a chronological order.
00:03:28.600 Now, next we see that before any sin, before the fall, while creation was still perfect,
00:03:35.180 But God placed Adam in the garden to work it and to keep it.
00:03:44.600 Now, why is that important?
00:03:47.180 Well, I think a lot of people think that work is some sort of post-fall result.
00:03:55.060 That work is difficult.
00:03:57.760 And yes, I will say that the work is less enjoyable because of the curse of the fall.
00:04:02.500 But work is not a post-fall effect.
00:04:06.320 It's not a result of sin.
00:04:08.960 Work actually is a great means to glorify God.
00:04:12.940 And it's something that I think every one of us, especially the men, need to remember in our day and age.
00:04:19.320 Now, in other words, paradise was not about leisure.
00:04:25.460 Paradise was not about leisure.
00:04:30.280 And that's good news.
00:04:32.120 And here's why. Votie Bauckham did a great sermon. I actually had a chance to listen to it. I forgot who told me about it. 1.00
00:04:39.340 But it was something called like the three trees of the garden.
00:04:43.820 And he had this beautiful reference in there talking about how many men are quietly underwhelmed with the prospect of heaven
00:04:52.900 because the way it is portrayed as a place of eternal leisure in which you sit around,
00:04:59.440 Maybe you worship and you're on a cloud and you're relaxing.
00:05:03.180 That has been the historic, at least the medieval, look at heaven.
00:05:09.080 But scripture paints a different picture of heaven.
00:05:12.380 The restored Eden, heaven, the restored heavens and earth.
00:05:18.440 You know that this earth right here that we're standing on will be restored.
00:05:23.600 And this is where we will dwell eternally.
00:05:26.260 On this land, that dirt, those plants will actually be restored without sin, without curse.
00:05:33.680 This world is ours. It says the meek will inherit the earth.
00:05:38.720 This earth is our true promised land. 1.00
00:05:43.460 Now, in Luke 23, we see Jesus say to the thief on the cross,
00:05:52.640 today you will be with me in paradise now that word paradise is the same greek word
00:06:02.620 that you have for eden or paradise in genesis when it's translated in the hebrew or sorry in
00:06:11.460 the septuagint now why is that important the septuagint is the greek translation of the hebrew
00:06:18.760 scriptures. The Septuagint is the Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures. And the word that is
00:06:26.780 translated in Genesis for Eden or for paradise is the same Greek word that Jesus uses when he says
00:06:36.360 today you will be with me in paradise. It's tying Eden and heaven together. That's what the scriptures
00:06:43.540 are doing. And why is that important? Because just as Adam was placed in paradise to work
00:06:52.300 and to care for it before the fall, we will be placed in paradise to work and care for it
00:06:59.220 in glory. It'll be a good thing. We will enjoy it. I don't know about you, but if you've ever
00:07:05.920 worked the land and you've stood outside and you look at the glorious mountains and you have maybe
00:07:11.040 its fall colors around you, the weather's perfect, the animals
00:07:15.080 are grazing, and you look at it and you go, this is beautiful. We will
00:07:19.140 have that and that glorious work again, but in a
00:07:23.140 place with no tarnish from sin.
00:07:27.980 Revelation 22 verse 3 says, speaking of
00:07:31.200 the restored earth, it says, no longer will there be anything accursed.
00:07:35.700 Oh, that'll be a day. Not only of just
00:07:39.280 a land that is cursed, there'll be no dead plants.
00:07:42.860 There'll be no dead animals. There'll be no pain in your body.
00:07:49.280 And I believe this gives men in particular
00:07:51.340 hope and for the anticipation of heaven.
00:07:55.260 There's work to be done, good and godly work to be done.
00:07:59.680 Then we see this second implication of
00:08:03.200 masculine rule when it says, quote, the Lord God commanded the man saying,
00:08:07.000 you may surely eat of every tree of the garden.
00:08:10.620 And he goes on to talk about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
00:08:14.740 and the tree later in the trees of life, the tree of life.
00:08:20.360 I want to talk about this for a second.
00:08:22.420 It says, God, just pay attention to the text.
00:08:25.940 If you look down in your Bibles,
00:08:27.560 God delivers the rules of morality to Adam alone.
00:08:30.860 god gives the rules of morality in the garden to adam alone and not to him and eve together
00:08:39.840 and what this communicates is that adam is the responsible party for the moral state
00:08:45.700 of the garden now how do we know that that is true because later as we will see in chapter three
00:08:53.520 See, when Adam and Eve both sin, God does not call Eve.
00:09:00.120 He only calls Adam.
00:09:02.600 Again, laying the responsibility for the state of the moral failure upon Adam alone.
00:09:10.060 Next, I want you to notice how disobedience or sin leads to death.
00:09:16.000 We know it leads not just to physical death, but also to spiritual death.
00:09:20.380 The death is defined as the separation of the body from the soul.
00:09:23.520 And spiritual death is the separation of the soul from God.
00:09:26.840 We know that there is physical death, and we know that there is eternal spiritual death, which is hell.
00:09:34.860 It's why Romans 6.23 says,
00:09:36.660 For the wages of sin is death.
00:09:40.500 Now this verse right here, that we're in right now, lays the foundation for the entire gospel and the rest of the Bible.
00:09:53.520 this is what christ is saving us from disobedience produces unrighteousness
00:10:02.960 unrighteousness produces guilt guilt produces consequences the consequence is death
00:10:12.380 we are born dead we are born spiritually dead and we are born dying it is said from the moment
00:10:19.660 of our conception, we are beginning to die. And this is why we need a way to escape death.
00:10:32.400 This is why we need a way to escape death. One, to have our sins removed. Two, to be made righteous
00:10:41.460 before God. And three, to be raised to eternal life. We need all of those things which are a
00:10:48.560 result of this text here in Genesis chapter 2. It helps us understand the death-to-life motif
00:10:57.280 of the New Testament. I think a lot of Christians read their Bibles, and they don't understand 0.87
00:11:03.420 some of these connections between eternal life and the book of Genesis.
00:11:09.760 Colossians 2 actually let me read John chapter 5 verse 24 it says truly truly I say to you
00:11:19.400 whoever hears my words and believes him who sent me has eternal life and he does not come into
00:11:26.620 judgment but has passed from death to life none of that would make any sense without Genesis
00:11:35.140 chapter 2. Colossians 2, 13-14
00:11:39.500 says, and you who were dead in your
00:11:43.060 trespasses, God has made alive together
00:11:47.080 with him, having forgiven us all of our trespasses.
00:11:51.400 Again, the death to life motif.
00:11:55.740 Ephesians 2, 4-5, but God, being rich
00:11:59.020 in mercy because of the great love with which he had loved us, even when we were
00:12:02.840 dead in our trespasses. Made us alive together
00:12:06.760 with Christ. By grace you have been saved.
00:12:12.100 All of these are very important.
00:12:14.440 This is just a small sample of New Testament passages that speak
00:12:18.620 to the life that we are needing
00:12:22.820 and have received through Christ. Verse 18
00:12:26.900 it says, Then the Lord God said, It is not good
00:12:30.600 that man should be alone.
00:12:35.640 I will make a helper fit for him.
00:12:40.540 Now, after seven affirmations in chapter one,
00:12:44.320 that God saw it and that was good,
00:12:47.440 this sudden change should leap off the page.
00:12:51.380 Wait a second.
00:12:53.640 Something's not good?
00:12:55.720 Didn't you just make this world?
00:12:58.400 How is it not good?
00:13:00.600 the object of this great interruption is that man is lacking a companion.
00:13:09.560 Man is lacking a companion.
00:13:12.420 Now, interestingly, man was not really alone.
00:13:17.260 He had God.
00:13:19.440 God was with him.
00:13:22.400 Yet we have here God declaring that man's aloneness was not good.
00:13:29.260 Why is that important?
00:13:30.600 Because it shows that divine fellowship alone was not meant to meet man's earthly need for companionship.
00:13:43.020 It's very important.
00:13:46.840 Divine fellowship alone was not designed to meet man's earthly need for companionship.
00:13:55.140 now this is significant because it challenges the modern claim that we hear in the church
00:14:02.380 usually off of a off of a poor understanding of first corinthians chapter seven
00:14:08.700 that singleness is a gift of god singleness is a gift of god
00:14:15.940 we've heard that many times well i will disagree i do not believe that singleness is a gift of god
00:14:23.000 But I do believe that singleness may be a calling on a very select few people for the sake of the gospel.
00:14:31.080 You might have a man like Paul who is not called to remarry because he is a missionary for the gospel.
00:14:40.820 But I do not believe singleness is the normative reality of God's will for mankind.
00:14:47.720 Now why?
00:14:50.100 Well, I'll ask this question.
00:14:52.440 Why do people say that?
00:14:55.300 Why do people say, oh, your singleness is a gift?
00:14:58.660 I think it's in an effort to kind of soothe this ache of singleness.
00:15:04.300 It's a very painful trial for many people.
00:15:07.880 And I've heard them say, hey, God is enough for you.
00:15:14.240 God is enough for you in this season.
00:15:16.640 Or seek the Lord in this season, which is true.
00:15:19.540 but it implies that you should find everything that you need in the Lord.
00:15:27.680 But here, God never said to Adam,
00:15:30.600 I'm enough for you.
00:15:34.280 No.
00:15:35.620 He saw the aloneness.
00:15:37.980 He said that it's not good.
00:15:40.180 And he said, here is a wife.
00:15:43.920 So for us to walk into people's lives and say,
00:15:46.540 Hey, you know what?
00:15:48.060 Just seek the Lord.
00:15:49.540 Yeah, great, I will seek the Lord, but also I really want to be married.
00:15:56.520 I really want to find a spouse.
00:16:00.260 It is not good to be alone for a man, which implies that it is not good to be alone for a woman.
00:16:10.360 Now, singleness is not sinful, but I do not want to fall into the trap that it is the ideal.
00:16:17.440 I think we have a lot of flaws in the church
00:16:21.920 we have young adults ministries with three or four hundred people 0.98
00:16:25.680 and nobody's getting married but everybody has a sex life
00:16:28.780 it's a very strange time
00:16:31.500 now an important distinction to be made here
00:16:40.340 is that when God said something that was not good
00:16:44.400 it didn't mean that Eden was sinful.
00:16:49.300 This is something you go,
00:16:50.380 well, how can it be not good in this perfect place?
00:16:55.840 There's a distinction to be made here.
00:16:58.960 Eden was not sinful, but Eden was incomplete.
00:17:04.480 Without Eve, Eden was incomplete.
00:17:09.500 God intentionally withheld what would make creation whole
00:17:13.680 in order to draw attention to the problem and his resolution.
00:17:19.840 This massive emphasis.
00:17:22.860 I mean, in a literary aspect, this is the most massive emphasis of chapter 2.
00:17:31.300 Man was alone, and he needed a wife.
00:17:36.980 so from the beginning God designed marriage as the ordinary and desirable condition for mankind
00:17:47.200 now this should do something to us it should invigorate us our churches our families our
00:17:55.300 friends to help facilitate introductions and opportunities that might cultivate courtships
00:18:03.120 relationships, and potentially marriages.
00:18:05.300 It is a good and godly thing.
00:18:07.560 And the church has been quite terrible at it,
00:18:09.660 and I really hope and pray that we can be really good at it in the future.
00:18:16.260 Why is singleness not good?
00:18:21.420 Why is aloneness not good?
00:18:27.100 Well, because it removes many of God's intended blessings for humanity.
00:18:32.720 You don't have marriage when you're alone.
00:18:37.700 You don't have children when you're alone.
00:18:42.460 You don't have motherhood and fatherhood or family.
00:18:48.740 You don't have the preservation of God's people when you're alone.
00:18:53.680 It leaves many men and women in a lifestyle that cultivates, even without intention, self-centeredness, loneliness, depression, isolation.
00:19:16.560 It leaves many people without the sharpening and sanctifying edge of marriage and children.
00:19:23.680 the National Marriage Project in a study recently showed that
00:19:29.080 the longer a person remains single, the higher the chances are of divorce,
00:19:33.580 and they associated that with the independence that is fostered in singleness.
00:19:39.600 I don't think that's the case for everybody.
00:19:42.240 I've known many great men and women who have been married at 40
00:19:45.120 and have great and wonderful marriages.
00:19:47.560 With the Lord, all things are possible.
00:19:49.320 But the reality is, is that it's something, if you are single, you have to guard against constantly.
00:19:56.100 I get to minister to singles all the time.
00:19:58.840 You have to constantly guard against the independent heart that is just a natural outflow of single life.
00:20:07.000 You must surround yourself with families and submit yourself to authorities
00:20:12.300 and walk in companionship and fellowship with many people to guard against those realities.
00:20:19.320 This leads us to the third implication of masculine rule, which is God saying, I will make a helper fit for him.
00:20:29.100 Now, while Eve is equal to Adam in value, we see that she is not equal to him in nature or duty.
00:20:39.820 In other words, God didn't produce duplicated sameness.
00:20:46.100 You don't have Adam and Adam.
00:20:48.420 You have Adam, and you have Eve.
00:20:52.140 He created Adam, a helper fit for him.
00:20:56.140 Fit to support his needs. 0.66
00:20:58.660 Fit to carry his children.
00:21:02.560 Fit to complement his weaknesses.
00:21:07.840 Where Adam was lacking, Eve was gifted.
00:21:13.800 Where he was strong, she was tender.
00:21:17.460 Where he was a leader, she was a follower.
00:21:21.000 Where he worked, she nurtured.
00:21:23.960 It's a beautiful reality.
00:21:28.020 This creation for feminine support of the masculine being is confirmed in 1 Corinthians 11 verses 8 and 9.
00:21:37.060 It says, quote,
00:21:39.500 For man was not made from woman, but woman from man.
00:21:44.260 Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man. 0.65
00:21:51.240 Ladies, if you want to know what your creational purpose is,
00:21:57.800 it is to help men, in particular, your husband,
00:22:04.760 but maybe your father, maybe men in the church if you're single.
00:22:10.400 But you are designed uniquely to be a support of masculine rule.
00:22:19.980 And you're really good at it.
00:22:22.760 You fulfill many of the great qualities and needs that men lack.
00:22:29.260 And when women try to be like men, as the feminists try to push, you lose that.
00:22:35.300 It is so good and glorious when men can be men and when women can be women.
00:22:47.520 In the same way that Adam was made from God and for God, Eve was made from Adam and for Adam.
00:22:59.700 in the same way that Adam was to carry out God's will
00:23:04.700 Eve was to carry out in a sense Adam's will
00:23:08.660 as Christ says to the father not my will be done but yours 0.79
00:23:14.780 and as men say to Christ not my will be done but yours
00:23:19.000 a wife says to her husband not my will be done but yours
00:23:23.200 this sounds insane in our generation but if you look to 1st Corinthians 0.93
00:23:27.060 chapter 11, that is the exact
00:23:29.940 order that you see. It's also affirmed
00:23:32.960 in 1 Peter 3, 5 through 6
00:23:35.840 where Sarah is commended.
00:23:38.480 For this is how holy women who hoped in God
00:23:42.040 used to adorn themselves by submitting to their own husbands
00:23:45.160 as Sarah obeyed Abraham calling him
00:23:48.120 Lord.
00:23:50.520 If that passage wasn't here, everybody
00:23:54.040 would have looked at the Old Testament and her calling him Lord.
00:23:57.060 And saying, that was certainly the old covenant.
00:24:01.280 But the fact that Peter brings it up, and the Holy Spirit includes it in the new covenant, is quite amazing.
00:24:09.660 Though God recognized man's need, he delayed meeting it.
00:24:14.480 You can see in verse 19 through 20, we see a narrative that lets us sense Adam's loneliness.
00:24:20.060 He's got the animals, and they're parading through in front of him.
00:24:25.100 And it's this moment that makes him go, everything has a partner but me.
00:24:37.340 Verse 19 says,
00:24:39.780 Now to the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens
00:24:43.360 and brought them to the man to see what he would call them.
00:24:49.420 And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
00:24:55.100 The man gave names to all the livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field.
00:25:02.240 But for Adam, there was not found a helper fit for him.
00:25:07.260 This brings up our fourth implication of masculine rule.
00:25:11.580 God gives Adam, not Eve, the authority to name the animals. 0.65
00:25:17.580 This is not only demonstrating man's superiority over creation, but it's a unique responsibility not given to the woman, but given to the man. 0.65
00:25:29.880 The text returns to the creation of Eve in verse 21.
00:25:32.960 It says,
00:25:33.200 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man.
00:25:39.680 And while he slept, took one of his ribs and closed it up in its place with flesh.
00:25:44.600 and the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man
00:25:48.020 he made into a woman
00:25:50.340 and brought her to the man.
00:25:54.320 The most famous commentary on this verse
00:25:56.440 comes from Matthew Henry's commentary in 1704.
00:25:59.780 It says,
00:26:01.880 Eve is not made out of his head to top him,
00:26:08.020 not out of his feet to be trampled upon by him,
00:26:11.780 But out of his side, to be equal with him, under his arm, to be protected by him, and near to his heart, to be beloved by him.
00:26:23.880 More than that, God is trying to communicate oneness between a man and a woman.
00:26:34.440 Ephesians 5.28-21, it's referencing this very chapter.
00:26:40.440 If you go on and read Ephesians 5, he talks about this specific chapter.
00:26:44.940 But he says before that, he says,
00:26:46.640 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies.
00:26:51.600 He who loves his wife loves himself, for no one ever hated his own flesh,
00:26:57.300 but nourishes and cherishes it just as Christ does the church,
00:27:01.840 because we are members of his body.
00:27:04.700 For a man to hurt a woman, or for a husband to hurt his wife, is for a man to hurt himself.
00:27:15.440 They are one.
00:27:18.240 She is a disembodied extension of your body.
00:27:26.360 This is the fifth implication of masculine rule, again, which I mentioned just a few moments ago.
00:27:32.100 but in that Eve comes from Adam and not Adam from Eve.
00:27:37.060 It's a very important distinction.
00:27:45.980 It's also important to notice that Eve is presented by God to Adam.
00:27:53.000 Almost, and I don't want to use the word possession,
00:27:56.660 but almost as a, this is yours, this is your wife.
00:28:01.680 It is presented to him.
00:28:04.700 It's actually worth noting that God presenting Adam with Eve is actually part of the biblical foundation for arranged marriages.
00:28:14.820 This is one of the big rationales for that.
00:28:18.040 just as a loving God gave Adam a suitable and desirable Eve
00:28:24.060 I believe that any loving father would desire to present his son with a suitable wife
00:28:32.900 doesn't mean that we have to do arranged marriages
00:28:37.420 but I believe that parents being involved especially through courtship
00:28:41.100 and children need to learn to trust their parents in matchmaking
00:28:48.540 It is a good and godly thing.
00:28:50.820 Next we see Adam's response.
00:28:53.060 He says, then man said, this is one of the greatest kind of acclamations of praise
00:28:58.280 in the first couple of chapters of the Bible.
00:29:02.660 This is at last bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh,
00:29:07.100 and she shall be called woman because she was taken out of man. 0.98
00:29:11.580 now there's a lot to unpack here and i don't want to go too deep bone of my bones speaks to her kind
00:29:21.780 her species he just looked got done looking at all the animals that thing's not shaped like me
00:29:29.240 and then he sees eve bone of my bone she's got the same architecture as him
00:29:35.500 And then he says, flesh of my flesh.
00:29:39.880 This is speaking to her external appearances like his.
00:29:49.340 It's actually where we get the phrase, of my own flesh and bones.
00:29:53.880 That phrase comes from this.
00:29:57.480 Now this is a verse where some people will abuse it,
00:30:01.700 and they'll speak against interracial marriage.
00:30:04.060 They'll say, well, look, you know, here's an example.
00:30:07.200 Flesh of my flesh means that they probably had the same skin color.
00:30:12.700 But Scripture never forbids interracial marriage, but it does absolutely forbid interfaith marriage. 0.90
00:30:19.540 It certainly forbids interfaith marriage. 0.74
00:30:22.940 1 Corinthians 7, 39 says, 1.00
00:30:25.100 A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. 0.74
00:30:28.840 But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes. 0.95
00:30:34.060 Only in the Lord.
00:30:36.000 Must be in the Lord. 0.66
00:30:38.520 We also see that Moses married Zipporah, who's a Midianite.
00:30:46.620 We know that Boaz married Ruth, who was a Moabite.
00:30:51.160 She's brought into the line of Christ.
00:30:56.900 Now, this doesn't mean that there are not benefits of marrying within your own race and culture.
00:31:02.060 I think there are.
00:31:02.700 my wife is hispanic and there is cultural barriers that we've had to overcome
00:31:09.240 being married from my history and culture to hers we've overcame them in christ
00:31:15.560 but you could have further cultural separations and so yes priority number one is that you marry
00:31:23.420 in the lord but it does make marriage a bit easier to marry someone who shares your culture
00:31:31.300 Maybe that includes your skin color.
00:31:33.300 Typically, historically, skin color and culture are typically related.
00:31:38.380 It's very strange for them to be disconnected.
00:31:40.980 But it is not a bad thing if you do that.
00:31:44.080 But it is also not sinful if you do.
00:31:48.140 This also leads us to the sixth implication of masculine rule.
00:31:52.340 And in the same way that man exercised his dominion over naming the animals,
00:31:56.720 we see that Adam is given the right and authority to name Eve.
00:32:02.160 There is an exercise of authority and dominion there.
00:32:07.840 Verse 24, it says, 0.75
00:32:09.500 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife,
00:32:14.880 and they shall become one flesh.
00:32:17.160 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
00:32:21.400 Now in our modern day, we view this through the lens of individualism.
00:32:27.720 We view this through individualism.
00:32:29.920 But what we see in Scripture is men getting married and actually staying pretty close to their fathers.
00:32:38.980 That's generally what you see. 0.93
00:32:41.340 You see men getting married, staying close to their fathers, while women get married and totally move away from their families. 0.93
00:32:50.040 That's generally the theme of Scripture. 0.84
00:32:51.840 We see this with Isaac and Rebekah.
00:32:53.640 We see it with Jacob and Leah and Rachel.
00:32:56.380 Boaz and Ruth, Joseph and Mary.
00:32:59.160 There's just, there's more.
00:33:02.120 What's really being taught here is two things.
00:33:05.720 In marriage, a man's priorities change.
00:33:10.040 It used to be honoring your father in a patriarchal society, submitting to him.
00:33:15.040 You are to separate from that and your priorities are to change. 0.67
00:33:20.080 Honoring your parents only comes second after honoring your wife.
00:33:23.320 Your wife becomes a priority.
00:33:24.800 You are now one with her.
00:33:28.100 Number two, it implies that giving daughters away is righteously painful.
00:33:35.560 Because in a sense, what you have raised often moves away and becomes part of another man's family.
00:33:43.040 And so we who have daughters are raising these daughters to go be a part of another man's lineage.
00:33:52.580 And it's a blessing when that lineage is, of course, in the name of Christ.
00:33:59.380 And so you can see why ancient men were so focused on having boys.
00:34:03.920 They wanted boys because you know what that did is that it built up kind of this dynasty element.
00:34:09.640 Where you'd have your sons would stay nearby and bring their wives and their families.
00:34:14.180 And their sons would stay nearby.
00:34:16.180 And you would end up building this tribe element.
00:34:19.780 But if you had eight girls, you would be generally left alone.
00:34:28.620 Your daughters would move away to be parts of different other families.
00:34:34.720 And oftentimes, you would move to be with your daughter and one of those families.
00:34:38.680 That was what was a very common practice of the ancient world.
00:34:43.260 And then it closes with this line,
00:34:44.980 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
00:34:49.300 This is here to show that sin is the cause of shame.
00:35:00.320 Without sin, there is no need for clothing because there is no shame.
00:35:06.560 And this is also part of today's desire to be shameless.
00:35:12.960 where everybody wants to walk around naked
00:35:17.680 and not feeling the shame they ought to feel for it.
00:35:24.040 And so we know that in Christ our shame is taken away,
00:35:30.460 but that is spiritually.
00:35:32.900 It is also that when we go to be with the Lord in glory,
00:35:37.320 that we will not be naked,
00:35:38.840 but we will be covered in robes of righteousness.
00:35:41.440 and so this is a very important chapter
00:35:45.260 we concluded it today
00:35:47.300 and we are excited to move into chapter 3 of Genesis
00:35:50.920 which is going to get into the fall
00:35:53.460 and the Protoevangelium
00:35:55.300 the first gospel of the Bible
00:35:57.680 Amen? Let's pray
00:35:59.780 Father we thank you Lord
00:36:01.480 for the blessing of this great text
00:36:05.440 we ask that you would give us an understanding of it
00:36:08.100 that it might shape and form our identities as men and women and children.
00:36:13.580 We thank you for it in Jesus' name. Amen.