Dale Partridge - October 14, 2025


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

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In this sermon, we take a look at the six implications of masculine rule in Genesis 2:15-17, and how they relate to the creation of the Garden of Eden and the relationship between Adam and the ground. We also see that before any sin, before the fall, while creation was still perfect, but God placed Adam in the Garden to work it and to keep it.

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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.