00:05:18.800that that's actually not a good way to look at the scriptures
00:05:21.080Because if you look back at the book of Genesis, you'll see that God actually set up the headship and helper structure or the headship and submission structure and the roles for husband and wife prior to sin entering into the world.
00:05:37.820Genesis 3 is the fall of man, and this is Genesis 2.
00:05:40.800So what I'm saying here is that in a perfect, sinless world, God still designed marriage to be head and helper, or in the roles of headship and submission, without sin.
00:05:58.180Like perfect world, no sin at all, God still designed it that way.
00:06:02.680Now, equal in value, different in role, both bearing the image of God and valued, again, identically before the cross.
00:06:30.920It actually means a helper like his opposite, comparable to him, like his opposite.
00:06:39.460Not his inferior helper, but his opposite.
00:06:43.740Again, we're talking about what, you know, I think I mentioned this last episode that God created complementary pairs, you know, heaven and earth, you know, land and sea, moon and sun, man and woman.
00:06:59.140these are not duplicated sameness, but they're actually complementary. They're equally valuable.
00:07:04.840They're all critical, but they're different in their role. And, you know, so the word helper
00:07:12.080also is actually the same word that God uses in the scriptures to describe the Holy Spirit as the
00:07:20.000helper. And so the helper cannot mean inferior, because if you look at the Trinity, the Holy
00:07:26.800spirit is not inferior but equal just different role and different responsibility so yeah over
00:07:34.320the years i've heard a lot of women say that just because a woman is a helper doesn't mean
00:07:38.640that her husband is above her and yes that's true he's not above you but he's actually in front of
00:07:43.480you um so we even see this played out in the garden of eden um and i'll go ahead and let you
00:07:48.060explain that yeah so the in the garden of eden this idea that people i think uh they try to
00:07:54.740escape the reality that Adam is actually the head, even though it doesn't necessarily say
00:08:00.760the head versus helper structure, but it definitely implies it if you read the text.
00:08:05.980And I'm going to give you a couple of points. And again, this will all wrap up here at the end,
00:08:10.760but I think it's important for the ladies so that you can actually be confident that1.00
00:08:15.180this is the role that God designed you for as a woman. And it's been like this since the0.89
00:08:21.160beginning of time. So in the creation order, man was created before woman. And that's unique.0.80
00:08:27.920If woman were equal in role, why didn't God create man and woman simultaneously?
00:08:34.440So it's just something to ask yourself. This is actually the idea of precedence,
00:08:39.480the firstborn. And this firstborn concept actually continues to go on throughout the entire
00:08:45.500Old Testament and New Testament, but Jesus is actually the firstborn physically, but also the
00:08:51.740firstborn and first raised of the dead. And so there's some really interesting themes of
00:08:55.840precedence that we don't have time for. But point number two is that we can also see that Adam was
00:09:01.660the leader or the head by the authority that God gave Adam to name woman. And so he gave Adam this
00:09:11.640role. And it's funny because the force of that argument is actually still felt today. Many women
00:09:19.100resist male leadership by not taking their husband's name at marriage. And so this is still
00:09:25.720an issue of not letting their wives or not letting their husbands name them in a capacity. I mean,
00:09:31.540obviously different than we're talking about in the Garden of Eden, but taking their last name.
00:09:35.360And so it's another way to kind of show that I'm actually not going to fall in line or be submissive or identify as one with you.
00:09:47.700Number three, in the Garden of Eden, we can see that God creating Eve for man.
00:09:55.580And so he actually creates Eve for man.
00:18:35.880Ultimately, ladies, you're following your husband who's following Christ,
00:18:39.340and Christ is following God the Father.0.52
00:18:42.360This is also displayed in 1 Corinthians 11 when it says that the head of every woman is man, is her husband.
00:18:52.560The head of man is Christ. The head of Christ is God.
00:18:55.540And that's the beginning of 1 Corinthians 11.
00:18:59.780So this is, again, and I know the scariest thing for a woman is to follow a husband or be in submission to a husband who's not in submission to Christ.