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Genesis 1-2 Part 1 of 3
Address—C. Hendricks
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Their God had built the mountains.
Or raise the fruitful hills.
Before he filled the fountains that feed the running rills.
In thee from everlasting the wonderful I am.
Found pleasures never wasting.
And wisdom is thy name #4.
Turn with me tonight to Genesis Chapter 1.
In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form and void.
And darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And God said, let there be light, and there was light.
And God saw the light that it was good.
And God divided the light from the darkness.
And God called the light day, and the darkness he called night.
And the evening in the morning were the first day.
And God said, let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters.
And let it divide the waters from the waters.
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament, And it was so.
And God called the firmament heaven, and the evening and the morning were the second day. And God said that the waters under the heaven be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so. And God called the dry land earth, and the gathering together of the waters called he sees. And God saw that it was good.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb bearing yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind.
Whose seed is in itself upon the earth, and it was sold. And the earth brought forth, grass and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself after his kind. And God saw that it was good.
And the evening in the morning were the third day.
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to divide the day from the night.
And let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years.
And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth. And it was so. And God made 2 great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
And the evening and the morning were the 4th day.
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind. And God saw that it was good.
And God blessed them, saying, be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas.
And let foul multiply in the earth. And the evening in the morning were the 5th day.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind. And it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind. And God saw that it was good.
And God said, let us make man in our image after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him male and female.
Created he them, and God blessed them, and God said unto them.
Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it.
And have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, and the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed to you, it shall be for meat.
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat. And it was so.
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And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.
And the evening and the morning were the 6th day.
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished.
And all the host of them. And on the 7th day God ended his work which he had made, and he rested on the 7th day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the 7th day and sanctified it, because that in it.
He had rested from all his work, which God created and made.
Tonight I've read a portion of the Word of God, the very first chapter of the first book, the Book of Beginnings.
That has been attacked more by those who are the enemies of the truth.
Than any other portion of scripture.
This this first chapter, especially these first 3 chapters, especially of Genesis.
If we didn't have these chapters.
And I've just read 1 tonight. We really wouldn't know where we came from.
We wouldn't know how we got here. This is something that man, that science.
Cannot discover. They can come up with their theories, but they do not know how we got here.
The only way we can know is for the one who did it.
The God who created it all to tell us.
And this is what he has done in this very sublime and wonderful chapter. You may have noticed as we read through, there's an expression that we came across over and over and over again after his kind.
Everything after his kind. I was talking to a farmer at home and I said, wouldn't it be something if when you planted a corn in the spring and I asked you later, well, what kind of a crop did you get in the fall? And he would say, well, what kind of a crop do you expect in the fall? And he would say, but I don't know what I'm going to get. I'm not sure what it's going to be. We'll have to wait and see.
After his kind tells us that when you plant.
Corn. You're going to get corn. When you plant beans, you're going to get beans. When you plant peas, you're going to get peas. And when cows mate, they're going to get cows. And when dogs mate, they're going to get dogs. And when cats mate, they're going to get cats.
And this is a total refutable of evolution. Evolution. It wasn't until the last century when the truth of God was recovered in its fullness. Not the Protestant Reformation, mind you, but in the last century when there was a complete full recovering of the truth of God that the enemy countered with false religions, Jehovah's Witnesses, Millennial Dawn, the the Mormons, and the the worst one was.
What was picked up by?
The thinkers of the day, those that did not like the Bible, those that wanted to come up with something that that seemed to be scientific to disprove the Bible. And so Charles Darwin came up with his Origin of Species.
It was latched onto and grabbed onto and it spread like wildfire everywhere.
It seemed to have a scientific basis. And who can question science? After all, today science is the God of the modern man. You can't question science.
Except the fact that we have to face that every generation that comes changes what the previous generation scientifically said they knew, and they've discovered something different. And the next generation will nullify what the present one believes as well. Science is constantly changing. The only source that we have in all the world that never changes is this blessed book.
It's like our God, He changes not. He is the same yesterday, today and forever and He has given us in such a simple way and yet so sublime and so profound the way.
How we got here, There's three things that the natural man, that the humanist, that's what the religion of man is today. The humanism. He can't answer any one of these three things. Where did we come from?
Why are we here?
And where are we going? Three things. This book answers all three. It tells us where we came from, It tells us why we're here, and it tells us where we're going.
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In the beginning, God.
Created the heavens, It should be plural, I believe. And the earth. What a sublime, majestic statement. It stands at the very beginning of Scripture. It stands all by itself in the beginning. God.
And the Word for God is Elohim in the plural, and created is in the singular. The whole Trinity was involved in this wonderful work of creation. We see that especially so in the.
26th verse When God said, Let us make man in our image after our likeness. There the whole Trinity conferring among themselves persons of the Godhead, as to the creation of man.
But here we have it in the in the very first verse in the original Hebrew language, Elohim God.
Plural. Three persons, one God.
In the beginning, The beginning of everything that has a beginning.
The beginning of everything that has a beginning. Think for a minute before this time, this point in time.
Before time began. Before there was time.
Oftentimes it is. It is stated, and it's not quite right that God created the universe out of nothing. Well, that's not quite right, because there was never nothing.
There was always God.
I was always God. He's eternal.
Matter is not eternal.
Of all of the theories that the scientists have, who are evolutionists, the only one that they've come up with that even comes.
Remotely close to the truth is The Big Bang Theory.
Because what that tells, what they believe is that the universe did have a beginning. It had a beginning, and they call that The Big Bang, when these these particles of matter came together and they exploded and the universe resulted. Of course, that theory doesn't tell you how the particles of matter that exploded came from.
No, no theory that man can come up with, no matter how nonsensical it is, because you never get order and.
The harmony out of an explosion.
But what it The only thing that's true about it is that it goes back. They've discovered that the universe is expanding.
And there's two times in the prophet Isaiah where it says he stretches out the heavens. And it's one time he says that in Zechariah he stretches out the heavens. Yes, the heavens are. The universe is expanding. And so it it points back to the time when it began. It was a beginning. The universe is not eternal. Matter is not eternal. The only one who is eternal in the universe is God himself.
And that's that's a concept.
That the the human mind just is thrown into a total fog about we can conceive of one who exists now. I conceive of you existing now and you will live forever. You will live forever now that you're here. But I can't conceive of one that never. You go back. You go back. You go back as far as you can go back and there was no beginning.
He never began.
That's our God, eternal before time began.
But this first verse is the beginning of time, if you will.
In the beginning, God.
Created.
The heavens and the earth, he did it, and now he's been pleased in a limited way. He doesn't give us every detail. He's been pleased to tell us something about what happened.
And how he did it.
The first verse stands all by itself. The first verse is not part of day one.
Neither is the second verse part of day one.
Day one begins with verse 3 when God said let there be light.
And there was light. But the first verse of Genesis 1 was the original creation of the universe.
In the language of.
Let's read it the 33rd Psalm.
The 33rd Psalm, verse 6.
By the word of the Lord, where the heavens made.
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And all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
He gathereth the waters of the sea together as in heap, and layeth up the depth in storehouses. Let all the earth fear the Lord, Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him, for he spake.
And it was done.
He commanded and it stood fast.
Here's the being of such infinite power and wisdom.
And all the attributes you can apply to him that spoke the world's into existence. Hebrews 11 Says by faith we understand that the world's were framed by the word of God. The world's refers to the universe.
All the galaxies and all the constellations were framed by the word of God. He spake and it was done. He commanded, and it stood fast.
Now that first verse tells us He created the heavens and the earth.
The second verse only speaks of the earth. Only speaks of the earth. Something happened to the earth between verses 1 and 2.
We're not told.
Exactly what?
But we're told enough in Scripture, I think, to conclude that verse 2 describes the earth after.
Judgment fell upon it.
Let's read it. And the earth was without form and void.
Now I'm going to pause there. Turn to Genesis 19.
Genesis 19.
Verse 23.
The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
Then the Lord reigned upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah, brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground but his wife.
Looked back.
From behind him and she became a pillar of salt. Now that Hebrew word that is translated became is exactly the same word that is translated was in Genesis 1/2. The earth was without form and void could have been translated just as legitimately the earth became.
Without form and void.
Now, without being any kind of a Hebrew scholar, I know this much from my studying that there are two Hebrew words. They're rendered in our King James Bible without form.
And void, tohu and bohu are the 2 words Mr. Darby renders them. The earth was waste.
And empty, or the earth became waste and empty. Now that's not the way God created it. God is a God of order. He's a God of.
Of light.
And this describes the earth just the opposite to what God is. He didn't create something the exact opposite of himself.
The Earth became waste.
And empty.
Now the best way to interpret scripture is by scripture.
There's two other places in the in the Old Testament where these two Hebrew words tohu and bohu, waste and empty, without form and void, are found together.
They both describe this Earth as a result of judgment.
So we would conclude from that since the other two uses of those two words that the Spirit of God uses to describe first of all the land of Edom.
As a result of judgment and the next Jerusalem, and we'll look at those two passages in a moment. Jerusalem as a result of judgment. He uses those two words to describe the waste and desolate condition of the earth after judgment came upon it.
That leads me to conclude that when the earth is described here as Tohu and Bohu without form and void or waste and empty, it's a result of judgment. Another reason it says darkness was upon the face of the deep. Now God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all. And when he created the universe, he did not create this planet Earth, that was to be the central platform.
Upon which he would unfold all his purposes and counsels. They would all be realized and fulfilled.
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In this world, he would send his son to this planet. He would die on a cross in this place. The old timers used to say that the earth was the center of the universe. Well, I believe they were right. The earth is the center of the universe because that's where God came.
And became a man. And that's where he's accomplishing his eternal purposes, right here on planet Earth. They've sent probes to Mercury and to Venus and to Mars and and planets farther out in our solar system. None of them will sustain life. None of them have any water. None of them are in any condition where water can exist in a liquid state. And yet planet Earth is 3/4.
Water.
On the surface.
Where did that come from?
God, the only answer to that question.
God evolution can't answer these questions.
These are questions the evolutionists can just stab at. That is the most stupid, idiotic, ridiculous theory that man has ever come up with.
And if there were stronger words to describe it, I'd use them.
And yet, why does man grasp at something like that? The evolutionist knows that, he's honest about it, that that theory that Darwin propounded is nonsense.
And it's an impossibility. You can prove it statistically that it's impossibility.
That.
This ordered scene that we see.
Just imagine an explosion happening in this building last night and you come in and you see everything in perfect order, all the chairs lined up and everything.
Nonsense.
And yet man would rather believe that than this book.
You see if.
This book, if Genesis, can be discredited.
Then you can't believe any part of the Bible. After all, if if it's all supposed to be the word of God, and you can discredit a part of it, then you've succeeded in taking away the only absolute source of truth that man has.
And that's what they've done. That's what Satan has done. He's got into our school systems. And he is, he's he's done what Adolf Hitler said. Tell a lie often enough. Just tell it often enough, over and over again. And finally it will be believed.
And that's what many have done. I'll never forget when I was first saved.
I had been told with such positiveness of assertion by the professors and the teachers in school, that evolution is an established scientific fact.
And I was afraid. I was afraid to to look into it.
For fear that it would damage and destroy my faith in the Bible.
I'll never forget the tremendous relief that I experienced when I did look into it because I'm the kind of person that must look into it. I can't not look into something like that. And when I looked into it, I just said Phew.
There's nothing to it.
Absolutely nonsense.
Absolute nonsense.
This chapter, young people, anyone of us, you can count upon it. What God has told. He hasn't told us all the answers, but He's told us enough here. First of all, we know from this chapter that the universe had a beginning, and the one that began it was God himself.
Not an explosion.
Nothing like that.
But God, who ordered it? And then that the earth has gone through some very serious judgments. It's been covered with water two times.
2 The earth was covered with water, completely enveloped in water, the waters of judgment and the flood. Now we know that the flood, when the flood covered the waters, the earth with water, we know that was a result of judgment.
Water speaks of judgment, oftentimes in Scripture. Not always, but here it does. And it was darkness.
Covering the face of the deep.
And then God, the Holy Spirit. It's interesting, isn't it, that the 1:00 we call the third person of the Trinity the Spirit of God. He's the first person mentioned here. Of course, the word God includes all three persons, but he's the first person singled out. The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Now God is going to, he's going to reform this scene that had come under the judgment of God, and I believe that.
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Planet Earth was Satan's home.
Before he fell.
And as a result of his fall?
Verse 2.
The waste and empty condition that without form and void state was the result of his fall.
I don't know what else it could have been.
I know that the angels existed before the earth was created because Job tells us that when the earth was created, when God laid the foundations of the world, the morning stars sang together and the sons of God shouted for joy. And the sons of God are angels, so they were there at the creation of the world.
And I believe that Satan is so interested in this planet that when man was created and placed on it and made the head of it, Satan became intensely jealous.
That's the position he wanted. He wanted to be the head over all these things. He was the highest created being. I believe in the angelic world.
And he aspired after something higher. He saw 11 above him. That was God.
And that's the very temptation that he leveled at Eve. Ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil. That's what he fell aspiring after. And so that's what he did here to ruin this, this recreation, this remaking of the earth for man's habitation. And that's what we have from verse 3 on.
Turn to Isaiah 34.
Where we have these two words.
Tohu and Bohu waste and empty, without form and void.
They're translated a little differently in our King James, but if you use the Darby translation you'll see it's waste and empty.
Let's start at verse 5. He's talking about the indignation of the Lord upon all nations, verse 2, and his fury upon all their armies. He hath read verse 2. I'll start from there. He hath utterly destroyed them. He hath delivered them to the slaughter. They're slain also, shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
And all the hosts of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll, and all their hosts shall fall down, as the leaf faileth falleth from off the vine, and as the fig tree, the falling fig from the fig tree. And my sword shall be bathed in heaven. Behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse to judgment. So he's talking about judgment upon Edom, the descendants of Esau.
The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of Rams. For the Lord hath the sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea. That's Edom.
And the Unicorn shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls, and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance.
And the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion. And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. It shall not be quenched night nor day. The smoke thereof shall go up forever from generation to generation. It shall lie waste. None shall pass through it forever and ever. Now here's the verse that has those two Hebrew words in it.
But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it, the owl also, and the Raven.
Shall dwell in it, he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion. Now they translated that word to which is without form in Genesis 1-2, in the King James and waste. In Darby's translation they translated it the line of confusion.
And the stones of emptiness, waste and empty. There are the two Hebrew words.
Tohu and Bohu. Now they are used here by the Spirit of God to describe the result of the land of Edom after judgment had fallen upon it. Now turn to Jeremiah chapter 4.
Where you have.
Jerusalem spoken of.
I'm not going for the sake of saving some time. I'm not going to read the entire chapter. It's interesting that these two passages, the one is Edom, which is the descendants of Esau, and the other is Jerusalem, which is the descendants of Jacob.
And the judgment of God falling upon these two places.
All right, let's.
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Let's start in Jeremiah 4.
Verse 19 The judgment was going to fall upon Jerusalem, and Jeremiah is feeling it in his soul very deeply. He says, My bowels, my bowels, I am pained at my very heart. My heart maketh the noise in me. I cannot hold my peace because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. Here's that approaching army which is going to raise the city.
Lay it, level it. Destruction upon destruction is cried for. The whole land is spoiled suddenly.
Are my tents spoiled? And my curtains In a moment? That's the tent that the temple. How long shall I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet? For my people is foolish. They have not known me. They are sottish children, and they have none. Understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. Now here's the verse. It sounds just like Genesis 1/2. I beheld the earth, and lo, it was without form.
And void and the heavens, and they had no light.
So with darkness covered the face of the deep, I beheld the mountains, and though they trembled and all the hills moved lightly. Now that's not describing Genesis 1-2 because it was totally encased in water, but it's describing the the waste and emptying the without form and void state of earth after judgment fell here.
I beheld, and lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled, while there were no men and there were no birds of the heaven in Genesis 1-2 But he's describing this awful place. I beheld, and lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord by His fierce anger.
For thus saith the Lord said, The whole land shall be desolate. Yet will I not make a full end? All right, we have these two passages where the only time these two Hebrew words are put together, and they describe judgment on Edom and judgment on Jerusalem. Now go back to Isaiah 45, where just the first word, waste or without form is used.
And to see what it says about it, verse 18, Isaiah 45.
For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens, God himself that formed the earth and made it, He hath established it. He created it not in vain. That's the same word as Tohu or Darby, has it. He created it not as waste.
He formed it to be inhabited. I am the Lord, and there is none else. So this verse tells me tells us that He didn't create it in the state described in Genesis 1/2. It was created perfect. Genesis 11.
The heavens and the earth, that was the original creation, the heavens, the universe, and the earth. And then it describes the condition the earth was reduced into as a result of judgment. Now there's a verse in the New Testament that is very confirming to what I am saying. Turn to it in Two Corinthians chapter 4.
2nd Corinthians, chapter 4.
And verse 6.
Now the second verse of Genesis 1 Says that the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And then verse 3 says God said, let there be light.
And there was light. Now that was the physical condition of planet earth. And then God brought it, brought in light. That was the first thing that he did. Now in Genesis, in the Second Corinthians 46, he's referring back to that and applying it in a spiritual sense to man.
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, that's an illusion to Genesis 1 verses 2 and 3 hath shined in our hearts.
To give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
God shined into our hearts. We were once darkness.
We walked in darkness.
We were darkness itself.
But now we are light in the Lord.
Was man created in darkness?
Was he created a fallen being?
Absolutely not. He was created perfect, innocent, without sin.
How did he get into the darkened state from which God has saved us, when he said to my soul and to your soul, let there be light?
But got in the light of the gospel is presented to you. And then he says, let there be light.
And we understood the gospel and we believed it, and we received it. We were once darkness, were now light in the Lord.
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This earth was once darkness, but now God says let there be light and it's bathed in light. But it wasn't created that way. Man wasn't created that way. I presented that argument to a brother and he said that's proof by analogy. I said as it is.
Proof by analogy. In fact, he's using the physical state of the earth and how God came in and brought light in when it was dark.
To describe our moral and spiritual state and how God spoke to us. Light out of darkness brought us into His marvelous light.
So going back to Genesis 1 now.
Has spent a good deal of time on it because the creation research people, though they've done a lot of good and refuting the evolutionists, they do not see that verse 2 of Genesis 1 as a result of judgment.
And they think day one started with verse one and it didn't.
Day one is the reef making of Earth.
After it had fallen into judgment, God remaking it just like he did with your soul and mind. After we had fallen were fallen creatures. Then God came in, and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters in our soul. And God said, let there be light, and there was light, and we were born again.
And so this Earth now is going to be born again. In that sense, God's going to rework it.
We're not told very much about its original condition, except from these passages we've looked at. We know that verse 2 does not describe Earth's original condition.
The result of judgment, I believe. The fall of Satan.
In the book of Job, I don't know if I referred to you to this, the Lord asks Satan, where have you been? And he says, from walking up and down and to and fro through the earth. Why is he so interested in this scene?
Well, I believe as I said before, I believe it was his home once and he's intensely.
Jealous of man because God put man as head of this scene and he tried to spoil it.
And he presented that.
Fruit, that tree that God had said, Ye shall not eat of it.
Lest you die.
She saw it was good for food. It was pleasant to the eyes, less to the flesh lest to the eyes, and a tree desired to make one wise the pride of life. And she took it and gave it to her husband. She should have stood back and said, here's Adam, he'll talk to you about this. But she didn't, and Adam evidently allowed it, and she handed it to him who was with her. It says.
That's in the third chapter.
Well, he tried the same stunts, he tried the same temptations on the Lord Jesus the second man, and failed.
The same temptations and failed, except the difference was when Satan tempted Adam and Eve, they were in a state of evil. They were in a state of paradise. Everything was perfect.
When he tempted the Lord, everything was imperfect and sinful.
And yet that Blessed One withstood the temptation as perfect man.
And.
God is going to place this whole scene under His headship and authority.
Well.
The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Verse 3 now and God said, let there be light.
And there was light. I envisioned that when he said let there be light, this whole planet was bathed in light.
The whole planet.
It was prior to that, bathed in darkness.
And God saw the light that it was good.
Now the second thing that he did on that first day is that God divided.
The light from the darkness.
And God called the light day, and the darkness he called night.
And the evening in the morning were the first day. That's a 24 hour day. It's not any great long period of time. That's that's falling into the evolutionary idea. No, it was just a 24 hour day.
God divided the light from the darkness. Keep that in mind. So that part of it was in light and then part of it was in darkness. And, and we know, we can say scientifically what we know. He, he just started the earth spinning maybe. And that's the way we get the light and darkness. That's the way we would interpret it today. We're not told how he did it. We don't have to know how he did it.
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We tend to limit God and judge God by what we think we know of the universe.
And he's the one that created it all.
He's the one that said everything in motion.
So we should stop telling him what happened. He tells us what happened.
And he just tells us enough that we need to know. He doesn't give us every detail, doesn't give us every specific, uh.
Detail all right, the first day. Now the second day, verse 6. And God said, let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. And it was so.
And God called the firmament heaven. Evening in the morning were the second day. So now there's an atmosphere. Waters above the firmament, the expanse, waters below it.
Before that, there wasn't just the earth bathed in water, engulfed in water, in darkness.
Confusion.
Desolate condition of things.
And now he creates an atmosphere.
Still, the Lawton stood. You're still covered in water the end of the second day.
And God called the firmament heaven. Now in the first verse he uses the word heaven in two ways in this chapter. In the first verse, the heavens refer to the the universe.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, all the stars and galaxies and everything but here the firmament above the expanse.
The waters above the expanse is called heaven.
And evening in the morning were the second day. So that's a secondary use of the word heaven.
Now the third day. And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear.
And it was so verse 11. And God said, let the earth bring forth grass.
The herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit. After his kindness. First mention of this, this expression that occurs over and over again after his kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth. And it was so. Now who put the seed in the plant so that it would reproduce itself?
How did in the evolutionary nonsense? How did the seed get in there?
So that it would continue.
Well, of course that's nonsense. The creator put it there.
As you read this and as you think of the order of things and everything that we see around us, we have to say, God Dang it.
God did it and the more the more you study these things and you study the.
The uh.
Just life.
You can. The scientists can take a kernel of corn.
And can put it through all the tests that they put it through, and they find out exactly what the chemical composition of that kernel corn is. And they can make one exactly like it, all the chemicals and everything, and they can plant it.
Nothing will ever happen.
Because it doesn't have life.
Man cannot create life.
He can duplicate exactly what God has done chemically.
And materially.
But he cannot put that principle of life in it.
That only God can do.
Evolution can't explain that.
It can't explain 1000 questions that come up.
The answer that we have to anyone that asks about them is God did it.
The infinite God.
Let the earth bring forth grass, verse 11 The herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth. And it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit whose seed was in itself after his kind, And God saw that it was good.
An evening in the morning were the third day. Now if I was writing Genesis 1, knowing how our solar system works and that the earth spins around the rotates around the sun and and so on, we get our day and night by the earth spinning and so on, I would never have put the 4th day where it is.
I don't know how to put that first.
And that's not the way it reads.
Verse 14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night.
And let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years.
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And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth. And it was so.
And God made now notice the word made in contrast with verse one God created. Now we can't create anything in the absolute sense. We cannot bring something into existence that had no prior existence. We can make things. Someone made this podium here out of wood that existed. They made it.
This microphone was made out of existing materials, but only God can create.
So this is not the creation of the sun, the moon and the stars, but it's making them to perform a function to be set in place with respect to the earth, to perform a function which they had not previously been performing. At least that's the way I would read it. Let's carefully read it again, verse 14. God said let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years and.
For lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth. And it was so Now that implies to me that prior to this day, they weren't performing that function.
And God made 2 great lights, the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also, and God set them. You see, this is not their original creation, that was verse one. This is their being set with respect to this earth to perform the function that they've been performing ever since.
And of course, science says that's always the way it was. Well, they don't know.
That's their supposition.
God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, to rule over the day and over the night. And to do what? To divide the light from the darkness. Well, that's what God did. Look at verse 4. God saw the light. This is the first day God saw the light, that it was good. And God divided the light from the darkness. He divided the light from the darkness on day one. He delighted. He did it on day two. He did it on day three. Now on day four, He assigns that.
Function to the sun and the moon and the stars, he says. Now you do it the evening. In the morning were the 4th day.
Well, I can see if anyone's got a thinking about this they can start wondering how did is this possible.
That was only 6000 years ago.
Some millions of years ago.
There's no problem for God.
God is infinite.
Again, our puny minds tend to limit him by the way we think. It had to be.
I'm just trying to explain from what I gather from the word of God how he did it.
Verse 20 now and God said let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of the heaven and God created great whales and I believe the word created is used here is because he didn't make them out of some substance that already existed. He did the birds, he did the the animals he did the man created man out the dust of the ground. The same with the animals and so.
He's spoken of as being made.
But here the sea animals God created great whales in every living thing that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind.
And then he adds in every winged fowl after his kind, and saw that it was good.
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. And the evening in the morning were the 5th day.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth a living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind, And it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, And God saw that it was good.
Now look at the 2nd chapter, the 19th verse and you'll see how God made them out of the ground. The Lord God formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the air and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them. So they were made from previously existing material. So the word made is used.
Now we come to the crown, the crowning part of His creation. Here both words, created and made, are used with respect to man, and we'll see why in a moment.
This is the 6th day and he's leading up to this. Everything has been prepared. First of all, he he didn't create light.
God said, let there be light.
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Nowhere in Scripture is light spoken of as being created.
God is light.
It says in Isaiah 45 he forms the light, creates darkness.
He brings evil and creates. He brings good and creates evil.
Disaster like what happened, what happened in these tornadoes and that that's that's called evil in scripture. It's a catastrophe.
Not moral evil, it's physical evil.
But.
Let's read on.
God said let us make man in our image.
Here the whole Trinity is speaking.
After our likeness.
Being in the image of God, man was set here to represent God.
And being in his likeness, he was created sinless.
Without sin.
He wasn't created dark.
Or under judgment, he was created perfect.
But the Lord's humanity was holy.
Adams was innocent. That's the difference. Innocence is without sin, but capable of sinning. Holiness is without sin and incapable of sinning. That's the difference between Christ's humanity and Adam's before the Fall. And what you and I partake of is sinful humanity.
And so the Lord says, we must be born again.
Let us make man in our image after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fall of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in His own image.
In the image of God created he him.
Male and female created he them. That's the only reference in chapter 1 of the male and the female.
Just prior. Otherwise it just says.
The 2nd chapter tells us the specifics.
That he wants us to know how the female was created.
Why does it say created? Well in verse 7 of chapter 2 we read and the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and that's why it says he was made.
And breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, the spirit of life. And man became a living soul and never dying soul. Man has a soul which will never die. When the animals die, their soul dies.
It's not necessary to have a funeral over an animal.
I know some people do it.
But that's just sentimental nonsense. The animal dies, the soul dies.
It ceases to exist. Not so many you have a funeral over man because.
His soul, his spirit.
Yvonne, a part of man that dies, is the body.
And that's what the resurrection corrects. We're going to have a new body, a resurrection body.
And so it says in verse 27, so God created man.
In his own image he breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. He was created. He had a created spirit and soul totally different than that of the animal. Animal doesn't have a spirit, has no God consciousness.
But man has.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, and the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed to you, it shall be for meat.
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat. And it was so.
And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.
Adam was created in a state that is described as being very good.
No sin in here.
Perfect.
And so was the earth created that way, but the only state of the earth described it was not very good. Is verse 2.
And that's the result.
Of judgment.
The evening in the morning where the 6th day thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the hosts of them. But on the and on the 7th day God ended his work which he had made. And he rested on the 7th day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the 7th day and sanctified it because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. There you have the 2 words used some of them some fall under the term created in the others under the term made.
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There's no evening and morning where the 7th day. Why's that? Because it's I think it points on to the eternal rest of God.
He rested.
And God has prepared a rest for the people of God. That's the eternal state, isn't it?
There's no beginning to that. There's no end to that. It's God's rest, and we're going to enter into it in that coming day.
180 We've been talking a lot about earth. This tells us that our home is going to be in heaven. 180 Someone raised the tomb.
Genssis 2 Part 2 of 3
Address—C. Hendricks
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Genesis chapter 2 and verse 4. These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth.
When they were created in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew.
For the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth.
And there was not a man to till the ground.
But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
And a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from fence it was parted and became into 4 heads.
The name of the first is Python, that is it, which compasses the whole land of Havilah, where there's gold.
And the gold of that land is good.
There is Delium and the Onyx stone, and the name of the second river is.
Guyhan the same as it that compasses the whole land of Ethiopia.
In the name of the third river is Hidicall, that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria, and the fourth river is Euphrates.
And the Lord God took the man and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat.
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die.
And the Lord God said it is not good that the man should be alone, I will make him in help meet for him.
And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air, and brought them unto Adam, to see what he would call them.
And whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found in help.
Meet for him.
And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept.
And he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the rib which the Lord God had taken from man made he a woman.
And brought her unto the man.
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman.
Because she was taken out of man.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be 1 flesh.
And they were both naked, the man and his wife and were not ashamed we were noticing last night.
In taking up the 1St chapter and just quickly go over it, the first verse is the original creation God created in the beginning, the heavens and the earth.
The heavens, the universe, all the stars, galaxies, constellations, and then the earth is singled out and the next verse describes the earth in a in a state of ruin, not as originally created by God. We have, we have no record, no indication in the Word of God how much time elapsed between verses 1 and 2, verse one being the original creation of perfection.
And verse 2, results of judgment.
I I believe that planet Earth was Satans home at one time and when he fell, the judgment fell upon this scene.
And that second verse describes that judgment. We looked at that in quite a bit of detail last night. The earth was without form and void. 2 Hebrew words are used there. They're used in two other places in Isaiah 34. It's about Edom, the land of Edom, after this destroying army came through and leveled the place. And it describes that as waste and empty or without form And void uses different words than that in our King James, but those are the words that the Spirit of God used.
In the Hebrew language, and then in Jeremiah 4 we have it described of Jerusalem. It's interesting that Edom are the descendants of Esau and Jerusalem the descendants of Jacob. And those are the 2 That are described as Tohu and Bohu, waste and empty, without form and void. Same 2 words.
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I believe the only correct way of interpreting scriptures by scripture itself and not by pseudoscience or anything outside of the scripture realm.
Scripture teaches very clearly that the earth wasn't created in the condition described in verse 2.
That's the result of judgment. The earth was or became could be translated that way. It is translated that way in the connection with Lot's wife. She became a pillar of salt, exactly the same Hebrew word.
The earth became without form and void as legitimate waste and empty and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Two time in the history of this world it's been underwater, completely enclosed in water. Genesis 1/2 and the flood. The flood.
And then verse.
3 is day one the beginning of day one?
And God said, let there be light, and there was light. God now moves upon this judged scene and he's going to reform it and remake it for man's dwelling.
And the first thing is, God said, let there be light.
I didn't bring this out last night.
And I want to bring it out. Revelation 21.
In Revelation 21 and verse 23.
It says the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
We are used to thinking of the sun as being the source of light for planet Earth. It wasn't in day one, it was God himself.
God said let there be light, there was life. It wasn't until the 4th day that God set the earth. God set the the sun and the moon and the stars in a relationship to earth to perform the function that he'd been performing. It would appear from Genesis one for the first three days.
And in the coming day, it starts out as God is the light, and it ends up in Revelation that God is the light. He does not need the sun.
That's just one of his creation, and it's a very small one, by the way, compared with some other stars that we're told are much, much, much larger.
But the infinite, the infinite God.
They are nothing to him.
We often tend to judge God by our own puny thoughts, and that's a mistake.
God is infinitely above.
Our highest thoughts.
God said, let there be light, and there was light.
And it says in verse.
At the end of verse 4, God divided the light from the darkness.
He bathed this world in light, and then he divides the light from the darkness. The light he calls day, the darkness he calls night. The evening and the morning were the first day in the 4th day, if we look on to that for a moment.
God said verse 14, let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night, and let them be for signs and seasons and days and years.
And again in verse 17, God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness.
So what God did the first three days He divided the light from the darkness, and these days are 24 hour days. He now assigns to the sun, the moon and the stars to do from the 4th day onwards.
That's the way it seems to read, and that's I'm trying to interpret this exactly from scripture, not bring in any science or pseudoscience because I don't trust it.
I trust this book.
The big important thing is that we interpret it correctly.
And then he made the atmosphere on the second day, but the waters above the expanse and the waters below.
And that was an atmosphere. Didn't have an atmosphere before that.
Then on the third day he made the dry land appear. He called the heavens above heaven, and he called the dry land earth. A secondary use of the words heaven and earth.
Primary use is in verses 1 and 2.
And then the 4th day he brings the he doesn't. It doesn't say he created the sun, the moon and the stars on the 4th day. You know he did that on the first verse. In the first verse it says he made them. He made them to perform a specific function with respect to this planet, with with respect to Earth. The old timers used to say the Earth was the center of the universe, and I think they were right.
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Because the Son of God came to planet Earth. He didn't come anyplace else. They've sent probes to all of the planets revolving around our sun, and there's not one that has. It is even remotely close to sustaining life as we know it on planet Earth.
Water cannot exist in any of them in a liquid state, only planet Earth, and it has a copious supply of water.
Who put it there?
God did.
And the more you search into these things, the more you see the the awesomeness and the majesty and the greatness of God and the wisdom of God.
There's three questions that the evolutionists cannot answer. Many questions, but three in particular. Where did we come from?
Why are we here and where are we going?
This book is the only book in existence that answers those three questions with authority.
From God himself.
We came from God.
As just as he describes it here now, he hasn't given us every detail, He hasn't answered every question that might arise from our human curiosity, but he's given us enough.
So that we can know.
Our beginning.
And if we read the book?
How we should live.
During this brief span of time.
And where we're going?
Then we have the the plants being brought forth.
The trees and so on.
And the the sea creatures created.
And the foul multiplying in the heavens.
The 5th day.
And then the land animals being made spoken of as being made because they were. They were made out of the dust, just like man was.
A difference between created and made. I made that distinction last night. God only can create where there's nothing there before He creates out of himself, He spake and it was done. He commanded and it stood fast. By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God.
God just spoke the universe into existence.
It's hard to even envision a God so great as this, but that's our God.
And then God said, let the earth bring forth.
The living creature. Living soul. Every time you read creature in this chapter, it's soul. Living soul. The animals have a soul. They don't have a spirit like man does.
But they have a soul. The plants don't have a soul.
They have a body and a life, but they don't have a soul.
So there's no point in speaking to your plants. They don't have a soul.
But your animals you can speak to. They have a soul.
They can show love and affection and anger, so on.
But man is beyond them all. He has a spirit.
And we're told that he was created. He was made because he was made of the dust of the ground like the animals, but he was created in a special, unique way.
With a spirit. With a soul that never dies. When an animal dies, its soul dies.
No point in having a funeral over an animal. It's gone.
But man will live forever.
His spirit and soul would go on forever. That's what makes it so, so infinitely solemn when we think of man, his destiny. He's going to spend eternity either in God's presence or in the outer darkness.
Very solemn thing.
So God created man verse 27 in his own image, in the image of God created him male and female created he them. Now that's the only verse that talks about the male and the female. It doesn't tell us how he did that.
It just mentions that he did it.
So what this chapter has has done, it's answered the question where we came from. We came from God.
He created us, He spoke, and in it was done.
And there's an expression that occurs all the way through Genesis 1, and that is after its kind, after its kind.
I said to farmer when I was at home, I said when you plant your corn in the spring, when are you going to get your your crop and what will it be like? And he said, well, I don't know. I'll have to wait to see what it's like. I'm not sure it'll be corn. It might be something else. He doesn't say that.
He knows it's going to be corn, but it's going to produce after its kind. Just that expression itself refutes totally evolution.
Evolution is a change from one thing into another into another.
No, that can't be. Everything is after its kind.
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You made 2 cats, you're going to get a cat, You're not going to get a dog. You made two dogs, you're going to get a dog. And so on after its kind.
That's an expression that refutes the ridiculous.
Theory. No, I shouldn't call it a theory. It's not a theory. A theory is something that can be tested, improved, that can't be tested. I can't even call in a hypothesis because that's an educated guess, because that's not even an educated guess.
Evolution.
It's absurd and ridiculous.
And it's the product of a mind that will not have God in his life and will not submit to God. The fool has said in his heart, no God for me.
And he's the one that's come up with that awful.
Soul destroying theory of evolution.
Idea.
They won't have the truth, so they're going to believe a lie, and it's the lie. And it has been the most successful when the Communists got together and said, how can we brainwash our youth so as to rid them from this servile attitude toward God and say we'll present to them evolution?
That was what they used to brainwash them, to make them to believe there's no God. These two portions, these two chapters in Genesis 1 and the remaining few are the most vital chapters in the Bible because Satan has attacked them so strongly trying to get someone to say, well, the story of creation as it's presented in the Bible is a fairy story. It's not true.
And therefore you can't believe anything that's in the Bible.
That's the conclusion that they draw from that.
You see, if Genesis is not correct, then you can't believe what the Lord Jesus said. Let's look for a minute in Matthew 19.
Matthew 19.
Verse 3.
The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
And he answered and said unto them, Had he not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female?
And said For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they twain shall be 1 flesh.
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh.
But therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
They say unto him, Why then did Moses command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? He saith unto them, Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, suffered you to put away your wives. But from the beginning it was not so.
And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except to be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery, and whosoever marieth her that is put away that commit adultery. It's interesting that all of the teachings beginning with the Lord Himself referring to the relationship between man and the woman is comes right back to Genesis 1 and 2.
That's the basis for the teachings that we get in the New Testament. Look at the Ephesians 5.
Where we have the Apostle Paul.
Ephesians 5 where we have the marriage relationship.
Spoken of so beautifully.
Verse 28 says so. Ought men to love their wives as their own bodies?
He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
We're going to get to the Genesis 2 later and to see how that Eve was.
Part of Adam. She was not a separate creation like the animals from the dust, but she came right from Adam's side, intimately connected with Adam.
And this is referring to that to love what your wife is to love yourself was literally so with Adam and Eve, for no man ever yet hated his own flesh.
But nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord, the Church.
For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
That's a very quote from Genesis 2.
In some of the modern translations.
That verse just reads we are members of his body and the leaves out the last part which should not be left out of his flesh and of his bones because it's referring back to the first married couple, a type of Christ in the church.
For this cause shall a man leave, his father and mother shall be joined unto his wife, and they too shall be 1 flesh.
This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ in the church, and what that tells us is that what we're reading in Genesis is a type of something. It was a picture of something, Adam and Eve, a picture of Christ in the church, the most beautiful type we have in all of Scripture before sin had entered the human family.
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We get that.
I'm not going to turn to it now. We might get to it later. First Timothy 2.
Speaks of the woman's place.
And it goes right back to Genesis one and two in the instructions. First Corinthians 11, the place of the woman being subjected to the man and wearing a head covering goes right back to Adam being created 1St and then the woman. The reason always goes back to the very beginning. You see, you throw out Genesis 1 and 2 and you've destroyed the entire Bible.
Because it all stands or falls together. You've seen a child build something with blocks in this beautiful thing, and then they'll pull one block out near the bottom, and what happens? The whole thing falls. The whole thing crumbles.
You cannot do away with any part of Scripture, especially Genesis. I shouldn't just say especially any part because it's all given of God. OK, let's go back to Genesis 2 now.
The 7th day doesn't have an evening in the morning because I believe it's a picture. It's the day of God's rest. I believe it's a picture of the rest of God, the eternal state.
And there's no end to it.
And we will enter into it shortly. Now, verse 4.
Of Genesis 2.
These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth, when they were created in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth.
That answers some of the questions that have been posed. Were these things in the earth before and they just came up? No, this says before it was in the earth he made every plant of the field and every herb of the field before it grew.
For the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground.
And breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.
And man became a living soul, a never dying soul.
He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.
And man became a living soul. Now that's not true of any of his other creation. This was man.
Created in his image and likeness. He was like God. He was morally perfect without sin.
And he was God's representative here.
Adam's humanity was in the state of innocency.
Without sin, but capable of sinning.
Christ's humanity was in a state of holiness, without sin and incapable of sinning.
Our humanity, the state in which it is, is a sinful 1.
And that's why we need to be born again.
To enter into that new state of things which is holy.
John describes the new man as he that is born of God cannot sin, for his seed remaineth in him, and he cannot sin because he is born of God.
In the new life.
We cannot sin if we can't sin in the new life. Obviously, neither could he.
Our blessed Lord.
Let's look at the other passage of Scripture, the only other passage where we have the deity breathing into man's nostrils. John 20.
John 20.
In resurrection the blessed Lord appears to them. Verse 19 and the same day at evening.
Being the first day of the week when the doors were shut, where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews.
Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
He imparts to them the fruit of the work that he had accomplished on the cross. He made peace by the blood of his cross, and now he communicates that peace to them.
And when he had so said, he showed them his hands in his side.
And then were the disciples glad when they saw the Lord. Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you this time, not for them, but for others. They were to be the bearers of the message of peace to a lost world. As my Father hath sent me, Even so send I you.
First piece for themselves and then they communicate that.
Peace to the world.
And then it says when he had said this, he breathed on them in the power of what life would they do this?
Verse 22 He breathed on them and saith unto them, Receive ye Holy Ghost, the article isn't there.
Receive ye Holy Ghost.
John First Corinthians 15 says Adam was made a living soul, Christ a quickening spirit, and here he is a resurrected man, the same Jehovah God that breathed into Adam's nostrils the breath of life now as a risen man.
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Nonetheless, Jehovah God he breathes into.
The disciples.
His resurrection life.
Associates them in resurrection life with him as the risen man, having gone through the article of death, rising from the dead. And now he appears to them and communicates to them that life which cannot be tainted by sin, absolutely holy.
His resurrection life.
In the power of the Holy Spirit.
Well, what we have going back to Genesis 2, what we have is a little picture of that in connection with the first man, the Lord God verse 7 formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. That could be translated the spirit of life.
And man became a living soul.
Life giving soul, a soul that.
Will never die.
And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden.
And there he put the man whom he had formed.
In verse 15, I'm going to Passover some verses just to show you the connection. Verse 15, the Lord God took the man and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. So verse 15 picks up from where verse 8 left off.
Verse 8 Again the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
And then we have.
Other things described here out of the ground. May the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
And a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from thence it was parted, and became into 4 heads.
Now in the.
In the third day when the dry land appeared.
Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place. Let the dry land appear. And it was so. That was before God divided the earth.
And I envision it as one land mass and then the rest surrounded with water.
That seems to be what happened.
And then later there were the continents made, and there was the dividing of the earth.
But much of that is in.
In sort of mystery, we don't have all the details of that.
God set.
God, said Adam.
Someplace in the middle of this land mass, probably.
And it didn't extend all the way around the world. It was in one place.
And so there were four rivers that went out to to the east, and to the West, and to the north and to the South. In other words, the the refreshment and the blessing flowed out from Edom to water the whole earth.
The river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from thence it was parted and became into 4 heads.
Source of refreshment. We saw in Genesis 1/2 The waters of judgment that had come and destroyed whatever was there before.
And now we have the waters of blessing flowing out from the earthly paradise. I was struck this morning when the Lord said to the one thief on the cross who repented and said, Lord, Remember Me with an outcomes into thy Kingdom. He said, today thou shalt be with me in paradise. And whether this Garden of Eden was paradise, It was paradise here on earth and he was going to.
Meet him, take him there to the paradise which is above.
What was lost by man's sin has been more than regained by the Lord Jesus. Far more.
They came into 4 heads. The name of the first is Pisan. That is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold, and then the gold of that land is good.
There's Dallium and the Onyx stone, and the name of the second river is Gahan, the same as it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. In the name of the third river is Hiddekel. I think that's the Tigris.
That is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria and the fourth river is Euphrates. That that pretty well at least we know where two of the rivers are. That kind of identifies where the Garden of Eden was, where the beginning of civilization.
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Took place.
I don't have much to say on the meaning of some of these names.
The goal speaks of divine righteousness and.
God setting things according to his own nature.
And then verse 15, the Lord God took the man and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat. Now this is before. Evidently this is before he created the woman.
Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it.
For in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely.
Die now. There was nothing evil about that, That fruit, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
It was.
Prohibited to them.
To put man under the test of responsibility to his Creator.
Would he abstain from that which the Lord said don't eat it?
That was the only restriction. He had the run of the garden, and it said at the end of the first chapter, all that the Lord had made was very good. So there was nothing evil in that garden. The fruit of that tree was not evil. I've heard some very fanciful interpretations of it.
As I won't even repeat them, but there was nothing wrong with that fruit.
The only thing that they shouldn't, the reason they shouldn't take it and he did, is because God said not to.
Not that it was bad in itself.
But he was under obedience. He was under a law.
One law don't eat that fruit now, we read.
And the Lord God said it is not good.
That the man should be alone.
I will make him an helper.
Suitable for him.
We often read that as a helpmeet. You can read it as a helpmate.
His counterpart, Mr. Darby has it in his note. His counterpart, she supplements him. She is not inferior to him.
She is to be alongside of him as his helper.
As his counterpart.
It's not good that the man should be alone, the Lord says.
I will make him an helper suitable for him.
And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air, and brought them unto Adam, to see what he would call them.
And whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found in help.
Suitable for him.
And so now he's going to create woman. He doesn't create her like he did the animals out of the dust like he did Adam.
But it's a unique thing now. This is the only book that tells us how he did it.
It's a beautiful type. Christ in the church. He caused Adam to fall into a deep sleep. Picture of the death of Christ. Of course in type, this is all before sin entered. Sin doesn't come in until the next chapter.
This is before sin came into the world.
The Lord God caused the deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept.
And he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh instead thereof.
And the rib which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman.
And brought her unto the man.
And Adam said this is now bone of my bones.
And flesh of my flesh. That's the verse that's quoted in Ephesians 5. Connection with the church.
She was by creation, part of him.
Bone of his bones and flesh of his flesh.
She shall be called woman.
Because she was taken out of man.
And then we have the application that the Lord referred to in Matthew. There therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife.
And they shall be 1 flesh.
And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
They were one flesh by creation. Because she was created from Him, She was of Him.
And that's referred to in the New Testament. We'll look at that if we have time.
That they were in a state of innocency, so they were both naked and were not ashamed.
In a state of innocent innocency, there's there's no sin there. There's nothing that is shameful about it.
After man fell into sin, he immediately wanted to clothe himself.
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Cover up the shame of his nakedness.
Because to in a fallen condition, it is a shame.
We're living in a day when man is glorying in his shame today.
Exposing his nakedness.
The very thing that should be covered now that we are sinners. But they weren't sinners.
And to appeal to that verse as justification for what is going on today, the nakedness today of the women in society especially.
Is to totally miss the teachings of the passage. We're not in a state of innocency today, a state of sin.
And so there are body parts that ought to be covered.
And not exposed.
Now we come to the third chapter and.
This book answers all these questions. Where did sin come from? How did man get into the condition that he is in now if he was put in this, in this paradise where everything was according to God and pleasing to God with only one restriction, only one restriction, they could have eaten of any fruit in the garden with no problem. And there wasn't anything wrong with the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, except God said don't eat of it.
They were under the restriction of God.
Sometimes say your mother will cook, make some cookies and she'll put them on a shelf and she'll say to her children, don't take one.
Now, there's nothing wrong with those cookies. They're perfectly good.
But she said not to.
So when they do it, they go against her commandment. And that's the way it was in the Garden of Eden, of course.
This is before sin had entered. Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
And the woman said unto the serpent.
Now she wasn't there.
She wasn't created yet when the Lord gave Adam those instructions, so she had to get them from Adam.
The woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, Ye shall not eat of it. Now she adds something that the Lord hadn't said this neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Now she should have stepped back.
And said, just a minute, I'll let you talk to my husband.
But she didn't.
He attacked the weaker vessel and she was deceived.
Paul tells us that in First Timothy she was deceived and Adam wasn't his. He went ahead with his eyes wide open.
So she takes the lead and he lets her.
The serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die now, direct contradiction to what God said.
He is a liar and the father of lies.
For God doth know not only does he contradict what God said, he's getting her to suspect that God is withholding something good from her.
God doth know that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil.
That's true.
Except he didn't tell her that you'll never have any power to choose the good, but only the evil.
You come under the power of that evil because of disobedience.
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food.
The lust of the eyes.
And that it was pleasant.
The lust of the flesh, I should say, and was pleasant to the eyes. The lust of the eyes and a tree to be desired, to make one wise pride of life.
She took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her. There he was, he was right there with her.
And he should have intervened, but he didn't. So the New Testament says by one man sin entered into the world. He holds the man accountable.
The man tends to blame the woman.
When there's failure in the family, the man blames the woman, his wife.
The mother of the children knows no, that won't go.
God holds the man accountable. She gave unto her husband with her, and he did eat. In the eyes of them, both were opened, and they knew that they were naked.
And they sewed fig leaves together.
And made themselves aprons.
And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.
And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
The first effect of sin is to.
Is to make one want to be away from God.
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Not comfortable in God's presence anymore.
They hid themselves, they heard.
Him walking in the garden in the cool of the day.
Things have changed now.
Satan never told them what would happen.
When they.
Ate of that fruit.
From the presence of the Lord amongst the trees of the garden, they hid.
And the Lord God called unto Adam, verse 9, and said unto him, Where art thou? The first question of the deity to man that's recorded. We don't do evil. We don't. We're not sinners because we do evil. We do evil because we're sinners.
Because we are in a.
The Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid.
Because I was naked and I hid myself.
And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked?
Hast thou eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
And the man? Said the woman.
Whom thou gave us to be with me.
She gave me of the tree.
And I did eat.
How often that has been repeated through the centuries where the man blames the woman.
And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done?
And the woman said the serpent beguiled me, deceived me.
And I did eat.
And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field. Upon thy belly shalt thou go.
And dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman.
And between thy seed and her seed.
It her seed, the woman's seed shall bruise thy head.
And thou shalt bruise his heel.
To me this is so precious.
Satan brought sin into the human family. He destroyed its character of innocency, brought it into a state of sin so that they had to be expelled from the Garden of delights. And the consequences we'll read about shortly were very serious, and we bear those consequences today.
He used the woman. He introduced sin through the weaker vessel.
And God says the seed of the woman is going to destroy you.
He's going to use the woman.
To destroy.
Satan's power.
And so the blessed Lord.
Was born of a virgin.
Man had nothing to do with the conception of that child.
As to his humanity.
He has no father, only a mother.
As to his deity, he has no mother, only a father.
The seed of the woman shall crush your head.
And in that process, his heel will be crushed, it says.
And that was the cross.
Through death he destroyed him that had the power of death and delivered them, who through fear of death were all their lifetimes subject to *******.
Satan is defeated.
Unto the woman, he said.
Verse 16. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception.
In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children.
And thy desire shall be to thy husband.
And he shall rule over thee.
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it. Cursed is the ground for thy sake and sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. Thorns also in thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground, for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
Unto Adam also, and to his wife, did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothe them.
Their fig leaves were not sufficient and they felt that in the presence of God.
Be clothed with skins which required the death of a victim. And so we have a picture in this clothing here of the death of Christ again.
And the Lord God said, Behold, a man has become as one of us.
Here we have the Lord speaking in Trinity again.
To no good and evil. And now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat and live forever, Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken.
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So he drove out the man, and he placed at the east of the Garden of Eden cherubims and a flaming sword, which turneth every way to keep the way of the tree of life. That way has been barred.
Until the Lord Jesus came.
And when he came, he said I am come that they might have life and that they might have it abundantly.
He came to put away the sin which barred them from that earthly paradise.
To bring us into something even far better than what was here in innocency. For we will be there in a state of absolute holiness, without sin and incapable of sinning, and in this atmosphere of love suitable to God's holy presence.
And to his character as being love himself.
The consequences of sin are very serious.
Very serious indeed.
Had eaten of the tree of life in the state of sin, he would live forever in that condition.
What an awful thing.
For a man to live forever in a state of sin.
You often hear a man looking for the fountain of youth trying to to find a way to prolong his life down here. It would be wonderful if we could just live forever, would it?
In a state of sin.
Be horrible.
The awful.
Terrible.
God has to remove that sin first.
The sin of the first man by the 2nd man, and then he can open up the gates of eternal life.
To blessing those that are his.
Let me just turn to the First Timothy 2 to a passage to show how that to attack Genesis is to attack.
The whole Bible We saw that in the instance of the Lord Himself in First Timothy 2.
And verse 8 Paul says, I will therefore that the men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting. That's the function of the men in contrast with the women. And like men are also that the women, the article ought to be there. The women in contrast with the men, adorn themselves in modest apparel with shamefacedness and sobriety, not with brighted hair or gold or pearls or costly away array, but which becometh women.
Godliness with good works.
So she is to be adorned with good works and not with that which draws attention to herself and, as has done so much today, exposing her nakedness.
That's the result of sin. With the nakedness became exposed.
And then it says.
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. Is this just instruction from the apostle Paul? Well, it's that by the Spirit. But he goes on to say, I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. And then he gives the reason for Adam was first formed, then Eve. That's Genesis 2.
And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
Notwithstanding, she shall be saved or preserved in childbearing, in having children if they continue. If Christian women generally continue in faith and.
Love and holiness with sobriety.
What preserves the woman in her place that God would have her to be to be fulfilling down here is having children and in the home raising those children for the Lord.
Not in the workplace. Oh, you say this is not possible today. Well, it's much, much more difficult today, but still it's not. God's order hasn't changed.
God's order hasn't changed and the woman's place is in the home raising children. That's the most important job that anyone has.
To raise children for the Lord.
Very important to function, is it not? What a privilege?
And she's preserved in her proper place by having children.
Let's look at First Corinthians 11.
Where we have again.
The man's place and the woman's place.
It's all based upon.
Genesis 1 and 2.
Verse 3.
But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.
So in the order you have God, Christ, man, woman.
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The woman said is the man who said is Christ, who said is God, Is man the Lord Jesus his head is God. Every man praying or prophesying having his head covered dishonored his head. His head is Christ. Christ should be in display, not covered.
But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered.
That is exposing her head. Who is the man dishonoureth her head, for that is even all one, as if she were shaved.
Man is not to be in display, for if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn. Now that shows that her hair is not her covering. Because if her hair was her covering, then this woman doesn't have any hair because she's not covered. And how can it make any sense that she should be sure she doesn't have it in the first place? The covering is something external to the person, not the hair.
But for but it is a shame for a woman, if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn, or shave and let her be covered. For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, for as much as he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man, and that ought to be.
Covered for the man is not of the woman.
But the woman of the man, that goes back to Genesis 2, doesn't it? The man is not of the woman, but the woman came out of the man, out of his side. God builded a woman.
Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man. He needed a helpmate.
And so God said it's not good that he be alone. He needs a helper, He needs a counterpart. So he created woman for the man.
The woman was created for the man. For this cause ought the women to have power. That is the sign of the authority of the man over the woman, because of the angels. It's not a question of one being superior to the other. It's a question of the order of headship.
The angels looked down, and in the assembly they ought to see that that headship manifested.
Nevertheless, neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man in the Lord. It's referring to natural birth.
We need each other in order to.
Procreate the race.
For as the woman is of the man, so is the man also by the woman in birth.
But all things of God, I am quoting these passages to show how that you do away with Genesis one and two, you do away with the very foundation which is the basis for the woman's place in the man's place. It's no wonder that those who have set aside Genesis, the 1St 11 Chapters of Genesis, no wonder that they are barking at the teachings of the New Testament and saying, well, this was just a local condition at Corinth. It doesn't.
To us today.
Well, we know the Lord knew that they were going to do that. And so in the very first chapter of First Corinthians one, it says the Church of God, which is at Corinth, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours. The teaching of this epistle extends throughout all of Krishna.
All of Christendom.
Wonderful to be subject.
To the word of God.
Wonderful to know.
God's order.
Which comes from the original creation of man and woman.
Didn't have time to go through Ephesians 5. You'll never understand Ephesians 5. The last part.
Until you understand Genesis 2 one and two and you'll never understand Genesis 1 and 2 properly. Until you understand Ephesians 5, they supplement each other.
And they're so beautiful, the most perfect type of Christ in the church.
Is Adam and Eve before sin marred that beautiful marriage relationship?
In two ways.
She was part of him. She was created from him.
So she was one with him in that sense, and they were one in the marriage union.
Which continues on.
For every marriage today.
Let's give thanks.
Genesis 1-2 Part 3 of 3
Address—C. Hendricks
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We were noticing in Genesis.
One and two and especially the 2nd chapter when we get the details of how God formed the woman.
The bride of Adam.
How he took her from Adam's side after he put him to sleep type of Christ's death.
And builded a woman, brought her to the man.
And she said this, he said, This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man.
This is the only type in scripture of Christ in the church that we have before sin came in. All the other types are after sin had come in.
But sin doesn't come in as we know until the 3rd chapter of Genesis after.
The woman was created and brought to the man.
And united to him.
Someone wondered.
How long Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden.
Before Satan tempted them.
I remember them asking me that question and I said well, maybe a day.
And they were a bit startled.
I don't believe that Satan.
Gave them any time.
To enjoy the place that they had been set in.
The very fact that we read after sin had come in, in the 3rd chapter. Adam knew Eve, his wife and their son.
He we don't read that.
When they were in the state of innocency.
And it didn't happen when they were in the state of innocency. They didn't have any children before sin came in.
So the whole race of man headed up by Adam was after.
They had sinned after they had disobeyed God and brought sin into this scene.
So all of Adam's descendants were created, or were born, I should say, in a state of sin.
And.
And so it.
The tape that we have in the 2nd chapter of Christ in the Church, Adam and Eve was before sin had come in. It shows that it wasn't an afterthought on God's part. What would I do now that man has disobeyed me?
Man and the woman.
And committed sin.
No, he knew what would happen. He was perfectly aware of it.
And he was of course, accomplishing giving a type there, but accomplishing all the way through his dealings, accomplishing his eternal purpose of Christ in the church.
We are, of all people, the most privileged on earth to be a part of that heavenly bride.
That will soon be united to him in heaven.
After the Rapture takes place. What a wonderful, wonderful.
Prospect is ours now. Turn tonight to Ephesians 5.
I made the comment yesterday that you really can't understand Ephesians 5 apart from Genesis 2 and vice versa.
Ephesians 5 and verse 22.
In Ephesians I might make the comment.
The first of chapter 4, the 1St 16 verses, he's dealing with the sphere of the assembly.
And.
All the teaching there flows from that.
And then from the 17th verse of chapter 4 to chapter 521, it's the world that's the sphere he deals with. And from chapter 522 to 69, it's.
The family circle.
And that's divided into wives, verse 22, husbands, verse 23, and verse 25.
And then we have in Chapter 6 children.
And parents.
Fathers mentioned and mother.
There's the next.
Pair and then we have servants in verse 5 and masters in verse 9. So you have these three couplets, you have wives and husbands, children and parents, servants and masters. And it's always the the one that's in the subject place that is mentioned first.
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The wives, the children.
The servants.
And then the epistle closes with verse 10 of chapter 6. He says finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the Wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high or heavenly places.
Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. And then he, he delineates what that armor is. And in order for us to stand faithful to the Lord against the enemy in those three spheres, the sphere of the world, the sphere of the assembly, I should say, the sphere of the world and the sphere of the family.
So here we have the last sphere mentioned in verse 22 of chapter 5. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
This was proper for Eve since she was created after Adam.
And she was there for him to be his helpmate and to succor him and to stand by him.
And not to rule him.
But to to be his counterpart, so to speak. She supplements him and she compliments him.
Very beautiful as we see God's thoughts. I I remember the the the story that I read once about.
A chief of a tribe in some remote part of the world, where the gospel was just entering and the truth of the preacher was being presented. And this chief heard it. That husbands love your wives. It was the first time he'd ever heard that, and he was quite startled.
That he was to love his wife.
That was a completely new thought to him.
Up till then, his wife was regarded by him more like a servant.
And to be used at for his pleasure.
And and so on without consideration of herself.
But only of himself and pleasing himself.
And when that truth came home in power to his soul, there was a big change in his life and the life of the tribe.
But we start out with the one who's in the subject place. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church, and he is the Savior of the body. Now as we read this, we know this verse, these verses quite well. I'm not going to be presenting anything new to you as far as this chapter is concerned.
But the world doesn't know it. The world doesn't know it.
These things, they may have heard them, but they don't believe it and they're not bound by it, so they don't feel that this is something that should pattern, that they should pattern their lives.
Against.
But we know it.
And so our responsibility is very, very solemn, is it not, to carry these principles out that are laid down in the Word of God in the marriage relationship? I believe that Ephesians 5, if really understood and acted on, would produce harmony and real happiness in the family circle. Ephesians 5 in the first part of chapter 6.
The husband is the.
Head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church, you could say, even as Adam was the head of Eve.
And he is the Savior of the body, the preserver of the body. Now I used to wonder as I read this portion, is he talking about the church here as the body of Christ or as the bride of Christ? Which was it? Well, the only type that we have in the Old Testament where the woman is not only the presented to the man as his wife.
His bride, but she is also his body. She has taken from and made from his body. And that was Eve. It's the only instance that we actually have. So it's a, it's a double tape, you might say, that represents what we have in Ephesians 5.
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So the answer to the question that I was searching for is he's talking about both. He's talking about the church being a part of his body, members of his body, and also being the bride.
And this is this was true of Eve with respect to Adam, beautiful type that we have in the very first part of the.
Scriptures of Truth.
He is the savior of the body. She was there to be his helper and to succor him and to help him, and He was there to preserve.
Her, and to keep her as the apple of his eye.
Therefore, as the Church is subject unto Christ.
So let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
I don't think there can be a proper family relationship or husband wife relationship until the truth of this really sinks into our souls and we seek by the grace of God to act upon it in our domestic circle.
The world knows nothing of this.
It doesn't act upon it and there's an increase on every hand of divorces.
And disharmony in the family circle.
The husband is the head of the wife. Now this is God's order.
Even as Christ is the head of the Church.
It would be monstrous to think that the church was the head of Christ, wouldn't it? That would be monstrous and absolutely absurd and ridiculous. And so it is. In the natural sphere there has to be a head, and that is the man, a type of Christ.
And the woman in subjection, a type of the assembly, the church.
In subjection to her head.
Therefore verse 24 As the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
And now we have a word to the husbands. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it.
You have the Lord's love for the assembly for the church in three tenses. You have it in the past, which is verse 25. He loved the church and gave himself for it.
He loves it now in the present time, and his is working for the church's sanctification and purifying and fitting her for that future day when she will be presented to himself a church glorious without spot or wrinkle. So his present function, his present activity is 1 of sanctifying and cleansing the assembly by the washing of water, by the Word, and that we.
Verse 26, That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word.
And we who are husbands are responsible to use the word of God.
To do this very thing with our dear wives.
Is that they be sanctified.
And be brought in tune with God's mind and thought from the Word of God, and that they be cleansed by the washing of water, by the Word, cleansed from humanistic ideas and thoughts and attitudes and practices that are so prevalent in the world today. Now it's the responsibility of the husband to do that, to teach her.
To instruct her to use the word of God.
For the forming of her as Christ is doing it to form the assembly for himself.
And to have God's thoughts as to himself as she is, to have God's thoughts as to her husband.
Now the husband is to as Christ does. He is to love his wife.
Even as Christ also loved the church that was passed, he showed that love in giving himself on the cross for her. Uh.
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Over 2000, Nearly 2000 years ago now.
He gave himself for it.
In Galatians 220 the apostle makes that very personal, and he speaks of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.
And we can each one individually appropriate His love to each one of us, as the apostle does there and in the first part of Ephesians 5.
Verse 2 it says, And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us.
And hath given himself for us.
And offering in a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor.
So he loved me.
He loved each one of us individually, and He gave himself for each one of us collectively, as He views us as the family that He is going to present to the Father one day. Behold I and the children which thou hast given me. But here we read something even fuller and more precious. He loved the Church.
The church.
Do you love the church?
Do I love the church?
Our our thoughts.
Our activities.
All that we do and that controls us in tune with with Him who loves, who loved and loves the assembly, who is sanctifying her in the present time. He died for her in the past. He's sanctifying her and cleansing her with the washing of water by the Word, so that everything that is contrary to the mind of God be removed by the Word of God.
Remember in John 13 the Lord washed the.
Disciples feet that was individually and Peter said thou shalt never wash my feet. He felt it was absolutely inappropriate for the Lord of Glory to humble himself to the point where he got down at Peter's feet to remove the defilement that he had contracted as he walked through this world.
And the Lord said, Except I wash thee, thou hast no part with me.
And his washing with us, each one individually, is that we might have fellowship with him individually and go on in that sweetness of fellowship with himself.
He's doing it for his assembly.
Verse 26 again, that he might sanctify and cleanse it.
That he might, I think the new translation reads. That he might sanctify it, cleansing it with the washing of water by the word.
That is, the sanctification is practically carried out by this cleansing process of the Word of God as he uses it in in connection with the assembly. And so the husband with his wife, it is his responsibility.
To support her, to nourish her.
It says He is the savior, the preserver of the body. She's viewed as his body, and so he cares for her as he would care for his own body.
He also cares for her and loves her as he does his wife.
The two thoughts are blended together in this chapter, and you see those two thoughts together in Genesis 2.
You really can't appreciate and understand Ephesians 5 appropriately properly if you don't see the connection between it and Genesis 2, Adam and Eve.
Past husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it.
That he might sanctify it, cleansing it with the washing of water by the Word.
Word of God is a cleansing agent. We're born of the water of the Word. We're born again by the water and by the Spirit.
Peter talks about our new birth as being born, being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth forever. So the impartation of life by the power of the Spirit is accomplished by the Spirit using the Word of God and presenting it to the soul, and the soul believing it. Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.
So when we hear His voice in the Word of God and receive it, life is there and faith is there. The two come together at the same instant. I cannot explain it any other way. One does not precede the other. You cannot have life without faith. You cannot have faith without life. The 2GO together.
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You might say I don't understand that you don't have to.
You don't have to, but that's the truth.
And then there's a future aspect to this, that he might present it.
To himself.
All that he has done for her.
Giving Himself for her, dying for her, suffering the agonies of the Cross for her and what He is presently doing, sanctifying her by the washing of water, by the Word, is all with a view to one day conforming her to His image and presenting her to Himself. A church glorious.
Without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing that he might present it to himself. A glorious church. A church glorious. Not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish.
What a passage. It's a tremendous passage in the Word of God. We should not read it rapidly and just wish through it we should. After each verse we should have the word Selah.
Pause and reflect on what you're reading here, because it is powerful truth.
Powerful truth.
But that it should be holy and without blemish. Selah.
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies.
Now when Adam saw life, saw Eve, he said this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. He should be called woman because she was taken out of man.
So when the man loves his wife, when Adam loved Eve, he was loving himself because she was part of himself.
And so this is the picture here. When Christ loves the church, he's loving himself because she is part of him.
She comes from him, so to speak.
Adam was Eve was created from Adam's side, and so the soldier plunged the spear into Christ's side, and forthwith came thereout the building material for the church, blood and water.
And by the blood he's cleansed us, and by the water he's cleansing us from the defilements of the way.
Sought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife.
Loveth himself and you can appreciate that and understand that when you go back to the type and apply it to Adam. When you love Eve, Adam, you are loving yourself because she's part of you. She came from you.
And now she's your wife.
And she was built from your rib.
Not a separate creation like the animals and Adam was from the dust of the ground, but right out of Adam's side.
And every reference that we have, not every reference, but some of the references we have in the New Testament in connection with the woman's place and the man's place refers to that truth. We looked at it very briefly yesterday. I was very dissatisfied with the rapidity with which we looked at it. We'll look at it more carefully tonight.
Either loveth his wife, loveth himself.
For no man ever yet hated his own flesh.
But nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord, the Church.
If Adam had hated Eve, it would have been hating his own flesh, so to speak.
And so he's applying that to every.
Christian Marriage.
The relationship.
I I gave my wife a plaque.
Some years ago that just struck me with great power in the store as I read it. Very simple verse from John's writings. If God has so loved us.
We also ought to love one another.
She's got that hanging in the bedroom, that precious, wonderful verse.
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And how that should speak to each of our hearts in our relationship with our spouse.
For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord, the Church. And that is the husband's responsibility, to love his wife, to nourish her, to feed her, to instruct her to, to train her to use the Word of God, to, to cleanse her from the defilements of this world and the attitudes and opinions of this.
Of this world that is astray from God, so that her thoughts.
And his thoughts be formed by the word of God.
And since he is the head, it's his responsibility to carry out that responsibility.
And that function.
No man ever yet hated his own flesh.
But nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord, the Church. For we are members of His body, of His flesh.
And of his bolts.
Now those that last clause of his flesh and of his bones is left out of some of the modern translations.
And it should not be.
Absolutely. Is scripture based upon Genesis chapter 2? This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.
And so this is taken from that members of his body. Now that's the truth of A1 body.
That's the truth, that the Church is united to him as his body.
We get that in the 1St chapter of Ephesians. Turn back for a moment, verse 22.
God hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the Church, which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth All in all.
The church.
Which is his body.
And then we have.
The apostle quoting.
The 2nd chapter of Genesis for this cause.
Shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife?
And they too shall be 1 flesh.
Notice it doesn't say the woman leaves her father and mother.
But he leaves his father and mother now. What's the thought behind that?
When he's in his home. When the man is in his home.
He is subject to his parents.
To his father and mother, he's in the place of subjection.
And when she's in her home, she's subject to her father and mother. She's in the place of subjection.
When she gets married.
When the man gets married.
He leaves his father and mother.
He leaves the place of subjection to them and is set up as the head of a new family unit.
So he leaves that place of subjection and assumes the place of headship.
She leaves. She does not leave the place of subjection. She exchanges subjection to her father and mother for subjection to her husband, but she remains in the place of subjection.
So she does not leave the place of subjection as the man does.
He becomes the head now of a new family unit.
And then it says, for this cause shall a man leave, his father and mother shall be joined to his wife, and they too shall be 1 flesh. Now the first union, or I should say the first couple, Adam and Eve, he was united to him by being created from his body. She was part of him.
One with him.
In that sense, by creation and then she became one with him by the marriage union.
And they too shall be 1 flesh, and that's referring to the marriage union.
This is a great mystery.
But I speak concerning Christ and the church. He's, he's using marriage here to illustrate such a beautiful, uh.
Reality of Christ in the Church. The mystery.
Christ in his assembly.
And then he closes by saying, nevertheless, let everyone of you in particular so love his wife even as himself.
She's viewed as part of him.
One with him and the wife see that she reveren.
Fear, respect and honor her husband.
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Beautiful type.
Now let's turn to first Peter.
I just want to show.
How that every time you have the wives and the husbands referred to, there is some reference back?
To the Old Testament, and especially to the book of Genesis.
I'll quickly read this portion likewise first. Peter 3 Likewise ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, that if any obey not the word, they may also they may also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wise.
While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear, whose adorning? Let it not be that outward adorning of planting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel, but let it be the hidden man of the heart, and that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
For after this manner is the In the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands. Now that's the same line of truth that we had in Ephesians 5, even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord, Whose daughter ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement. Now here we have Sarah being subject to Abraham calling him Lord. And so that's from the book of.
It's not from the first two chapters, but it's from that book which has been so attacked by the higher critics. Likewise ye husbands, one verse devoted to the husbands, Dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.
Now let's go back to First Timothy 2 again.
We touch this quickly, I'd like to spend a little more time up on it.
First Timothy 2 and verse 8.
I will therefore that.
The men in contrast with the women.
It really is pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting.
The men are in that place of public testimony and prayer.
And we learn from the next passage, we'll look at First Corinthians 11, that when the woman prays publicly or prophecies, which has always got to be publicly, she is to have the sign of subjection on her head.
To exhibit the truth that she is subject to her husband.
But the man is to pray everywhere.
Without wrath and doubting with lifting up holy hands, that is the hands that that he is lifting up to God are holy. They have not been engaged in evil in of any kind. That is, he's in a state which is.
Proper for one that is in the place of interceding.
And then that's just one verse for the men and then number of verses for the women. In like manner also that women adorn themselves in modest apparel with shamefacedness and sobriety, not with broided hair or gold or pearls or costly array.
But which becometh women professing godliness with good works.
I remember speaking to an older sister just recently at a conference about a young a young girl, a young woman.
She was more than just a girl now, she was really a young woman.
Very attractive.
And beautiful.
And appealing to the.
And yet she was clad in such a way as to produce lust in the heart of the young man.
And she may not have realized that. I believe some of our sisters do not really realize that the way they dress.
Is lust producing to the opposite sex?
Not always to just a young man.
But to all of us.
And Hugh and I were talking about that and I said to her, I said.
You are an older sister.
You should go to this young sister and speak to her quite frankly, that the way she is clad at this conference is inappropriate and that she should cover herself becomingly according to the word of God.
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Thankfully, she did this.
And the young sister not realizing that she was.
She was producing this kind of a, this kind of a.
Lust producing image. To some many it was very difficult not to notice it.
She covered herself appropriately for the rest of the conference.
I believe that this kind of thing is the responsibility of the older sisters to take the younger sisters in hand and speak to them.
In a way that would be of help to them, not in a condemning way, but that they might realize that there are great temptations out there that can snare a man.
The Lord clearly indicates this when he says, he that looketh upon a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
The woman doesn't have that same, that same.
Desire after the man, as a man does when he sees a beautiful woman. You remember what happened to David when he couldn't sleep that one night, and he got up and he walked upon the housetop and he looked and he saw a woman bathing, and it says she was very beautiful to look upon, resulting in a very grievous sin of adultery, followed by one of murder.
And uh.
Very sad.
A man of his stature.
And it happens to every area of life.
So.
Verse nine of our chapter here is addressing the attire of the woman, these things which would which would tend to beautify her and to make her more attractive and becoming and to really incite.
Lust in the male species.
But verse 10 not these things mentioned in verse 9, these things that adorn the woman, that makes her beautiful and attractive and appealing, but which becometh women professing godliness with good works.
This is what is to adorn the godly woman.
Let the woman learn in silence.
With all subjection.
But I suffer not a woman to teach.
Nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Her place is not one of teaching men. She can teach children.
That's given to her. She can teach young women, the older women teach the young women and so on. But for her to set up to be, say, a teacher of a book of Scripture, that's the man's place.
Teaching the word of God, being a teacher, that's simply I know this is being violated everywhere today in Christendom.
Women have assumed the role of a teacher who's at fault.
The man, the man's at fault. Who was at fault? When Eve took the lead and took of the fruit and gave it to her husband, Who was it? Fall. It was Adam. He should have stopped that.
But he did not, and he still held accountable.
And so when the woman gets out of her place, it's because the man has failed to discharge his place responsibly.
Before the Lord.
I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. I remember when I was a young man, I used to go down to the County Hospital in Chicago.
Every week.
Friday night.
Took the elevated down, had to change several trains to get to the County Hospital, and then we'd go downstairs and there were a lot of Christians. I was just young. I was just young in the faith. I'd just been saved a short time and full of zeal to get the gospel out to the lost. And the County Hospital was a tremendous place that you could go. You had complete liberty to go there and speak to the patients and that and spend time with them.
When we would go downstairs.
And I'd go down with them and we'd form a circle, kind of put our arms around each other and a circle. And there were men and women and they would pray. We would pray before we went upstairs. And then we would sing hymns at the, at the, the entrance to this long ward, maybe had 50 beds in it. And then us males would go in the men, they would go and visit each bed and give them tracks.
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And literature and speak to them.
A wonderful opportunity.
But it bothered me.
It bothered me that the sisters downstairs in that little prayer circle.
Were not did not have their heads covered. I'm getting maybe ahead of myself. This has to do with First Corinthians 11. I'll just bring it in here. They didn't have their heads covered.
And that bothered me. And after I learned the ropes at the hospital, I ceased going down and joining them in that circle because I wasn't comfortable with with an order of things that was going on that I felt was contrary to the word of God. So I just went directly up to the wards and started passing out tracts. I forfeited being part of the singing, which I regretted, but.
I kept my conscience clear by not joining in with what I thought was not according to.
Scripture.
Suffer not a woman to teach.
Nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. What is the reason for that?
For Adam was first formed.
Venice. She's not to take the lead she was. She was created to be his helpmate.
His counterpart, his helper.
And he was to take the lead.
And Adam was not deceived.
He ate that fruit with his eyes wide open. But she was deceived by the serpent.
And when the Lord talked to Eve, she said that the serpent deceived me and I did eat.
Adam blamed the woman and blamed the Lord in doing it. He said The woman, thou gavest me, she gave me of the fruit and Idd.
So what we call buck passing is.
Very old.
Right back to Adam.
And Adam was not deceived.
But the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
And this is one reason why, a basic reason why she is not to teach and usurp authority over the man, because she's more apt to being in more of an emotional creature. She's the heart of this beautiful relationship, the family relationship. The man's the head and she's the heart. He's the intellect and the reasoner and she's the the feeler. She's the soul and he's the spirit, as it were.
And it worked beautifully when each one is in their place and functioning together in harmony. Beautiful.
And that's God's order.
Notwithstanding, she shall be saved or preserved in childbearing if they Christian women.
Continue in faith and charity or love and holiness with.
Sobriety. I believe what preserves the woman in her place of subjection, in her place in the family, is having children and raising them the most important.
Job there is down here.
To raise children for the Lord.
Now let's go back to First Corinthians 11. I went through this very fast.
And I think it deserves a more.
Appropriate treatment.
First Corinthians, not Second Corinthians. First Corinthians 11.
In the second verse, he says.
Now I praise you, brethren, that you Remember Me in all things, and keep the ordinances as I delivered them to you.
In verse 17 he says, Now in this that I declare unto you, I praise you not.
That ye come together not for the better, but for the worse. Now notice that that ye come together. In verse 17, he's talking about their coming together and what was happening in connection with their partaking of the Lord's Supper and the disorder that had come in and the things that he had to correct. But in the second verse there he says, I praise you, brethren, that you Remember Me. And in the 17th verse he says, Now in this that I declare unto you, I praise you not.
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He has to correct it. So let's read this first part. This first part is really not properly the sphere of the assembly.
Because you see, women do not prophesied, do not pray and prophecy in the assembly.
That's a public kind of thing. Certainly prophesying is public, and I believe the prayer that he's talking about of the woman is public as well, like we had at the hospital in the basement when the women would pray.
They would pray just like the men, and they did it publicly. It wasn't an assembly meeting. It wasn't a church meeting, but it was a public thing. And when they did that, they were to have their head covered and they didn't. And this is what bothered me. Now, verse 2 again. Now I praise you, brethren, that you Remember Me in all things and keep the ordinances as I delivered them to you.
The ordinances, the directions, the instructions that he delivered to them.
But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ.
And the head of the woman is the man.
And the head of Christ is God. Christ here viewed as a man, of course. So you have the the echelon of authority, you have God, you have Christ, you have man and you have woman. That's the order. Woman's head is the man who said is Christ, whose head is God.
Every man praying or prophesying having his head covered dishonored his head dishonours Christ.
But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered, dishonoureth.
Her head, Who is the man?
For that is even all one as if she were shaved. That is, if she doesn't have an external covering. It's just as though she's praying with a bare head. And that was a shame.
And that's what he says in the next verse 4. If the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn if her hair was her covering, which is which is the contention of so many today.
Then that would that would make no sense. If the woman be not covered, that means if she doesn't have any hair, if the hair is recovering and she's not covered, that means she has no hair. Let her also be sure and let her hair be cut off. How you can get cut off something that isn't there. He's talking about an external covering. He's not talking about the hair is the covering. He does later and we'll get to that in a moment.
But for if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn. She doesn't. If she refuses to have to wear a head covering, then let it be shown by the shearing of the woman's hair that she is in rebellion against God's order. But if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaved, and it was it, it was the attire of harlots in that day, and it was a shame to have that kind of.
Demeanor.
And so it is important the way we present ourselves, the way we cover ourselves, the way we clothe ourselves. It is important, and it's not a minor thing. It's minor in comparison with some things in Scripture, but it's not to be set aside as of no importance because it's God's order.
God's order between the sexes. One of the most unbiblical concepts that's happened of late is unisex one sex, as though there is no difference. And they're even teaching in psychological, psychological circles that there is no difference between boys and girls. Nonsense. Utter nonsense.
The woman be not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.
For a man indeed ought not to cover his head for as much as he is the image and glory of God. Now this is the second reason. The first reason was that he is the head of the woman, and and as head then he should be, he should be in display. And the and Christ, I mean the excuse me.
The man's head is Christ, and he should be in display. The woman's head is the man, and he should be covered.
In the in the in the public functioning of the of the Christians.
But now he gives another reason. Verse seven. Man indeed ought not to cover his head, for as much as he is the image and glory of God.
But the woman is the glory of the man. Now the glory of the man ought to be covered, but the image and glory of God ought to be not covered and in in display. And that's what his head represents.
Now he goes back to what we have in Genesis 1 and 2. For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man. She was taken right out of Adam's side, as we saw. Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man. So these instructions so important.
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Our flow from God's order in creation.
Have nothing to do with the local condition of things at Corinth.
It has to do with God's order and creation.
For this cause out the woman to have power on her head or the sign of authority on her head because of the angels. They look down and they ought to see carried out in the assembly in that which calls itself the Christian, and the Church carried out God's order in creation. The angels ought to see that sad what they're seeing nowadays. Isn't it sad?
They're seeing just the opposite, and they're even hearing from men who are responsible to teach the truth that it's all right to do that.
To ignore God's order.
Nevertheless, neither is the man without the woman.
Neither the woman without the man in the Lord. Each one needs the other. And we know that we can't do without the woman and the woman can't do without the man. And how important that we realize we are both needed and needed together to function for the glory of the Lord.
For as the woman is of the man, she was taken from his side, and God builded a woman. Even so the man also is by the woman through birth, but all things of God.
Now that's his argument, that's his teaching, part of this passage. Now he appeals to nature.
He says, judging yourselves, Is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
Doth not even nature itself teach you that if a man have long hair it is a shame unto him? I remember at the Denver conference some years ago, at the conference they have Sunday school time picnic, and we were at the picnic enjoying various games and activities with the children and the young people, and there was a young man.
That was sitting at the table.
As we began eating after giving thanks for the food and he had hair down to maybe his waist long hair.
And I sat next to him and I said I'd like to show you a passage from Scripture.
He said fine. He was very congenial and ready to hear what I had to say.
And I read him this verse.
If a man have long hair.
It is a shame unto him.
And he said to me, Is that in the Bible?
I said yes, there it is, read it yourself. I didn't know the Bible. Let him read it.
And he thanked me.
He thanked me for that.
Sometimes, you know, we shy away from addressing an issue, speaking to a soul, correcting that person by the word of God because we don't want to hurt their feelings or whatever it might be. But he was thankful for the instruction. He did not know that was in the Bible.
Next time I saw him, which was sometime later, months later, maybe a year later, he had short hair.
He had learned and profited by just one passage of Scripture.
We don't.
Do right when we automatically judge and we see someone like that and say he's a rebel.
Maybe like this young girl, when she was where she was, her skirt was way up here and the thighs were exposed in that. She didn't realize that that was.
Lost producing a tire.
And when she was told, she covered herself properly.
And so this man.
Proper, proper, proper, properly covered. Corrected the error that he was guilty of.
That's not even nature itself teach you that if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him, but if a woman have long hair, it's a glory to her.
For her hair is given her for covering. Now that word for covering in the original language is a different word than what we have in the first part of his argument. And it means a veil. It means not the covering of the head, the long hair, but the covering of the body. And it it beautifies her long hair, beautifies her and covers her, which is in keeping with the teaching of the woman's place in the New Testament.
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And in all of scripture.
As compared with the man's place.
But if any man seemed to be contentious.
And there were those at Corinth that were not that were contentious and were not going to submit to Paul's teaching.
He says we.
We apostles have no such custom. The custom they were going on with at Corinth was one where women would pray and prophecy with uncovered heads.
And he says we don't have that custom, neither do the churches of God.
So you are the ones that are out of tune with the Apostolic custom and also the other churches elsewhere.
And that's really the meaning of that verse.
Every woman praying or prophesying now, she doesn't prophecy in the assembly.
So this is outside the sphere of the assembly.
Chapter Verse 34 Paul clearly says let your women keep silence in the churches, for it is not permitted unto them to speak, but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home, for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
And then he says what he could hear the outroar.
That would come came the word of God out from you.
Are came it unto you only.
Doesn't come from you, it came to you through me and from God.
So he says, If any man think himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
And then he says very caustically, if any man be ignorant, if you say I don't see it and I won't submit to that. If any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant and he just drops it.
It's a solemn thing to be in rebellion against God's order.
And.
So Paul, if you read First Corinthians, you will see that he is constantly correcting their mistakes.
Constantly correcting their wrong thoughts and their errors and their practices that were wrong and their thoughts that were wrong. And he's doing that in this.
1St Corinthians 11.
Well, it's as far as we can go tonight.
Let's look to the Lord in prayer a little bit over.