The Bible: One Bite at a Time Expository Sermon Series Notes Genesis to The Revelation Sid Galloway © 1999

Day Six: Continued ... Genesis 2:18-25 Adam With Eve: How to Build a Home or a Church

Tape # 13 - Jan 16, 2000         (Notes Updated ..... Jan 15, 2000)
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Exposition and Commentary - Genesis 2:18-25 (Strong's #'s in parentheses)

18 And the Lord God said, “It is not good (2826, towb) that man (adam) should be alone; I will make (asah) him a helper (5228, ezer) comparable to him.”

- Intimacy with God was the foundation for Adam's full and abundant life, before Eve. No sin existed and so there was no separation between God and Adam. He did not need any one or anything to be more fulfilled in his vertical relationship of love with God. But that was not the case with his horizontal relationship, which involved his full purpose.
- Many times from 1:1-2:12, God describes things or situations as being "good". Then in vv. 9 and 17 He mentions the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. But here for the first time He says that something in His creation (before sin) was "not good" (using the same Hebrew term).
- As we saw during the unfolding days of creation, God's use of "good" described primarily the fact that each stage was complete, and reflecting the purpose He designed.
- But here, Adam being alone is "not good" because Adam was created to reflect the intimate, family relationship that is the heart of God's Image.

19 Out of the ground the Lord God formed (yatsar) every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name.
20 So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him.

- I became a zookeeper twenty years ago, because I was unsaved and afraid of the potential for pain in human relationships. Plus I really love the awesome complexity and beauty in God's creatures. I played with them, trainned them, and even slept in the den with some of them.
- But like Adam, I soon discovered that something crucial was missing. I couldn't share my deepest thoughts, hopes, and dreams with any of them soul to soul.

21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs (6763, tselah) and closed up the flesh in its place.
22 Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made (1129, banah) into a woman (802, Ishshah), and He brought her to the man.
23 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 (376, Ish).”

- God made Adam a wife, Eve, so Adam could give the overflow of God's love to another person on his own level, eye to eye, and heart to heart.
- Why did God make Adam sleep before the operation? Why did God take tissue from Adam's side, instead of his head or feet? Remember, there is a reason for every detail of God's activity in history (His-Story).
- God could have kept Adam awake, eliminated all pain, and let Adam watch the operation. But by putting him asleep as God did later with Abram (Gen 15:12) God demonstrated that what was about to occur was soley an act of His will and power, not man's. Plus maybe God the Father also wanted to surprise Adam, just as we love to please our children when we have a special present to give them. And this all men will agree, was the most special present any man could ever receive (other than salvation)!

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24 Therefore a man shall leave (5800, azab) his father (1, ab) and mother and be joined (1692, dabaq) to his wife (ishshah), and they shall become one (259, echad) flesh (1320, basar).
25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.