God’s Timeline – Part 9
Not
Good for Man to be Alone
Pastor Bruce A. Shields
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SERMON INTRODUCTION
So far, we have read of the creation of
everything that is, or would ever be created, all taking place during the first
week.
Creation Week - Days 1-6 Have taken place
Last week we looked at a detailed breakdown
of Day 6
It is STILL Day 6
SCRIPTURE READING
Genesis 2:18-25
“The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone.
I will make a helper suitable for him.”
19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the
wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see
what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that
was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the
sky and all the wild animals.
But for Adam no suitable helper was found. 21 So the Lord
God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he
took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the
Lord God made a woman from the rib[h] he had taken out of the man, and he
brought her to the man.
23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of
my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’
for she was taken
out of man.”
24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is
united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
25
Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.”
I.
IT IS
STILL DAY 6 OF CREATION WEEK
a. What has happened up to this point
i.
God made man on the 6th
day (Genesis 1:26; 2:7)
ii.
God took THE man and
placed him in the Garden of Eden (Genesis
2:8)
b. The Garden of Eden
i.
God
made trees grow out of the ground in front of Adam (Genesis 2:9)
ii.
God made the Tree of
Life & Knowledge of Good & Evil (Genesis 2:9)
iii.
God created animals
and birds for Adam to name (Genesis
2:19-20)
iv.
God put Adam in the
garden for a few reasons
1.
To witness God
creating (this could not happen until earth was able to host human life, after
Day 5)
2.
To witness God create
the Tree of Life (which sustains human life everlasting)
3.
To witness God create
the Tree of knowledge of good and evil (so there could be a command to obey,
which in turn made Adam obedient, righteous and good)
4.
To name all the
animals and birds as Adam witnessed God create them from the ground
5.
To work and care for
the garden
c. The Commandment
i.
After creating the
Tree of Life (which would keep humankind healthy and everlasting with no death)
God created the Tree of knowledge of Good and Evil
ii.
God can now give Adam
a command, and as long as Adam is “obedient” God’s law of Kingdom, protection,
blessings is in effect for Adam because he is being righteous
1.
You cannot be obedient
if there is no opportunity to be disobedient
2.
There HAD to be a tree
so God’s law of His kingdom, protection and blessings can be active for the
righteous
iii.
Genesis
2:16-17 “And the Lord God commanded
the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not
eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat
from it you will certainly die.”
iv.
Now the line is
officially drawn by God which, for the rest of eternity, will divide the goats
from the sheep.
1. Obedience or disobedience
2. Righteous or unrighteous
3. Belong to God’s Kingdom or not
4. Simplified, good or evil
My Thoughts on the Tree of
Knowledge
I personally do not
believe the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil “gave” us some ability we did
not already possess.
I
believe the “knowledge of good and evil” is a reference to the moment humankind
understood we had the “choice” to obey, “be good”, or disobey, “be evil”.
However,
that “ability” was already possessed by humankind, or they could not have made
the “choice” to eat of the tree of knowledge. But the real knowledge came after
actively disobeying, and it was at that moment they “realized” what good and
evil truly were.
A
choice to obey God and be good, or a choice to disobey God and be evil.
When training an animal, it is a long process of
diligence and discipline. During the process you will see times where the
animal is trying to decide whether it will obey your will or its own.
If the animal chooses its own will without
consequences, a disciplinary action to correct, the animal will come to the
“knowledge” that it can choose its own will rather than the trainers.
This choice was always within the animal, but not
realized, until it made the choice to follow its own will.
This, I believe, is the case with Adam and Eve and
the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
II.
THE FIRST
OPERATION
a. It is not good for the man to be alone
i.
After the Command of
God was given to Adam (Eve was not created yet) and God created all the animals
and birds for Adam to name in the Garden, God restates verse 18
ii.
VS 18 “The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to
be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
iii.
VS 19-20 Adam names the animals and birds
iv.
VS 20b “…But for Adam no suitable helper was found.”
b. VS 21 So, the Lord caused the man to fall into a
deep sleep
i.
Something to note
here, another notable truth by God
ii.
“if” Genesis is a
creation of vain imagination rather than an actual account of creation, why are
there so many scientific truths, which were not discovered by modern man, in
some cases for thousands of years after its writing?
iii.
If I were making this
up, I would have had God make a woman from dirt, just like Adam…so they would
be “the same”, compatible, equal, as scripture truly teaches.
iv.
But it doesn’t…to me,
there are a few notable facts here in this verse!
1. The Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep
sleep
a.
A sleep deeper than
regular sleep…needed for medical procedures on the human body!
b.
Anesthesia is needed
for this!
c.
An early form of
anesthesia was first used at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston by
dentist William T.G. Morton and surgeon John Warren on October 16, 1846
d.
Nearly 6,000 years
after Adam (5781 years by the Hebrew Calendar)
v.
So, the woman is not
made from dirt, or out of thin air
vi.
But from Adam, so God
places him in a deep sleep for a procedure
c. Parts is parts
i.
Now most of us believe
God took a rib from Adam, and that’s why men have one less ribs than women…but
the Literal Hebrew does not say this.
1. The fact is the Hebrew word used in Genesis 2:21
(H6763) literally means “of the body”
2.
Figuratively this word
is used as “the side” of a person
3.
But this does not mean
“rib”
ii.
Why is this important?
1.
Because scientifically
speaking, MOST humans have 12 sets of ribs regardless of sex.
2.
Unless you have 1 of a
handful of rib abnormalities such as Cervical Rib
a.
Which gives 1 or 2
extra ribs between the neck and collar bone and may also give or take an extra
rib on either side or both of the chest in either sex.
3.
This makes a
difference because someone who wants to argue genesis is not fact may bring up
that most humans have 12 sets of ribs, therefore Genesis account of Eve’s
creation is fiction.
4.
Fact, the bible
doesn’t say rib, rather, God made Adam fall into a deep sleep for a medical
procedure (working within the rules and limitations of Creation He set into
place) and took, perhaps, figuratively from the side of Adam, literally a piece
of Adams body.
iii.
I believe that it is
at this point God separated the TWO on DAY 6, making them Male and Female! (Genesis 1:27)
1.
Men and women have
practically the same set of about 20,000 genes. The only physical difference in
their genetic make up is in the sex chromosomes.
2.
Only males have a Y
chromosome. Although the X chromosome is present in both sexes, there are two
copies in females and only one in males.
3.
Males have XY, Females
have XX
4.
If the man’s sperm
gives the female a Y, she has a boy, an X she has a girl
iv.
VS 21-22 “So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep
sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs A PART FROM the body (20,000+ genes (DNA) and the X
Chromosome) and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God
made a woman from the rib PART he had taken out of the man, and
he brought her to the man.”
v.
It also states God “closed
up” the place with flesh…if you are making a story up wouldn’t God just do
some magic to make all this happen? But
instead, we see evidence from scripture of God working WITHIN the rules He
created in His creation and the human body’s limitations He set in place!
III.
THE
MARRIAGE
a. Adam responds to seeing Eve for the first time
i.
VS 23 “The
man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be
called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”
ii.
So, we see Adam knows
he was operated on, and that the woman was made from part of him.
iii.
I believe this was
done by God for a few reasons
1. We are whole, one flesh when with our spouse
2. It is symbolic of the union of Christ and the Church
3. Apart from our mate, we are not complete, just as
apart from Christ Jesus, we are not complete.
b. Marriage defined and explained
i.
VS 24 “That is why a man leaves his father and mother and
is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.”
ii.
And in turn, together
as one, create life to continue the process God has ordained.
c. Man and his wife were both naked and felt no
shame
CONCLUSION –
I believe that this
description of the events is not just likely, but very believable because of
the nuance of scientific fact that cannot be discredited.
From the descriptions of
the first medical procedure and the steps taken to complete it, as well as the
creation of woman and how modern man now understands the similarities as well
as the differences of the sexes, makes the account that much more believable.
Seeing the first
“marriage” and understanding the reasoning as described in Genesis and
throughout scripture, brings us closer to understanding the why God created
everything in the way He did, and how He provided provisions through His
original creation that carry through to today.
God operating within
these rules and limitations He created show that God has the full knowledge and
understanding of all things and made a way, even when we cannot see a way, it
has been provided from the foundations of creation.
Next week we will look at Adam and Eve’s new life together
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