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God's First Marriage
With the issue of marriage high on the public agenda we need to remind ourselves of mankind’s first marriage. The first marriage was performed by God after he made Adam. When Adam found no suitable helper in Paradise God created Eve to be Adam's helper/companion. Immediately after Eve's creation God brought Eve to Adam. In bringing Eve to Adam God performed mankind's first marriage.
When God brought Eve to Adam he was declaring that Adam and Eve had no choice in their partnership in regards to gender. God didn't make another man and woman and then ask Adam to choose which gender he preferred. God designed marriage for a man and a woman. A marriage between a man and a woman exclusively.
Also, God didn't create Eve and then instruct Adam to go find her for such a exercise would necessitate that one entice the other into a relationship. What Satan did later, by enticing Eve to sin, was exactly what God prevented by bringing Eve to Adam thereby taking away the necessity to lure one to the other. God is showing that true love is not a desire of the flesh but a commitment of the spirit and that commitment should not entail erotic persuasion or materialistic enticement.
When Adam and Eve sinned God did not dissolve the marriage between Adam and Eve. He made sure both remained committed to each other even though they had rejected God with their sinfulness. Sin did not dissolve the bonds between a man and a woman and God showed, by sending his son Jesus Christ to die for our sins on the cross of Calvary, that our our sin did not dissolve the bonds between God and all of us, his creation.
It is interesting that God created and performed the first marriage while Satan created and performed the first divorce!
Satan, when he introduced sin into the Garden of Eden, thought that he had divorced God from his creation and man from a woman. But God is still God and will hold the covenant between himself and man and between a man and a woman as still morally legal and binding.
God is still committed to having a relationship with his creation which is why he sent his son Jesus Christ to die for all of our sins thereby nullifying the divorce Satan tried to foist on all of us in regards to our relationship with God. Accept Jesus Christ as your Savior and reestablish the marriage that was abandoned long ago by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. A marriage that that will continued on into eternity with God the Father, God Jesus Christ the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, in heaven.
For Christians: Get baptized! When we get baptized we gain the indwelling Holy Spirit. Remember that God led Eve to Adam which represents God leading the sinner to his salvation in his son Jesus Christ, God becoming man. Once we have God indwelling inside us as the Holy Spirit we can, and must, lead others to the marriage of sinner and salvation. We must lead the individual to Jesus Christ just as God led Eve to Adam! Remember that Jesus Christ had to wait for the baptism of the Holy Spirit before God would lead his son to the cross to become sin for our salvation!
Man cannot pick his gender just as man cannot pick his salvation! Salvation is between Jesus Christ and sinful man. No other salvation (hint: marriage) will be recognized by God for our salvation!
God Bless
note:
Before God created Eve he asked Adam to go search for a helper for himself. The bible records that only after Adam could not find a suitable helper/companion did God create Eve from the flesh of Adam. It is interesting that Satan did not decide to disguise himself and tempt Adam to eat of the forbidden fruit poising as a suitable helper before God had created Eve. Satan knew that since all the animals were created as male and female that God would created another opposite gender of Adam, hence Eve. It was only then did Satan go out and disguise himself as a Serpent to lure Eve into sin.
Today we see only one side of God's creation, this earth. But there is another side called heaven that is waiting for us. Even though Satan saw only man, Adam, created first he knew a woman would soon follow. Today we must think of heaven as the other gender that will soon follow to complete the marriage between man and God.
On the other hand 'hell' must be considered as a same gender marriage. We experience life today with its trials and tribulations as a scaled down hell like existence. We are offered two choices here on earth to choose a marriage of opposite gender accepting the forgiveness offered by Jesus Christ, God becoming man, that glorifies God and leads to eternity in heaven. Or a marriage of similar gender that glorifies Satan's achievements and leads to an eternity apart from God when we reject the forgiveness offered by Jesus Christ, God's son.
Amen
With the issue of marriage high on the public agenda we need to remind ourselves of mankind’s first marriage. The first marriage was performed by God after he made Adam. When Adam found no suitable helper in Paradise God created Eve to be Adam's helper/companion. Immediately after Eve's creation God brought Eve to Adam. In bringing Eve to Adam God performed mankind's first marriage.
When God brought Eve to Adam he was declaring that Adam and Eve had no choice in their partnership in regards to gender. God didn't make another man and woman and then ask Adam to choose which gender he preferred. God designed marriage for a man and a woman. A marriage between a man and a woman exclusively.
Also, God didn't create Eve and then instruct Adam to go find her for such a exercise would necessitate that one entice the other into a relationship. What Satan did later, by enticing Eve to sin, was exactly what God prevented by bringing Eve to Adam thereby taking away the necessity to lure one to the other. God is showing that true love is not a desire of the flesh but a commitment of the spirit and that commitment should not entail erotic persuasion or materialistic enticement.
When Adam and Eve sinned God did not dissolve the marriage between Adam and Eve. He made sure both remained committed to each other even though they had rejected God with their sinfulness. Sin did not dissolve the bonds between a man and a woman and God showed, by sending his son Jesus Christ to die for our sins on the cross of Calvary, that our our sin did not dissolve the bonds between God and all of us, his creation.
It is interesting that God created and performed the first marriage while Satan created and performed the first divorce!
Satan, when he introduced sin into the Garden of Eden, thought that he had divorced God from his creation and man from a woman. But God is still God and will hold the covenant between himself and man and between a man and a woman as still morally legal and binding.
God is still committed to having a relationship with his creation which is why he sent his son Jesus Christ to die for all of our sins thereby nullifying the divorce Satan tried to foist on all of us in regards to our relationship with God. Accept Jesus Christ as your Savior and reestablish the marriage that was abandoned long ago by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. A marriage that that will continued on into eternity with God the Father, God Jesus Christ the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, in heaven.
For Christians: Get baptized! When we get baptized we gain the indwelling Holy Spirit. Remember that God led Eve to Adam which represents God leading the sinner to his salvation in his son Jesus Christ, God becoming man. Once we have God indwelling inside us as the Holy Spirit we can, and must, lead others to the marriage of sinner and salvation. We must lead the individual to Jesus Christ just as God led Eve to Adam! Remember that Jesus Christ had to wait for the baptism of the Holy Spirit before God would lead his son to the cross to become sin for our salvation!
Man cannot pick his gender just as man cannot pick his salvation! Salvation is between Jesus Christ and sinful man. No other salvation (hint: marriage) will be recognized by God for our salvation!
God Bless
note:
Before God created Eve he asked Adam to go search for a helper for himself. The bible records that only after Adam could not find a suitable helper/companion did God create Eve from the flesh of Adam. It is interesting that Satan did not decide to disguise himself and tempt Adam to eat of the forbidden fruit poising as a suitable helper before God had created Eve. Satan knew that since all the animals were created as male and female that God would created another opposite gender of Adam, hence Eve. It was only then did Satan go out and disguise himself as a Serpent to lure Eve into sin.
Today we see only one side of God's creation, this earth. But there is another side called heaven that is waiting for us. Even though Satan saw only man, Adam, created first he knew a woman would soon follow. Today we must think of heaven as the other gender that will soon follow to complete the marriage between man and God.
On the other hand 'hell' must be considered as a same gender marriage. We experience life today with its trials and tribulations as a scaled down hell like existence. We are offered two choices here on earth to choose a marriage of opposite gender accepting the forgiveness offered by Jesus Christ, God becoming man, that glorifies God and leads to eternity in heaven. Or a marriage of similar gender that glorifies Satan's achievements and leads to an eternity apart from God when we reject the forgiveness offered by Jesus Christ, God's son.
Amen