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Nov 15-16

Gen 2:18-25;

Psalm 127:3-5;

Ephesians 5:22-23

*** Families ***
Here I speak as a male about things that are primarily not my domain. I will however try to clarify at lest one side of the issues. As a member of a family I do have some experiences and knowledge. As with many bible subjects, what I read and the first understanding that I get from the reading needs a little reconciliation with real life! I find that the Bible is not well understood in many of it's particulars with out interaction with other believers. Jesus said where two or three are gathered...I am there! I believe any person can understand the Bible, but do not think that good doctrine is developed in a vacuum. Paul said, From many members to one body Revelation is a book to understand Jesus, the Bible however is an unfolding of the knowledge of God from Genesis to Revelation! God is understood and known by reading the scripture. Scripture is understood best by living in fellowship with other believers. God said let there be light, in the beginning and has continued to reveal the light of the scripture through out the centuries. My prayer is that the light of God be revealed in the heart of each believer.

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Genesis 2:18-25

18 ¶ And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

19 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.

20 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 an help meet for him.

21 ¶ 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;

22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto 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.

24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Using the principle of first occurrence we understand the order of all priority to be as listed.

Family was God's idea. His ideas are better than any we might have. Various religious traditions have legislated away the plan for family. The Jewish idiom renders the meaning of a definite negative as a forceful opposite! So "it is not good for man to live alone" would mean that it is very good for man to be joined with a woman. Her affect on him is so profound that it becomes the single most important decision of his life, after His choice For God! The Hebrew for Help meet suggests Succor. By this we usually mean food, nourishment, and by implication encouragement! The Greek word translated Home comes from the idea of Leaping up with particular image of a Geyser. This is the best image of the kind of relationship that God has designed.

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Psalm 127:3-5

3 Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

4 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.

5 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

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Ephesians 5:22-23

22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

23 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.

How many times in our reading of the scripture do we see a command on the very thing that is most difficult for each of us to do.

Thou shall not Kill...when you are sure the world would be better with out the person

Men Lay down your life.

1. This focuses on the one need that every lady has: the need for attention;
2. and the thing that is the most difficult for the man: to let go of all the other pressures onthe person.

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Two or Three

Matthew 18:20

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
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From many one

Romans 12:4 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:

1 Corinthians 12:12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

1 Corinthians 12:20 But now are they many members, yet but one body.
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Know God

John 17:3

And this is life eternal, that they might know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

This description by Jesus pictures salvation as a relationship, first with God and then with the Body of Christ. Paul reveals in

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Priority

1. God
   Genesis 1:27 ***
   So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.


2. Spouse ***
   Genesis 2:20 -- but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
   
   21 ¶ 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;
   
   22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto 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.
   
   24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
   
   


3. Parents and children ***
   Genesis 4:1 -- 1 ¶ And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
   
   2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
   


4. Worship, congregational Fellowship ***
   Genesis 4:3 -- 3 ¶ And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
   
   4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
   
   Genesis 4:26 -- And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.
   


5. Work ***
   Genesis 3:12 -- When you till the ground, it shall not henceforth yield to you her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt you be in the earth.
   
   Genesis 6:14 -- [God said]Make you an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt you make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
   


6. Friends ***
   Genesis 38:12 -- And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah’s wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheep shearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
   

This study of priority answers a major problem in the ordering of our day to day life processes. I have noticed the lower items have a way of matriculating up the list until the lower items gradually take the place of the higher items. What ever higher priority subject that a person misplaces with a lower item is diminished. The person does not simply get the items out of order; the higher item is lost entirely. If a person places the work above the family the family is lost although the correct relationship with the Lord may still be maintained. Care must always be taken to keep the Lord's order of priority that same as the person's order. In this way we have a parallel way to be sure that we are walking in God's will.

God's Will

Romans 8:27 -- And he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

Because there is only one God there can only be one Will... for every one! What ever is God's will for one will necessarily coordinate with God's Will for every other person who has relationship with Him. This also lends feed back as to what God's will is for each of us. If some planned action would prove not to be God's will for one Then the action is therefore not God's will for the person considering the planned action. The Scripture applies to all equally and with out partiality. God is not a respecter of individual Persons.

Respecter ** Romans 2:11

11 For there is no respect of persons with God.

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