Husband & Wife value, authority & roles Reflecting the equality within the Trinity, God values men and women equally, without qualification. This is clear not only from the Genesis account of God appointing both Adam and Eve as vice-regents over creation (Gen. 1:28) but is the counsel of the entire Bible as well. Unlike the world, God isn’t a respecter of persons. He doesn’t value us according to the way the world values people. We gain or lose no value by being rich or poor, famous or unknown, comely or plain, one race or another, or male or female. Paul…
Marriage is to reflect the Trinty As a reflection of the unity of purpose within the Trinity, God gave Adam and Eve the same overriding purpose. Together they were his vice-regents over creation. In that role they were to serve and glorify him. That remains our goal today. We’re here to serve and glorify God. One purpose of marriage is marriage is as a reflection of the relationship of Christ and the church, something Paul calls a great mystery. There’s foreshadowing of the mystery in the Old Testament. In several instances God compares his relationship with the Israelites to a…
The Purpose of marriage God established marriage for several reasons. One was to provide Adam and Eve with everything they needed to receive their blessing and complete their task as his vice-regents over creation. They could receive their blessing as two complementary but different individuals coming together emotionally and sexually as one. Working together they could begin the task of subduing the earth and ruling over its creatures. Implicit in God’s appointment of Adam and Eve as his vice-regents was the understanding that it couldn’t be accomplished apart from him. Adam and Eve couldn’t fulfill their charge unless they obeyed…
The Origin or Marriage Like all of God’s laws, those regarding manhood and womanhood are part of a non contradictory and coherent unified whole. In this section we’re going to look at four factors relative to men and women that are so tightly linked and interrelated by God that they can’t rightly be considered apart from one another. They are marriage, single life, male authority, and sexuality. We’ll begin with marriage, because that’s where God laid the foundation for all righteous interactions between men and women. It’s good to look at marriage first because it’s impossible to understand the role…