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Husband and wife
Gen 1 : 26 - 31 John 14 : 16 – 17
Gen 2 : 18 – 25 John 16 : 5 - 10
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Gen 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make mankind in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth, and over every crawling thing that crawls on the earth.”
God’s plan
To bless man with God’s image and a life;
a good image and a good life
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Gen 1:27 So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
God’s plan
To bless man as husband and wife
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Gen 1:28 God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
God’s plan
For men to be victorious in life
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Gen 1:29 Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; 30 and to every animal of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to everything that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so.
God’s plan
For God to provide life provision
for men
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Gen 1:31 And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
God’s will
To bless men with a very good life in ALL THINGS
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God’s good plan for men
For men to be blessed with :
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1st helper
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Gen 2:18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.”
God’s plan for men
Men needs to love others, like God
Men is not meant to live alone,
but to live in a family, with others
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Gen 2:18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.”
God’s plan for men
A wife will help the life of the husband,
with a better and a good life
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Gen 2:18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.”
God’s plan for men
A woman is created with a strong purpose to care for her family
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Gen 2:22 And the Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.
God’s plan for men
A woman was built (or fashioned) by God
to become a beautiful house
Gen 2:7 Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground, ………..
Man was formed by God,
a woman was built (or fashioned) by God
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Gen 2:23 Then the man said,
“At last this is bone of my bones,
And flesh of my flesh;
She shall be called ‘woman,’
Because she was taken out of man.”
God’s plan for men
A man will love a woman willingly
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Gen 2:24 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed.
God’s plan for men
A man shall have a new life in his wife
by entering the beautiful house of
the life of the wife
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As a beautiful house, a woman will naturally like
good and beautiful things for herself and her family
She will like her life to be
clean, orderly, healthy, intricate, detail, beautiful, good, secure, correct, perfect, etc
In ALL THINGS
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Good and beautiful things are expensive
More so for ALL THINGS
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Gen 2:22 And the Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.
God’s plan for men
The ingredient to make the beautiful house is already there within a man
But it must be God who build the house
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Gen 1:27 So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
God’s plan for men
Adam and Eve was created in the garden of God by God’s love
Only God’s kingdom of heaven is able to supply ALL GOOD THINGS that a woman desires for herself and her family
Only God’s heart can move God
to bless man with God’s kingdom of heaven
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The 1st helper : a wife
To help men to be blessed with :
Only God’s kingdom
can sustain the good and beautiful life in ALL THINGS
Only God’s heart
can bring God’s kingdom to men
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After the fall,
Adam and Eve and their descendants
left God’s heart of love and therefore
lost the good and beautiful life in the kingdom of God
Now the descendants of Adam and Eve live in the kingdom of men
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Deu 15:4 However, there will be no poor among you, since the Lord will certainly bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess,
Kingdom of men
Poverty,
losing the good and beautiful life
Kingdom of God
No poverty,
enjoying a good and beautiful life
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2nd helper
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John 14:16 I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, so that He may be with you forever; 17 the Helper is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him; but you know Him because He remains with you and will be in you.
2nd helper
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John 16:5 “But now I am going to Him who sent Me; and none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’ 6 But because I have said these things to you, grief has filled your heart. 7 But I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I am leaving; for if I do not leave, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.
2nd helper
The truth of God’s heart will replace the grief in our heart
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John 16:8 And He, when He comes, will convict the world regarding sin, and righteousness, and judgment:
The truth of God’s heart
It will convict the world with regards to
sin (1), righteousness (2) and judgement (3)
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John 16:9 regarding sin, because they do not believe in Me;
The pattern of the world
Our heart will accuse us of our sin
The truth of God’s heart
In Christ, God has forgiven ALL of our sins
Therefore, we should not grieve and feel condemned anymore
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1 John 3:19 We will know by this that we are of the truth, and will set our heart at ease before Him, 20 that if our heart condemns us, that God is greater than our heart, and He knows all things. 21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; 22 and whatever we ask, we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.
In our sins, the authority to decide whether we should be condemned or forgiven :
In Christ, God has totally forgiven us
Therefore, we can be at ease
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John 16:10 and regarding righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you no longer are going to see Me;
Mat 6:33 But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided to you.
The pattern of the world
We need to be righteous to enter God’s kingdom
The truth of God’s heart
In Christ, God has forgiven us and therefore made us righteous to enter His kingdom. On earth as well as in heaven
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John 16:11 and regarding judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.
Mat 11:28 “Come to Me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
The pattern of the world
Thru our knowledge of good and evil, religion will judge the people around us as being “our burden”
The truth of God’s heart
God wants to love and bless people around us thru us. Therefore it is “His burden”. No more “our burden”
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This is God’s heart in us
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So that our heart does not condemn us anymore
By making us righteous to enter His kingdom
Therefore, the burden is His, not ours. We can rest
This is God’s heart in us
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Mat 3:17 and behold, a voice from the heavens said, “This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
2nd helper
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The 1st helper : a wife
To help men to be blessed with :
But it must be God who build it thru the kingdom of God
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The 2nd helper : the Spirit of truth
To help men to be blessed with :
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Today’s discipleship material
Prove what the will of God is
Rom 12 : 1 - 2
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Topic for next sermon
Sabbath (1)- Rest from weariness
Mat 11 : 25 – 30
Mat 12 : 1 - 13