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FOUNDATION & LOVE IN THE

HOME

Gen. 2:18-25Then the Lord God said “it is not good for the man to be

alone…

How important is a foundation?

• How many couples build their marriages on the externals?

• God’s instruction in Genesis 2 was given to man.

• It is man’s responsibility to see that his home provides the environment for effective God fearing living.

• Gen. 13:3 Through Abraham shall “ all families of the earth shall be bless

• Exo 12:3 Each man provided for his wife and children “according to their father’s household, a lamb for his household

• Family salvation was fathers responsibility

• Lev. 1:2 Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them when any man of you bring an offering to the lord…

• Husband and fathers were to be the religious leader in the home

• There’s no doubt that men, by God given design are leaders in science , industry, research and religion, but that’s not all they lead in.

• While they have a major role in building our society, they take an even greater lead in destroying it

• 99% on who sit on death row are men

• 95% of those in prison cells are men

• 91% of carnage cause by drunken driver are men

• 75% of all traffic accidents are also caused by men.

• 98% of the wanted posters for known drug dealers are men

• Men have not always fulfilled their God-designed roles.• That’s a major reason

many homes even Christian homes are in trouble.

• In trying to satisfy their unmet emotional needs fatherless girls are more likely to be sexually promiscuous and are more vulnerable to the advances of predators who see their emotional needs and profit from them through commercial sexual exploitation.

FACTS & FIGURES: FATHERLESS CHILDREN

• Girls without dads who love them unconditionally and tell them they are beautiful, are especially vulnerable to the “lines” of predators. An FBI agent asked an incarcerated sex trafficker where he found his young victims. The pimp explained, “It’s easy. I see a girl at the mall. I go up to her and say, ‘You have beautiful eyes.’ If she smiles and says ‘Thanks,’ I leave her alone. But if she looks down and says, ‘No, I don’t,’ I know I’ve got her.”

• Official U.S. data shows that 63 percent of youth suicides are fatherless• 70 percent of youths in state-

operated institutions - fatherless• 85 percent of children with

behavioral disorders are from fatherless homes.

• A 2002 Department of Justice survey of 7,000 inmates revealed that 39% of jail inmates lived in mother-only households.

• Teens in single-mother households are 30 percent more likely to engage in risky behavior like drinking, drugs, delinquency, and dropping out of school.

• According to the U.S. Census Bureau, children in father-absent homes are five times more likely to be poor.• In 2002, 7 percent of children in

married-couple families were living in poverty, compared to 38 percent of children in female-householder families.

• A child with a nonresident father is 54 percent more likely to be poorer than his or her father.

• Based on birth and death data for 217,798 children born in Georgia in 1989 and 1990, infants without a father’s name on their birth certificate were 2.3 times more likely to die in the first year of life compared to infants with a father’s name on their birth certificate.

LET’S GO BACK TO THE

FOUNDATION OF A HOME

• Marriage was God’s great idea.• Everything God created was

good• Adams’ aloneness is the first

not good in the bible1.Marriage started with a felt need

vv.18-202.Followed with a great gift vv. 21-23

God’s Great Idea

Gen 2:24-25A.Leave - the husband is to make a special place for his bride

1.The exclusiveness of marriage- the wedding vow begins a new family. They are not the continuation of the old family

2.The purity of marriage3.The fulfillment of marriage- “for this

cause…” the cause of establishing oneness in marriages

B. CLEAVE• means to glue or to be glued

together

• Marriage is a permanent bond. Ex. Glued paper

• Any tearing of the marriage bond is always painful and destructive

C. WEAVE- ONE FLESH GOAL OF MARRIAGE– God wants to weave our individual

lives into one fabric.– Unity

The Result:•they were both naked and unashamed•intimacy- very close or familiar•One-fleshness means no secrets, no hidden areas, no off limits signs•Intimate couples shares their hopes and desires, fears and frustrations,. •They share themselves

• Follow the natural progression of divine logic;

• 1st you must have LEAVING, • then I will bless your CLEAVING. • As you do this, I will teach you

how to WEAVE your lives into one.

• And when this process is really happening, you will find intimacy.

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