Welcome back to Faith and Bible ASMR.  If this is your first time joining
me thank you for being here and I hope
that you'll subscribe to my channel. I do
ASMR videos that are all faith related
and I post them twice a week. And right
now we're studying Genesis. One day I am
doing the Bible reading for that chapter
and the other day I'm doing the Bible
study.  And today we are focusing on
Genesis 2. If anyone is wondering if all
three of the Trinity are present at
creation,  I am referring to an article in
the Institute of Creation Research.org
It is on the Trinity and being at
creation,  and so I just want to read a
few sentences from it for you.  The triune
God which means the Trinity,  the Holy
Spirit, God the Father,  and God the Son
were all present. They are three in one
and I the best way that I've heard to
make that analogy is parts of an egg.
It's all an egg and yet you have
the shell,  the yolk,  and the white of the
egg and it composes the whole egg. well
with God they are three-in-one and yet they
are one God.  And it's something we won't
fully understand until we get to heaven.
The Holy Spirit is referred to in
Genesis 1: 1 -3
and it says, "And the Spirit of God moved
upon the face of the waters
and God said let there be light and
there was light."
Also God the Father is referred to there
and it says, "In the beginning God created
the heaven and the earth, and the earth
was without form and void. And darkness
was upon the face of the deep."  And then
Jesus is referred to as being present
in creation in John chapter 1 verses 1
to 3, and I'm just gonna read that for
you. And it says,  "In the beginning the
Word already existed.  The Word was with
God and the Word was God. He existed in
the beginning with God. God created
everything through him and nothing was
created except through him." And here it's
referring to Jesus as the word.  And often
in the Bible Jesus is referred to as the
Word and then there are times when the
Bible is referred to as the Word.  If you
want to find out more about which Bible
study were using I list that in the
description box.  We're reading from
the first5 app.  I have permission to use
their devotions and so that is what
we're going to be studying in Genesis
chapter 2 and it's written by Krista
Williams.  And it's entitled
Marriage Matters. The key verse that she
gives here is Genesis 2:24 and it says,
"That is why a man leaves his father and
mother and is united to his wife and
they become one flesh."
Genesis one records God's wisdom and
power as he speaks the world into
existence. Genesis 2 records God's love
for Humanity as he tenderly forms man
with his hands and personally breathed
life into him. Then God placed man in a
luxurious garden and gave him meaningful
work God knew it was not good for man to
be alone so he made a suitable helper,
woman. God's first love gift to man. We
all know men and women are different but
they also are more alike than anything
in creation. God made a woman to be man's
ideal counterpart in this world. When
Adam saw her he burst forth in praise
saying, 'This is now bone of my bone and
flesh of my flesh." And that's the verse
23.
I think Adam liked what he saw. There in
that perfect garden, marriage had its
beginning. God specifically and
intentionally created and established
marriage to be between one man and one
woman. That is why a man leaves his
father and mother and is united to his
wife and they become one flesh. That's
verse 24. So what does scriptures first
words about marriage teach us? That there
should be a priority to the marriage
relationship, which means leaving our
parents and becoming one. Marriage should
be permanent,
because hold fast means to cling,  to
cleave or to keep close. And there
should also be oneness in marriage.  One
man, one woman and one flesh.  And there
should be openness and purity in
marriage.  Adam and his wife were both
naked and they felt no shame. They had
nothing to hide
and no barriers between them. These are
God's standards for marriage and He is
glorified when we embrace them and apply
them.  Not only that, marriage is a picture
of the relationship between Christ and
the church.  So they apply to our
relationship with Him as well. Married or
single,  marriage is a picture of the
relationship between Christ and his
bride,  the church.  As members of Christ's
Holy Church.  our relationship with him
should be a priority.  It should be
permanent and there should be oneness,
openness and purity in our relationship
with Christ.
Our greatest,  deepest,  satisfaction of
soul and purpose for life is found in
a right relationship with God.  And then
there's a few verses here that I'm gonna
read that she gives. And the first passage
is Ephesians 5:20 -33, and it says, "And
give thanks for everything to God the
Father in the name of the Lord Jesus
Christ. And further,  submit to one another
out of reverence for Christ.   For wives
this means submit to your husband's as
to the Lord. For a husband is the head of
his wife as Christ is the head of the
church.  He is the savior of His body the
church.  As the church submits to Christ
so you wives should submit to your
husbands in everything. For husbands
this means love your wives just as
Christ loved the church.  He gave up his
life for her to make her holy and clean,
washed by the cleansing of God's Word.  He
did this to present her to himself as a
glorious church without a spot or
wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead,  she
will be holy and without fault. In the
same way,  husbands ought to love their
wives as they love their own bodies. For
a man who loves his wife actually shows
love for himself. No one hates its own
body, but feeds and cares for it just
as Christ cares for the church. And we
are members of his body.As the
Scriptures say,  'A man leaves his father
and mother and is joined to his wife. and
the two are united into one. '
This is a great mystery,  but it is an
illustration of the way Christ and the
church are one.  So again I say, each man
must love his wife as he loves himself,
and the wife must respect her husband."
And then she also gives Second
Corinthians 11 verse 2 and it says,  "For I
am jealous for you with the jealousy of
God himself.
I promised you as a pure bride to one
husband Christ."  Her question for us here
is, 'Married or single for the believer
Christ is our bridegroom. How can you
implement these standards in your
relationship with Christ?'  So the prayer
that she gave here is,  'Lord God I thank
you that from the very beginning, you
established and set the standards for
marriage.  Help me remember and embrace
these truths so my marriage will glorify
you.  In Jesus name,  Amen.'  And I think also
we should consider how we can implement
this in our relationships with our
husbands too,  realizing that God wants us
to be unified as a couple.  He wants
us to be loving and kind, and there are
several passages on marriage in the Bible
talking about how we should
love each other.  And there's also First
Corinthians 13 which talks about what
love is,  and that is a really good goal for us,
especially with our husbands,  since they
know us the best and  we know them the best.  In the video  I
put up this week where I'm reading
Genesis chapter 2,  I talk about the
differences between Genesis chapter 1
and chapter 2,  so I will link that in the
description box but if you have any
questions about that
you can go back to that video.  And please
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