Title: Rib Wife
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rib wife
Genesis 2:18-25
2005. 5. 22, am
Today's text describes the principle of marriage and the principle of marital happiness. Judging from the text, it is ridiculous to argue whether a man is taller or a woman taller. A man is unfinished unless it is a woman. A woman is a fragile vessel that a man must love and protect. When God created man, in Genesis 1:27, He first created man and then Adam. After creating Adam, He put Adam to sleep and made a woman from that rib. By doing this, God showed the order of creation.
People say that man came from woman, but this is not the case in the beginning of mankind. 1 Corinthians 11:8-9 says, “Man is not of woman, and woman is of man, and man was not made for woman, but woman for man.” It speaks of order and obedience.
1 Corinthians 11:3 says that the head of Christ is God, the head of a woman is man, and the head of a man is Christ.
Men are made of clay, but women are not. If a man is the primary work of God, then the woman is made of this man's rib. Some say it in a funny way. Men are weak against water because they are made of clay. It is soluble in water. Any strong man melts in the tears of a woman because he was made of dust.
A yangban is a family member with a skeleton. In this sense, is a man a yangban? Is the woman a yangban? The real yangban are women. Because they are people with bones made of bones. Adam's material is dirt, but the woman's material is bones. Which one would be stronger? The bones are stronger. What happens when you grab a bone and hit an earthen bowl or earthenware bowl? The bowl breaks. Men sometimes beat women, but when women start beating men, husbands break like pottery bowls.
There is a reason why God made a woman out of ribs, not skulls or toes.
① Created as a companion who is neither arrogant nor neglected,
② It means one body because it was taken from Adam.
③ The ribs are to protect the chest.
∴ A man is incomplete without a woman, and a woman is nothing without a man.
A woman is a companion helping her husband. A helping handiwork. Therefore, those who become wives ask, "Am I a helper who helps my husband, such as pottery and earthenware, to catch me when something goes wrong, to give me courage when I am weak, and to give me comfort?" Please meditate on it. Men ignore women because they have power, but without women a man is not complete.
Example) A believing couple who knows the Bible well fights. Do you know how the butler of the wife curses her husband while swearing at each other in the Gyeongsang dialect? 'You idiot!' do. The husband's butler, who was insulted by his wife as 'a fool', got angry and said, 'This is nothing,' and will kill him.
Their fight is theologically flawless. Your wife is right. A husband without a wife is an asshole. He's an asshole because he doesn't have one rib. Also, your husband is right. The woman was made of one rib, so it was nothing.
But the wife is forgetting something. Who should fill that imperfection of her husband? Like a rib set up to help, she doesn't do her job, so her husband's heart is hurting because of the missing rib, and it's incomplete. With her help, she will be united, and her husband will not be an asshole.
The husband is right, but there is something he is forgetting. The woman, who was really made with one rib, seems worthless in itself, but if she embraces her husband, her wife will also become whole. There is no woman without a man and no man without a woman.
Paul teaches this principle as it develops into a principle of the church in Ephesians 5. We are all imperfect and weak. However, if we become members of the church and help each other, we are not enough, but we are building the church, the complete body of Christ.
However, if we who are retarded despise each other, condemn and curse each other that you are worthless and useless, and ridicule each other that we are nothing, our church is truly imperfect assholes in the world as well as nothing. It really is. We need to know that even though each of us is prone to cancer and is good, if a brother does not build me up to be a whole person, I myself am a fool.
So is heaven. Although we are lacking and poor, if it is not for us, it is the kingdom of heaven where Abraham and Paul are in, but it is not perfect. That is why Christ died for me. Do you believe in this amazing fact? Although each of us has different and diverse gifts and offices from God, please believe that it is the family and the church that build each other up with what we have received.
The Lord God made a woman out of the rib that he had taken from Adam, and God himself led him. What is Adam's confession of love? “This is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh,” he sang. It was a song of thanks. It was a deep confession of love. God Himself created it and led it, and God made it so that Adam and Eve could live together. God made arranged marriages.
God made a woman from one rib. If God had made two women from one rib, they would have been polygamous. But because He made one woman, a man and a woman must marry. The vow of marriage is a choice and a promise to love only my wife and not look at other women, although half of the six billion women on this planet. Half of the world's 3 billion people are men, but he chose only one man who married me, and he promised to love and obey him.
In Malachi 2:15, God said that he had made one, and he said not to deceive a wife who was married when she was young.
In other words, I told him not to change his mind and throw away Jo Kang-ji. When Adam saw Eve for the first time, God wants him to be happy as he confessed, “Bone of bone and flesh of flesh.”
See verse 24. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This is what biblical marriage is all about.
The first is man's independence. This is to become a family by becoming physically, mentally, and spiritually self-reliant. Marriage is impossible without independence from parents.
Example) The true story of 13 years of living with his parents, and when he fell ill and died, he died and was unable to hold a funeral.
The second is to unite the two. Unity means that a man becomes one as a man and a woman as a woman, making use of everything, including individuality, ability, and wisdom, and becoming one in person. It also refers to the physical union of two people. Because God has done this, Matthew 19:5, 6 says, "What God has joined together, no man can separate."
Marriage is an exercise of God's absolute sovereignty, so man cannot divide it. Where do you go? I hope that I can live with gratitude because God has made me find the most suitable mate. “They were both naked, but they were not ashamed.” This is what a beautiful and happy family looks like. Just as a husband and wife are one body and are not ashamed of each other, let's give thanks because God has given us this happy family. Like Adam, let's give glory and praise to God who gave us a family with the confession of love, "bone of bone and flesh of flesh." I pray that you will respect God well and fulfill your responsibilities as a helper in serving God according to the good will of God who gave you a family. At this time, our family will be like the first garden of Eden. At this time, I pray that our church will become like Eden.