It's FRIDAY! (technically Saturday)
I made it to the end of the week and I am still ALIVE!
Do you hear that?
It is the quiet before the storm... the time is fast approaching... brace yourself. for. wedding season.
I am going to my first wedding of 2012 tomorrow! I am so excited for the couple!
Speaking of weddings, which I hear often lead to marriage, I attended a marriage seminar tonight. Yes, I know I am not married.
Since I told my housemate I was planning on typing up my notes I figured I'd share some things I learned here with you too.
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Adam + Eve (& Adamic Nature)
Adam + Eve = 1st Marriage Ever.
Adam noticed the animals in pairs of two. Wait a minute, something was missing. God created Eve to be a partner to Adam. He saw her and his response was probably "Wow, for me?". They had everything at their disposal. God gave them everything they could need. But then....
Adam + Eve Mess Things Up for All of Mankind
Adam and Eve lived in the garden and God provided everything freely except fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. There was ONE thing the humans were not allowed to do. Guess what they did?
Temptation: You Can Be Your Own God
The temptation given to Adam and Eve were once you eat the fruit of knowledge, you will know good and evil, even though God forbade it, you will be like God, you can be your own God.
Human Relationship with God Changed
The moment they bit that apple, humans' relationship with God changed. They were banished from the garden. Humans were imperfect, committed the first sin, many more to follow.
Adam + Eve = 1st Dysfunctional Marriage
Can you imagine how Adam and Eve looked leaving the garden? Adam probably was still accusing Eve of being the reason he ate the fruit and they are getting kicked out of their perfect home and she was probably pointing a finger at him or the snake partaking in the bickering and making excuses. Well, things were not looking good.
The 1st Dysfunctional Family
Adam and Eve had some kids and one of them murdered his brother. No matter what era you are in, that family sounds like it has problems. The first family in human history was also the world's first dysfunctional family. Human history is not looking so good in the realm of marriage.
It is hard to find examples of good marriages and family situations in the Old Testament. Let's look at some key figures:
1) Abraham - "father of the nations" - had a wife named Sarah but also slept with and had children with Sarah's servant Hagar
2) Solomon - "wrote the book of love" - you'd think this guy would know how to love his wife, but that may have been tough because he had 700 wives and 300 concubines
3) David - "a man after God's own heart" - great guy, but had that affair with Bathsheba, got her pregnant, tried to hide it, may have tried to get her husband killed, he also had some pretty rotten children
Dysfuntional Family -- is a result of the Fall of Man --from desiring to be my own god -- which can be summed up in one word. SELFISHNESS.
The speaker referred to this as human's Adamic nature.
Next time: Ephesians 5:21
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