Adam's Rib, Part 11

Calvary Temple

Adam's Rib, Part 11

February 11, 1996 • Pastor Star R. Scott

Glory. Amen. Good to be in His presence. Let's turn to Ephesians. We want to pick up where we left off this morning and check out a few more of the responsibilities that the men have in overseeing the household and fulfilling the call of God on their lives. We saw this morning that the husbands were to love their wives as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it, and we talked about the spirit and the attitude in which he's to give himself, the character traits. How he's to be long suffering and kind and to minister according to the needs of the wife. We saw this morning that the wife was a joint heir with the man, and until you begin to treat them accordingly the Scriptures says your prayer life will be affected. Your prayers will be hindered when you don't understand the relationship and have it in proper perspective with your wives. We're dealing with the fact this morning that a woman in the Christian home is not chattel. She's not property, okay? Many of us seem to think, "Well, you know, okay, sure, we understand that." But not everybody acts that way. Not everybody lives that way, and as Christians we see that it's not only something that's preferred it's something that's commanded-that the women be honored and that we dwell with them according to knowledge. I think most men think that's a miracle. How in the world can you ever know a woman? Well, by knowing Jesus. Amen? You want to know how to understand your wife? Just get to know Jesus a little bit better and you will understand your wife.

And it's something that as you being to grab that feminine perspective, the love of God as it's expressed to you-His tenderness His compassion all of these different things that are expressed to you-you'll understand then why your wife responds in certain ways and you'll be able to understand that missing part, the feminine perspective. Or as we like to call it in our vernacular, our "better half" Okay. We find outside [the body of Christ], "Well this is my better half," and most men say jokingly, "Ha Ha Ha." And they're telling the truth, you know. And what we need to realize then is that this aspect, this part of man, woman, that that was taken out of man, is so vital and we need to realize then as we were looking that their to be honored as the weaker vessel...

Adam's Rib, Part 1

January 7, 1996 • Pastor Star R. Scott

Let's turn to the book of Genesis. We're going to start a study, and we're going to be in this for a while. It's something we'll be going over in the Home Fellowship Groups, quite extensively, here in the next couple of weeks, because it's dealing with the hour that we're in and it's affecting the fellowship here. It's something that's going to continue to manifest. So, we're going to talk about preparing our homes for the last days. We, right now, have ten marriages in this fellowship that are about to go up in flames at any moment. There are going to be more. It's the hour that we're living in. We're going to look at some of the things we can do to make sure we're right with God, that we're doing our jobs in the relationships, the covenants that we have. Many of you young people, the young adults, should the Lord tarry, who are going to be looking to cut covenant here. That you'll enter into this wisely and understanding what God's responsibility is, as it's been placed upon you. So, we're going to deal with the subject of Adam's Rib and start from there. Let's look at Genesis, Chapter 2. Let's start at the very beginning, here. Verse 18 says, "And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him." "I will make him an help meet for him." Interesting phrase, isn't it? God is the author of this thing. God said, "I will decide who he needs for him." Now, in our society we think we're to decide who we need. Who we're to marry, who's best for us. God says "No, I've already chosen the parameters you can move in." Okay? So right now, we begin to see the biggest problem that we have in our society today...

Adam's Rib, Part 2

January 7, 1996 • Pastor Star R. Scott

We went down and saw in 1 Corinthians 11, verse 8, then, "For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man." We spent a lot of time on that in our study this morning. "Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man." And as we were dealing with that premise, we were talking about the woman's role of helpmeet. Remember we said that role was one that was to stand before, to bring assistance and aid. We saw that the term "help meet" really came from the Hebrew word neged, which was negative, or the opposite perspective, that we were looking at, that ability to give the full picture by bringing that opposite perspective of what was in man but was removed in the person of Eve. So we need that counsel to be a whole individual, to move in wisdom. But we saw also this morning that the reproof that came to Adam was that he did what? He hearkened, or listened to, his wife. Now, what did we say that meant? It didn't mean that you don't go for counsel to get that feminine perspective. That is what we are admonished to do. That's why woman was created. But it meant that the man could never listen to the wife's, whatever it is, perspective from an emotional or position that we saw in the woman. We saw the woman was the source, according to Timothy, of deception. The man could never allow womanly wiles, the woman's influence under demonic powers that bring her to deception, to bring a different direction in the man's life than what God has already spoken. That's what it means to "hearken" to your wife, to take her perspective, to allow the pressures or whatever to move you contrary to the established Word of God. So it's very important that we allow that principle to be established in our hearts. So we see, then, that the woman was created for the man. It wasn't good for man to be alone...

Adam's Rib, Part 4

January 14, 1996 • Pastor Star R. Scott

Let's turn to the book of Genesis. We want to look at Chapter 2, and we want continue our study on Adam's Rib. The Spirit of God has been ministering grace to us and preparing us for this last day. We understand that in the last days, as the spirit of antichrist is on the move, that there will be marrying and giving in marriage as one of the signs of the last days. It's a sign of the times as it was in Noah's day, it will be in the last day, and this is the last day, and we realize that divorce, the ruin of families, is epidemic in our nation, and the funny thing is-I say funny, not "ha, ha," sad-there is little distinction between the professed Christian church and world, statistically. Now there's absolutely no place for that, so we need to understand what our roles are and what God requires of us before we cut the covenant of marriage, and with many of you young adults, should the Lord tarry, this is something that you will be considering, and we want to see this dealt with here in our midst. The second chapter, verse 18, "And the Lord God said it's not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him. And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: [and none of them did he call help meet. He called them hippo, rhino and other terms. And we realize then that there wasn't any help meet found for him, and it says that whatever he named then that was their name.] And Adam gave names to all of the cattle… but there was not found [verse 20] an help meet for him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and [the Lord] took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made He a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said this is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed."...