June 28th 2026 Genesis Chapter 2 v 18 - 25
V 18. An help meet for him. Moses, indirectly reveals man's natural loneliness and lack of full satisfaction. Though much had been done for him, yet he was conscious of a lack.
The Creator had not finished.
He had plans for providing a companion who would satisfy the unfulfilled yearnings of man's heart.
Created for fellowship, and companionship, man could enter into the full life only as he might share love, trust, and devotion in the intimate circle of the family relationship.
Jehovah made it possible for man to have an help meet for him. Literally, a help, answering to him, or, one who answers. She was to be one who could share man's responsibilities, respond to his nature with understanding and love, and wholeheartedly co-operate with him in working out the plan of God.
V 2l. deep sleep. . . made her.
Today doctors use various anesthetics to produce deep sleep.
We do not know what means or method the Creator used to induce in Adam such deep sleep that he was unconscious of the events.
That remains a mystery, certainly divine mercy was displayed in this miracle.
The Lord was bringing into being not only another individual but a new one, totally different, with another sex.
Someone has said that "woman was taken not from man's head to rule over him, nor from his feet to be trampled upon, but from his side under his arm, to be protected, and closest his heart, to be loved."
She is also represented in the story of creation as wholly dependent upon her husband and not complete without him. Similarly, man is never fully complete without the woman.
It is God's will that it should be so.
Since woman was formed from man's side, she is bound to him and obligated to be a help to him.
He is obligated to give her the full protection and devoted shielding of his arm.
The two beings make up the completed whole; the crown of creation.
Moses declares that God built the rib which he had taken from man into a woman.
The hand that had moulded clay into the material for the body of man took a part of the living body of and built it into the woman.
V 22. Brought her unto the man. When God was ready with this new creation, he "gave her away" in marriage to her husband, thus establishing the eternally significant institution of marriage.
As the Creator instituted marriage, it was a sacred relationship of man and woman, with deep mystery at its centre proclaiming its divine origin.
The loving heart of God doubtless rejoiced in the institution of a relationship that was to be high, clean, holy, and pleasant for mankind.
V 23. This is now . . . flesh of my flesh.
The man recognized in this new creation a divinely created companion who was fashioned to provide all that his hungry heart would need to carry out God's holy will.
Woman. . . man.
These two Hebrew words are much alike, even in sound.
The only difference between them is that the word for "woman" has a feminine ending.
V 24. Therefore, doth a man . . . cleave unto his wife.
The Creator had established the full basis for committed marriage.
The great Hebrew commentator, Rashi, declares that these words are a specific comment by the Holy Spirit.
The final commentary on the union of man and wife was given by our Lord, when he said: "For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave a his wife, And they twain shall be one flesh
So then they are no more twain but one flesh
what therefore God hath joined together , let no man put asunder (Mark 10 v 7-9)
God planned that the marriage bond should be forever indissoluble.
Cleave means to "glue himself to" his wife (his own wife).
The word for "wife" is singular.
The man, who is stronger, is the one who is to cleave.
The wife will be held when the husband applies the kind of loving power described in this verse.
Love is strong and enduring. "What God hath joined together, let not man put asunder."
This is an old statement, but it is truly God's word for all our hearts today, and always.
How remarkable it is that a relationship so accurately described centuries ago by Moses should still be rooted in eternal truth and divine decree.
The sacredness of marriage is founded in the very heart of the Scriptures, and eternally underlined as basic by the Holy Spirit.
God willed that the beings he created in his image should be his chosen vessels to build a home pleasing to him.
In the N T the Spirit reveals: the divinely ordained relationship of man and woman, based on the order of creation, the headship of the family resident in the husband; the eternal sacredness of the marriage vow; the kind of love that should unite husband and wife; and the purity that should portray those who typify the Bride for whom Christ gave his life.
News from the Church
New dates
1st July..…..Friendship Group, (this covers all ages and the lonely people)
15th July …. Knit and natter is a time to finish old projects or learn new skills
if you just want to talk well that’s OK too
ANSWERS TO 21st June QUESTIONS
1) The second law or summery of the law 2) Yes (ch 4 v 24) 3) the worship of any imagery (which is not God) 4) An animal with cloven hooves and chewing the cud (like cows) 5) An animal without cloven hooves (like a horse) or one that did not chew the cud (like a pig) 6) Yes (they do not have scales) 7) Yes (ch 22 v 5) 8) Yes (ch 22 v 5) 9) No 10) Yes (ch 23 v 24 – 25) 11) Yes for 1 year
12) On Pisgah a peak on mount Nebo 13) No it was only known by God 14) 120 yrs old 15) 30 days 16) No, he only looked over it from a mountain
Bible Quiz this week’s Quiz is about Joshua
1 Who wrote the book of Joshua?
2 How many spies did Joshua sed out?
3 Who was Rahab?
4 What river parted them and the land of Canaan?
5 What is meant by “the Promised Land”?
6 Who led the people over the river?
7 What time of year was the crossing?
8 Did the Priest get to the other side first?
9 What memorial was placed at Gilgal?
10 Which was the first city to be captured?
11 How was it captured?
12 Who was saved at Jericho?
13 Why were they spared from death?
14 Did they suffer defeat at Ai?
15 Who was the guilty one?
16 What punishment did he have?
God Bless