Sunday, May 11, 2025

Eve

 Temple Baptist Church - 5-11-2025

Genesis 2:20-25

 

Introduction: 

 

A.  This must be one of the most amazing, profound, and beautiful stories found in the bible! 

 

1.  The Book of Genesis thrills my soul, especially the first three chapters. I know that the entire Bible is wonderful, but this was such a special time in history when God created a perfect world and placed the man and woman in it.  God made this earth for us!  God patterned life for us in Adam and Eve.

 

2.  A “Fairy Tale?”  “Fiction?”  Just a “Figment” of man’s imagination?

 

3.  This is not a story; it is history! It is true, and it is right! To believe that this entire perfect universe is a random act or an accident takes far more “faith” than simply knowing that God perfectly designed both man and nature. 

 

B.  Today is Mother’s Day and I want to praise all of you special ladies: mothers, mothers to be, and special ladies who have no children but are mothers and grandmothers to our children and grandchildren.  I want you to know today that you are so special to both God and this pastor.

 

C. Eve was the “crown” of God’s creation.  The last thing that God made was woman, the finishing touch to His creation, never to add anything else.  God made Eve SPECIAL!

 

D.  Eve was the “gift” that God gave to Adam.  Adam had a special need, and with that special need came a special fulfillment

 

1.  Adam lived in a perfect environment and lacked nothing in the physical realm.  His need was not food or shelter; his need was not entertainment; his need was not freedom or purpose; his need was companionship!

 

Genesis 2:18  And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

 

2.  Eve was created IN Adam and then Eve made FROM Adam.  God created Adam by breathing into his nostrils the breath of life and he became a living soul.  God did not create Eve!  Eve was “made” from something that already existed, Adam. 

 

Genesis 1:27  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

 

Genesis 5:1-2  This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;  (2)  Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

 

3.  Eve’s life came from Adam just as our lives came from Adam.  Eve’s life came for Adam.   What a wonderful “gift” that God gave to man. Woman!  She was made special; she was made purposeful; she was made perfect. 

 

4.  Eve’s gift to Adam and Motherhood were innate.  Eve had no mother to give her a life to be patterned after.  Eve knew innately how to be a woman, wife, and mother.

 

5.  I thank God for the pattern that we all have in our mothers, but I also believe that every woman has innately, just as Eve, all that she needs to be the woman, wife, and mother that she is meant to be.

 

E.  Eve was Purposed. God made Eve in Adam on the day that Adam was created!  I want to look at two passages of Scripture that are coupled together. 

 

Genesis 1:26-27  And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.  (27)  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

 

Genesis 5:1-2  This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;  (2)  Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

 

1.  I find this interesting because it would have been logical that, since God created Eve in Adam, that He would have made them come forth at the same time.  God did not!

 

2.  Though Eve was created in Adam when Adam was formed, there was an expanse of time that lapsed before God took a rib from Adam and made Eve.  I believe that Adam needed to know that he needed Eve!

 

3.  God knew that Adam would need Eve before Adam ever got lonesome!  God knew that Adam could not function properly without Eve.

 

4.  I love Mother’s Day but every day should be “Mother’s Day!”  May the Lord help us men and children to know just how special mom is.

 

F.  There are three names found in Genesis that were given to Eve.  Two were given by God and one was given by Adam:  1) help meet  2)  mother  3) Eve.

 

1.  Help meet – “to aid” and the “opposite part” or “counterpart.”  Face to face!  The “mirror image” which is both the same and yet exactly opposite.  Eve was man’s “completer.”  Without Eve, man was lonely.  With Eve, man knew the fulness of life and companionship.

 

Genesis 2:18  And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

 

2.  Mother – “bond.” The word “mother” is described as a “primitive word.”  The word “mother” means “to bond.”  Mother is as old as time. 

 

Genesis 2:24  Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh(Cleave-To bond.  Cling, adhere, or to stick to.)

 

3.  Eve – “life giver.”  Because she was the “mother of all living.”   Mother not only gives birth to the children but she is also the “bond” of all living.  We know that she is the bond of the home but she is also the bond of every person who was ever born.  Other than Adam and Eve, we have all had a mother!  God chose for the mother to bond with her unborn child for 9 months: hearing her heart beat and listening to her voice!

 

4.  What makes Eve and all other mothers so special is that they not only give us birth but are always there with us and for us the rest of our lives.  I understand that there are some mothers who forsake their families, but the rule is that mom is always there for her family.  The father is the head but the mother is the heart!  The father is the head but the mother is the bond!  Without mother, the home becomes a house.

 

G.  Eve was the Perfection of God’s creation.  The first woman was everything that God intended for woman to be.  She was the pinnacle; she was the zenith; she was the apex; she was the benchmark; she was to be the role model for all womanhood to follow; she was made by God and she was perfect!

 

H.  Eve was the Priority of happiness!  It was not good for the man to be alone so God made a helpmeet for him.  Everything God made was perfect except for Adam.  Adam had a need!  She was what Adam needed first and foremost.  Eve was so special!  Made just for Adam.  It was not Adam that sought a helpmeet; it was God who gave her.  I want to say again this morning, “Ladies, God made you special!”  I want to give you a few simple things about Adam and Eve:

 

J.  Have you ever thought of how moms are made?  She has to be completely washable, but not plastic; have 200 moveable parts, all replaceable; run on black coffee and leftovers; have a lap that can hold three children at one time that disappears when she stands up; have a kiss that can cure anything from a scraped knee to a broken heart; and have six pairs of hands.  She must have 3 pairs of eyes.  One pair of eyes is to see through the closed door as she asks the children what they are doing even though she already knows.  Another pair in the back of the head is to see what she needs to know even though no one thinks she can.  The third pair is in the front of the head.  They are for looking at an errant child and saying that she understands and loves him or her without even saying a single word.  She heals herself when she is sick and can feed a family of six on a pound of hamburger and can get a nine year old to stand in the shower.  She is made both soft and tough.  She can endure and accomplish anything.  She will be able to think, reason, and negotiate.  She has tears as her way of expressing her joy, her sorrow, her disappointment, her pain, her loneliness, and her grief.  SHE IS BOTH SPECIAL AND SPECIALLY MADE!!!     

 

K.  Mother’s Day: let’s make this day and every day special for the moms and ladies of our lives.  How do we do that?

 

1.  Love Her - Ephesians 5:25  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;  (The wife and mother is the heart and soul of the home.  Mom was always there for me and Barbara is always there for our sons.  Thank the Lord for a lovable mother.)

 

Proverbs 10:1  The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

 

Proverbs 5:18-19  Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.  19  Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.  (Men, love your wife!  Children, love your mother!)

 

2.  Honor Her - 1 Peter 3:7  Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.  (Honor means to place upon a pedestal.  To worship and reverence her.  Be careful how you treat your wife, husband!  Be careful how you treat your mother, young person!)

 

Proverbs 20:20  Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.  (Be careful how you talk to her!  You disrespect mama and you get in trouble with God!) 

 

Proverbs 30:11  There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

 

Proverbs 30:17  The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

 

Proverbs 31:28  Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.  (Place her on a pedestal in both the home and in public.)

 

3.  Remember Her - Proverbs 31:10  Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. (Sometimes her labor, love, and strength go unnoticed by her family.  If you have a good, loving, faithful, conscientious wife—be grateful and thankful.  Never take your wife or mother for granted because they will not always be here.)

 

Proverbs 15:20  A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

 

4.  Relish Her – Proverbs 23:22  Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. 

 

Ecclesiastes 9:9  Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun. (Make every day with her a special day.  One day, she will be here no longer!  When she is gone, make sure that you have no regrets!  I miss greatly mom and dad.)

 

5.  Take Care of Her – John 19:26-27  When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!  27  Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home(The last act of our Lord Jesus Christ was to make sure that mother was cared for in the best way possible.  The disciple “whom he loved.”)

 

Conclusion: Once again, I would like to wish each of you dear ladies a very special Mother’s Day this morning. You truly deserve it!

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