CHARACTER STUDIES - STUDY 1: Adam And Eve - The First Husband And Wife.

The next series of studies shall be on prominent personalities in the Bible and their character, especially in their relationship with God and their dealings with fellow men. The purpose is to be able to learn the good aspects of their lives in obeying the Lord and serving HIM. And also see those things that they did which displeased God so that we can avoid their errors and maintain a consistent-daily living of holiness and godliness. It's going to be spiritually refreshing you must not miss any part of the series.

STUDY 1: Adam And Eve - The First Husband And Wife.

In the Holy Scriptures, one can see that Adam was the first human being to be created. (Genesis 1:26, 2:19). He was to obey and serve the Lord. As Adam faithfully served the Lord, at God's appointed time, in God's own way, God provided a wife for Adam. Eve, the first woman was later formed and brought to Adam to be his wife. By this act God instituted the marriage of a man and a woman as husband and wife. The Bible says: "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh." - Genesis 2:24

Both Adam and Eve emanated from God being their divine parent. But God set both of them aside in the Garden of Eden, separated from HIM. "What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." - Mark 10:9

This union of only one man and one woman stands as God's standard for marriage among men. Though the Israelites once departed from this standard as a result of the influence of the Egyptians on them, Jesus made it clear that in the beginning it was not so. Read (Matthew 19:3-9). Marriage therefore is an institution of divine origin and should be preserved (Romans 7:1-3).

The Bible says "They both were naked, the man and his wife and were not ashamed," - Genesis 2:25. NAKEDNESS in this sense is symbolic of personal openness which shows that a man and his wife should not hide anything that affects each other. For examples openness in relationship over - Salary, illness, extended family need or problem, spiritual attack, errors in the place of work, unpleasant experiences before marriage and others (James 5:16, Galatians 6:1-2)

As husband and wife our marriage must be based on the word of God. Consider (Ephesians 5:21-35, 1 Peter 3:1-6). Men ought to love their wives as their own bodies and wives should submit themselves to their husbands. "For Adam was first formed, then Eve." - 1Timothy 2:13. The creation of the man before the woman gives him the authority as head of the family. The Bible says: "But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God." -1 Corinthians 11:3.  (Genesis 3:16) The promise of God to married couples is that they shall be fruitful and multiply. The Bible says: "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." - Genesis 1:28. Claim that promise for yourself!

There are other aspects of life in which God expects the husband and his wife to obey Him. For example, God said to Adam and Eve: "Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." - Genesis 2:16-17

We can see that Satan tempted Eve to disobey God and she ate of the forbidden fruit and also gave her husband and he also did eat (Genesis 3: 1-7). Note that the source of temptation and sin in their marriage was an external force-Satan. This external force could be other factors like parents -in-law, enticement with money, lust, unholy relationship with the opposite sex, evil association and fashions of the external world.

It is a pity that Eve was the means by which sin came into the family. No matter how much we love our spouse, we must not tolerate sin in whatever degree it comes. We should learn from the error of Adam. There are other men in the Bible who fell into a similar error- Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1-11) also Ahab and Jezebel - (1 Kings 21:5-10).

God will never leave any sin committed by the agreement of a couple to go unpunished. Whatever therefore the problems or needs of a couple may be, they should resist every temptation to get into sin and depend on God for the victory.

MEMORY VERSE: "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him." - James 1:12

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