A look at the creation of the first man and woman. We will learn lesions that we can apply to our own marriages

1. The First Marriage
Genesis 2:4–25

2. Genesis 2:4–25
4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when
they were created, in the day that the LORD God made
earth and heaven. 5 Now no shrub of the field was yet
in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted,
for the LORD God had not sent rain upon the earth, and
there was no man to cultivate the ground. 6 But a mist
used to rise from the earth and water the whole
surface of the ground. 7 Then the LORD God formed man
of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils

3. the breath of life; and man became a living being. 8 The
LORD God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden;
and there He placed the man whom He had formed. 9
Out of the ground the LORD God caused to grow every
tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the
tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree
of the knowledge of good and evil. 10 Now a river
flowed out of Eden to water the garden;… 15 Then the
LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of
Eden to cultivate it and keep it. 16 The LORD God
commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the
garden you may eat freely;

4. 17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you
will surely die.” 18 Then the LORD God said, “It is not
good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper
suitable for him.” 19 Out of the ground the LORD God
formed every beast of the field and every bird of the
sky, and brought them to the man to see what he
would call them; and whatever the man called a living
creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to
all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every
beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a
helper suitable for him.

5. 21 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the
man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and
closed up the flesh at that place. 22 The LORD God
fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken
from the man, and brought her to the man. 23 The man
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.” 24 For this reason a man shall leave
his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and
they shall become one flesh. 25 And the man and his
wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

6. The First Marriage
Genesis 2:4–25

7. God gave him life
Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;
and man became a living being.
Image of God
Relational

8. God gave him a home
The LORD God planted a garden toward the east, in
Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had
formed.

9. God gave him food
Out of the ground the LORD God caused to grow every
tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food…

10. God gave him a job
Then the LORD God took the man and put him into the
garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.

11. The first thing not good!
Then the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to
be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.”

12. God gave him a hobby
Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of
the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to
the man to see what he would call them; and whatever
the man called a living creature, that was its name. The
man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of
the sky, and to every beast of the field…

13. The reason behind the hobby
…but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable
for him.

14. Not enough
Home
Food
Job
Hobby
We need a relationship

15. God is a problem solver
So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the
man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and
closed up the flesh at that place. The LORD God
fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken
from the man, and brought her to the man.
See the symbolism

16. Wedding Vows
“The woman was made of a rib out of the side of
Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor
out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of
his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be
protected, and near his heart to be beloved.”
Matthew Henry

17. Really Poetic
“This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; This
one shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of
Man.”
Adam
However, in the Lord, neither is woman independent of
man, nor is man independent of woman.
1 Corinthians 11:11

18. Love her like Jesus loves us
So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their
own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;
for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and
cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,
Ephesians 5:28–29

19. Form your own family
For this reason a man shall leave his father and his
mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall
become one flesh.
Leave
Cleave
Unity One Closeness

20. Inseparable
“Have you not read that He who created them from
the beginning MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE, and said,
‘FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER
AND BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE
FLESH’? “So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What
therefore God has joined together, let no man
separate.”
Matthew 19:4–6

21. Emotionally-Spiritually-Physically
And the man and his wife were both naked and were
not ashamed.
Nothing to hide
No shame

22. Our take away
Your wife is God’s gift to you
God created your wife to minister to your aloneness
Nothing comes between you and your wife
Follow Jesus’ example