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Voddie Baucham - We Must Change The Way We Talk About Marriage · Voddie Baucham Sermons

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  Speaker 1: Some of what we talk about this morning may be
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  Speaker 1: uncomfortable to us. And those of you who know me
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  Speaker 1: know that that worries me greatly. But join me, if
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  Speaker 1: you will, in Genesis chapter 2, beginning at verse 18.
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  Speaker 1: As you open your Bibles to Genesis 2, 18, listen
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  Speaker 1: to this. from recovering biblical manhood and womanhood. John Piper
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  Speaker 1: and Wayne Grudem write this about the importance of this
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  Speaker 1: battleground in particular. We are concerned not merely with the
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  Speaker 1: behavioral roles of men and women, but also with the
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  Speaker 1: underlying nature of manhood and womanhood themselves. Biblical truth and
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  Speaker 1: clarity in this matter are important because error and confusion
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  Speaker 1: over sexual identity leads to these four things. Number one,
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  Speaker 1: marriage patterns that do not portray the relationship between Christ
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  Speaker 1: and the church why is this important why is it
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  Speaker 1: important for us to get the roles of men and
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  Speaker 1: women right because according to Ephesians chapter 5 the marriage
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  Speaker 1: relationship is a living breathing example of the relationship between
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  Speaker 1: Christ and his church and if we are wrong about
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  Speaker 1: the roles of men and women in marriage we are
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  Speaker 1: painting a defective picture of the relationship between Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 1: and the church he died.
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  Speaker 2: To redeem.
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  Speaker 1: Two Parenting practices that do not train boys to be
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  Speaker 1: masculine and girls to be feminine. That's the second problem
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  Speaker 1: if we don't address this issue. We adopt parenting practices
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  Speaker 1: that do not train our boys to be masculine and
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  Speaker 1: our girls to be feminine.
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  Speaker 2: That do not look at our boys.
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  Speaker 1: And occasionally say to them, Butch up Sally, you're.
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  Speaker 2: Acting like a girl. 3.
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  Speaker 1: Homosexual tendencies and increasing attempts to justify homosexual alliances. Don't
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  Speaker 1: you think for a moment that homosexuality is somehow organic
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  Speaker 1: and doesn't touch on this issue of the way we
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  Speaker 1: view the roles of men and women?
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  Speaker 2: Hear me when I say this.
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  Speaker 1: There is absolutely no scientific evidence linking homosexuality to any gene. 4.
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  Speaker 1: Patterns of unbiblical female leadership in the church that reflect
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  Speaker 1: and promote the confusion over the true meaning of manhood
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  Speaker 1: and womanhood. There are biblical roles that men and women
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  Speaker 1: are to play in their homes, and there are biblical
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  Speaker 1: roles that men and women are.
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  Speaker 2: To play in the church.
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  Speaker 1: And when we confuse these roles, we pay a price
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  Speaker 1: in every area of life.
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  Speaker 2: That's why this is important.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter 2, beginning of verse 18.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of my favorite passages in the whole Bible.
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  Speaker 2: I love this.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Lord God said, it is not good that
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  Speaker 1: the man should be alone. That's just one of my
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  Speaker 1: favorite statements in the whole Bible. I just have this
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  Speaker 1: picture of God looking at Adam saying, that old boy
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  Speaker 1: ain't going to make it.
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 1: We got to help him. And that's exactly what comes next.
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  Speaker 1: I will make him a helper fit for him. He
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  Speaker 1: ain't going to make it.
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  Speaker 2: I got to help him.
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  Speaker 1: Now, out of the ground, the Lord God had formed
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  Speaker 1: every beast of the field and every bird of the
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  Speaker 1: heavens and brought them to the man to see what
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  Speaker 1: he would call them. And whatever the man called every
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  Speaker 1: living creature, that was its name. This almost seems to
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  Speaker 1: not fit. There's a statement here, Adam's by himself.
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  Speaker 2: He's alone.
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  Speaker 1: I need to make him a helper fit for him.
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  Speaker 1: A helper suitable for him. Or if you guys are
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  Speaker 1: familiar with the King James Version of this, a help meet.
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  Speaker 1: A helper meet, which meet means suitable.
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: By the way, if you're going to talk about it
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  Speaker 1: in the King James Vernacular, it's not help make, it's
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  Speaker 1: help meet.
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  Speaker 2: Amen? Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Not that anybody understands either one of those anymore, but
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  Speaker 1: that's okay. If you're going to use them, it's help meet,
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  Speaker 1: not help make.
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  Speaker 2: But it's a.
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  Speaker 1: Suitable helper for him. That's what we're after here. And
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  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, we're naming the animals. Seemingly
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  Speaker 1: inconsequential as it relates to Adam finding a suitable helper.
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  Speaker 1: Because that's not the kind of help he needs. Amen? Amen?
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  Speaker 2: But is Adam aware of the kind of help he needs?
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  Speaker 2: Not at all.
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  Speaker 1: How could he have been aware of the kind of
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  Speaker 1: help he needs?
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  Speaker 2: He would have had no reference point. None whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's like expecting someone in the 1700s to
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  Speaker 1: wake up one morning and say, I wish I had
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  Speaker 1: a microwave.
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  Speaker 2: They would have had no reference point.
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  Speaker 1: However, you, because you've experienced microwaves, if you were to
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  Speaker 1: wake up in a home where there was not a microwave,
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  Speaker 1: you would.
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  Speaker 2: Wake up one day and say, I wish I had
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  Speaker 2: a microwave. Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because you have a reference point. Adam, however, had no
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  Speaker 1: reference point. He has no idea what he needs. But now,
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  Speaker 1: God's got him naming animals.
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  Speaker 2: Those are gorillas. Is he a gorilla? And a she gorilla.
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  Speaker 2: There's an elephant right there. There's a he elephant and
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  Speaker 2: a she elephant. That's a tiger right there. There's a
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  Speaker 2: he tiger and a she tiger. What's wrong, Adam? God,
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  Speaker 2: everybody got somebody. And I don't like none of them.
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  Speaker 1: Verse 20, the man gave names to all the livestock,
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  Speaker 1: to all the birds, to every beast of the field.
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  Speaker 2: But for Adam, there was not found a helper fit
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  Speaker 2: for him altogether. Oh, yeah. So the Lord God caused
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  Speaker 2: the deep sleep to fall upon the man.
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  Speaker 1: You ever wonder why he did that? Two basic reasons. One,
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  Speaker 1: so he wouldn't take credit. You know how we do.
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  Speaker 1: And two, so he wouldn't mess it up. Because you
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  Speaker 1: know how we do.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: While he slept, took one of his ribs and closed
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  Speaker 1: up its place with flesh. And the rib that the
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  Speaker 1: Lord God had taken from the man, he made into
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  Speaker 1: a woman. brought her to the man then the man
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  Speaker 1: said this is at last bone of my bones and
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  Speaker 1: flesh of my flesh she shall be called woman because
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  Speaker 1: she was taken out of man therefore a man shall
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  Speaker 1: leave his father and his mother and hold fast to
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  Speaker 1: his wife and they shall become one flesh and the
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  Speaker 1: man and his wife were both naked and not ashamed
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  Speaker 1: so we see here in this picture God bringing marriage
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  Speaker 1: into being. And marriage, of course, was God's idea. It
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  Speaker 1: was not man's idea. This is the beauty of it.
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  Speaker 1: Man didn't come up with marriage. Man didn't invent marriage
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  Speaker 1: because man didn't come up with marriage. And because man
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  Speaker 1: didn't invent marriage, man doesn't get to reinvent marriage. God
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  Speaker 1: gave us marriage so he gets to define what it is,
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  Speaker 1: what it's supposed to be. Listen to this from John
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  Speaker 1: Calvin commenting on this passage. Moses now relates that marriage
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  Speaker 1: was divinely instituted, which is especially useful to be known.
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  Speaker 1: For since Adam did not take a wife to himself
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  Speaker 1: at his own will, but received her as offered and
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  Speaker 1: appropriated to him by God, the sanctity of marriage, hence more,
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  Speaker 1: clearly appears because we recognize God as its author. He
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  Speaker 1: goes on, the more Satan has endeavored to dishonor marriage,
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  Speaker 1: the more should we vindicate it from all reproach and
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  Speaker 1: abuse that it may receive its due reverence.
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  Speaker 2: I love that.
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  Speaker 1: The more Satan attempts to redefine and misdefine marriage, the
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  Speaker 1: more we ought to fight to define it the way
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  Speaker 1: God defined it and to show it its due reverence.
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  Speaker 1: We do not have a reverent attitude toward marriage in
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  Speaker 1: our culture.
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  Speaker 2: We don't.
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  Speaker 1: We see marriage as something to be avoided at all
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  Speaker 1: costs in our culture. We do not see marriage as
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  Speaker 1: something to be embraced in our culture. You and I
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  Speaker 1: both have run into parents who have wept bitterly because
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  Speaker 1: their children had determined to get married earlier than they
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  Speaker 1: thought it was appropriate. We do not view marriage the
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  Speaker 1: way God intended marriage to be viewed. We do not
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  Speaker 1: cherish marriage the way God intended for marriage to be cherished.
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  Speaker 1: And because of that, we are not preparing our sons
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  Speaker 1: and our daughters for marriage. And here's our rationale. Our
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  Speaker 1: rationale goes something like this.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, there's plenty of time for that.
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  Speaker 1: And perhaps God would call them to be single, and
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  Speaker 1: so we don't want to force them into thinking about
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  Speaker 1: marriage prematurely.
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  Speaker 2: Really. Really.
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  Speaker 1: I would argue that every little boy and every little
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  Speaker 1: girl ought to be prepared to be a husband and
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  Speaker 1: father and mother and wife as early as possible. Why?
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad you asked.
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  Speaker 1: If I train my sons to be husbands and fathers,
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  Speaker 1: and I train my daughters to be wives and mothers,
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  Speaker 1: but God gives them a supernatural gift, and by the way,
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  Speaker 1: that's the way singleness is defined in the scriptures. In
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  Speaker 1: 1 Corinthians chapter 7 and Matthew chapter 19, it It's
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  Speaker 1: a supernatural gift from God for a person to be
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  Speaker 1: able to live a life of singleness.
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  Speaker 2: So if I train my sons to be husbands.
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  Speaker 1: And fathers and my daughters to be wives and mothers,
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  Speaker 1: but then God gives them this supernatural gift that will
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  Speaker 1: allow them to live a life of singleness, they have
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  Speaker 1: lost nothing. Because ultimately I'm preparing them for the relationship
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  Speaker 1: that epitomizes the relationship between Christ and His church. So
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  Speaker 1: they've lost nothing if I've prepared them for that. However,
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  Speaker 1: if I do not prepare my sons to be husbands
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  Speaker 1: and fathers, and I do not prepare my daughters to
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  Speaker 1: be wives and mothers, and God sends them a spouse,
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  Speaker 1: I've lost everything. And that's where most people are. They
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  Speaker 1: spend their entire lives being raised in homes... that don't
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  Speaker 1: prepare them to be husbands and fathers and mothers and wives,
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  Speaker 1: then they want to come to me for four weeks
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  Speaker 1: of counseling before they get married.
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  Speaker 2: If you can't say amen, you ought to say ouch.
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  Speaker 1: And we are supposed to just magically do in those
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  Speaker 1: four weeks what they should have been prepared for for
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  Speaker 1: their entire lives in their homes. Instead, we've raised our
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  Speaker 1: children to believe that it's somehow more spiritual to go
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  Speaker 1: and pursue life as a single. So that now, here's
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  Speaker 1: how we're raising our young men. This is basically the
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  Speaker 1: attitude that we're giving young men in our culture. The
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  Speaker 1: attitude that says, one day, you'll walk up to a
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  Speaker 1: young woman and you'll say this, essentially.
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  Speaker 2: I have sucked all of the joy.
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  Speaker 1: Out of life. Now I'm ready to marry you and die. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's not what we're teaching our sons.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 1: Because we're telling them, have your fun now. See the
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  Speaker 1: world now. Serve the Lord now. Enjoy your freedom now.
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  Speaker 1: And after you've sucked all of the joy and freedom
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  Speaker 1: out of life, then settle for a wife. God help us.
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  Speaker 1: But that's our attitude and our culture. Instead of training
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  Speaker 1: them from the time that they're small, that there's nothing
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  Speaker 1: more glorious than this relationship that God has given for
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  Speaker 1: men and women called marriage. And that they should become
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  Speaker 1: prepared for it as soon as possible and as thoroughly
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  Speaker 1: as possible.
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  Speaker 2: Amen? God defines marriage.