Not Good to Be Alone

In this sermon, we continued the Genesis series by looking at how God created man and woman in His image as relational beings. In Genesis 2, God declares that it is not good for Adam to be by Himself. This doesn't mean that Adam is able to be relational if he wants to; this means that Adam was designed to exist within perpetual intimate relationship. To address this need in Adam's life, God creates Eve as a helper. Before Eve is created, Adam spends time with the animals God had already made and can't find anything to fulfill his relational need. Eve isn't created primarily to help Adam with the workload of caring for the garden; Eve is created to help Adam with his need to be known. When we live in intimate relationships within our families and the Church, we are sampling the eternal realities of the coming Kingdom.