03 April 2016
Two-Minute Features | 10 April 2016

God Created the Woman to Help the Man (TMF:380)

Friday, April 08, 2016
Peace to Live By: God Created the Woman to Help the Man (TMF:380) - Daniel Litton
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       Continuing in the Genesis 2 passage, we read: “Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” Now out of the ground the LORD God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed” (Genesis 2:5-25, ESV). So, man and woman are the most distinctly intricate creatures God created. Humans are the highest creatures of God’s created order. Only men and women are truly able to enjoy the beauty of God’s creation.

God Created Men & Women to Work, Part 2 (TMF:379)

Thursday, April 07, 2016
Peace to Live By: God Created Men & Women to Work, Part 2 (TMF:379) - Daniel Litton
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       What I want to focus on here is that when God created the man, his primary purpose was to work. And so we, as man, do work even to this day. Working is something God created for man to do. It is part of his purpose. King Solomon noted this important point in the Book of Ecclesiastes. He said: “What gain has the worker from his toil? I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God's gift to man” (Ecclesiastes 3:9-13, ESV). So, we learn here that God wants us, as humans, to enjoy our work, and that the work we do is his gift to us. That’s why your work should, when possible, correspond to your passions. You should like to do what you are doing in your career. Otherwise, it’s probably not for you.

God Created Men & Women to Work, Part 1 (TMF:378)

Wednesday, April 06, 2016
Peace to Live By: God Created Men & Women to Work, Part 1 (TMF:378) - Daniel Litton
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       Let’s continue to read from Genesis 2: “A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers. The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. The name of the second river is the Gihon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush. And the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” What I want to focus on here is that when God created the man, his primary purpose was to work. And so we, as man, do work even to this day. Working is something God created for man to do. It is part of his purpose.

God Breaths the Breath of Life into Man, Part 2 (TMF:377)

Tuesday, April 05, 2016
Peace to Live By: God Breaths the Breath of Life into Man, Part 2 (TMF:377) - Daniel Litton
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       First, I would like to note that God breathed in the man the breath of life, and this made the man a living soul. So, the man’s body could not function apart from the soul. The soul was necessary in order for the man to be alive. This is why man, nowadays, cannot create a Frankinstien. You cannot place body parts together in a lab and create a living person. Even if the technology was available to do so, it wouldn’t work. Cloning is possible, but all you are doing there is creating a replica of what God has already created, and God will grant the person a soul. It takes outside intelligence for life. Humans can play God, but that cannot create the materials that God originally made. All they can do is replicate God’s materials; they don’t use their ‘own’ materials. Second, consider that God created “The tree of life” and “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” It would be the latter of these two supernatural trees that Adam and Eve would ultimately break the command of God and eat of it’s fruit. These trees were supernatural, by today’s standard though they weren’t supernatural back then.

God Breaths the Breath of Life into Man, Part 1 (TMF:376)

Monday, April 04, 2016
Peace to Live By: God Breaths the Breath of Life into Man (TMF:376) - Daniel Litton
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       I want to take a few moments here and examine the creation of man and woman a little closer. Now, Genesis chapter 2 gives us a more thorough account of Day Six of creation, as I’ve already mentioned. Let’s go ahead and read that account. Let’s pick up in verse 5, and read through verse 9 to get started: “When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground—then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground the LORD God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” First, I would like to note that God breathed in the man the breath of life, and this made the man a living soul. So, the man’s body could not function apart from the soul. The soul was necessary in order for the man to be alive.