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Dr. Jim Garlow is a lifelong pastor who most recently served in San Diego, California, and now leads Well Versed, a ministry dedicated to bringing biblical
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Introduction to ReVersed and Chapter 17 0:10 Well, greetings. Thank you for being with us. We're talking about the book Reversed from Culturally Woke to Biblically Awake. I wanna remind you that there was a previous volume called Well0:21 Versed Biblical Answers to Today's Tough Issues that came out a number of years ago, and then the follow-up to that part 2 was reversed, the book we're talking about today. And also0:33 a reminder, if you don't already know this, is we have a children's coloring book that goes with that. And whichever page you turn like, here's here's 30. There's 60 different coloring pages in here. So,0:45 like, page 30 goes along with chapter 30, in in the book so you can teach your children these same principles. But 1 we're talking about today may be the most fun chapter of them all, chapter0:57 17. I have a friend who buys this book by the case. By the way, if you wanna buy it by the case, you can go to well versed world dot org. We have them available to you. It's a 271:09 dollar book. Don't pay that much. We want you to buy a whole case of them. What happens if you buy a whole case and you'll get them out to everybody you can? We'll sell it to you for 6 dollars a book. You heard me right.1:20 We'll drop that price, clear down to 6 dollars a book. If you will buy a case, a case of 20 of them, get them to your pastor, Get them to your elected officials. Get them to your neighbors, your friends, your coworkers,1:32 and your children and your grandchildren. While we're talking about the topic of marriage today, I'm gonna stretch you on what we're gonna talk about today as we go through chapter 17, of reverse.1:44 Let me pose a question to you right off. Is God was God male or female? The answer is neither. God is neither male or1:56 female. The Old Testament writers aren't sure how to describe him when they talk about him. They talk about the masculine characteristics or what we traditionally associate with masculinity. They will talk about,2:08 for example, strength, brute force, the power and the might of God. At other times, they write about God using feminine characteristics. They'll refer to God2:20 as having a breastfeeding and newborn baby. They'll regard they'll talk about God having a womb delivering forth a newborn. So they assign to God on those passages the characteristics2:32 we associate with femininity. So God is neither male nor female. Now God is not some androgynous being either. But the full spectrum of the image of God involves that which2:44 we both associate with masculinity and femininity. Consequently, let me go back 1 2nd here. 1 of the words that we associate with God, the very name, is the word El Shaddai.2:57 El Shaddai is 1 of the names for God in the Hebrew. El, it's believed, comes from mighty strong like a mountain. Shaddai, it's believed, comes from the word3:08 breast, like feeding a newborn baby to sustain life. Even that word El Shaddai, it's suggested that the the masculinity and the femininity characteristics or3:20 characteristics are both associated with the nature of God. Now that means this this question. Is any man by himself a representation of the full spectrum of the3:32 image of God? The answer is no. Is any woman by herself, any female, a full representation of the full spectrum of the characteristics of God? No.3:44 Neither a male or female by themselves is a representation of the full spectrum of the image of God. Yet, we're made in the Imago Dei. We're made in the image of God.3:56 So how do we have that phrase? Well, let's go into the text and let's see what the text says. Our traditional view is God made a man4:09 named Adam, took a rib, and from that created a woman named Eve. That's the traditional view of the rib taken4:20 from Adam. Now the English makes it sound like that way, But the Hebrew text is considerably more potent spiritually. Let's unpack4:32 and let's go into the Hebrew word. The word for that it says God created Adam is not capital a, a d a m. The word in the Hebrew by the way,4:44 what I'm about to share here, you'll find some of your Bibles actually have footnotes with the with down below and have the very words I'm talking about right now. Instead of creating Adam, what God made4:56 was Adam in the Hebrew, small a. Don't think of capital a, Adam, the person, the male yet. God created Adam,5:08 humankind. What is Adam? That's humankind. He made humankind. He looked at it and said something very unusual. He looked at humankind and he said,5:20 that is not good. That's the only time God ever looked at his creation and called it not good. Every other thing he said, that's good, that's good, that's good, oh, that's good, that's very good, that's good, that's5:32 good, that's good. There's 1 occasion he looked at what he created, Adam, and said, it's not good. Not good that adam should be alone. So 1 translation says,5:44 at at at as 1. He took a look at that. He then it's called the splitting of the atom. He then took 1 half. You say, wait a minute. What about the rib?5:56 Well, the word for rib in the Hebrew is selah. It's almost like Tesla the car only the literature turn around a little bit. Se. It's a t t. Se la sound.6:09 Took se la. What's that mean? It's used about 40 times in the Old Testament. Every other place is translated properly except in the Genesis account where the word rib is used. What does6:20 salahat mean? It means side or half. He took half or side, removed that, and now he has female. And what does he have6:32 left over? He has male. And so now we have male and female. This is 1 of the reasons that the 2 complementary halves of humanity are drawn to each6:44 other. The sexual attraction each other. It's a desire to be back and fitting together because it's only as the 2 complementarity has of humanity come back together that they represent the6:56 full spectrum of the image of God. No male by himself can do that. No female by herself can do that. It's only as the 2 complementary halves of humanity come7:07 back together in the covenant of marriage as we're about to find out. And in that context, they represent the full spectrum of the full image of God. But let's7:19 go a little bit further on that. Let's go into the if we can, let's go into the Hebrew words. Now in Hebrew, you need to remember the language goes from right to7:31 left. In English, we go from left to right. But in Hebrew, it's the opposite way. So the word man is spelled aleph, yod, shin. It's pronounced7:44 Ish. In the word woman, it's it's pronounced Isha and it's Aleph, Shein, Hey. Think of when we think of Hey, think of a Y. When you think of7:56 yod, think of a y a y. Think of, an h rather, when you think of hey. Now, there's 1 letter that's in this line that's not in this line. What is that? It's yod. Let's bring it8:08 down here. There's 1 letter in this line that's not in this line. What is that? That's the hey. Yod hey. Think of y h. Yod hey. What is that? These are the rudimentary8:19 letters that form the name Yahweh, Yod Hey Vav Hey, the 4 letters, for the name Lord. It's used 6800 times in your Old Testament. Let's8:31 look at it again. Here's the name for man. Aleph Yod, Shen. We bring the yod down here. And here's the word for woman. Here's the hey.8:43 We bring it down here. Yod, hey, vav, hey is Yahweh. For Hebrew, remember again right to left, English is left to right. So Yod8:55 Hey forms the Yahweh. This is the fundamental name used for God through the entire Bible. That means that within the name, very names for9:07 man and woman, buried within their names is the name of God. 2 men don't do that. 2 women don't mere bear that9:18 mark of God. It says a man and a woman comes together within the framework of covenantal marriage that they reflect the full image, yod he vav he, of9:30 God himself. Let's look at it another way. Here's the rudimentary letters of Yod Hey Vav Hey, the word for God. Bring the Yod down here. It forms the middle of the name9:42 for man. Bring the hey, think of h, down here, it forms the last letter of the name for woman. Now if you remove yod from9:54 this and you remove hey from this, what do you have? You have aleph shen. You have aleph shen. What is that word? In the10:05 English, that is fire. Let me ask you a question. Is fire good or bad? Well, it depends. We had serious fires where I live in San Diego. I've lived in San DiegoGod's Image in Male and Female Unity 10:17 for 30 years. We had tremendously bad fire fires in 2003. 2800 homes burned down in a 4 day span. Wildfires. We had fires10:29 again. And a few years later, 2007, 1600 homes burned down. You've seen wildfires hit various cities and burned down so much of recent more recently Los Angeles.10:41 So fire can be a very bad thing. But fire can be a good thing, a form of electricity, if it's controlled. Controlled, it provides our lights. It provides video cameras to10:52 function like there now are. This microphone to function is now is. It provides air conditioning for your home. It provides heating for your home. It allows you to cook a meal. It allows you to start your engine11:04 and drive your car. Fire properly contained is a wonderful thing. The fire or attraction sexually of11:16 a man for a woman properly contained, bracketed within the covenant of marriage is a good and wonderful and glorious thing.11:28 Fire outside of the brackets of covenantal marriage can be destructive. Not only the person that's involved, that's not love that becomes lust. And that's not only destructive of the11:40 person involved. It becomes destructive of a lot of other people around him. So that sexual attraction, the fire within humanity, a man for a woman, a woman for a man, is a good and11:52 glorious and God given thing within the framework of the covenant of marriage. So we do a review here. The word for woman, isha. There's the letters and there's that h or12:04 or hey. The word for man, ish. Here's that letter Yod Hey. Here's the word for Yahweh God. Again, 6800 times in your old testament.12:17 Yod Hey, Vav Hey. And here's that name for fire we talked about just a moment ago. That's when you remove yod and hey and you have just these 2 letters, aleph and shin. Now let's go a12:29 step further. Let's look at the word for covenant. This is the word for covenant. This is berit. Remember, we're reading again from right to left. Berit, Brit. If you12:40 think of the word ish as man, beritish, British, A covenant man. Okay. Here's the word for covenant. Think of covenantal marriage, Now what we're gonna do is12:52 on this, we're gonna separate these 2 letters from these 2 letters. We're gonna move these 2 letters over, these 2 letters over, and we're gonna place that word that we talked about13:04 a moment ago, the word fire in the middle of it. And watch what happens. Repeat. We're moving these 2 letters over, these 2 letters that way, and putting ash or fire in the middle ofHebrew Secrets: Marriage Embodies God 13:16 it. What happens? Here's what we have. The word is beresheet. Now you'll recognize here's the word covenant. There's the 1st 2 letters. There's the last 213:28 letters. Here's the word for fire, and we've inserted that in the middle. Now we have the word beresheet. What is beresheet? Beresheet is actually,13:40 ironically, the 1st word in your Bible, your Old Testament. This translates literally in the beginning. Bereshit. The Jews don't call Genesis, Genesis. They call that13:52 book Bereshit. But here what I'm telling you right now, I was taught by 3 Jewish rabbis. And the Jewish rabbi who taught me this said, so important is that glorious14:04 attraction, a man for a woman, a woman for a man, within the context of covenantal marriage, permanent marriage. So powerful is that, the14:16 institution of marriage, that God tucked that meaning into the very 1st word of the bible itself. What is that saying? It's14:28 saying that marriage, a man and a woman, marrying, is sacred. It is holy before a holy and righteous God.14:40 It should never be tampered with. God is so committed to marriage. He is so ferociously defensive a marriage. That14:52 even in the 1st book in the bible, Bereshit, the 1st word of the 1st chapter, in the beginning, tucked in there is the meaning of the powerful attraction he's put of a man for a15:04 woman and woman for a man within the constructs of covenantal marriage. That's how precious marriage is and why it should never be tampered with by homosexuality,15:16 transgenderism, by pornography, by divorce, the list goes on and on. Any of those things are destructive of that which God sees as so15:28 sacred and so righteous. And that moves us from culturally woke to biblically awake.15:37 Let us pray for marriages. Father, we pray for marriages and seek your blessing and guidance. We pray for unity, love, and a strong foundationMarriage is Sacred: Prayer and Close 15:49 in all marriage relationships. May marriages be built on love, trust, and respect, and may couples always find comfort in each other and in16:00 you. Father, help couples to forgive 1 another, and may they find their way back to each other's hearts. Lord, help couples to communicate openly16:12 and honestly with each other, and may their words always be filled with love and understanding. May they be patient with each other, and may they readily forgive 1 another's mistakes.16:25 May they come to you in all that they do and unite them in a supernatural covenant which you have established through the gift of marriage. In Jesus' name,16:37 Amen.16:38 We hope you enjoyed the video. Thank you so much for watching. Hey, don't forget to check out this discussion questions that are attached. Have a fun time studying, and we will see you in the next chapter.In this video 0:00 Introduction to ReVersed and Chapter 1710:10 God's Image in Male and Female Unity13:10 Hebrew Secrets: Marriage Embodies God15:38 Marriage is Sacred: Prayer and Close
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