Order of Society: Gender Roles part 1
Genesis 2:4-24
Are there clearly established gender roles in Genesis?
- Egalitarian view – complete and total _____________ in all things between gender.
OR
- Elitist view – one gender is given the _____________ responsibility to govern, lead, and exercise authority.
What does Genesis Suggest?
- Creation – Adam was created _____________ .
- Accountability – _____________ was held accountable for the sin of both man and woman.
- Naming – Adam naming Eve is _____________ of authority.
- Temptation – Satan usurped God’s creation and order by addressing _____________ instead of _____________ .
- Cursing – God told woman her desire would be _____________ her husband, and he would _____________ over her.
- Marriage – God reveals that a man will leave the _____________ of his family and assume the _____________ over the woman.
What can be concluded?
- Egalitarian in created _____________
- Elitist in social _____________
Paul’s use of Genesis in Ephesians
- First 3 chapters establish God has created a holy _____________ .
- Second 3 chapters are concerned with showing how members of the community are to _____________ .
- Chapter 4 implores _____________ and _____________ to one another.
- In 5:22-33 Paul begins with the basic social unity of society – _____________ .
Wives
- _____________to and _____________ the husband.
- Why? The marriage reflects Jesus’ _____________ with the Church.
- How? As any person _____________ to Jesus.
- Why submit to Jesus? – His intention is to do what is _____________ and _____________ for all of us.
- How do we submit to Jesus? – We _____________ his commands and _____________ his lead.
Husbands
- Love the wife as Jesus _____________ the church.
- Husbands should create a _____________ by providing what is best and right for the wives and family.
- Doing what is best and right is _____________ the way Jesus loves.
The problem
- _____________… Husbands are tempted to make other things more important than a family’s security.
- This results in a wife’s feeling ” _____________ ” and _____________ .
- Insecurity leads to a wife trying to take _____________ to procure a secure environment.
- Husband eventually _____________ any attempt causing his wife to develop a _____________ attitude towards him.
- This results in a never ending _____________ of unloving and disrespectful words and actions (a “crazy cycle”).
The solution
- We have to be _____________ and _____________ .
- Whether you feel disrespected or unloved you must _____________ to Jesus and be _____________: “Love one another as I love you.”
- _____________should always strive to develop a safe and secure environment by providing what is best and right for the family.
- _____________ should always strive to help their husbands lead by submitting and supporting to final decisions.
- Husbands don’t _____________ your wives responsibility to help by not creating a safe and secure environment.
- Wives don’t _____________ your husband by criticizing and not respecting.
Society in General
- The _____________ relationship is the most basic social unit.
- From this basic unit we can extrapolate general principles concerning gender roles in _____________ .
- _____________, in general, should do their best to create a safe environment for women and children by always trying to do what is best and right for them. (Matt. 5:28 & 1 Tim. 5:2)
- _____________, in general, should do all they can to help men be successful leaders.
This is really the beginning of a conversation (men with men, women with women, and men with women). How does a man determine what is best and right, and how does he make it happen? How does a women support and help a man be a good leader?
We need to take God’s creative order seriously. Everything we do is a testimony concerning God. We can try hard to mirror a correct image of God and present something to which people will be drawn, or we can present a distorted image which will repulse them.
What will you do?