Slides: Lesson 4

God’s design for Marriage

The Mind Of The Manufacturer & The Design For The Beloved

The Purpose of Humanity

The first 2 human beings represent us all

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female.

Genesis 1:27

God’s Purpose

Relationship – God created us for relationship with Himself

Vocation – the lifework He designed us to carry out for Him on the earth

Then God said, “Let us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let him have dominion over…all the earth.

4 Questions

Why did God create man?

What does it mean to be created in God’s image?

What does it mean to have dominion over the earth?

Why did God create male and female?

God Created Man Out Of LOVE…

God is Love (1 John 4:8, 16)

I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness

Jerimiah 31:3

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God 

1 John 3:1

For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:37-39

It is the nature of love to give of itself, it cannot give in isolation.  In order for love to be fulfilled, it has to have someone to love, and it has to give to its beloved. 

Myles Munroe

He is a God of Relationship.  Not isolation. He desires someone of his nature and likeness whom he can love.  He created man because he wanted to share His love with a being like himself, a being created in his image.

Myles Munroe

- Love is giving
- The receiver has to be like the giver
- Cannot give meaningfully to something not like
  you
- It cannot receive in a way that will satisfy your
  giving or reciprocate
- God desired a shared and mutual love, not a
  one-sided love

Myles Munroe

God’s Image

God drew man out of Himself

No other being, even angels are made in God’s image

Man is spirit

Spirit has no gender

Male and Female physical forms house the spirit man

When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.  He created them male and female and blessed them. And when they were created, he called them (together) man.

Genesis 5 1-2

The reason God created humanity, was to establish a relationship of love with man.  God created man – the spirit-man – in his own image, so that love could be freely given and received. 

Myles Munroe

God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and truth

John 4:24

The Soul Mate

Soul – Mind, will, emotions

Spirit – Conscience, intuition, communion with God

Body – Flesh, blood, bones

No human being can meet your soul needs, spiritual needs or ego needs.

Then the king will say to those on his right, Come, you who are blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Matthew 25:34

And if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ

Romans 8:17

In the same way God, desiring even more to show the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his purpose interposed with an oath

Hebrews 6:17

Inheritance as a Birth Right

Kingdom Birth Right Citizenship

Kings are landowners

Kings seek to expand and defend their territory

Kingdom concepts applied to relationships

Mary Magdalene Netflix

Esau sold his birthright for a bowl of soup

Esau did not get his Father’s blessing

Landowner in the kingdom is not physical, but spiritual

I AM A LANDOWNER