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[dohtml]<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head><body> <div> <div><br /><br /><center> <b><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-620119125215514003" title=""> What Does Marriage Reveal About Christ</a></b> <p><i>By Wayne Vinson - Video Transcription</i></p></center> <p>It’s really easy we all know and accept the type of Christ as the husband and the church as the wife. It’s common knowledge and it’s something that everybody sees and it’s easy to see but what I don’t think it’s as apparent is Christ as the wife and I want to bring that out in the types and shadows of the Old Testament specifically in the book of Genesis. Because if you recall the book of Genesis covers the Patriarchs and their wives all the Pa, oh yeah I want to make note also that I do not have notes as you may have noticed and I apologize for that but let you know right up front. I told Steve I’d do that first thing but I didn’t. A hum but the in the Old Testament specifically in the book of Genesis the Patriarchs had wives all those wives were barren at the outset, outset but through each of them came the promised seed. Ah which in itself is a type of Christ everything in other words typifies Christ.</p> <p>But I wanted to bring out certain aspects of marriage that we don’t always think of typifying Christ. But before I go back into Genesis I wanted to just a hum sum it all up and I think that the best place to go is Ephesians 5 so if you were to flip over to Ephesians 5 I wanted to read a session of Ephesians and then compare that with something Peter said which I think together give kind of a complete of Christ in marriage. In Ephesians 5:22, we going to start in verse 22 and read to the end of the chapter. A short session, wives submit yourself to your own husbands as unto the Lord for the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church and is the Savior of the body. So we have the sav we have the body is as the church is as the wife. So the wife, the church and the body are interchangeable as types. Therefore as the church is subject to Christ so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.</p> <p>Husbands love your wives even as Christ also loved the Church and gave himself for it that he may sanctify it and cleanse with the washing of water by the word. And I always as a kid had a hard time understanding what being baptized in water and the spirit mean. I think I had a grasp of what being baptized in the spirit but what point did the water serve you know, I knew it couldn’t be literal water a hum I always assume it had to do with putting away sin but specifically the water is the word that is what we hear we always first we understand later through the fire and the spirit that God brings on us later.</p> <p>Christ told his disciples, his apostles that he was glad that he was telling them now before he went away so that they would understand later. So we hear first that’s the water and we understand later that’s the Spirit. And as a husband and of course we can apply this on our physical lives. Husbands should be speaking the word to their wives that’s one of the jobs of a husband, the wife is the second witness she should be echoing everything he says. In other words, especially before the children but also before the world they should be saying the same thing they should have a consistent testimony. But of course, it goes beyond that it goes to the church and Christ and of course Christ and God. Christ told the Pharisees time and time again that he had another testimony which was His Father. His Father testified of Him so Him and His Father were a witness-Christ and the Church are two witnesses and the husband and the wife should be two witnesses a hum so he sanctify and cleanse with the washing of water by the word that he might present it to himself a glorious church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that it should be holy and without blemish. The same goes in an actual marriage. If you are speaking the word of God to your wife then you are contributing to her improvement as a wife and as a human being. And that works both ways by the way, that’s what I want to get to eventually so ought men to love their wives as their own bodies.</p> <p>He that loves his wife love himself for a men ever yet hated his own flesh but nourishes it and cherishes it even as the Lord the Church so there again the wife is represented as the body and she’s represented as the flesh and of course that hearkens back to Genesis which he’s about to do right here. For we are members of His body of his flesh and his bones and then here we go he quotes from Genesis for this cause shall a man leaves his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife and they tow shall be one flesh. The wife is the flesh of the husband-the church is the flesh or body of Christ-this is a great mystery but I speak concerning Christ and the Church. Ultimately that’s what all this is talking about. It’s taking about Christ and the Church. The wife and the husband are types and I understand that I think everybody understands all this.</p> <p>Nevertheless let everyone of you in particular so love his wife even as himself and the wife that she reverences her husband. Now notice there he never said anything about the wife loving her husband not once. He said three times for the husbands to love their wives-He said for the wife to reverence and be subject to their husbands but that’s not the whole picture here. Because we are told elsewhere by Christ to love one another be in subjection to one another but as typifies Christ and the Church-the church is subject to Christ so the wife is subject to the husband but now if you flip over to 1 Peter 3, 1Peter 3 likewise your wives be in subjection to your husbands saying the same thing Paul says, that if any obey not the word, any husband, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wife or the conduct of the wives. Now we’ve got a slightly you know this is adding to what Paul said this is how the wife ministers to her husband by her conduct just as the Church is witnessing to the world which an unbelieving husband would correspond to the world he’s not Christ cause he’s an unbeliever but witnesses to the world by their conduct.</p> <p>In other words, there are not just saying the word of God, they’re doing it while they behold your chase conversation and conduct with fear whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plating that is the arranging of hair and the wearing of gold or putting on of apparel. Nothing wrong with those things but this is not what makes you pleasing in the eyes of God. Instead it is let it be the hidden man of the heart.</p> <p>He’s talking to women and he says let it be the hidden man of the heart because it has nothing to do with gender. We’re all whether we’re are men or women, we’re all sons of God, called to be sons of God together we are the Bride of Christ and of course, we exhibit that in our individual lives as well. Individually we are brides but especially corporately we are the bride of Christ and individually men and women we are all the sons of God. And Peter demonstrates that right there by telling them to let the hidden man of the heart in that which is not corruptible unlike those other things, hair, gold, apparel even ornament of a meek and quiet spirit. Now who exhibited meekness and quietness more than anyone else on the face of the earth but Jesus Christ?</p> <p>Which is in the sight of God of great price it’s of great value and after this manner in the old times the holy women also. Here he is talking about the women of the Old Testament who trusted in God adorned themselves. How did they adorn themselves? Being in subjection to their own husbands even as Sarah obeyed Abraham calling him Lord whose daughters you are as long as you do well. What makes you a daughter of Sarah? If you well and are not afraid with any amazement likewise you husbands he says all that to the wives and this is what he says to the husbands-dwell with them according to knowledge giving honor unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel.</p> <p>Now notice he didn’t say the wife was weaker. He said she was the weaker vessel that speaks of the flesh this body you know. That’s not that many women bench press more than men physically but they are to be honored, why? As being heir together of the grace of life that you prayer be not hindered. If you are not doing these things for your wife then your prayers are going to be hindered if you don’t see her as an heir with you then your prayers are going to be hindered because we are simply witnessing Christ.</p> <p>When we follow the pattern of loving our wives and our wives being subjected to their husbands we are picturing Christ and the Church to the rest of the world. We are signs to unbelievers if we do these things. It has nothing to do with moral supremacy. It has to do with being subject to God’s word because that is the baptism of spirit.</p> <p>You know, we hear, like Billy was bringing out, we hear the word of God and then when we do it when we actually perform it. You know we’re trying to go bout doing, we want to bring God’s word; we do like Sarah did back in the Old Testament. ‘Hey take Hagar we’ve got to have a son take Hagar.’ You know she had this idea of how she was going to help God along and she didn’t disobey God in this she just didn’t have the revelation that God was going to do this through her. She had a high calling that she was not aware of. So we try to help God along. Of course, it never works out, because we’re acting without His guidance. We are not subjecting ourselves to His instructions. It’s fine, listen its fine to try to improve yourself as a Christian. There’s nothing wrong with that so long as you are not doing that at the expense of listening to God. Ah Paul said that he buffeted his body, he died daily he disciplined himself.</p> <p>There’s nothing wrong with that but he did it in conjunction with listening to the Spirit of God and obeying God’s instructions not in lieu of it. We always think we have a better way –King Saul thought he had a better way. Ah ‘I don’t think I’ll kill all the animals and all the people of this city. I think I’ll keep them for sacrifices to God’ those are worthless sacrifices.</p> <p>Alright Peter and Paul there together I think give us a more complete picture of how marriage exemplifies Christ in his various capacities. Christ as wife because Christ is a wife (long pause) ohm the husba... the... because his head is God, his is the wife-the husband in the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church as God is the head of Christ. So he has a function as Father and as a husband. All these things as Coy and Bill already brought out are exemplified in Christ.</p> <p>He is the complete picture. We represent him in part but of course we are striving to represent Him as a whole so until a husband sees himself as a wife as well and until a wife sees herself as a husband as well we’re only seeing part of the picture.</p> <p>Alright now I want to go back we going to start back in Genesis and we’re going to see how Christ is revealed stage by stage (pause) alright we’re told in the beginning that God cause a sleep to fall upon Adam and He took one of his ribs and He closed up the flesh and from that rib he made a woman. Now here we go right here this oneness from the get go this is what this led to what Paul was quoting about becoming one flesh. Adam said this is Genesis 2 Verse 23 and Adam said this is now bones of my bones and flesh of my flesh, talking about the woman. Mind you and she shall be called woman because she was taken out of man.</p> <p>Elsewhere we’re told that oh that the woman comes out of the man and the man through the woman as Christ come out of God and God comes through Christ. That’s why she we...that’s why she was made from a rib its to again portray Christ. Everything is to portray Christ.</p> <p>It’s easy to see many coming out of woman because birth comes out of woman but in actuality the women comes out of the man. The man was created first and then the woman just as God was first and then Christ. Christ was first and then the Church therefore, shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh.</p> <p>Now when you leave your father and your mother, how did Christ leave His Father and His mother? Well, he left his Father in the sense that he left his glory behind to take on the flesh and as Coy and Bill brought out he became sin. He didn’t sin but he became sin. He had to leave that glory behind. He became lower than the angel a little lower than the angel. Of course, you can say in a literal sense he left his mother because he did not rank his mother even as highly as he ranked his own disciples and apostles and those that follow him.</p> <p>And the people told Him ‘hey they’re waiting outside to see you.’ He said who’s my mother who’s my brother and he gestured to all the people around him and I can do this same right here. These are my mother, these are my brothers, and these are my sisters none of you are my father because there is only one Father. But all of you are mother, brother and sister because all of you are under God. And they became one flesh and this typifies as it’s obvious, the oneness prescribed by Christ. Oneness is where is at. Husbands and wives become one flesh. Christ exhorted his followers to become one with Him and one with the Father and God. The ultimate goal is to be all in all. Oneness that what it’s all at.</p> <p>Now you hear a lot of talk about oneness right now in the secular world, you know let’s all get along, let’s all come together. Let’s all love one another but it’s without sacrifice. It’s as is and it’s a lie. It cannot happen. You can’t have Muslins, Jews and Christians agreeing in anything. They contradict. Even within Christianity there is no oneness. It’s just like it says in the Bible Peace, Peace when there is no peace. Everybody is calling for peace everybody is declaring peace here and there when there is no peace at all. Ahum in Matthew 19 you don’t need to flip over there. I just want to reinforce what’s he’s saying about one flesh. Where the Pharisees are tempting Him about a man putting away his wife Jesus tells him, you know, look God has put those two things together, let it not be taken apart. And all if you look at the Old Testament, you have all those scenarios where a man had two wives and one was the ideal and one was not the ideal. One was the less than ideal. You had Rachel and you had Leah. Every single one of us has that. The wife is not just the church, the wife is Christ and all of us have another wife besides Christ and as we grow and mature in Christ we begin to single her out just as Abram sent his concubines gave gifts to his concubines and their children but sent them away to the east by the way sent them to the east that’s where Babylon is, sent them away from Isaac and his family because Isaac was the promised see and that was all that mattered.</p> <p>As one flesh the wife is the husband’s body as the church is the body of Christ. So she is the body, she’s the flesh symbolically she’s the flesh but she’s the body and the flesh of she’s typifying the body and the flesh of Christ. In other words, what we have here is we have Christ is the flesh. Who is the antichrist but he who denies that Christ has come in the flesh? Why is that important? Because it’s not talking about his earthly ministry per se it’s talking about Christ in the church. Christ in you the hope of glory. That’s what is talking about that is Christ in the flesh is Christ in you, Christ in me, Christ in us. He’s actually there He’s not up there He is but he’s not off somewhere He’s right here until that become real we don’t produce fruit you know. The husband and the wife have to come together to produce fruit. So if He’s over in space out there and we’re here then no fruit is going to be produced.</p> <p>Now right from the get-go, in the case of Adam and Eve, you know, it’s easy to see the union but right from the get go things aren’t right. Because we know now they weren’t created perfect. Unlike a lot of Christianity teaches they were not created perfect. They were created simply because that which is natural is first not that which is spiritual. And Coy, Coy already brought out how Eve exhibited all the flaws of humanity when she looked on the tree of knowledge. And why not Eve because she represents you know, God is not bashing women but Eve represents Adam’s flesh, she represents the flesh of man, she represents that which is receiving from Christ not that which is simply to be eradicated but that which is to be changed that which is to receive and that which is to grow. The natural man is to, he’s not going to stay natural but even thou the woman was deceived Adam was the transgressor because He knew not to eat. He was not deceived we’re told in the New Testament we’re told he was not deceived. But in this even though he is sinning here he’s a type of Christ because Adam is laying down his life for his wife just as Christ took on the death of the cross for humanity-his wife-became sin. He didn’t sin He became sin. Adam sinned. Christ became sin for humanity. Adam for his wife, Christ for humanity his wife; now as a result of this each of them received a curse and again even the curse here exemplifies different aspect of Christ. This was Eve’s curse: to the woman God said “I will greatly multiply your sorrow in your conception in sorrow you will bring forth children and your desire will be for your husband and he will rule over you’. And I want to touch on that verse right there ‘your desire will be to your husband and he will rule over you in a moment but you know in the physical pain of childbirth it’s very easy to see but obviously that’s not the ultimate here but spiritually is the suffering that’s entailed in the birthing of the new man.</p> <p>It’s not easy. We don’t have this instantaneous transformation where we are suddenly this perfect being. It is a birthing process. It is pain, its discomfort, its loss, its blood. Now that was her curse. Her curse was in the production of fruit. So you see it was a ‘curse’ but it was a curse that brought something good about because she’s the mother of all living just as, who else is the mother of us all? Yeah, Jerusalem up above! She typifies the New Jerusalem (Wayne paused here to hear from someone asking a question) your…I will multiply your sorrow and your conception, you’ll bring forth I’m just quoting King James, in sorrow you will bring forth children because, because she typifies the flesh. Christ, you know, it is Christ in the flesh but flesh nonetheless that is what is going to be passing. The flesh doesn’t want to let go you know its bringing forth the new man but, but its doing it with difficulty because it has to die, it doesn’t want to die.</p> <p>Now, I started to say now she, her curse entails the production of fruit. Now Adam’s on the other hand entails the consumption of fruit. Adam’s curse goes like this ‘curse is the ground for your sake in sorrow you shall eat of it all the days of your life, talking about the fruit of the ground, in the sweat of your face shall you eat bread till you return to the ground for out of it you were taken for dust you are and to dust you shall return. Eve is not the only one symbolizing the flesh here. Because Paul tells us there are two Adams, ahum Adam here or course, and then the second Adam Jesus Christ and he points out he goes on to point out how similar they are in that they both did something that affected the entirety of humanity independent of humanity’s will.</p> <p>But they are different in that one was to death and one was to life. Well you’ll notice here that Adam is told that he is dust he came out of the dust like again Coy brought out you know when our bodies start to fatigue (Wayne turning his head says thank you sir and then continues) when our bodies start to break down we actually take on the earth to strengthen it so he returning to the dust and it says curse is the ground for our sake. Now if he’s returning to the dust if he is dust what is the ground it represents the flesh. Adams flesh-he came from the dust, curse if the ground for your sake curse is this flesh in sorrow shall you eat of it all the days of your life.</p> <p>The fruit of the flesh always leads to death and it never gives life. You have to like Christ told the woman at the well you know the water He had to give her she would never by thirsty again if she drank of it but the water from the well that physical water you always get thirsty later. It’s the same with everything of the flesh, everything of the physical it never satisfies. It just kind of ties you over until you get some more in the sweat of your face shall you eat bread which again comes from the ground till you return to the ground. It’s a vicious cycle with the flesh you eat, you eat you eat and you die. It doesn’t save you. It’s hopeless but notice that parallel there. The seed come by the woman. Christ came out of Israel. Salvation is of the Jews is not that the Jews save us; it’s the means of salvation. Christ the new man came out of them came out of that woman Israel. So the woman here typifies the means by which the new man comes into the world which is why it says that the curse is going to be in the pain of childbirth but Adam typifies the old man that which is fading away that which is dying and going to be replaced by the new man.</p> <p>So of course, his curse entails the consumption of fruit, her fruit is spiritual ultimately his fruit that which he eats is physical that’s why he is passing. The physical is passing the spiritual is coming and it’s eternal.</p> <p>Now it says part of the curse of Eve is that her desire would be to her husband and he will rule over you. Now there’s very, very similar wording in the every next chapter here. Just so we understand what that verse is all about. Ahum, I’m sorry it’s not the next chapter it’s chapter 4 and it’s Cain and Abel and by the way I don’t want to get side tracked here, but just to reinforce what I’m saying about the physical and the spiritual Cain’s sacrifice, God didn’t have a problem literally with what Cain was sacrificing because there are grain offering in the Mosaic law but says here that Cain offered from the…how’s it worded? Cain offered from the fruit of the ground which is what Adam his entail the eating thereof the eating of the fruit of the ground. Cain his offering of the fruit of the ground represents he offered that which is of the flesh. In other words he was offering his way. He’s making his sacrifice his way by the work of his hands, by the sweat of his brow so to speak.</p> <p>Abel brought the firstling of his flock. Abel symbolizes here the sacrifice of Christ, the shedding of his blood. But anyway ahum because God didn’t look kindly on Cain’s sacrifice, Cain it says was wrought. In order words, he was very angry and his countenance fell and this is what the Lord said to him. ‘Why are you very angry and why is your countenance fallen?’ In other words why you look so bitter if you do well you know these are comforting words here, listen to them, if you do well will you not be accepted? Well, that was the problem. It wasn’t that the grain wasn’t accepted but that he did not well.</p> <p>Do well and you’d be accepted if you do not well sin lies at the door and to you shall be his desire and you shall be your husband and he will rule over you. In both cases and this is the danger in physical marriages in both cases something that should be subjected to you it desire is towards you. In other words it desired you to have to possess. The husband is suppose to rule over the wife as Christ is suppose to rule over the church but they don’t by nature want to do that. The church wants to do it its way and nine times out of ten because women are human individuals like men they want to do things their way. Part of Eve’s curse is she had to be now in subjection to her husband.</p> <p>There was no subjection before the eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. You just had two kids in the garden they weren’t righteous they were innocent. Why were they innocent because they didn’t know good from bad. It’s like babies you can’t punish a baby for throwing up or messing his diaper or breaking things. They don’t know what do or what not to do. Are they righteous? Babies aren’t righteous. No but they’re innocent. Adam and Eve were innocent so there was no subjection you just had two babies wandering around the garden with no clothes on. That’s it.</p> <p>But then they ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and because it was by the woman’s deception, she was now in subjection to her husband. All that is symbolic there is no moralizing between the genders but it’s what they represent (someone asks a question at this point). He says here if you do well will you not be accepted just do the right thing you know that’s essentially what God told Israel if you do not well sin lies at the door.</p> <p>Now that’s read alternately, sin lies at the door you know ready to pounce on you and sin offering because it’s the same word ‘a sin offering’ lies at the door so it could be doubly comforting that he’s saying well if you do well you’ll be accepted and if you don’t do well, there is a sin offering at the door for you. One way or the other you will be redeemed but then also if you do well you’ll be accepted if you do not well sin lies at the door and you shall rule over it. Sin, its desire is towards you sin wants to rule over us that’s a fact! And yet are suppose to rule over sin-our flesh want to control us and yet we are suppose to rule over our flesh. The wife is just as self will as the man she wants to have her way but part of the duty a wife especially one in Christ is she has to subject herself to her husband whether he’s in Christ or not. If he’s not in Christ she’s witnessing to him by her conduct. If she is in Christ then she is in harmony with him. She’s one with him. But I just want to clarify that phrase there. You desire shall be to your husband.</p> <p>Alright, were told as I mentioned earlier why Eve is the mother of all living and again this just reinforces the notion that what we already know that the woman is the church because new Jerusalem is the church. But New Jerusalem is the Elect New Jerusalem is the mature, the perfected church that has shed the flesh. And I wanted to point one other thing out you know Adam names her. He called her woman at the beginning when he first receives her before he could discern between good and evil he called her woman that was her name that was the name he gave her was woman but after he discerned good from evil this is just reinforcing the picture of the knowledge that comes with eating of the fruit when we become convictable cause that’s what the knowledge of good and evil does it convicts us of sin that’s what the law was. The law was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil because it convicts us of sin but it was only after eating of that tree that he now names her Eve. So he recognized something. He recognized Eve, now symbolically he recognized what she typified. She typifies his flesh so he now recognizes his flesh and what his flesh wants as opposed to what God wants.</p> <p>But if we see the woman as the flesh and the body and the bride then we have to see her as Christ Himself because we are his body. Christ has a body and His is our example. What Christ does, we do so we have to see Christ on both sides of the marriage union as a husband and as a wife. Through Adam and Eve we see how the Christ-the way to Christ is being prepared through what first-the recognition of sin before that you know there is no concept of Christ. We have no understanding of His purpose and it comes first through the recognition of sin which is the eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and with that ok here we go so Adam and Eve ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil of course but they typify the way to Christ in first of all the recognition of sin but with that recognition also with the need for a covering of sin and of course what happened for them was God here we have the picture of a blood sacrifice the covering of sin, God’s grace everything in this simple little act to Adam also and to his wife that the Lord God, this is Genesis 3:31, that the Lord God made coats of skin and clothed them.</p> <p>So you had the shedding of blood that animal had to be killed to get his skin you had the covering of sin because nakedness is symbolic of sin-Israel-God always told them you think you’re righteous and you’re naked. That’s what he contrast with righteousness and that nakedness that sin was covered with a coat of skin of an animal skin animal sacrifice which of course typifies Christ but this is when things start to go in different directions. With that recognition the need for a savior that doesn’t make us brides it will, you know Israel was a bride but they were a harlot wife. They turned. God has two wives just like the Patriarchs. He has a true wife he has a carnal wife but he also has a true wife. But after this recognition of sin we go in two directions we either rebel against what we see or we submit to it and there we have rebellious wife and a submissive wife. And this rebellion is seen in the majority of Adam’s descendents leading up to the flood.</p> <p>In fact the only exception are Seth, Enoch and Noah himself ahum and when we get to Noah we’ve never by the way we’re never given Noah’s wife name but for somebody who is not named God goes out of His way to bring her up all the time because every single time he tells Noah what he’s going to do he includes his wife his three sons and his three son’s wives. And I think that’s significant because what I think is represented there especially the fact that He say his sons and his sons’ wives is that Noah was being taken, was being chosen from the midst of the rest of the world because he was bearing fruit. That’s what children are. They’re the bearing of fruit. He was bearing fruit in due season.</p> <p>Now this water baptism here the flood is just a water baptism. This is not the later baptism with the spirit and fire. So Adam here I mean Noah here is not typifying the mature man but he is bearing fruit when he suppose to bear fruit. He is where he is supposed to be. It’s not like Adam where God comes along and says Adam where are you? Not out of ignorance but pointing out to Adam look you’re not where you belong, you should be here you’re over here. Where Noah was where he belong him and his wife symbolically him and his body which he has in subjection are producing fruit in due season and so they are delivered with him. They are brought across the flood with him. They are purified with him. You know you’ll recall also that he came across the flood with all these beasts all these animals which go to show that he was not perfected.</p> <p>Billy was bringing out earlier God’s elect are His elect regardless of where they are in any given point of their lives. God knows who the elect are. Ahum you know if you and I had met Paul before he went on the road to Damascus we never would have guessed that he was one of God’s elect he was maybe one of Satan’s angels but we would have never guessed he was one of God’s elect. So again like I said that the flood just typifies the water baptism but the after the flood man expands again so to speak he’s gone through this water baptism. There’s still no creation of a new man. This is just simply a babe in Christ symbolically speaking. And of course, after that baptism after that purification he begins to grow and cover the face of the earth and again we have rebellion and we have a minority of subjection. That minority is represented by Abraham.</p> <p>Now Abraham has a more detail relationship with his wife than almost anybody else in the Old Testament and he is going to represent him and his wife as we will see-him and his wife both are going to represent Christ and they’re going to represent the ideal and the less that ideal. Now Abraham of course as the husband represents the head of the church but you’re going to see Abraham doing something that exemplifies what not to do. Especially in a marriage but as warn against what Christ did and you’re going to see Sarah doing the exact same thing. Sarah is going to carry out the will of God but something she’s going to do that without God’s instruction in other words-in other words God is going to bring light out of darkness. She’s going to do things for selfish reasons that are actually going to further God’s will but it’s not to be commended because she’s not pursuing God’s will. And of course, Abraham is going to do the same thing.</p> <p>Alright when Abraham was called out of Hur his wife was with him. All the patriarchs, that’s another thing I mentioned earlier that their wives were barren and that the, that the wives were barren and through their wives came the promise seed. But another thing every single one of them got their wives from the east from Babylon sort to speak. Adam brou, Abraham brought his with him, Isaac’s was brought to him and Jacob went there to get his, went back to get his. Bu they all came from the same place and Abraham went ah, notice he only came in the promise land after his father died. In other words the old man die and the new man came into the promise symbolically speaking. But when he came in was that it? Was that the end right there? Was that the mature perfect Abraham? No hardly. And how do we know? We know that because he came to the promise land and what did he encounter there. He encountered famine which is the famine of the word and what did he do? He went into Egypt. What is Egypt? That’s bondage to sin. And what did he do when he was in Egypt? And here we get to see the wife typifying Christ in this instance. Adam; Abraham is typifying the old man Adam instead of the new Adam because he goes down to Egypt and what’s his overriding concern but his fear for his own life. So what does he tell them? She’s not my wife she’s my sister and that is a half truth but a half truth is still a lie. She was his half sister as he explained later she’s the daughter of my father but not of my mother. But he’s concerned for his own skin and so what does he do? And what he essentially what you’ll see he essentially prostitutes his wife. He didn’t intend to do that. He just told everybody that she was his sister to save his life so Pharaoh ends up taking her into his house and he gives him a whole bunch of cattle and servants. So he essentially paid for Sarah. Now you know that had to wrangle Abraham. He didn’t look at his wife as a prostitute but that’s exactly how he treated her out of fear for his own life. And of course, as a symbol of Christ and through Christ a symbol for us the Bride she is with a man that is not her rightful husband.</p> <p>Can any fruit come out of that? No and what happens? Pharaoh’s house is cursed and what is-there are essentially spit out it can’t be accepted. The world cannot accept Christ so Pharaoh we’re not told how he comes to recognize this but Pharaoh somehow recognizes that she was and, and if we use the example set later, cause Abraham goes ahead and does the same thing later, except this time with the Philistines King. And it follow you know use that as an indicator, then God may have appeared to Pharaoh in a dream and said ‘hey you’re a dead man if you don’t give this guy back his wife. But nonetheless Pharaoh gave him his wife back and sent them packing.</p> <p>Now there’s a difference between Pharaoh and the Philistines King. Pharaoh gave him something for his wife before he gave her back. In other words when he return her, and the Philistines King gave him something for his wife after he already been revealed to him what Abraham had done and after he’d given his wife back then he gave him you know things of this world. And later on Isaac, we’ll find out, Isaac does the same thing. He tells everybody Rebekah is his sister. He’s even more without excuse, his is even more pathetic because she’s not his sister on top of that the same Philistines you could same the same Philistines King or one with the same name but either way he probably had a good idea, a good knowledge of what Abraham had done he had a good indication of what Isaac was doing cause he didn’t even get to the point of bringing her into his own. He just said he saw Isaac sporting with his wife-the Hebrew word has to do with laughing. So they probably were very affectionate towards another and he said ‘hey surely she’s your wife’. He didn’t even bring her into the house but he wasn’t going to be pulled into that again. Surely she’s your wife what have you done to us. One of us could have lightly that is not taken it seriously lay with your wife then and then brought a curse upon us and so the king put told everybody you know all those people if you touch this man’s wife you’re dead don’t do it.</p> <p>But you got a progression right there the first time he did he was in Egypt, that’s the bondage to sin that’s the world and the world saw the wife that she was beautiful tried to take the wife but couldn’t handle the wife because she was God’s elect. She was Christ in the flesh. There was nothing symbolically speaking there was nothing for him but curses and plagues so he sends them packing. Now he goes back into the promise land. Now here he is in the promise land with his the ah Philistines which represent his own flesh so to speak cause they were in, there were in the promise land, which was to be his. In other words, he had not yet subjected the Promised Land. And so these people are closer to him and they have a vision from God. The Philistines King had a vision he had a dream and God told him you’re a dead man and the king point out to and said Lord will you slay a righteous nation? I did this in the integrity of my own heart in the innocence of my own hands. I didn’t know what, that she was his wife-He told me that she was his wife; he told that she was his sister and she herself told me that he was her brother.</p> <p>Now here we have God’s elect deceiving the un-elect, the non-elect-being untruthful and God is coming down on the Philistines but the tells the Philistines ‘I knew that you did this in the integrity of your heart that’s why I prevented you from touching her you know the guy, you know if it had been up to the Philistines King he’s messed up long time ago but God prevented him because He knew that he did it in ignorance. But He said but you’ve got to restore her to her husband if you don’t you will die. When you restore her then he will pray for you and you will live. But he a hum he a hum reproved both Abraham and Sarah for what they did. And what did he tell Sarah? Now this is the Philistines King this is the ungodly speaking to the body of Christ saying your husband is a covering to your eyes and to those with you and to everyone else. What is Abraham at that moment? He is a covering to her eyes. In other words he’s hiding the truth from her and those with her and everyone else.</p> <p>But at that moment Abraham is not the true husband. Abraham is the flesh, Abraham is deceit, he is leading her and those with her and everyone around them astray. Now, that’s quite a reproval coming from someone who is not even a man of God. Here we have the world admonishing the Elect and that happens. Now when we go to Isaac its even more pathetic because he’s doing this with someone his father has just done it with. He’s trying to pass on the same old lie. His denial of his wife that is his denial of Christ in the flesh the blessings of God his denial is even more pathetic.</p> <p>Now notice we have three denials there does that sound familiar-sounds very familiarsounds like Peter. And each denial was more pathetic that the first and on top of it he was told he was going to do it and yet Peter is God’s elect is he not? So the husband here typifies the head of the church as a failure. He is a failed husband. The wife here typifying Christ in the flesh is part of his lie, she’s culpable. So we have the church being led astray here. That what it picture, it typifies it pictures.</p> <p>Alright now Abraham was continually promised he was going to be the father of a great nation and that he was and and of course God got more specific as he went along. All they knew was that they were going to be the, Abraham and Sarah that is, Abram and Sarai at that time all they knew is that they were going to be the predecessor of a nation of God’s people. That’s all they knew. They didn’t know how it was going to come about. But they knew they wanted it. It was a glorious thing. Who wouldn’t want to be the father and mother of a great nation? So when they were kicked out of Egypt. Sarai had this handmaid named Hagar; she was an Egyptian that’s key, that’s pivotal. Sarai has the bright idea ‘Hey we’re getting up in years, it’s going to be harder and harder to have children we’ve needed to do something God wants it you know’ I can imagine her saying I didn’t say this but I can imagine her saying as we all do ‘I’m sure God would want this, I’m sure God would want this.’ It’s so easy to do. I mean you know we learn in hind sight that it’s a mistake but at the time it seems a sure thing that what we have in our hands in our hearts is what God would want and of course through further revelation we find out whether or not that’s true. She says, she says take my handmaid that we might, she might ah bear a son for me. She belongs to her, Hagar belongs to her so Abram, Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar the Egyptian after Abram had dwelled ten years in the land of Canaan, there the number ten that’s indicative of what’s going on here, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife and of course, she has a we know, she had a child named Ishmael.</p> <p>Now what is Ishmael though? Ishmael is the fruit, he’s the fruit of what he’s the fruit of the flesh. Abram Abraham was consorting with the world again. Now again this is done in ignorance but Sarai had this bright idea. God did not endorse and Abram follow through on it and of course it went wrong. And in the course of any marriage I think any couple can speak to this, the couples are going to be on different rung of the latter so to speak on the way to God at different moments. Sometimes the husband would be here (motioning down) and the wife here (motioning up) and sometimes vice versa. But they tend to listen to one another and we individually tend to listen to our flesh. Sometimes our flesh tells us to do something even though the motive may be wrong it accomplishes God’s purpose but nine times out of ten the flesh leads us astray. So she said take Hagar and he did had a son the son was not the promise son so later on God gives them a revelation. He says you’re going to have a son by Sarah. Now we all know Sarah laughed when heard that but something we forget that before she laughed Abraham laughed and he said and what was before it ah that Ishmael may walk before you’. He wanted his son this is essentially typifying the work of his hands. He wanted that to be pleasing in God’s sight. God had already made up His mind has was going to be and by the way God was the one that named Isaac not Abraham and Sarah.</p> <p>So when Isaac is born and eventually weaned Abraham throws him a party. We have another incident where Sarai the wife has a bright idea but his time it is and it is it is she didn’t have a revelation from God she was just speaking from her own heart. She saw Ishmael mocking Isaac and that just that damage her pride that’s it. She went to Abraham ‘I want her and her son out of here they will not be heir with my son.’ My son, she said, it was all about what she wanted. That’s key. She was unknowingly just as ah Isaac’s wife did later unknowingly bringing about the will of God because Isaac’s wife all she knew was that she liked Jacob better than she liked Esau and so she wanted Esau to be the heir but in both bases what did God say ‘hearken unto your wife.’ Listen to your wife because there are times for God again when light shines out of darkness. God reproves us through our flesh, instructs us through our flesh. I am not recommending any of you follow your heart because we all know that the heart is desperately weak and deceitful and who can know it. But I’m saying that God will accomplish his purposes through the flesh, through our mistakes through our transgressions and that should be a comfort to us in our marriages because that tells us that despite all the failure and the missteps if you’re in Christ, God will bring us together and keep us together, make us consistent witness.</p> <p>So we go through the type of Abraham and Sarah and we come to Isaac and Isaac in his case he got his wife from his near relative again, all of them all of them got their wives from their own, in other words that’s significant they’re getting it, their wives from God’s people. There are God’s rejected people but God’s people nonetheless. In other words, is not the flesh so and as I said earlier Isaac did the same thing. He deny his wife and again he was more without excuse more culpable even than Abraham because Isaac- what we’re told about Isaac is that he spent all his time around the wells. He was receiving water he had and he was in other words and the water as we know is the word so he had the word he was he had the knowledge to not do some things and he did it anyway and when you deny your wife you deny Christ and he did just that. And yet because he was God’s elect it wasn’t to his downfall. Now later on Isaac has children. In Genesis 28 we see ah a strive and it has to do with marriage or a conflict and a confusion that has arisen around who Esau and Jacob should be taken to their wives. Now Esau had already he was just assume he was going to be the heir he was the older son, they were twins but he was born first. Everybody was under the impression including Rebekah that he was going to be the heir, he was going to receive Isaac’s blessings and an inheritance but the in the course of that he was taking wives from the people of the land of Canaan which as we all know was not pleasing to God. It wasn’t certainly pleasing to Rebekah either.</p> <p>Isaac at this point didn’t see what that represented didn’t really cared but of course as we all know Rebekah deceived Jacob through her son and Jacob appropriated the blessings and the inheritance that were supposed to gone Esau. But what had Esau done? Esau had despised his inheritance. He traded it for a bowl of porridge. Now that kind of hearkens back to Sarah. Sarah and of course in her case it was unknowing just as but so was Esau’s for that matter. Neither one of them knew what they were doing but when Sarah gave Hagar to Abraham to accomplish God’s purpose she was failing to see her high calling. And she gave something that was hers something that was glorious to someone that was in subjection to her. There again that which is subjected in being elevated and God doesn’t want that and of course what happened when she was subjected? She despised Sarah. And Sarah recognized it right way and even before Abraham, Sarah and Ishmael out, Sarah dealt so harshly with Hagar that Hagar ran away and of course God told her to go back and she was with them for a season.</p> <p>So Esau any way is taking on these wives of the land of Canaan and ah Rebekah sees this and she’s already tricked Isaac into giving Esau’s blessing to Jacob and she tells Isaac ‘look I’m sick unto death of these daughters of Heth’ I didn’t mean to rhyme these but that worked out good. I’m sick of them and I don’t want Jacob who is my favorite son and the one who has the inheritance marrying these daughters of Heth. Well they were a bunch of pagans. They weren’t following the one true God. You know she at least had that right. She wanted him to serve the one true God. So of course, Isaac does what? He sends him back over to the region of Babylon that’s where it all is over there in Irak hum to get a wife. And of course he sends the, ah the servant the head of his household the manager of his household over to get her (mixed stories).</p> <p>Now Esau saw that he says in Genesis 28:6 when Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to the land of Padam Haran to take a wife from there and that he gave him a charge saying ‘you shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan’ he had this bright idea. Now we know that Esau is not the elect. Esau is he is very close to the Elect, he’s a twin of the elect but he is not the elect and is represents that which is carnal but he aspires to be the elect, he wants to be the elect and he wants to please his father. There is nothing, you know, Jacob was really no more moral a person than Esau. I mean He was a cheat for goodness sakes. But he symbolizes something greater than himself. And Esau unfortunately was being used to symbolize that which is less. So he takes it upon himself to try to please his father. So here again demonstrating the principle again he gets it wrong. He says Esau then went to, Esau to Ishmael and took to a wife, ok so daughter of Canaan he’s sending Jacob over there to get a wife from one of his mother’s relatives, his brother is right here, I can go grab a cousin here. They’re all marrying cousins anyway. I can go grab a cousin here. That will do it that will raise me up but Ishmael was not the elect. Ishmael was rejected just like Esau was being rejected. And took to the wives which he had, he already had wives and he took to them Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son the sister of Nebojoth to be his wife. And of course we all know that out of Esau came, you know, Isaac blessed him too and there was a great nation out of him twelve tribes mirroring Jacob. You know those two were so much alike yet one was chosen and the other rejected. And we see that time and again. Tamar bore twins one was accepted one was rejected. Joseph had two sons-the older was rejected the younger was accepted.</p> <p>Alright so Jacob went to get his wife and we have here when he goes into Padam Haran we have in here a beautiful picture I think a very adequate picture, ok, a very adequate picture of the wife demonstrating in this case illustrating God’s grace. We all know that he served for seven years. I’m going to go over and read this ‘for seven years for Racheland this is Genesis 29 and he makes a deal with Laban Rachel’s father. Ahum he said ‘I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter. That’s what he wanted Rachel was the ideal. He was going to serve seven years for Rachel. Now the only problem though how is he going to go about acquiring Rachel? He’s going to acquire her with the labor of his hands. He’s going to work for it and I’m being told that we have five minutes left so I’m going to wrap this up with a picture of God’s grace. I wanted to go into more but maybe well cover that later but he wanted to serve for Rachel. He wanted to work for Rachel earned Rachel. Rachel typifies the ideal here. Well what did he end up at the end of seven years mind you seven years; you know this guy had to be fuming. What did he end up with? He ended up with Leah and Leah in his eyes was inferior. Well Laban as sly as he is he makes a deal with him. He says is better that I give her to you that I should give her to oh wait a minute sorry I’m in the wrong place serve seven years and he marries Leah ah Laban reasons with him ‘It must not be so done in this country to give the younger before the first one fulfill her week. There’s that seven again seven years, seven days and we will give you this also for the service. That is Rachel for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years.</p> <p>Now on the surface that’s a bump deal but you know he loved Rachel that much she was worth it. But she came about on the eight day, the eight day, the eight day is the super abundance of God. Rachel here is typifying the super abundance of God and through that she is typifying the promises of God and the salvation that is in Christ. But his going to serve seven years after he already got her. She’s his wife at the end of the that seven days she’s his he got her but he works after he got her. So yes you can say he’s earning her but the picture here is that he worked for Rachel and didn’t get her.</p> <p>His work failed after he received the promises of God received God’s grace then he worked and that is the way it is for us with Christ as the Bride of Christ we as, as His sons especially we don’t our work don’t please God until after we have Christ in us till we have Christ. When we are working towards Christ, we is one failure after another but once we have Christ in us then our works are pleasing to God but they come afterwards just to demonstrate that everything is of God and not of us. Not of us who will but of God who wills and I guess this is close enough to end. I’ll end right there.</p><br /><br /> </div> </div> </body></html> [/dohtml] |
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| ertsky | Feb 5 2007, 09:27 PM Post #2 |
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a great blessing, i loved this line but you know he loved Rachel that much she was worth it.
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| sandra | Feb 6 2007, 12:24 AM Post #3 |
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Thank you for posting this Dustin, A very great blessing and comes to this!!!! His work failed after he received the promises of God received God’s grace then he worked and that is the way it is for us with Christ as the Bride of Christ we as, as His sons especially we don’t our work don’t please God until after we have Christ in us till we have Christ. When we are working towards Christ, we is one failure after another but once we have Christ in us then our works are pleasing to God but they come afterwards just to demonstrate that everything is of God and not of us. Not of us who will but of God who wills Amen sandra |
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And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation; Neither shall they say, Lo here: or, lo there: for behold, the kingdom of God is within you. Lk17:20-21 | |
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but you know he loved Rachel that much she was worth it.

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