Sermon on Genesis 2:18-24 – What Does This Mean?

Marriage of
Jenna Lynn Witte and Wesley Robert Smith
31 August 2019
Cornerstone Lutheran Church
Carmel, Indiana

Text:^“Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” … 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.”

Intro: Wes, Jenna, friends and family, grace, mercy and peace from God our Father and from the Bridegroom of the Church, Jesus Christ, our Lord. This is great day. That one missing piece of the puzzle of your life is found and the picture is now complete. You both have done quite well. You have built successful careers, set up homes, served God and others and achieved what many people strive for. And yet something was missing. And so it was for Adam. God had made him and gave him a perfect life. But it was “not good” God said. So God gave him lots of animals. And that did not do it. Even a dog didn’t do it. That is why He made Eve and why He brings you together today.

Now that you are together, you are never really alone.
1. As you take hold of each other today, you become one.
2. This marriage of yours is the closest you get to understanding the Trinity – two people, yet one, as He is three persons, yet one.
3. Now, even when you are apart from each other, you will be together.

Yet the World, the Devil and your sinful self will try to pull you apart.
1. Sin separated us from God, from our world and each other.
2. Our Old Adam and Old Eve curves us in on ourselves, pulling us apart from God and from others.
3. When we serve ourselves, rather than God, we end up all alone.

To free us from our sin, the Father sent His Son to save us.

“From Heaven Jesus came and sought you …”
1. With his own blood he bought you …”
2. When you were baptized, he washed you clean of sin “by water and the word.”
3. He now brings you, and us, together with God.
4. So even when you are alone, you are never really alone.

Now may the peace of God, which passes all understanding, set watch over your hearts and minds through faith in Christ Jesus, to life everlasting. Amen.