From Creation to Commitment: Staying True to God’s Plan

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Greetings friends and new listeners and welcome to The Sound of Faith. I’m Sharon Knotts thanking you for joining us today because we know faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. Today’s message is powerful, God’s family plan. From creation to conception to commitment, God has provided a blueprint for marriage and child rearing. While His plan is perfect, people are not. We make mistakes which sometimes jeopardizes our families. In our current culture, marriage is becoming indistinguishable from the way God designed it, but there is no viable substitute for God’s family plan. God bless you. You may be seated. Let’s just say again, if it’s not already been said, we’ll just come again and say we want to wish our fathers, our grandfathers, our godfathers, Our fathers in the Lord. Amen. All of our wonderful men who provide and serve their families, both in the natural and in the church. We want to say God bless you. We love you. We need you. And we appreciate you. Amen. If you have your Bibles today, let’s turn into the book of Genesis, which we will be spending our time in, really. Because if we’re going to talk about fathers, in order to talk about fathers, we sort of have to talk about husbands, because that’s God’s plan. Amen. We’re not going by the world’s plan. We’re going by the kingdom of God and God’s plan. So we can talk about fathers. We talk about husbands. We talk about families. Amen. And that’s what we want to know because we want to know how we can have God’s blessing upon our families. And the only way to do that is you’ve got to get God’s plan. You have to get his formula, if you will. Amen? Because anything else is going to fail. So let’s turn in our Bibles to Genesis, the first chapter. And we’ll begin with the creation of man. All the other things in the earth has been created. The heavens, the earth, the seas, and all the animals, and the fish, and the lights in the heaven. All of this has already been completed. And now we get to verse 26. And God said, let us make man in our image and after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. And so God created man in his own image. In the image of God created he him. Male and female created he them, and God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Now, if we wanted to look at everything here, we could be here for a month of Sundays. But because we’re talking about fathers and families, we won’t go into all the wonderful little tidbits and nuggets that are here about creation. We’ve preached about them in other messages anyway. So we will try to stay focused. I’m talking to myself now, right now. I will try to stay focused. Amen. So did you notice, though, it’s a little odd there. As you see in verse 27, it says that he created, in the image of God, created he him. In the image of God, created he them. You notice that? Male and female. And so what is the point of this? The purpose here is to show us that both… that, first of all, all humans, male and female, possess the same basic characteristics. Amen? Physically speaking, other than the reproductive organs, we are identical. We have brains, we have hearts, we’ve got two legs and two arms and two eyes and all of those things. And our physical needs are the same. We all have to have oxygen and air. We all have to have water and food. Amen? We have to have all of these things. And so we realize that God created human beings different than he did all the other animals that he created. So here we find out that he created male and female in God’s image. Now let’s just, for the sake of time, if you read 29 and 30, you’ll find out the diet that God gave to man and to animals. Man and animals were all, at that time, vegetarians. That’s one reason why Noah was able to get the animals into the ark without them eating each other or trying to eat Noah. Because they were vegetarians. So you take that along with the fact that the fear of man was not on the animals yet. You have to skip to Genesis 9. After the flood, when they came out of the ark, the God says, now the fear of man will be upon the beast. And so it’s no big mystery how he got them in the ark for those two reasons right there. See, I didn’t stay focused. Okay, so that’s the thing we want to see, that we alone are made in the image of God. And so when he finished creating man, let’s look at verse 31. And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very, somebody say very. And it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. So I want you to know we didn’t read all the verses before, but at the end of every day of creation, God said it was good, it was good, it was good. The only time that God did not make a statement it was good was day four. And I’m not going to tell you why. Later on you can figure it out. He said nothing on that day. But on every other day, he said it was good. But after he created man, he said it was very good. Amen. Very good. So now let’s see how else. Now we’ve already found out how he made man, but let’s find out how he actually did it. Let’s look at 2.7. And the Lord God formed man out of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. And so this is a very, very important verse because we learn now that God formed. And that word formed, we could think better to think of it in the idea of sculpting. God actually reached down in the dirt, in the clay, and sculpted the man. That’s not hard for me to believe. I think of what Michelangelo did when he sculpted the statue of David and of the Pieta with Mary and Jesus. I mean, if Michelangelo could do works like that, I’m sure God can do them. So he sculpted a beautiful specimen when he made Adam. But you know, if you can go and see the statue of David today, you can go over in Europe and see that. It’s been there for thousands of years, but it’s not breathing. It’s not talking. It’s just a statue. But after God finished making his statue, sculpture he breathed his own breath his own breath that’s what job said he said the breath of the almighty has given me life he breathed into us the breath of life and i see here it said life l-i-f-e it’s singular but it’s not in the hebrew in the hebrew it’s kaim kaim and the i am on the end of a hebrew word is the same as putting an s on the end of an english word it makes it plural He breathed in him the breath of lives. The Bible says that all the animals have a soul, but they don’t have a spirit. Because they didn’t get the breath of lives, plural. God only breathed into man the breath of lives. So we not only got a physical life that that sculpture came alive. but we got the spiritual life when God created him. Amen? Now we see that how God has done it. The first part we saw the physical aspects when we read 128, that all humans are physically alike. Male and female are identical except for the reproductive process. But now we see here in 2.7, God has given us the spiritual aspect of how he created us. Amen. Now let’s jump to verse 18. And the Lord God said, it is not good that man should be alone. I will make a help me for him. So for the first time after eight times, God said, it’s good. It’s good. It’s very good. For the first time, God said something was not good. And he said it is not good for man to be alone. Isolation does not work for people. Amen? God did not create people to be isolated. God created us to have a bond and a relationship with each other. The entire universe, everything in the universe bonds with something else. And everything benefits from unity. Now let’s think about, I’m not some great science student, I never was, but I can just give you really basic ideas. In chemistry, I understand there’s about 100 to 110 basic elements of which everything is made. That’s not very much when you think of the scope of this universe and everything in it, not only on planet Earth, amen, but the planets and the heavens and everything that there is is made up of about 100 to 110 basic elements. They are called the building blocks for everything. Here’s the thing. Rarely do you see any of these elements in a pure form. They’re always bonded with another element. What is H2O? Water. Amen. It’s two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen, and that we have water. Amen. And we have to have water to live. All these expeditions that are sent into other planets, the first thing they want to know is, did they have water? Because they know without water you can’t have life. Look at salt. How many know how beneficial salt is? First of all, we know it makes our food taste a lot better. But it has health benefits too. Amen? But it’s made up of sodium chloride. But if you take either one of those separately, they’re poisonous. They’re toxic. But when you put them together, you put them on your food and you eat it. Amen? Amen? To show you that when things are created, they come together, there is a benefit. Think about music. There’s eight notes to the scale, and you can sit up there all day long and bang those notes, and after a while, somebody’s going to say, you are giving me a headache. But if you put them together in a chord… Put three together and make a chord. Ah, that sounds nice. Start putting chords together and make melodies and songs. Amen? But it all starts with just those notes. But if you just isolate the note, what have you got? Nothing really. Take our alphabet. We teach our children as early as we possibly can. I heard the other night, Rashi and Danielle’s little, tiny little girl, she’s saying her ABCs. She doesn’t have them all together, what order they’re in, but she’s saying them. She’s saying letters. But one of these days, her little brain is going to get it all figured out. And she’s going to get those ABCs all together. And in a couple more years, she’ll be saying cat and dog. And she’ll be spelling them how. The letters by themselves, a bunch of letters just together. But when you put them together in their proper unity, letters can make words and words can make phrases and sentences. And then we can write stories and poetry and the highest form of communication Amen? Because of unity. The best bonding, okay, so we find out that first of all, the ideal thing that God wants is union. He wants things to come together. Furthermore, the best bonding occurs when opposites, when opposites attract. When opposites embrace, you get your greatest outcome and your greatest creativity. Now, I don’t know a lot about electricity, but I know there’s a positive and a negative. How many know that much? And I do know that a positive repels a positive. And a negative repels a negative. But a positive attracts a negative. And vice versa. And when you have that attraction, or when they bond or embrace, you get electrical charge. Amen? And then, of course, we know how much we like our electricity, don’t we? This holds true in the creation of man and woman. God created them opposites. Okay, where do we get this from? We just read in 18, it’s not good for man to be alone. I will make a helpmeet for him. The word helpmeet is very, very telling in the Hebrew because it literally, in its very basic etymology, it literally means his opposite. His opposite. We say counterpart. And that’s true. It is a counterpart. But the counterpart is an opposite. Amen. And so only when the opposites come together can they create. Amen. God did not create an identical male counterpart for Adam. Everybody here should be saying amen. Amen. Did he do it? He did not. He did not create for him an identical counterpart. He created an opposite for him. Because only when opposites attract and opposites embrace and opposites bond. is their natural creation of life. It can’t happen any other way. Let’s go on and read verse 19. And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, every fowl of the air, and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them. And whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. This guy was smart. I wish we could still use our brains like he could use his brain before sin and the fall came. Think of how smart we’re going to be when we go to heaven. And Adam gave names to all cattle, to the fowl of the air, to every beast of the field. But for Adam, there was not found to help me for him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept, and he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the rib which the Lord God had taken from man made he a woman and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man. Now I want you to look at this for a moment. When we read in verse 19, God is talking all about women. creating animals. And then we see in verse 20 that Adam named him. Don’t you think that verse 19 and 20 are sort of out of place? I mean, you almost want to go from verse 18 where he says, I’m going to make a helpmate for her, jump to verse 21 and he calls him to fall asleep and did surgery on him. So why did he, why put those two verses there? They seem to like mess up the flow. And there’s a reason for that. We would expect verse 18 to be followed by verse 21. That would make the most sense to us. But you see, it was only after Adam saw the parade of animals that God had created, when he saw all those animals, and it took a while because he named them all, only then did he realize, there’s nobody for me. They all have their mates. But out of all of them, there’s no one for me. And only then was he ready to go to sleep and get surgery. Amen? See, the Bible, the way the Bible not only says it, the way it puts it in there is not arbitrary. There’s a point, and you almost need a Hebrew scholar to explain this stuff to you, to make you see it. So that’s what I’m trying to do. I’m taking advantage of what I’ve read, and I’m trying to break it down to you. So he said, I’m going to make a helpmate. And I want to ask you this. Why was man created first and not woman? I mean, think about it. After all, in procreation, a man comes out of a woman’s body. Isn’t that not true? Men come out of women’s bodies. So why didn’t God make the woman first and take the man out of her? Yeah, but it says in the image of likeness that God made he them. In the image of God created him male and female created he them. Here’s the reason, and this comes from Jewish wisdom. This would come from rabbinical teaching. And this stands to reason. In everything, whatever comes first in all of nature, whatever comes first is the aggressor, has the aggressive nature. So we all know man is aggressor. Man is much more aggressive than women. in general is this not true in general we’re not getting down to specifics and and that you know this person you know that person we’re saying in general men are more aggressive than women amen and women are more able they are more able they have the ability more so than men to submit because it’s their basic nature now women you’re out there bristling I can feel the bristles. But I’m going to ask you to do me a favor. Get yourself out of 2014 and get in the Garden of Eden. Do you have enough imagination to do that? Because if you’re going to sit up here in 2014, the mind of the world, you’re going to miss everything good. But if you can try to put yourself, go back in the Garden of Eden the way God started it all, and put yourself there for a while, and you’ll begin to learn something. Amen. your understanding will be opened up. Amen? So in general, in general, whoever comes first is the aggressor. Okay, let’s talk about something you can identify with. You’ve got a couple dogs, a couple pet dogs at home. You may have started off with a little 10-pound little doggie. And then you decide to get another dog. And now this time you get a dog that’s going to be 50 pounds. But the little dog was there first. He’s alpha dog. And he will let that new dog come, though that new dog is 50 pounds, he will let that new dog know, I am the boss. And you know that big 50-pound dog will submit to that little dog? if the little dog was there first. How many know it’s true? We have a little dog that weighs eight pounds and we got him when he was two. The home he came from, they had him for two years and then they decided to get a big dog. And the big dog, you know, is one that will get, eventually to like 90 pounds and at the time they had only had the big dog six months and he was already a good size and what was happening was is that little the little dog was not getting he wanted to know he’s the boss and they were afraid that the little dog would get hurt because the big dog would only have to just like even playing, even playing, pounce on him. And that’s how we come to get him. So here’s the thing about it. When Benny takes him for a walk and he’s walking down, you know, a good little all around our neighborhood and there’s dogs all along the way, the little dogs, my dog will not even give that dog a glance. Just goes by like they’re not even there and they’re jumping up on the fence trying to get his attention and he does not care. He won’t answer him. He won’t look at him. But get to the yard with a German shepherd. Get to a yard with some big pit bull and our dog will go like he’s Goliath or something. Because he was there first in that original home. And he has got that big dog syndrome. Isn’t it true? He won’t bother the little dogs. Benny and Sarah can tell you. He won’t even look at them. But let a big dog come and he acts like he’s going to kill them. It’s because he has that aggressive nature because he was the alpha dog. Even in a fish tank, you can have a fish tank and you add fish as you go along and you can start off with a small fish that’s in there and you put a big fish in and that big fish, you’ll find the small fish will chase that big fish all around. That big fish is scared and trying to get away. That’s how it is. Now, let’s get back in the garden. So Adam was created first, and when he woke up, there was Eve, and he had an advantage. He already knew the layout of the garden. He already knew where the best trees were and the flowers, and he knew all the animals, and he knew all their names, so he could just give her a guided tour. He was her leader, and he took her around the garden and showed her everything and told her how everything was, and so she was looking up to him. She looked up to him. She depended on him. He was her leader because he was there first, not because he was smarter, but because he was there first. Amen? And she needed him to show him around. Let me give you a little nugget. In a wedding, in a church wedding, who is the last one to come to the altar? The bride. The groom is up here waiting for her, and she comes in last. Amen? And this is a throwback to the way it was in the Garden of Eden. God brought Eve to Adam. Amen? And the father brings the bride to the husband. So Adam said, she shall be called woman because she was taken out of man. Now I want to tell you something. Up to this point where we are in 223, every time you see the word man in the Hebrew, it’s Adamah. Adamah. A-D-A-M-A-H. And you know what it means? It means dirt. Somebody say Adamah. Means dirt. And from Adamah, we get the name Adam. Or the Hebrew would say Adam. So up until this verse 23, whenever you see the word man, it’s always Adam. Adam, Adam, Adam, Adam, or dirt. Amen? And we know that later on when they sin, what did God tell them as part of the curse? From the dust, from the dirt you are, into the dirt you shall return. We all know that we’re made of dirt. Do you think about it? Gardeners go to buy big bags of hummus, or hummus, however you want to say it, H-U-M-M-U-S, to put in your garden to make your vegetables and flowers grow better. It’s the word human. You see, they’re human because we are made from the dirt, from the ground. And up until this point, man was always the word adamah or dirt. But for the first time in verse 23, a new word is given. He said she shall be called woman because she came out of man. And where it says because she came out of man, it’s not Adam. It’s a new word. It’s a weird one, but it’s Ish. I-S-H, or they would probably say Ish. She shall be called Ishah. Feminine, she came out of ish. Masculine, putting the A on the end makes it feminine. She shall be called Isha because she came out of ish. Why didn’t he use the word Adam there? Why didn’t he use that and feminize it? Why did he come up with a new word? Because for most part, whenever you see the word man in the, you wouldn’t be able to see it in the English, it’s impossible. But wherever in the Hebrew it says ish, it’s talking about a married man, a husband. See, Adam realized he just had a transformation. He went from being just a man to being a husband. Do you see that? In other words, he said, she shall be called Isha, and you all, in the Hebrew, it would be wife. She shall be called wife. And he realized that now he was a husband. What is the significance? He realized something happened. He now had a new identity. He was not just a man, he was a husband. Getting a wife makes him a new, different kind of man. And this is true for every man who gets married. That’s why God said it was not good for him to be alone. It is not good for the man, Adam, to be alone. Now he’s not an Adam, he’s an Ish. Because he’s got an Isha or an Isha. Proverbs 18.22 says, Whoso findeth a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor of the Lord. A good wife, I am being specific, a good wife that’s from the Lord changes a man for the good. Amen. The Bible says in Proverbs 19, 14, a prudent wife is from the Lord. A prudent wife. If you’re thinking about getting married, you need to ask God to give you a prudent wife. You say, what does that mean? I don’t have time. You can go look that up. I got to stay focused. See, what I want you to understand, he went from just being a man to now he’s a man with responsibility. Now he’s got responsibility. He’s got someone else to take care of. He’s got someone else to love and someone from whom now he can receive respect that he couldn’t receive from the animals. that he couldn’t receive from anything else. Amen? Now he’s completely changed because God has now given him a wife. Let’s read the last two verses. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and they were not ashamed. Again, we’re going to stick to the subject. So God said the man would leave his father and his mother. Hello? He didn’t have a father and a mother. Did he? No. God was slaying down the law for all time. That’s why when you want to talk marriage and you want to talk divorce and you want to talk about same-sex marriage and all of that stuff, you can talk till your face is blue. You’ve got to go back and get the blueprint. You got to go back where it all started. And the fact that God says a man should leave his mother and his father when the man did not have a mother and a father. Hey, the good news is he didn’t have a mother-in-law either. He didn’t have a mother and a father. He didn’t have a mother and father-in-law. Why did God say that? Because God was setting down the law and the precedent for all time. When it’s time for a man to get married, he leaves his mother and father’s house. He goes out from under their authority and he goes and establishes his own house. And he cleaves unto his Isha. his wife, his Isha, his counterpart who is opposite because she is an Isha and he’s an Ish. They’re all human, they’re both human, they’re both from the dirt. Amen? And he shall cleave unto her, and they shall be one flesh. So now we have the physical oneness combined with the emotional and the spiritual. Because when it says, and they shall be one flesh, in the act of marital sexual intimacy, we’re going to find out that this only pertains to an Ish and an Isha, whom God has joined together. Let’s look at something. Quickly, just go over to chapter 4, verse 1. How many are learning something here? One simple little verse. We think we understand what it means as soon as we see it. And Adam knew his wife, and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I’ve gotten a man from the Lord. And he knew his wife. What do we understand when we see here, knew his wife? What does that mean? They had sexual relations. Amen? It’s old King James, but we can’t worry about the old King James because, let’s face it, we here in Faith Tabernacle are a dying breed. If the Lord tarries another 20 years, churches will not be using the King James. They’ve got so many versions out there they use now. And I’m not saying I’m not even talking about whether you should or shouldn’t. I’m just telling you what the fact is. I grew up on the King James. It’s in my spirit. It’s in my brain. For me to go to another version now, why would I want to do that? Why go to another English translation? If I’m going to get my brain in action to study and get new stuff in it, I’m going to go to the original. Why do I want to go to another translation? In English. Even a very good one. Now I’m not telling all you people out there that you have to become Hebrew Greek scholars. I don’t expect you to do that. You don’t have the time to do it. You weren’t called to do it. It’s not gonna hurt you to look up a word here and there. But I’m not trying to make you Hebrew Greek scholars, but I’m trying to say to you that the time will come when people will not use King James versions. But we need to, instead of getting another translation, what does that word knew? He knew his wife. What does that mean in Hebrew? The word is Yadah. Y-A-D-A-H. If you saw it, you’d probably say Yadah. But I don’t want you to say Yadah because that’ll make you think of something else that has nothing to do with this. So let’s go with yadah. Amen? And what does yadah mean? Yadah means to know intimately. To know intimately. But I want you to understand that it’s not just sex. It is sex, but it’s not just sex. It is to have sexual relations, but it’s not only sexual relations. Because it doesn’t mean to have sexual relations with any man or any woman. It means with your ish or your ishah, with your spouse. Amen? And here’s the great thing. She said, I’ve gotten a man from the Lord. Why? In Hebrew thinking, when a husband and a wife conceive a child, they have become co-creators with God. Somebody say wow. Somebody say yofi. That’s Hebrew for wow. Yofi. In relationships outside of marriage, the Hebrew scriptures do not use that word. In fact, folks, in fact, even the English doesn’t use it in the King James. For example, in other verses, when there’s sexual relations and it’s not between a husband and wife, it does not say, and he knew his wife. It says, and he lay with her. He lay with her. And even today we use it in a very sarcastic way. Yeah, he laid up with her. You know that wasn’t his wife or husband. Even today we know what the connotation means. There’s no commitment there. There’s no God in it there. It’s just sex. Let me give you some examples in the Bible. Okay? Remember when David’s son Amnon raped his sister Tamar? Said he lay with her. Remember when Lot’s two daughters got their dad drunk because they thought they were the only people left on the earth? Got them drunk and they lay with their father. Amen? Okay, another one would be when Jacob was traveling with his 12 sons. He had one daughter. You all know he had a daughter. Dinah or Dinah. Amen? And when they went to the city of Shechem, one of the chief’s sons saw her and he raped her. He lay with her. Amen? How about the time when Reuben… had sex with his father’s concubine, Bilhah. He lay with her. So here’s the thing. We also, Eli’s sons, the prophet Eli, the priest Eli, when his wicked sons were having sex with the women at the tabernacle door when they were coming to make sacrifice, he lay with them. They lay with them. So here’s the thing. You’ve got to understand, having sex outside of intimacy with husband and wife, it’s referred to very negatively as he lay with her. But when it’s your spouse… When it’s your husband or wife, it says he knew her. He knew her. Because he wasn’t just having this sex act. He knows her. He loves her. They have intimacy that goes beyond the bedroom. Amen? They have intimacy with one another. Sometimes some little flirty flirt wants to try to steal some married man. And she goes with all her little feminine wiles, amen, trying to steal that woman’s husband. And maybe they’re getting, you know, they’ve been married 20, 30 years. You know, they’re not on the honeymoon thing anymore. Honeymoon thing, and I’m talking about the sexual thing, doesn’t last forever, amen? But you know what, what that little flirt doesn’t know is that that man has a history of He has history with his wife. They have a history together. It’s not just some sexual thing. They have a history. She’s trying to come along and flirt with her little ways and wiles, and she doesn’t realize she can’t compete with that wife. Oh, maybe sexually, but she can’t compete with the history that’s there. I’m talking about people that get married in God and go on and serve the Lord together. Amen? And so we see that when the Bible talks about they knew each other, it was far beyond just the physical sexual intimacy. And so God performed this first marriage. But you know what is very interesting? Let me throw this out here. We have to get to chapter 4-1 before we see that they finally got around to obeying the commandment they got in 128, be fruitful and multiply. Didn’t we read it? God gave them two commandments. Two! Some people say one, and they automatically think don’t eat of the tree. Before he gave them that one, he said be fruitful and multiply. If they had obeyed that commandment and got busy being fruitful and multiplying, they may not have been hanging around that tree. I mean, if they would have obeyed that first commandment and found out it was something they could do and they would enjoy doing it, they may not have been worried about eating some piece of fruit off of a tree. But they obviously didn’t get around to doing that. Instead, they got off of what God said. They didn’t obey the first commandment to go and be fruitful and multiply, and they disobeyed the second commandment, you can eat everything but this tree. And it wasn’t until after the sin, after the fall, after they got chased out of the garden, that they obeyed God. But the problem is, that meant that their seed now was born in sin. If they had been fruitful and multiplied when they were told to, and she would have conceived and had children, those children wouldn’t have had this in nature. I don’t know if it means anything to you, but I think it’s pretty interesting. Amen. I hope you are enjoying and learning something from today’s timely teaching, God’s Family Plan. Man was not created to be in isolation. God said it is not good for man to be alone. So he created a helpmate for Adam, an opposite. In creation, opposites attract, and when they bond, the elements of life and viability are formed. this is how god created eve she was not inferior to adam they were both made in the image of god male and female and when male and female come together in the conception of a child they become co-creators with god but bringing a child into the world is more than a biological event Christians in this world are… are not of the world. And we need to go back to God’s blueprint of marriage and family to understand how his laws in the kingdom of God work. The friction that often exists between male and female and husband and wife will quickly diminish when we see the relationship from God’s viewpoint and not that of this ungodly anti-Christian society. This informative practical teaching, God’s Family Plan, is available on CD for a love gift of $10 or more for the radio ministry. Request SK177. Mail to Sound of Faith, P.O. Box 1744, Baltimore, Maryland, 21203. Or go online to soundoffaith.org where you can also order on MP3. But to order by mail, send your minimum love gift of $10 to P.O. Box 1744 Baltimore, Maryland 21203 and request SK177 for God’s Family Plan. Until next time, this is Sharon Knott saying, Maranatha.