Well, it's wonderful to see all of you here this morning. We're going to read Matthew chapter 19, verses 1 through 10. Would you please stand with me? We're in the presence of the Almighty. We want to stand and give our attention to His holy word.

Matthew chapter 19, beginning in verse 1. Let's give our attention to God's holy word. And it came to pass that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee and came into the coast of Judea beyond Jordan, and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there. The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall cleave to his wife, and they twain shall be one flesh.

Wherefore they are no more twain but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement and to put her away. He said unto them, Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, suffered you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. And I say unto you, whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, commit it adultery.

And whoso Marrieth her which is put away, doth commit adultery. His disciples say unto him, if that be the case of the man, or if the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry. Amen. And may the Lord add his blessing to the reading of his word. Let's unite our hearts in prayer.

Righteous and holy Father, we praise and thank thee for the infinite mercy Thou has poured out upon us this morning Lord we are so Unworthy so unworthy and we acknowledge that we cannot take another breath without Thee. And yet, in Thy marvelous grace, in Thy amazing grace through Christ, Thou hast showered us this very day with benefits. We magnify Thee and praise Thee because Thou art the one true and living God. Now, Father, I thank Thee for Thy dear people. I thank Thee for these precious sheep that Thou hast loved and brought with Thine own blood, and Thou hast gathered here this morning to hear thy word and to consider the matter before us.

Now come by the power of thy spirit fill this place fill our hearts Give us illumination to Thy eternal truths, and grant us the grace to walk in them. In Jesus's name, amen. Please be seated. I appreciate the fact that they've attempted to bring the climate of Florida in here tonight, this morning. Feel right at home.

By the way, it's Mount Zion Bible Church. Mount Zion Bible Church. There is a Mount Zion Baptist Church in Pensacola. They get our mail and we get their mail all the time. But we're Mount Zion Bible Church.

Now, the inspired, infallible text that we have just read presents the Lord Jesus Christ in debate with the religious elite of his day. That debate lays the foundation for our discussion of the creation order. And that order is under relentless attack from our culture. So we will then consider that creation order as it is presented to us in Genesis, the spirit-inspired book to which our Savior appealed. The title of our message is Erasing the Creation Order, Defending Complementarianism.

Now may our gracious Heavenly Father grant us the power and illumination of the Holy Spirit. We're meeting in vain if he doesn't. So that we might understand our Savior's confidence in the Scriptures that he quoted, and the order for manhood and womanhood contained therein. So first let us consider a very brief exposition of this sacred text. In the opening verse of the chapter, we find that Jesus had just finished his discourse about life in the church.

That's chapter 18. And we find that Jesus had just finished that remarkable discourse about the life in the church he's going to build. And with that, his astonishing teaching and his mighty miracles in Galilee were over. His entire mission had been in that region, but now Jesus and his disciples traveled south into the coasts of Judea beyond Jordan. Great multitudes followed him, so he continued his mission of compassion and miraculous healing.

Our Lord was all about what the Father gave Him to do. But the Pharisees also came, and they asked Him a controversial question about divorce and remarriage. Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? Actually, we would say it in our lingo today, for any reason. For any reason.

But Jesus bypassed their question and declared God's purpose for marriage as revealed in Genesis. Have you not read, which was of course an insult to the religious leaders, they prided themselves in their knowledge of the scriptures, So for his asking them, have you not read this? He was obviously insulting their pride. Have you not read that he which made them at the beginning, made them male and female and said For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they twain, or they too, shall be one flesh. Wherefore they are no more twain but one flesh.

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." Well the Pharisees countered that with another question. Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorce and to put her away? Building on the Genesis account of creation, Jesus said that from the beginning divorce was not God's plan. From the beginning. He then said, whosoever shall put away his wife, divorce his wife, excepted be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery." Now even Christ's disciples were dumbfounded by his answer.

If the case of the man be so with his wife, if that's the way it is, it's not good to marry. It's pretty remarkable, isn't it? What a response to the one they have followed for over three and a half years. They've heard the Sermon on the Mount. They've heard four of Christ's five great discourses recorded in Matthew.

And their response is, wow, we just soon not marry if that's the case. But that's not our subject. Now there are four crucial things in this passage that demand our consideration. And they're going to build the foundation for our discussion of the creation order. Number one, Jesus the incarnate Son of God had a high view of Scripture.

He appealed to Genesis to make his argument. The question comes up, what does he do? He answers from the word of God. Number two, Jesus had a high view of Genesis. That follows, doesn't it?

He has a high view of Scripture, he has a high view of Genesis. He said in verse four, now you have to, this is the warning, you're gonna have to follow with me for just a moment and think, but he said in Genesis verses 4 and 5, He which made them at the beginning, that is obviously God, made them male and female and said. The implication of and said is God said. The one that made them said. This is not little.

What did God say? For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall cleave to his wife. Jesus was quoting Genesis chapter 2 verse 24 and in its context Moses said that. Moses wrote those words. So Jesus believed that Moses's words in Genesis were God's word to man.

Jesus is quoting from Genesis because it is God's word to man. For that reason, number three, Jesus had a high view of creation. High view of Scripture, in general. High view of Scripture, specifically. And because of that, a high view of creation.

He said, He which made them at the beginning. Jesus viewed creation and Adam and Eve as real history, real persons, not theological fantasy, not myths as liberals and unbelievers do. Finally, number four, Jesus had a high view of the binary. Who knows what I'm talking about there? We got a few.

Okay, binary means something that consists in two parts. Two parts. And in this context, the two parts are male and female. Now you need to understand our culture in general and all its institutions and most of the movements coursing through our country despise and are determined to destroy the binary, male and female. Now, consider our Savior's progress of thought with me for just a moment.

First, Jesus took for granted the authority of God's Word. Number two, he built his argument on God's Word. Thirdly, he affirmed the biblical and historical reality of God's miraculous work of creation. And that brings us to this foundational thought. He which made them at the beginning made them male and female.

That sets the stage for our consideration of complementarianism. That should raise the Complementarianism. That should raise the question for some of us. What is complementarianism? For our purposes, we will consider basic definitions of complementarianism and egalitarianism.

Complementarianism understands God's Word to teach that one, men and women are both created in the image of God. Two, God has ordained distinct roles for each. And three, God has ordained unique leadership for men in marriage and in the church. That's complementarianism. Now, we believe what I have just articulated as God's creation order.

Egalitarianism understands God's Word to teach that, number one, men and women are both created in the image of God. That is where we agree with egalitarians, but we separate after that. Number two, God has not ordained unique leadership for men. I'm sorry, number two is God ordained no distinct roles for men and women. No distinct roles, period.

And that leads to number three, which means that God has not ordained unique leadership for men. In fact, egalitarians believe that male headship is actually harmful to women, children, churches, and society. And that is why that old and dangerous idea must be wiped out of our new and better world. Now if you don't understand that, you've been living in a cave and you need to understand the culture's hostility to what I articulated as God's order. Whatever other issues arise between complementarians and egalitarians, The primary battleground is male headship.

That's the target. And the stakes are high in this debate because lying at the heart of it are the authority of Scripture, the sufficiency of Scripture, and the interpretation of Scripture. This is no little thing. Therefore, how we view male headship directly affects God's three divinely ordained institutions. Marriage, the church, and civil government.

It affects everything across the board. So our focus in this message, what we've been leading up to with all of this, is that male headship is taught by the Word of God. That will be my quote defense of complementarianism. We could come at this several ways, but since that's the target I would like to give you what I believe to be justifiable, legitimate biblical Justifiable, legitimate, biblical arguments for male headship. Not male tyranny, not male domination, not bullying and abuse.

Not bullying and abuse. So, in our text, the Lord Jesus built His argument on the authority of God's Word and the biblical and historical reality of the Genesis account. So we will follow his lead. That brings us to this. According to Genesis, men and women are both created in the image of God.

I cannot press that enough. One of the things that those who believe in male headship, whether they use the words complementarian, whether they use the foul, ugly, nasty, and perverse word patriarchy, whatever title you stick on male headship, that is the target to be destroyed. And we don't believe that the Word of God gives men to abuse women under any circumstance. And Those that do are not only perverted in their own hearts, they should be disciplined by their congregations as soon as possible. So then, the God-breathed text of Genesis 1, 26 through 28 says, God said, let us make man in our image 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.

So God created man in his own image. In the image of God created him, male and female created he them. And God blessed them and God said unto them, be fruitful and multiply. Have babies. Don't avoid babies.

Young Christians are you hearing this? You've been taught by your culture and by many of your churches, oh we got married because we're in love and someday if we want to we'll have children. That is not the Word of God. So God said, be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. That means fill it up and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Let us make man in our image after our likeness is essential. It is crucial. It's a crucial thing for us to grasp that man or mankind, or for those of you that would prefer it humankind it is male and female it is male and female with his almighty power infinite genius and wisdom beyond man's comprehension God fashioned male and female in their pristine beauty. That is unique in God's magnificent work of creation. Regarding everything else God made, we read, and follow this, regarding everything else God made, we read, God said, let there be, and it was.

Nothing in this world equals the stunning uniqueness of male and female They alone bear God's image Being in the image and likeness of God means by exercising the God-given powers of reasoning, will, wisdom, strength, and other attributes, male and female will have dominion. Male and female, not men with women under their thumbs. Male and female will have dominion. What does that mean? They will rule with God.

Under God, but they will rule with God, as God's representatives over all the earth. Let me put it another way. The relationship between a husband and a wife is not master and slave. And some patriarchs are just dead wrong in that view. It is king and queen.

Rulers together over God's creation. That's essential. So this infallible truth must fashion, it must mold our thinking, for it is fundamental to a biblical worldview. This is a worldview. This is a bottom line foundation for a worldview because this is God's Word.

Jesus says so. That's why we started with him. Jesus looked at these passages and Jesus said these are the words of God. Now in light of that, God's people must understand, we've got to understand it, believe it, and defend it. We've got to defend the truth that women are not inferior beings.

Well, they are just as much in the image of God as men. That brings us to our next thought. According to the Genesis account, God established male headship at creation. That's why our first point is so important. Male headship is often made the target of hostility, every sort of vilification, every kind of distortion, and the weapon by which men keep women under.

And there's no doubt that that's true for some men. But it should never be true for Christian men. Never. But it's the fact that the Scriptures, specifically Genesis, establish male headship at creation. We believe that Genesis sets forth the creation order.

And in that order God ordained male headship. We believe that for the following seven reasons. There are going to be a number of lists in this message. I'm sorry if I could avoid that. I would, but I can't for this one anyway.

So first on the list is the order of creation. Let us consider the order of creation and Adam's responsibilities before God created Eve. First, in chapter 2 of Genesis, verse 7, God formed Adam out of the dust of the ground, making him a living soul. God did not choose to create Eve in that way at that time. And you're going to hear me repeat that because it's crucial to what we're attempting to establish.

Number two, in chapter 2 verse 8, God created the Garden of Eden and placed Adam there. He did not choose to place Eve there in that way or in that time. Number 3 in chapter 2 verse 15 God gave Adam the responsibility to cultivate the garden. God did not create Eve at that time, nor did he give her that responsibility at that time. Number 4, chapter 2 verse 16, God gave Adam the revelation of his will.

This is the first recorded communication between God and man. And it was given to Adam before Eve existed. God did not choose to create Eve at that time nor did he give her that responsibility then. Number five, in chapter 2 verse 18, God declared that it is not good for man to be alone, and that he would create a suitable helper for him. God did not choose to create Eve at that time, nor did God say that he created Adam to be a helper for Eve.

Number 6, Chapter 2, verses 19 and 20, God created various birds and beasts and then brought them to Adam so that he could name them. God did not create Eve at that time. Nor did he give her the authority and responsibility to name the creatures. Now if there's something in you that's welling up, I don't read comments all the time when I'm on Amazon. But I discovered some years ago that my booklet on modesty had been put on Amazon.

I didn't realize it was available that way. And I wanted to find all the one star comments. And the first one that I read was this. First sentence, this man obviously hates women. Okay, now I bring that up to say, If you're hearing me say these things in rapid fire, laying these things out to you, and there's beginning to well up in you, something of that this guy hates women, I'm reminding you that's not the case.

We are not talking about men and women and their natures. They're both created in the image of God. We are talking about their roles and one in particular, male headship. We're not saying with every one of these lines women are inferior. We're saying they have a different role.

We believe that's God's order. So, finally, number seven, God created Eve in chapter two, verse 21 and 22, and it's glorious. I wish we had time to stop and talk about it there's no other act in creation as splendid as the creation of woman But God created her and then brought her to Adam, who then named her. It is clear that the Lord God formed Adam first and gave him a location, a vocation, and a revelation. A location, a place to live, a place to have dominion, a vocation, work, and a revelation.

God gave him his word all before God created Eve from Adam's side. Now this is not insignificant or turn to the other way, this is significant. In 1st Timothy chapter 2 verses 12 and 13, Paul argues directly from this fact. He says, I suffer not a woman to teach, nor do you serve authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed.

That's his argument. I'm not giving you something I've cooked up. I am telling you why Paul himself would conclude that that's a significant matter. God made Adam first. And when you rehearse all of the things that I've just run through, you begin to realize that God had a clear purpose in making Adam first.

So under the Holy Spirit's inspiration Paul interpreted and applied the primacy of Adam's creation. Not of his nature, but the primacy, the order in which he was created. Number two. This is to after the long list that was under number one. Paul drew from the creation account as he instructed the Corinthians.

For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man. Paul was a Jew. Paul was a Pharisee. Paul understood the Old Testament scriptures now as a man in Christ. He says, neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for The man.

Paul makes abundantly clear that Eve was made to be Adam's helper, not his slave. The word helper, by the way, is also applied to God. God who is our helper. It's not a demeaning word. Feminists always find that word helper, a terribly demeaning word.

It's not. It's applied to God himself. So while a woman is created in the image of God, she was created to be man's glory. You and I have no glory, men, outside of our women. I mean, I'm delighted with all of my heart that my glory is with me for the first time in these conferences.

And she is my glory. She makes good camouflage for me. Woman was made from man and for man, not to treat as a slave, but to help him obey God's purpose for mankind. That has nothing to do with the nature of the woman but the role of the woman. Number three, the naming of the human race.

God did not name the human race after Eve. Genesis 5 1 & 2 says, This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him. Male and female created he them, and blessed them in the likeness of God made He Him. He called their name, plural, He called their name Adam, not Eve, in the day when they were created.

God did not inspire Moses to write, this is the book of the generations of Eve, nor even the generations of Adam and Eve. Come on Moses, what's your problem? Well of course he was one of these evil patriarchs, but that is an insult to the inspiration of God's Word. God inspired Moses to write this. So, God made man and woman in His image and gave them differing roles.

And He made the man the covenant head of the relationship. Not only does the order of the creation account make this clear, but God's naming the human race man, not woman, is significant. If it doesn't matter, it should have just started off with, and God made woman and man. He could have created both of us out of the out of the dust of the ground at the same time. Why not?

I mean women you should be blessed and encouraged. We were made out of dirt. You were made out of an existing vessel. You got the best part. No, but that is God showing us the union and the inseparability of man and woman.

By making, I mean let's face it, after sin cursed the earth, if we didn't have the scriptures to tell us, and we didn't see that woman was taken from man's side and brought to man, we would both think that we were an entirely different species of creation. You would. Okay. So, the aiming of the woman is important. That's next, number four.

Adam was exercising dominion over the earth before God created Eve. We saw this in Adam's Naming the Animals. 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." Readers in biblical times would have recognized the authority of naming. We don't get that today.

But that was certainly an authoritative act. Why do we think so? Well, because chapters 1 and 2 of Genesis make this clear. And God called the light day. He named it.

And the darkness, he called night. He named it. These are authoritative acts of God as well as creative. He's the Lord. He's the sovereign creator.

And God called the firmament, heaven. And it goes on. We then read, out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the air and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them. We see this God naming, Adam created naming, and Adam gave names to all cattle. So she shall be called woman because she was taken out of man.

Now the sovereign creator of heaven and earth exercised his dominion in naming his creation. He authorized Adam to exercise his dominion in naming both the animals and his wife. Adam even named his wife a second time after their fall into sin. Adam called his wife's name Eve because she was the mother of all living. Number five, the nature of Adam's representations.

Very important. Further evidence of male headship, not male superiority, male headship, and the differing roles of men and women appear in Adam's federal or covenant representation. God not only called the human race man, Adam, but he gave Adam a special representative role. Genesis chapter three verse six says, and when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and did eat. The text could not be clearer.

Eve sinned before Adam did. The Bible, the infallible word of God makes abundantly clear that Eve sinned before Adam. Yet, now listen, if you're drifting, if you have the morning drift here, if your coffee hasn't taken effect yet, don't miss this. We never read, I repeat, we never read in the Old Testament or the New Testament that mankind fell in Eve. The feminists and egalitarians and those that despise what we're presenting as the creation order, utterly hate that the Bible says that Eve sinned and they constantly say that Christians have oppressed women because they blame Eve for sinning.

Now that's either really bad reading, really bad reading, or a distorted, purposeful lie. The Bible never purposeful lie. The Bible never blames the first person who sinned, who was a woman, but blames Adam. All fell in Adam. Why?

He was the covenant head, the one who was responsible in the relationship. Why was he responsible? Because before God created Eve, he gave Adam his word. The word is authoritative. He was the representative and he was to administer the word in the garden.

And we see that he did it because when Eve has her conversation with the serpent, she says, oh well you know we're not supposed to eat of this and touch it or any of those things. We really need to grasp this. We do not read that all mankind sinned in Eve. The infallible Word of God says the Lord called unto Adam and said unto him where art thou. Now all things being equal, why didn't he say, Eve, where are you?

It's never said that Eve is to blame. In other words, God came looking for the representative head. He came looking for the federal head, the one who was representing his wife. He came looking for that covenant head. Never once in Scripture do we hear that sin cleaves to all of us because of Eve.

Not one time. In fact, the Bible says, in Adam all die. This stands in clear contradiction to the Genesis account unless we recognize Adam's federal headship. The text couldn't be plainer. First one had her hand on the fruit, took the bite, was Eve.

But God came after the Covenant head. Adam, not Eve, represented the entire human race. And when he sinned, all fell in him. Romans chapter 5. The language is unmistakable.

God held Adam, the first created, the first given responsibility, the first to exercise dominion, the crucial role of representing all men. He did not choose to give that responsibility to Eve. Number six, the primary nature of Adam's accountability. We've already considered Genesis 3 in relation to Adam's federal headship, but there's another important fact for our consideration. While God judges both Adam and Eve, He judges both Adam and Eve in chapter 3 for their sins, God looks for Adam first.

First one accountable. Not the first one who sinned, the first one accountable. This is connected to what we've just said but it is distinct. He was the first accountable. Who does the Bible blame?

Adam. And by the way, every husband here, the Lord's gonna come to you first about your wife and about your children. And it doesn't matter if you're married to the worst wife on the planet. You're the covenant head and he's coming to you. He will deal with her.

He'll deal with your children, but you were the one. In the day of judgment, the Lord is going to come to the elders and the pastors first because we administer his word to his people. Covenant, headship is important. And lastly, number seven. This one is not actually in the book of Genesis, but it harmonizes with it beautifully.

We see male headship in these six things, but we come to the seventh, and that's the mystery of Christ and the church. The Apostle Paul gives a direct look into God's purpose for marriage, which is a picture of Christ's love for his church. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. As unto the Lord. I was talking to a lovely young Christian woman recently.

I was talking to her about marriage, the possibility of marriage, and her answer was that I don't know that I could submit myself to a man. So she's still single. That doesn't, however, free her before the Lord. God's purpose for marriage is a picture. Every marriage on the planet, pagan or otherwise, wittingly or unwittingly, is a picture of Christ in his church.

Because God embedded that from the beginning. That's why God didn't create three or four guys and a woman, or three or four women and one guy, or five couples all at once. He started with a man and a woman. And Paul builds on that as well. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands.

Men, patriarchs or repentant patriarchs, listen carefully. Because God commands wives to submit to their own husbands, does not mean that women grovel to all men. Are we clear on that? Their own husbands, because that's a picture of Christ and the church. The husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church, and he is the savior of the body.

Therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it 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. Oh, I delight to know that the day is going to come when all of God's people will stand before the Lord Jesus Christ spotless. We will not sin, we will not desire to sin, we will not fall away to sin, we will be a cleansed people, a cleansed bride. So ought men to love their wives as their own body.

Paul then concludes with this, for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall be joined into his wife and they too shall be one flesh." This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Paul uses the word mystery for something that was hidden but is now revealed. People could read the Old Testament centuries and centuries and centuries before Christ came. What portions of Scripture that they had. They see the creation of man and woman but there was a mystery wrapped up in it that wasn't clear until the Lord Jesus Christ came into this world.

And then we take the glorious light of Christ and look back and shine it onto the darkness of the Old Testament Scriptures and realize from the beginning God was making a witness of Jesus Christ in his church. So what men and women down to the ages have not often understood is that Adam and Eve in the garden were the beautiful picture of Christ and his church from the very beginning. So Christ as and is the head of the church and his beloved bride submits to him so in earthly marriage the husband is the head of the wife and she submits to him. She is not inferior to him. Now a quick word when you're reading the Reformers sometimes the Puritans you will hear them talk about husband and wives in the term of superior and inferior but once again we moderns get offended by that but they're not talking about nature.

They're not talking about nature. They're talking about what we would call rank or places of authority. A man has authority, but he and his wife are both made in the image of God. She also has an authority in the home, and that's something we cannot pursue right now. But as Christ wins his bride by self-sacrificing love so must it be for the earthly husband.

We're so sinful that men here like oh I get to be the head. I get to tell everybody to jump and tell them how long to stay up there until I let them come down. Alright? That is perversion. It is.

God gives men authority to do good. God gives men authority to bless his wives and his children with God's holy word and a big God filled life. That's why you have authority. Not to get things your way. Not to say because I want the bass boat.

Right? That's not what it's about. It's about governing your home according to the Word of God. As Christ provides and protects for his longed-for bride, so must it be for the earthly husband. This relationship was established in Eden, the very passages that Christ quoted as He debated with his enemies.

He believed that there was an order that still mattered. He stood on the Word of God and made his argument. I've attempted to do that today. There's an order that God has made. So let me close with these ideas.

For these reasons, we believe that a careful natural reading of God's infallible Word gives rise to a complementarian interpretation of scripture. God created Adam first, made him the covenant head of all mankind, gave him responsibilities, and gave him help suitable for taking dominion over the world. Both male and female, created in the image of God, has distinct or have distinct, although sometimes overlapping, roles. That is vital for understanding our identities in this world, is vital for understanding our roles in this world, and it's vital for representing Christ and his church to the world. Finally, it is vital for the glory of God for all eternity because it is his order.

A healthy church must recognize the God-ordained roles of men and women, and if it would honor Christ, a church's elders must teach and model God's purposes for manhood, womanhood, and bring the whole congregation to see God's order and to make them understand that it's under attack. If we would navigate through the cultural warfare on Christ and his word and his people, We must be clear on God's creation order. Jesus believed, Jesus affirmed, and Jesus taught the Genesis account as the living word of God. This should drive us to defend a complementarian view of male headship. May God through Christ keep us from erasing the creation order.

Amen. Father we thank Thee for Thy word. Sanctify us by Thy Word. Thy Word is truth. In Jesus' name, Amen.