let’s go to genesis chapter one and i think that this is really important in genesis chapter 1 verse 27 it says so god created mankind in his own image in the image of god he created them male and female he created them god blessed them and said to them be fruitful and increase in number fill the earth and subdue it so we’re going to come back to that but i think it’s really important that we understand that we it was it god was god was the the blueprint if you will and we are a direct reflection of who god is his

goodness his glory and so we are made in that image and i i think that’s lost on us sometimes because we hold our image up to expectations of the world am i skinny enough am i cute enough am i stylish enough am i with it enough am i smart enough am i educated enough you know we hold the the definition of ourselves up to this impossible standard of the world when in reality we are enough because of who god is not because of some form fashion or function of of our own self so keep that in mind but then let’s go down to

genesis chapter two and uh i think this is a verse that has intrigued me and at times haunted me so let me just read it to you um let’s go to halfway through verse 20. but for adam and this is genesis chapter 2 halfway through verse 20. but for adam no suitable helper was found verse 21 so the lord caused the man to fall into a deep sleep and while he was sleeping he took one of the man’s ribs and closed up that place with flesh then the lord god made a woman from the ribbia taken out of the man and brought her to the man

okay so you know sometimes when i’m studying scripture and i i come across certain words i tend to pay attention to the individual words so i’m constantly asking joel okay let’s take this back to the original language let’s make sure that we really understand the fullness of this word and that something’s not getting lost in translation so of course if we’re in the old testament we’re going back to hebrew and i try not to do this all the time but when i’m studying i really love to do this because i don’t really want to read