1. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
Gen. 1:27
By Ron Halbrook

2. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
Introduction
1. Gen. 1:27 In the beginning!
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them.

3. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
Introduction
2. God gives life clarity, sin brings darkness
Selfish, stubborn men question God & Bible
Impact on morals: fornication, adultery, incest, polygamy, & homosexual sin

4. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
Introduction
3. Darkness falling on gender identity & roles
British Children’s Commission survey for ages offers 25 gender identities such as gender fluid, demi-girl, & tri-gender (Daily Mail, )

6. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
Introduction
3. Darkness falling on gender identity & roles
“Here’s a List of 58 Gender Options for Facebook Users” (CBS News, )

8. = Accepting one’s biological sex

11. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
Introduction
3. Darkness falling on gender identity & roles
New bathroom signs reflect confusion

12. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
Introduction
4. God’s Word on gender identity & roles
God made gender with a purpose
Defying gender roles defies God’s purpose
The gospel reinforces true gender roles
Gender perversion is moral perversion

13. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
I. God Made Gender with a Purpose
A. Genesis 1-2 Explains Gender Identity & Roles
Gen. 1: Gender roles perpetuate life

14. Gen. 1:20-31 Gender roles perpetuate life
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind,
and every winged fowl after his kind:
and God saw that it was good.
22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply,
and fill the waters in the seas,
and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
Gen. 1: Gender roles perpetuate life

15. Gen. 1:20-31 Gender roles perpetuate life
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth
the living creature after his kind,
cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind:
and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth
after his kind,
and cattle after their kind,
and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind:
and God saw that it was good.

16. Gen. 1:20-31 Gender roles perpetuate life
26 And 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.

17. Gen. 1:20-31 Gender roles perpetuate life
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them.
28 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.

18. Gen. 1:20-31 Gender roles perpetuate life
29 And God said, Behold,
I have given you every herb bearing seed,
which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed;
to you it shall be for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth,
and to every fowl of the air,
and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life,
I have given every green herb for meat:
and it was so.
31 And God saw every thing that he had made,
and, behold, it was very good.
And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Gen. 1: Gender roles perpetuate life
And God saw every thing
that he had made,
and, behold, it was very good.

19. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
I. God Made Gender with a Purpose
A. Genesis 1-2 Explains Gender Identity & Roles
Gen. 1: Gender roles perpetuate life
Male & female: perfect plan perpetuates life
No confusion: male is male, female is female

20. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
I. God Made Gender with a Purpose
A. Genesis 1-2 Explains Gender Identity & Roles
Gen. 2: Unique genders for unique companionship in marriage

21. Gen. 2:18-25 Unique genders for unique companionship in marriage
18 And the LORD God said,
It is not good that the man should be alone;
I will make him an help meet for him.
19 And 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:
and whatsoever Adam called every living creature,
that was the name thereof.
20 And Adam gave names to all cattle,
and to the fowl of the air,
and to every beast of the field;
but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Gen. 2: Unique genders for unique companionship in marriage
NEED
UNIQUE
COMPANION

22. Gen. 2:18-25 Unique genders for unique companionship in marriage
21 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;
22 And the rib,
which the LORD God had taken from man,
made he a woman,
and brought her unto the man.
23 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.
UNIQUE
COMPANION:
WOMAN,
NOT
ANOTHER
MAN!

23. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother,
Gen. 2: Unique genders for unique companionship in marriage
24 Therefore shall a man leave
his father and his mother,
and shall cleave unto his wife:
and they shall be one flesh.
25 And they were both naked,
the man and his wife,
and were not ashamed.

24. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
I. God Made Gender with a Purpose
A. Genesis 1-2 Explains Gender Identity & Roles
Gen. 2: Unique genders for unique companionship in marriage
Male designed to lead & to provide
Female designed to support as caregiver & mother

25. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
I. God Made Gender with a Purpose
A. Genesis 1-2 Explains Gender Identity & Roles
Gen. 2: Unique genders for unique companionship in marriage
Not male & animal
Not female & animal
Not male & male
Not female & female

26. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
II. Defying Gender Roles Defies God’s Purpose
A. Eve Defied God & Led Adam to Sin
Gen. 3:6 Eve took role of leader
6 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 he did eat.

27. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
II. Defying Gender Roles Defies God’s Purpose
A. Eve Defied God & Led Adam to Sin
Gen. 3: God punished them & emphasized their proper roles

28. Gen. 3:14-19 God punished them & emphasized their proper roles
14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent,
Because thou hast done this,
thou art cursed above all cattle,
and above every beast of the field;
upon thy belly shalt thou go,
and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed;
it shall bruise thy head,
and thou shalt bruise his heel.

29. Gen. 3:14-19 God punished them & emphasized their proper roles
16 Unto the woman he said,
I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception;
in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children;
and thy desire shall be to thy husband,
and he shall rule over thee.

30. Gen. 3:14-19 God punished them & emphasized their proper roles
17 And unto Adam he said,
Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree,
of which I commanded thee, saying,
Thou shalt not eat of it:
cursed is the ground for thy sake;
in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread,
till thou return unto the ground;
for out of it wast thou taken:
for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Gen. 3: God punished them & emphasized their proper roles

31. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
II. Defying Gender Roles Defies God’s Purpose
B. Sodom & Gomorrah Defied God
Gen. 19:5 Burned with homosexual lust
5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

32. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
II. Defying Gender Roles Defies God’s Purpose
B. Sodom & Gomorrah Defied God
Gen. 19: God’s wrath burned
24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain,
and all the inhabitants of the cities,
and that which grew upon the ground.

33. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
II. Defying Gender Roles Defies God’s Purpose
C. Law of Moses Warned against Defying God
Lev. 18: Jews warned of pagan sins

34. Lev. 18:22-25 Jews warned of pagan sins
22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast
to defile thyself therewith:
neither shall any woman stand before a beast
to lie down thereto: it is confusion [perversion, NIV].
24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things:
for in all these the nations are defiled
which I cast out before you:
25 And the land is defiled:
therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it,
and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.

35. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
II. Defying Gender Roles Defies God’s Purpose
C. Law of Moses Warned against Defying God
Lev. 18: Jews warned of pagan sins
Sumarian goddess Ninmah created humans with bisexual or asexual anatomy: reflected rampant sexual perversion of sexual identity & roles

36. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
II. Defying Gender Roles Defies God’s Purpose
C. Law of Moses Warned against Defying God
Deut. 22:5 Pagan cross-dressing sins
5 The woman shall not wear
that which pertaineth unto a man,
neither shall a man put on a woman's garment:
for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

37. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
II. Defying Gender Roles Defies God’s Purpose
D. New Testament Issues Similar Warnings
Rom. 1: Homosexual sin rampant

38. Rom. 1:26-27 Homosexual sin rampant
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use
into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men,
leaving the natural use of the woman,
burned in their lust one toward another;
men with men working that which is unseemly [indecent,NIV],
and receiving in themselves
that recompence of their error [perversion, NIV] which was meet.

39. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
III. The Gospel Reinforces True Gender Roles
A. Christ Offers Salvation to All People
Gal. 3: One Savior & gospel for all

40. Gal. 3:26-28 One Savior & gospel for all
26 For ye are all the children of God
by faith in Christ Jesus.
27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek,
there is neither bond nor free,
there is neither male nor female:
for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

41. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
III. The Gospel Reinforces True Gender Roles
B. Gender Roles Serve God’s Purpose in the Home
Matt. 19:4-6 God joins 1 man to 1 woman in marriage

42. Matt. 19:4-6 God joins 1 man to 1 woman in marriage
4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read,
that he which made them at the beginning
made them male and female,
5 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?
6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together,
let not man put asunder.

43. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
III. The Gospel Reinforces True Gender Roles
B. Gender Roles Serve God’s Purpose in the Home
Eph. 5: Husband leads, wife submits
22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands,
as unto the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife,
even as Christ is the head of the church:
and he is the saviour of the body.

44. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
III. The Gospel Reinforces True Gender Roles
B. Gender Roles Serve God’s Purpose in the Home
Child blessed by father’s leadership & mother’s tenderness

45. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
III. The Gospel Reinforces True Gender Roles
C. Gender Roles Serve God’s Purpose in the Church
1 Tim. 2:8-15 Men lead in work & worship of church, women serve God in other ways

46. 1 Tim. 2:8-15 Men lead in work & worship of church, women serve God in other ways
8 I will therefore that men pray every where,
lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
9 In like manner also, that women
adorn themselves in modest apparel,
with shamefacedness and sobriety;
not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
10 But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
12 But I suffer not a woman to teach,
nor to usurp authority over the man,
but to be in silence.

47. 1 Tim. 2:8-15 Men lead in work & worship of church, women serve God in other ways
13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
14 And Adam was not deceived,
but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness
with sobriety.

48. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
III. The Gospel Reinforces True Gender Roles
C. Gender Roles Serve God’s Purpose in the Church
1 Tim. 3:1-5 Men lead as elders supported by godly wives—no female elders

49. 1 Tim. 3:1-5 Men lead as elders supported by godly wives
1 This is a true saying, If a man desire the office
of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
2 A bishop then must be blameless,
the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober,
of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
4 One that ruleth well his own house,
having his children in subjection with all gravity;
5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

50. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
III. The Gospel Reinforces True Gender Roles
C. Gender Roles Serve God’s Purpose in the Church
1 Tim. 3: Men serve as deacons supported by godly wives—no deaconesses
11 Even so must their wives be grave,
not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

51. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
IV. Gender Perversion Is Moral Perversion
A. Men Defy the Truth about God
Ps. 14:1 Hardened sinners deny God
1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

52. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
IV. Gender Perversion Is Moral Perversion
A. Men Defy the Truth about God
Tit. 1:16 Some profess but disobey God
16 They profess that they know God;
but in works they deny him,
being abominable, and disobedient,
and unto every good work reprobate.

53. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
IV. Gender Perversion Is Moral Perversion
A. Men Defy the Truth about God
Claim God made them deviant & accepts it
God does not make men alcoholics, adulterers, or sexual deviants— they choose to sin (Ja. 1:13-15)

54. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
IV. Gender Perversion Is Moral Perversion
A. Men Defy the Truth about God
Claim God made them deviant & accepts it
Birth defects: hermaphrodite or intersex—born with characteristics of both sexes but only one reproductive capacity— solved by surgery & counseling

55. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
IV. Gender Perversion Is Moral Perversion
A. Men Defy the Truth about God
Claim God made them deviant & accepts it
Emotional imbalance: gender dysphoria or gender identity disorder—identify oneself with sex opposite to birth & anatomy— solved by counseling

56. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
IV. Gender Perversion Is Moral Perversion
B. Men Pervert the Truth about Love
1 Jn. 5:2 Obey God to love Him & men
2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

57. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
IV. Gender Perversion Is Moral Perversion
B. Men Pervert the Truth about Love
Claim freedom to love anyone
Can love anyone as a friend: not the same as sexual love in marriage
Can love animals: perversion to marry them like Barbarella Buchner (DailyMail.com )

59. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
IV. Gender Perversion Is Moral Perversion
B. Men Pervert the Truth about Love
Claim freedom to love anyone
Can love bridges: perversion to marry them like Jodi Rose (Huffington Post Weird News )

60. Name baby
Bridge, Jr.
or Bridgette???

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IV. Gender Perversion Is Moral Perversion
C. Some Go from Gender to Species Perversion
Norwegian lady Nano Er Katt “claims she was ‘born in the wrong species’… she is cat trapped in a human’s body” (New York Daily News )

63. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
Invitation
1. Gen. 1:27 In the beginning!
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them.

64. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
Invitation
2. Darkness falling on gender identity & roles
3. God’s Word on gender identity & roles
God made gender with a purpose
Defying gender roles defies God’s purpose
The gospel reinforces true gender roles
Gender perversion is moral perversion

65. GOD CREATED US MALE & FEMALE
Invitation
4. Begin a new life in Christ with moral clarity:
Acts 22:16 He will wash away all sin
16 And now why tarriest thou?
arise, and be baptized,
and wash away thy sins,
calling on the name of the Lord.