1. Adam and Eve; Marriage and the Sixth Commandment
Confirmation Lesson 3
Adam and Eve; Marriage and the Sixth Commandment

2. Genesis 2:18-24 What was “not good”? What is a “suitable helper”?
For what two reasons did God have “each living creature” come to Adam?

3. Genesis 2:18-24 What was “not good”? For man to be alone
What is a “suitable helper”?
For what two reasons did God have “each living creature” come to Adam?

4. Genesis 2:18-24 What was “not good”? For man to be alone
What is a “suitable helper”? Someone that fits together with someone else
For what two reasons did God have “each living creature” come to Adam?

5. Genesis 2:18-24 What was “not good”? For man to be alone
What is a “suitable helper”? Someone that fits together with someone else
For what two reasons did God have “each living creature” come to Adam? To name them and to learn that he didn’t have a mate.

6. Genesis 2:18-24 What does Adam communicate to us in verse 23?
What do the words “leave” and “united” teach us about marriage?
Marriage is for one ____ and one ____. How do we know that?

7. Genesis 2:18-24
What does Adam communicate to us in verse 23? He is excited to be blessed with a spouse.
What do the words “leave” and “united” teach us about marriage?
Marriage is for one ____ and one ____. How do we know that?

8. Genesis 2:18-24
What does Adam communicate to us in verse 23? He is excited to be blessed with a spouse.
What do the words “leave” and “united” teach us about marriage? The essence of marriage is commitment.
Marriage is for one ____ and one ____. How do we know that?

9. Genesis 2:18-24
What does Adam communicate to us in verse 23? He is excited to be blessed with a spouse.
What do the words “leave” and “united” teach us about marriage? The essence of marriage is commitment.
Marriage is for one man and one woman. How do we know that?

10. Genesis 2:18-24
What does Adam communicate to us in verse 23? He is excited to be blessed with a spouse.
What do the words “leave” and “united” teach us about marriage? The essence of marriage is commitment.
Marriage is for one man and one woman. How do we know that? That is how God describes marriage to us.

11. Genesis 2:18-24
List the three blessings of marriage. -

12. Genesis 2:18-24 List the three blessings of marriage.
Psalm 127:3 Sons are a heritage from the Lord, children a reward from him.

13. Genesis 2:18-24 List the three blessings of marriage.
Psalm 127:3 Sons are a heritage from the Lord, children a reward from him.
Children

14. Genesis 2:18-24 List the three blessings of marriage.
Hebrews 13:4 Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.

15. Genesis 2:18-24 List the three blessings of marriage.
Hebrews 13:4 Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.
Chastity

16. Genesis 2:18-24 List the three blessings of marriage. Genesis 2:18
Companionship

17. Genesis 2:18-24 List the three blessings of marriage. - children
- chastity
- companionship

18. Matthew 19:1-9
What was the question some Pharisees brought to Jesus? (3)
What was Jesus’ answer? (4-6)
Summarize Jesus’ answer.

19. Matthew 19:1-9
What was the question some Pharisees brought to Jesus? (3)
Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?
What was Jesus’ answer? (4-6)
Summarize Jesus’ answer.

20. Matthew 19:1-9
What was the question some Pharisees brought to Jesus? (3)
Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?
What was Jesus’ answer? (4-6)
What God has joined together, let man not separate
Summarize Jesus’ answer.

21. Matthew 19:1-9
What was the question some Pharisees brought to Jesus? (3)
Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?
What was Jesus’ answer? (4-6)
What God has joined together, let man not separate
Summarize Jesus’ answer.
Not for any and every reason!

22. Matthew 19:1-9 What was the Pharisees’ second question? (7)
What does Jesus say about divorce in verse 9?

23. Matthew 19:1-9 What was the Pharisees’ second question? (7)
Why then did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?
What does Jesus say about divorce in verse 9?

24. Matthew 19:1-9 What was the Pharisees’ second question? (7)
Why then did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?
What does Jesus say about divorce in verse 9?
I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for martial unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery.

25. Quiz and Break Time

26. The Bible & My Life What is God’s definition of marriage?
Matthew 19:5–6 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
Romans 7:2 For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.

27. The Bible & My Life What is God’s definition of marriage?
Matthew 19:5–6 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
Romans 7:2 For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.

28. The Bible & My Life What is God’s definition of marriage?
Matthew 19:5–6 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
One man and one woman
Romans 7:2 For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.

29. The Bible & My Life What is God’s definition of marriage?
Matthew 19:5–6 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
One man and one woman
Romans 7:2 For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.

30. The Bible & My Life What is God’s definition of marriage?
Matthew 19:5–6 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
One man and one woman
Romans 7:2 For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.
Life-long

31. The Bible & My Life What is God’s definition of marriage?
It is to be life-long between one man and one woman.

32. The Bible and My Life
How does a married person spoil God’s gifts of sex and marriage?
Colossians 3:19 – Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

33. The Bible and My Life
How do people spoil God’s gifts of sex and marriage?
Colossians 3:19 – Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
Not loving each other or being harsh

34. The Bible and My Life
How do people spoil God’s gifts of sex and marriage?
Hebrews 13:4 – Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.

35. The Bible and My Life
How do people spoil God’s gifts of sex and marriage?
Hebrews 13:4 – Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.
Adultery

36. The Bible and My Life
How do people spoil God’s gifts of sex and marriage?
Matthew 5:27–28 27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ 28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

37. The Bible and My Life
How do people spoil God’s gifts of sex and marriage?
Matthew 5:27–28 27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ 28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Look at someone else lustfully

38. The Bible and My Life
How do people spoil God’s gifts of sex and marriage?
They are not loving or harsh, have sex outside of marriage, and look at someone else lustfully.

39. The Bible and My Life
Divorce also can spoil God’s gift of marriage, because what are the only Scriptural reasons for divorce?
Matthew 19:9 I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery.”

40. The Bible and My Life
Divorce also can spoil God’s gift of marriage, because what are the only Scriptural reasons for divorce?
Matthew 19:9 I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery.”
Marital unfaithfulness

41. The Bible and My Life
Divorce also can spoil God’s gift of marriage, because what are the only Scriptural reasons for divorce?
1 Corinthians 7:15 But if the unbeliever leaves, let him do so. A believing man or woman is not bound in such circumstances; God has called us to live in peace.

42. The Bible and My Life
Divorce also can spoil God’s gift of marriage, because what are the only Scriptural reasons for divorce?
1 Corinthians 7:15 But if the unbeliever leaves, let him do so. A believing man or woman is not bound in such circumstances; God has called us to live in peace.
Desertion

43. The Bible and My Life
Divorce also can spoil God’s gift of marriage, because what are the only Scriptural reasons for divorce?
The only Scriptural reasons for divorce are martial unfaithfulness and desertion.

44. The Bible and My Life How do we honor marriage?
Ephesians 5:3-4 – Among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity… Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place.

45. The Bible and My Life How do we honor marriage?
Ephesians 5:3-4 – Among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity… Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place.
No hint of sexual immorality, obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking

46. The Bible and My Life
How do we honor marriage?
Ephesians 5:21–26 21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,

47. The Bible and My Life
How do we honor marriage?
Ephesians 5:21–26 21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
Husbands love wives just like how Christ loves the Church; wives submit and respect their husbands as if to the Lord

48. The Bible and My Life How do we honor marriage?
Romans 13:13–14 13 Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. 14 Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature.

49. The Bible and My Life How do we honor marriage?
Romans 13:13–14 13 Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. 14 Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature.
Behave decently; clothe ourselves with Christ

50. The Bible and My Life How do we honor marriage?
When we live pure and decent lives, when we fulfill our roles as husbands and wives and when we put selfless love into action.

51. Discussion A or D: The one thing you must have for marriage is love.
Agree, love for God first, then your spouse; love for yourself last; Disagree, if just generic “love” as people usually talk about
What does God say about homosexuality? (1 Corinthians 6:9,10)
God calls it a sin

52. Homework
Look at the end of the last page of your notes!

53. Homework Memorize: Study notes for a quiz Read with mom and dad
Second Article
OT books (Genesis – Malachi)
Hebrews 13:4
Study notes for a quiz
Read with mom and dad
Genesis 3