You are listening to David Platt Messages, a weekly podcast with sermons and messages from

pastor, author, and teacher David Platt. If you have a Bible, and I hope you do, then I invite

you to open with me to Genesis chapter 1, first chapter in the Bible, and have you pull out

those notes that you received, your worship guide when you came in.

We've got a lot of ground to cover this morning on one of the most sensitive, and I am convinced most important issues that is clear all over Scripture but under attack in our culture and also under attack

in the church.

It's the issue of biblical manhood and biblical womanhood.

And so today is going to be part one of two on this issue, not to imply that two parts cover everything

that needs to be covered here, but my aim is to provide core biblical foundations this week

and the first part of next week.

So cover some core biblical foundations, and then most of next week dive into the practical implications

of what this means for our lives, for families, for our homes, for the church. And so there's

going to be points I know throughout this morning where you might start to think, what does that

mean? Like how does that look in my life? And so that's a good question, but I want to encourage

you to hold on to that question because we're not going to really dive in as much today good question, but I want to encourage you to hold on to that

question, because we're not going to really dive in as much today to the practice. I want to make

sure to get the right foundations out there. In fact, for that matter, hold on with me throughout

this one this morning. Because there are some points along the way where you might begin to think did did he just really say that in the

21st century does he know how chauvinistic that is does he know how antiquated that is and

and i know what i'm saying I want you to hang with me there I want to be

faithful to what God's word is saying here as we do every week I want to submit ourselves

to God's word and so I want you to hang through those moments where you start

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