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If you have a Bible, and I hope you do, let me invite you to open with me to Genesis Chapter 3.

We covered a lot of ground last week, and we have a lot more ground to cover this week on a new

vitally important very interesting subject biblical manhood and biblical womanhood how does our gender

reflect the glory of god does god have a design for men that is different than his design for women?

What does the Bible say about these things? Not pop psychology, contemporary culture, political

policy, anyone, anything else. What does God say? And then how does all of this affect the way

we pass the gospel onto the next generation? That's the overall question we're looking at.

How in obedience to Psalm 78, can we pass faith in God, knowledge of God,

on to future generations, to children yet unborn?

What we've said from the start, it doesn't matter.

What kind of programs, activities we have for children, students. If we are not biblical men and biblical women with biblical marriages,

biblical parenting, biblical singles, then we will have missed the whole point. So what does biblical

manhood and biblical womanhood look like?

What does God call us to train boys to be? What does God call us to train girls to be? Same, different?

John Piper, pastor in Minnesota said, the tendency today is to stress the

equality of men and women by minimizing the unique significance of our maleness or femalness.

But this depreciation of male and femalehood is a great loss. And it is taking a tremendous toll on generations of young men and women who do not know what it means to be a man or a woman.

Confusion over the meaning of sexual personhood today is epidemic.

The consequence of this confusion is not a free and happy harmony among gender-free persons relating on the

base of abstract competencies. The consequence, rather, is more divorce, more homosexuality,

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