This is Hungry Gen podcast, and I just want to thank you for joining us today.

Here at HG, our vision is to see thousands saved locally and millions globally.

We hope you enjoy this week's message.

Let's just start with a little bit about ourselves.

So for about 20 years now, we have embarked. I'm a lawyer by training.

Shanti was an analyst on Wall Street. And about 20 years ago, we kind of stumbled on to this idea of, can we research why men and women kind of don't understand each other? And what can we kind of...

Nobody knows what you're talking about. What can we kind of add to the conversation? So for the last

20 years, we've been doing these nationally representative research studies. And that's been kind of our gig here. People understand one

another. Yep. And so we're going to actually, we're going to review a scripture that for those of you who are

familiar with the Bible, you've probably heard this. Some of you may never have really read this before.

If you have a Bible, if you have

your Bible app, let's open the word to Genesis 2 right back at the very beginning. And we are

going to watch our God create the institution of marriage. We're going to be talking, as Pastor Vlad said, we are going to be talking today

whether you're married, whether you're not, whether you were married, you're not anymore,

whether you're hoping to be married, whatever you think, hopefully this will encourage you.

But we need to start at the beginning, okay. We need to watch what God does here.

So start in Genesis 2. We're going to start with verse 18, and then we're going to skip to

verse 21. Then the Lord, oh, I need to say, by the way, just to set it up for those of you who

aren't as quite as familiar, as God was creating the world, and he was creating

the sky and the animals and night and day, and he was creating these things, and he kept saying,

it was good, it was good, it was good, and then we come to this curious verse, verse 18,

then the Lord God said, it is not good for man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him, and then

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