The reason God gave Adam Eve was so that would be a collaborative effort in his rule.

Dr. Tony Evans says any man who doesn't utilize his maid for her mind, her skills, and her

giftedness is missing an important point.

If you had it all, you wouldn't need help.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior pastor of Oakcliffe

Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, and President of the Urban Alternative.

There are plenty of reasons couples contemplate marriage.

Most of the time becoming more effective rulers isn't on the list.

Let's join Dr. Evans where he'll shortly take us to Genesis chapter 2, for look at why

we should reconsider that as a top priority.

On 15 verse 16 says that God rules in the heavens, but he has given the earth to the sons

of men to rule.

The implications of that are staggering because what it means is that God has decided to

respect your decisions and that much of his action will be determined by our action.

While he has maintained a base of sovereign boundaries, a sphere where he will not allow

man to trust fast on, he has opened up a field of play where we get to call the particular

play and he will respond accordingly.

God planted Adam in a garden.

He planted in the sphere of his calling from every tree of the garden you may freely eat,

but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that is off limits.

In other words, you are not to determine for yourself what is good or bad right or wrong.

That is not within your realm of option.

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