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Let me read a few verses from Genesis.

Sexuality, nobody would have used the word gender 20 years ago the way it's being used today

or 30 years ago anyway. It was a grammatical word, not a social word, but now it's totally a social word and there are

kinds of reasons for that in terms of contemporary culture, but nothing is more important or maybe either is something more important.

Second importance probably to the cross and how manhood and womanhood are defined by the church

in its relationship to Jesus.

Second importance would be that God created you male and female.

So let me read that.

And then I'm going to pray and we're going to get into it for a few minutes.

This is Genesis 1, starting in verse 26.

Then God said, let us, I think that's a hint at the mystery of God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Let us make man in our image after our likeness.

Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock, over the earth, all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

So God created man in his own image.

In the image of God he created him male and female. He created them and God blessed them and God said to them be fruitful

and fill the earth and subdue it.

The reason you exist as male or female

is because God decided to do it that way. So if that's not the most important thing in the

world to know about who you are, it's second most important.

So Father, I pray now for these humans that the wonder of being human in the image of God

as male or female together would land upon these

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