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Stripped in Shame, Clothed in Grace

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

John Piper, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Desiring God, 163859, Preaching, Christianity, Messages, Religion & Spirituality, Sermons

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2007

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

With sin came shame and hostility in marriage. Only God’s Son can give comfort and restore peace in covenant-keeping love.

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Genesis 2 verses 18 through 25.

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Then the Lord God said, it is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him a helper fit for him.

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So out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the

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heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them.

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And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

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The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field.

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But for Adam, there was not found a helper fit for him.

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So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man and while he slept took one of his

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ribs and closed up its place with flesh.

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And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.

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Then the man said, This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called

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woman because she was taken out of man. Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his

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wife and they shall become one flesh and the man and his wife were both naked and

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were not ashamed.

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Amen.

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Would you pray with me?

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Father judging by my male and conversations, many, many marriages are fragile. That's not news to me, nor to anyone. But they are precious in your sight.

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Those who believers and unbelievers are precious.

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And God, I pray that the effect of last week and this week and whatever weeks you lead forward

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in would be powerful in the transformation and preservation of marriage. I asked that you

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would help me that there would be an anointing upon this word so that it would have an effect way beyond

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