Nothing is more purely the distinctive of a woman than to give birth to a baby.

Nothing provides for her greater fulfillment, greater joy, greater satisfaction than that.

But even that is not unmixed.

It is with pain. as No one, man or woman, has escaped the misery brought on this world by sin.

The question is, how can you be delivered from the eternal consequences of sin,

and how can you minimize the damaging influences

of sin in the meantime? Consider those questions as John MacArthur continues his

study on grace to you called Genesis of the Gospel.

And with that, let's get to today's lesson.

Here's John MacArthur.

We're in chapter 3 of Genesis and looking at the origin and impact of sin.

Why there is evil in the world,

why there is trouble in the world,

is all explained right here.

And in our ongoing study of this third chapter we come now to

verse 16 and in Genesis 316 we find the divine curse on the woman and I want to read it to you it says to the woman he being God said I

will greatly multiply your pain and the Hebrew text says and childbirth in pain you shall bring forth

children yet your desire shall be for your husband and he shall rule over you.

I've lived long enough and I've been enough places in the world to know that the plight of women in the world is very difficult. We have it the best here in America

and still the plight of women is very difficult. I have seen the struggles that women go

through in all corners of the world.

It's very hard being a woman.

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