Muslim culture, especially in the East, is set in about 11th century. People use laptops and cell phones and all, but culture-wise Islam has taken 7th Century Persian culture and deified it.
On the news, for example, the capital of Yemen was shown with a man standing on the wall of the city blowing a ram’s horn before the gates of the city were closed.
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There are more mosques in the city of London today then there are churches. The real church, or the Body of Christ, is almost non-existent in London and in England, formerly the very heart and soul of the location of the Reformation from which the gospel went all over the planet.
“Light rejected becomes lightening and there’s never a place better than where truth was and then it was neglected,” says Jordan.
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God instituted marriage at Creation. He created Eve for the purpose of providing a wife for Adam. Marriage is not a church institution. Marriage is not a civil or governmental institution. The church didn’t create marriage; the government didn’t create marriage. God created marriage as an institution for the basic fundamental functioning of humanity on the planet.
Genesis 2: 18-24 reads, “ And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
[19] And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
[20] And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
[21] And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
[22] And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
[23] And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
[24] Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
[19] And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
[20] And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
[21] And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
[22] And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
[23] And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
[24] Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
Jordan explains, “The word ‘meet’ means qualified. You take your fingers and put them together and they meet. They come together. The idea is, ‘I’ll make him a helper; somebody to come alongside who’s qualified and capable of being exactly the help he’s going to need to enable him to fulfill the purpose for which I created him.’
“Well, He takes Adam out there and shows him all His creation and he didn’t find a help meet so God opens him up. I love what verse 21-22 says. People say, ‘Don’t you know men and women are different?' That verse says He took the rib out of man. If you take something out of something what did you do? There were some things in Adam that were there to start with that God took out and then they weren’t there anymore!
“A guy wrote the book, ‘Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus,’ and made millions of dollars and is retired in Hawaii today.
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“Did you make the air you breathe? No, somebody else did. You’re a dependent creature. You need to live in dependency upon others. You need to learn for the benefit and good of others. That’s the way God lives, not solitary but He lives in a fellowship. He never lives for himself. He lives for the honor of His Son. The Son lives for the honor of the Father and the Spirit lives for the honor of the Son. They all live for one another.
“If God had created Adam out of the dirt and then Eve out of the dirt, He would have had two humans directly created by Him. When they sinned, He would have then had to have two Redeemers—one for each one.
“He took Eve out of Adam so there would be only one blood, one head of the human race, one source from which all of humanity came. Therefore there can be one Redeemer for all of humanity. We call it the ‘Federal Headship.’ The reason He took Eve out was so Adam would always live in dependency for his fullness on someone else. He could learn to live as God lives, for the good of others.”
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