Understanding the Purpose and Power of Men

God’s Purpose fo r the Male

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The Male’s Priority

The order in which the male was created gives us the first indication of his reason for being. Why did God make the male first? It was not because the male was better, but because of his purpose. When you think about it, God really made only one hu man being. When He created the female, He didn‘t go back to

the soil, but He fashioned her from the side of the man. (See Genesis 2:21 – 23.) Only the male came di rectly from the earth. This was be cause the male was designed by God to be the foundation of the

The male is the

foundation

of the human

family.

human family. The woman came out of the man rather than the earth because she was designed to rest on the man — to have the male as her support. I believe that the foundation of society, the infrastruc ture God intended for this world, has been misunderstood. We often say that the family is the foundation of society. It is very true that the family is the adhesive that holds it togeth er. Yet God did not start to build earthly society with a fami ly. He began it with one person. He began it with the male man. Remember our discussion of the principles of purpose in chapter 2? Because God is a God of purpose, He planned everything before He began to create, so that when He started digging the foundation, He knew exactly what He wanted and what the completed picture would look like. But he had to start with the foundation. Have you ever seen a contractor build a house starting with the roof? Have you ever seen a guy walk into an empty lot and hold up a window in the air, trying to get it to stay? You don‘t start with the windows. You don‘t start with the roof. You don‘t start with the rafters. Likewise, God starts like any other builder. The priority in building is always what you need to do first. You start with the foundation. God‘s communications to man in the Bible indicate the importance He places on building from the foundation up.

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