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Several years ago when I was a home inspector I inspected a friend of ours house named Angelique before her and her husband bought it. There was a minor stress crack above one of the bedroom doors and I told her the house had settled and it was probably an old crack. To be safe I inspected the foundation and could not find anything obvious on the outside. On the inside the basement was sheet rocked and carped. As an inspector I could not pull up the carpet or take down the sheetrock and assumed all was well and they moved in shortly afterwards.

Two years or so later to make a long story short the foundation began to break apart and they had to shell out 40K dollars to have the house repaired. My wife and I stopped by one day and her yard was all dug up around the house. The house was covered on the inside with concrete dust and they had plastic on all the upstairs floors. The basement had holes in the ground around the inside edges where they were mud jacking and their basement was unlivable. It was sad to see and for them it was just the beginning of a nightmare. For the entire summer the house was being repaired and was hard to live in.

Eventually they got most of their money back for the repairs but it took two years to recover. As the inspector of the home I could have been liable for the damages in court. However their insurance man and I met the mudjackers at the house when they did their initial assessment. We soon discovered that the previous owners had known the foundation was bad and did not disclose it to their realtor. The mudjackers found that the previous owners had used silicone to repair several large basement floor cracks and glued carpet over it to hide the repairs and since they did not disclose it they were sued for the damages.

In our Christian lives there are lots of similarities to Angelique‘s misadventures. A marriage like a house needs to be built on a solid foundation and both couples should disclose everything. There should be no secrets and nothing should be covered up because communication is essential. If a Christian home is not filled with the spirit of God a remodeling occurs and the home can be hard to live in. But when God and the Holy Spirit lives in the home in the end damages can be recovered.

As Christian couples in our marriages need to build on a solid foundation and be wise and not foolish. In Matthew 7:24-27 Jesus described someone who builds their house on sand as Foolish and one who builds their house on rock are Wise.

Jesus said in Luke 6:46-49 that a home built on a strong foundation of rock which is Jesus and the word of God is different from one built without a foundation or without God and the bible but Why? Because those who build on a Christian foundation can weather the storms of life by their faith because God and the bible is the blueprint for life or a roadmap.

To understand us as individuals we need to look at the Genesis Creation Timeline.

God made man last on the 6th day of creation and rested on the 7th day. If you read Genesis 1: 26-30 in verse 27 we see that God created man and woman in God’s image. Then in verse 28 God blessed “them” both so they’re equals. Then in verse 28 we see God’s purpose for marriage and we are to fill the earth by being fruitful and multiplying.

If you are in a childless marriage for one reason or another how does this apply to you? Well you can adopt or be foster parents for children if you can. You can also help to raise spiritual children like step children, grandchildren, nephews, nieces or other children in your life such as those of close family friends or even the neighbor’s children.

For new Christians when reading Genesis chapter 2 and in particular Genesis 2:7-8 it is confusing for most of them as well as some believers. In Genesis 1:26 we read that God created male and female. But in 2:7 we read that God created Adam (Hebrew for Man). The key here is to understand that Chapter 1 is taken as an overview of creation. Whereas Chapter 2 deals with verse 1:26 in detail in verse 2:4 with the creation of the first man or Adam and the first woman Eve which in the Hebrew sounds like Man as it does in English.

Why was man created and why was he given dominion over all that had the breath of life in it? – To take care of it as in verse 2:5 so that he could work it which means to tend and take care of it. So God created Adam in 2:7 and put him into Eden in 2:15.

One of Gods primary purposes for marriage is stated in Genesis 2:18.  In 2:18 God said that it is not good for man (Adam) to be alone and he needed a helper that was suitable for him. One that could help him care for all that God had created for the earth. From this we see that Man was not meant to be alone and needed a woman to be his helper or partner who is suitable for him.

In summation a Christian home needs to be built on a strong foundation and we need to be wise and not foolish. To do so we have Jesus and the word of God present in ourselves, our marriage and in our home. God provided woman to man as a helper and both were blessed as equals.

When reading Genesis 2:21-24 in verse 24 when a man marries he is to leave his mother and father or their house and be united to his wife in their own house and they become one flesh and so they become one and not remain two. When God said - in the various Bible version translations - that a man is United, Joined or Cleave(s) it means Faithful Love. Jesus himself echoed this in Matthew 19:4-6 but added therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate. Paul tells us in Hebrews 13:4 that marriage is honorable and that the marriage bed should be kept pure and undefiled.

Paul also states in 1 Corinthians 11:11-12 that God created men and women as interdependent. Women are not independent of men, and men are not independent of women. Adam was created before Eve and even though Eve the first woman came from Adam ever since then all men and women have been born from women. No one is completely independent because everything comes from God who is the Source of all life. Paul in 1 Corinthians 7:3-5 tells us that intimacy is important as we seen in Genesis 1:28.

In Genesis 3: 1-6 where was Adam when the serpent was temping Eve? He was with her.

When they ate the fruit sin came into the world because of disobedience to God but was this Eves fault? – No because Adam was with her and failed to protect his wife from sin and temptation. Here Adam failed himself, his wife, their union or marriage and failed God. We cannot always force our mate to obey God but we can pray for them and with love admonish them. In Genesis 3: 7-13 when God asked Adam in verse 11 he blamed Eve the woman in verse 12 but it is important to note that when we sin we are to blame not someone else.