Her Desire His Rule lesson 2

KFLCC BIBLE STUDY

KINGDOM TRAINING:
WEDNESDAY NIGHTS (LESSON 2)
HER DESIRE/HIS RULE?
GENESIS 3:16
Genesis 3:16: a verse which describes the consequence of the
woman’s role in the fall into sin. In the first part of God’s judgment
on the woman he declared that bearing children would now be
painful and traumatic. Her primary life function would be full of toil.
Let’s look at the second part of that judgment where God says “Your
desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.” Here
God declares that the woman’s primary relationship to her
husband–would also be disrupted. The marriage relationship, which
was to be the central in family, in culture, in The Kingdom of God
and Man (dominion).
Marriage the very building-block of relationships of human beings,
would also suffer the effects of the Fall. There are two things of
importance here: first, what it means that a woman’s desire shall be
for her husband, and second, what it means that he shall rule over
her.

Her Desire
First let’s look at what it means
“Your desire shall be for
your husband.” What is this
desire? Some have taught that
this is a kind of sexual desire,
which is part of the consequence
for a woman’s sin that she would
have a sexual desire for her
husband or a kind of abnormal
sexual desire for him. Some
people look to Song of Solomon
where this word desire is used;
there the woman says, “I am my
beloved’s, and his desire is
for me.” (Son_7:10) That does
speak of a kind of longing, a kind
of sexual desire.
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But this hardly sounds like a consequence for sin. Quite the
opposite is true. A woman who feels sexual desire for her husband
is blessed by God. This is a good desire, a desire a woman should
long to have. So what else can it mean? This is a case where we can
follow one of those great principles of interpreting the Bible and
simply let a more clear passage help us interpret a less clear
passage. When Moses wrote Genesis he gave us a very helpful way
to understand what is meant by the woman’s desire. We need only
look to (Genesis 4:6-7). Here Cain has had his offering rejected by
God.

Eve desire (sin nature) was
not towards her husband In
this verse thus God
commanded her to do so after
the fall.
While his brother Abel has had
his offering accepted by God.
Cain is furious; his whole
countenance has changed.
Jealousy and murder are rising
up in his heart. The Lord comes
to Cain and gives him a rebuke, a
kind warning. He says, “Why are
you angry, and why has your face
fallen? If you do well, will you not
be accepted? And if you do not do
well, sin is crouching at the door.
Your sinful desire (sin nature) is
looking to rule you, but you must
rule over it.” Here is that same
word—desire.
Gen 3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will
greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy
conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring
forth children; and thy desire shall be
to thy husband, and he shall rule
over thee.
An obedient wife would follow
Sarah example of calling her
husband Abraham Lord
(ruler) In which she
controlled her (sin nature)
desire, as God commanded
the wife. In (Gen. 3:16).(I
Peter 3:6)
Think about a snake here, a
serpent like the devil. The
moment that door open with
Eve in (Gen 3:5) and like a
lion hiding by a door. She
open the door, and there it is,
coiled and ready to pounce.
The moment that door is
opened, Wham!, Sin pounces
all over you. Sin wants to
dominate and destroy you.
Keeping that in mind, we can
go back to Genesis 3 where
God tells the woman, “Your
desire shall be for your
husband.” What we see is that
God is not referring to a good
sexual desire, but about that
Mat 6:10 Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

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bad, sinful desire, just like in his warning to Cain. A woman’s desire
(sin nature) shall be to dominate her husband just like sin seeks to
dominate all of us. In place of the family structure God calls us to,
with a husband lovingly leading his wife and the wife joyfully
submitting to his leadership, there would now be a power struggle,
a struggle to dominate. A woman’s desire (sin nature) for her
husband shall be a desire to push him out of his place of leadership.
It should not be lost on us that this is exactly what happened when
man fell—the woman was led by a creature and the man
was led by his wife. The whole God-ordained leadership
structure was reversed. And that is how it continues today. A wife
struggles to submit to her husband. The ESV puts a little note in the
text explaining that the word for could also be translated against.
The woman’s desire shall now be against her husband—
against his God-given position of leadership and authority. Her
heart will rebel against what God has said is good. The woman will
engage a lifelong battle against this sin. It’s part of her sinful
nature. (End of lesson 2)

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“REFERENCES”
King James Bible
Prepared by:
Apostle Gary Carter, Jr.
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