Sermon
What is God's Design for Gender and Family?
Center Church
Speaker: Josh Miller
February 16, 2025 · 49 min
Identity in ChristBiblical Manhood & WomanhoodCreationParentingGenesis 1:26–27Genesis 1:27Genesis 1:28
Summary
Genesis 1:26–2:3 establishes four aspects of human creation design: bearing God's image (which confers inherent value), being made male or female (a fixed gift, not a fluid spectrum), multiplying through marriage and family, and resting on the Sabbath. Living according to this design produces blessing; violating it produces brokenness.
Highlights
Your value does not come from what you do. Your value comes from who made you.
If your mind and your body feel out of alignment, what should you do? The world says change your body. The word says embrace your body as holy and renew your mind.
The primary way you leave a legacy is you get married and you stay married for seven decades. You have kids. You raise them in the wisdom and instruction of the Lord. Your one life becomes a forest of righteousness that changes the landscape.