If Jesus is your life, and Jesus is someone else's life, then you share the same life—and will be able to enjoy the unity that Psalm 133 describes.
The sin of Cain should not surprise us. The mercy of God should amaze us.
Because of their sin, Adam and Eve needed to be sent away from their home. The rest of the Bible tells us that none of us have truly been at home from that point on.
The point of this passage is that God is so great and so worthy of worship and trust and obedience that a single act of disobedience against him—a single bite of of a fruit—deserves to have the whole creation come crashing down in response.
Eve was not exactly like Adam. God made a woman, not another man. But she was clearly the same kind of creation as he was. Someone with whom he could be fruitful and multiply; someone who was a suitable helper for him. And he rejoiced.
What does it mean to be a man? What does Adam's creation tell us about the answer?
Who is God? Who am I? Who are these other people? These are some of the most important questions we can ask, and today's passage has some of the most important answers to them.
Ten times in this chapter we read this phrase, “And God said.” This points us to one of the most important and striking features of this account: God makes things with His words.
Genesis 1:1 does not say, “In the beginning, Adam was created by God.” Instead we're introduced to God, who speaks and acts and creates, and it’s not until further down in the chapter that humans show up. This is so important, because it tells us that we are not the main characters in this story. We’re the supporting characters. This story is about God.
Did anyone ever speak like Jesus? Would there ever have been a more compelling preacher? A more arresting message? A teaching that would have been burnt more strongly onto the memories of its listeners?
Considering what Jesus died to save us from.
This passage shows us that it is impossible to be neutral about Jesus. It is impossible to pick and choose which parts of Jesus we like and which ones we don’t. We will either come to Jesus on His terms or we will suffer the (eternal) consequences.