Heavenly Helpmates - The Divine Design
“What a merciful divinely given institution for husband and wife to be godly helpmates for the Almighty’s holy eternal purposes””
“… Yahveh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him” (Genesis 2:18). The greatest purpose for husband and wife is that each humbly and prayerfully help their spouse to seek and obey the perfect will of their God. It is the utmost importance to live in unity with Him and one another, bringing Him praise, honor, and glory. The Creator’s divine plan was that through loving obedience to His perfect will, Adam and Eve would populate the earth with holy offspring who would continue multiplying and filling the earth with obedient godly children bearing His “likeness” (Genesis 1:27). What a merciful divinely given institution for husband and wife to be godly helpmates for the Almighty’s holy eternal purposes! Their individual and corporate obedience to His will enforces the highest call on their lives as divinely designed helpmates and spiritual leaders of their households.
The foundation of heavenly helpmates is that both encourage one another to make their God and Savior the central focus of their lives, marriage, and family. The husband and wife are individually and together prayerfully seeking the Spirit’s leading to “do the will of their Father”, that they will be one in the Spirit not just “one in the flesh” (Matthew 12:50, Mark 10:8). They’re to be equally devoted and yielded to their God and Savior’s righteous rulership over their lives, which He mercifully purchased with His sacrificial blood to redeem them for His glory and righteous kingdom.
“Husbands and wives first and foremost are to live to please their heavenly Father””
The Holy Spirit, our “Helper” asks us this vital question “ Do you not know that … you are not your own? … For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body” (John 15:26, 1 Corinthians 6:19-20). Husbands and wives first and foremost are to live to please their heavenly Father and to help one another get ready as the bride of Messiah to be at “the wedding supper of the Lamb” (Revelation 19:6-9). It is important that we understand, that we are redeemed to be “betrothed to one husband”, Yahshua (Jesus), who is “the last Adam” (2 Corinthians 11:2, 1 Corinthians 15:45). As helpmates, husband and wife are preparing for the One they are eternally betrothed to, esteeming their mates and their children and everyone else lightly compared to their Savior, Who is their first and ultimate love. Yahshua (Jesus) explained this by saying, “If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate [lightly esteem compared to their love for Him] his own … wife [husband] and children … yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple” (Luke 14:26). First, foremost, and eternally, Yahshua (Jesus) is our “Bridegroom” Who redeemed us to be His holy “bride” (John 3:29, Matthew 25:1-13, 2 Corinthians 11:2).
This mandate of Yahshua (Jesus) is very hard to understand by the natural mind. The selfish desires, along with Satan’s continual worldly temptations, have taken the direction of marriage from the spiritual heavenly focus down to the earthly level. This defeats Yahveh’s divine design and His gift of heavenly helpmates. The Ancient Serpent’s deceptive strategies, beginning with Adam and Eve in the Garden, have never changed, he interjects his infamous words, “Did God really say?” that you are to consider your spouse and children secondary compared to your ultimate focus and affection to be for your God and Savior?” (Genesis 3:1). The answer is YES for those who are led by the Spirit and can “receive it” (Matthew 11:14). The righteous redeemed remnant “count everything a loss” compared to obeying and following their beloved Redeemer (Philippians 3:8). The small righteous remnant will be led by the Spirit to fulfill the high call to be heavenly helpmates to their spouse and family members. They stand as a bright shining light, glorifying the Father with the testimony, “as for me and my house we serve the LORD [Yahveh]” (Joshua 24:15).
“True helpmates are matches made in heaven that bear eternal righteous fruit””
We are Yahshua’s (Jesus’s) helpmates walking in agreement with Him and only therein can there be any real godly marriage. The divinely designed marriage has to start with each wholeheartedly seeking to be in agreement with our beloved Yahshua (Jesus) in order to accomplish our Father’s holy purpose for which we were put together. In our brief stay on earth, true helpmates are matches made in heaven that bear eternal righteous fruit. Our beloved Savior must be the center of our lives in order for the foundation of the marriage and family to be blessed fertile ground for every member to grow and mature into the holy “likeness” of our Creator and Savior (Genesis 1:27). Each is to “spur one another on toward love and good deeds”, “diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless”, eagerly preparing to be holy and unashamed at the coming of the “King of kings” (Hebrews 10:24, 2 Peter 3:14, Revelation 19:16). The headship over the family is only to be Yahshua (Jesus). The family is to be a microcosm of His redeemed body (the church) to be lovingly accountable and transparent with one another. We are instructed, “Confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed” and delivered (James 5:16).
At the end of this age, we must be focused on fulfilling the divine design of being heavenly helpmates, raising godly children in our families as well as others, whom we have the privilege to disciple, that they also will become eternal holy offspring for our Father’s kingdom. Yahveh God told Adam and Eve, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth” (Genesis 1:28). Through our Savior’s sacrificial death, a righteous remnant through faith are “born again” “new creations” who are “betrothed” to Yahshua (Jesus) (John 3:3, 2 Corinthians 5:17, 2 Corinthians 11:2). They live to serve our Savior and to fulfill His ultimate commission to populate the kingdom of heaven with holy spiritual offspring who bear His likeness. It is written, “For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren” (Romans 8:29).
Yahshua (Jesus), “the last Adam”, redeemed His remnant to be His body and His bride (1 Corinthians 15:45). All of the redeemed are under His headship. In the divine plan it is written, “Husbands, love your wives, just as Messiah [Christ] also loved the church [His body] and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of … the word” (Ephesians 5:25-26). The husband is to love His wife as Yahshua loved His body, compelled with desire to bless his wife and children with the Word of God spoken and obeyed continually within their home. The wife is submitted to and respects her husband because he is submitted to the headship of Yahshua (Jesus) as the instrument bringing forth the loving leadership that originates from her beloved Savior. In this divine order, each is seeking to do their God and Savior’s will by raising holy children who walk in reverent obedience to them. The parents are the Almighty’s earthly representatives, it is from their example and teaching that the children learn loving reverential obedience to the heavenly Father and His commandments (see Ephesians 5:22-33, 6:1).
“Sadly, most professing believers raise their family around self-pleasing, self-centered, self-indulgences. Instead of being holy helpmates to raise their children to “love almighty God with all their heart””
Sadly, most professing believers raise their family around self-pleasing, self-centered, self-indulgences. Instead of being holy helpmates to raise their children to “love almighty God with all their heart”, they are teaching them, by example, to give Him half-hearted, “lukewarm”, and “double minded” lip service (Mark 12:30, Revelation 3:16, James 1:8). This is a shout of victory for Satan who wants to populate hell by deceiving multitudes of Christians who are not raising spiritual offspring to inhabit the kingdom of heaven. Churches and Bible studies are filled with people and families who faithfully attend, yet continue to run back into the world to get their next fix of self-pleasing worldly pleasure. Do not be deceived this is idolatry in the face of the Holy One. Apostle Paul said, “For this you know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Messiah [Christ] and God” (Ephesians 5:5).
The Holy Spirit warns us, "Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” It is also written, anyone who has “friendship with the world … makes himself an enemy of God” (1John 2:15, James 4:4). We have need for repentance for having misplaced hope, affection, and desire on the things of this passing world. The righteous redeemed are to live with “godliness with contentment which is great gain” (1 Timothy 6:6). Those who follow our Savior on the “narrow path” out of this world into His kingdom have forsaken and exchanged the hopes and dreams of this world for the “the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Messiah Yahshua [Christ Jesus]” (Matthew 7:14, Titus 2:13). This is the only eternal hope that has been purchased for us who truly seek and obey the will of our God and Savior, it is written, “… we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal” (2 Corinthians 4:18).
The Almighty continues to emphasize the importance of obedience to Him and the necessity for heavenly helpmates to teach one’s children through righteous biblical choices and examples, “You shall impress these words of mine on your heart and on your soul; … You shall teach them to your sons [and daughters], talking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up.” The Holy One proclaimed, “I, Yahveh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me [refuse My holy rulership over their lives], but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments” (Deuteronomy 11:18-19, Exodus 20:5-6).
“It is no wonder that Satan has successfully destroyed so many marriages and families to sabotage Yahveh God’s holy will and divine design for husband and wife to be heavenly helpmates raising righteous offspring to inhabit the kingdom of heaven””
It is no wonder that Satan has successfully destroyed so many marriages and families to sabotage Yahveh God’s holy will and divine design for husband and wife to be heavenly helpmates, raising righteous offspring to inhabit the kingdom of heaven. What an incredible matrix the Enemy is working within families through rebellion, idolatry, and worldly temptations, perpetuating the iniquities of the forefathers and its consequential “curses” rather than righteousness and it’s promised “blessings” (see Deuteronomy 28). Where sin exists Satan has an open door “to rob and kill and destroy” our loved ones and us (John 10:10). So many “perish for lack of knowledge”, disobedience, and rebellion against our Savior (Hosea 4:6). The storybook marriages, which are based on the flesh and this passing world, do not have happy endings. The good news is, the “truth sets us free” to live spiritual holy book marriages, which lead to living eternally happily ever after united as one with our beloved Bridegroom Savior (John 8:32). Yahshua (Jesus) poured out His blood to redeem holy offspring who would obey Him and bear His “likeness” and live with Him forever as was the original divine plan in the Garden of Eden before sin entered and separated man from their Creator and God.
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