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June 21, 2009 – Father’s Day – The Core: Male and Female, Gen. 1:26-28, Gen. 2:18-25

We began the sermon by watching a brief clip of the Pixar movie Wall-E (Wall-E DVD, scene 3, 00:06:01–00:09:23)

The movie Wall•E is about a lonely robot who for 700 years has been cleaning up the trash left behind by humans on an abandoned planet.

In this scene Wall•E arrives at his "home" and pops a battered copy of Hello Dolly into an old VCR.

He is suddenly captured by what is occurring in the film. On the screen, a man and a woman are walking through a park, singing to each other. It's a moment filled with romance, and the words of their song seem to resonate deeply with Wall•E. He presses a button on his chest to record them as they sing: "It only took a moment / To be loved a whole life long."

As they sing, their voices harmonizing together, the man and the woman also hold hands. When they finish, Wall•E looks at his left "hand," then his right, and slowly brings them together in imitation of what he has just seen on the screen.

The message being conveyed is powerful: It is not good to be alone.

Gen 2:18 says The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone.” We weren’t created by God to be alone. Yes, the Bible teaches that some have been given the gift of singleness in order that he or she might do some special work - but even then rarely do those people live in absolute isolation.

And we find in the creation account that humanity wasn’t created to be alone. That the image of God inherent to humanity is expressed in the Creation account as both Male and as Female - distinct, different, corresponding.

As we studied two weeks ago, the Biblical account is unquestionably clear - humanity is created purposefully by God, in His Image, to rule over and care for all of His Creation.

And today, on Father’s day, understanding and embracing our identity as male and as female is a most timely and important topic.