Children’s Sermon (Genesis 2:18-24) God Created Eve – The First Woman

Children’s Message on Genesis 2 and The Creation of Man and Woman

Main Objective: We are not made to be alone, and we cannot live on our own. God created us to rely on and help one another and designed us to be in relationships with others. This message considers things that are impossible to do alone and reminds children that it’s important to have others in our lives. Just as God made Eve for Adam, He creates us to know and love one another. 

Law/Gospel Theme: We are not made to live as solitary creatures. God made a helper for Adam because it was not good for him to be alone, and He gives us helpers to help and provide for us in our lives. As we enjoy and grow from one another, we also recognize that our most important relationship is with our Creator. God makes us for others, and He makes us for Himself. We can do nothing without the love, help, and salvation of Jesus. And we can do all things through Him! 

Genesis 2:18-24 Children’s Sermon- God gave us companionship

Optional Materials: Board games or activities that require multiple people

Bible Passage: Genesis 2:18-24

Message: Note: As with most messages, the details of how you choose to communicate this are adaptable and should cater to timing as well as to your audience and student needs. 

Greet children and talk about things that are hard to do alone…

Hello, Children of God!
Let’s see… Pretend to play a game of “rock, paper, scissors” or another two-person game. Rock, paper…scissors? Hmm, rock! Paper? Yeah, I don’t think this one will work too well on my own. See, I was sitting around thinking about how I’d like to play a game. But the problem is…I don’t have anyone around to play with! And all of my favorites (hold up several games to demonstrate) need at least two players. I thought maybe I could try something simple without as much equipment, like “rock, paper, scissors” or thumb wrestling. It turns out that isn’t too easy with one person, either. In fact, there are a lot of things that I can’t do alone. Even some things that are possible with only one person are often better or easier with more than one person. 

There’s a good reason for this. God did not create us to be alone. We aren’t meant to be solitary creatures. God designed us to be in relationships. Of course, the most important relationship we have is the one we share with Him, but He gives us other people to live and work with, as well. He wants us to help and rely on one another. 

In Genesis, God created everything there is. He made the sun and moon, all of the plants, the animals, oceans, everything. After everything He made, God said that it was good. But there was one thing that God said was not good. God created people in His own image, starting with Adam, the first man. God said that it was not good for man to be alone. He needed a helper. So God took a piece out of Adam (one of his ribs), and from that He formed a woman, which means “out of man.” God specifically designed this mate for Adam. Of course, those two didn’t have a whole lot of choice in spouse, but they were perfect for each other. Her name was Eve, and I’m sure that they had a perfect relationship prior to the first sin (that’s another story entirely). God gave Eve to Adam so that he would not be lonely, but have a partner and helper. 

God gives us people, too. He knows that even the most introverted person needs some human interaction at times. He knows that we depend on one another for social interaction, encouragement, and support. There are a lot of types of relationships that God blesses us with. We have family members who care for us, friends who support us, and someday you might have a work or business partner, or a husband or wife to be your partner for life. God cares about these relationships. He made us first and foremost for Himself and after Himself, but He gives us other helpmates along our journey here on Earth. We can be thankful for that and we can strive to help and encourage those around us. There are many ways we can do this, whether it means helping someone who is sick or hurting, or just playing a game with people! We can’t do everything on our own, and we aren’t meant to. What a blessing that we have each other! 

Let’s thank God for giving us other people, and ask for His help as we lift one another up. 

Prayer:  
(Have kids repeat each line) 
Dear God,
Thank you for giving us other people
to help and encourage us.
Please help us to love and help one another.
Thank you for your love
We love you, God!
In Jesus name, Amen! 

Genesis 2:18-24 Meaning for Kids
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” ¹⁹ Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. ²⁰ The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. ²¹ So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. ²² And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. ²³ Then the man said,
“This at last is bone of my bones
    and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
    because she was taken out of Man.”
 ²⁴ Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 
-Genesis 2:18-24