“ A Curse that only has one cure”

I have preached many of times on this particular verse “Your desire will be toward your husband and he shall rule over you”. Gen. 3:16 In an attempt to convey to the audience how the battle of the sexes began and remains with us today, after one of my services the question was asked          “So what was really the curse in the garden toward the man and the woman”and does it still exist today? My response; Male chauvinism and women’s liberation. That is how the battle of the sexes came into existence. Ever since the man’s fall in the garden, society as a whole is under a curse from the mouth of God. Men have a sinful inclination to put women under their feet and women have a sinful inclination to usurp man’s authority. The desire spoken of here is not sexual or psychological, both of which Eve had for Adam before the Fall as his specially created helper. The word desire is the same word used in the next chapter when the Lord warned Cain in Gen. 4:7 after the killing of his brother Abel "Sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you [that is, control you], but you must master it". Brackets added for emphasis. The word rule actually installed Adam in a poisoned position of not free rule, however a conquering rule not a caring rule. It is not the same as that used in Gen.1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and rule over it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth. They ruled and reigned together. With the Fall and its curse came the distortion of woman’s proper submissiveness and of man’s proper authority. We can resolve the issue from the battle of the sexes to the beauty of the sexes. The cure to win in the battle of the sexes comes in verse 15 of Genesis chapter 3 when God pronounces the final curse on Satan. “ And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel."                                                                  Sorry for lack of time and space, that subject might be discussed at a later date.