Claim OwnershipSermons on Genesis (V) - THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ABEL’S FAITH AND CAIN’S FAITH
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In the Book of Genesis, the purpose for which God created us is contained. When architects design a building or artists draw a painting, they first conceive the work that would be completed in their minds before they actually begin working on their project. Just like this, our God also had our salvation of mankind in His mind even before He created the heavens and the earth, and He made Adam and Eve with this purpose in mind. And God needed to explain to us the domain of Heaven, which is not seen by our eyes of the flesh, by drawing an analogy to the domain of the earth that we can all see and understand. Even before the foundation of the world, God wanted to save mankind perfectly by giving the gospel of the water and the Spirit to everyone's heart. So although all human beings were made out of dust, they must learn and know the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit to benefit their own souls. If people continue to live without knowing the dominion of Heaven, they will lose not only the things of the earth, but also everything that belongs to Heaven.
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Whenever we stand before the presence of God to glorify Him, we should not approach Him through some religious rituals, but instead we have to approach Him by trusting in what He has done for us and thanking Him for His love. Only then does God accept our worship and pour the Holy Spirit on us abundantly. Abel offered the firstborn of his flock and their fat. When an offering is made to God, one must bring a sacrificial animal and offer its fat as well without fail. It is written countless times in the Bible that they had to bring this fat when approaching God. Why is it then necessary to bring the fat to God? It’s because the fat of the sacrificial animal mentioned in the Bible refers to the Holy Spirit—that is, to the sacred Spirit of God.
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In today’s Scripture passage, there appear two brothers who gave offerings to God. One was Cain, the first son born to Adam, and the other was Abel’s second son. Cain took the fruit of the ground and offered it to Jehovah, while his brother Abel offered the firstborn of his flock and their fat.To cut to the chase, God did not respect Cain’s offering, but rather accepted Abel’s offering. As a result of this Cain became infused with anger. It is therefore quite clear to us which of the two offerings were acceptable to God. It is written here that Abel offered the firstborn of his flock and their fat. We need to pause here and consider exactly what is meant by “the firstborn of his flock and of their fat.” We know through scripture that when the people of Israel gave offerings to God, they removed the fat from the sacrificial animal and offered it to God.
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As the end of the world draws near, blessed are those who follow the Lord and live in Him. Today’s Scripture passage tells us about what sort of faith we should have when we go before God and also serve Him.It is written, “And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to the LORD. Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat” (Genesis 4:3-4). Here, Cain and Abel both offered there own separate sacrifice to the Lord, but the problem was that their sacrifices were very different from each other. It is said that Cain offered the fruit of the ground as the sacrifice to the Lord while Abel offered the firstborn of his flock and their fat. One had offered the fruit of the ground while the other had offered a lamb.
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Today, I would like to share God’s Word with you to answer the following question: “What kind of sacrifice should we offer to God?”Today’s Scripture passage tells us that when Abel sacrificed the firstborn of the flock and their fat as his offering to the Lord God, He respected Abel and his offering. What kind of offering should we then present to God? We should present our offerings to God in order to thank Him for the grace He has bestowed on us, to exalt Him and to revere Him from the depth of our hearts. Out of our gratitude for saving us and making us His children, we offer our love to God and praise His glory and honor—this is the very offering of faith that was given by Abel.
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While both Cain and Abel had built altar’s to God and brought offerings to Him, God only accepted Abel’s sacrifice and rejected Cain’s offering. So Cain’s countenance fell, which means that he became very angry. Then God said to Cain, “Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door.”If Cain had done what was right, why would he have been so angry that his face would turn red? If he had done well, then there would have been no need for him to get angry, even if God did not accept him. That is why God said to Cain, “Did you really do what’s right? It is because you did not do well that your countenance has fallen and you are so upset.”
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In today’s Scripture passage, it is written that when Seth had Enosh, mankind finally began to call on the name of Jehovah. Why did people begin to call on the name of the Lord at this particular time? Because it was only then that human beings finally saw their weaknesses. They recognized, in other words, that they were all insufficient beings, inevitably bound to die for their sins and weaknesses. They finally saw their true selves, realizing that they had neither virtue nor any merit in their flesh, but were only weak and feeble. Because they realized their human weaknesses, they had no choice but to rely on God, and that is why the Bible says here that they finally began to call on the name of the Lord, Jehovah.
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Today’s Scripture passage tells us what the consequences are for the people who have departed from God. How have people who have departed from God lived in this world? Firstly it is written that Cain went out from the presence of the Lord God and dwelt in the land of Nod on the east of Eden, and he had a son there and built a city named Enoch. Cain faced the end of his life after living in the city he built. The consequence for Cain leaving God was that he became a wanderer. It says that God set a mark on Cain before he left His presence. Genesis chapter 4:15 states, God did this “lest anyone finding him should kill him.” God set a mark of salvation on Cain so no one might kill him, but Cain left the Lord God regardless. The Scriptures tells us that the most treacherous sin is to leave God, who is doing everything to save him even to the very last moment.
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When God created humans, He created them in the image and in the likeness of God, and God blessed them on the day He created them. God blessed all the people who were created by Him. God did not discriminate against any person. God blessed them because God loved them from the time He created them. Hence, God created us in order to give us His blessings. God did not create us because He was bored and He did not discriminate against any humans when He created them. Instead God created us to give the blessings of Heaven to us. That is why God created humans in His likeness, that is, God created humans as beings that bore resemblance to the attributes of God: God made humans eternal as God is eternal, because God is just and is love; He instilled such characteristics in a human soul. When God created humans, He created man and woman and He blessed them. This means that God gave Jesus Christ and His Church to us.
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God created us humans as eternal beings. Human existence is not just ephemeral, lasting on this earth for a short while only to disappear, but everyone is to live forever. When your life in this world is over, it is not the end of your everything, but you will live again for eternity. That’s because everyone was made by God in the likeness of His image from the moment he was born. The fact that God made human beings in His image (Genesis 1:26-27) means that just as God lives forever, He made them as eternal beings as well.
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All people are creatures created in the likeness of God. When God created man, it was originally His plan to make man as His people. God did not create man because He was bored and wanted something to play with then throw it away. He had a plan and purpose for every person born into this world in order for him to become one of His children. Therefore, we have to receive God into our hearts, recognizing the purpose of His creation, turn ourselves to God, obey His righteousness with faith and then live by faith. We have to believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit according to God’s will. Also, those who have been born again as God’s children should proclaim the gospel of the water and the Spirit until the Day of the Lord.
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If we look at the Scripture passage we read today, we could see that there were ancestors of faith who knew the end of the first world. They were none other than Methuselah, Lamech, and Noah. Methuselah was Noah’s grandfather, and Lamech was his father. Methuselah had Lamech at the age of 187, and Lamech had Noah at the age of 182. So, Methuselah was 369 when Noah was born. Noah’s grandfather, Methuselah lived for 969 years, and his father Lamech lived for 777 years. When Noah was 500, he had Shem, Ham, and Japheth. At the time, Methuselah was 869 and Lamech was 682 years old. Thus, what this means is that Noah’s grandfather and father were alive at the time when Noah had his sons. In other words, Methuselah had lived until Shem, Ham, and Japheth were about 100 years old.
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Today’s Scripture passage from Genesis chapter five presents the genealogy of Adam, and here, it is repeatedly mentioned how long a certain man of faith lived and when he died. The word “to live” here is “chayah” in Hebrew, and apart from its simple meaning, this word is used diversely to denote various meanings, such as “to have life, remain alive, sustain life, live prosperously, live forever, be quickened, be alive, be restored to life or health.”
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The word “lived” in this verse does not mean to “live and then to die.” So what does it really mean? The Hebrew word for “to live” is “Chayah” and except for “to live” this word also means, “to restore to life, to give life, to revive and to rescue.” In other words, Adam also received salvation from sin by believing in God’s righteousness in exactly the same manner as us, and he spread the gospel of the water and the Spirit to the lost souls who had fallen into sin so that they could also receive the remission of sin. He thus did the work of giving new life to the lost and then went before God. After Adam met the Lord, throughout his life he worked together with the Him. Adam lived his entire life to save other souls.
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Among the people of the days of Noah, there were many giants. However, even in today’s Christianity, there are also many so-called famous preachers. Because they are spreading false gospels that differ from the gospel of the water and the Spirit, the souls of many people who have received or listened to their gospels are dying, imprisoned by their own sins. That is why God has no choice but to pass judgment on those who are spreading false doctrines, back then and even now. God had passed judgment on people during the days of Noah not only because their wickedness was great, but also because sons of God had taken daughters of men as their wives and their souls had fallen into corruption, which is the greater reason.
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Someone comes to my mind when it rains. He is one of our ancestors of faith, Noah. Noah knew that God would bring down the Deluge during his days, and by making an ark in preparation for that disaster, he saved himself and his family members. People at the time of Noah were extremely violent. And at the time, wickedness was great in the earth. At the time, the spiritual state of people was a mess because the sons of God were taken in by the beauty of the daughters of men and took them as their wives. Thus, God decided to pass judgment on that world.
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