Remember the book of Jude, verse 11? John 3:16, Jesus faith love), Select a Beginning Point I repent. Interestingly enough, Cain must have married his sister, which was, in the early plan and purpose of God, not the problem that it would be today in the decline of the gene pool and intermarriage in a family. You will never stop anywhere. Thats why David in Psalm 51 said, Against thee, thee only have I sinned. He knew that every sin reaches God. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you. Its the exact same phrase. So here was God. Founded in 1969, Grace to You is the nonprofit organization responsible for developing, producing, and distributing John MacArthur's books, audio resources, and the "Grace to You" radio and television programs. Grace Pulpit. God places that vengeance in the hands of a duly constituted government, a court, but no personal vengeance. People say to me so often, you know, Why doesnt someone come to Christ? You shall be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth.. If you do whats right. David Guzik :: 1 Corintios 7 Principios Sobre el Matrimonio y la Soltera, David Guzik :: Hechos 9 La Conversin de Saulo de Tarso, David Guzik :: Apocalipsis 20 Satans, el Pecado y la Muerte son Finalmente Eliminados, David Guzik :: Gnesis 3 La tentacin y cada del hombre, David Guzik :: 2 Samuel 22 El Salmo de Alabanza de David, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus and the Holy Trinity (Walter Martin), The Meaning of the Cross Part 2 (Elisabeth Elliot), Spiritism: Prophecy and Astrology (Walter Martin), 2 Thessalonians 1-3 (1982-85 Audio) (Chuck Smith), Genesis 2-3 (1979-82 Audio) (Chuck Smith), Intro. Man is now the noble savage who acts in freedom to do whatever he feels he wants to do, and thats the nobility of his freedom. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, (Hebrew/Greek Search by English Definition), * 'Number Delimiters' only apply to 'Paragraph Order', Search verses, phrases, and topics (e.g. He is the original apostate who, when confronted by God with the opportunity for forgiveness and the opportunity for deliverance, refuses. God designed capital punishment to be carried out by society, not as a matter of personal vengeance. As I said, Cains wife would be his sister, and there would be a family proliferation through the years, and everybody would want to kill Cain. So he denies any knowledge of his brothers whereabouts, he denies any killing, he rejects any responsibility for his brothers well-being, and you begin to see, folks, at this point, what terrible progress sin has made since the fall. And he knew what God could do in his life because his parents had surely told him very often about paradise and about walking and talking with God in the cool of the day. Because his deeds were evil and his brothers were righteous. It just ground on him that Abel was righteous. Cain married his sister, and out of his loins came the population that follows. Our world is essentially the society of Cain, and it hates the truth, and it hates the people of the truth and the God of the truth. So the Lord said to him, okay? And because of what you did, theyre going to seek to kill you. Everybody is a worshiper. Minor Prophets Even though sin is inherited and actual, it can be defeated- but only as we come to God on His terms, embracing His sacrifice for us, with no hope of self-righteousness. Why are you so angry at me and angry at your brother? And then He says to him in very gracious words, This doesnt have to be the end of the story, this doesnt have to be the way it is. Look at verse 7. Right? Vicious hatred, vicious brutality. Saturday, 09 July 2022 07:25. God didnt establish an illustration of personal vengeance here. That is an assault on Gods fairness, that is an assault on Gods kindness and Gods justice. I mean there were only the two of them and their parents. Cant. The doomed try to hide their sin or hide from their sin. Minor Prophets Theyre like that false prophet, Balaam, who could be bought and who would prophesy for hire to the highest bidder. 818-909-5500. Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness. He knows all that. God made mankind the crowning point of His creation, i.e., His companions who would enjoy fellowship with Him and bring glory to His name. If you bring the Bible into anything, theyre going to throw you out. Adam was a believer, as we've learned, Eve was a believer, and this passage indicates to us that Abel was a believer. General Epistles GDPR is the new European privacy regulation, which will replace the Data Protection Act 1998 in the UK and the equivalent legislation across the EU Member States. Though its not recorded in the book of Genesis, we can certainly assume that it happened, that Cain is responding to some command and some direction to worship God. 9:9; 2 Cor. And God said He would take away the anger and the bitterness of his heart, and He would lift up his face, and Cain said, Sorry, I dont want your righteousness, I dont want your forgiveness, I dont want a relationship with you, I want my sin. So he plotted it all. Do whats right from the heart and in the behavior. Prophets And God says, You did it. For details about this sermon and for related resources, click here: https://www.gty.org/library/sermons-library/90-379 To receive John MacArthurs monthly letter, as well as free resources by mail, click here: https://www.gty.org/home/newtogty/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gracetoyou Twitter: https://twitter.com/gracetoyou Google +: https://plus.google.com/+gracetoyou Copyright 2009, Grace to You. They are hidden reefs in your love feasts, they are clouds without water, they are carried along by winds, autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted, wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam. Pauline Epistles And thats why Romans 10, when it describes the sinner- you know, sometimes we think sinners are really pretty nice people, they just dont have enough information. ), but before Moses death (ca. Eve recognized that with the help of the Lord, she had been given a son. Am I my brothers keeper? And He said, What have you done? And so she names her son that one that was made with the help of the Lord. What hopeful beginnings she must have felt in her heart when that first child was born. Cain shows us that even the lost and the damned have hopeful beginnings. God is by nature gracious. It is part of their attitude to be angry with the Bible, to be angry with the God of the Bible, to be angry with those who believe the Bible. And judge. Not only let him live, He protects him by marking him with a sign, sort of like blood on the doorposts in Egypt that made the death angel pass over. He was humiliated. Register. All Rights Reserved. Sin is crouching at the door. And sin is depicted like a beast of prey, like a rapacious lion. If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? 1405 B.C.). That is the grace that God extends to every reprobate, every ungodly person, every wicked sinner, every unbeliever, every doomed person. And for what reason did he slay him? There are the origins of the material world here and there are the origins of the spiritual world as well. Interactive Bible study with John Piper. Registered User God could have said, Okay, Im going to ask your father, Adam, to kill you. There was no government at this point. Verse 6, Then the Lord said to Cain- now this is direct from God. In the sequence of accounts which make up these chapters of Scripture, a pattern emerges which reveals Gods abundant grace as He responded to the willful disobedience of mankind. Since the UK is now no longer a member of the EU, you may be charged an import tax on this item by the customs authorities in your country of residence, which is beyond our control. It says, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him. His brother is emphatic in the Hebrew, emphasizing the closeness, the intimacy. Major Prophets Ive read paragraph after paragraph about what it is, page after page, nobody knows what it is. The Whole Bible Please be aware that these items are sent out from our office in the UK. Pastor John MacArthur tells of reading a book that told of a pastor who had been sent to prison for robbing 14 banks to finance his numerous engagements with prostitutes. If you try, youre going to get absolutely nothing. The reason is that all of John's works are now available in totality on their website. So it is reasonable to assume that somewhere along the line- and its hard to be dogmatic about this. The historical background for the early events in Genesis is clearly Mesopotamian. Is that not amazing? From your hand, at the end of verse 11. range of evangelical traditions, all of the ideas and principles conveyed This is characteristic of doomed people. So he made his choice. Johannine Writings GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation. It cried out to God before His heavenly throne, demanding divine vengeance, and Cain is bloodguilty before God. Cain said to the Lord, My punishment is too great to bear. Patriarchal history spotlights 4 great men: 1) Abraham (Gen. 12:125:8); 2) Isaac (Gen. 21:135:29); 3) Jacob (Gen. 25:2150:14); and 4) Joseph (Gen. 30:2250:26). Cain did. He hated the blessing that was bestowed upon his righteous brother. God Himself, then, slays the first animal to make the first covering to cover the sinner. Poetical Books So the unbelievers have a hopeful beginning. Were constantly threatened with that in the public discourse. John MacArthur Sermon:The First Sacrifice (Genesis 3:20-24). He invented murder. This narrowed their view from the entire world of peoples in Gen. 111 to one small nation, Israel, through whom God would progressively accomplish His redemptive plan. 5:20). And to let it be seen what life is like for those who reject God. Behold, thou hast driven me this day from the face of the ground, and from thy face I shall be hidden, and I will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth, and it will come about that whoever finds me will kill me. So the Lord said to him, Therefore, whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord appointed a sign for Cain, lest anyone finding him should slay him. To be put to death by the blood avenger as a means of punishment is opposed by the law of God. God- listen- was the first evangelist. God takes an innocent animal and slays that animal as a substitute to provide a covering for sinners. But that doomed sinner settles defiantly into the world, went out from the presence of the Lord. The Whole Bible Then the Lord said to Cain, Where is Abel, your brother? And he said, I do not know. Pauline Epistles Just do whats right. Enter your email address and we will send you instructions on how to reset your password. He gets mad at them and he gets furious with God. Heres God, confronts Cain and says, Where is Abel, your brother? which means that Abel wasnt right there, which means that Cain had run. In Johns own words, And there shall be no more curse (Rev. Scripture: Genesis 2:18-25. Pauline Epistles
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