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Nor could the unbelief in Cain’s heart remain secret from God.
Although Cain was a member of the family of Adam and Eve and even participated in joint family worship, he was outside the family of God.
Outwardly Cain offered his gifts to the true God, but his motivation was impure.
He went through the motions of worship, but his motives were selfish and self-seeking.
[God’s statement] teaches the difference between inward righteousness and external sacrifices.…
There is [also] a warning concerning the coming judgment
4 scenes
scene 1 - the progeny of Adam and Eve
scene 2 - the sacrifices of the boys
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Last week as we looked at Jesus weeping before he enters Jerusalem, we noted that Jesus wept because he knew the destruction that awaited Jerusalem because of her unbelief.
However, God would wait 40 years before Jerusalem was destroyed in order to allow a time for repentance.
Today, we are going to walk through a very different part of Scripture and come to a very similar conclusion.
Today as we walk through the story of Cain and Abel, we will see that
BIG IDEA: God is patient and long suffering with sinners so that they might come to faith.
scene 4 - Cain before the LORD
BIG IDEA: God is patient and long suffering with sinners so that they might repent, be forgiven, and washed clean.
God is patient and long suffering with sinners so that they might repent, be forgiven, and washed clean.
Verses 1 and 2 are a perfect example of this.
To see how this is an example of God’s patience and long suffering, you we have turn the pages of our Bible back a little ways to .
In , God expels Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden because of their sin.
When God confronted them, they hid and try to obfuscate what happened.
They hid.
They passed blame onto someone else.
They tried to self justify themselves.
It was that woman you put here with me.
It was the snake.
God’s response was, “No.
It was you.”
Then there is a very important couple of verses toward the end of chapter 3.
Genesis 3:22-23
God did cast Adam and Eve from the garden but he did not punish their sin to the full extent in that moment.
Why?
Because God is patient and long-suffering.
He is giving room for repentance.
He is allowing for his people to turn back to him.
The ejection of Adam and Eve was an act of judgment but it was also an act of mercy.
In sending Adam and Eve from the garden, God did two other things.
1) he made a promise that the seed of the woman would crush the head of the seed of the serpent and 2) he gave them vocations.
He gave them jobs.
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Eve was to bear children and Adam was to work the land.
It becomes clear that this also included the tending of livestock.
So when we get to chapter 4 and Eve is quoted as saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD,” it is clearly a prayer of thanksgiving.
Eve is fulfilling her duty as our first mother in producing children.
Notice also though how she addresses God.
The LORD.
All Capital.
יהוה
She uses the divine name.
What she is using is God’s salvific name.
The name by which he reveals to the world that he is going to save the world.
This indicates to us that Eve believed in the promise of God that he will crush the head of the seed of the serpent and that he will do it through her progeny.
Eve believed that Satan would be defeated.
She names her bouncing baby boy Cain, which is a play on the Hebrew verb “gotten.”
They sound similar.
Eve then has a second boy, Able.
Eve’s two boys take up the work of their father.
Cain takes up plowing and tending the crops while Able tends to the sheep.
Two pieces of work that did not have to happen in the garden are now the full time occupations of Cain and Abel, the seed of the women.
Then the narrative continues,
Genesis 4:3-
When it was harvest time, the brothers both bring an offering to the LORD.
Their offering is according to their vocation.
According to their calling.
One a plough man the other a shepherd.
There is no indication that one of these offerings is inherently better than the other.
In fact it is recorded in scripture that both grain offerings and blood offerings are acceptable to the Lord.
Yet verse 4 and 5 tells us “the LORD had regard for Abel and his offering but for Cain and his offering he had no regard.”
Why?
Well, notice the closeness of the offering to the person.
They are connected there is something fundamentally different about Cain and Abel.
It is this distinction, not a distinction of the sacrifices they offered but a distinction between those who are offering the sacrifice where we find the answer to why one was accepted and one was rejected.
What is that difference?
We can turn to scripture to see.
The New Testament interprets this for us.
Another place speaks of sacrifices that do not please God is .
There God describes his people who have rejected Him.
The other place I thought of was .
There God describes his people who have rejected Him.
Isaiah 1.11
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God is telling Israel through the prophet Isaiah that it doesn’t matter how many sacrifices you bring if they are not done in faith.
Cain’s sacrifice makes God weary.
He has no regard for it because Cain has no regard for God.
Cain grew up with Adam and Eve.
He grew up hearing about the garden of Eden.
It seems like it would be a safe assumption that he grew up bringing sacrifices to God with his family.
However, just because your family is saved, just because you sit down and stand up and say words on a screen and you contribute to the church, it does not mean you are saved.
Cain did the equivalent to all these things and yet God says, I do not know you.
He does not have regard for Cain or his sacrifice.
The unbelief in Cain’s heart could not remain secret from God.
Although Cain was a member of the family of Adam and Eve and even participated in joint family worship, he was outside the family of God.
Outwardly Cain offered his gifts to the true God, but his motivation was impure.
He went through the motions of worship, but his motives were selfish and self-seeking..,
Nor could the unbelief in Cain’s heart remain secret from God.
Although Cain was a member of the family of Adam and Eve and even participated in joint family worship, he was outside the family of God.
Outwardly Cain offered his gifts to the true God, but his motivation was impure.
He went through the motions of worship, but his motives were selfish and self-seeking.
Abel’s sacrifice is one that came from the depth of his heart while Cain seems to be offering his sacrifice to stay on God’s good side.
This is clear when we consider what they sacrifice.
Abel chooses the best of his first fruits, the fattest of the lambs.
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