I am my Brother's Keeper
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· 8 viewsEven in the face of this rise of aggravated assaults, God is faithful in maintaining His covenant people throughout human history till Christ gains the final victory.
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Genesis 4:9
Genesis 4:9
9 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” And he said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
In the movie “New Jack City” Nino Brown played by Wesley Snipes and his crew “Cash Money Brothers” operated under the theme: Am I my brother’s keeper? Ironically, this was the question that G-Money asked Nino after his addiction and personal feelings contributed to the fall of their growing drug empire. Although Nino answered the question in the affirmative, Yes, I am; he did so while putting a bullet in his best-friend’s head.
It has been said by some “with friends like that, who needs enemies.”
THESIS
THESIS
Point One
Point One
Genesis (Genesis 4:1–16)
Death enters history.
Sin occurs among humans of flesh and bone who enter the world as we do. God once asked Adam where he was. Now God asks Cain, where is his brother? Cain responds by lying, adding his own question for God: “Am I my brother’s keeper?” Hence humans ask God the very first ethical question, a question that will take the rest of Genesis, if not the rest of the Bible, to answer. Am I my sibling’s keeper? For the reader of the biblical text, the answer is an unequivocal yes; we are responsible for our siblings. But who is my brother? Who is my sister? If we are indeed the children of Adam and Eve, then are we not all brothers and sisters? All murder is fratricide, for we are all brothers, we are all sisters.
What this text says to us is that we do not live in this world apart from the other people in it. The whole human race is family and we are responsible for one another.
Point Two
Point Two
the very first ethical question,
Point Three
Point Three