A Murder after Church-Part B

If you don't learn to deal with your temper turn you into a monster know what can we do, we learn what Takeaway can we have from this so that we don't crash and burn you if you take one the basic problem we have our basic problem is a worship from the apostle Paul said in Ephesians be angry and do not sin.

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He didn't want to plant. I think that's a little too simplistic.

In fact, it's not really a biblical answer so the biblical answer is this. Those two reasons God did not accept Cain's worship and first of all, it's the quality of the offering, the quality of the offer notice in verse four. There's a special note that Abel brought up the first born of his flock and of their fat so there's a little note there that says here's a guy who, with intentionality wanted to bring the very best to God. The Qual highest quality all the rabbinical commentators say this shows that he is picking the very best. The first, and thus the very best to the Lord. He is very careful about Kane was indifferent is no mention at all about the quality of his sacrifice. Probably because he didn't care about. So it's the quality.

Second reason is the character of the offer. One is the quality of the offering. Second is the character of the offer were noticed down in verse seven I'm skipping ahead just a bit. God says to Cain.

If you do well, or if you live right, will you not be accepted. In other words, you know, if you live right your offering would be acceptable to me.

Why would God say that here's the principle God does not see worship apart from the worshiper to God is not like food at such a wonderful sacrifice. He's looking over the person who gives the sacrifice so if you're corrupt, so is your gift know why was Kane corrupt. Here's the answer. He lacked faith he lacked faith that the life transforming faith saving faith that would motivate him to righteous living. I wanted to listen to Hebrews chapter 11 verse four to commentary on the section by faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain notice it's by faith through which he Abel was commended as being righteous God commending him by accepting his gifts and through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.

I was able so with Kane. There was no real faith to produce righteous living. In other words, he was just going through the motions. What this means is if you think you can live any way you want to live Monday through Saturday. You can live as though God didn't exist. You can live just like the rest of the world dominated by all of the stuff that goes on in the world and think that I can take one hour on Sunday and plop my sacrifice down, and God will say that's awesome.

It's not true.

God never looks at the worship, apart from the worshiper, the one and the same Stephen char Naka Puritan author said without the heart is not worship. It is a stage playing it is acting apart without being that person really is a hypocrite. We may truly be said to worship God that we lack perfection, but we cannot be said to worship him. If we lack sincerity worship is not about going to the motions raising the hand reading the text, singing loudly, going to church is not about the motions it's about the locomotion it's about being moved forward in obedience to him.

So he's a worker he's a worshiper is 1/3 title for him. He's a waiver notice at the end of verse five. Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell that as he frowned and had a pouty face. He was hard on a slave you knew he was bummed out about it got really bummed out, and so the Lord.

Verse six said to Cain, why art thou bummed out. Why are you angry, and why is your countenance fallen.

If you do well with you not be accepted and if you do not do well is given. The reason why is because sin lies at the door and its desire is for you, but you should rule over it. Help the real giveaway that Cain wasn't right with God was his response to God he's mad he's angry he's angry at God.

That's his response to God. He was mad when he should have been meek. He was angry when he should have been a lowly the right response would have been God and except that he should just have a Lord I'm stop in my tracks right now. I repent. I want to do it right.

I humble myself before you. It would've been good, but he got mad. He was mad at God. I meet people, as do you, who are mad at God. And the reason I know they're mad at God is because they discover all your pastor and they want to vent their anger at God at God's representative, I get it all the time people are mad at God and people are mad at God because God is and see things their way there mad that God doesn't accept people based on just sincerity are based on good behavior are mad about that.

There mad that God doesn't accept all religions as being equal, all religions being the same. There mad that God would be so narrow and so restrictive as to say it's only true my son Jesus that anyone can get to heaven there mad and he was mad at God, but Cain was also mad at his brother who brought a X and acceptable sacrifice to the Lord, so his true colors are starting to show, and the seed of murder is growing in his heart. You know the seed of murder is right. It's anger. Anger is what produces murder.

Jesus said, you have heard that it was said by those of old, you shall not murder, but I Sandy you if you're angry at your brother without a cause you're in line for the judgment.

That's where it begins.

Cain was a murderer in his heart, long before he was a murderer with his hands and God knows it's God knows the cane is struggling inside he's wavering back and forth.

He is torn between doing right or letting the anger that he has toward God and toward his brother be fully vented by a murderous act.

So God knowing this engages him. God is a walk away from God and sat down with you if you're angry with me. God talks to him. He reasons with them. I love this about God. Isaiah chapter 1 come now, let us reason together, says the Lord, your sins are as scarlet will make them white as snow.

And did you notice what God said in verse seven. Did you notice that God personifies sin like a beast crouching at his door, ready to pounce on if you do not do well, sin lies at the door and its desire is for you, but you should master or rule over it. Boy if you know your Bible verse comes to mind about now.

First Peter chapter 5, Peter says the devil is like a roaring lion prowling around, seeking whom he may devour. That's what sin is like Satan is like that. And sin is like that. There's a book put out a few years back called death in the long grass movie was made based on this book of death in the long grass was written by a hunter, a big game hunter and he was writing about liens who hunted men who hunted human beings, that is, these liens get the taste of human blood, and they sneak into a camp late at night in the bush. The pounce on their prey and drag that person out far away into the night and devour them.

There was one lien before was caught and killed the devoured 100 men and he called these liens charging liens because Bill around the periphery in the trial and in the late into the night will charge into the camp and a high speed covering 100 yards in three seconds.

Satan is like that.

And sin is like that and what Satan uses to destroy us know uses uses us uses our fallen nature. The fallen nature of the flesh that is in us to devour us to master us and what the Lord is saying the cane is if you don't become Victor over your sins you're going to become a victim of your sin, you need to master it. If you don't master the beast.

The beast will still the best of your life cycle. Martin Luther uses that he said you can't stop birds from flying over your head, but you can certainly stop them from building a nest in your hair. And if you don't have any hair you can still stop from building a nest, so there's that levering that goes on that struggle between the flesh and the spirit he went from worker to worshiper to waiver forth title for cane as he was a wrongdoer that takes us to the deed itself. Verse eight.

Now Cain talked with Abel his brother and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him. And the Lord said to Cain, where is Abel your brother he said I don't know why my brother's keeper care how sarcastic that is. And he said what have you done the voice of your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground so the beast one.

Sin has mastered cane cane crashed and burned. This is not involuntary manslaughter. This is murder one he killed you know how we killed it. Maybe he got a stone. Maybe he took Abel's own sacrificial knife and killed him. He cut and bled him like an animal like even offering his animal to God did maybe use his own bare hands.

We don't know but I know this. It felt good for a brief moment he felt vindicated he felt justified.

He felt good revenge always feels good at first sight.

Yeah, they deserve that, but it didn't last because now we move to the fifth designation of this man a wanderer God meets up with them in verse 11 God tells him. So now you are cursed from the earth which is opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand when you till the ground shall no longer yield its strength to you, a fugitive and a vagabond you shall be on the earth, and Cain said to the Lord, my punishment is better than I can bear. I do not feel sorry for them right now. Do you surely you shall be driven surely you have driven me out this day from the face of the ground. I shall be hidden from your face I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth, and it will happen that anyone who finds me will kill me. The Lord said to him, therefore whoever kills cane vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark on cane, lest anyone finding him should kill him.

Then Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of nod, on the east of Eden. So he confronts cane God confronts him and consigns him to this now. He said am I my brother's keeper and God causes him now to wander from his family and from his homeland.

Since you're not going to be your brother's keeper, no one to be your keeper becomes a fugitive.

Notice in verse 11 says so you are now cursed from the earth.

You notice the very first time, or humanist person.

The Scripture by God to this point the only one curses who serve certain was cursed in Genesis 3, but now Cain joins this wretched distinction of a man cursed by God and is wandering and this isn't just like a bed when wandering for grass for his sheep.

Now all relationships are broken with his family. He's in lifelong exile and he says to God in verse 13. My punishment is greater then I can bear a really because what he deserved.

He deserved to die. Genesis 9 will tell us whoever sheds man's blood, by man his blood shall be shed, so God now preserves him and protects him from death. This is an act of grace.

I want you to think about this is grace upon grace upon grace. First of all when Cain got angry God didn't abandon him, but engaged him in conversation to dialogue and talk this through, that was grace. Second, when Cain struggled within himself of what to do good or evil. God encouraged him to withstand temptation. That's grace and having succumbed to it and murdering his brother. God doesn't kill him. God protection with the mark. That's grace the people asked me what is the mark of Cain my answer so we can get it out there. I don't know you know I don't know what I told that's what you can guess some people think it was attached to others. People mentioned in some weird hairdo or something. The rabbinical commentators used to say was a dog that God gave my dog to assure him of protection and to keep strangers away were not told, I think it's ridiculous. So me take you back to something else ridiculous.

How many of you remember an element on a show of hands because ominous year age. How many of you remember that television show, the Incredible Hulk on a show of hands. Okay, very good. Others of you have honesty issues to deal with. So the Incredible Hulk was a television show that was used to be a comic turn into a television show turned into a movie. Years later, in the premises, there's a doctor, Dr. David Banner is the character in David Banner was a very kind and sweet research scientist Dr. except when he got angry when he got angry because he had been exposed to gamma radiation excessive amounts. His eyes turned green and he grew in size and he became this horrible monster who could throw people around like a ragdoll. And so the whole premise of the show after show after show was Dr. Banner's desire to find a cure so this won't happen anymore. So the moral of the television show was that if you don't learn to deal with your temper it will turn you into a monster. Now, what can we do what can we learn what Takeaway can we have from this so that we don't crash and burn like cane to give you a few quick Takeaway things number one. The basic problem we have our basic problem is a worship problem.

Our basic problem is a worship problem.

Most people are worshipers of the himself about them. They are consumers only does it.

What is this do for me.

Our basic problem is a worship problem. Cain didn't give his best and sometimes people go yeah and it is a beautiful thing.

I don't use anymore is give it away to the church give God your best. Give God your best self.

Your best energy. Your best time.

The second take away is that, don't let the root produce its fruit dome at the root, the root of sin produce its fruit. The root from the fall is what he was struggling with within himself. In this chapter, and he let the root produce the fruit which was sinful anger turned into murder. All of us have a wrestling match inside of us.

All of us to what it's like at the flesh warning against the spirit and what God says to him, and he says us is you must master it and we have the power of the Holy Spirit to be able to do that to let the root produce its fruit.

The third Takeaway is sin always bring separation separated them from God separated him from his family separated them from fellowship. Sin always bring separation and it creates lonely people isolated people who because there's a barrier erected of sin or unforgiveness run dealt with anger pushes people away and it's so worst way to live. So the key. The key is is always back to worship, letting the Lord take the first place in our lives.

You know those crazy little letters to God the kids right from time to time I have a book of these I've told you over the years I found one little letter to God from a kid named Larry who said dear God, maybe Cain and Abel wouldn't kill so much.

If they had their own rooms. It works with my brother Sima Larry. Well Larry, that's a nice way of looking at things but the problem is and having room in your house it's making room in your heart for the God of this universe to take over and be the king supreme in your life and mine that concludes Skip hi six message question two Skip with an important message for you know that Christianity is all about redemption, God redeemed us. He brought us out of slavery. He took us from our sins, and he sent Jesus to pay for those sins on the cross. That's good news. We want to share that with as many people as possible and you can be a part of letting others know about this abounding love of God. Here's how you can give today to reach others with the gospel. Give us a call at 800-922-1888 to give a gift today 800-922-1888 or visit connectwithskip.com/donate.

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