SERMONS ON CAIN AND ABEL
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Why Cain's Sacrifice Is Rejected
by Eddie Snipes
One thing we must always keep in mind when studying Genesis or any Old Testament scripture is that though it is a historical account, these events are used by God to point us to His plan and the redemption of sin through Christ. Jesus is the central theme of the Bible - both Old and New Testaments. If you lose sight of this, you will miss the big picture and overlook the lessons provided throughout scripture. With this in mind, I want to take a deeper look at the story of Cain and Abel. Works verses Faith1 John 3 says, 11 For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, 12 not as Cain who...
Abel, The First Man Of Faith (2 of 26)
by Jim Henry
A few days ago our newspapers headlined a story about the ''Black Widow,'' a woman given this name after she had poisoned several members of her family, including some of her husbands.They discovered what she was doing after several years when they examined the body of her latest husband and found the poison which she had been giving him in his food. Although he had been dead for some time, she found that dead men do tell tales. She was arrested and tragically ended her own life in a terrible way. Dead men do tell tales. James Moffatt said, ''Death is not the end of the road, for in death, persons continue to speak. There...
Cain: Uncontrolled Anger (5 of 18)
by Stephen Whitney
In Columbus Ohio the death of Dennis Lewis was shocking as The National Honor Society student and member of the marching band was shot to death in his bedroom just after midnight while masked robbers held a gun on his mother in ther next room.His mother said several men wearing black masks, white shirts and white sneakers entered the house, put a gun to her head, demanded money and asked who else was in the house. Dennis was asleep in the next room with the door shut. A couple of the men when into the room and he was shot in his bed. The police arrested his identical twin, an advanced placement student also...
Cain and Abel: Brother's Keeper or Killer
by Nelson Price
JESUS CHRIST wants to take you with your background and any bitterness it might have produced and turn it into blessings. He takes us with our differences and diversity and works to produce through us that which gives gladness to us and glory to God. This is a clear cut, classic example of diversity found in Genesis 4. It is the story of the first two persons given natural birth on planet earth.Science has overlooked the fourth chapter of Genesis and thus is misreading our history of origins. Homo Sapiens did not start off as cave-men and evolve upward. We did not begin on a low anthropoid or simian state as is commonly...
The Sacrifice Of Abel
by Jimmy Evans
The story of Abel' s sacrifice to God spans the Bible as a testimony of true faith. As we study Abel's act of sacrificial obedience, we learn some important principles concerning our giving to God. Specifically, there are seven reasons God requires sacrifice in our lives. They are: NOTE: Before there was organized religion, the law, the Bible or the church, there was a call from God for sacrifice. It is an inescapable part of God's nature and kingdom. Also, the first sin on earth was the sin of trying to take from God what was rightfully His in an act of rebellion and mistrust. (Last Week - Ps. 51) The Basis for True Sacrifice - 1. Thankfulness...
Two Destinies - Cain and Abel (7 of 12)
by Clarence E. Macartney
The book of Genesis is a book of beginnings. It throws a flashlight on the early history of humanity. It is a book of first things. In this fourth chapter of Genesis we have the first father, the first mother, the first birth, the first son, the first altar, the first murder, and the first death. Here at the beginning of human history, the stream of humanity is divided into two kinds of people-people with different characters and different destinies. In his poem ''The Two Streams,'' Oliver Wendell Holmes deals with this mysterious difference in character and in destiny. He describes two rivers formed by the rainfall on a mountain, one flowing eastward...
The Way of Cain
by Joe Alain
Occasion: A sermon preached after the school shooting tragedy at Littleton, Colorado Dave Sanders was a popular computer and business teacher who also coached the girls' basketball, softball, and track teams. Married with three daughters, his last words on April 20th were ''I'm not going to make it. Tell my girls I love them.'' John Tomlin worked after school at a gardening store. Just last year he had gone on a mission's trip to Mexico where he helped build houses for the poor. A typical young man, he loved to drive his beat-up Chevy truck. He had dreams of enlisting in the army in a couple of years. His dream ended...
Abel: Worshipping Faith (29 of 48)
by Jerry Vines
We are moving into the Bible's Hall of Faith. We have looked at the first three verses, which are introductory in nature. Now, we are going to begin to move through and look at these characters. If I have counted correctly, in this great faith chapter, there are ten Old Testament characters who are discussed in terms of their life of faith-their example of faith. There are six other characters mentioned toward the end of the chapter and the writer says he doesn't have time to deal with all of those. I take a little comfort in that, that the Bible writers had time constraints as well as I do. So there were six that he didn't have time to expand on. In addition to...
Cain: Who Was Given a Second Chance
by Ivor Powell
From the book, "Bible Mirrors, Spiritual Reflections from the Word of God" The story of Cain has always intrigued humankind. He was the first baby to rest in the arms of an adoring mother. He never attended school or played with other children; he never saw a book. Houses were unknown until he helped his father to build one; it was made of leaves, ferns, branches of trees, and mud bricks baked in the sun to give strength to the structure. Unlike the children of today the boy never saw automobiles, airplanes, or ships. He had strong legs and sound feet; they were his only means of transportation. He knew nothing of foreign countries...
Raising Cain And Other Kids (4 Of 5)
by Frank Pollard
We've been talking about the Adam Family in recent days. Three weeks ago we spoke of the purpose that God has for all of us and the partner that God gave Adam in the home and it is to be a place of encouragement and she is to be a helpmeet. We talked the next week about the stages of marriage, about the ideal - the honeymoon stage,the ordeal - when the fuzzies die down and people face the realities of living with each other and then if they survive, they have to come through to the love deal where you work at it. Love is something you do, not just something you feel. We talked about those statistics, a study that showed that one out...
Raising Cain (7 of 54)
by Keith Krell
The lesson that I learn from The Incredible Hulk is: If you don't learn to deal with your temper, it will turn you into a monster of a person. It can change you into someone you don't want to be. This is what happened to Cain in Genesis 4. He had a bad temper to start with, but he didn't deal with it. Eventually, it turned him into this other person...an evil person. However, Cain's problem was not an anger problem; his problem was a worship problem! The expression of inappropriate anger was a sin that was symptomatic of a greater problem. In Genesis 4:1-26, we will learn from the account of Cain how to worship God on His terms.
The Power of Trust- Abel (1 of 4)
by Craig Smith
As you may know God made Adam and Eve - the first human beings - as his Image, which means they were made to represent God and His interests in creation. But...they chose to disobey him and to chart their own course in life. And God chose to respect their choice and let them walk their own road. But their choice to disobey God created a rupture in their relationship with him and through that rupture, the power of sin began to exert its influence in their lives and in the world. And that's the mess: Adam and Eve's decision to turn from God in disobedience made a mess of things, a mess that you and I are still facing...a mess that you and I are still contributing to. And where we pick up the story today in chapter 4, we're going to see two very different approaches to dealing with this mess:
Cain's Homemade Religion (2 of 8)
by Larry Osborne
1. This week we saw how Abel got caught in the backwash of Cain's sin and ''homemade religion.'' It can be quite disheartening in our pursuit to follow Jesus when we see the wicked succeed and the righteous being maligned. In Psalm 73, how did Asaph maintain his hope in his pursuit to follow God even when the wicked looked to be having ''all'' the success? How do you maintain a healthy connection to God that weathers the tough patches of life? 2. Larry gave us six examples of how people fall into the trap of creating their ''own homemade religion.'' In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus makes some pointed statements about how we...
Abel and a Worthy Faith (1 of 8)
by Joey Rodgers
Meaning: As it pertains to God, faith isn't some wistful hope that something may come to pass in an uncertain tomorrow or that it can be explained thru a person's natural senses of what they can see, smell, hear, taste, and touch. SEE? When it pertains to God, faith isn't some mysterious force; nor is it thinking positively/being optimistic. Essential to faith is trust - which we all exercise in some way every day. So, should you ever hear someone say, ''I just can't have faith.'' They're wrong. B/c every one of us exercises some level of faith every time crank up/drive in a car, every time we cross a bridge, every time we sit in a chair, take a pill, or eat a meal - we're exercising faith.
The Way of Cain (3 of 5)
by Ernest Easley
Now join me in the fifth and final one-chapter books in the Bible: the book of Jude! This 25 verse book is the longest of the one chapter books, yet I'm afraid it's the least known. If you'd be honest ... you probably know more about ''Hey Jude'' from the Beatles, than you do about ''Brother Jude'' from the Bible! Let me tell you why the book of Jude is important to RSBC: it is because Jude is a book of warning to the church! Jude sounds an alarm, alerting us to a dangerous and divisive problem in the church. The problem of apostasy.That is, those within the fellowship who know the Word of God but do not know the God of the Word. They have...
Cain and Able: Life's Choices
by Miles Seaborn
INTRO. God has laid a burden on my heart to deepen and strengthen the character of my life and His people, that is the reason for this series of messages. A growing conviction that if we are to stand in this generation so swept with the cop out - the easy way - we find faith and character like God's people of old.Why trouble the dusty bones of the ancients, you ask? Because they faced life in all its harshness, its reality. It's challenges and met it head on and won! These men and women of God are not isolated and different people from you and I, but are rather people like ourselves who had real experiences with God and profited from them...
When the Devil Raises Cain, God is Able
by Steve Wagers
Because Cain was the 1st death row convict guilty of 1st degree murder, killing his brother Abel, the expression "Raising Cain" developed to describe acts of violence, criminal activity, lewdness, or the creating of an uproar. I believe that I am far within my reach to say that we are living in a day when the devil is raising Cain. He is raising Cain in countries, in cities, in communities, and even in churches. He is raising Cain in heads, in hearts, and in homes. He is raising Cain in families, in finances, and in faith.
A Faith That En-Abels (1 of 5)
by Jeff Strite
You know, it's odd - we ALL seem to know the story about Cain and Abel, but Cain gets more ''PRESS'' from Scripture than Abel does. Cain is mentioned in 18 verses, but Abel ONLY gets 11 verses (about 1/3 less attention). However, the PRESS that Cain gets is all BAD press - He's a bad man; He's an angry man; He's a murderer. God tells us in I John 3:12 ''Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother's were righteous.'' Cain's actions were ''EVIL?'' Here in I John we're told Cain's evil actions LED HIM to murder his brother. In other words, Cain's evil actions didn't start with murdering his brother.
Abel: A Worshipping Faith (1 of 10)
by Brad Whitt
I want you to take God's Word now this morning and be finding your place at Hebrews chapter 11 if you will, and this morning we are going to begin a series of messages from one of the greatest chapters in all of the Bible. Hebrews 11 has been described by many Bible preachers and Bible scholars as ''God's Hall of Faith.'' And the reason why this is the famous, and...
Protecting the Vulnerable (48 of 52)
by Christopher Harbin
Genesis chapter four begins straightforwardly enough. There were two brothers and one wanted to kill the other. God told him not to do such a thing, and then he got caught having murdered his brother Abel. Yahweh returned to the picture and meted out Cain's punishment. That is all fine and well, except that is not really what the passage says. Let's try again. Cain was the elder of the two and Abel the younger. They held different occupations, which would lead us to understand they were likely something other than siblings. They represent larger groups of people and the perennial conflict between farmers and nomadic herdsmen.
