Memory Verse:
John
4.24 – God is Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and
Truth – John 4.24
Lesson
Genesis 4.1- 16.
Gen
4:1-7
Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived
and bore Cain, saying, "I have gotten a man with the help of the
Lord." And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of
sheep, and Cain a tiller of the ground. In
the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the
ground, and Abel brought of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat
portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, but for Cain and
his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his countenance
fell. The Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why has your countenance
fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well,
sin is couching at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master
it." (RSV)
·
Both offered sacrifices
·
Cain gave God the fruit
of his labour.
·
Abel gave God fruit of
his labour.
·
Cain was rejected
·
Abel was accepted.
WHY
DID GOD ACCEPT ONE AND NOT THE OTHER?
Because
it wasn't done in faith (Hebrews 11.4)
ü The
secret of living right is faith in God.
ü The
acceptable sacrifice is the life of faith.
ü True
worship has its ground in more than legal enactments.
ü True
worship is more than the giving up of things.
ü Abel
brought his offering with the knowledge that it wasn't good enough. Cain with
the thought that God has to accept it.
ü True
worship does all things for God.
ITS
ISN'T ENOUGH TO DO THE RIGHT THINGS.
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