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Genesis chapter 4 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Genesis chapter 4, let us pray. Our Father who is in heaven,
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  thank you God for another day to come and worship you in spirit
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  and truth. We thank you God for salvation,
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  for the down payment. We thank you God, that you are
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  moving mightily in our midst. Lord, come and teach us your
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  ways. Lord, come and show up and show
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  off. God, we love you.
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  We love everything about you, Father.
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  Lead us through the text. God, give us your sound doctrine
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  in theology. God, I pray that I can get out
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  of the way. Give you center stage.
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  I decrease as you increase. Holy Spirit, fill us today.
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  Holy Spirit, I pray that you will supernaturally give us the
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  zeal. Lord, let it consume us for your
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  word. God, bind the enemy from off of
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  our families. Bind the enemy from off of this
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  time. God, I pray for supernatural
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  clarity today. I pray for a hedge of protection
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  around our ministries and around our families.
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  God, I pray that you will supernaturally enable us to go
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  out and do the work of an evangelist.
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  God, help us, Lord, to be found in the harvest.
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  Help us to be found with our hand to the plow.
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  God, break up the fallow ground. God, rain down upon us and
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  produce a harvest. We love you, King Jesus, it's in
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  your holy and mighty and powerful name that we pray.
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  Amen. Well, let's start in verse one.
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  And Adam knew Eve, his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain and
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  said, I've gotten a man from the Lord.
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  She's excited because perhaps all the promises that he had
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  given her, that the seed would come out of her and crush the
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  serpent's head, would be fulfilled in Cain.
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  Let's see how it goes. Verse 2.
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  And again she bore his brother Abel, and Abel was the keeper of
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  sheep, but Cain was the tiller of the ground.
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  So we see here Abel is the shepherd, and Cain is the
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  farmer. Verse 3.
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  And in process of time it came to pass that Cain brought the
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  fruit of the ground at offering unto the Lord.
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  So we're going to see what God thinks about these offerings.
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  Verse 4. And Abel He also brought of the
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  firstlings of the flock and of the fat of it.
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  And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offerings.
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  Why did the Lord receive Abel's offering and reject Cain's?
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  And it is because it was the first fruits.
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  It was the first of the flock. And so you can see here that God
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  desires our very best. He doesn't want our leftovers. 5
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  But unto Cain, and to his offering he had no respect.
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  And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
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  This is pride, friends, this is offence.
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  This is what happens whenever we become angry and murderous,
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  because we are offended. 6 And the Lord said to Cain, Why are
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  you wroth, and why has your countenance fallen?
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  7 If you do well, should you not be accepted?
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  And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door.
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  And unto you shall be his desire, and you shall rule over
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  him. This is a clear picture of what
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  sin looks like. It crouches at the door.
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  It's a roaring lion. It's prowling about, seeking
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  those to whom he will devour. But we must master him.
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  We must get on top of him. We must nip it in the bud in its
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  infancy. We cannot let it grow into a
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  mature offense. We cannot let it grow a root of
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  bitterness. We cannot let anger and we
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  cannot let this murderous wrath take a foothold.
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  Friends, if you crack the door even the slightest, then you
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  give the enemy a foothold, and then his whole body is coming
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  in, and it will produce murder and death.
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  It will produce this killing. 8 And Cain talked with Abel his
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  brother, and it came to pass when they were in the field,
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  that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
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  Perhaps he lured him out there just to kill him.
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  He had seen the way that the lamb had been slain, the first
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  lamb, and he was knowledgeable of what it looked like whenever
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  mankind was killing the animal. So he used the same method upon
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  his own brother. 9 And the Lord said to Cain, Where's Abel, your
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  brother? And he said, I know not Am I my
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  brother's keeper? What a famous passage in the
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  Bible. Am I my brother's keeper?
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  God already knew. And it's the same as whenever
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  Adam and Eve ate from the forbidden fruit and God asked
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  them where they were, He already knew.
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  But the reason he asks is to provoke a confession.
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  And love covers a multitude of sins.
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  And if we will be faithful to confess our sins, God will be
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  faithful to forgive. And so here there was no mandate
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  against do not murder. And God was provoking Cain to
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  tell him the truth. But what did Cain do?
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  He turned it around and tried to cover his tracks Tan and he
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  said, what have you done? The voice of your brother's
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  blood cries to me from the ground.
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  You need to understand that the blood of the innocent cries out
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  to God day and night from the ground, and God will avenge that
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  blood. 11 And now are you cursed from the earth, which has opened
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  her mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
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  So this is a wonderful justice from God, because we remember
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  that Cain was a farmer, and so now the very ground that he
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  needed to do his work, to provide for himself was now
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  turned against him. 12 And when you till the ground, it shall
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  not from now on yield for you her strength, a fugitive and a
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  Vagabond you shall be in the earth.
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  So God sent him out as a wanderer, and said that the
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  ground would no longer give him the produce, no longer give him
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  the sustenance that he needed. Thirteen.
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  And And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I
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  can bear. So he was not remorseful, he did
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  not go and confess and plead with God and tell him that he
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  was sorrowful. He was only sorrow because of
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  the punishment that God had given him.
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  And he said it was too much. 14 Behold, you have driven me out
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  on this day from the face of the earth, and from your face shall
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  I be hid, and I shall be a fugitive and a Vagabond in the
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  earth. And it shall come to pass that
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  everyone that finds me will kill me.
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  So you can see here that he was only worried about his own skin.
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  You see the depravity of humanity from the very first
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  offspring when sand entered into the world, from Adam and Eve's
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  rebellion against God. And now they're seeing that what
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  they reap is what they sow. And so they have Cain.
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  And Cain is a murderer and he's self seeking and he's only
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  worried about saving his own skin.
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  And God has driven him from his profession and from his
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  presence. And so now he's a wanderer and
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  he's worried about dying to anyone who finds him. 15 And the
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  Lord said to him, Therefore, whosoever slays Cain, vengeance
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  shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark on Cain,
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  lest any finding him should kill him.
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  So God put a seal of protection upon Cain, and we could only try
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  to guess at what this mark is that God put on it.
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  But no scholar can accurately tell us.
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  They can only sit and conjecture and try to put their own
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  thoughts upon what this Mark May be.
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  But suffice to say that this was protection from God. 16 And Cain
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  went out from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land
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  of Nod on the east of Eden. So this Nod was a place of
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  wandering, and we're going to see what he did. 17 Cain knew
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  his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch, and he built a city
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  and called the name of the city after the name of his son Enoch.
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  So here this is rebellion against God by building a
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  permanent dwelling. When God told him that he was
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  going to wander the earth, he rebelled and built this
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  permanent dwelling and named it after Enoch. 18 And to Enoch was
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  born Erad, and Erad had Mehuel, and Mehuel begat Methusel, and
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  Methusel begat Lamech, and Lamech took unto him two wives.
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  The name of the first was Adah, and the name of the other was
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  Zillah. So we see polygamy practice
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  first here from Lemac, and we're going to see this pride of Lemac
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  creep up, and this is from the sin of the fathers visiting the
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  children. 20 And outta bore Jabal, he was the father of such
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  as dwell in tents and of such as have cattle. 21 And his
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  brother's name was Jubal, and he was the father of all of such
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  that handle the harp and the organ. 22 And Zilla also bore
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  Tubalcane, an instructor of every artificer of brass and
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  iron. And the sister of Tubalcane was
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  Nama. So we can see here that out of
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  this land of Nod, out of the city of Enoch, we see all of
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  these arts pop up, from the art of keeping cattle to the art of
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  music, and then the art of metalworking friends creeping up
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  out of this city center pre flood, we see all of the
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  rebellion against God creeping up. 23 And Lamech said unto his
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  wives, Ada and Zilla, hear my voice, you wives of Lamech,
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  hearken unto my speech, for I have killed a man to my
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  wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
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  So here he has this pride of actually killing a man. 24 If
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  Cain will be Avenged Sevenfold, truly, Lamech. 70 and sevenfold.
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  So you can see here that he is self-proclaimed and he is trying
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  to justify the murder of a man. And we know as scripture unfolds
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  there is no more mention of him. He is long forgotten, and this
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  was only his own spiritual pride that was not to come to anything
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  other than his demise. 25 And Adam knew his wife again, and
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  she bore a son, and called his name Seth.
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  For God said, He has appointed me another instead of Abel, whom
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  Cain slew. So she saw Seth as the
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  replacement for Abel and will end on 26 And to Seth to him
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  also there bore a son, and he called his name Enos.
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  Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.
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  So we see the first revival break out after we see so much
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  sin creep in to the world from Adam and Eve's rebellion in the
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  garden to being cast out. And now we see the sin of the
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  Father visited upon the Son as Cain kills Abel.
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  And then we see the lineage of Cain producing a rebellion
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  against God. And now we see at the end of the
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  chapter the first revival break out and people are calling upon
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  the name of the Lord. Praise God.
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  That is what we need in our time and in this hour.
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  We need people to turn their hearts back to God and actually
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  get serious about calling upon His name and relying upon Him
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  for everything. I pray that that is your story.
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  I pray that you are following after the Lord with all your
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  heart, with all your might, with all your strength, with all your
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  soul. And Lord, help us to love our
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  neighbor as ourselves. I pray that you have been
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  blessed by this chapter in God's Word.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you. I love you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.