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Cain The Farmer Who Murdered His Brother │ Msg 214 · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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Speaker 1: One of the grim facts of life is that our
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Speaker 1: history is strewn with the litter of murder. It's a
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Speaker 1: chilling thought to think that as we sit in this
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Speaker 1: place today, as we live our lives, someone is planning
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Speaker 1: someone's murder. When you go into the scriptures and you
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Speaker 1: begin in the beauty of innocence and you find life
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Speaker 1: as it was meant to be, lived before God in
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Speaker 1: purity of heart and in innocence of life, and you
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Speaker 1: see how far we have drifted. It is nothing short
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Speaker 1: of shocking. Some time ago, I clipped from the newspaper
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Speaker 1: a single column entitled The Nation's Deadliest Massacres, and I
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Speaker 1: hesitate to read more than just the general facts which
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Speaker 1: will reflect for many of us the past of our lives.
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Speaker 1: Just listen to a general overview. On September the 6th, 1949,
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Speaker 1: 13 people were fatally shot in 12 minutes in Camden,
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Speaker 1: New Jersey by this man who was named, who said later,
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Speaker 1: I would have killed a thousand if I had had
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Speaker 1: enough bullets. July the 14th, 1966, some of you will remember,
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Speaker 1: I certainly do, eight student nurses were stabbed or strangled
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Speaker 1: in a Chicago dormitory by Richard Speck, age 24. August
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Speaker 1: the 1st, 1966, not that many days afterwards, all of us,
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Speaker 1: or many of us will remember in Austin, Texas, a
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Speaker 1: Charles Whitman climbed to the top of the campus tower
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Speaker 1: And before he was killed by the police, he killed
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Speaker 1: 16 people in an insane act of murder. Easter Sunday,
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Speaker 1: March 30, 1975, 11 people, which included eight children, were
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Speaker 1: killed at a family gathering in Hamilton, Ohio. The man
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Speaker 1: was found innocent by reason of insanity. It's always seemed
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Speaker 1: a strange thing. response to me. September 25th, 1982, 13 people,
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Speaker 1: including five children, were fatally shot in Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania.
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Speaker 1: The man was convicted on 12 counts of murder and
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Speaker 1: sentenced to death. February 19, 1983, 13 people were fatally
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Speaker 1: shot in the head during a robbery at a gambling
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Speaker 1: club in Seattle. Palm Sunday, April 15, 1984, ten people,
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Speaker 1: including eight children, were killed in Brooklyn, New York, in
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Speaker 1: an apartment house. July 18, 1984, 21 people were fatally
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Speaker 1: shot at McDonald's restaurant in San Ysidro by this man
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Speaker 1: who was later killed by a police sharpshooter. Then there
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Speaker 1: was the Zodiac Killer. Then there was the Freeway Killer.
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Speaker 1: Then there have been other serial killers. The list goes
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Speaker 1: on and on and on and on. It's a frightening,
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Speaker 1: tragic account. I've lived in my few years on this
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Speaker 1: earth long enough to hear about and read about and
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Speaker 1: even witness on the television set the most insane acts
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Speaker 1: and political assassinations and the killing of those who have
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Speaker 1: assassinated or were accused of assassinating a political figure. Amazing.
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Speaker 1: I found myself somewhat amazed as I thought through the
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Speaker 1: stories of the Bible at how many of them were tragedies.
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Speaker 1: Real tragedies. Not all of them murders, but so many
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Speaker 1: tragedies strewn through the pages of the scripture. And for
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Speaker 1: some of them, it may be a stretch for your theology,
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Speaker 1: but God was responsible. The flood, when the entire human
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Speaker 1: race was removed because of disobedience in the days of Noah,
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Speaker 1: except for the family of Noah. How about the plagues
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Speaker 1: in Egypt, where the firstborn of the Egyptians all died
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Speaker 1: just before the Exodus? Or the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah,
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Speaker 1: two entire cities, destroyed so severely that they now find
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Speaker 1: their existence beneath the Dead Sea. as fire and brimstone
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Speaker 1: leveled the cities and even brought them below the level
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Speaker 1: of the sea. And the dying out of the former
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Speaker 1: generation of Hebrews during the trek in the wilderness on
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Speaker 1: their way to the promised land. How about Job's seven
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Speaker 1: sons and three daughters in one fell swoop of nature?
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Speaker 1: The entire nation of Israel invaded by the Assyrians, the
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Speaker 1: entire nation of Judah invaded by the Babylonians. Sometime humans
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Speaker 1: were responsible in the scriptures. Moses murdered an Egyptian and
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Speaker 1: hid him in the sand. You will recall that story.
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Speaker 1: Various kings were murdered in ancient times, according to the
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Speaker 1: history of the Jews. Absalom, David's son, was murdered by Joab,
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Speaker 1: David's commander in the military. Various tribal people were slaughtered.
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Speaker 1: by one another and sometime by the Jews. While held captive,
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Speaker 1: there were plans to exterminate the Jews in the days
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Speaker 1: of Esther. Remember, Haman built the gallows and had plans
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Speaker 1: ultimately to exterminate all of the Jews. In the days
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Speaker 1: of Moses, when he was born, the Pharaoh gave orders
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Speaker 1: to the midwives who helped at birth to be sure
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Speaker 1: that all the male children were killed and the female
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Speaker 1: Jewish infants would be allowed to live. In Jesus' earliest days, Herod,
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Speaker 1: when he got word from the Magi, gave the order
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Speaker 1: that all of the children two years old and younger
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Speaker 1: in and around Bethlehem were to be murdered. It goes
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Speaker 1: on and on. Realizing the rage of the human heart,
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Speaker 1: God inserted in his Ten Commandments that single statement, In
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Speaker 1: Exodus 20, 13, you shall not murder. Now, before I
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Speaker 1: go any further, let me make something very clear. And
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Speaker 1: this is not a tongue twister. Man is a murderer
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Speaker 1: not because he murders. He murders because he is a
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Speaker 1: murderer at heart. Let me say it another way. We
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Speaker 1: are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we
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Speaker 1: are sinners. The problem is in the heart. We do
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Speaker 1: wrong because we are wrong. We are wrong deep within
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Speaker 1: and from within, down in the root of our lives
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Speaker 1: where murder is planned, we carry out the fruit of
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Speaker 1: murder with our hands. It's a heart problem. It's not
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Speaker 1: a weapon problem. It's not a hand problem or a
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Speaker 1: brain problem. It's a heart problem, which began way, way
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Speaker 1: back in the days of Adam and Eve. Now, if
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Speaker 1: you have a copy of the scriptures available, I'd like
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Speaker 1: you to look at Genesis chapter four. And as you turn,
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Speaker 1: remember it's Genesis four. you say, well, that's obvious. You
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Speaker 1: just said turn to Genesis 4. And I just want
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Speaker 1: you to remember this is not Genesis 3. In Genesis 3,
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Speaker 1: we have innocence. In Genesis 4, we have sinfulness. In
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Speaker 1: Genesis 3, we have the beauty of fellowship between Adam
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Speaker 1: and Eve and their creator. But as the tempter entered
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Speaker 1: and as they fell into the Temptation of the enemy.
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Speaker 1: They became, let me use the word, spiritually polluted. They
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Speaker 1: became inwardly corrupt. And as a result, the human race
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Speaker 1: has been polluted. Like the source of a river is polluted,
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Speaker 1: then all of the river is a polluted thing. So
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Speaker 1: it is in the human race. And as a result
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Speaker 1: of sin coming, there was a curse that fell upon
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Speaker 1: the man, upon the woman, upon the serpent, and even
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Speaker 1: upon the land. You and I cannot imagine a world
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Speaker 1: free of a curse. We can't imagine of childbirth without pain.
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Speaker 1: We cannot imagine of a field without weeds and thorns
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Speaker 1: and thistles. We cannot imagine a heart that is absolutely innocent.
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Speaker 1: because there are no such things in existence. We have
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Speaker 1: lived our entire lives on this sin-cursed earth. And as
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Speaker 1: a result, we think in that vein. But Adam and
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Speaker 1: Eve lived during the transition. I wonder at times how
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Speaker 1: they survived the incredible contrast between what they had in
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Speaker 1: the garden and what they had as a result of
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Speaker 1: their fall. Can't imagine the guilt. Now, when we pick
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Speaker 1: up the story in chapter 4 of Genesis, we come
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Speaker 1: to the same man and the same original woman, Adam
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Speaker 1: and Eve, As they are intimate together, and as a result,
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Speaker 1: she conceives and gives birth to Cain. That's the firstborn.
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Speaker 1: Cana is the root word from which the name Cain comes.
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Speaker 1: It means to get or to acquire. She says, as
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Speaker 1: she's named him this, I have gotten a man-child with
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Speaker 1: the help of the Lord. So she names him gotten
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Speaker 1: or acquired. She acknowledges God gave them her child. their son, Cain.
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Speaker 1: The next one born is a brother named Abel. His name, interestingly,
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Speaker 1: means breath or vapor. And perhaps it's the idea of
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Speaker 1: being slight or fragile. Maybe he was a sickly child.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. He apparently was not as strong physically
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Speaker 1: as his brother. And they saw that soon and he
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Speaker 1: bore the name that reflected that often in scripture names
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Speaker 1: reflected nature. Um, and we see that Cain picked up
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Speaker 1: the occupation of his dad. He became a farmer and
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Speaker 1: Abel was a keeper of the flocks. He became a shepherd. And, uh,
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Speaker 1: the next thing we read about these brothers is, uh,
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Speaker 1: they are now adults and they are bringing their offerings
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Speaker 1: to the Lord. Uh, this is a wonderful story. There's
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Speaker 1: a lot of human interest in it. Um, because it
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Speaker 1: is a brief account of what happened, we don't have
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Speaker 1: all the dialogue that occurred during their childhood years and
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Speaker 1: teenage years and young adult years. I am confident that
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Speaker 1: Adam taught Cain and Abel the importance of an offering
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Speaker 1: and how you approach God. The theme all the way
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Speaker 1: through the scriptures is that you approach God with blood.
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Speaker 1: You say, that's a strange thing. Well, God designed it.
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Speaker 1: That's what God said. would forgive sin without the shedding
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Speaker 1: of blood, there will be no forgiveness of sins. That's
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Speaker 1: a theme that's woven all through the fabric of scripture.
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Speaker 1: And I am confident that Adam had taught his boys
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Speaker 1: and Eve had taught her sons that you come to
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Speaker 1: God with a blood offering. Now, this is where the
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Speaker 1: conflict begins. This is where murder finds its way into
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Speaker 1: the first human heart. are the first seeds of murder.
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Speaker 1: This is truly murder one. Came about in the course
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Speaker 1: of time, Cain brought an offering to the Lord from
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Speaker 1: the fruit of the ground. There's no blood. There's no animal.
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Speaker 1: He brought the best from his crops. He deliberately brought
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Speaker 1: another kind of offering to God. And we read that
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Speaker 1: Abel also brought of the firstlings of his flock. He
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Speaker 1: brought an animal sacrifice, as he had been taught to do.
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Speaker 1: And we read, without surprise, the Lord had regard for
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Speaker 1: Abel and his offering, but for Cain and his offering,
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Speaker 1: he had no regard. This is a good place to
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Speaker 1: turn to show individuals who think that God will accept
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Speaker 1: you just so you're sincere. You've heard that all your life.
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Speaker 1: All you have to do is be sincere. You don't
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Speaker 1: have to worry about the details of the Bible. Just
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Speaker 1: come with a sincere heart. God helps those who help themselves. Come,
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Speaker 1: feel good about it. Come with an open spirit. Come
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Speaker 1: with a sincere heart, and God will accept you as
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Speaker 1: you come in whatever way you want to come. He
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Speaker 1: sees your sincerity. No, that's not true. That is not
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Speaker 1: what Scripture teaches. And I'm not being a narrow-minded fundamentalist
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Speaker 1: for saying that. It is found all the way through
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Speaker 1: the Bible. Here's a perfect example. God had regard for
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Speaker 1: Abel and his offering. Why? Because he brought what God
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Speaker 1: said to bring. But he didn't have regard for Cain
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Speaker 1: and his offering. Why? Because he didn't bring what God required.
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Speaker 1: God is not just a gracious, easygoing, kickback grandfather, sort
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Speaker 1: of like an old man with a beard sitting up
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Speaker 1: in heaven, kind of rocking along, hoping people will be sincere.
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Speaker 1: when they come to Him. That is not the biblical
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Speaker 1: picture of our Heavenly Father. He is a loving, He
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Speaker 1: is a kind, but He is also a just and
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Speaker 1: a very discriminating Heavenly Father who has spelled out in
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Speaker 1: His Word how we are to come to Him and
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Speaker 1: He graciously and compassionately, patiently waits for us to come around.
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Speaker 1: But until we come His way, He will not accept
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Speaker 1: our offerings. And his way is through blood. Cain came
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Speaker 1: his own way. Abel came God's way. I want you
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Speaker 1: to hold your place here and look rather hurriedly at
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Speaker 1: Hebrews chapter 11, verses 1 to 4, and then 1
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Speaker 1: John 3, 10 to 12. In these two chapters, Cain
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Speaker 1: and Abel are mentioned. Hebrews 11, 1 to 4. Faith
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Speaker 1: is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of
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Speaker 1: things not seen. For by it the men of old
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Speaker 1: gained approval. By faith we understand the worlds were prepared
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Speaker 1: by the word of God, so that what is seen
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Speaker 1: was not made out of things which are visible. The
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Speaker 1: very first mention of a person is in verse 4
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Speaker 1: in Hebrews 11. By faith Abel offered to God a
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Speaker 1: better sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained the testimony
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Speaker 1: that he was righteous. God testifying about his gifts and
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Speaker 1: through faith, though he is dead, he still speaks. Please
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Speaker 1: observe that Abel offered to God a better sacrifice. First
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Speaker 1: John chapter three, verse 10. By this, the children of
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Speaker 1: God and the children of the devil are obvious. Anyone
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Speaker 1: who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor
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Speaker 1: the one who does not love his brother. For this
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Speaker 1: is the message which you have heard from the beginning,
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Speaker 1: that we should love one another, not as Cain, not
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Speaker 1: as Cain, who was of the evil one and slew
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Speaker 1: his brother. And for what reason did he slay him?
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Speaker 1: Because his deeds were evil and his brothers were righteous.
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Speaker 1: That's God's appraisal of the offerings of Cain and Abel.
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Speaker 1: Abel's offerings... Cain's offerings, evil. Now back to Genesis chapter 4.
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Speaker 1: I'm interested to read in verse 5, as we work
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Speaker 1: our way through this ancient story of Cain and Abel,
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Speaker 1: I'm interested to read that as a result of doing
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Speaker 1: what was wrong and God's responding in justice to Cain,
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Speaker 1: Cain got angry. Verse 5. For Cain and his offering,
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Speaker 1: God had no regard. So Cain became very angry and
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Speaker 1: his countenance fell. That's an interesting response. He knew what
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Speaker 1: he was supposed to do and he didn't do it.
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Speaker 1: And because he didn't get the favor of God, he
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Speaker 1: got mad. Still goes on, doesn't it? Still happens. In fact,
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Speaker 1: if you'll observe, the Lord comes on the scene. Let
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Speaker 1: me say this word about countenance. It's the word face.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to come back to it in a minute.
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Speaker 1: His face fell. Sometimes when people get angry, you can
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Speaker 1: see it in their faces. Some play a little better
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Speaker 1: game of poker than others. But most of us, when
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Speaker 1: we have anger, our faces show it. And his face fell.
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Speaker 1: You know, you've seen it a hundred times in your children,
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Speaker 1: kind of a pouting look or disappointment. It's a veiled anger.
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Speaker 1: And his face fell. And so the Lord steps on
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Speaker 1: the scene and says to Cain, why are you angry?
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Speaker 1: Why has your face fallen? What's going on, Cain? What
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Speaker 1: has made you so mad? Why are you ticked off?
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Speaker 1: Why are you angry? And why is your face fallen?
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Speaker 1: Part of the reason is Cain was jealous, plain and simple.
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Speaker 1: He's the older brother. I've said for years that older
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Speaker 1: brothers owe the entire family one thing, an apology. Usually
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Speaker 1: older brothers, with being an older brother, there comes a
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Speaker 1: lot of stuff that you look back on when you
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Speaker 1: grow up and you say, why was I like that?
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Speaker 1: And And Cain, the older brother, is jealous of the
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Speaker 1: younger brother. There's already competition, as is often true when
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Speaker 1: there are two boys in a family. And the competition
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Speaker 1: between Cain and Abel is rather severe now because God
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Speaker 1: smiles on the younger brother and he frowns at the
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Speaker 1: older brother. Jealousy comes. in, goes on in families all
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Speaker 1: the time. One child gets one kind of toy, the
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Speaker 1: other one gets a toy that's not quite as nice.
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Speaker 1: And the one with the toy that's not quite as
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Speaker 1: nice is jealous of the one who has a better one.
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Speaker 1: One has a birthday party and he gets to go
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Speaker 1: to Disneyland with his family. The other has a birthday
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Speaker 1: party and they have a little piece of pie for
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Speaker 1: him after supper. So he's jealous of the one that
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Speaker 1: got to go to Disneyland. It goes on all the time.
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Speaker 1: It happens at the office. One fellow gets a little
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Speaker 1: nicer desk, and he gets a desk by not one
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Speaker 1: window but two, and you're still in a room without
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Speaker 1: windows in the old desk. One person has a lot
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Speaker 1: thicker carpet or newer carpet than you have, so you're
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Speaker 1: jealous of the one that has the newer carpet. One
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Speaker 1: person who hasn't been at the company as long as
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Speaker 1: you have gets a few perks that you don't get
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Speaker 1: and you're ticked off and you're jealous of it. And
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Speaker 1: that's another whole story. There's jealousy that goes on in
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Speaker 1: the human race on a regular basis. Cain is jealous
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Speaker 1: of Abel. And the Lord sees it and he says,
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Speaker 1: why are you angry? In fact, he even gives him
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Speaker 1: a warning. I love the way it reads. If you
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Speaker 1: do well... Verse 7, if you do what's right, won't
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Speaker 1: your face be lifted up? Look at that if you
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Speaker 1: happen to be a feeling-oriented type person or counselor, where
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Speaker 1: your feelings have to lead the way. This doesn't say
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Speaker 1: when you feel like looking better, it might be nice
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Speaker 1: of you to do so. He says when you do
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Speaker 1: what is right, your feelings will follow. If you will
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Speaker 1: obey me, Cain, your face will show it. Your no
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Speaker 1: face will become a yes face. Your jealousy will subside.
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Speaker 1: This is extremely important. We are responsible for our own
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Speaker 1: reactions to God and to others. No one else is.
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Speaker 1: Remember the name Anna Russell if you lived in the
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Speaker 1: 60s or if you sang songs in the 60s, you
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Speaker 1: may remember a little song she made popular strumming her
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Speaker 1: guitar and singing it around Berkeley campus and other campuses.
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Speaker 1: The words of the song are sort of interesting. They
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Speaker 1: tell a story as those ballads often did. I went
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Speaker 1: to my psychiatrist to be psychoanalyzed to find out why
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Speaker 1: I killed a cat and blacked my husband's eyes. He
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Speaker 1: laid me on a downy couch to see what he
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Speaker 1: could find, and this is what he dredged up from
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Speaker 1: my subconscious mind. When I was one, my mommy hid
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Speaker 1: my dolly in a trunk, and so it follows naturally
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Speaker 1: that I am always drunk. When I was two, I
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Speaker 1: saw my father kiss the maid one day, and that
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Speaker 1: is why I suffer now from kleptomaniac. When I was three,
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Speaker 1: I had the feeling of ambivalence toward my brothers, and
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Speaker 1: so it follows naturally I poison all my lovers. But
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Speaker 1: I am happy now that I've learned the lesson this
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Speaker 1: is taught, that everything I do that's wrong is someone
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Speaker 1: else's fault. If you do what's wrong, it is your fault.
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Speaker 1: If I do something that's wrong, it is my fault. Cain,
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Speaker 1: straighten up, to use a good parental line. You've heard
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Speaker 1: that as you were growing up, and you've said that.
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Speaker 1: as a mother or a father. Straighten up. Your face,
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Speaker 1: once you do what is right, Cain, your face will follow.
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Speaker 1: One man puts it this way. Cain began badly by
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Speaker 1: presenting a sinful offering before God. Abel gave God the best,
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Speaker 1: whereas Cain merely brought an offering. When God rejected his offering,
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Speaker 1: Cain complicated the problem by responding wrongly to the rejection.
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Speaker 1: The anger and depression were noted by God, who observed
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Speaker 1: that this was a wrong response. Instead, God says, do
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Speaker 1: right and you will feel right. Then God warned against
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Speaker 1: failure to repent and offer the right kind of sacrifice.
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Speaker 1: If you continue to complicate the problem, with this sinful response,
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Speaker 1: as one version says, if you misbehave, you will fall
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Speaker 1: into deeper sin, into the clutches of sin, which is
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Speaker 1: like a wild animal. I really want us to hear this.
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Speaker 1: We do live in a day when wrong actions are rationalized,
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Speaker 1: and you can find enough people to give you enough counsel,
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Speaker 1: you will be patted on the head and told, you
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Speaker 1: are just a tragic victim of life. And as a result,
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Speaker 1: no wonder you want to murder everybody you meet. Rather than,
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Speaker 1: my friend, you are responsible for the rest of your life. Yes,
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Speaker 1: painful as it is, difficult as it is, take responsibility
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Speaker 1: for your actions. Face the fact that much of your
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Speaker 1: response revealed in your face comes from your own chosen attitude.
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Speaker 1: And that's where the power of Jesus Christ is so magnificent. Now,
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Speaker 1: let me show you all of this in Scripture. Now
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Speaker 1: that I've told you all of this with such passion,
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Speaker 1: let me show you why I say it. If you
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Speaker 1: do well, your countenance will be lifted up. Now look
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Speaker 1: at verse 7. If you do not do well, sin
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Speaker 1: and you must master it. Like an animal with long
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Speaker 1: claws and big teeth, hiding in the shadows of the doorway.
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Speaker 1: In all of our lives, sin crouches. And it is
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Speaker 1: ready to pounce and to dig its claws and its
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Speaker 1: venom of poison into us. And to take charge. Listen
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Speaker 1: to this. And when it does, it masters us. But
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Speaker 1: it need not do that. It's at the mercy of
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Speaker 1: our green light. And he warns Cain. He says, you've
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Speaker 1: got to take charge, Cain. You've done what is wrong.
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Speaker 1: Your countenance has fallen in your own self-appointed guilt. You've
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Speaker 1: deserved to have it fall. You've disobeyed me. If you
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Speaker 1: will do well, your face will be lifted up. If
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Speaker 1: the door. It's desire... is for you and you must
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Speaker 1: master it. See the word master? It's the Hebrew word
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Speaker 1: that means dominate. You must take charge. You must dominate it.
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Speaker 1: This is a wonderful, wonderful place for me to remind
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Speaker 1: you of the words of Ephesians 4, be angry and
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Speaker 1: do not sin. Do not let the sun go down
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Speaker 1: on your anger and do not give the devil an opportunity.
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Speaker 1: Those are serious words. That's why the Lord says don't
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Speaker 1: go to bed angry. Don't let the sun go down
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Speaker 1: on your anger. That's a wonderful secret to a happy marriage.
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Speaker 1: Don't go to bed back to back. Don't let anger
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Speaker 1: put you in bed early. Stay at it. Talk it through.
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Speaker 1: My wife and I have a deal that we will
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Speaker 1: not go to bed angry and we'll stay up till
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Speaker 1: 2 sometime, 3 o'clock, talking it through. Believe me, about
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Speaker 1: 3 o'clock, you'll agree to anything. You just finally give up. Whatever.
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Speaker 1: And you solve it and you go on. But I
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Speaker 1: talk to couples and they go back, they say, well,
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Speaker 1: I remember back in 1949. Well, one of them's hysterical,
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Speaker 1: the other one's historical. 1949, I remember he said this
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Speaker 1: to me in a crowd and I never have forgiven
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Speaker 1: him for that. Well, sweet Bippy, it's time to forgive him.
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Speaker 1: It's time to go on. Because as you go to
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Speaker 1: bed and as it gets set in concrete, you, listen,
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Speaker 1: you give the devil an open door to take charge.
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Speaker 1: And sin gains the mastery over you. And you spend
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Speaker 1: your days in resentment and it turns to bitterness and
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Speaker 1: rage and ultimately murder. If not actual, mental. And it
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Speaker 1: becomes verbal murder. You and I have been around people
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Speaker 1: like that whose marriage is nothing more than a dialogue
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Speaker 1: of murderous comments to one another. This whole thing finds
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Speaker 1: its origin in the story of Cain and Abel. You
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Speaker 1: must master it, not only Cain, but you and I.
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Speaker 1: Now look at verse 8. He doesn't master it. I
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Speaker 1: think Cain is like the spoiled child, the indulgent child,
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Speaker 1: who passes all the time. off the warning of a
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Speaker 1: father or of a mother. I don't need to listen
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Speaker 1: to that kind of garbage. I'm not going to pay
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Speaker 1: any attention to that kind of counsel. And what happens?
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Speaker 1: Cain told Abel his brother. It came about when they
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Speaker 1: were in the field. that Cain rose up against Abel,
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Speaker 1: his brother, and sin took the mastery. He killed him.
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Speaker 1: First murder. You want a sacrifice? There's your sacrifice, God.
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Speaker 1: And the blood spilled across the ground, and the lifeless
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Speaker 1: body of Abel hung in Cain's arms. And before you
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Speaker 1: look with a lot of pride at Cain and go,
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Speaker 1: how could you ever do it? You've got to know something.
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Speaker 1: The same nature rests in your heart and it rests
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Speaker 1: in mine. Sin crouches at the door of every one
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Speaker 1: of our lives. I have disliked certain people so much
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Speaker 1: that murder could begin to build up in my heart
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Speaker 1: if I did not forgive them. And so have you. Thankfully,
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Speaker 1: there's nobody on a murder list in my life. But
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you, I've met people who do have murder
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Speaker 1: on their hearts. I worked with a young man at
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Speaker 1: a Christian camp several years ago who was a basket
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Speaker 1: case of emotional trouble. He was an accident or an
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Speaker 1: explosion getting ready to happen. I asked him what life
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Speaker 1: was like, and he described to me a very difficult
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Speaker 1: home situation. He talked to me about a father who
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Speaker 1: had been unfair and brutal at times. And as a result,
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Speaker 1: this boy kind of lost himself in the moment, and
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Speaker 1: he said to me, I just want you to know
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Speaker 1: that I'm waiting for the moment, and I'll kill him.
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Speaker 1: He meant it. Very little of what I said penetrated
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Speaker 1: this veneer of bitterness. He had murder on his heart.
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Speaker 1: So we're not reading some strange story of a, of
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Speaker 1: a weird guy that lived in ancient days. We're talking
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Speaker 1: about today. We're talking about tomorrow. I guarantee you before
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Speaker 1: this week is over, you'll read of another murder in
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Speaker 1: the paper. I guarantee it. And some of them will
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Speaker 1: shock you. I had a friend in Houston years ago
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Speaker 1: when I lived there who was a homicide photographer. And
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Speaker 1: he said, I cannot even describe to you, he's a
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Speaker 1: Christian man, a fine man. He said, I cannot describe
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Speaker 1: to you the bodies I've straddled, the pictures I've taken.
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Speaker 1: and the things I've seen that have come from the
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Speaker 1: hands of human beings against another. Incredible. Because sin crouches
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Speaker 1: at the door, and when it pounces and controls, it
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Speaker 1: knows nothing of compassion. Our father, the devil, our original father,
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Speaker 1: is a murderer from the beginning. There is nothing too
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Speaker 1: vile for him. Horrible as it is, this brother killed
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Speaker 1: his own brother. And you know what the tragedy is?
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Speaker 1: You know what the tragic scene is? You don't read
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Speaker 1: It is this horrible sense of inhuman silence. I've never
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Speaker 1: heard anybody talk about that. This instant silence that follows
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Speaker 1: a murder. A life that once breathed and talked and
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Speaker 1: laughed and sang and lived. is snuffed out. And not
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Speaker 1: even that humbles Cain. He quickly buries him in the
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Speaker 1: field and covers him up with the dirt. That's done.
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Speaker 1: And after this hasty burial along comes God. Verse 9.
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Speaker 1: The Lord said to Cain, Oh, where is Abel your brother? Now, understand,
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Speaker 1: it's the question like the Lord asked Adam. Where are you, Adam? Understand,
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Speaker 1: questions like this are for our benefit. God doesn't walk
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Speaker 1: up saying, Adam! Come on, Adam, don't hide. He knows
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Speaker 1: exactly where. The question is meant for Adam to analyze.
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Speaker 1: Why are you where you are, Adam? Why is your
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Speaker 1: brother not here, Cain, thinking through? Not, come on, where
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Speaker 1: is he? I don't know. You have to tell me.
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Speaker 1: It's not like that. He is God. He saw it all.
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Speaker 1: Where is Abel, your brother? It's designed to make him
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Speaker 1: think and to feel deeply And he said, verse 9,
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Speaker 1: look at this impudent answer. I don't know. My, my
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Speaker 1: brother's keeper. This is after he's just washed the blood
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Speaker 1: off his hands. Don't think for a minute that every
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Speaker 1: murderer has a conscience. Don't think for a minute that
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Speaker 1: a murderer won't do it again and again and again.
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Speaker 1: This man has done an unconscionable deed And there is
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Speaker 1: no sense of guilt. Verse 10, the Lord said to him,
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Speaker 1: what have you done? The voice of your brother's blood
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Speaker 1: is crying to me from the ground. Whatever we may
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Speaker 1: hide on this earth is known in full view by God.
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Speaker 1: Your brother's blood cries to me. He knew exactly what
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Speaker 1: he had done. He gave Cain an opportunity. Look at
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Speaker 1: this investigation procedure. How different from ours. God questions Cain.
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Speaker 1: He asked him earlier, why? Ask him where? And now
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Speaker 1: he says, what have you done? Cain earlier ignored God's response.
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Speaker 1: And now he answers, am I my brother's keeper? Next,
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Speaker 1: God stays with the facts. Solid, hard, indisputable facts of
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Speaker 1: verse 10. What have you done? The voice of your
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Speaker 1: brother cries to me from the ground. He made no
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Speaker 1: effort to confess. He didn't fall on his face and say,
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Speaker 1: I am guilty. I have done what is wrong. He
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Speaker 1: stands with folded arms and his fists doubled up tightly.
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Speaker 1: And the punishment is severe. Now you are cursed from
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Speaker 1: the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your
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Speaker 1: brother's blood from your hand. Remember, he's a farmer. He
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Speaker 1: loses his green thumb. with this curse. Look at it.
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Speaker 1: When you cultivate the ground, it shall no longer yield
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Speaker 1: its strength to you. You shall be a vagrant and
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Speaker 1: a wanderer on the earth. You talk about the lifestyle
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Speaker 1: of the disobedient, vagrant and wanderers. From one act of
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Speaker 1: disobedience to another, everything you plant will die. I have
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Speaker 1: some of cane in me, I've discovered, and I no
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Speaker 1: longer plant. Best thing I can do with plants is
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Speaker 1: keep my hands off the plants. But my blessing is
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Speaker 1: I don't have to make a living at it. That
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Speaker 1: was Cain's occupation and he couldn't any longer make a living.
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Speaker 1: So he'll go from job to job, from job to job,
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Speaker 1: wandering here and there, lonely, lost, disoriented. That's the picture.
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Speaker 1: A wanderer on the earth and look at Cain. Finally,
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Speaker 1: we got a little emotion out of him. My punishment
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Speaker 1: is too great to bear. It's not a brokenness, but
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Speaker 1: it is a confession saying, I don't know how I
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Speaker 1: can go on. Thou hast driven me this day from
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Speaker 1: the face of the ground and from thy face. I
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Speaker 1: shall be hidden. I shall be a vagrant and a
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Speaker 1: wanderer on the earth. And it will come about that
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Speaker 1: whoever finds me will kill me. I'll appear rootless. I'll
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Speaker 1: appear homeless. I'll appear a wanderer. And one of these
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Speaker 1: days in one of those open, lonely fields, I'll get
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Speaker 1: finds me will kill me. Isn't it interesting? He thinks
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Speaker 1: others will treat him as he has treated his brother.
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Speaker 1: Now you talk about grace. Had you and I been
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Speaker 1: in charge of this jury, had you and I been
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Speaker 1: in charge of this case, we would have said, next
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Speaker 1: case serves you right. But look at the grace of
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Speaker 1: our God. So the Lord said to him, whoever kills Cain,
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Speaker 1: vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord
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Speaker 1: appointed a sign for Cain, lest anyone finding him should
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Speaker 1: slay him. What does that mean? Well, I'll tell you.
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Speaker 1: I have read, I have read for over an hour,
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Speaker 1: one idea after another on the sign of Cain. And
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Speaker 1: I've made a list of them. Some of them are humorous.
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Speaker 1: Others of them are possible. They're all intriguing. Someone said
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Speaker 1: he placed a bright light around Cain so he would
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Speaker 1: appear frightening to others and they'd stay away from him.
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Speaker 1: One said he put leprosy on his forehead and no
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Speaker 1: one would touch him because of that. Someone said he
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Speaker 1: gave him a dog. First case of a guard dog
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Speaker 1: in the scriptures I guess. Another one said that the
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Speaker 1: Lord changed his personality so others would be intimidated in
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Speaker 1: his presence. One said he was given a bright colored coat.
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Speaker 1: Another one suggested that horns grew on his head And
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Speaker 1: as a result, he looked kind of animal-like and people
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Speaker 1: stayed away from him. You know the answer? We don't know.
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Speaker 1: When you get that many ideas, you just kind of
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Speaker 1: close the book and say, well, I'll go to the
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Speaker 1: next verse because we don't know. The Lord never tells
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Speaker 1: us here or anywhere what the sign was. It was
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Speaker 1: some sort of protective measure, some sort of visible or
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Speaker 1: invisible fence around him that kept him from being murdered,
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Speaker 1: being killed. I see it as an act of grace.
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Speaker 1: The Lord was saying, I believe if you will ever
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Speaker 1: in the balance of your life, find a place for repentance,
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Speaker 1: I'm ready to hear you. I'm ready to accept you.
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Speaker 1: Not even your murder keeps you from me permanently. It's
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Speaker 1: quite a story. I, uh, Sometimes we wish stories like
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Speaker 1: that ended a little better. I wish we could have
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Speaker 1: a nice wrap-up, nice bow on top, and a pretty
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Speaker 1: paper we could wrap it in and say, and as
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Speaker 1: a result, Cain turned to the Lord, and the result
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Speaker 1: was beautiful. You don't know what happened. Very little is
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Speaker 1: known as a result of this. So I say let's
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Speaker 1: search our own hearts. Let's learn two or three lessons
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Speaker 1: from the story regarding Cain and Abel. Here's my suggestion.
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Speaker 1: Number one. God's way is the only acceptable way. Take it.
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Speaker 1: When the Lord says, I will honor a certain offering,
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Speaker 1: then that's what you need to do. You don't even
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Speaker 1: need to ask why. You don't need an answer. You
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Speaker 1: just need to obey. Scripture says there is a way
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Speaker 1: that seems right to one, but the end thereof are
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Speaker 1: the ways of death. All of us have ways that
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Speaker 1: seem better than God's way. but they're not accepted. God's
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Speaker 1: way is the only acceptable way. Take it. He says
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Speaker 1: bring an offering, bring an offering. He says come to
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Speaker 1: me through Jesus Christ, come to him through Jesus Christ.
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Speaker 1: If he says it's by faith and not works, believe him.
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Speaker 1: Come by faith and not works. If he says his
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Speaker 1: word is truth, believe it's truth. I don't care how intelligent,
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Speaker 1: how many degrees you have, just believe his word. Just
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Speaker 1: take it for the truth. That's what he says it is.
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Speaker 1: God's way is right. Take it. Second, jealousy is a
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Speaker 1: sin that cannot be hidden. Release it. Release it. Jealousy
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Speaker 1: is a killer. Jealousy provides the seeds that are dropped
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Speaker 1: that lead ultimately to envy and then to strife. a
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Speaker 1: major conflict. I've dealt with couples where one man, where
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Speaker 1: the man is more so jealous of the woman that
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Speaker 1: he took, in one case, he took all the doors
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Speaker 1: off the house. Is that incredible? After they'd been married
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Speaker 1: three or four months, they came back to visit with me,
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Speaker 1: and I said, well, how's life? And she says, well,
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Speaker 1: a kind of a funny thing happened. She says, my
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Speaker 1: husband's taken all the doors off the inside of the house,
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Speaker 1: taken them all down, pulled the pins and all the hinges,
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Speaker 1: and now every door is gone. All we have is open.
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Speaker 1: I said, into the bathroom even? Oh, yeah. That was
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Speaker 1: one of the first ones he took down. It was
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Speaker 1: a bathroom door. It's a weird guy. And she said,
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Speaker 1: when he comes home from work, first thing he does
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Speaker 1: is not come in and kiss me. He goes and
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Speaker 1: checks the odometer in the car. And he figures up
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Speaker 1: what the odometer was that morning and then what it
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Speaker 1: is that night. And he asked me why I drove 12.7
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Speaker 1: miles when I was just going to go to Ralph's
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Speaker 1: that day and back. And that's only 2.6 miles because
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Speaker 1: he's clocked it. And what had you done in those
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Speaker 1: other miles? I mean, that guy, that is a weird guy.
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Speaker 1: That is a jealous man. I struggled with jealousy in
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Speaker 1: my younger years. Cynthia will tell you about it. It
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Speaker 1: was awful. And she threatened to shoot me. No, that's
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Speaker 1: not true. But she should have. I mean, it's ridiculous.
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Speaker 1: And I don't know how it happened, but I got
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Speaker 1: cured of it real quick. She... She really leveled with
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Speaker 1: me and talked about the prison that I had her in.
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Speaker 1: And she loved me. We were going together, and we
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Speaker 1: were talking about marriage. But she said, I can't live
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Speaker 1: with that kind of thing. When I really analyzed jealousy
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Speaker 1: for what it was, it was remarkable what it did
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Speaker 1: to soften that part of my life. I can honestly say,
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Speaker 1: and this isn't true of most things in my life,
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Speaker 1: but when I dealt with jealousy, it got taken care of.
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Speaker 1: I got a lot of weaknesses, a lot of struggles,
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Speaker 1: but jealousy is not one of them. I don't sustain
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Speaker 1: a jealous bone in my body for anybody. I have
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Speaker 1: a lot of other battles, I say, but jealousy is
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Speaker 1: not one of them. And when I see jealousy, I
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Speaker 1: can look at it very objectively because I've been there.
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Speaker 1: It's a terrible place to live. And if you're there,
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, you can release it. It can be
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Speaker 1: dealt with. Do your loved ones a favor. Deal with it.
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Speaker 1: If you need help, get help. But get rid of it. Third,
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Speaker 1: when anger is ignored, it never corrects itself. Confess it.
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Speaker 1: When anger is ignored, it never corrects itself. It never vanishes.
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Speaker 1: It only multiplies. Some things don't correct themselves. You accept them,
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Speaker 1: face value. A flat tire. A flat tire. You will
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Speaker 1: not go to bed with a flat tire and wake
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Speaker 1: up in the morning and go, oh, it fixed itself.
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Speaker 1: A dirty diaper. That's another one. Baby walking around with
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Speaker 1: a dirty diaper. You can't just go have supper and
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Speaker 1: come back and say, it cleaned itself. Look, it's all
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Speaker 1: clean now. You've got to do it. You've got to
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Speaker 1: get in there and clean it up. I could name
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Speaker 1: a dozen things that don't fix themselves. Anger won't fix itself.
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Speaker 1: You've got to deal with it. You've got to face it.
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Speaker 1: You've got to work it through. You've got to confess it.
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Speaker 1: Get rid of it. It's a cancer. A friend of
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Speaker 1: mine in Colorado, while camping and hunting, watched an eagle
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Speaker 1: as it was clearly following its prey, sweeping and soaring,
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Speaker 1: and finally it came right down at treetop level. And
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Speaker 1: then suddenly it swept down and grabbed some animal, its claws,
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Speaker 1: and it began to take off again. Sizable animal. He
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Speaker 1: stood there and he watched it. And all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: the eagle... eagle's wings flopped down and he kind of
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Speaker 1: turned in a tailspin and just plunk. And he went
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Speaker 1: and examined that and found that that eagle had picked
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Speaker 1: up a weasel. And while that weasel was airborne, that
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Speaker 1: weasel grabbed that eagle at a vulnerable spot and found
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Speaker 1: the main artery. And interestingly, the thud killed the weasel
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Speaker 1: when it hid. And the main artery had caused the
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Speaker 1: eagle to bleed to death. And there they were right
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Speaker 1: there on the ground. And when I heard that story,
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Speaker 1: I thought, perfect example of anger when it's not dealt with.
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Speaker 1: It'll finish you off. It'll take your joy. It'll cause
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Speaker 1: your face to fall. And rather than clucking your tongue
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Speaker 1: at Cain, saying, how in the world could that man
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Speaker 1: have lived a life like that, just realize the same
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Speaker 1: potential rests in your heart. Let's bow our heads together,
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Speaker 1: shall we? God's way is the only acceptable way. Take it.
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Speaker 1: Jealousy is a sin that cannot be hidden. Release it.
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Speaker 1: When anger is ignored, it never corrects itself. Face it.
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Speaker 1: Deal with it. Get beyond it. This is a strong
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Speaker 1: word I want to close with, but for all I know,
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Speaker 1: I've been speaking to someone whose anger has reached the
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Speaker 1: level of murder. You may have very well planned in
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Speaker 1: your heart a series of secret events, we read about
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Speaker 1: them every day, where you think you'll get away with it,
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Speaker 1: and you think by getting rid of that person, You
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Speaker 1: will get rid of the feelings. You will only complicate
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Speaker 1: and intensify the feelings. The death of another person never
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Speaker 1: solved feelings, never removed guilt, never took care of bitterness.
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Speaker 1: That's a heart matter. And that's why you have a Lord.
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Speaker 1: That's why Christ died. Father, we acknowledge that you know
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Speaker 1: us better than we know ourselves, and in ancient stories
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Speaker 1: like this one we see the mirror of our own souls.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for truth that can be learned from even
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Speaker 1: the natural world, such as the eagle and the weasel.
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Speaker 1: For information that can be clarified through illustrations, such as
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Speaker 1: illustrations about jealousy or anger. But most of all, thank
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Speaker 1: you for your Spirit who takes the living word and
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Speaker 1: drills it into our lives. Forgive us for running when
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Speaker 1: we should have stopped and faced ourselves as we are.
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Speaker 1: Forgive us for our years of foolishness. When knowing the
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Speaker 1: right way, we chose the wrong. When instead of doing
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Speaker 1: what was obedient, we disobeyed. Thank you for your compassion,
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Speaker 1: for your forgiveness, for not only putting a mark around Cain,
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Speaker 1: but around all of us, giving us time to change
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Speaker 1: and to grow, to repent, and to become the person
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