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#10109 - Sin’s Desire is For You - Genesis 4 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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Welcome to the study of God's word with pastor and author.
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Ed, Taylor recorded live from Calvary Chapel in Aurora,
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And now, here's Pastor Ed to take us into our study.
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Amen. Amen.
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Take your Bibles, open them to Jenna.
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Is chapter 4. We started a new chapter today
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and our goal is Monumental. We want to cover the whole
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chapter and so I know you've been praying for that for a
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while. So here you are God's answer to
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your prayer. The Bible studies entitled sins
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desire is for you. That's a heavy thought.
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Sends desire is for you. Now James our brother in Christ
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who was also the half brother of Jesus warns, Us strongly in his
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letter. Listen to it it's in James 1:19
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listen to what he says. So then my beloved Brethren.
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Let every man be swift to hear slow to speak, slow to wrath for
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the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of
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God, just let that sit in in our time together.
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Listening on the radio watching live on our live stream right
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now. Let it sit in the wrath of Man,
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don't make it personal your Wrath.
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You angry in the flesh. Your Outburst of Wrath you're
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out of control. Anger does not produce the
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righteousness of God. Quite the opposite.
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Often. Our wrath leads to a string of
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selfish and self-centered destructive decisions.
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And it's not that anger itself is a sin.
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It's not, there is an anger available to the believer that
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the Bible allows like to be angry and not sin.
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So it's not the emotion of anger.
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It's the selfish response to anger.
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In our response, righteous anger can be truly become fleshly
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wrath and so often our view of things will be tainted by our
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anger, which is, were intertwined with selfishness and
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hatred and we see that in our text today.
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Notice with me, in verse 1 says now, Adam knew Eve his wife and
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she conceived and bore Cain. And said I have gotten a man
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from the Lord and she bore again this time, his brother Abel now
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Abel was a keeper of sheep but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
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Adam and Eve. Now, as we progress through
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their lives, they come together and have sexual relations.
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Which by the way, is the first mention in the Bible of knowing
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one another, and it's interesting that word is used
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isn't it to describe the intimacy in marriage?
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God chooses. Use, it's translated in the
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English, the word. No.
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They knew one another, there is a beautiful intimacy and you
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know, love is a wonderful thing that God has given to us and
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created for us. It's something that goes through
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a variety of levels and layers and experiences that were
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designed by the Holy Spirit love among friendships, love within
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marriage. And we find right here in the
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beginning, the proper use of a man and a woman, knowing one
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another within the context of marriage and in the Hebrew
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language, on the Hebrew understanding to know, someone
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is another way of saying to love someone, it's not just reserved
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for sexual relations, it's the idea of growing in knowledge.
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Remember again, in the context of marriage.
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Remember what Peter wrote in First Peter he said, husband's
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what? Dwell with your wives with
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understanding which is a an intimation of the beauty of
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knowing one another. And so, for those of you are
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that are married or have marriage in your near future,
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you know, in marriage in the beginning, you don't really know
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each other, you know, a little bit about each other.
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You might have had some dating relationships, you come
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together. But when you come together in
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marriage and you move in together, oh, you begin to learn
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about one another and more. More.
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So what happens in marriage? You begin to learn about
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yourself, you begin to learn especially those, that might
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have gotten married a little bit later in life.
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You, you get to learn just how much of selfishness was
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developed in your life when it starts to be touched by your
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spouse and how much you think of yourself and how much you live
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for yourself, and now learning to sacrifice and love one
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another. But the goal in marriage is to
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learn about one another to grow with each other.
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To learn the nuances of Shouldn't ship the subtleties,
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the things in marriage that nobody else knows about your
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spouse. Only you do because of the
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openness and the intimacy that exists in your home and you
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begin to learn about the specific things that are to your
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spouse. You I know one of the things
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that I learned that I didn't even know.
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I needed to learn was the history of my wife, the history
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of her how she was raised of her home.
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The unique experience is that she Had in her home that I
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didn't experience understanding a little bit of that, so that I
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could respond to her better. How so I could grasp how she
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responds to things. And it wasn't always an affront
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or an assault on me. Personally, it was simply her
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responding because this is how she grew up.
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These were habit. She developed these were pains
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that she carried that came out in the intimate relationship of
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our marriage and the idea behind knowing is not just procreation,
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not just in Sharing sexual relations in a marriage but also
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growing to one another, which is growing in with one, another,
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Which is far more. And I believe the same is true
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in our relationships and our friendships having patience with
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one another and showing Friends with one another and learning
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about each other's stories. And knowing that, not, everyone
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was raised, the way you were see the world, the way you do, and
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being able to show preference in that and learn and give of
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ourselves and sacrifice of ourselves, because each of us
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were made in the image and likeness of God.
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I mean, think about it because we were all made in the image
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and likeness of God, even in marriage, we won't completely
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know each other. Even as we don't completely know
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God, until we meet him face to face.
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It's a lifetime of Discovery and perhaps the Lord has brought you
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here today. Just so that use brought you
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into the sanctuary, brought you to this Bible study, just to
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maybe reframe some of the challenges that you've been
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having, that you would take the position of learning and
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growing, and patience, rather than demanding, and selfishness,
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and commanding, and demanding your way all the time.
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It may find a beautiful open door for new ministry, with your
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spouse, in your friendships with your work relationships.
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So, here, we have Adam and Eve coming together and they have
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two children. Kane was born first.
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His name means to Fashion, or to shape, or to form.
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And then we have able and verse 2 is named means to breathe or
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breath. And it says that in verse 2 Abel
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was a keeper of sheep. But Cain was a tiller of the
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ground and it says, in verse 3, he says in the process of time,
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it came to pass. They Cain brought an offering of
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the fruit of the ground to the Lord Abel also brought of the
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firstlings of his flock and of the fat and the Lord respected
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Abel and his offering but he did not respect Cain and his
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offering and Cain was very angry and his countenance fell.
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So of course time has passed Cain and Abel or older.
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There's a lot of time packed into these few verses but notice
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at their birth notice what in verse One and Eve's response to
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Cain. She says I have gotten a man
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from the Lord. Now in the English it doesn't
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immediately come out. But many people look at this
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text commentators and Bible students.
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They look at this text and they pull back and say Eve in Eden,
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the birth of her first born, she believes that this was a
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fulfillment of the promised seed.
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It's like here he is. Hey, finally the promise is
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already here, God has given me. Yeah, man.
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But she would soon find out that he's not the promised seed, and
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she would soon find out. He's not a perfect man.
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And we come to verse 3 in the process of time or the word.
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The phrase could also be translated in the end of
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prescribed days. Somehow somewhere a worship
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system of God was developed and expectation from God of how to
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be worship. Was communicated down through
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Adam and Eve to Cain and Abel. Now, again, the relationship
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that Adam and Eve enjoyed in the garden, prior to the fall, was a
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relationship of worship of relationship.
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Of course, there was no sacrifice.
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There was no offering why, because they were in unity with
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one another. They are in their relationship.
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You can imagine this. This is so hard for us to
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imagine, because this is not anything we've ever experienced.
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We met, we want to even come close to this experience,
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although we have had are times where you just go away, you go,
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you know what, I just gave the Lord, my all, you know, we've
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had a little bit of, but I mean, if we were to see exactly what
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it was, what you're always like one millionth of a millionth of
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a millionth of But God receives that because it's all been
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tainted by sin but for Adam and Eve, no sin.
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No separation, no fall, no nothing.
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They could literally say in their relationship.
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They gave it their all before the for how long we don't know.
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But it was sweet and it was wonderful.
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And and in this time period we don't quite know some
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prescription of worship was given that.
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Now after the fall we see that God himself is we learned last
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time? Provided the first sacrifice?
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To help Adam and Eve get rid of the Fig leaves which would be
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very difficult for them to endure and he offered his own
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sacrifice to cover them on their behalf and able it says, in
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verse 4, brought of the firstlings or you could also say
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that he brought the best. The first things in the fat
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would speak of the best and the Lord respected that worship.
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And I think before we move on to Cannes anger.
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I do believe, I do believe this in my life.
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I believe it for us from the heart of God, for all of us,
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that follow him that God does want our best.
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He doesn't want our leftovers after we've all made decisions,
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and after we have made done everything.
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Well, you know, I'll just leave this unto the Lord, I believe he
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wants our best because he pattern and giving us his best
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when we worship him. I mean, I'm not I can just speak
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in materially it's very easy to, to revert back to.
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Well, you know, give the first fruits of my tithe and give my
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best Mighty really, I'm not even speak.
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I think material giving I think our offerings to the Lord come
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after offering ourselves. I don't think it's the first and
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only thing that God is interested in.
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It's not like God needs our money.
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It's not even like the church needs your money.
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That's not God's intention when it comes to material things, but
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if you at times step back and look at your life, You see, I
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have certainly seen it in my life.
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I want the best for me, that's a natural response.
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I want the best, whether it's the best that I can get, or the
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best that I can afford or whatever it might be, there is
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this innate desire for the best. And I believe that God in
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bringing us new life. That desire for the best is now
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back toward him. And I believe he wants, I
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believe he deserves our best, not just that he wants our best
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but I believe God deserves our best.
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Okay. Hold your places.
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In Genesis, if you can turn to Michael with me and if you have
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a hard time finding Micah just find Jonah or Nahum.
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If you find, either one of them, Mike is going to be right in the
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middle. Jonah, Micah, Nahum habakkuk,
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those are for to Together and just in case you can't find any
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of them, I'll read it to you but I want you to see this in your
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own Bible. It's a passage we often quote,
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but I want you to mark it in your own Bible.
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I want you to highlight it on your phone and your Bible app.
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I want you to know this, I want you to it would be even good for
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you and I to memorize this, if you haven't already Micah
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chapter 6 in verse 8, Notice what the Bible says he has shown
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you o man, what is good? And what does the Lord require
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of you? And I believe there's other
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elements of your best that have nothing to do with material
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possessions. I believe there's a things that
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God requires of us, so not only does.
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He want it? Not only does he deserve it, but
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God requires notice what he requires.
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He requires. First of all, that you do,
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justly. And when the world can't the
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world, just when the world just benefit by the church living a
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Justin upright life. It does benefit by the church's
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worship of Jesus Christ that the world won't understand this.
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Until after the Rapture of the church, Then they'll be an
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understanding for those that are alive when the church is removed
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and the salt and the light is removed from the world and the
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great deception of the Antichrist comes and the Great
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Tribulation comes in right now the world just thinks the
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churches are trouble. Some you know trouble some
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entity that needs to get rid of we just don't need the church,
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all their morality, all their hypocrisy but it's through your
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life of justice and mercy what he says next.
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Second one is what's a what would it look like if a church
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is just loving mercy. And remember, whenever you think
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of Mercy, three words come together, right?
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Judgment mercy and Grace. You always want to remember
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those three words, because they're important to understand.
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And remember what they mean judgment when you receive
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judgment, when I receive judgment, I receive what I
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deserve. I'm being judged, and I'm
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getting exactly what I deserve. When I received Mercy, when I
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receive Mercy I don't receive what I deserve.
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And I always like to remember, you know, you wrestling you're
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fighting with someone they pin you down and they're about ready
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to punch you in the face. What do you cry out for punch
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me. Twice, punch me, twice.
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No, you Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, or now, in the MMA top out.
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That's all they could say, is Mercy.
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That's all they need to say his Mercy.
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I'm done. Don't give it don't break my
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arm, you know. No more damage.
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Done you win. Mercy is not receiving our your
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before a judge and you've been found guilty for a crime and and
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you know that the penalty will be 10 years, you may come to the
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judge and go judge. I understand what I deserve.
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I did the crime, I plead guilty. I'm extremely sorry for what I
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did but I'm asking the court for mercy, And then there's a whole
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host of people that come as character Witnesses, showed
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Mercy, show Mercy, show Mercy. And so when you and I love
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Mercy, that Mercy will emanate through our lives.
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Which means that in the difficulties and in the
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challenges, we don't respond by giving people what they deserve.
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We don't respond by again, simple illustrations, but God
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gives them to us every single day church.
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We just don't pay attention. Somebody cuts us off on the
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highway and what do we want to do?
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We want to cut them off twice but, you know, the merciful
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thing to do is say, God bless you.
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God bless you. I'm not going to respond in any
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way. I'm not going to call you an
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idiot. I'm not going to be mad at you.
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I'm not going to flip you off. In my mind, I'm not going to
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flip you off with my hand. I'm just going to show Mercy
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because I love mercy and those that show Mercy.
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Those blessed are the merciful of what Jesus said.
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They will receive mercy and then notice what else?
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He requires to walk humbly with your God.
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And I have to say, looking back in the last few years, you know
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what the challenges that we face with the pandemic and things.
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I'm just so proud of this church because we chose a route that
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was Less Traveled. It was super challenging and it
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was really hard. It was really hard to walk.
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Humbly with our God, it was really hard to participate in
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something that we didn't. Like in that we did you know,
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you just know you're in the realm where your flesh is dying.
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When you feel it right here, you know.
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Like I don't want to do this and I don't like to In this and yet
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you chose a route, our church as a whole chosen route to think of
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others more highly than ourselves to our own sacrifice
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perhaps or but really, the end result as we endure, the things
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that come upon us. Like the end result was that we
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died more to ourselves. You can only benefit from that.
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You know, that church, your flesh doesn't need to live.
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It needs to die and so God gives us all these opportunities to
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learn how to die to ourselves to give vit preference to one
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another to be humble. And so I believe God wants our
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best, he deserves our best, he requires our best now, come back
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to Genesis in verse 5. The offering of Cain notice was
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not respected and this resulted in Kane being very angry and his
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countenance fell. He became angry with God.
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And he wasn't just angry but this would be a description of
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the wrath of man. And as we learn in the New
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Testament, I mean, you don't need James to tell us this, but
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God thought it necessary for us to read this in the Bible.
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But I think Common Sense would tell us our anger doesn't
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produce right things. Often we need to give time, you
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know, what do they say? They give a cooling period or
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what do they say when you're super angry?
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Don't the Bible says, Don't Let the Sun Go Down on your wrath
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but the way the world deals with that, why don't you just sleep
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on? It just sleep on it.
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Don't make any decisions. Now, let it pass.
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Get a good night's sleep. See if you wake up differently.
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Of course the Bible goes far beyond Isis.
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Don't even go to bed angry. Settle it before you fall asleep
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and how many how much good that could come to us.
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If we would just obey that more often, it's like a gift that
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says this is a gift, don't go to bed angry, but he's not, he's
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not just angry and we don't need the Bible to tell us this,
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although we do need the Bible to tell us this.
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He is out of control angry. This is the wrath of man, and
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let me just say anger. Good or bad purpose, righteous
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or on right? Anger is always a turning point
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for you. And for me Anger is a turning
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point. It's a point of decision with
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anger. You can either send with it or
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confess it. But there really isn't too,
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there isn't really more than two options.
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Cain will find as Adam Cain will find out himself.
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That is out of control anger, and rage will be displeasing to
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God because it will lead him. You guys know the story for some
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of your going to learn for the first time, it's going to lead
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him to murder. His own brother.
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It's going to lead to conflict within his own home again.
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Shot it down in Romans 8:8, the Bible says.
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So then those who are in the flesh cannot please God, the
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flesh, your old, sinful habit patterns, your life, and
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responses, apart from the spirit those those actions and
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responses that are not led by the spirit that are not
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authorized, by the spirit that are contrary to the will of God,
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contrary to the word of God, our flesh, our normal natural
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responses, That are in the human realm.
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Now, the question is asked in this text, why did God respect
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one offering and not the other? And again, there's all kinds of
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debate on why some believe that it was because it wasn't an
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animal sacrifice, others believe that it wasn't his first fruits,
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or the best that he had. But I think the Bible is the
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best interpretation of the Bible.
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And we get an Insight of why that this wasn't accepted by
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God. I want to show you, it's been a
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while, but go over to Hebrews chapter 11.
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Because we gain Insight of exactly what's happening here as
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the Bible. Now, later gives us the
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interpretation gives us the commentary and let me just say
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is you guys that are Bible students.
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And you're looking at other peoples teachings, maybe even
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look in our teachings here or a commentary here and there before
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commentaries before. Bible teachers, let me just
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remind you that the Bible is always its best commentary.
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It is one unit, it won't contradict itself and many times
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the questions that you're asking You are answered by the Bible.
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And so notice with me in Hebrews chapter 11, and draw your
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attention there to verse 4. I think we get inside of what's
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Happening Here. Hebrews chapter 11 verse 4, it
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says by faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice
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than Cain to which he obtained a witness that he was righteous.
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God testifying of his gifts and threw it.
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He being dead. Still speaks I believe the
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distinction between these offerings above all the others.
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Is that One came by faith and trust and the other came by
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human effort. That's really the essence.
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We have able being commended for his faith and the action of his
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faith. As we remember, we went through
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all these folks, one by one in the, in the Hall of Faith, the
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action of his fate that was be commended, was this offering?
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And so because God respected his offering, there was no faith.
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I believe in Cain. He was trusting in himself and
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said, how can you come to that absolute conclusion, not only
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Hebrews 11:4 but how he responded?
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Do you know? Do you know you can learn a lot
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about yourself by how you respond?
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You know, you think you're doing well until you're tested.
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And then when you're tested and the response comes out, you may
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not always be happy with the response.
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You can learn a lot about yourself through trials and
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difficulties. You know, a lot of times when
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people go through great trials and difficulties and they become
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angry, bitter, nasty, whatever, you know, you know, the natural
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response, of course is well, I wouldn't have been this way if
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it wasn't for the trial, it's a trials fault, or as we saw in,
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you know, it's the woman. You gave me, it's everybody's
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fault but it's not me. I was just fine before the Rio?
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No, I don't believe that is biblical at all, you know what,
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you know what you're actually learning what was in.
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You all along the trial, was a revelation of what was happening
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inside of you. It didn't create it now, but it
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might bring complications and some extra pain for sure, but
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trials, they reveal to us, they don't create those that flesh.
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They don't create, you know, I would just drive into work and
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it's no problem. I would have never flipped that
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guy off. If you didn't cut me off, you
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know you've been flipping people off for a long.
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NG time. This one just brought it out of
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you. You've been saying things for a
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long time, in your mind, in your thought life, or maybe out loud.
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And then you look at it go, I can't believe it.
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What do you if it's his fault? Do you know that that that's let
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him, you know, that that person whoever's driving sure they made
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a mistake, but they're not responsible for your response.
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When did that happen? How is it their fault for what
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you did? And so here we see a lack of
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faith, a lack of trust. And it's amazing to me because
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here's the thing, it's amazing me to think that each time we
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come to worship like now, each time we put an offering in the
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box. So we set up an online giving
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each time we deliver food to the poor or bring something to the
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shopping carts downstairs for our food bank.
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Each time we offer a ride home or all the things that we do in
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Jesus name, it's amazing to me that every time we worship God
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in our lives that God is examining our Hearts.
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He's not, he's not impressed by the size or the quality.
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He's in, he's in, he's impressed by the motive.
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It's the motives that are tested of our hearts again.
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Jot it down in Mark chapter 12. Remember, this is an amazing
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scene of Jesus that we can't neglect.
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Let it sit. Just kind of in your holy
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imagination. Just imagine Jesus there at the
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temple as people are giving their offerings to God.
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Even now Jesus sat opposite the treasury and listened and saw
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how the people put money into the treasury.
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Now, don't think that's well, they did it with two fingers or
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they did five fingers. Are they flipped the coin?
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Don't it's not how mechanically it was, how spiritually, right?
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What was the examining with Cain and Abel.
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Was it the offerings where there's an examination of the
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offerings? But before the offerings are
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examined. The heart was examined. it
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wasn't what they give, what was priority, it was why they give
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or how they gave and he saw and then he gives the example what
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he saw many who were Rich put in a lot, but one poor Widow came
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and threw in two mites, which make a quadrants It's just a
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beautiful thing again, through the process of our gathering
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together. Week after week, month after
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month year after year there is that relationship you have with
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the Holy Spirit who purifies your motives, he reveals things
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to us all the time, doesn't he? He reveals nobody might know.
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We learned really in a deep way without a nice and Sapphira.
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He definitely examine their motives declared them a liar.
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You're lying, you're lying to the Holy Spirit.
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You're lying to God. You're lying to everyone else.
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I won't have that many. There's an island in the
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beginning of the church, because it wasn't how much money they
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brought in from the land. It was how they gave it, they
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gave it as Liars. Hypocrites.
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Some stay away from worship for that.
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Very purpose. It's a self-examination.
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It's like, oh, I don't want to go there.
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They stay away from church because they have a bad
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attitude. Why Matt why worship?
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Because I'm mad? Why worship?
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Because I'm upset right now. But I'll tell you that, I found
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that that is one of the most important times to gather when
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you are a bad attitude. It's good to be with other
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believers. It's good.
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I tell you, I've come to church many times with a bad attitude
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and it was during the time of worship that the Lord just
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overwhelm me and took away the bad attitude.
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It was beautiful. That by the time the second song
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or greeting someone or like the Holy Spirit, use the environment
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to just really do a deep work in my heart.
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So that either I Could Teach the Bible or I could receive the
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Bible whatever whatever it was that God would have for me so
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it's the best time to come and he searches the hearts notice in
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verse 6 now. So the Lord said to Cain, why
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are you angry? And why is your countenance
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Fallen? If you do well, will you Not be
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accepted. And if you do not do well, sin
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lies at the door and this is where we got the title and its
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desire is for you, but that you should rule over it.
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So God searches the heart of Cain and he desires restoration,
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he desires that sense of Relationship.
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He wants restoration, it shouldn't surprise us.
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This is already the pattern of God after the fall, who sought
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restoration first God, Adam and Eve they ran away in shame and
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in guilt with all this new knowledge but it was God, that
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was walking in the cool of the garden.
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It was God calling out to Adam. It was God seeking that and it's
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the same today, Jesus is exhorting us to restore what has
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been destroyed by sin. Also, did you notice the phrase
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send Is that the door? That's a sobering Dot.
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That in, when you open the front door your house, there's not an
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Amazon package, it's in lying at the door, just waiting to pounce
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on you. I mean, it's just so always
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looking for an opportunity, Temptation and sin lying at the
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door. Waiting for us to open the door.
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It's like sent can overcome us until we invited in.
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Not only that look at what God's heart is for your life tonight,
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God's heart for your life tonight.
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And this is old Covenant, how much more in the New Covenant
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that you Rule over sin that is God's will for your life.
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That sin would not rule over you, but God's will, is that you
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should rule over it that you should Master the life of
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abiding in Christ and avoiding Temptation and walking in the
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freedom and the newness of life that was God's heart from the
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very beginning, it is not for sin to destroy you.
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It is not for you to be a slave to sin.
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It is not for you to be mastered and here's what happens.
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So many I'll get overwhelmed with sin and they have the same
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habit and the same habitual cycle and the same habitual
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attitudes. And and they go through the same
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thing over and over again that they almost develop.
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And maybe this is you, I want you to receive this.
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I want you to be ready for this. You develop a fatalistic view
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towards sin. Maybe you've never seen it this
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way before. The you have a fatal in.
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This is what it sounds like. I can't help myself at I can't
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help myself. It's my nature, I'm destined to
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send. And even some have this false
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teaching today, absolutely, reject it, it's generational
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sin, we must generational. So who you going to blame for
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your son? Know all I know if you want to
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call it generational sin, then take responsibility for your
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generation. And so the fatalistic view is
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just like you get old and again you get burdened by guilt, you
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get burdened by shame. You just think you you take
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three steps and come back six and you're just battling and
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fighting and you're tired. And you give in and yet, God
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encourages us today here, way back before the empowering, and
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indwelling of the Holy Spirit, you should rule over it.
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And you can Day by day, Moment by moment you can have victory
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over those areas. You are struggling with, you
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have the right perspective that God is all-powerful, you have
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the right position that God is your father.
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You are his child. You have the right presentation,
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where you give yourself, holy to the Lord, and then you're going
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to get the right product, you're going to live in Victory and I
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don't want you to minimize, please church.
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I don't want you to minimize the Victories.
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The little ones. I know that you're overwhelmed
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by the big one. But again, what about the little
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ones? Like just for for example sake
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you've been listening to a Bible study for 30 minutes now and
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your you've been walking in the spirit for 30 minutes that's
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Victory and you say, okay I do that twice a week.
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So now you're walking in Victory and our well, I do that I've
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been at every service for the last year.
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Okay, so now you have 50 hours of walking in Victory, that's
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two whole days, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and you know,
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there's much more than that isn't There.
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I just used just a simple Bible State, like just a simple
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Gathering, but then there's your devotional life and then hears
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your prayer life and then there's that the responsible
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holy spirit before, you know, it, if you really wanted to pay
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attention to the little victories, you'd see more
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Victory than failure. You're walking in the victory of
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the Lord right now. It's where do you want to focus
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on? And what do you want to live
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for? Don't take the fatalistic view.
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Send what I have Mastery over you.
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Notice now. In verse 8.
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Cain talked with Abel, his brother.
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This way, you got to deal with it, right?
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Because it came to pass when they were in the field Cain Rose
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against Abel, his brother and killed him.
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That's the LG fruit of sin and anger right there.
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Anger is going to end somewhere, it's going to end in death, the
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wages of sin is death. The Lord said to Cain, where is
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Abel your brother verse 9? And he said, I don't know.
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Am I My Brother's Keeper? And he said, what have you done
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the voice of your brother's blood cries out to me from the
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ground. So now you're cursed from the
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earth, which is opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood
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from your hand. When you killed the ground, it
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shall no longer yielded strength to you a fugitive and a
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vagabond. You shall be on the earth.
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And Cain said to the Lord, my punishment is to greater than I
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can bear. Surely you've driven me out this
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day from the face of the ground. I should be hidden from your
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face. I'll should be a fugitive in a
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Gabon on the earth and it will happen than anyone who finds me
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will kill me. It's now he's looking out for
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himself. Lord said to him, therefore,
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whoever kills Cain Vengeance shall be taken on him Sevenfold.
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And the Lord said, a mark on Cain, lest anyone finding him
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should kill him. So, next in verse 15, again, all
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kinds of debate over this. What the Mark was some is really
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prejudicial and really evil and how they interpret this.
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Let me give you a word so you can settle anybody.
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That takes you to this verse, what?
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This Mark was, whatever this Mark was, I don't know exactly
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what it was, but I'll tell you right next to verse 15, Grace,
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That's the mark of Grace right here. because we know later on
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the heart of God toward murder, he limited any kind of Revenge
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to eye for an eye, capital punishment, and verse 15.
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Shouldn't be argued about what the fuck?
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Ain't what the Mark wasn't? Any of that?
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This is just the mark of Grace. God's being very gracious to
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him. Very merciful to him. he's not
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giving him the Judgment that he deserves and he's talking to
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them with these questions again not because God doesn't know but
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to draw out from Kane, the necessary words, the necessary
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verbal Ascent to truth so that he might come to a place of
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repentance It's not for new knowledge.
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The curse of Adam now is going to be Amplified.
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In Kane's life, he's going to be cursed from the Earth.
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It's not going to see fruit from his labor, he's going to be a
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vagabond on the Earth. And, you know, Kane, if the
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punishment is too great for you, why don't you just repent?
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But he doesn't. Again as selfishness reveals
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that he was more interested in the consequences than the sin
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against God. That's always a sign of real
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repentance. You know real repentance starts
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with our sin against God. We're not talking about
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ourselves right out of the gate. Oh, look, what happened?
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Oh, look at the difficulty. Oh, you know, I wish I know
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would have never done it, you know, that could be some
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remorse, but repentance is Godly sorrow.
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Repentance starts with God, it starts with others that you've
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heard it starts with the difficulties, our sin has
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created another people's lives again for your reference.
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If you want to write it down, you want to look and just
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understand and learn what true repentance is.
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Psalm 51 is a Beautiful picture of repentance from the heart of
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David canes. Up said he hasn't stopped being
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angry. He wants to watch out for
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himself and all we have is God's inexhaustible Grace, so
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beautiful. How many of us have experienced?
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The inexhaustible grace of God. Sure, we may be, we haven't
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taken someone else's life physically.
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But remember what Jesus said in Matthew He talked about
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murdering people in our hearts and which one Among Us isn't
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guilty of that. Which one Among Us is not ever
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written someone off or been so angry with someone or so div by
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God, help us. Help us to be broken before you
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humble loving Mercy doing justly, come back to the text
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with me. Would you verse 16 Cain went out
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from the presence of the Lord. That was the end result.
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He went out from the presence of the Lord, this with Adam and
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Eve, they had to be sent out and kept from the garden but Kane
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sin led him to leave from the presence of the Lord.
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He goes and dwells in the Land of Nod on the East of Eden.
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So in a sent Kane begins as pilgrimage is Vagabond as a man
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without God and he went to dwell in the Land of Nod.
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Now I'm telling you not as a very mysterious place but I can
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tell you this, it's often found in the sanctuary on Sunday
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morning, Ha, ha ha, thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you. I hear all you guys laughing on
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the radio. Thank you.
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I appreciate that. That's not my joke but I tried
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it. Come back, Verse 18, verse 17.
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Some of you are nodding right now.
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Wake up. And Cain knew his wife and she
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conceived and bore Enoch. He built a city called the name
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of the city after his son Enoch and Enoch was born Arad and
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e-rod with Mahmoud, who jail mehujael begat Methuselah say.
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Oh the do Co begotten, lame, neck and lamech took for himself
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to wise what Name of one was adah and the other name was the
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second was Zilla, Anita, Borg a ball and is the father of those
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who dwell in tents and have livestock.
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His brother's name was Jubal. He was the father of all those
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who play the harp and the flute. And as for Zilla, she also board
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to ball cane and instructor of every classmen and bronze and
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iron. And the sister of tubal-cain was
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naamah and lamech said to his wives, adah, and Zillah, hear my
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voice or wives of lamech, listen to my speech.
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I have killed a man for wounding me.
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Oh, now we have more killing. Even the young man for hurting
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me. It Cain shall be Avenged.
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Sevenfold, lame. Excessive Auntie Sevenfold and
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Adam knew his wife again, she bore a son and named him.
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Seth for God has appointed another seat for me, instead of
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Abel whom Cain killed and as for Seth to him, also was a son.
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Born named enosh, then the men isn't this beautiful then men
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began to call. Call on the name of the Lord.
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So Enoch that, his name means dedicated one.
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So the first child of Cain and here through this man was built
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the first city. Lay make his name means
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conqueror. First thing we notice is the
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phrase two wives you guys see that two wives.
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This is a problem because just a few years earlier, few
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Generations earlier few chapters back, if he would have just
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turned the page a little bit. Adam and Eve were presented as
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the perfect model of marriage. God's goal, one man, one woman
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one lifetime, God's ultimate Met goal, the definition of marriage
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and so it doesn't take long for men to fall from God's ideal and
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polygamy continues, even as it is later, prohibited by God, in
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his law, for all of eternity, Jesus himself, re-emphasizing
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one plus one equals one in marriage.
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That's the math of marriage one plus one equals one, The two
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shall become one, flesh, marriage, husband-wife, Jesus
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himself, teaches that God in human flesh.
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And so it's not uncommon for the enemies of the Bible.
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To use this as an attack of the morality of God and it sounds a
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little bit like this. How can such a moral upright?
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God condone such immoral Behavior. and the answer is very
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easy, he doesn't You flip that right around.
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And so first of all, just ask somebody, where in the Bible,
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are you referring to that's going to cover 99% of the
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critics. They don't know where it is in
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the Bible, but if they happen to know where right there in
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Genesis with lemic, how can he have two wives?
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Gotta prove to that? The next question is, where does
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it say that exactly what does it say that it doesn't God, doesn't
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approve it what the Bible does and will repeat this over and
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over again. Here's what the Bible does.
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Bible records for us, factual statements things, that actually
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happen. So, what God is saying here is
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not that he approves of polygamy, what is he saying?
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That there was polygamy? He doesn't approve of polygamy
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anymore than he approves of murder.
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Even more than he approves of any of the sin.
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Now that will be the rest of the Bible is just filled with sin
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and Redemption sin, and Redemption sin, and Redemption.
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The difficulty of Man. Kane now becomes a society
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separated from God's plan and he has the father of 10 to others,
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in ranchers and jube. All J, Ball, verse 20.
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He has the father of musicians and entertainment and that's Jus
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ball. And verse 21, he has to ball
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cane and verse 22, the father of iron workers and metal workers.
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And then notice what lamech does in verse 23, he brags about his
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own sin. So now he's bragging about well,
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you know what I did. I murdered somebody or injured
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me and I took Vengeance on myself and I murdered people and
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now they're just flaunting it. And we have such a, we have such
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a difficulty in our culture of sin, being flaunted and and for
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good reason, for good reason. But it's nothing new.
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Men and women have been flaunting their Sin from the
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beginning. It didn't take long as when you
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choose to live apart from God believer or unbeliever alike.
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Now, the believer that lives in sin is a little more crafty and
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how they flaunt their sin. They're a little more crafty and
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how they participate in their sin, but nonetheless it's the
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same result and from chapter 3 to 4 reread them just kind of
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meditate on these chapters. You see a very rapid increase in
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sin, not only rapid in its spread but also rapid in its
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influence and how it changes the core of a person.
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We have an interesting warning as we close here today in Jus
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chapter one. There's only one chapter in.
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Jude verse 11. It says woe to them.
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Woe to them for they have gone. The way of Cain, they have run
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greedily in the error of Balaam for profit and perished in the
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rebellion of Korah the way of Cain is godlessness unbelief.
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Empty religion jealousy. Rage murder.
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What does God do? Not only is show Grace.
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This is the response to Grace. The response to God's
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graciousness is send continues to increase.
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But just when Satan thought he had gotten rid of The Godly seed
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able. And thus the line of Messiah
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should be born. God raises up another line
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through this man named. Seth, again, his graciousness.
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Seth, literally means compensation, And it was through
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set that now, men begin to call on the name of the Lord verse
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26. And perhaps today, you can just
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thank God for the person that introduced you to Jesus because
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it was through that person that you began to call on the name of
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the lord. It's not cool to me.
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This is so cool. I think I my buddy Jack.
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I mean I think my parents to I think of might be God's going to
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review all these people. He put in my life but I think of
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I think of my buddy, Jack, he's on, invited me to church.
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I began to call upon the name of the Lord.
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I think of my little boy Eddie when he was Home from this
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daycare Marie and I are lost. As lost could be, but we dropped
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him in this Christian daycare and he would come home saying,
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Daddy, do you have Jesus in your heart?
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I'm like man, what are they teaching you there?
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What is happening, but it was through him.
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Through my son was born to us as teenage parents lost as lost.
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Could be that we began to call upon the name of the Lord.
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I mean, think about the people in your life that God used in
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your life. That this like Seth, you started
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to call upon the name of the Lord.
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Isn't that great? This is so good.
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It's so wonderful and and so thank God for them and go ahead
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and copy Seth with you start to introduce people to Jesus.
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So they too could call upon the name of the Lord, so that they
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too could be Redeemed by the grace of God.
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So they too can have a life-changing transformation
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from the inside out. It's when we come to that place
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of recognizing and appreciating God's great love for us, that we
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to call upon the name of the Lord.
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We love God. The Bible says, because he first
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loved us. And it was through the gift of
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God, to Eve through his grace, through his compensation through
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Seth that Hearts were turned toward him.
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So father, we pray for that. Redeeming work in our lives
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today. We pray, father, that you would
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indeed. Not only give us great
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appreciation for the women and women in our life that through
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them. And through their line, We Now
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call upon the name of the Lord and may we forever call upon The
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name of the Lord in the good times and the bad and the
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challenging times in the happy and the sad through the
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different detours, that life brings the challenges the
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successes may, we always be men and women that call upon the
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name of the Lord. The name of the Lord is a strong
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tower the righteous run into it and they find safety strength
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and protection. And God, I pray as well that we
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too would be. The Godly line of Seth.
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Even one is greater than Seth Messiah Yeshua.
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Who we call upon. And we live in.
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We would find great refuge. And I pray for those that are
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just overwhelmed by guilt and shame that have taken now a
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fatalistic view towards sin that you would release them Lord,
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that you would free them from the shackles that God, you would
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remind them, you would show them.
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You would remind and reveal in their minds revealing, the word
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reveal and a bumper sticker wherever you need to remind them
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of the victories. Over and over over over and over
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again. That would drown out the
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defeats. We pray that in Jesus name.
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Amen. We pray that you've been
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