Abel's Faith Still Speaks
Faith: Cain and Abel • Sermon • Submitted
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Our Faith Lives On
Our Faith Lives On
1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good report. 3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. 4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
Heb 11.1
1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good report. 3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. 4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. 2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord.
Cain and Abel may have been twins
Cain: a possession, valued above everything else
Abel: weakness; vanity (a vapour)
Attitudes
Cain’s attitude was of possessing…
He put value on possessions and his own works.
He ‘worked’ the ground
Abel’s attitude
He saw his weakness and his need for God
He saw his life as ‘vanity or a vapour’
His faith was in God not in his own works
Abel: Keeper of the sheep
One that ‘keeps’ the sheep, feeds, protects, cares for
Cain trusted in himself and his works and so brought fruit from a cursed ground.
He was a ‘possessor’ no faith was involved in his sacrifice
This attitude toward God and man will bring frustration which will then bring evil
God had respect to Cain’s offering… This means that God ‘accepted’ Abel’s offering. Fire from heaven may have come down and consumed the sacrifice. Abel brought the ‘firstlings’ that is the first fruit of his flock and also the ‘fat’ with it. Abel did more than required… His love for God showed.
Cain did it his way, God rejected it, there was no love and no faith which is what God requires in sacrifice. Because he was evil he envied Abel and got mad and determined he was going to get revenge
11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous. 13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. 14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. 15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: 35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
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