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liberty bible church 11~/5~/06 P.M.
By Tom Zobrist
“am i my brother’s keeper?”
Genesis 4:1-26
introduction
Illus. of “What Money Can’t Buy” A minister was speaking to the Sunday school about the things money can’t buy.
“It can’t buy laughter and it can’t buy love” he told them.
Driving his point home he said, “What would you do if I offered you $1,000 not to love your mother and father?”
Stunned silence ensued.
Finally a small voice queried, “How much would you give me not to love my big sister?”
Sibling rivalry is almost as old as the world itself.
Its source is the rebellion of man against God and those that seek to please Him.
It is played out in the home when one child does right and the other does wrong.
The parents will approve of the righteous acts of one and disapprove of the unrighteous acts of others.
Those whose behavior is seemingly rejected grow jealous of their siblings and thoughts of revenge or even murder can enter their thoughts.
Watch two young brothers or sisters fight and you will see murder in their eyes.
It’s a good thing they are small at that point.
If they hurt one another, they will deny responsibility and will bristle when discipline comes.
All of that can be seen in the birth of sibling rivalry we see in our passage tonight.
What can we do to avoid sibling rivalry?
OPEN to passage.
*Prop.
*In this passage, we see what leads to sibling rivalry.
Open in PRAYER.
PREVIEW the passage.
Adam and Even are now out of the Garden of Eden and are living out the curses placed upon them by God for their rebellion against Him in eating the forbidden fruit.
They begin what appears to be a normal life.
But like many families, even though they appear normal, they are a…
i.
dysfunctional family vs. 1-8
Illus. of what does this mean?
Poem “Roses are red, Violets are blue, I’m schizophrenic and I am too.”
Does dysfunctional mean that there is something bizarre?
Dysfunctional, by our definition tonight, refers to a family functioning outside of God’s plan.
By that definition, most families are dysfunctional today.
As a matter of fact, the families that are functioning as God designed might be considered to be dysfunctional by the world.
How does a family become dysfunctional to God?
A. they mean well
V 1 1.
After Adam and Eve’s sin, they had been restored and were now living life under the curse of sin.
But, that included the procreation of the human race and that begins here with the birth of Cain.
He is the first person born with a sin nature.
But, his mother was, for all appearances, in a right relationship with God with her recognition of this gift of a son.
V 2a 2.
She has another and perhaps some other children that we are not told of.
But we have now been introduced to the two main players in this drama of sibling rivalry.
V 2b 3.
They both have respectable occupations, although Cain’s appears to be in line with the curse of man and Abel’s with man’s original purpose of having dominion over life. .
V 3-4a 4. They both appear to have a right relationship with God.
However, Able appears to go out of the way to please God, whereas Cain appears to just do what was required.
He fulfilled the letter of the law, but not the spirit.
Abel had faith in God, Cain was religious.
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For all intensive purposes, this family looks perfectly normal.
They have nice children with good jobs and they all appear to have a right relationship with God.
Soon, events begin to take a turn.
That’s where we see many families go awry.
b. they let sin go unchecked
V 4b-5a 1.
God knows the thoughts and intents of the heart.
His reaction to their worship is a reflection of that.
What about Cain’s reaction?
V 5b 2.
His true spirit is revealed here.
He fails in what God requires and yet grows angry with God and takes it out on those around him.
Illus. of many people live lives in sin, they suffer for it, and then shake their fist at God. Cain originated that practice.
V 6 3.
God gives him the opportunity to repent here.
God speaks to him exactly what our conscience speaks to us when we sin.
Why do we feel bad and why has our dealings with others changed?
God is trying to talk him out of further sin.
Eve had to be talked into sin.
God tries to talk Cain out of sin.
V 7a 4.
Obedience leads to acceptance by God.
But if we fail, we will be rejected.
God does not accept everyone.
It’s His way or no way.
V 7b 5.
If we continue to follow our own way, sin is “crouching” at the door.
This pictures and animal crouching, ready to pounce on its prey.
V 7c 6.
Sin desires Cain and us all!
This is the same word that was used of wives desiring their husband in 3:16.
The wife’s nature will drive her to usurp her husband’s authority causing him to sin.
But, with the help of God, she can overcome that temptation.
Cain can as well.
V 7d 7.
Man is responsible to overcome sin by God’s plan.
But, Cain fails.
V 8a 8.
Cain acted as if nothing was wrong as he plotted his brother’s death.
He was rejected, so rather than dealing with his own sin, he gets angry with the one that is accepted.
Illus. of this is why Christians are hated in the world.
It’s nothing personal.
It’s all about the world’s rejection of God and their own sin.
V 8b 9.
When the time was right and he thought he could get away with it, Cain murdered his brother.
*Trans.*
Sin left unchecked makes for a DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY.
Dysfunctional families are usually…
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