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Do what is right
… you will be uplifted
!!! 06-11-05pm
!!! Announcements
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Call to worship
Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.
(Psalm 86:11)
!!! Blessing
The Lord is the strength of his people, a fortress of salvation for his anointed one.
Save your people and bless your inheritance; be their shepherd and carry them forever.
(Psalm 28:8-9)
!!! Hymn 328     /“Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness” /
!!! /(?Music “William Fiske Sherwin – loose sheets?)/
!!! Prayer of Adoration, thanksgiving and confession, The Lord’s Prayer
!!! Declaration of pardoning
Show us your unfailing love, O Lord, and grant us your salvation.
Surely his salvation is near those who fear Him, that his glory may dwell in our land.
(Psalm 85:7,9)
!!! Hymn:                            /“Conquering now and still to conquer” /
!!! /(Trinity Hymnal)/
!!! Prayer for others
!!! Scripture Reading                     /Luke 18:9-14/
!!! Hymn No 26:                               /“The God of Abraham praise”/
!!! Offering and Dedication
Will the offering is taken up, all remaining seated, sing
!!! Hymn no 365:                              /“We give Thee but Thy own” /
!!! /(only verses1,2,3,6)/
!!! Scripture Reading                     /Genesis 4:1-14/
!!! Sermon                                          /Do what is right … you will be uplifted/
!!!!!! Introduction
My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord,
When it comes to an appreciation of the human nature, the catch-cry of /humanism/ (and its off-shoot /liberalism/) is basically this, and here I quote Kenneth Phifer:
; Humanism teaches us that it is immoral to wait for God to act for us.
We must act to stop the wars and the crimes and the brutality of this and future ages.
We have powers of a remarkable kind.
We have a high degree of freedom in choosing what we will do.
Humanism tells us that whatever our philosophy of the universe may be, ultimately the responsibility for the kind of world in which we live rests with us.
Basic to the philosophy of secular humanist then is that man is essentially good, able to choose for himself, because ultimately he has the /ability/ to choose for himself.
Morally and ethically there is virtually nothing good in the so-called “reality TV” shows, apart from the fact that it proves the description of secular humanism wrong.
Early into any one of the episodes of any of these programs, the essence of human nature displays itself in greed, hatred, self-centeredness, and realization of the self – almost always at the cost of the rest of the cast.
Christians have to disagree wholeheartedly with the notion that human nature is basically good.
Read the first few pages of the Bible and you will have to agree.
; Adam and Eve, however created in the image of God and not created with a sinful nature, rebelled against God, seeking authority over their own lives and thus becoming utterly corrupt in nature and deeds.
Then, the third name of any human being recorded in history shows the true nature of mankind after sin:  he was a murderer.
Eve was well pleased after the birth of Cain.
She declares that she received him as a gift from God:  “I have brought forth a man.”
The very name /Cain/ means to possess.
I have a man.
Maybe she though this man would be the one who would crush the head of the serpent as God promised in Paradise.
Let’s hear what some people say about Cain:
He was “a sullen, self-willed, haughty, vindictive man; wanting the religious element in his character, and defiant even in his attitude towards God.” (Easton's Bible dictionary)
In a fit of jealousy, roused by the rejection of his own sacrifice and the acceptance of Abel’s, he committed the crime of murder, for which he was expelled from Eden, and led the life of an exile.
(Smith's Bible dictionary)
; The name of the fourth person ever to have lived on the face of the earth was Abel.
He did not become an old man, because he got murdered by his brother.
What do we know about Abel?
What do the books say about him?
Nothing bad.
It is almost as if Abel is seen by all as the innocent victim of the brutal crime of Cain.
Abel was the good; Cain was the bad and the ugly.
So who do you think was the better of the two?
Who would you pick as the best?
Who was morally the superior?
; But the name of Abel reveals something.
It means /vanity/.
It is as if the parents were so disappointed with the first son, Cain, that they called their second Hopeless.
What a name.
The dreams of parents were shattered with Cain, and maybe they lost hope of having a son who would crush the head of the serpent.
Adam spent some time in bringing up his two sons to fear the Lord.
An aspect of worshipping the Lord was to make sacrifices to Him.  ; And it would be a neglect of Adam not to stress the fact that the human race had been perfect and sinless, but that sin entered into the world and therefore each one of the offspring of Adam and Eve was sinful!
On the basis of this truth, really there is no pick between Cain and Abel.  ; The very fact that both needed to bring a sacrifice to the Lord indicates that they both needed grace in the eyes of God.
Abel’s sacrifice of the firstlings of the flock and of their fat indicated his desire to offer the best to God.
What he sacrificed was the fattest of the firstlings, and not merely the first good one that came to hand.
The offering of the fat, which was the tastiest part, symbolized the worshiper’s desire to offer the best to God.
Further, Abel ; brought his sacrifice by faith:
By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did.
By faith he was commended as a righteous man, when God spoke well of his offerings.
And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead.
(Hebrews 11:4)
To understand what the Bible means with faith is to read its own definition:
; Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
(Hebrews 11:6)
An offering such as Abel’s was therefore welcomed by God.
A sign of God’s acceptance of an offering in some cases was accompanied by the fact that God literally devoured it.
It happened in the history of Israel that they offered to the Lord, and then:
Fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar.
And when all the people saw it, they shouted for joy and fell facedown.
(Leviticus 9:24)
; Cain also sacrificed to the Lord.
The reason for the different reception of the two offerings was the state of mind towards God with which they were brought, and which manifested itself in the selection of the gifts.
It was rather in the fact that Abel offered the fattest firstlings of his flock, the best that he could bring; whilst Cain only brought a portion of the fruit of the ground, ; but not the first-fruits.
Sacrifices were offered because it presupposed the spiritual separation of man from God, and were designed to satisfy the need of the heart for fellowship with God.
Cain brought ; /some/ of the fruit the produced for him.
But in this case God didn’t accept it.
There was no fire.
More than that, covenantal blessing in the Old Testament is always accompanied by signs like increase of land, increase in crops, increase of joy, increase of livelihood.
One can assume this did not happen for Cain.
; Cain complains not of his sin, but of his punishment.
It shows great hardness of heart to be more concerned about our sufferings than our sins.
To see the blessing of God upon Abel and not on himself made Cain angry.
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