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We read the Word of the Lord
this morning. We'll be turning to Genesis chapter
4. Genesis chapter 4. And we will read from Genesis
chapter 4 verse 3 and we will read through verse 16. Genesis 4 verse 3. So it came
about in the course of time that Cain brought an offering to the
Lord of the fruit of the ground. Abel on his part also brought
of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat portions. And
the Lord had regard for Abel and for his offering. But for
Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain became very
angry and his countenance fell. Then the Lord said to Cain, Why
are you angry and why has your countenance fallen? If you do
well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not
do well, sin is crouching at the door, and its desire is for
you, but you must master it. Cain told Abel his brother, and
it came about when they were in the field, that Cain rose
up against Abel his brother and killed him. Then the Lord said
to Cain, Where is your brother? And he said, I do not know. Am
I my brother's keeper? He said, What have you done?
The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.
Now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to
receive your brother's blood from your hand. When you cultivate
the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you. You
will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth." Cain said to the
Lord, "'My punishment is too great to bear. Behold, you have
driven me this day from the face of the ground, and from your
face I will be hidden. and I will be a vagrant and a
wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.' So the
Lord said to him, therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be
taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord appointed a sign
for Cain, so that no one finding him would slay him. Then Cain
went out from the presence of the Lord and settled in the land
of Nod, east of Eden." Father, we thank You for Your
Word, Lord, and we plead with You this morning that Your Holy
Spirit would teach us, Lord, that we can see what You would
have us to learn from this ancient passage, Lord, and we could see
the deception and the cunningness of sin. Lord, and by your spirit
that we would be quick to repent, Lord, and stay on guard and stay
up meditating at night and be on watch in the night hour for
the own sin that's lurking within our hearts. Lord, and we thank
you for sending your son to come and redeem us from all these
curses and redeem us from sin. As this in Christ's name. Amen.
You may be seated. Now there's many topics that
we could choose from in this long passage here in Genesis
4 from verse 3 through 16, but our main concentration this morning
will be on verse 7, namely this verse here. If you do well, will
not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well,
sin is crouching at the door, and its desire is for you, but
you must master it. So Lord willing, this morning
we'll get a better understanding of the deception of sin and the
power of sin. The stealth of sin, the craftiness
of sin, its deception and its ultimate destruction. We'll be
better equipped through the Spirit to know to be on guard against
all these even little slight or so small looking sins within
our own heart. First, we'll look at the stealth
of sin. We'll look at why Cain got angry. Second, we'll examine the lust
of sin or its desire for humanity. And then lastly, we will see
how Abel points us to Jesus Christ and how His finished work saves
us from all these curses of sin. And so we're just going to slowly
work through the verses. So please read with me again
verses 3-5. So it came about in the course
of time that Cain brought an offering to the Lord of the fruit
of the ground. Abel on his part also brought
of the firstlings of the flock and of the fat of their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel
and for his offering, but for Cain and his offering He had
no regard. So Cain became angry and his
countenance fell. And now the question that immediately
rises is just why did God reject Cain's offering and yet accept
the offering of Abel? And many theologians have offered
many different answers to this question throughout the ages.
And the first one that they've offered is to say that Abel's
offering, or his sacrifice, was one of blood. You see, Abel brought
an animal. When he offered it, it had a
blood offering. And Cain's sacrifice was one
of fruit, or his fruit of the ground. And indeed, the Bible
does say that without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness
of sins there in Hebrews 9 verse 22. So at first glance, this
answer sounds convincing, but we cannot be certain about this
conclusion. Because nowhere before this verse
in Genesis does the Lord give any specific commands about how
these two ancient men were to give their offerings. So if the
Lord never required an offering of blood specifically, we shouldn't
assume that this is the reason for Cain's rejection. In fact,
grain offerings are perfectly fine, according later on in Leviticus
chapter 2 and other places. They were to give the grain,
the fruit of the ground, to the priest and put it on the altar
and offer it up in a quote, soothing aroma to the Lord. But I'm saying that just because
Abel had the blood and Cain had the grain is not a sufficient
reason why Cain was rejected. There's also a small clue in
verse 3 and 4 that Cain brings his offering of the fruit of
the ground period to describe it, but with Abel it said that
his offering was the firstlings of the flock and of their fat
portions, seeming to give a slight difference between that Abel
gave the best he had, he gave the first fruits, and Cain was
possibly more nonchalant that he just happened to brought the
latest crop he had. But all this speculation is cleared
away in the New Testament. The answer is Cain simply did
not love the Lord. Cain practiced wickedness, and
it showed in his offering. Turn with me quickly, or I'll
read it to 1 John 3. 1 John 3, verse 11. For this is the message which
you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another,
not as Cain, who was of the evil one and slew his brother. And
for what reason did he slay him? Because his deeds were evil and
his brothers were righteous. Do not be surprised, brethren,
if the world hates you. Amen. And also in Proverbs 15,
verse 8, it says, the sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination
to the Lord. So we see that Cain's deeds were
wicked, and therefore Cain hated righteousness. Cain's offering
to the Lord was half-hearted. This word offering is minhah,
it's translated as offering, and the word for sacrifice or
atonement is korban. So this idea of an offering,
a thanksgiving, a dedication offering, is what Cain came and
gave half-heartedly to the Lord. I say that to show that this
offering that these two men gave was a symbol of devotion to the
Lord, a symbol of appreciation, a symbol of thanksgiving to the
Lord, not necessarily a sin offering. This was out of the generosity
of their heart, this offering, rather than atonement. And I'm
showing that to show Cain's half-heartedness in this. It would be as if a
man gave a wedding ring. It doesn't matter the cost, how
good it was, but yet he was having an affair the whole time that
he was proposing to this woman. It doesn't matter how good the
offering is, this emblem of my dedication to you, if your life
doesn't match your devotion. And so that's why John says his
deeds were wicked, didn't matter about the offering, is why he
was rejected. So we see Abel, who strove against sin and followed
the Lord wholeheartedly, was sure to give the best of his
flock, showing his overflowing love and thankfulness to the
Lord. And we see Cain here, who was
not really all that thankful, who continually did wickedness
before the Lord, and he just brought whatever he happened
to give. He was just there to show an outward show or going
through the motions of an affection. And so let us not fall into this
same trap when we give our offerings to the Lord, whatever it may
be. The offering is an outward token of the inward reality. We're doing this as an expression. And it doesn't matter how big
or how small the token or the offering is. A parent will cherish
a birthday card they get or some sort of card they get from their
own child, even though it's crinkled up and the letters are squiggly
and all the words are misspelled. They'll appreciate and cherish
that handmade one of the child who loves them rather than some
fancy sparkly card from Hallmark store given and sort of from
whoever. So I'm saying that the offering
should reflect the heart and the Lord will regard those offerings
more than this half-hearted, I got a nice whatever offering. But why is it so? There's more
love and care put into the handmade card expressing the heart, even
though it is not so glamorous. This is why Cain's offering was
rejected. And so the Lord could ask, why
are you bringing this offering of thanksgiving, Cain? Whatever
the reason, it was not out of gratitude for the Lord, giving
thanks to the Lord for all He had provided. Cain was not there
doing that. Cain was not there as an offering,
but more of a payment. He came to pay off God, to keep
things moving along as they have been. Cain had no eye for the
sin in his life. He had no eye that God had given
him all these things. He had no idea of thankfulness.
He wasn't there to praise the Lord. He was there to make some
sort of payment. I did wrong. I paid you off.
It's a transaction. We're good, God. His heart's
not in it. There's no love in it at all. And so this is why he begins
to get mad. He thought, okay God, You gave
me all this stuff, I worked, I tilled the ground, and I paid
You some of this, and You give me this in return. That's why
his countenance fell. He's like, I work, now You work
for me. Let's read verse 5 again. But for Cain and his offering,
he had no regard. Cain became very angry, and his
countenance fell. And we're not told how exactly
Cain knew that his offering was rejected. There may have been
no sign of any kind, or there could have been a voice from
heaven, or there could have been no voice. Or perhaps Cain could
just tell that the Lord had stopped blessing him as He had been.
Perhaps Cain's crops were not going as good, he'd just have
one catastrophe after another. But whatever it was, Cain could
tell that the Lord had withdrew from him. And what does he do? He doesn't become sorrowful and
repent. He becomes angry. He feels ripped off. I come in
here and paid with my hard-earned fruit, and you reject me. Cain could have bought all the
fruit of the planet, and God would have still rejected it.
Remember, he wants a sincere, loving heart rather than offerings
and sacrifice. And now before we all bash Cain,
realize that we've all been there at one time or another. Perhaps
we had a rough morning getting to church, and next thing the
offering plate is passed in front of us, and we fail to realize
the significance of what we're doing, that this is an offering
meant to show our love of God, not a mandatory payment transaction
paying God off as Cain thought. And then imagine if the plate
comes around and the Lord were to let us know right there that
this one was accepted and this one was rejected. I think I'm not immune to some
of the feelings that Cain would have felt. You start to rationalize
in your head, this one has so much of a more easier life than
I have. Everything's paved out for him.
He's not struggling with money, and da-da-da-da-da, and you accept
him, and now you disregard me. And that is this crouching of
sin lurking and building up already. And this resentment that developed
toward those who offered righteously could easily grow in our own
hearts. And so this story is not written
for us merely to demonstrate how bad Cain is, but is to warn
us that that little bit of resentment in ourselves is in us as it was
in Cain, and we must be on guard against it. Let's read verse
6 and 7. Then the Lord said to Cain, Why
are you angry, and why has your countenance fallen? If you do
well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not
do well, sin is crouching at the door, and its desire is for
you, but you must master it." So this first phrase here in
verse 7, Believe it or not, I came across an old English Baptist,
particular Baptist or Calvinistic Baptist, who does something like
our pastor does. He teaches the doctrines of grace
and publishes books. His name was John Gill. And one
of his enemies wrote a long book showing proof texts against the
doctrines of grace, sort of much like a Pelagian or Arminian,
that man is neutral and he can do good or bad and it's left
up to his choice. And the man attacking John Gill
used this verse here, where it says, if you do well, will your
countenance not be lifted up? And he tried to attack the doctrines
of grace, Reformed theology, and so on. And John Gill wrote
back, in a book called The Cause of God and Truth. And this is
what he says about Cain being one man arguing that Cain's neutral
here, and here lies the choice. You can do good and be lifted
up, or you can do bad and sin crouches at the door. But in
reality, He had the choice. He had the power in His hand,
but He had no power in His heart. Sin was already in His heart.
And so this is a quote from John Gill. Men have equal power had
they had in heart a will or an inclination to go to a place
of divine worship or to a tavern or an alehouse. But it's easy
to observe that persons oftentimes have it in the power of their
hands when they have it not in the power in their hearts to
do a good work. They may do these things which
externally in appearance as to the matter and substance of them
may be good, like Cain did with his offerings, but they must
be done in obedience to the will of God, from a principle of love
to Him, must be performed in faith in the name of Christ and
to the glory of God. And so Cain could have chose,
but he had no ability to since he didn't want to. He loved sin
so much that that's what always he chose, to the point where
he hated righteousness so much that he killed his own brother.
So far we've seen this build up to our phrase in verse 7. And if you do not do well, sin
is crouching at the door. And this leads us to our main
takeaway from this morning. The Lord is warning us all that
sin is hiding itself within right now. As we've read, sin has been
there all along, stirring the anger and resentment in Cain.
And you see it crouches like a panther or a lion, laying low
out of sight, waiting for the right time to pounce. Every little
grudge we feel and hold against other people is actually murder. That little thing of anger over
there in the corner, it's small, it's out of sight, it doesn't
move, it hasn't bothered you in a while, and you tend to look
past it. That's the sin crouching at our
door. It doesn't look dangerous, but
in reality, it's a giant beast, and its desire is for you, waiting
to control you. This is the nature of all sin. One little spark of a little
match can burn down the whole house. This is the nature of
all sin. All feelings of a little lust
is actually in reality hiding a great beast of fornication
and adultery. Every little feeling of hatred
is a crouched down monster of murder hiding itself from you.
Every feeling of covetousness, envy, gluttony, and pride is
actually idolatry in the corner waiting to have you and capture
you. And think for an example of Frodo Baggins in the movie
The Lord of the Rings. The youngster is listening to
Frodo Baggins, Lord of the Rings. In the beginning, the great wizard
Gandalf comes to the little hobbit and he's telling him about this
little ring that's so powerful and that the entire earth is
all seeking this little ring. And he's explaining how this
little average thing is extremely powerful. and how every single
person who's ever wore this ring has been corrupted by it and
is dead now. And at first, Frodo doesn't believe
it. How can this little thing, this
little ring, drive men so crazy to the point of death? It's because
its power is crouching. The power is hidden like sin.
It crouches to look small and harmless until you take the bait
and put it on. It takes you captive, and then
from there it makes you crave more and more until you will
do anything to have it. The evil wizard and Lord of the
Rings sends out his ghost and his whole army, never resting,
completely enslaved to this ring that looks like nothing, but
has drove them all insane. In the ring itself, Gandalf warns
Frodo, the ring wants to be found. The wizard made it to where the
ring is crying out to go back. And so, Frodo realizes this throughout
the movie, that all of his friends start to betray him. and go to
kill him, and they have to resist the temptation of this innocent-looking
ring. And even at the end of the series,
when Frodo and the monster are over the lava, Frodo cracks to
the temptation, and he would rather die than drop down the
ring and him and the monster fall over the cliff, but he's
saved. but that ring, that little sin crouching itself, caused
him to rationalize, called Cain to rationalize, until the point
where he was so enthralled that he would give it all away, everything,
all relationships, everything, for this one thing. And same
thing with that little sin that we must bear with us. It's crouching,
always waiting for you to slip. Its desire is for you, but you
must master it. That's how sin is always crouching.
Now we'll consider this word desire, or sin's desire for you. We read in verse 7 that it's
desire is for you, but you must master it. And to demonstrate
how serious and unrelenting this evil enemy of sin is, the Lord
uses an analogy of marriage. The nature of sin is such that
it never leaves us completely until the next age. As a husband
never leaves his wife in this age, becoming one flesh. Let's
turn back a page in Genesis 3.16. Genesis 3.16, to the woman He
said, I will greatly multiply your pain and childbirth. In
pain you will bring forth children, and here it is, yet your desire
will be for your husband, and he will rule over you. It's the
same thing as sin here. Sin is desiring Cain, but Cain
must rule over it. And so He uses that word from
the marriage. And to show that this always, as Frodo had to
carry the ring that only he could bear, you must bury this little
bit of sin, but always be on guard for it. He's always watching
out for the enemies coming to pounce on him or even in his
close circle. And I've looked at this word, desire. This word
is for the desire for the woman there in Genesis 3.16. This desire
is for your husband as a drive to usurp his authority. The wife
is cursed here, away from her original innocent humility. She
began with perfectly innocent submission to her loving husband
who perfectly loved her. The perfect love of Adam and
perfect submission of Eve is gone after sin. just sinful conflict
the rest of their days. This word desire is used here,
and the word desire is used in the Song of Solomon, where it's
the love song, and he says, I greatly desire my beloved, more of an
intimate, passionate type desire. But I think this word is used
here that, as in Genesis, with the curse, and the conflict,
and the marriage, that it's appropriate to view sin this way. As sin
is always there, any little crack, it's always crouching, waiting
to come through. And so the word for desire in
Genesis 4-7 was written in Hebrew, but before it came to English,
they translated it into Greek. And the Greek word there for
Desire is epithumia. Thumos is will or desire. But when you add the prefix to
epi, so epithumia, it means over the top, on top. You've heard
the word epidermis. So dermis is skin. Epidermis
is the top. So the word epithumia is like
an overflowing, out of control, uncontrollable passions. And
this is what sin feels to you. This is the desire, the overflow
to have you. and it throws out all other desires,
cravings, and trampled down everything to have its way. Frodo was willing
to fall to his death just to wear that ring that looked like
nothing for one more second. Sin's desire for you is one of
total mastery. The alcohol has enslaved the
homeless. Alcohol is their master. Not
God is their master, not their family, not children, not a home
or money. Alcohol or sin demands everything
from them. And the deception is so powerful
of sin that they willingly give it all away. And they know they're
going to serve it. It never will totally leave us
as Eve never left Adam. But the Lord tells us not to
underestimate the power of these little sins. They look small. He warns you, sin is crouching
and it's coming for you. It's desires for you. Our sins
look small and harmless to ourselves. We think we can stop when we
want. until they grow and become too powerful for us. And sin
is not a big, giant gorilla or a rhinoceros charging at you.
It's a well-hidden, cooled-up snake with a venomous bite that
just happened. It looks small. It hasn't moved
in weeks. They just sit, but one wrong
little slip, it's waiting, and its bite is deadly. as that little
grudge and anger and cain grew and took control, turning into
premeditated murder of his own brother. But the Lord warned,
you must master it. And we've been warned by the
Lord that sin hides itself, that we're not to be fooled by that
little bit of lust, or that little bit of anger, or whatever sin
is barely visible. Do not give it an inch in your
life because its desire is for you. It's never satisfied. It
always wants more and more until it's the Master. So Lord, how
we master it is to repent of your sins quickly because they
will grow and they will spread and they change more than you
can imagine. Paul says flee from sexual immorality. Never underestimate it. He doesn't
say, Use your imagination. It's okay in little doses. It's okay to look at it on your
phone a little bit as long as you don't go and do the real
thing. Now he says flee from sexual immorality. Never underestimate
it. And it's already inside you already
and it's already waiting and crouching for its opportunity.
spiritual brothers are warned to restore the fallen brother
with caution, lest they also be tempted and fall." There in
Galatians 6. The Lord told us that we should
pray, lead us not into temptation, that we can only handle so much
it will eventually, if we're not careful, trick us. And by
its crouching and desiring, it doesn't take any off days. We
must always be on guard 24-7. Zero tolerance. It's desires for you, but you
must rule over it. Let's read verse 8-16, and we will see the solution
to this problem. Verse 8-16 in Genesis 4, Cain
told Abel his brother, now stop, I believe this is I don't think
Cain told Abel all this stuff that the Lord told him necessarily.
I believe this is translated as Cain was talking with his
brother and said, let's go to the field. So Cain told his brother
Abel, and it came about when they were in the field that Cain
rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him. Then the Lord
said to Cain, where is Abel, your brother? And he said, I
do not know. Am I my brother's keeper? He said, what have you done?
The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.
Now you're cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to
receive your brother's blood from your hand. When you cultivate
the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you. You
will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth. Cain said to the
Lord, my punishment is too great to bear. Behold, you have driven
me this day from the face of the ground, and from your face
I will be hidden. I will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth,
and whoever finds me will kill me. So the Lord said to him,
therefore, whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him
sevenfold. And the Lord appointed a sign
for Cain, that no one finding him would slay him. And then
Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and settled in the
land of Nod, east of Eden. So Cain did not heed the warnings
of the Lord, his hate having grown and shown in him, saying,
even after the fact, He says, am I my brother's keeper? He
still had no repentance. Cain doesn't care anymore. The
sin starting out as small and average resentment that I showed
that we could perhaps even feel here if we knew that the Lord
would reject our money in the offering plate. And that sin
has crouched and deceived him so much that now Cain is totally
captive by sin. He doesn't care. It started out
small and average, but now Cain is no longer a servant of Jehovah,
bringing Him offerings, but Cain is now a servant of sin, giving
himself as an offering to sin, throwing it all away in obedience
to sin. Now haven't we all been captured
and mastered by our indwelling sin? And sin in our lives has
had us do its bidding at the expense of serving God, and we've
lost all. We're all born under the slavery
of sin. Romans 7 verse 5 says, For while
we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, those desires which
were aroused by the law, were at work in the members of our
body to bear the fruit of death. We were all like Cain, children
of wrath, indeed exiles from the presence of the Lord, vagrants
and wanderers on the earth. Please turn with me to Ephesians
chapter 2. or I'll read it. Ephesians chapter
2 verse 1 through 3. I'm painting a picture to where
you cannot escape from this viewing yourself as Cain. You are as
guilty as Cain. Ephesians 2 verse 1 through 3.
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly
walked according to the course of this world, according to the
prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working
in the sons of disobedience. Among them We too all formerly
lived in the lust of our flesh, indulging the desires of the
flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath,
even as the rest. But all that hostility, guilt,
wrath, and punishment due to sin, due to us, is destroyed
and done away with by the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Even though
through all the warnings the Lord has given us, and all the
laws, we've all still sinned and neglected, and our offerings
were not accepted, and we despise the Lord. The offering of the better able
in the second Adam is more sufficient to restore us, namely, the sacrifice
of Jesus Christ. We and our offerings are rejected
by the Lord. We're unclean at first when we
come to Him, apart from Jesus Christ. But through our better,
more righteous brother, we can be accepted by the Lord. Our
perfect brother by adoption. When the Lord said, this is My
beloved Son in whom I'm well pleased. He was more pleased
than he was with Abel. Jesus came and He bore all those
curses in our stead. As you see, Cain was cursed.
Jesus was a vagrant and wanderer. He had no place to rest His head.
His enemies continually sought to kill Him many times, and then
He let them. They were successful. The Lord
hid His face from Jesus as Cain said He would do. He says, My
punishment is too great for Me. The Lord hid His face from Jesus
while He was on the cross, so that He could look upon us as
clean and righteous, and look upon us in love, because all
these curses and wrath were poured on Jesus. God had regard for
Abel's offering. and Abel's blood cried out to
the ground unto the Lord. How much more does the blood
of His only begotten Son, Jesus, cry out for the remission of
our sins? In Hebrews 9, verse 23, talking about the blood and the
offering of Jesus, being better than that of Abel,
and being a better testimony than the blood of Abel as that
cried out. Hebrews 9, 23 and 26. Therefore it was necessary
for the copies of things in the heavens to be cleansed with these,
but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ did not enter a holy
place made with hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into
heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us. Nor was it that he would offer
himself often as the high priest enters the holy place year by
year, with blood that is not his own, as Abel had done, Otherwise,
he would have needed to suffer often since the foundation of
the world. But now, once, at the consummation of the ages,
he has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of
himself. The sacrifice of the Lord Jesus
undoes all the curses upon humanity and lifts all of His people up
beyond their original state in Adam. It removes the sin, it
removes the dealt, it removes the possibility of sin. It gives
us a better inheritance than Adam did, than Cain had, than
Abel. And it's all secured by the perfect,
accepted offering of Jesus Christ, that God was pleased with His
offering, and He vindicated Him through the Spirit and raised
Him from the dead to show that. So, in conclusion, we must indeed
heed these warnings that sin is nearby, crouching stealthily
inside you and around you, whispering the desires to be caught, its
desires for you, and its desires to completely enslave you and
grow more and more. But we must master it by fleeing
from it, leaning completely on the Spirit of God, as being watchmen
in the night, as Brother Rich was saying. leaning not on the
power of the flesh, but on the power of the Spirit, and repent
quickly from those little sins that we all do. We rationalize
this and this, well, it's because this happened, etc. But the one
and only way to defeat sin is indeed to be like Abel. who had
an offering that the Lord would regard. No matter how sinful
we've been, the answer is not my working hard, or tilling the
ground harder, or bringing more work to the ground of the fruit,
as Cain thought, as somehow pay got off for our wrongs. But to
come to the Lord by faith with His Son, clinging to Him alone
through faith, trusting only in this perfect sacrifice, and
trusting nothing in ourselves, that by faith we cling to His
blood is the only thing, or His blood makes us righteous. His
blood forgives all of our sins. His blood gets us into the presence
of the Lord. And by adoption we can cry out,
Abba Father, no longer exiled as Cain was. So when we appear
before the Lord at the last judgment, we can say with that old hymn
writer, nothing in my hands I bring simply to thy cross I cling. Amen. Let's pray. Lord, we thank
you for these words about this desiring of sin, Lord, that we
rationalize and we underestimate the power of sin daily, Lord,
and we thank you for this. story that You've written in
Your Word. And we thank You for the beauty
of it, of how the righteous brother had an offering that was accepted,
and we too have a righteous brother whose offering was accepted of
himself, namely Jesus Christ. Lord, and we thank You for sending
Your only begotten Son, whom You were well pleased. Lord,
and we thank You for Your Word and Your Spirit causing us to
believe in Him. Lord, and I pray that we can
be diligent against sin, and look to Christ, our Mediator,
and look to the Spirit that He sends us, that we can walk holy
and perfect before You. I ask this in Christ's name,
Amen.
Sin's Desire
| Sermon ID | 1125241656486933 |
| Duration | 38:50 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday Service |
| Bible Text | Genesis 4 |
| Language | English |
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