Whatever that sin is, it cries to God. He chooses to live apart from God. If you live by the sword, youll die by the sword, which means if you take a life with the sword, then they have a right to take your life? GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation. On the other hand, verse 7, If you do not do well, or if you do not do what is right, you havent seen anything yet. God then, by willful act and divine Word, spoke all creation into existence, furnished it, and finally breathed life into a lump of dirt which He fashioned in His image to become Adam. We pointed that out. Minor Prophets Youre going to have to try to kill something here or there, try to grab something thats growing off a tree, try to eke out some kind of survival. Pentateuch Here is God- thisll tell you that God is by nature a savior. And the divine sentence comes in verse 11. John MacArthur is the pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, as well as an author, conference speaker, president of The Masters University and Seminary, and featured teacher with the Grace to You media ministry. The Gospels In 1969, after graduating from Talbot Theological Seminary, John came to Grace Community Church. Would you prayerfully consider a gift of support today? Pastor John MacArthur May 3, 2017 Genesis 1:14-19 Series: The Battle for the Beginning Creation Day 4, A Pastor John MacArthur May 2, 2017 Genesis 1:14-19 Series: The Battle for the Beginning Creation Day 3, B Pastor John MacArthur May 1, 2017 Genesis 1:9-13 Series: The Battle for the Beginning Creation Day 3, A Pastor John MacArthur April 28, 2017 His focus is upon the effects of the Fall in the undoing of creation and the manner in which God rids His creation of the curse effect. Prophets Founded in 1969, Grace to You is the nonprofit organization responsible for developing, producing, and distributing John MacArthur's books, audio resources, and the "Grace to You" radio and television programs. You will be a fugitive, a nawanod, a wandering wanderer, a wandering fugitive. The next thing that the text yields for us is in verse 9. God doesnt have to do this, He could have killed him. And if you do that, your face is going to be lifted up. When we talk about the gospel, when we say the only way to be saved is to come to God as a penitent sinner, broken over your own sin, realizing you have nothing to please God and falling down and crying out for Gods mercy, when you come like that, we also at the same time say, You cant offer God your works, you cant offer God your self-righteousness, nothing you can do can earn your salvation. And at the same time we say that, we are rebuking all those who come to God on the basis of their own goodness. Johannine Writings And he couldnt resist it. Interestingly enough, Cain must have married his sister, which was, in the early plan and purpose of God, not the problem that it would be today in the decline of the gene pool and intermarriage in a family. The Persistence of Love, Part 1. God is the interrogator who asks, What have you done? God is the investigator who brings in the evidence, and the evidence is the blood of Abel, crying to God out of the ground, metaphorically. Study with him the Genesis of the Gospel to find the answers not only to those big cosmic questions, but also to discover the extraordinary privileges God has given women, what strong male leadership looks like, and how that all ties in to God's ultimate triumph over the tragedies that began in the garden. -repentance.. Oh, Lord, may they repent at your invitation to do whats right. Because in verse 10, God said, The voice of your brothers blood is crying to me from the ground, so God knew what had happened. Wisdom Literature God is saying to them, I do not accept you. You can do whats right, which means acknowledge your sin, acknowledge your self-righteousness, acknowledge your wretched hypocrisy, acknowledge that you have not been willing to see yourself as a sinner, and then obey what I told you and bring a proper sacrifice to me. All rights reserved. And so she names her son that one that was made with the help of the Lord. What hopeful beginnings she must have felt in her heart when that first child was born. For details about this sermon and for related resources, click here: https://www.gty.org/library/sermons-library/90-379 To receive John MacArthur's monthly l. He chose not to do what was right, and sin that was crouching on his door pounced and turned him into a killer. Same context as we read earlier about Cain. Yes, it is. Solid Joys. The population was growing and developing, and Cain was going to live a long time- a long time. Ive read paragraph after paragraph about what it is, page after page, nobody knows what it is. He brings what God wants, he comes in obedience, he offers God the sacrifice, which is a way the sinner can say, Im not good, I know Im a sinner. It is part of their attitude to be angry with the Bible, to be angry with the God of the Bible, to be angry with those who believe the Bible. And to let it be seen what life is like for those who reject God. Cain said to the Lord, My punishment is too great to bear. The customs of Genesis often differ considerably from those of our modern day. Primitive history records 4 major events: 1) Creation (Gen. 1, 2); 2) the Fall (Gen. 35); 3) the Flood (Gen. 69); and 4) the Dispersion (Gen. 10, 11). Were constantly threatened with that in the public discourse. They are hidden reefs in your love feasts, they are clouds without water, they are carried along by winds, autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted, wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam. And then again, in verse 2, she gave birth to another son. June 10, 2011. Those are the wonderful, wonderful promises of the Bible in many scriptures, but the one that always comes to my mind when I think about that is the sixth chapter of Romans, verse 12. The Old Testament I dont know what it is. Whoever finds me will kill me. Thirdly, the doomed resent the true people of God. Now, this indicates that the population may have been growing, certainly soon would be growing. Complete vengeance. He required a sacrifice of the very best. Founded in 1969, Grace to You is the nonprofit organization responsible for developing, producing, and distributing Johns books, audio resources, and the Grace to You radio and television programs. The curse on the marriage was conflict. In this book of beginnings, God revealed Himself and a worldview to Israel which contrasted, at times sharply, with the worldview of Israels neighbors. 13:1; Dan. Cant. I need a covering. Thats how youre going to live your life- unsuccessfully. And thats the curse. This is a one-on-one conversation. Lift up his eyes. May they fall at your feet in gratitude over the forbearance and patience that you exhibit in becoming even the protector of the unrighteous. Cassuto, the Hebrew commentator, translates it that way. Unbelievers, even when confronted with the truth- they might come to church- they might not hear the voice of God as Cain did, of course, today- but they might come to church and they might hear a message about sin. And I agree with capital punishment. And thats what the sinner does, he flees the debacle that his sins have left, and he carries on the appearance of being an upstanding and noble person. So he denies any knowledge of his brothers whereabouts, he denies any killing, he rejects any responsibility for his brothers well-being, and you begin to see, folks, at this point, what terrible progress sin has made since the fall. It must have been that God revealed that what He wanted was a sacrifice of an animal, that there needed to be a death. Blue Letter Bible study tools make reading, searching and studying the Bible easy and rewarding. Cookie Notice: The Blue Letter Bible ministry and the BLB Institute hold to the historical, And in his case, it was very hopeful. He loved his sin and he was fulfilled by his sin. 3:15) ascribe this composition to Moses, who is the fitting author in light of his educational background (cf. range of evangelical traditions, all of the ideas and principles conveyed By proceeding, you consent to our cookie usage. The Whole Bible Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness. The New Testament 3750). This is the sinners obstinate rebelliousness. We pray in your Sons name. There is no reason to question the internal claims that the apostle Paul wrote Galatians ( 1:1; 5:2 ). The right of capital punishment belongs to a duly constituted government and is never, ever to be an act of personal, private vengeance. At that time, they will partake, wearing robes washed in the blood of the Lamb (Rev. And so the picture of substitutionary death, the substitutionary death of an innocent, has already been established by God and apparently was what God required in sacrifice. The Old Testament We began last Lords Day, and let me remind you that only the first point is positive. ), but before Moses death (ca. So He says to him in verse 12, Youll be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth. This is what they call a hendiadys, which is just, Youll be a wandering wanderer. Youll be a roaming roamer, is the kind of idea. All have turned aside. You dont have to be in this condition. of Scripture. - Universal Beginnings (Chuck Missler). Adam was a believer, as weve learned, Eve was a believer, and this passage indicates to us that Abel was a believer. Boy, He says, youve got a choice. Questions and answers with John Piper. Here is demonstration that somebody innocent has to die in the sinners place, and thats what substitutionary death was all about. Eventually, they all wind up at the bar of God. God then, by willful act and divine Word, spoke all creation into existence, furnished it, and finally breathed life into a lump of dirt which He fashioned in His image to become Adam. They also enjoy the enthusiastic company of their fifteen grandchildren. But really, in the end, there are only two possibilities. If youre going to let me live, then I repent. He doesnt do that. Luke-Acts Grasping the individual messages of Genesis which make up the larger plan and purpose of the book presents no small challenge since both the individual accounts and the books overall message offer important lessons to faith and works. In the sequence of accounts which make up these chapters of Scripture, a pattern emerges which reveals Gods abundant grace as He responded to the willful disobedience of mankind. Isnt God for capital punishment? Paul was born in Tarsus, a city in the province of Cilicia, not far from Galatia. The doomed protest their judgment- the doomed protest their judgment. Doesnt matter where the land of Nod is, it only matters that it was out of the presence of the Lord. Look at this in verse 15. While 1) the author does not identify himself in Genesis and 2) Genesis ends almost 3 centuries before Moses was born, both the OT (Ex. God pulls him into the court. Either you come to God and your sins are forgiven and youre delivered out of that realm of sin into the world of righteousness or you spend your whole life in a losing war, trying to master this lion that wants to chew you up and spit you out. His religion was hypocritical, self-righteous, and false. - Universal Beginnings (Chuck Missler), The Generations of the Heavens and the Earth (, The Generations of Shem, Ham, and Japheth (, The Generations of Shem: Genealogy of Shem to Terah (, The Abrahamic Covenant: His Land and People (, Esaus Reunion and Reconciliation with Jacob (, Events and Deaths from Shechem to Mamre (. Minor Prophets People say to me so often, you know, Why doesnt someone come to Christ? The rest of Scripture bears out the fulfillment of these promises. And this describes the curse, which is the conflict of marriage. This, I call common grace. Since the text and audio content provided by BLB represent a Why are you angry? Please see Blue Letter Bible's Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point You got to be kidding. We hear today that there are more Christians today being martyred than at any time in history. God had already pled with him to make a right choice. Look at the Book. They resent the true people of God. He couldnt master it. He said to the Lord in verse 13, My punishments too great to bear. Youre not fair. That is the first illustration of the ultimate and only real sacrifice, Jesus Christ, God taking the innocent Son of God, the innocent Jesus Christ, putting Him on the cross, making Him a sacrifice for sinners, and then taking His righteousness to cover the guilty. God never seeks information. How can a hopeless sinner ever gain moral control over his life and defeat sin? Eve and Adam had other children, and they intermarried, and they produced children and more and more children. This is a flat-out rejection of what he knows to be the Word of God. For details about this sermon and for related resources, click here: https://www.gty.org/library/sermons-library/90-379 To receive John MacArthurs monthly letter, as well as free resources by mail, click here: https://www.gty.org/home/newtogty/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gracetoyou Twitter: https://twitter.com/gracetoyou Google +: https://plus.google.com/+gracetoyou Copyright 2009, Grace to You. And so I think because there were so few people in the world, God wanted to make it very clear to the rest that were being born after that the distinction between the life of the righteous and the life of the unrighteous. But then, because of his humiliation, because of his honest repentance, he was forgiven, and the man went home justified. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Use semicolons to separate groups: 'Gen;Jdg;Psa-Mal' or 'Rom 3-12;Mat 1:15;Mat 5:12-22', There are options set in 'Advanced Options', The Whole Bible God places that vengeance in the hands of a duly constituted government, a court, but no personal vengeance. Our website uses cookies to store user preferences. You will never be able to do anything but wander just to eke out survival. All you have to do is just get up in the church and preach judgment, preach the judgment of God, hell, damnation, and all of that, and sinners resent that. He hated his righteousness. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you. Its the exact same phrase. God promised land, descendants (seed), and blessing. But were going to seek the goodness of God to allow us to do that as we come to this most significant and important chapter in Genesis chapter 4. Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey its lusts. I repent. Just believe me, just do what I told you to do with a right heart. In fact, He becomes the protector of the killer, becomes the protector of Cain. Historical Books And Im going out and Im going to hide from your presence. Rather, Israels God distinguished Himself clearly from the alleged gods of her neighbors. This is a man who was getting a direct evangelistic message from the creator God Himself. The opposite of being slumped down in rage is being lifted up in joy. If you do that, your face will be lifted up in joy. He is the classic model of an unconverted, undelivered, unsaved, lost sinner. Saturday, 09 July 2022 07:25. Log In We sent you an email. This is ridiculous. God- listen- was the first evangelist. He knows all that. You know, the doomed person can deny his sin all he wants, and we may not see it, but God sees it and knows it. Theres nothing in this conversation to indicate that Cain suspected it really wasnt God. May well have been that she believed this was that fulfillment in her son. The curse is further explained in verse 12. Poetical Books If you try, youre going to get absolutely nothing. Soon after these boys had reached adulthood, all of those wonderful hopeful beginnings for Cain came to an abrupt end, and his real spiritual condition was clearly revealed, and it was revealed in an act of worship, and that took us to the second point: The doomed offer unacceptable worship. The New Testament He was the evangelist, and then He became the interrogator and the investigator and the prosecutor. He is the first unbeliever who ever lived. He says, How could you have done this? essentially. Well, here is a man who was also bowed down. 33:2; Josh. This is how it is with these apostates. If we lived in a society without government, without police, if we lived in an anarchy, murder would be going on all the time. Be penitent and Ill lift up your face. God would have applied right then and right there the sacrifice of Jesus, who wouldnt die for thousands of years. Why doesnt God just kill Cain? No more questions. Not a nomadic shepherd, thats different. Email / username or password was incorrect! GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point John Piper Feb 4, 2007. Historical Books That terrible, dreadful, disastrous, deadly serpent who had led the human race into sin needed to be destroyed. By the way, that is the same phrase at the end of verse 7 that is used over in verse 16 of chapter 3. The emphasis of his pulpit ministry is the careful study and verse-by-verse exposition of the Bible, with special attention devoted to the historical and grammatical background behind each passage. Cain decided this: I dont want God, I dont want forgiveness, I dont want righteousness, I want sin. The completed registration allows us to send order and donation receipts to the email address you provided. All rights reserved. Cain shows us that even the lost and the damned have hopeful beginnings. It may be the true God, truly worship the true God; falsely worship or a false god worshiped; or self. Everybody worships at some shrine, everybody has some god. Help Grace to You bring important resources like this to people in your community and beyond, free of charge. As you may be aware, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into full effect on 25th May 2018. Here at Grace to You Europe we take our data protection responsibilities very seriously and, as you would expect, have undertaken a significant programme of work to ensure that we are ready for this important legislative change. Repent, acknowledge your self-righteousness, acknowledge your hypocrisy, acknowledge the failure to recognize your desperate sinfulness and need of a sacrifice, and then go do whats right. 14:6; Ezra 6:18; Neh. You either worship the true God in the true way or you worship the true God in a false way or you worship some other gods, who are demons, or you worship yourself. Major Prophets Major Prophets Thats the saddest comment yet- no repentance. Genesis 12:13 established a primary focus on Gods promises to Abraham. There are the origins of the material world here and there are the origins of the spiritual world as well. I mean there were only the two of them and their parents. It would have been very easy, of course, for him to lure his brother. So, God, I cant get anything out of the ground, youve cursed me. And he adds this: Itll come about that whoever finds me will kill me. I know whatll happen. And even though God had pronounced a curse on Cain, He was still going to extend some grace to him. Cain married his sister, and out of his loins came the population that follows. Verse 6, The Lord said to Cain, Why are you angry? Woe to them, meaning false teachers, who have gone the way of Cain, who have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam and perished in the rebellion of Korah. Register. Pentateuch I read this week theres a mission in Florida that serves meals to homeless people, and the government has been providing them money, a portion of money to give those meals to the homeless. In biblical words, the more sin abounded the more did Gods grace abound (cf. I dont know. Interactive Bible study with John Piper. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point The literary structure of Genesis is built on the frequently recurring phrase the history/genealogy of and is the basis for the following outline: This Grace to You article originally appeared here. John MacArthur is the pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, as well as an author, conference speaker, president of The Master's University and Seminary, and featured teacher with the Grace to You media ministry. First for Abel, and when it says He had regard for Abel, it meant that God saw the heart of Abel was in exercising pure worship. Genesis was written after the Exodus (ca. And Abels name (hebel) means a mere breath. And certainly he was aptly named because his life was so very brief. 21, 22 where the eternal kingdom of redeemed believers is gloriously pictured. God is literally offering the sinner the opportunity to be delivered from his sin. As the years develop and as people populate the world, theyre all going to know the story about you. Again, here is a sinner who is a fixed sinner, affirming his rebellion. Maybe she believed that this was the fulfillment of that promise from God, that this was the one who would come and would bruise the serpents head. And then he says, Am I my brothers keeper? Like, I dont have any responsibility for him. What hes saying to God is, Your questions arent even appropriate. This is a murder done out of envy, this is a murder done out of jealousy, done out of hatred. The word can even mean a smith or a refiner or a craftsman who makes something. Verse 1, The man had relations with his wife. The actual Hebrew word, he knew his wife, Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, I have gotten a manchild with the help of the Lord.. Luke-Acts He knew it was God speaking to him. All rights reserved. He lured him in and killed him. Daily devotional with John Piper. In the book of Revelation, the paradise which was lost in Genesis will be regained. Because we dont want you to incur expenditure for which you are not prepared, could you please confirm whether you are willing to pay this charge, if necessary? And thats how everybody else comes that doesnt come the true way. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point You see, in the words of James 1, lust was at work in him. When you cultivate the ground, if you try, itll no longer yield its strength to you. Youre never going to be able to produce anything out of the ground.

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