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Elohim7 hrs

Loved your sacrifice Abel. Your heart is right before me.

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Nothing I do is good enough. I hate you Abel.

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Hebrews 11:4

Genesis 4:1-7

Offering Your Best to God Abel

Hebrews 11:44 By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.


Genesis 41 Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.” 2 And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground.


Genesis 43 In the course of time Cain brought to the LORD an offering of the fruit of the ground, 4 and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and his offering,


Genesis 45 but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell. 6 The LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen?


Genesis 47 If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.” ו� �� ל־ב�Timshal Bō/ ת�"מ ש

“You may master it”


First Post

Faith is expressed through offering God a

better sacrifice.


Troubling Question

Was God the first to show favoritism?


Deuteronomy 1017 For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe.


Why did God prefer Abel’s offering?

•It was living whereas Cain’s offering was lifeless.

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•It was stronger, Cain’s weaker.

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•It grew spontaneously, Cain’s by human ingenuity.

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•It involved blood, Cain’s did not.

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Second Post

Faith is rewarded in receiving God’s commendation.


In what way was Abel’s sacrifice superior?•If Abel’s sacrifice was not inherently superior, then the answer must lay not in the sacrifice, but in the sacrificer.


Matthew 2334 Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town,


Matthew 2335 so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.


Hebrews 11:44 By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.


What are the essential ingredients to an acceptable offering?

•Spiritual preparation

✍ Acknowledging God’s holiness.✍ Confessing my sins.✍ Receiving God’s forgiveness.✍ Thankfulness to God.


What are the essential ingredients to an acceptable offering?

•A right attitude

✍ Giving cheerfully.✍ Giving your very best.


Application

Our grandest sacrifices can be spoiled by a bad attitude.


Third Post

Faith enables us to make a lasting

contribution to the Kingdom of God.


Hebrews 11:44b ... And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.


What is it that still speaks to us?

•Abel’s sacrifice?

•Abel’s act of faith?


God’s commendation of Abel reminds us that God rewards righteousness with hope.


James Louis Petigru’s Epitaph

UNAWED BY OPINION, UNSEDUCED BY FLATTERY, UNDISMAYED BY DISASTER, HE CONFRONTED LIFE WITH COURAGE, AND DEATH WITH CHRISTIAN HOPE.

Our Daily Bread, May 29, 1995

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