Pastor's Blog (Page 34)

My punishment is too great to bear.You have driven me this day from the face of the land; and from Your presence I shall be hidden… So Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and settled in the land of Nod. ~Genesis 4:13-16 The sad story of an insolent rebel. That’s what this is. Cain’s anger has boiled over into murder, but when confronted…

The Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry?  And why is your face downcast?  If you do right, will you not be accepted?  And if you do not do right, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it.” ~ Genesis 3:6,7 From the 3rd human till now, not much has changed, has it? 1.  We go out in defiance and do things our own way.…

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 their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and for his offering; but for Cain and for his offering He had no regard. So Cain became very angry and his countenance fell. -Genesis 4:3-5 At…

And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” — Genesis 3:22 Consider the Lord’s compassion in preventing fallen man from living forever. What if every Al Capone, Jesse James, and Adolf Hitler were…

Imagine: * summer gardening in South Carolina without shirt-drenching sweat. * cultivating, planting, and reaping a crop without exhaustion or a sense of toil. Of course, I’m thinking of those two words in Genesis 3:17-19:  toil and sweat.  Sin’s consequence is not work, but the toilsomeness of it—that immense degree of effort required to extract a crop.  And toil’s…