Genesis 4:6-7

This year we have covered the first seventeen chapters of The Gospel According To Matthew.

Matthew chapters 18 and 19 are two crucial chapters of the New Testament. These chapters have the answers (HOW/WHY) church today is NOT creating the value needed to bring about God's Will on earth as it is done in Heaven.

However, people miss the solutions presented by Jesus because they lack the foundational doctrine. We will see most churches today do the OPPOSITE of Matthew chapters 18 and 19.

In order to more fully appreciate the information, we will spend the rest of this month getting foundational background.

In the previous post, we covered Genesis 4:1-5. There were several Questions posed to the reader. If you haven't read the previous post, please do this now.

Here is how the previous post ended:

"4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And Jehovah had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
5 but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell."

Abel also brought an offering to God. This is also a Right WHAT.

However, Abel's offering was of the fat (the best) AND God had respect on Abel's offering.

Again, some people like to say Cain sinned and Abel didn't. Let's review a CRITICAL chapter from this Series: Matthew 6.

Matthew chapters 5 through 7 document Jesus' Premiere Teaching. I call the middle chapter "The Reward Chapter". The chapter was NOT speaking about Salvation when it used the word "reward". If it did, then we lose our Salvation when we give and others know that we gave...we would lose our Salvation when we tithed! Do the pastors who teach Matthew 6 deals with Salvation also teach tithing as a way to lose your Salvation?

Here is a summary of Matthew 6 from this Series:

"In this chapter, Jesus CONSISTENTLY presented a Right WHAT with a Wrong HOW/WHY to show the result was no Reward. Then He presented the SAME Right WHAT with a Right HOW/WHY that resulted in Reward. Clearly, Jesus was more focused on the HOW/WHY than the WHAT."

Jesus did NOT say it was a sin to a give (Right What) with a Wrong HOW/WHY. He just said it resulted in NO reward from God...which means, doing a Right WHAT with a Right HOW/WHY results in a Reward from God...it results in God giving something to the individual. Now, look at this passage again...

Cain gave (Right WHAT) "of" the ground, meaning NOT the best of his fruit. So, God does NOT have to give Cain anything back.

Abel gave (Right WHAT) the best (Right HOW/WHY). So, God does have to give Abel something back...which is "respect".

The result is that Cain was wroth and his countenance fell. Some people say that Cain sinned when he was wroth and his countenance fell.

Some people say God could not give respect to Cain's offering because it was of the cursed ground.

State your will:
Has Cain sinned?
What was the sin?
Was it First Dimensional?
Was it Second Dimensional?
Is God focused on the offering being of the cursed ground?

Remember, this is the SECOND example of God interacting with humans. During the FIRST example, we did an exercise where you tried to PREDICT the next verse. Tomorrow, we will look at the rest of this story.

Before tomorrow's post, answer the following Questions:
What is the next verse?
-Who spoke?
-To Whom did He speak?
-What did He speak?

Today, we will solely focus on answering these questions...


GENESIS 4:6-7
"6 And Jehovah said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
7 If thou doest well, shall it not be lifted up? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door: and unto thee shall be its desire, but do thou rule over it."

God spoke to Cain. Look what He said!!!!

God asked TWO QUESTIONS.

Then God asked an IF/THEN QUESTION.

Then God made an IF/THEN Statement that was contrastive to the IF/THEN QUESTION.

The TWO QUESTIONS God asked were intentionally meant to get Cain to determine the cause (WHY) behind his attitude. Just like we saw with Adam and Eve, God knew the answer to the Questions...so the reason God asked the Questions was to see how Cain would respond...to his own First Dimensional response (being wroth and letting his countenance fall).

God's IF/THEN QUESTION ALSO pointed Cain towards a cause that would result in doing the Right WHAT...in order to get the effect Cain wanted to get. So, AGAIN, God is asking a Question to see Cain's response.

God's IF/THEN Statement is pointing out that sin desires Cain IF Cain does the Wrong WHAT.

WOW!!!!

God just stated that IF Cain did the Wrong WHAT in the FUTURE, then sin would have Cain.

At this point in the story, Cain had NOT sinned!!!!

People who teach that Cain had sinned at this point in the story, not only don't understand God, they are teaching a version of God that contradicts what peoples' Unaware Brains know to be true!

Notice, God presents this catastrophic effect in a Statement...NOT a Question. God was truly ATTEMPTING to help Cain with his thought process. This passage also shows that our thought processes can change our ability to take in sin. We've covered this before...

Lucifer was created perfect. However, because of "much traffic"...because of much interaction that changed his thought process, sin was eventually found in him.

People have gotten so distracted by this apparent contradiction, they have stated God made the devil evil...or God wanted the devil to become evil...or God created Cain to be evil...or Cain's father was the serpent (Eve was raped by the serpent). All of these answers contradict the Bible, however, people know the ultimate answer is non-contradictory, so they attempt to create an answer to achieve this end. This man-made superficial answer is idolatry.


SUMMARY
So, let's look at the Biblical answers to yesterday's Questions:

State your will:
Has Cain sinned? NO
What was the sin? (not applicable)
Was it First Dimensional? (not applicable)
Was it Second Dimensional? (not applicable)
Is God focused on the offering being of the cursed ground? NO

What is the next verse?
-Who spoke? God
-To Whom did He speak? Cain
-What did He speak?

God asked TWO QUESTIONS.

God asked an IF/THEN Question.

God made an IF/THEN Statement that contrasted the IF/THEN Question.

The next verse in this story is one that most people aren't even aware of...

So, for tomorrow's post:
What is the next verse?
-Who spoke?
-To Whom did He speak?
-What did He speak?

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