Well after Cain shows his first signs of becoming rebellious towards God. God gives him another chance by telling him - if he would just do what is right then he would forgive him and everything would be good again. (This was when Cain brought God the fruits of the field instead of a blood sacrifice) Now Cain just gets more mad & more rebelious.
Have you ever felt this way? Your parents or boss makes you do something and you get mad and want to do something worse just to show them whose boss. Sometime your anger gets to you doesn't it? Here God warns Cain about this when he told him that sin was crouching at his door and it desires for you - But you must master it. What do you think this means?
You see God already knew what Cain was going to do if he didn't master his anger (sin). Did you know that anger is a sin? It is because of the distruction it causes. Here Cain instead of listening to God and getting control of his anger, lets his anger grow inside of him and ends up killing Able.
Now even after killing Able, Cain was still mad. He must have really been mad! Because most people that get mad and do something crazy usually feel remorse afterwards, but Cain didn't. How do we know this?
The Lord comes to Cain and asked him where his brother was. Cain answers him with another question. Am I my brothers Keeper? Well this was a mighty smart way to address God wasn't it?
This just amazes me that Cain had this much anger and hatred in him that he would kill his own brother and disrespect God at the same time. Talking about spitting in someones face!!
Next we will look at Gods punishment for Cain.
If you are reading this and you are a member of the Youth Group at Lake Swamp Baptist Church - I expect to hear some questions about these things tomorrow night. :)
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