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Cain & Abel And Their Sacrifices
Author: Janet Fenn
Cain & Abel and their sacrifices. One was acceptable to God and the other was not. As a young Christian I stumbled over this question. It is a question the young believer must study upon. At that time sin had just entered in. God made coats of skins to cover Adam and Eve and their nakedness. This is our first type of Christ. A divinely provided garment that the first sinners might be made fit for God's presence. By disobedience man came to a personal and experimental knowledge of good and evil.
Of good as obedience and as evil as disobedience. This as to the known will of God.
Through that knowledge conscience awoke. Man was then responsible to do all known good and to abstain form all known evil and to approach God through sacrifice. Genesis 3:21 was the first shedding of blood. To make man acceptable before God.
To cover his sin there was the shedding of blood. Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin.
Now, Cain was self righteous. A mere man of the earth. His religion was destitute of any adequate sense of sin or the need of atonement. There are several things said of him. 1) He worships in self will. 2) He is angry with God. 3) He refuses to bring a sin offering. 4) He murders his brother. 5) He lies to God. 6) He becomes a vagabond.
Cain meaning " acquisition " He was striving to acquire things of this earth. Earthly possessions mean nothing to God. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness there of.
Abel meaning "exhalation" or "that which ascends" is a type of spiritual man. His sacrifice in which atoning blood was shed was therefore at once his confession of sin and the expression of his faith in the substitute in which he presented before God.
God told Cain if he did well his sacrifice would be accepted if it was not accepted... Sin lieth at his door. They both had sinned. They both brought sacrifices. One was acceptable and one was not. To be forgiven you first must confess your sins. Cain would not confess his sin and so brought fruit as his sacrifice.
Abel confessed his sin and so brought the best of his flock and the fat thereof.
Obedience is better than sacrifice. So God shows us with Abraham and Isaac. Obey God in all things. Faith comes into play here. Always believing God will provide. Faith is the substance of things hoped for. The evidence of things not yet seen.
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