Cain

Notes

Your reputation is NOT who you are… your reputation is who others think you are!  Your character is who you REALLY are… and God cares about who you are!

Our character will be formed by the choices we make.

1. Chose to LISTEN to what God is saying to you today!
2. Chose to REPENT of sin today!
3. Chose to WALK in God’s grace every day!

Verses

{Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life. Psalm 139:23-24 NLT}{I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Galatians 2:20 NIV}{The Lord accepted Abel and his gift, but he did not accept Cain and his gift. Genesis 4:4-5 NLT}{This made Cain very angry, and he looked dejected. “Why are you so angry?” the Lord asked Cain. “Why do you look so dejected? You will be accepted if you do what is right. But if you refuse to do what is right, then watch out! Sin is crouching at the door, eager to control you. But you must subdue it and be its master.” Genesis 4:5-7 NLT}{One day Cain suggested to his brother, “Let’s go out into the fields.” And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother, Abel, and killed him. Genesis 4:8 NLT}{This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another. We must not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because Cain had been doing what was evil, and his brother had been doing what was righteous. 1 John 3:11-12 NLT}{Afterward the Lord asked Cain, “Where is your brother? Where is Abel?” Genesis 4:9a NLT}{"I don’t know,” Cain responded. “Am I my brother’s guardian?” Genesis 4:9b NLT}{But the Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground! Genesis 4:10 NLT}{Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, you have no obligation to do what your sinful nature urges you to do. For if you live by its dictates, you will die. But if through the power of the Spirit you put to death the deeds of your sinful nature, you will live. Romans 8:12-13 NLT}{He personally carried our sins in his body on the cross so that we can be dead to sin and live for what is right. 1 Peter 2:24 NLT}

Quotes

D.L. Moody : Character is what a man is in the dark.
(); Craig Groeschel : You are not yet who you are supposed to be. (Altar Ego); Tim Chaddick : Envy is often linked to status. When we encounter another’s success in an area that we value, that’s when things can get messy. If we value wealth, beauty, skill, influence, or reputation, then it stands to reason that when we encounter someone who is praised for his or her wealth, beauty, skill, influence, or reputation, we will pay attention. And when that person is someone we identify with—most often a peer or member of our professional or social circle—then the temptation of envy presents itself. (Better: How Jesus Satisfies the Search for Meaning ); John Owen : The deceitfulness of sin is seen in that it is modest in its first proposals but when it prevails it hardens men’s hearts, and brings them to ruin. Be killing sin, or it be killing you.
(The Mortification of Sin); John Piper : Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon. ();