Genesis Part I: 1-11 Lesson 15: Nature of Worship

Genesis 3 22 And the L ORD God said, “Behold, the man is become as one of Us, to know good and evil …” Knowledge of good and evil gives: 7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. 1. An awareness of nakedness.

Animals don’t wear clothes. Animals can be tamed. Do animals have morality? Animals are not religious.

Knowledge of good and evil gives: 1. An awareness of nakedness. 2. An awareness of God. Genesis 3 9 And the L ORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, “Where art thou?” 10 And he said, “I heard Thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.” Adam has covered his nakedness, but he fears God because of it.

Genesis 3 24 So He drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cheru- bims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. Adam settles east of Eden. Why a flaming sword? Moses knows a flame and a sword.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more vio- lent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. Simplicity

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Matthew At that time Jesus answered and said, “I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast re- vealed them unto babes.”

A long-distance relationship: 1.God must simply reveal His will. 2.Man must faithfully obey His will. John Then came the Jews round about Him, and said unto Him, “How long dost Thou make us to doubt? If Thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.” 25 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and ye believed not …”

Hebrews 11 4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. God preferred Abel’s sacrifice because of his faith. Abel tells us today that revelation + faith = righteousness.

Hebrews But ye are come … 24 … to Jesus the mediator of the new cov- enant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. Like Abel, Jesus’ sacrifice tells us that revelation + faith = righteousness.

1.Cain was religious. Romans 10 1 Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. 2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowl- edge. 2.God accepts fruit offerings.

1.Cain was religious. Exodus Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto Me in the year. 15 … the feast of unleavened bread … 16 and the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field. 2.God accepts fruit offerings.

1.Cain was religious. Leviticus 23 4 These are the feasts of the L ORD … 5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the L ORD ’ S Passover. 6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread un- to the L ORD : seven days ye must eat unleav- ened bread. 2.God accepts fruit offerings.

1.Cain was religious. Leviticus … ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: 11 and he shall wave the sheaf before the L ORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. 2.God accepts fruit offerings.

1.Cain was religious. Leviticus And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave of- fering; seven Sabbaths shall be complete: 16 even unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the L ORD. 2.God accepts fruit offerings.

1.Cain was religious. Genesis 4 2 … And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 2.God accepts fruit offerings. Abel provided clothing; Cain food. Genesis 3 21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the L ORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

1.Cain was religious. Genesis 4 3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the L ORD. 4 And Abel, he also brought of the first- lings of his flock and of the fat thereof. 2.God accepts fruit offerings. 3.Only the blood of Christ remits sin.

1.Cain was religious. Hebrews 10 4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. 6 … in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin Thou hast had no pleasure. 10 … we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 2.God accepts fruit offerings. 3.Only the blood of Christ remits sin.

1.Cain was religious. Genesis 4 4 … And the L ORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: 5 but unto Cain and to his offering He had not respect. 2.God accepts fruit offerings. 3.Only the blood of Christ remits sin. 4.God is no respecter of persons.

1.Cain was religious. Acts … Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: 35 but in every nation he that feareth Him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. 2.God accepts fruit offerings. 3.Only the blood of Christ remits sin. 4.God is no respecter of persons.

1.Cain was religious. Genesis 4 6 And the L ORD said unto Cain, “Why art thou wroth? And why is thy countenance fallen? 7 “If thou doest well, [shall it not be lifted]?” 2.God accepts fruit offerings. 3.Only the blood of Christ remits sin. 4.God is no respecter of persons.

1.Cain was religious. I John 3 12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous. 2.God accepts fruit offerings. 3.Only the blood of Christ remits sin. 4.God is no respecter of persons. 5.Cain would’ve killed Abel anyway.

תִּמְשָׁל Timshal Genesis 4 7 If thou doest well, [shall it not be lifted]? And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. Genesis 3 16 … thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

Unjustified anger is the door to sin. Matthew 5 21 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, “Thou shalt not kill”; and “whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment”: 22 but I say unto you, “That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment” …

Unjustified anger is the door to sin. Ephesians 4 26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: 27 neither give place to the devil.

Ephesians 4 26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: 27 neither give place to the devil.

Genesis 4 25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: “For God,” said she, “hath appointed me anoth- er seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.”

Genesis 4 26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the L ORD.

Genesis Part I: 1-11 Lesson 16: Nature of