10/12/25 - Rebellion & Worship - Genesis 4:17-26

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Sin has done horrific things in our world. It is not your lack of faith, it is not your disobedience. It is just sin has ruined this world. And if you are grieving the fact that you can't conceive and bear a child this morning, I just want to say I'm sorry. I believe that grieves the heart of the Lord as well. And God can be both good and gracious and you can suffer and go through hard things like that, but both are true. [00:14:13] (34 seconds)  #JudgmentOnStriving

If this was the end of the story, we're in a world of hurt. But as we've already heard read in verse 25, God is going to provide a significant substitute, because hope can't come from Cain. He is completely disqualified. [00:30:52] (18 seconds)  #GrievingWithGod

Are you living in the line of Cain, where you're finding significance in your work, in your success, in what you can do? All of us battle remnants of the legacy of Cain. All of us struggle with wanting to find our identity rooted in what we can do. Cain shows us that leads to death. [00:36:03] (31 seconds)  #WagingWarOnSin

Or are you living in Seth's line, where you're finding your significance in your worship and your surrender to the substitute son who took your place, God, who had come and put on flesh, lay his life down. That you could call upon his name. [00:36:35] (27 seconds)  #CallToRepentance

We need to be a people who wage war against sin to have our eyes open and our heads on a swivel, looking for where remnants of Cain's line show up in our story. [00:39:48] (16 seconds)  #LegacyOfFaith

``Cain's legacy is to serve as a warning for us to repent, to turn and abandon that line to because that line leads to death. To place your trust in the substitute son who took your sin on the cross, walked out of the grave and said, find new life and a path for redemption in me. It cannot be found in yourself. You are the problem. Your work and your effort cannot be the solution. [00:40:34] (36 seconds)

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