I don’t remember where I put the previous Kerygma notes…too bad (for me)?

Cain, Abel & Seth: A Genealogy of Mortal Men

Gen 4, 5

• Eve says… “with the help of the Lord, I have brought forth a man”
  • laws of life = mechanism, but God is still in control!
  • laws of physics, thermodynamics, gravity…is God contained within these laws which He created and allow to exist? No, God is beyond these laws
• Cain gave some of first fruit, Abel gave full first fruit
  • lack of desire and reverence in Cain; minimal sacrifice
  • giving your best and first is like giving your life; you are sacrificing what you could be having with full trust in God
  • but do we do things and expect things in return?
    • are we Cain or Abel? do we let “let downs” anger us?
    • there should not be such thing as “let down” when we give up what does not belong to us
• Abel (in Hebrew) = “meaningless”
  • same as in Ecc; “everything is MEANINGLESS“
• Cain…committed the first premeditated murder
  • “sin is crouching at your door”
  • refusal to confess; similar but so very different from Adam
    • ie. “Where are you?”
  • the mending of the relationship between God and human in Gen 3 was destroyed by Cain (Gen 3:10)
• Lamech…has the “little man complex”; celebrating the sin of Cain!?
  • Numbers 14:18
• God’s mercy is in the line of Seth
• Mortality = Gen 5
• Methusalah lived to 969 years…did he die in the flood, just before the flood or was he spared from the flood?
  • Look at the lineage mentioned, and do the math!
• The Hope: heaven? Is it even mentioned in Genesis?
  • Enoch’s ascension after 365 years; the good die young?
  • Abel NOT meaningless in Heb 11