September 5, 2025 • 45 mins
We trace Genesis 4 to show how quickly God pointed to the cross and how Abel’s faith, not Cain’s effort, won God’s favor. The call is to stop striving, trust the finished work of Jesus, and live as new creations who obey from love, not fear.
• Cain and Abel as a mirror of faith versus self-effort
• God’s warning to Cain and the offer to lift his face
• The futility of coping with sin through works and morality
• The finished work of Christ as God’s accepted sacrifice
• Identity in Christ as sons, kings, priests, and new creations
• Obedience flowing from love instead of earning favor
• Assurance, advocacy, and freedom from tormenting doubt
• Invitation to believe, pray, and step into community
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SPEAKER_00 (00:33):
Hallelujah.
Welcome, uh precious uhgathering the Lord's house
tonight.
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Amen and hallelujah.
And so let's go back to Genesischapter 4 today.
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Genesis chapter 4.
And I hope you're amazed, ifyou're someone who has read this
account and read scripture, athow quickly God began to point
to the cross.
How quickly after Adam fell, um,how quickly uh you know, after
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you know Adam and Eve they fellin the garden, how quickly the
Lord began pointing to Jesus,the Lord began pointing to the
blood, the Lord began pointingto a sacrifice that he would
make, not that they would comeup with, that he would make.
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He began pointing to that almostinstantly, my friend.
Had to take a little bit of timeand show Adam what was going on,
um, and there had to be aconsequence for the sin.
Yet it didn't stay there.
Almost immediately after that,he began pointing to the cross.
He began pointing to a redeemer,a redeemer that he would
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provide.
And don't know if you've everread the account in Genesis 4
that way, but we're gonna seethat tonight.
And I guarantee you, my friend,you're in here somewhere.
This is about way more than God,Cain, and Abel.
You are here right this verysecond.
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You are in this account rightthis very second.
The Lord is speaking to youthrough this account right this
very second.
So with that in mind, let'sunfold it.
Amen.
So we'll go back and um we'llstart Genesis 4 1, and let's
read what the Word of God says.
And Adam knew Eve his wife, andshe conceived, and bare Cain,
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and said, I've gotten a man fromthe Lord.
And she again bare his brotherAbel, and Abel was a keeper of
sheep, but Cain was a tiller ofthe ground.
And in the process of time itcame to pass that Cain brought
the fruit of the ground anoffering unto the Lord, and Abel
he also brought of the firstthings of his flock and of the
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fat thereof.
And the Lord had respect untoAbel and to his offering, but
unto Cain and to his offering hehad not respect.
And so time of offering came upbefore the Lord.
I know this pointed to Jesus.
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Time of offering came up, and aswe saw last week, the only real
difference between Abel and Cainlies in their faith.
Abel, a man of faith, and thatfaith produced a good work.
That faith produced something inAbel, and it produced an
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offering.
And the Lord, you notice he hadrespect to Abel and to his
offering.
Both.
Respect to Abel, and the NewTestament calls Abel a righteous
man.
Jesus himself spoke of the bloodof righteous Abel.
And so the Lord had respect to aman of faith.
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Completely fallen, yes.
Born separate from him, yes.
Yet a man of faith.
A man who believed God, a manwho knew God, a man we might
even say he loved the Lord hisGod.
And he loved him for who he is.
He didn't love him out of, youknow, he didn't make an image
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and love that.
He didn't come up with a Godthat he liked and loved that.
No, he just simply loved theLord and believed the Lord and
put his faith in the Lord.
And that faith came up, and thatfaith did something.
James will tell us that faithwithout works is dead.
That faith did something.
I believe it did a lot ofthings, but the scripture just
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sort of narrows down on thistime of offering.
But out of that faith, hebrought an offering, and God
looked at it and God waspleased.
God was pleased with Abel, Godwas pleased with the offering.
Some people said he took up theoffering by fire right on the
spot.
Hallelujah and amen.
And Cain, a man of unbelief.
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And the Lord did not haverespect to Cain.
And also did not have respect toCain's offering.
And yet it didn't stop there.
Didn't stop there.
Cain, as we saw, got very hekind of had this slow burning
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anger inside.
And I believe Cain separatedfrom the Lord.
This wasn't the first time thatanger came up.
This wasn't the first time theunbelief just came up.
See, Cain's a grown man here.
But this was an occasion for itto come out.
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And it did.
Started between Cain and God.
And we see, you know, tragicallyhis countenance fell.
His eyes turned downward.
His eyes turned into himself.
Stopped looking at God, stoppedlistening to God.
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And it was all about Cain.
And and it was an anger.
It was an anger.
It was an anger.
And it was and it was there.
And the Lord saw that.
And notice how the Lord didn'tjust say, Forget you, Cain.
No.
And the Lord said unto Cain, Whyart thou wroth?
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Why is thy countenance fallen?
Why?
If thou doest well, shalt thounot be accepted?
And you know, bless God, wegotta forgive the King James
people here, amen.
Um if you do well, i if you comeby faith, if you come with a
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faithful heart, will you not belifted up?
This is the remedy to Cain'sdowncast continence.
This is the remedy, my friend.
God's saying, if you come byfaith, will you not be lifted
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up?
God's the one who would lift hiscountenance.
And if thou doest not well, sinlieth at the door, and unto thee
shall be his desire, and thoushalt rule over him.
Now let's look at this throughthe old the New Testament.
If Cain continues in hisunbelief, which sadly he does,
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he is left with nothing else buthis sin.
As perhaps he heard on Sunday,there is no other offering for
sin.
There's no other offering forsin but Jesus Christ.
And in these days, pre-cross,there was no other way to deal
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with sin.
He will walk in his unbelief,and he will forever have the
burden of dealing with his ownsin.
He has nothing else.
If he'll walk as a as an angryman, he'll always have his
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anger.
And we saw that the anger grew,the anger grew, the anger grew,
and the anger exploded out oneday at Abel.
And he murdered his brother.
Out of unbelief.
Cain would never have the lifethat God wanted for him to have.
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God spoke to Cain before themurder.
God spoke to Cain after theoffering.
God spoke to Cain when God saw awrathful heart in Cain, and what
did Cain do?
He just kept right on walking inhis wrath.
Cain did not turn at that momentand say, Blessed be the name of
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the Lord my God.
Thank you, God, for speaking tome.
Thank you, God, for giving me away to have relationship with
you.
Thank you, God, for even beingable to give you an offering.
Thank you, God, for for havingrelation and interaction and
fellowship with you, even thoughI'm a man apart from you, I'm a
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man in my sin.
But hallelujah, I can worshipyou.
Hallelujah, I can please you.
I can be pleasing to you.
And thank you, God, for pointingout this wrath.
I don't, Lord, I'm going to comein faith.
Hallelujah and amen.
Is that what happened?
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Is that what's happening in yourlife?
See, I told you, you're in here.
You're in here somewhere.
You're either a born-again,saved, blood washed,
spirit-filled, hallelujah, yesand amen, child of the king.
Or you're here.
Walking away from God.
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Walking separate from God.
Which one are you tonight?
You see, ultimately, Cain wentout from the presence of the
Lord.
And so, you know, the murdergoes on, and then Cain sort of
receives a unique curse fromGod.
On top of the existing curse.
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The ground would no longer yieldits strength.
He would be a fugitive and avagabond.
And yet he would receive aunique mercy from God.
He would in a way walk throughin a way would Adam walk
through.
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He would receive a curse and amercy.
You see, Cain had you know theaudacity, and we saw this last
week, but we're building tosomething.
Verse 14 says, Behold, you know,God, you know, you've driven me
out from the face of the earth,and from your face I should
shall be hidden.
I'll be a fugitive and avagabond.
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And it came to it'll come topass, everyone who finds me is
going to want to kill me.
They're going to slay me.
They're going to put me throughwhat I put my brother through.
And then the Lord said to him,Whoever slayeth Cain, vengeance
on him would be taken sevenfold.
And the Lord set a mark uponCain lest any finding him should
kill him.
He received a unique mercy.
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And then for the purposes oftonight, where did Cain go from
here?
He went out from the presence ofthe Lord.
Out from his presence.
Oh, Cain believed God exists.
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Oh, he absolutely knew that Godspeaks.
He had personally encounteredthe Lord on more than one
occasion.
And yet, out from the presenceof the Lord.
Out from the presence of theLord.
Out from the presence of theLord.
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To deal with his sin.
To deal with the sin.
To deal with the sin.
Day in and day out to deal withthe sin.
You see, he'd never escape it.
He would never escape thereality that he had met with
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God.
And God had spoken.
And yet Cain on the insidewalked away.
He'd never escaped that.
Try as he might, and try he did,my friend, he built a city.
Try he did.
He named that city after hisson.
He started having a family.
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Try, try, try.
Even the name Enoch, you know,speaks of this was a new
beginning for Cain.
But out from the presence of theLord.
Try and try and try and try andtry.
But he never escaped that day.
He never escaped that momentwhen he interacted with the
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living God, and the living Godinteracted with him, but Cain
went the other way.
He didn't run to God.
You see, even here, you know,the mercy of God did not break
this man.
The fact that God would havesuch a mercy to protect him from
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being murdered.
Though Cain murders his ownbrother.
Oh my friend, sometimes mercywill break people.
Didn't break this man.
On he went away from thepresence of the Lord.
On he went, on he went, on hewent.
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Coping forever with theconsequences.
Trying to cope.
Trying to move on.
Trying to raise a family.
Then he had descendants, andthese descendants, what did they
do?
They were wonderful things.
Ada Bar, you know, he hadseveral, several people, you
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know, eventually hisdescendants, they became the
father of such as dwell in tentsand such as have cattle, um,
father of all such as handled aharp in the organ, instructor of
every artificer in brass andiron.
They did wonderful things.
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All perhaps to cover up.
All you know, maybe they builttheir city, you know, and y you
you see the blood.
The blood of Abel.
And the fact that Cain hadwalked away to deal with his sin
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by himself.
Oh my friend.
In reality, I need to ask whereyou are today.
In reality, God needs nosacrifice from you.
Let that sink in.
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God is not looking for you todeal with your sin.
He needs no sacrifice that youcould offer him.
You see, my friend, God gave alaw one day, a few generations
after this happened.
And that law included sacrificesfor a number of things.
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But you read the book ofGalatians, and it says, if there
could have been a law given thatcould give life, then verily
life would have come by the law.
Even the law that came from themouth of God Himself couldn't
give life.
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Let that blow your mind.
So what do you think yourmorality can accomplish?
If the God-given law that Mosesgot up on the mountain of Sinai
from the Lord God Almightydirectly, written by the finger
of God in tables of stone, ifthat law couldn't give any life,
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what can your moralityaccomplish?
What can your attempts to dealwith your own sin on your terms
in your way accomplish?
What can all of your copingaccomplish?
What can all of your tryingaccomplish?
What can all of your sufferingaccomplish?
What can all of your attempts atself-control accomplish?
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What can all of your sense youknow just trying to move on and
trying not to think about it?
What can that accomplish?
And my friend, here's the realkicker.
God's not pleased whatsoever.
What pleases God?
Go back to Genesis 4, my friend.
A simple faith.
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A simple faith.
That led to a man doingsomething.
An act of worship.
An act of love to God.
And God smiled.
And I believe at this time hecounted Abel for a righteous
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man.
Faith, my friend, that hasn'tchanged a bit.
Hallelujah.
That has not changed a bit.
You see, my friends, Jesusalready became your sin.
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Hallelujah.
Jesus already became your sin.
You see, God doesn't want anoffering from you.
God doesn't want a sacrificefrom you.
Why?
Because God brought his own.
God brought his own sacrifice.
And God made his own sacrifice.
And God became your sin.
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The Son of God Himself, JesusChrist, the Lord God Almighty in
the flesh, became your sinpersonally himself.
He doesn't want you to die.
Jesus already died.
He doesn't want you to bleed.
Jesus already bled.
He doesn't want you to try andtry and try and try and try.
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Because Jesus has already done.
And Jesus has already finishedthe work.
And Jesus has already completedthe work of becoming your sin.
So hallelujah.
You must be born again, Johnchapter 3.
Therefore, if any man be inChrist, he is a new creature.
Old things are passed away.
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Behold, all things are becomenew.
2 Corinthians 5.
Unto him that loved us andwashed us from our sins, washed
us, it's already done.
Washed us from our sins in hisown blood.
And hath made us kings andpriests unto God his Father.
Revelation chapter 1.
Book of Galatians, chapter 4.
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And because you are sons, Godhas sent forth the Spirit of His
Son into your hearts, crying,Abba, Father, wherefore thou art
no more a servant but a son?
And if a son then an heir of Godthrough Christ, Galatians
chapter 4.
Does this sound like your walk?
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Does this sound like you inChrist?
Does this ring true of you rightthis second in Christ?
Does has is this your day today,today, today, today, moment by
moment by moment by momentexistence in the Lord?
A beloved son, a born-again man,a born-again daughter, a beloved
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adopted heir with Christ, a kingand a priest, a saint.
Is this you today?
Because you'll notice in theseverses and throughout all the
Old Testament, there is reallyno struggle with sin.
Let that rest on you for amoment.
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You see, to go back to Cain,Cain's relationship with God
became dominated by sin.
That was not the relationshipthat God wanted with this man.
Always defined by the sin.
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Always trying to deal with thesin.
Always trying and painting Godas a tyrant.
Painting God as someone who'sjust impossible to please.
Painting God as a villain.
Painting God as an interloper.
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Painting God as a pest.
And God responded in mercy andin truth.
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And yet God counseled the man.
And yet God said, You know, whyare you wrong?
Why is your countenance fallen?
If you come by faith, if youcome by faith, if you come by
faith, I will personally liftyou up.
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And no, Cain would not.
And so Cain went out from thepresence of God, and yet under
God's mercy, and yet, alwaysdealing with his own sin, and
yet having children and bringingup those children.
God is, you know, and with God'sversion of Cain, with Cain's
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version of God.
Wow.
So my friends, we must make itpersonal tonight to you.
And I say this in love.
Because I know a great manyreligious people do a great many
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religious things.
And my friend, I need to ask youwhen you go to bed at night, I
need to ask you when you're allalone, I need to ask you in the
stillness.
Do you constantly wonder ifyou're doing enough?
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Do you constantly wonder if Godis pleased with you?
Do you constantly wonder if didI do enough good today?
Did I do enough good today?
Did I do enough good today?
Um, do you constantly live inthat fear?
Do you constantly live in thatstruggle?
Do you constantly live, youknow, and and your whole
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relationship with God is justdominated.
Oh God help me.
Oh God help me to not fornicateanymore.
Oh God help me to not drinkanymore.
Oh God help me to please, youknow, to please the church.
God help me to please the youknow the pastor.
God help me, God help me, Godhelp me.
I just don't know, God, and I'mtormented.
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You're tormented.
It dominates your entireChristian walk.
And every time you pray to theLord, you you kind of wonder, is
uh is he happy with me?
Did I do enough?
Did I did that did I do enoughgood?
Did I do enough right?
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Did I have like the rightemotional state?
Did I have the right frame ofmind?
Did I have it?
And you never really know.
That's the real torment.
You never really know.
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Manny's the person I talk to.
You don't they claim Christ.
They claim God.
But you ask them, um what'sgonna happen when you meet him,
and they say, I don't know.
I'm not sure.
I I hope.
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I I hope so.
But I don't know.
I hope s I I hope he's pleasedwith me.
I I hope I I've done enough goodand kinda got the whoa.
Cain.
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I hope I've done enough.
And and all that bad thathappened a while ago.
But look at what I got I got acity now.
I got a family now.
I mean I've got a wife and kidsnow.
I I I've got we're we'rebuilding stuff now.
I mean we're I hope he's happywith me.
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Oh my friend, you may be closerto Cain than you ever thought.
But I tell you, the Lord GodAlmighty is having a mercy on
you tonight.
Because if I just describe yourwalk with God, and you need to
hear this in love.
If you continue in that walk,you will march straight into the
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devil's hell.
In the name of Jesus.
You will march straight on intothe flames, thinking you're
working for Jesus the wholetime.
When in reality, here's thekicker.
If you've got a moral code, ifyou've got a moral framework, if
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you've got a religiousworldview, no matter if you
stamp the name of Jesussomewhere in it, and that's what
you're pursuing, you're denyingthe cross.
I've said it before and don'tskip over it.
God already brought his ownsacrifice.
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And God already, hallelujah andamen.
God already made his ownsacrifice.
And God already accepted thesacrifice that he made.
God already shed blood.
God watched it happen.
God was pleased the whole time.
God was rejoicing the wholetime.
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The angels are rejoicing thewhole time.
And man, they really startrejoicing when up from the grave
he rose on the third day.
Hallelujah.
They really started rejoicing.
And then all heaven erupted theday Jesus walked up to that
altar in heavenly places andsaid, Here's the blood, it's
finished.
And the God and God the Fatherjumped off of his throne, and
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God the Father danced, and Godthe Father twirled, and God the
Father rejoiced, and theyembraced hallelujah and amen.
That happened already.
That is the Jesus the Lord GodAlmighty wants you to trust in
right this moment.
The finished sacrifice of theLord God Almighty Himself, the
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Lord who is love, the Lord whois holiness, the Lord who is
justice, the Lord who isjudgment, the Lord who is truth,
the Lord who is grace, the Lordwho is mercy.
Hallelujah.
He did this already.
And he is well, well, wellpleased with his son.
Matter of fact, that's whereJesus is right now.
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He's at the right hand of theFather.
Matter of fact, Jesus isreturning and Jesus is coming
again.
And so you are insane if you areliving a religious life in the
name of the Lord, trying andtrying and trying and trying.
Trying to make your ownofferings.
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He already did it.
Trying to make your own way.
He already made it.
He said, I am the way, thetruth, and the life.
There's no one coming to theFather except by me.
Trying to do your own work.
To overcome your sin.
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To cope with your sin.
To find some sort of measure ofmental and emotional stability.
In the middle of your sin.
Oh my friend, God lovinglypoints you to the cross.
He says, I already coped withyour sin.
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I already, I uh you you wantstability?
I already I I gave you peace.
You're more than just stable.
You you've got a peace that theworld can't under understand or
comprehend.
You're always ever learning andnever coming to a knowledge of
the truth.
Ever learning, ever, you know,well, let's try this way.
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Let's try to bounce my eyes offof the ladies on off of the man.
Let's try, let's try, you know,whenever that comes up, I'm just
gonna bounce my eyes.
And try real hard to jam somescripture through my head
instead of all those images.
And we're just gonna try real.
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Yes, I've been there.
Yes, it nearly drove me insane.
Yes, it's driving people insaneout there right now.
And yes, the Lord God Almightywants to deal with it.
Hallelujah.
Trying to be something thatyou're not, because my friend,
fish gonna swim, bird gonna fly,cat gonna meow, dog gonna bark.
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You're gonna sin.
And God knows it.
Question is, do you want yourremedy or do you want God's?
Your em your remedy is you'regonna you're gonna have a life
full of frustration, you'regonna have a life full of
failure, you're gonna have alife full of ups and downs,
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you're gonna have a life you youwonder why, you know, I talk to
people who are like, yeah, yeah,I gave up on church 20 years
ago, it didn't work.
This is why it didn't work.
Because it was all just a bunchof human work.
And so, no, it's not gonna work.
That's the and you get jaded.
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And you get hard and you getcynical and you just get blah.
A lot of people claim that youknow it's just kind of blah.
It's kind of oh yeah, you know,I go to church, I do this.
But my friend, that's not thelife God wants for you.
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That's not the life he has foryou.
You see, born-again man, woman,and child, your sin is in the
past.
Your sin is on Jesus, and Jesusdied, and Jesus rose again.
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And so God's not looking at youand seeing your sin anymore.
Matter of fact, we got aglorious promise out of 1 John.
It says, you know, if any mansin, talking to believers, if
any man sin, well, immediatelywe we have an advocate with
Christ, we have an advocate withJesus.
Um, goes so boldly to say thatyou know, if you're in Christ,
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you don't sin.
That that's how far away fromsin that a born-again man,
woman, and child is.
That's how how far away you are.
It's not even in the equation inthe eyes of God anymore.
It's not even in it's not evenin consideration.
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God Himself doesn't remember it.
One of my favorite gospel songs,we're gonna sing this one here.
You know, in the depths of thesea by the cathedrals.
Go look it up.
Your sin is in the depths of thesea, forgotten, far away, and
you're free.
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Amen.
SPEAKER_00 (34:17):
You're free.
So why do we obey God?
We obey God because we love him.
Why do we follow Christ?
Because we want to.
Because he's our Lord, he's theauthor and the finisher of our
faith.
We're his bride.
He uses the language of a bride,he uses the language of a child,
he uses the language of adoptedchildren.
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Um, we're at home with God.
That's why we follow him.
Hallelujah.
Is that why you follow Godtonight?
Because my friend, there thiswhole Cain and Abel thing is
still going on today.
It's still going on right now,it's still going on right this
second.
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You're either in love with theLord, following him, excited,
passionate, joyful, at peace, athome, bearing out the fruits of
the Holy Ghost, joyfully walkingout a calling, joyfully walking
out being the church, joyfullywalking out, you know,
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fellowship with one to another,blessed be the name of the Lord.
The word we heard onencouragement and exhortation,
hallelujah.
That's got to go on more aroundhere.
That's gotta go on in yourchurch, my friend.
Blessed be the name of the Lord,and it's not a heavy thing.
I'm asking you today, do youthink it's a heavy thing?
Do you think it's something youalways have to work on?
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Cain.
See, we gotta go back over somany verses.
Hallelujah.
If any man be in Christ, he is anew creature.
You don't work on anything.
You must be born again.
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You don't work on anything.
You work on nothing.
Has made us the mostunderpreached promises of
Christianity.
Kings and priests.
Oh, that's past tense.
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That's completed already.
You are saints.
You are the sons of God.
You are the salt of the earth.
You are the light of the world.
Where do you have to work onanything?
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You oh, you you say your flesh.
Well, we bless God, we all gotone.
Oh, but what's God say about it?
On two different occasions, Pauldid.
I am crucified.
I am crucified.
Am crucified.
Am crucified.
That the body of flesh might bedestroyed, rendered inoperative.
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You're free from it.
Resist you blame the devil.
Resist the devil.
What does God say?
Resist the devil and he willflee from you.
You see, do you see the Lordlovingly taking away every
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excuse you have for notfollowing Christ?
Every excuse your flesh can comeup with for not believing the
Lord.
Every excuse your flesh can comeup with for not having the life
that God wants you to have.
Because that's not just to thechurch.
God does want you to have alife, a fruitful life, a full
life in Him.
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I'm talking to the lost people.
I'm talking to I'm talking toCain.
I'm talking to modern day Cainsin America and around the world.
God wants you to have a lifewith him.
And that life is not dominatedby sin.
That life is not you alwaystrying to please him.
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That life is not following allof his rules and then
flagellating yourself when youdon't.
That life is not giving abackbreaking offering to the
church and hoping that God'sjust gonna give it back to you
somehow.
That offering is not finding apurpose-driven life.
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That offering is not seven stepsor seven sacraments or five
pillars or all these tenets, ortrying to figure out how to
harmonize all of the fathers wayin the background, and they
wrote all this stuff, and yougotta figure out how it all goes
together.
No, that's not life.
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The life God has for you is realsimple, not complicated.
Jesus loves me, this I know.
For the Bible tells me so.
Little ones to him belong.
They are weak, but he is strong.
Jesus loves me, he who died.
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Heaven's gates have to openwide.
This is your song, lost person.
He will wash away your sin.
He will wash away your sin.
Let his little child come in.
That's it in song.
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That's it in verse.
Faith.
Do you believe that Jesus Christdied for you?
Do you believe that Jesus Christis risen again?
Do you believe that Jesus Christloves you?
Do you see, even now, how yourentire Christian existence, how
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your entire religious existence,how your entire moral existence
is powerless to save you.
And even beyond that, it's notpleasing to God.
Even beyond that, you've beendenying the blood in the name of
Jesus.
You've been denying Jesus in thename of Jesus.
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Because my friend, as I hopeyou've heard tonight, his work
is finished.
God's sacrifice is already made,and God's sacrifice is already
accepted, and there will be noother.
And that includes the sacrificesthat you're trying to make.
But oh my friends, God willnever tear anything down without
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building something up.
He'll never show you your sinwithout drawing you to the
Savior.
That's his will for you.
God didn't come here to leaveyou broken, hopeless, helpless,
and miserable.
Even if your entire religiouslife has collapsed tonight, He's
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not here to destroy you.
He's here to save you.
Because my friend, if he wouldhave continued your own way, it
would have been certain doom anddestruction.
But if you'll stop right now,right this very moment, a humble
believing believing, hallelujah.
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That's the work of God.
Believe on the one he sent.
Do you believe him tonight?
And if so, call upon the name ofthe Lord.
And no, you're not alone.
I myself was once a king.
Was once.
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My wife used to be a Cain.
Many people in this room used tobe a Cain.
Going about trying to establishyour own righteousness, going
about trying to please God.
Going about lost.
His love broke through.
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Is it breaking through to youtonight?
Hallelujah.
If so, call upon the name ofJesus.
And my friend, you know, if ourmusicians will come here
tonight, we'll have a time ofinvitation here.
And if you'd like someone topray with you.
And I simply ask you to comeforward.
If you need to be saved, comeforward tonight.
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Now, church, this altar is opento you tonight.
My friend, if you're behind thecamera tonight or if you're on
audio tonight, and and you wantto be saved.
My friend, just ask the Lord tobe saved.
Just let that belief in you,that faith in you come up in
some words.
Whatever the words are, ask himto be born again.
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Ask him to be saved.
Ask him to be a Christian.
Ask him to take away your blood.
Ask him, my friend.
And my friend, if you comehonestly, if you come humbly, if
you come as a heartful thing, hewill in no way turn you away.
So my friends, I thank you againfor listening, and thank you for
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being here.
Thank you for being on the otherside of that camera.
Thank you for being on our audiobroadcast tonight.
And thank you.
And now please, please, please,please continue to be.
And especially if you know whathe has in your life.
Make sure that you can speak.
Because I know the Lord isspeaking.
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And I know he loves them.
And I know he has a design forthem to be born again.
He doesn't want them to perish,but he wants him to come.
So right man, feel free to usesome questions.
And feel free to let us know howwe can pray for you.
Feel welcome and fight to comeand see us in person.
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And thank you again forlistening.
Hallelujah.
Welcome, uh precious uhgathering the Lord's house
tonight.
Uh, to those of us who are herein person, and amen to those of
you who are listening across avariety of formats, across a
variety of platforms in over 80nations around the world.
Uh, whether you've been with usfor years or whether this is
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Um remember to like and shareand comment and all that,
especially if you're on thesocial media side, that helps us
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And uh thank you, those of youwho have been doing that.
Amen and hallelujah.
And so let's go back to Genesischapter 4 today.
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Genesis chapter 4.
And I hope you're amazed, ifyou're someone who has read this
account and read scripture, athow quickly God began to point
to the cross.
How quickly after Adam fell, um,how quickly uh you know, after
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you know Adam and Eve they fellin the garden, how quickly the
Lord began pointing to Jesus,the Lord began pointing to the
blood, the Lord began pointingto a sacrifice that he would
make, not that they would comeup with, that he would make.
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He began pointing to that almostinstantly, my friend.
Had to take a little bit of timeand show Adam what was going on,
um, and there had to be aconsequence for the sin.
Yet it didn't stay there.
Almost immediately after that,he began pointing to the cross.
He began pointing to a redeemer,a redeemer that he would
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provide.
And don't know if you've everread the account in Genesis 4
that way, but we're gonna seethat tonight.
And I guarantee you, my friend,you're in here somewhere.
This is about way more than God,Cain, and Abel.
You are here right this verysecond.
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You are in this account rightthis very second.
The Lord is speaking to youthrough this account right this
very second.
So with that in mind, let'sunfold it.
Amen.
So we'll go back and um we'llstart Genesis 4 1, and let's
read what the Word of God says.
And Adam knew Eve his wife, andshe conceived, and bare Cain,
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and said, I've gotten a man fromthe Lord.
And she again bare his brotherAbel, and Abel was a keeper of
sheep, but Cain was a tiller ofthe ground.
And in the process of time itcame to pass that Cain brought
the fruit of the ground anoffering unto the Lord, and Abel
he also brought of the firstthings of his flock and of the
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fat thereof.
And the Lord had respect untoAbel and to his offering, but
unto Cain and to his offering hehad not respect.
And so time of offering came upbefore the Lord.
I know this pointed to Jesus.
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Time of offering came up, and aswe saw last week, the only real
difference between Abel and Cainlies in their faith.
Abel, a man of faith, and thatfaith produced a good work.
That faith produced something inAbel, and it produced an
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offering.
And the Lord, you notice he hadrespect to Abel and to his
offering.
Both.
Respect to Abel, and the NewTestament calls Abel a righteous
man.
Jesus himself spoke of the bloodof righteous Abel.
And so the Lord had respect to aman of faith.
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Completely fallen, yes.
Born separate from him, yes.
Yet a man of faith.
A man who believed God, a manwho knew God, a man we might
even say he loved the Lord hisGod.
And he loved him for who he is.
He didn't love him out of, youknow, he didn't make an image
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and love that.
He didn't come up with a Godthat he liked and loved that.
No, he just simply loved theLord and believed the Lord and
put his faith in the Lord.
And that faith came up, and thatfaith did something.
James will tell us that faithwithout works is dead.
That faith did something.
I believe it did a lot ofthings, but the scripture just
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sort of narrows down on thistime of offering.
But out of that faith, hebrought an offering, and God
looked at it and God waspleased.
God was pleased with Abel, Godwas pleased with the offering.
Some people said he took up theoffering by fire right on the
spot.
Hallelujah and amen.
And Cain, a man of unbelief.
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And the Lord did not haverespect to Cain.
And also did not have respect toCain's offering.
And yet it didn't stop there.
Didn't stop there.
Cain, as we saw, got very hekind of had this slow burning
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anger inside.
And I believe Cain separatedfrom the Lord.
This wasn't the first time thatanger came up.
This wasn't the first time theunbelief just came up.
See, Cain's a grown man here.
But this was an occasion for itto come out.
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And it did.
Started between Cain and God.
And we see, you know, tragicallyhis countenance fell.
His eyes turned downward.
His eyes turned into himself.
Stopped looking at God, stoppedlistening to God.
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And it was all about Cain.
And and it was an anger.
It was an anger.
It was an anger.
And it was and it was there.
And the Lord saw that.
And notice how the Lord didn'tjust say, Forget you, Cain.
No.
And the Lord said unto Cain, Whyart thou wroth?
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Why is thy countenance fallen?
Why?
If thou doest well, shalt thounot be accepted?
And you know, bless God, wegotta forgive the King James
people here, amen.
Um if you do well, i if you comeby faith, if you come with a
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faithful heart, will you not belifted up?
This is the remedy to Cain'sdowncast continence.
This is the remedy, my friend.
God's saying, if you come byfaith, will you not be lifted
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up?
God's the one who would lift hiscountenance.
And if thou doest not well, sinlieth at the door, and unto thee
shall be his desire, and thoushalt rule over him.
Now let's look at this throughthe old the New Testament.
If Cain continues in hisunbelief, which sadly he does,
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he is left with nothing else buthis sin.
As perhaps he heard on Sunday,there is no other offering for
sin.
There's no other offering forsin but Jesus Christ.
And in these days, pre-cross,there was no other way to deal
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with sin.
He will walk in his unbelief,and he will forever have the
burden of dealing with his ownsin.
He has nothing else.
If he'll walk as a as an angryman, he'll always have his
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anger.
And we saw that the anger grew,the anger grew, the anger grew,
and the anger exploded out oneday at Abel.
And he murdered his brother.
Out of unbelief.
Cain would never have the lifethat God wanted for him to have.
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God spoke to Cain before themurder.
God spoke to Cain after theoffering.
God spoke to Cain when God saw awrathful heart in Cain, and what
did Cain do?
He just kept right on walking inhis wrath.
Cain did not turn at that momentand say, Blessed be the name of
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the Lord my God.
Thank you, God, for speaking tome.
Thank you, God, for giving me away to have relationship with
you.
Thank you, God, for even beingable to give you an offering.
Thank you, God, for for havingrelation and interaction and
fellowship with you, even thoughI'm a man apart from you, I'm a
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man in my sin.
But hallelujah, I can worshipyou.
Hallelujah, I can please you.
I can be pleasing to you.
And thank you, God, for pointingout this wrath.
I don't, Lord, I'm going to comein faith.
Hallelujah and amen.
Is that what happened?
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Is that what's happening in yourlife?
See, I told you, you're in here.
You're in here somewhere.
You're either a born-again,saved, blood washed,
spirit-filled, hallelujah, yesand amen, child of the king.
Or you're here.
Walking away from God.
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Walking separate from God.
Which one are you tonight?
You see, ultimately, Cain wentout from the presence of the
Lord.
And so, you know, the murdergoes on, and then Cain sort of
receives a unique curse fromGod.
On top of the existing curse.
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The ground would no longer yieldits strength.
He would be a fugitive and avagabond.
And yet he would receive aunique mercy from God.
He would in a way walk throughin a way would Adam walk
through.
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He would receive a curse and amercy.
You see, Cain had you know theaudacity, and we saw this last
week, but we're building tosomething.
Verse 14 says, Behold, you know,God, you know, you've driven me
out from the face of the earth,and from your face I should
shall be hidden.
I'll be a fugitive and avagabond.
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And it came to it'll come topass, everyone who finds me is
going to want to kill me.
They're going to slay me.
They're going to put me throughwhat I put my brother through.
And then the Lord said to him,Whoever slayeth Cain, vengeance
on him would be taken sevenfold.
And the Lord set a mark uponCain lest any finding him should
kill him.
He received a unique mercy.
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And then for the purposes oftonight, where did Cain go from
here?
He went out from the presence ofthe Lord.
Out from his presence.
Oh, Cain believed God exists.
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Oh, he absolutely knew that Godspeaks.
He had personally encounteredthe Lord on more than one
occasion.
And yet, out from the presenceof the Lord.
Out from the presence of theLord.
Out from the presence of theLord.
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To deal with his sin.
To deal with the sin.
To deal with the sin.
Day in and day out to deal withthe sin.
You see, he'd never escape it.
He would never escape thereality that he had met with
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God.
And God had spoken.
And yet Cain on the insidewalked away.
He'd never escaped that.
Try as he might, and try he did,my friend, he built a city.
Try he did.
He named that city after hisson.
He started having a family.
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Try, try, try.
Even the name Enoch, you know,speaks of this was a new
beginning for Cain.
But out from the presence of theLord.
Try and try and try and try andtry.
But he never escaped that day.
He never escaped that momentwhen he interacted with the
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living God, and the living Godinteracted with him, but Cain
went the other way.
He didn't run to God.
You see, even here, you know,the mercy of God did not break
this man.
The fact that God would havesuch a mercy to protect him from
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being murdered.
Though Cain murders his ownbrother.
Oh my friend, sometimes mercywill break people.
Didn't break this man.
On he went away from thepresence of the Lord.
On he went, on he went, on hewent.
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Coping forever with theconsequences.
Trying to cope.
Trying to move on.
Trying to raise a family.
Then he had descendants, andthese descendants, what did they
do?
They were wonderful things.
Ada Bar, you know, he hadseveral, several people, you
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know, eventually hisdescendants, they became the
father of such as dwell in tentsand such as have cattle, um,
father of all such as handled aharp in the organ, instructor of
every artificer in brass andiron.
They did wonderful things.
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All perhaps to cover up.
All you know, maybe they builttheir city, you know, and y you
you see the blood.
The blood of Abel.
And the fact that Cain hadwalked away to deal with his sin
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by himself.
Oh my friend.
In reality, I need to ask whereyou are today.
In reality, God needs nosacrifice from you.
Let that sink in.
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God is not looking for you todeal with your sin.
He needs no sacrifice that youcould offer him.
You see, my friend, God gave alaw one day, a few generations
after this happened.
And that law included sacrificesfor a number of things.
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But you read the book ofGalatians, and it says, if there
could have been a law given thatcould give life, then verily
life would have come by the law.
Even the law that came from themouth of God Himself couldn't
give life.
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Let that blow your mind.
So what do you think yourmorality can accomplish?
If the God-given law that Mosesgot up on the mountain of Sinai
from the Lord God Almightydirectly, written by the finger
of God in tables of stone, ifthat law couldn't give any life,
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what can your moralityaccomplish?
What can your attempts to dealwith your own sin on your terms
in your way accomplish?
What can all of your copingaccomplish?
What can all of your tryingaccomplish?
What can all of your sufferingaccomplish?
What can all of your attempts atself-control accomplish?
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What can all of your sense youknow just trying to move on and
trying not to think about it?
What can that accomplish?
And my friend, here's the realkicker.
God's not pleased whatsoever.
What pleases God?
Go back to Genesis 4, my friend.
A simple faith.
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A simple faith.
That led to a man doingsomething.
An act of worship.
An act of love to God.
And God smiled.
And I believe at this time hecounted Abel for a righteous
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man.
Faith, my friend, that hasn'tchanged a bit.
Hallelujah.
That has not changed a bit.
You see, my friends, Jesusalready became your sin.
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Hallelujah.
Jesus already became your sin.
You see, God doesn't want anoffering from you.
God doesn't want a sacrificefrom you.
Why?
Because God brought his own.
God brought his own sacrifice.
And God made his own sacrifice.
And God became your sin.
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The Son of God Himself, JesusChrist, the Lord God Almighty in
the flesh, became your sinpersonally himself.
He doesn't want you to die.
Jesus already died.
He doesn't want you to bleed.
Jesus already bled.
He doesn't want you to try andtry and try and try and try.
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Because Jesus has already done.
And Jesus has already finishedthe work.
And Jesus has already completedthe work of becoming your sin.
So hallelujah.
You must be born again, Johnchapter 3.
Therefore, if any man be inChrist, he is a new creature.
Old things are passed away.
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Behold, all things are becomenew.
2 Corinthians 5.
Unto him that loved us andwashed us from our sins, washed
us, it's already done.
Washed us from our sins in hisown blood.
And hath made us kings andpriests unto God his Father.
Revelation chapter 1.
Book of Galatians, chapter 4.
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And because you are sons, Godhas sent forth the Spirit of His
Son into your hearts, crying,Abba, Father, wherefore thou art
no more a servant but a son?
And if a son then an heir of Godthrough Christ, Galatians
chapter 4.
Does this sound like your walk?
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Does this sound like you inChrist?
Does this ring true of you rightthis second in Christ?
Does has is this your day today,today, today, today, moment by
moment by moment by momentexistence in the Lord?
A beloved son, a born-again man,a born-again daughter, a beloved
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adopted heir with Christ, a kingand a priest, a saint.
Is this you today?
Because you'll notice in theseverses and throughout all the
Old Testament, there is reallyno struggle with sin.
Let that rest on you for amoment.
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You see, to go back to Cain,Cain's relationship with God
became dominated by sin.
That was not the relationshipthat God wanted with this man.
Always defined by the sin.
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Always trying to deal with thesin.
Always trying and painting Godas a tyrant.
Painting God as someone who'sjust impossible to please.
Painting God as a villain.
Painting God as an interloper.
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Painting God as a pest.
And God responded in mercy andin truth.
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And yet God counseled the man.
And yet God said, You know, whyare you wrong?
Why is your countenance fallen?
If you come by faith, if youcome by faith, if you come by
faith, I will personally liftyou up.
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And no, Cain would not.
And so Cain went out from thepresence of God, and yet under
God's mercy, and yet, alwaysdealing with his own sin, and
yet having children and bringingup those children.
God is, you know, and with God'sversion of Cain, with Cain's
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version of God.
Wow.
So my friends, we must make itpersonal tonight to you.
And I say this in love.
Because I know a great manyreligious people do a great many
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religious things.
And my friend, I need to ask youwhen you go to bed at night, I
need to ask you when you're allalone, I need to ask you in the
stillness.
Do you constantly wonder ifyou're doing enough?
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Do you constantly wonder if Godis pleased with you?
Do you constantly wonder if didI do enough good today?
Did I do enough good today?
Did I do enough good today?
Um, do you constantly live inthat fear?
Do you constantly live in thatstruggle?
Do you constantly live, youknow, and and your whole
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relationship with God is justdominated.
Oh God help me.
Oh God help me to not fornicateanymore.
Oh God help me to not drinkanymore.
Oh God help me to please, youknow, to please the church.
God help me to please the youknow the pastor.
God help me, God help me, Godhelp me.
I just don't know, God, and I'mtormented.
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You're tormented.
It dominates your entireChristian walk.
And every time you pray to theLord, you you kind of wonder, is
uh is he happy with me?
Did I do enough?
Did I did that did I do enoughgood?
Did I do enough right?
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Did I have like the rightemotional state?
Did I have the right frame ofmind?
Did I have it?
And you never really know.
That's the real torment.
You never really know.
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Manny's the person I talk to.
You don't they claim Christ.
They claim God.
But you ask them, um what'sgonna happen when you meet him,
and they say, I don't know.
I'm not sure.
I I hope.
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I I hope so.
But I don't know.
I hope s I I hope he's pleasedwith me.
I I hope I I've done enough goodand kinda got the whoa.
Cain.
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I hope I've done enough.
And and all that bad thathappened a while ago.
But look at what I got I got acity now.
I got a family now.
I mean I've got a wife and kidsnow.
I I I've got we're we'rebuilding stuff now.
I mean we're I hope he's happywith me.
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Oh my friend, you may be closerto Cain than you ever thought.
But I tell you, the Lord GodAlmighty is having a mercy on
you tonight.
Because if I just describe yourwalk with God, and you need to
hear this in love.
If you continue in that walk,you will march straight into the
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devil's hell.
In the name of Jesus.
You will march straight on intothe flames, thinking you're
working for Jesus the wholetime.
When in reality, here's thekicker.
If you've got a moral code, ifyou've got a moral framework, if
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you've got a religiousworldview, no matter if you
stamp the name of Jesussomewhere in it, and that's what
you're pursuing, you're denyingthe cross.
I've said it before and don'tskip over it.
God already brought his ownsacrifice.
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And God already, hallelujah andamen.
God already made his ownsacrifice.
And God already accepted thesacrifice that he made.
God already shed blood.
God watched it happen.
God was pleased the whole time.
God was rejoicing the wholetime.
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The angels are rejoicing thewhole time.
And man, they really startrejoicing when up from the grave
he rose on the third day.
Hallelujah.
They really started rejoicing.
And then all heaven erupted theday Jesus walked up to that
altar in heavenly places andsaid, Here's the blood, it's
finished.
And the God and God the Fatherjumped off of his throne, and
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God the Father danced, and Godthe Father twirled, and God the
Father rejoiced, and theyembraced hallelujah and amen.
That happened already.
That is the Jesus the Lord GodAlmighty wants you to trust in
right this moment.
The finished sacrifice of theLord God Almighty Himself, the
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Lord who is love, the Lord whois holiness, the Lord who is
justice, the Lord who isjudgment, the Lord who is truth,
the Lord who is grace, the Lordwho is mercy.
Hallelujah.
He did this already.
And he is well, well, wellpleased with his son.
Matter of fact, that's whereJesus is right now.
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He's at the right hand of theFather.
Matter of fact, Jesus isreturning and Jesus is coming
again.
And so you are insane if you areliving a religious life in the
name of the Lord, trying andtrying and trying and trying.
Trying to make your ownofferings.
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He already did it.
Trying to make your own way.
He already made it.
He said, I am the way, thetruth, and the life.
There's no one coming to theFather except by me.
Trying to do your own work.
To overcome your sin.
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To cope with your sin.
To find some sort of measure ofmental and emotional stability.
In the middle of your sin.
Oh my friend, God lovinglypoints you to the cross.
He says, I already coped withyour sin.
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I already, I uh you you wantstability?
I already I I gave you peace.
You're more than just stable.
You you've got a peace that theworld can't under understand or
comprehend.
You're always ever learning andnever coming to a knowledge of
the truth.
Ever learning, ever, you know,well, let's try this way.
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Let's try to bounce my eyes offof the ladies on off of the man.
Let's try, let's try, you know,whenever that comes up, I'm just
gonna bounce my eyes.
And try real hard to jam somescripture through my head
instead of all those images.
And we're just gonna try real.
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Yes, I've been there.
Yes, it nearly drove me insane.
Yes, it's driving people insaneout there right now.
And yes, the Lord God Almightywants to deal with it.
Hallelujah.
Trying to be something thatyou're not, because my friend,
fish gonna swim, bird gonna fly,cat gonna meow, dog gonna bark.
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You're gonna sin.
And God knows it.
Question is, do you want yourremedy or do you want God's?
Your em your remedy is you'regonna you're gonna have a life
full of frustration, you'regonna have a life full of
failure, you're gonna have alife full of ups and downs,
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you're gonna have a life you youwonder why, you know, I talk to
people who are like, yeah, yeah,I gave up on church 20 years
ago, it didn't work.
This is why it didn't work.
Because it was all just a bunchof human work.
And so, no, it's not gonna work.
That's the and you get jaded.
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And you get hard and you getcynical and you just get blah.
A lot of people claim that youknow it's just kind of blah.
It's kind of oh yeah, you know,I go to church, I do this.
But my friend, that's not thelife God wants for you.
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That's not the life he has foryou.
You see, born-again man, woman,and child, your sin is in the
past.
Your sin is on Jesus, and Jesusdied, and Jesus rose again.
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And so God's not looking at youand seeing your sin anymore.
Matter of fact, we got aglorious promise out of 1 John.
It says, you know, if any mansin, talking to believers, if
any man sin, well, immediatelywe we have an advocate with
Christ, we have an advocate withJesus.
Um, goes so boldly to say thatyou know, if you're in Christ,
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you don't sin.
That that's how far away fromsin that a born-again man,
woman, and child is.
That's how how far away you are.
It's not even in the equation inthe eyes of God anymore.
It's not even in it's not evenin consideration.
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God Himself doesn't remember it.
One of my favorite gospel songs,we're gonna sing this one here.
You know, in the depths of thesea by the cathedrals.
Go look it up.
Your sin is in the depths of thesea, forgotten, far away, and
you're free.
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Amen.
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You're free.
So why do we obey God?
We obey God because we love him.
Why do we follow Christ?
Because we want to.
Because he's our Lord, he's theauthor and the finisher of our
faith.
We're his bride.
He uses the language of a bride,he uses the language of a child,
he uses the language of adoptedchildren.
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Um, we're at home with God.
That's why we follow him.
Hallelujah.
Is that why you follow Godtonight?
Because my friend, there thiswhole Cain and Abel thing is
still going on today.
It's still going on right now,it's still going on right this
second.
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You're either in love with theLord, following him, excited,
passionate, joyful, at peace, athome, bearing out the fruits of
the Holy Ghost, joyfully walkingout a calling, joyfully walking
out being the church, joyfullywalking out, you know,
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fellowship with one to another,blessed be the name of the Lord.
The word we heard onencouragement and exhortation,
hallelujah.
That's got to go on more aroundhere.
That's gotta go on in yourchurch, my friend.
Blessed be the name of the Lord,and it's not a heavy thing.
I'm asking you today, do youthink it's a heavy thing?
Do you think it's something youalways have to work on?
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Cain.
See, we gotta go back over somany verses.
Hallelujah.
If any man be in Christ, he is anew creature.
You don't work on anything.
You must be born again.
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You don't work on anything.
You work on nothing.
Has made us the mostunderpreached promises of
Christianity.
Kings and priests.
Oh, that's past tense.
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That's completed already.
You are saints.
You are the sons of God.
You are the salt of the earth.
You are the light of the world.
Where do you have to work onanything?
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You oh, you you say your flesh.
Well, we bless God, we all gotone.
Oh, but what's God say about it?
On two different occasions, Pauldid.
I am crucified.
I am crucified.
Am crucified.
Am crucified.
That the body of flesh might bedestroyed, rendered inoperative.
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You're free from it.
Resist you blame the devil.
Resist the devil.
What does God say?
Resist the devil and he willflee from you.
You see, do you see the Lordlovingly taking away every
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excuse you have for notfollowing Christ?
Every excuse your flesh can comeup with for not believing the
Lord.
Every excuse your flesh can comeup with for not having the life
that God wants you to have.
Because that's not just to thechurch.
God does want you to have alife, a fruitful life, a full
life in Him.
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I'm talking to the lost people.
I'm talking to I'm talking toCain.
I'm talking to modern day Cainsin America and around the world.
God wants you to have a lifewith him.
And that life is not dominatedby sin.
That life is not you alwaystrying to please him.
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That life is not following allof his rules and then
flagellating yourself when youdon't.
That life is not giving abackbreaking offering to the
church and hoping that God'sjust gonna give it back to you
somehow.
That offering is not finding apurpose-driven life.
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That offering is not seven stepsor seven sacraments or five
pillars or all these tenets, ortrying to figure out how to
harmonize all of the fathers wayin the background, and they
wrote all this stuff, and yougotta figure out how it all goes
together.
No, that's not life.
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The life God has for you is realsimple, not complicated.
Jesus loves me, this I know.
For the Bible tells me so.
Little ones to him belong.
They are weak, but he is strong.
Jesus loves me, he who died.
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Heaven's gates have to openwide.
This is your song, lost person.
He will wash away your sin.
He will wash away your sin.
Let his little child come in.
That's it in song.
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That's it in verse.
Faith.
Do you believe that Jesus Christdied for you?
Do you believe that Jesus Christis risen again?
Do you believe that Jesus Christloves you?
Do you see, even now, how yourentire Christian existence, how
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your entire religious existence,how your entire moral existence
is powerless to save you.
And even beyond that, it's notpleasing to God.
Even beyond that, you've beendenying the blood in the name of
Jesus.
You've been denying Jesus in thename of Jesus.
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Because my friend, as I hopeyou've heard tonight, his work
is finished.
God's sacrifice is already made,and God's sacrifice is already
accepted, and there will be noother.
And that includes the sacrificesthat you're trying to make.
But oh my friends, God willnever tear anything down without
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building something up.
He'll never show you your sinwithout drawing you to the
Savior.
That's his will for you.
God didn't come here to leaveyou broken, hopeless, helpless,
and miserable.
Even if your entire religiouslife has collapsed tonight, He's
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not here to destroy you.
He's here to save you.
Because my friend, if he wouldhave continued your own way, it
would have been certain doom anddestruction.
But if you'll stop right now,right this very moment, a humble
believing believing, hallelujah.
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That's the work of God.
Believe on the one he sent.
Do you believe him tonight?
And if so, call upon the name ofthe Lord.
And no, you're not alone.
I myself was once a king.
Was once.
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My wife used to be a Cain.
Many people in this room used tobe a Cain.
Going about trying to establishyour own righteousness, going
about trying to please God.
Going about lost.
His love broke through.
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Is it breaking through to youtonight?
Hallelujah.
If so, call upon the name ofJesus.
And my friend, you know, if ourmusicians will come here
tonight, we'll have a time ofinvitation here.
And if you'd like someone topray with you.
And I simply ask you to comeforward.
If you need to be saved, comeforward tonight.
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Now, church, this altar is opento you tonight.
My friend, if you're behind thecamera tonight or if you're on
audio tonight, and and you wantto be saved.
My friend, just ask the Lord tobe saved.
Just let that belief in you,that faith in you come up in
some words.
Whatever the words are, ask himto be born again.
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Ask him to be saved.
Ask him to be a Christian.
Ask him to take away your blood.
Ask him, my friend.
And my friend, if you comehonestly, if you come humbly, if
you come as a heartful thing, hewill in no way turn you away.
So my friends, I thank you againfor listening, and thank you for
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being here.
Thank you for being on the otherside of that camera.
Thank you for being on our audiobroadcast tonight.
And thank you.
And now please, please, please,please continue to be.
And especially if you know whathe has in your life.
Make sure that you can speak.
Because I know the Lord isspeaking.
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And I know he loves them.
And I know he has a design forthem to be born again.
He doesn't want them to perish,but he wants him to come.
So right man, feel free to usesome questions.
And feel free to let us know howwe can pray for you.
Feel welcome and fight to comeand see us in person.
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And thank you again forlistening.
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