Brother Gary Wednesday Evening 6/3/15

Brother Gary Wednesday Evening 6/3/15

When men begin to pray. 

We see in Genesis chapter three that Adam and Eve were driven from the garden.  It was not long after that that we see the sad story of Cain and Able.

Gen 3:23  Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

Gen 3:24  So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

Gen 4:1  And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

Gen 4:2  And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

Gen 4:3  And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.

We know that they knew how to worship God.  Men and women have a knowledge that they need to worship God.  It is a sad condition that goes way back in the history of man:  Anytime men turn from worshipping the true God, they turn to worshipping something else.

When men don’t worship God, the true and the living God, their mind goes either to worshipping an individual or to worshipping something else that God created.  There is nothing that exists that God did not create.  He created men and women’s minds.  He created the universe.

Unfortunately but true, Cain chose to offer as a sacrifice for sin his vegetables or whatever he grew.  Able brought of the first of his flock and God had respect to Able and his offering.  God honors us worshipping God in Spirit and in truth.

We find this every morning when we go into worship thanking God for the sacrifice of His Son, and go to the laver.  We find this as we go through the door mentally to the Tabernacle and enjoy the showbread.  There were twelves loaves made fresh every morning.  We must be a king and a priest to be able to eat that wonderful bread.

It is wonderful to receive the bread from Heaven with the oil of the Holy Spirit upon it.  My strength level and ability to concentrate was not very high Monday.  God took me to Isaiah 12 verse 3 or 4: “With joy shall you draw waters out of the wells of salvation.”

People don’t get anything from God with a critical spirit, always seeing something wrong and negative.  They don’t receive anything to give out.  But with Joy shall you draw water from the wells of salvation. 

We are blessed to get into position for God to come and say, “Son or daughter, you need to get to the laver.  There are things that you need to be washed of.”  We don’t have the attitude, “Everyone needs to have grace for me because I am just a sourpuss.” 

We can have the presence of God about us.  This is what we want to be the difference, that we have an identity with the value of worshipping God God’s way. 

Able brought of the firstling of His flock and of the fat thereof.  The Lord had respect to Able and His offering.

It starts right here at the brazen altar:  Thank you God for the sacrifice of your Son.  We acknowledge that it was with the precious blood of the Lamb of God on the hill called Mount Calvary that His precious blood paid for my sin.  I was saved from a lot of things.  Many of them I will never know.

We go and are washed.  He that was holy, harmless, and from heaven didn’t have to go to the cross, but He did it to save me.  It is a humbling experience that puts such thanksgiving in our soul.

Gen 4:4  And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:

Gen 4:5  But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

The result of worshipping God’s way:  It was accepted.  Sometimes things don’t go through the internet when you try to send something.  We know when God accepts it.  God rejected Cain.  His offering was unacceptable, but to make it worse he became wroth.  He became angry and jealous. 

As brothers, it is in our heart to help and to teach each other all that we possibly can.  It is a wonderful thing.  Here Cain chose to do it his way and when God rejected it he was angry and jealous with his brother.  His countenance fell.

Gen 4:6  And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?

Gen 4:7  If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

Gen 4:8  And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

As wrong as Cain was, and he was really wrong, God came to him.  James chapter four: He is the father of mercies.  I have an understanding of this because of the faithfulness of God to come back to Cain.  There are people tonight that are so lost that they are hopeless, yet the mercifulness of God will go back to them.

God said, “Why are you wroth?”  When someone chooses to attack you…  There will be someone that will choose you to be their target.  It happened to Able and it will happen to you.

It is wonderful how God reasoned with Cain, “Why are you so black in the face?”  There are people that when they see us their faces darken. 

God said to Cain, “If you do well, shalt thou not be accepted, if you do not well, then sin lies at the door.”  I believe it is right that God was telling him, “Your brother will give you a sheep, there is a sacrifice and forgiveness of sin, if you do it the right way.”

The easiest thing in the world is to get right with God.  All you have to do is to humble down.  God would have forgiven Cain, He was still ready after all of this.  After Cain was so angry with his brother, God was still ready to forgive.  We see this because He reasoned with him.

God said, if you do what is right, your brother will love you and you will be in a position of having influence over him, but you have to do what is right.  If people want to be an influence in your life it is only if they do what is right.  All people have to do is just do what is right.

Cain talked with his brother, perhaps he said, “Let’s go for a walk.”  They ended up in the field.  It came to pass when they were in the field:

Gen 4:8  And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

Gen 4:9  And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?

Gen 4:10  And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.

God help us to not ever take a measure that will cause our brother’s blood to cry out from the ground.

Gen 4:11  And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;

Gen 4:12  When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

Isn’t it sad what sin does to people?  A fugitive.  My heart goes out to people that never come to Zion.  They wander here, and they wander there; they get beat up here, and they get beat up somewhere else.  They find themselves in a position that no one wants them.

Gen 4:13  And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.

Gen 4:14  Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.

He did this all to himself.  He thought everyone would be like he was. 

Learn the lesson, when people think that everyone is out to get them, they are out to get everyone.  They think that everyone is like themselves.

Gen 4:15  And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

Gen 4:16  And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

Stay with God.  It is a crucial time, the enemy is turned loose everywhere.  Cain went from the presence of the lord and dwelt in the land of wandering for that is what Nod means.

Stay with God, know your calling, know your work, know where you feed, have a burden for souls, follow that burden for souls.  Know what God wants you to do and be busy doing it.

It wasn’t very far along until polygamy was introduced.  That is a sad condition.  There was more violence.  This man with two wives killed a couple people in self-defense, there were bad times.

Adam and Eve had a son and called him Seth; Seth bare a son and called him Enos.  Men and women began to call upon God. 

We are so blessed when men and women begin to pray.  We become separated.  We are not so interested in money, or being influential.  “I am a little man with a big job in a little town.”  This is how God wants us to be.  He wants us to be humble men, realizing that we have a big job.

When you begin to call upon God it is not so much that you are great, but that you have access to God.