Listen "Genesis 4:1-7 / Acceptable and unacceptable worship"
Episode Synopsis
From Adam and Eve in Chapters 1-3, the next generation of humans is introduced at the start of Chapter 4, with the firstborn and the second born of Adam and Eve (Cain and Abel, respectively). We read both Cain and Abel work and bring an offering to the Lord, but they are very different offerings. One approaches God correctly (Abel) bringing a choice sacrifice, and one approaches God in a way to evoke God's response of "no regard" (Cain). But our loving God does not leave Cain in his sin of an unacceptable offering, God counsels Cain in that moment how to be in right relationship with Him and warns him that sin desires to well up in Cain. The choice now is that of Cain.
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