"Abel" Tagged Sermons
1. ____________________: An Accepted Offering (v. 4).
2. ____________________: Pleasing Fellowship (v. 5).
3. ____________________: The Prerequisite for Pleasing God (v. 6).
Three reasons explain why Abel’s offering is accepted where Cain’s is not, alongside two specific ways Cain’s falls short. Abel’s faith in the unseen world, drawn from Hebrews 11:1, is functionally identical to New Testament faith itself.
Cain and Abel’s occupations, sufferings, and relationship are compared, finding in Abel a genuine faith in the unseen. Cain, by contrast, wants the world in front of him, not the unseen realities faith actually reaches for.
Cain and Abel are read through Genesis 3:15’s promise, Abel as seed of the woman and Cain as seed of the serpent. A warning follows against the idolatry of the family: the church, not the family, is the truly basic family unit, which is exactly why conflicts within families run so deep.