<TITLE>08. Par 38-42</TITLE>L-38 But notice, they had sinned now, and I can hear God say, "Because you came out of the dust of the earth, dust thou shalt return." And poor little Eve throwed her head over on Adam's shoulders and begin to weeping because she knowed what she'd done. Adam put his arm around Eve, and there they go walking out of Eden condemned. I can just hear that old bloody sheepskin around the beautiful figure of those two people, slapping against their legs as they were going, walking out of Eden. God looking at them...?...
All that great space come down to one four letter word, l-o-v-e. He's loved them so well He couldn't see them go. So He called her, said, "I'll put enmity between your seed and the serpent's seed," promising a Saviour.
And that same Saviour, with His own Blood around His garments flapping against His legs, walked up Golgotha's hill and was crucified to redeem the man.

L-39 Now, out of there come two children, one Cain and one Abel. Now, let's... May the Lord help us now. Out of there come the first two boys; which Cain--Abel was killed and Seth took his place, we understand. But let's look back here at the beginning now and the seed of these two boys, bringing out where I'm going to speak of right now.
Cain and Abel, after driven from the garden of Eden, they realized that they had sinned and--and they was separated from God. And each boy wanted to find favor in the sight of God, so he comes to make a sacrifice and builds an altar.

L-40 Now, I want to--you to watch something. God is just. Do you believe that, audience? He is absolutely just. And if God only requires a religion, Cain was just as just as Abel was. Both those boys came before God.
Cain wasn't a communist. He wasn't an infidel, an unbeliever. He was a believer. And if God only requires a believer, He would be unjust to condemn Cain.

L-41 Now, this is going to make you tighten up your ecclesiastical vest just a little bit, but listen. Notice. God cannot be just. If you say, "I am a believer," so was Cain, and so is the devil. That's right. He came as a believer. And you say, "Well, I go to church, I'll go to the altar." So did Cain. Cain built an altar or a church unto the Lord.
You say, "I'm a member of a church." So was Cain. And Cain made a sacrifice.
You say, "I pay so much every year into my church." So did Cain.
"I worship the Lord from the bottom of my heart." So did Cain. Cain was a believer, a worshipper, and just as fundamentally right as Abel was. Amen. Oh, I love this. I pray, God, steam our hearts.
Now, don't get excited; I know where I am. Look, but I feel kind of religious right now.

L-42 Notice, when I see that pro and con, when I see that negative and positive, when I see Cain come up there in the beginning...
Now, we're back in Genesis, at the beginning of the tree, there's where it was planted. Cain was strictly a fundamentalist, just as fundamental as Abel was. He loved the Lord; he worshipped the Lord. And he built a altar to the Lord; he made a sacrifice to the Lord; he paid his vows to the Lord, just as religious as any fundamental teacher could teach it today. That's right.
But God accepted Abel's offering, because Abel, by faith, offered a more excellent sacrifice than Cain by being just.
Now, if we had time, I'd like to twist that. Now, there's the beginning of the two trees; I want you to watch: one on the right, one on the left: Cain and Abel. Now, there's where this thing that we're living in today was planted right there in the garden of Eden and started from there in Genesis: right there.


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