<TITLE>04. Par 12-15</TITLE>L-12 Anyhow, when the Angel begin to pull His flaming sword out to guard this Tree of Life... Now, watch. Cain and Abel both come to find favor with God. Amen. Now, look. Cain was a long ways from being a communist; neither was he an atheist. But Cain was a believer. Get on your shock proof vests now. Cain was a believer and a worshipper of God.
If God only required a believer, Cain was just as just as Abel was. And God would be unjust if He condemned Cain for his faith in Him and accepted Abel, if faith was all He required. All right.
But Cain came and offered a sacrifice. Now, look. Cain built an altar, a church. Cain made a sacrifice, just same as Abel did. And Cain worshipped. He never come as an unbeliever. He come as a believer. He raised up his hands and worshipped God just the same as Abel did. Well, if a church membership, an altar, a worship, a sacrifice is all God requires, then Cain was just as just as Abel was.

L-13 If you belong to church and go to church, got your name on the church book, a good tithe payer, a worshipper, sincerity, that still isn't it. That's right. And I don't want to hurt you, but I--I've got to stand before judgment with you. God requires more than that. And Cain was just as just on it as Abel was if that's all God requires.
Now, I want you to notice. Cain built his big, fine altar. I can imagine him being a tiller of the soil, filled it full of Easter flowers, and everything, and made it beautiful. He was the nature of Satan.
Today we have chimes on the churches, and plush pews, and everything else, trying to find favor with God, and that's not God's way of finding favor.
Every Easter you go to church and they bid you Merry Christmas 'cause they won't see you any more till Christmas. Come to Easter to show off a new hat or a new bonnet or a new suit of clothes, bring up a big armful of Easter flowers and throw them on the altar. God don't want Easter flowers on the altar. He wants you on the altar. You're the one belongs on the altar.

L-14 But see how we got away? No wonder we can't believe for Divine healing. You got the cart before the horse. You got to get the thing running right before you can believe right. You got to get this right up here, and right down here, before you can see right. You got to have something in here to believe with before you can believe.
Sons and daughters of God are borned of the Spirit of God and--and God a Spirit, Who just spoke the world into existence. And the very earth that you're setting on tonight was the Word of God materialized. And a man that's borned of that same Spirit believes God can do all things, and believes Him for all things. But if you're not borned of the Spirit of God, you can't believe it, because you're earthly yet. And you're still trying to build a fine church, and put a choir in it, and the angelic voices and things like that in it. That don't please God. Cain in the beginning would've been accepted if it was.

L-15 But Cain laid his sacrifice down. He knelt down on his knees, and he raised up his hands. I can hear his beautiful prayer, just how he rhymed it out just so in order and everything to try to find favor with Jehovah. "Here is the works that I have brought and laid down. I've built this church. I've done these things. I--I've worked hard, and here's a part of what I've got. I lay here. I offer to You, Jehovah. Can I find favor?" Wasn't an infidel, he was a fundamentalist. He was just as fundamental as the other fellow was.
But God through election... Amen. That shakes you down a little bit, 'cause I'm speaking to a half million... a half a group of Arminians here. But look. It was through election that God called Abel and had recompense to the reward.


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