<TITLE>07. Par 23-26</TITLE>L-23 Now, let's look back in the very beginning, in the garden of Eden, after they were taken out of the garden of Eden and the children was born. Cain and Abel, both of those boys, realized that they were mortal, they were dying, and burning down like a candle, and someday must return back to the dust and to the Maker that brought them forth. And they wanted to find favor with God. So they both come to worship.
Here's a little point we might drop in right now, so that you'll truly understand... Now, I think that every person ought to belong to church somewhere. That's a duty for you; you should belong to church. But just belonging to church won't do the job. See? I think everybody ought to worship, ought to worship the Lord Jesus Christ in the singleness of heart, purity of heart, but that just isn't enough. I believe every man ought to have faith in God, predominating faith in God. But yet, that isn't it yet. See? If going to church, belonging to church, paying tithes, worshipping God, and all these things that we do today called religion, God would be unjust to condemn Cain, 'cause He done every bit of it.

L-24 Cain wasn't as infidel. Cain was a believer. Cain didn't come, saying, "Now, I don't believe there is such a thing as God." Cain--Cain come as a believer. He is trying to find grace with God. And Cain built an altar. An altar is a church, a place of worship. Then Cain built an altar, and not only that, but Cain brought an offering and made a sacrifice. And not only that, but Cain worshipped the Lord. You see it?
Now, you could be--belong to a church, go to the altar and pray, pay your duties and tithes to the church, make spiritual sacrifice, kneel on you knees, confess your faith in God and still be lost.
Let's go back to the beginning. Get on the right road first (See?); then you can run all right, if you get on the right road. Now, there was two...
Maybe Sunday I'll get into that a little deeper on Sunday afternoon, the true and false vines if God willing. Notice, but now, Abel... What was the difference if a man worshipped, if a man brings a sacrifice, if a man does all these things, why wouldn't God receive him?

L-25 Now, Cain, I don't believe that Cain willfully walked out there and got the fruits of the field, works of his hands, and brought it over, because he--he just absolutely wanted to do it to be a smart aleck. I believe Cain come with a full heart, thinking he was doing right. Why was he trying to find favor with God? He was trying to find life again. He was trying to get back to the garden of Eden again, where the Cherubims was.
I imagine they went to the east side where the Cherubim was guarding the Tree of Life. They were trying to get back. And a man with his--the destination of his soul hanging in the balance, he ain't going up there to play church; he's going up there to worship. And with all of his heart, Cain said, "I believe there is a God. And I'm coming to find favor with Him." So he goes and get the fruits of the field that he had raised, brought them up and laid them down, perhaps put the big calla lilies and beautiful flowers, around and stepped back... Oh, we could have something to say here of that nature like that. But he stepped back, knelt down, and raised up his hands, and confessed his wrong and worshipped Jehovah. But Jehovah shook his head, no.

L-26 Here comes Abel, perhaps with nothing pretty, had a little old lamb and a grapevine tied around his neck. There wasn't no hemp in that day, so I suppose he had a grape vine around his neck, dragging the little fellow, and him trying to pull back, picked him up, throwed him up on the rock. They didn't have any knives, so he perhaps taken a piece of flint or something, and pulled his little head back and chopped his little throat like, that till he cut the jugular vein, the little fellow kicking, and the blood spraying like that, holding his hand up on him till the little fellow died. And God looked down and said, "That's right, that's it."


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