Title: You shall rule over sin
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Genesis 4:1-15
This morning I would like to think about the problem of sin. People don't live without sin for a moment, seven days a week, but they hate to think about it. So these days, there are many people who argue that preaching on sin should not be preached to modern people. After a week of exhaustion and exhaustion, I attended worship service on Sunday, and he asks me if I can only talk about good things.
By the way, if you think about it for a bit, all the root causes of our hard, weary, and weary stems from the decision of Adam and Eve to leave God. That's a sin. Sin is anything that turns away from God and rebels against God. Therefore, there is no more important task in our life than to think correctly about this problem and have alternatives.
Let's read verse 7 together. Looking at this, what was God's warning to Cain? The desire of sin is in you, but you must rule over it! This means that if you do it wrong, sin will rule over you, sin will rule over you, and you have to be careful and watch out for it. The desire of sin is in you. This verse explains that in the punishment that fell on the fallen Eve last week, ‘You will long for your husband, but your husband will rule you.’ Here, longing refers to the desire and desire to control your husband. He said that the meaning of this word was the same as the warning to Cain. To say that you have a wish of sin means that the desire to do it is within you! This is it. This is God's warning to all who belong to Adam.
But you shall rule over sin! Pay attention to what you said before. Sin bows at the door, it's like the bastard Sin is crouching at our door like a wild bear. It means that if you open the door, you will come in. Once in, the house will be a mess. But a very familiar tamer tames the bear. You have to be brave and have some skill. Once tamed, sit and then sit, lie down and then lie down.
So, take control of your sins. These words are not to let sin run around in your mind, just as you tame a wild bear; Even Cain had a chance enough to weaken the beastly sinful desires. It means that he could not use any power within himself.
It is for one reason that we are thinking deeply about Cain today. It can make us as evil as Cain in an instant. We must not forget that we are born with a character like Cain. In the Old Testament, I don't think he would do the most Cain-like thing, but the person who committed the most Cain-like crime was David. David's crime is truly shocking.
One day, he sees a woman very suddenly and is sexually aroused to rape her, plotting a false job to cover it up, and when it fails, she secretly murders her husband, and everything goes wrong. Hide it as if it happened by chance. David, who was praised by God for being the closest to God, best served, and most after God's own heart, was anyone who committed these five sins in an instant: adultery, lying, manipulation, concealment, and murder.
So, after committing all these sins at once, David repents and reflects on these things. Lord, I have a sinful nature within me. Sin is always before me, I was born in iniquity, and was conceived in sin when my mother bore me!
Cain is a descendant of Adam. The nature of sin enters into Cain. However, it is very important that not all of Adam's children have to live captivated by the inevitable sinful nature like Cain. This is because, although Adam's second son, Abel, belonged to Adam, his heart was not enslaved to the nature of sin. He was the one whose grace dominated the center.
So, it is not that anyone who descends from Adam has no choice but to sin. Let's look at three things about Cain. Cain knows that the sinful nature is wriggling within him. Receive a warning from God. But he does not rule over sin. He joins the lust of sin so that it dominates him, and he becomes a slave. And you will have the most miserable life.
First, Cain's sin was to hate God in his heart. (Verses 1-5)
Cain hates God from the heart. I am not interested in God. Self-centered people hate God. You don't need God in your life. Only I matter. Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden