* That’s why there is no gender equality
* That’s why there is famine, poverty, catostrophe, earthquake etc
15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
* The seed who will bruise satan's head is Jesus Christ
5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
6 And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
* if Cain would have followed the conscience of his heart, he would have done the right thing. If Cain did well like he was supposed to, God would have accepted his sacrifice.
6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
* Man at their conscience messed up and God is to drown them all out with a flood
* Some say why is God so cruel to judge people to hell as they are just trying to follow their conscience.
* From here, we can see that God already proved it by giving man a chance to follow their conscience but they messed up and they ended up in sin
9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
* Grace means something we don’t deserve yet we get it
* Some people use this verse to prove Noah was saved by grace only
* It is true that grace of God was given through beginning to end but they don’t read verse 9
* The keyword is Noah walked with God
* Man during that time did not follow their conscience and because they did not follow their conscience, what did God do? God drowned them all with a flood and they died and went to hell
* If Noah did not walk with God, that means he would not have followed his conscience and he would have done the same thing like the rest of the world did that time and he would be like the rest of the world where he will end up being drowned in the flood
* God made him an exception because he was one who was compared to the rest of them who was living right
* If he was living evil like them, God would have drowned him too
a. Those Who Have The Law Are Judged By The Law And Those Who Does Not Have The Law Are Judged By Their Conscience
14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
* Man is justified before God if he would do and follow the law but for those who do not have the law, they are judged by their conscience.
* People who do not have the gospel or law will be judged by their conscience but people who have the gospel or law will be judged by the gospel or law
2 A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
3 He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius.
4 And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.
5 And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter:
a. Abel's Faith Had To Be Accompanied By Works By Offering Better Sacrifices Unto God To Receive Righteousness
Genesis 3:13-14 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Genesis 7:5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
1 Peter 3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
* Noticed Hebrews 11:7: Noah was called heir of righteousness by faith
* If Noah did not build the boat, he would have not been qualified to be called the heir of the righteousness by faith
* He would have been condemned, drowned out with the lost world.
* Noah chose to be separated from the lost world by building an ark.
* Noah was saved by faith and works had to accompany it.
a. Because Noah Walked With God, He Was Considered Perfect In His Righteousness
* They had to go by doing somekind of works by their own effort to obtain their own righteousness
* walking with God and obeying His commandments is a work that requires effort
* God was judging them at the best of their ability that time
* they have to do it by their own effort
4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
* This shows that there was a time when people's salvation plan were by man's righteousness not God's righteousness
* Their salvation plan is different from ours.
* They had to go by doing somekind of works by their own effort to obtain their own righteousness
* They had to go by this method because Jesus had not died on the cross yet where He can make a legitimate perfect official standard of righteousness for the world
* For christians, we are saved by God’s righteousness not our own righteousness
* Christians are imputeth God's righteousness by faith alone (without works) when we believe in the blood atonement of Jesus Christ (His death, buriel and ressurection) for our salvation
Genesis 3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
* humans doing the active work by their own effort signifies their own righteousness and God doing the active work on behalf of humans while humans without effort being the passive recepient just receive it signifies God’s righteousness
* This is clearly seen when Jesus died on our behalf as our substitute and we just have to believe that He completed our salvation and receive it.
a. God Did Blood Atonement On Their Behalf Through Animal Sacrifices To Cover Their Sins
* shedding of animal blood as sacrifice were for forgiveness of sins. God must have taught them about this
4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
* Abel followed his conscience and obeyed and brought animal for blood atonement sacrifices to atone for his own sins
* Who taught Abel how to do this? Certainly by his parents
* Cain however, did not follow his conscience to do the right thing
* Adam's lost the image of God & the spiritual nature died when he sinned
* Unless we have the spiritual nature being made alive (by being born again) then only we can have the image of God
48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
* Not everyone has the the image of God
* Only unless we receive Jesus for our salvation, then only we can receive the image of God
* people who do not believe on Jesus Christ for their salvation do not have the image of God
* only unless they receive the gospel of Christ, then only they can receive the image of God
* The whole lost world don't have the image of God, they only have a spiritual nature that is dead
* Only unless we are born again, then we can have that image of God
* Thats why spiritual dealings of God, we don’t see them frequent in the old testament because the spiritual nature is dead.
* Thats why we gonna find out later on God's dealings with Israel is physical a lot and the blessing are physical, and the kingdom is physical and their promises are physical
* Why is there a sudden switch in the new testament with everything being spiritualize? Its because when when Jesus came, He brought a way to make alive the dead spiritual nature. Jesus introduced the doctrine of born again which is to make alive the dead spirit
* What happened here? In the Edenic Covenant, God promised a seed to Adam who will bruise Satan's head
* Satan immediately at work trying to ruin the seed of man and he did it with Cain
* As a result, see what happens in the next verse
* Satan immediately at work againts the seed of man so that he can make Cain of Satan's seed
* Did Satan succeed? Yes.
* See the next point to see how satan succeed again
2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
* When these sons of God intermingled with the seed of man,they produce giants and superhuman beings
* Why was all these happening? Because Satan was trying to ruin man’s seed
* So it makes sense, even though they had faith, they had to do works out of it physically because God is dealing with physical and he can't based it on spiritual things
* Today's christians we can just go by faith (spiritual) and God can deal with us spiritually because we have a spiritual nature that is alive as a result of Christ sacrifice
* During their time they never had that because when Adam sinned, the spiritual nature died, so God can't do that with them. God deals primarily by physical dealings.
* However we see that God's grace is carried from the beginning to the end (Genesis-Revelation) as He will do some sort of spiritual dealings too but he does not do everything based of spiritual dealings
* Because the spiritual nature was dead, that's why works (physical) that was their salvation system and they cannot do spiritual because the spiritual nature of man was dead