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0:07All right. All right. All right. All
0:09right. Lord knows I needed that. My God
0:11on today.
0:15That was a good worship session. That's
0:17what I'm talking about. Amen.
0:19Hello everybody. How's everybody doing?
0:22Y'all were on fire in the chat. I saw
0:24you.
0:25I saw you all on fire in the chat. I'm
0:29excited.
0:30I am excited. I am excited. I guess the
0:33enemy thought that he was about to stop
0:34this Bible stud.
0:38I guess he thought trying to stop our
0:40music at the end. But we here.
0:42We here. Oh yeah. We here. Oh yeah.
0:47[laughter]
0:49Oh yeah. We at the church. We ain't
0:51going nowhere. GP, are you stop playing?
0:55Let me stop playing. GP, are you with
0:57me?
1:00>> I did get this big one with that. Okay,
1:01we here.
1:05Okay.
1:07Okay, y'all. We here. We are here.
1:12Let me stop playing so much.
1:15I was good. It worked out. Yeah, y'all.
1:17I had Hello, Tia. Hi, sugar. I don't
1:21know if you got my message. Hello,
1:22sugar.
1:24M talk about the attacks.
1:28Woo.
1:30All right.
1:33Covered by the blood. Let the river of
1:35life flow through us. Oh, Heavenly
1:38Father, be with us tonight. All right,
1:40y'all. That that fast wore me out this
1:43week. I ain't going to lie to y'all. I
1:44thought I was going to be able to do it
1:45on Tuesday, y'all. I was like in and
1:48out. In and out. Like, I was so drained
1:51physically that I Oh my god. Like my mom
1:54was telling me, she was like, "You just
1:55kept going in and out of sleep." Like, I
1:57was tired.
1:58Oh my god. On today. Oh, Lord. Oh, that
2:03was something. And so
2:07OH, YOU'RE WATCHING ME. OH, thank you,
2:09baby. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
2:11I'm glad.
2:13I'm glad. Come on, Cromax. Don't do your
2:15girl like that now. Come on. All right.
2:18Looks a little dry. Do some talking.
2:20Amen.
2:24or the attacks.
2:28But that's all right. We're children of
2:29God, right? We're children of God. We
2:33are children of God. That means we trust
2:36God, right? Absolutely. Yes. I'm on
2:39YouTube. If y'all can, if y'all are okay
2:41with not being on Zoom, jump over to
2:42YouTube just in case. Uh because there's
2:44a lot of people who registered, excuse
2:46me, a lot of people who registered
2:49and they can't get on Zoom. So, they
2:50think that because they can't get on
2:52Zoom, they can't get in Bible study. I'm
2:54sorry. I'm guilty. And I don't want them
2:56to think that cuz they'll email me and
2:58stuff, but I want to make sure that
2:59everyone is able to get in. But thank
3:00y'all for remembering. I tried to post
3:02it on YouTube and Instagram and all of
3:05that. Oh, thank you so much, Lynn. I
3:07tried to post it everywhere. For some
3:09reason, Google Workspace will not let
3:10you send out a whole lot of emails, so a
3:12lot of y'all probably didn't even
3:13receive an email from me. So, it just I
3:17don't know. It's just one of those
3:18things. Okay.
3:20So, [laughter]
3:22[gasps] it's just one of those things.
3:24But hello everybody. Welcome back.
3:25Welcome back. I miss y'all. I cannot
3:27wait till we get back to weekly. I
3:28absolutely miss y'all. Okay. And I love
3:32when we fellowship. It is amazing when
3:34we fellowship
3:36and it's just a mighty work that we are
3:38anticipating and knowing that God is
3:40going to do. That's what we knowing,
3:42right? We trust God. I love that. I love
3:44that hope night. We do trust God. So,
3:46y'all today, um, where are we at? We
3:49ended at uh Genesis 3:15 last week. We
3:52are going to be in Genesis 3:15 through
3:54Genesis 4:15 today. Okay, I'mma do
3:57something very different. Although I do
3:59have my handy dandy New King James
4:02Version, I am going to be in the
4:03Ethiopian complete Bible today. Okay, it
4:06is it just breaks things down. It
4:09simplifies those without me having to
4:11reading two texts from two different
4:12translations of the word. I'm going to
4:14focus on the Ethiopian. It's really
4:16simple. We may have like three or four
4:18key terms, not anything that's too heavy
4:20as far as key terms. Um, but I I
4:23absolutely love to study with this one
4:25group. This is This is my baby. This is
4:29my baby. And of course, you know, I've
4:31been studying. So, we got the gangster,
4:33the O gangster, [clears throat] the
4:36message Bible, which is a good
4:37breakdown, too, if you need a full
4:39breakdown of what Genesis is. The
4:41message Bible. Okay.
4:44Okay. Um, so this will be recorded and
4:47it's going to be on YouTube. Okay.
4:51Oh, you're so welcome. You're welcome.
4:54It's Bianca. It's a beautiful name. It's
4:56different.
4:58I like that. Like that. If y'all want to
5:00see, Here you go. It's the complete
5:03Ethiopian Bible. It's good. Uh, which
5:07press is this by? It's by This is by
5:09Solomon Press.
5:11Solomon's Gate Press. Sorry. about to
5:13give y'all the wrong thing. Okay,
5:16so we're in the word of God today. I
5:18hope everybody has had a bright week.
5:20Um, so far we are on Thursday, so I'm
5:23excited. I hope everyone has had a
5:24bright week. I hope all of y'all lifted
5:27in spirits. As you all can see, I'm
5:29still here.
5:31Still lifted in spirit. Okay, so I hope
5:34everyone is doing well. I hope all of
5:36you all have had the word of God with
5:38you today and have had your armor on all
5:40week. Okay. I hope so. Okay. I love you
5:46too, darling. Thank you so much.
5:47[laughter]
5:49No, so Bible study is actually on
5:51Tuesdays. It's every other Tuesday. It
5:52was supposed to be on the 10th, but I
5:54moved it up to the 12th cuz I was just
5:56too tired from my fast. And y'all, I got
5:58to stop doing that. I need to make sure
6:01that I take a day's rest. It was time to
6:03eat.
6:06I can't do that when I come off of the
6:07same day. We ain't going to do that.
6:10Okay. So yeah, we're going to be in the
6:11complete Ethiopian Bible today. Lord
6:13Jesus, I do not have on a fan, but we
6:15just going to we going to make it
6:16through this today. Okay, I hope
6:18everyone does everyone have their
6:19physical Bible. I see there are uh I see
6:23there are a lot of new people. I love to
6:25see new people. Hello. By the way,
6:27y'all, I checked on Tuesday when I was
6:29trying to email all of y'all and there
6:30were 4,800 something people who
6:32registered for Bible study. They may not
6:35make it, but they registered. Doesn't
6:37that say a lot? Like that says a lot.
6:40Right? Like look at the work that we are
6:43doing. Right?
6:46Look at the work that we are doing.
6:51Look at that. Not the work I'm doing,
6:53the work we are doing. Cuz I know a lot
6:55of y'all share. I know a lot of y'all
6:58talk to people about it and y'all show
7:00up. Look at the work that we doing. Come
7:03on y'all.
7:05Come on. This soul business, right?
7:08This is soul business. I love it. I love
7:10it. All right, y'all. So, uh, let's go
7:13ahead and get into prayer and then let's
7:15go ahead and get into the word of God.
7:18As a matter of fact, everyone, y'all
7:19said y'all do have your Bibles, right?
7:21Everyone does have their Bibles. Let me
7:23go ahead and tell y'all. Um, I'm stuck
7:26with you since Exodus chapter 3. Oh, I
7:28love that, Latrina. Wait for us to get
7:30back to Exodus. Okay, y'all know I
7:32bounce around. So, we got to Exodus.
7:34What did we get to y'all? What was it?
7:35Exodus 12. Did we go up to 12? I think
7:38it was Exodus chapter 12. I don't think
7:39I ever go past 13 when I'm helping
7:41people. I think we got to Exodus 12,
7:44right? Come on, OG's. I see y'all. We
7:46got to Exodus 12 and then we're back
7:49here. We're in Genesis. We're going to
7:51get all the way through Genesis. Okay,
7:53that's all right. You brought one Bible.
7:55That's fine. All right. We're going to
7:57get all the way through Genesis. We have
7:59to. Okay, because it is so much
8:01information. Does everyone remember what
8:03we talked about the last uh two weeks
8:04ago? Do you all do y'all remember? Oh,
8:08baby. My counseling my counseling
8:09sessions are closed. It's just way too
8:11many people. [laughter]
8:13I promise y'all put out that waiting
8:14list, but it's been a lot. Hello,
8:16mother. What's wrong? You going to turn
8:18the fan? You just knew I was going to be
8:21hot.
8:21>> Yes.
8:22>> Thank you.
8:24Thank you so much. Can you hear me or
8:25are you in study? Oh,
8:28>> okay. Okay,
8:30I pray.
8:32>> Are y'all gonna pray? Yes. Please do.
8:35Thank you so much. [snorts] Thank you.
8:37Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Uh but yeah,
8:39so y'all remember we talked about the
8:41proto evangelium. Do y'all remember
8:43that? We talked about that. We got
8:46through your mama kid. It's just me,
8:49Tanisha. It's just me.
8:53Yes. Okay. Y'all remember that? Uhhuh.
8:55Foreshadowing Jesus.
8:59Does everybody remember that? Y'all
9:00y'all good? You remember that? I do have
9:02my water. Okay. Okay. Okay, I just want
9:04to make sure because last week, if y'all
9:06haven't, uh, go back and look over the
9:08YouTube because
9:10it was packed. Last week was a packed
9:13one. Okay? And we're going to be jumping
9:15from that and we're going to keep going.
9:17Y'all know after that, the the Bible is
9:19really just like a map after that. It's
9:22a map. [laughter]
9:25It's a map. And the Bible is full of
9:26drama, too. So, you know, y'all don't
9:28got to go out there and get no teeth
9:29from anybody else. You just weeping by.
9:33[laughter]
9:35Oh, well, thank you. I appreciate that.
9:36Okay. I just want y'all to know y'all.
9:39Okay, y'all. Get to You want some tea?
9:44You want tea? Yeah. Okay. All right,
9:47y'all. Let me go and get started. We
9:48already been 10 minutes in. [laughter]
9:50Heavenly Father, we thank you for
9:51bringing us together in this fellowship
9:52right now, Father God, in this Bible
9:54study to be able to receive the word of
9:56God and to spread the gospel to those
9:58who are in need right now, Father God.
10:00Father God, we come up against any type
10:01of distraction, anything that is trying
10:03to take our mind away from this blessing
10:05in this moment. And Father God, I ask
10:07that you illuminate this space and you
10:09illuminate our minds and our hearts with
10:10the word of God, Father God, that we are
10:12receptive to the knowledge that you have
10:14bestowed upon us, Father God. And we
10:17thank you for the blood in this moment,
10:18Father God. But all of us understand
10:20that as we continue to walk this life,
10:22we have to carry our cross with us. And
10:24though people may want us to do certain
10:26things, we are children of God and we
10:28have to be examples for we understand
10:30that we are image bearsers and we bear
10:32the image of you, Father God. We ask
10:34that you restore us back to the likeness
10:35of you, Father God, even throughout this
10:37study and studies after and whatever it
10:40is that you speak to us through, Father
10:41God. So, I want to take the time to
10:43exalt your name because wonderful is
10:46your name. Mighty is your power, mighty
10:49is your name. Thank you for being our
10:51strong tower. Thank you for being our
10:52shepherd. Thank you for being
10:53provisional. Thank you for being the
10:55relational father God. Aba Father, we
10:57thank you and we want to take the time
10:59to show you our love and to show you our
11:02obedience to you, Father God. We know
11:04that in these spaces, this is the
11:06ultimate sacrifice and we are sacrifices
11:08to your word, to your call, Father God.
11:11So let those who feel in this moment
11:12where they feel a tug of being
11:14disobedient or rebellious in the in the
11:17fleshly realm, Father God, I ask that
11:18you call upon an obedience in the
11:20spiritual realm, Father God, that we
11:21stay worded and grounded in the word of
11:24God and we stay at the feet of the
11:25throne, Father God. So as we carry
11:27through this Bible study, Father God,
11:29open our hearts to be able to receive
11:30you in the mighty and matchless name we
11:32pray. Amen. All right, y'all. Let's get
11:36it popping, right? [laughter]
11:39Let's get it popping. All right. Yeah.
11:42Genesis full of tea. You read Genesis,
11:45you like he did what? He said who?
11:48[laughter]
11:48All right, y'all. So, we are starting
11:50off. Does everyone have the scripture?
11:52Amen. We are starting off at if somebody
11:53can drop the script the scripture in the
11:56comment section. We are at Genesis 3:15.
12:00Okay. And we're going to end at Genesis
12:034:15.
12:05Okay.
12:07Y'all got that? Thank you. Thank you,
12:09Betsy. Y'all got that? We here. Okay.
12:13I'm I'm in great spirits. Yes,
12:15[laughter]
12:16I am. Okay. I serve a mighty God. Okay.
12:20And plus, I love being here. I I love
12:22doing Bible study with you all. I I love
12:24it. Okay. Uhhuh. All right. Okay, y'all.
12:28So, we're going to go ahead. Like I
12:28said, we're going to I'm going to be in
12:30the complete Ethiopian Bible. Whatever
12:32you all are in is fine. We'll follow. We
12:35will not have a lot of key terms. I hope
12:37you all have your highlighters. It's
12:39okay to highlight in the Bible. You're
12:40not going to hell if you highlight.
12:42Okay? It's okay to write in your Bible.
12:44You're not going to hell. You ain't
12:45gonna make God mad. Okay? Y'all see I'm
12:48clearly I'm a highlighter. Okay.
12:51[laughter]
12:52All right. Uh the title, y'all like,
12:55"Kitty, what's the title?" Yeah. Stop
12:57all that. Sin is crouching at the door.
13:04Sin
13:06is crouching
13:09at the door, [snorts]
13:12just prowling,
13:15waiting at the door. How many of you all
13:18can say that y'all y'all have had an
13:20experience where sin was right there
13:21crouching at the door where God was
13:23telling you something and sin was like,
13:25"But you know, you can just How many of
13:27y'all ever had a moment where you felt
13:29like your trauma made you rebellious to
13:30God?" Hm. How many of y'all ever had a
13:33moment where you feel like the
13:34relationship and the people made you
13:35rebel against God and disobedient to his
13:38instruction or sin was just right there
13:40to devour you and take you in and make
13:42you turn against God?
13:45Yeah. Anybody don't don't be too cute
13:48with it. We all have. I have. Right.
13:51Okay. So, sin is crouching at the door.
13:53Let me go ahead and open my notes. I was
13:55going to start reading y'all.
13:57Let me move some stuff. Hold on, y'all.
13:58Let me move this over real quick. Give
14:00me one second. I want to move this
14:02screen over a little bit.
14:05Yeah, let's do that. I want to move this
14:07over a little. It's kind of in my way.
14:10[clears throat]
14:11Lord, I worship you.
14:14I know. I've been there, too. All right,
14:16let's see. I want to move this out the
14:18way, y'all. So, just work with me for a
14:19second. Okay, there we go. Now, I can
14:22see I can see everybody now. And
14:24hopefully Okay. Sorry, y'all. I didn't
14:27have my screens like I want them. I'm
14:29really picky about my screens cuz I need
14:31to be able to see y'all. Okay.
14:34Okay. All right. So, let's go ahead and
14:36get into the word of God and then we'll
14:37go over some key terms and we'll get
14:39this is going to be a full Bible study,
14:41y'all. So, I hope y'all are ready to
14:43take some notes. Okay. I know y'all are
14:45ready. Okay. So, in the Ethiopian in the
14:47complete Ethiopian Bible,
14:50verse 15, chapter 3. Okay. And I will
14:54put hostility between you and the woman
14:58and between your offspring and her
15:00offspring. This is a proto evangelian.
15:02Remember that. Okay. Her offspring will
15:05attack your head and you will attack her
15:06offspring's heel. To the woman he said,
15:09I will greatly increase your labor
15:11pains. With pain you will give birth to
15:13children. You will want to control your
15:16husband for he will dominate you. But to
15:19Adam he said, "Because you obeyed your
15:21wife and ate from the tree about which I
15:24commanded you, you must not eat from.
15:27Cursed is the ground thanks to you."
15:30I would hate for God to say cursed is
15:32something thanks to me. Cuz what?
15:34[laughter] Cursed is a God. Cursed is
15:36the ground thanks to you. In painful
15:38toil, you will eat of it all the days of
15:41your life.
15:44It will produce thorns and thistles for
15:46you, but you will eat the grain of the
15:47field. By the sweat of your brow,
15:51by the sweat of your brow, you will eat
15:54food until you return to the ground.
15:57Jesus, for out of it you were taken, for
16:00you are dust, and to dust you will
16:02return. The man named his wife Eve
16:05because she was the mother of all
16:07living. The Lord God made garments from
16:09skin for Adam and his wife and clothed
16:11them. And the Lord God said, "Now that
16:13the man has become like one of us,
16:15knowing good and evil, he must not be
16:16allowed to stretch out his hand and take
16:18also from the tree of life and eat and
16:21live forever." So the Lord God expelled
16:24him from the orchard orchard orchard
16:29in Eden.
16:32I'm sorry y'all. To cultivate the ground
16:34from which he had been taken. When he
16:36drove the man out, he placed on the
16:37eastern side of the orchid in Edom. I'm
16:39sorry I say orchid. I know some of y'all
16:41say orchard, but I say orchard, so I
16:42don't know. However y'all want to say
16:43it. In Eden, cherubim, who or angels who
16:47used the flame of a whirling sword to
16:49guard the way to the tree of life. Okay,
16:52now we going to get into chapter four.
16:53Y'all, I'mma stop being goofy. I'mma be
16:55serious. Now, the man had marital
16:57relationships with his wife. What did
16:59y'all say? What did y'all say in uh
17:01verse one? What does it say? And Adam
17:04knew Eve was his wife. Is that what it
17:06says? And Ethiopian said, "Now the man
17:08had marital relationships with his wife
17:10Eve, and she became pregnant and gave
17:12birth to Cain. Then she said, "I have
17:14created a man just as the Lord did."
17:18Then she gave birth to his brother Abel.
17:21Abel took care of the flocks while Cain
17:24cultivated the land. At the designated
17:26time, I want y'all to listen. Cain
17:28brought some
17:31some
17:32of the fruit of the ground for an
17:34offering to the Lord. But Abel
17:37brought some of the firstborn of his
17:39flock, even the fattest of them. Okay?
17:43And the Lord was pleased with Abel and
17:45his offering. But with Cain and his
17:47offering, he was not pleased. So Cain
17:49became very angry,
17:52very angry, and his expression was
17:54downcast. Then the Lord said to Cain,
17:57"Why are you angry? And why is your
17:59expression your expression facial
18:01downcast?
18:03[clears throat]
18:05It is not, is it not true that if you do
18:07what is right, you will be fine. But if
18:10you do not do what is right, sin is
18:12crouching at the door. It desires to
18:15dominate you, but you must subdue it.
18:19Come on now. Cain said to his brother
18:21Abel, "Let's go out to the field." Cain
18:25said to his brother Abel, "Let's go out
18:27to the field."
18:28>> [clears throat]
18:30>> While they were in the field, Cain
18:32attacked his brother Abel and killed
18:33him. Then the Lord said to Cain,
18:36"Where's your brother Abel?"
18:39And he replied, "I don't know. Am I my
18:41brother's guardian?"
18:43But the Lord said, "What have you done?
18:46The voice of your brother's blood is
18:47crying out to me from the ground. So now
18:49you are banished from the ground, which
18:51has opened his mouth to receive your
18:53brother's blood from your hand. when you
18:55try to cultivate the ground, which is
18:57what his job was. That's what his
18:59identity was, right? It would no longer
19:01yield its best for you, you will be a
19:03homeless wanderer on the earth. Then
19:05Cain said to the Lord, "My punishment is
19:07too great to endure." He didn't He
19:09didn't He wasn't remorseful. He was
19:12worried about his punishment, y'all.
19:13Look, you are driving me off the land
19:15today, and I must hide from your
19:16presence. I will be a homeless wanderer
19:19on the earth. Whoever finds me will kill
19:21me. But the Lord said to him, "All
19:23right, if anyone kills Cain, Cain will
19:26be avenged seven times as much."
19:31Then the Lord put a special mark on Cain
19:32so that no one who found him will strike
19:35him down. Okay y'all, a couple things
19:37that we saw so far.
19:40Couple things that we saw so far.
19:43We saw the first gospel, right? We saw
19:46the first gospel in 3:15,
19:50right? He was being a smart buddy. So
19:52the hope I would never Okay, we saw what
19:55was the first gospel
19:57in 3:15.
19:59We saw sin enter into the into the
20:01Garden of Eden. We sin. We saw how sin
20:04was divisive and the consequences of
20:06sin. But one thing I want to go back to
20:08y'all for a second before we get into
20:10key terms. I want y'all to look at verse
20:1321 and chapter 3.
20:15I want y'all to look at verse 21 and
20:17chapter 3. God is a God of justice and
20:20mercy. Both.
20:23Both. Okay? Not just one. Both. Okay? I
20:26know sometimes people don't want to
20:27believe it. They disobeyed God. They
20:31tried to hide themselves behind fig
20:34leaves from a fig tree. They tried to
20:36cover themselves in shame and said, "Oh
20:38my God, we're naked. We got to cover
20:39up." That's temporary. But what y'all
20:42see in chap in verse 21, the Lord God
20:45made garments from skin.
20:48The Lord God made garments. The Lord God
20:52made garments from skin. That means that
20:54there was an there was an animal that
20:55was sacrificed for him to be able to
20:57cover them.
20:59There was an innocent animal that was
21:03sacrificed for him to cover them. The
21:06first sacrifice. Absolutely. I want
21:09y'all to hear that. By his mercy, there
21:13was an innocent animal,
21:17there was a shedding of innocent blood
21:21to cover them. Not a temporary covering
21:25to cover them. Not like them fig trees.
21:29Y'all get that?
21:31Even though there was still a
21:33consequence, God said, "You going to
21:34work by the sweat of your brow. You
21:35going to always have labor pains. You
21:36going to want to control your husband.
21:37You're not going to be able to do that.
21:39You going to till this ground and you
21:40going to be tired and that's the only
21:41way that you going to eat. There are
21:42consequences. However, my mercy
21:47there are consequences for what you did.
21:49However, my mercy
21:53come on y'all. Y'all know what I'm
21:55talking about. Let's get Let's get into
21:56it. I'm sorry y'all. My mercy.
22:00Exactly. Do any of y'all believe that
22:02God's mercy covers us? Come on now.
22:05Y'all know.
22:07Come on now. Come on. Okay. So, let's
22:09get into it. Let's get into Let's get
22:10into our study. Okay. Let's get into our
22:12study. There was sorrow um in the
22:16consequences that they had. That means
22:18what we saw with Adam is there was going
22:19to be painful toll. That means that was
22:21going to come with hardship, distress. I
22:23think we talked about that the last
22:24time. A lot of emotional grief that was
22:26going to happen. Okay? There was going
22:28to be a lot of that. What we notice also
22:31is in the word of God if what would have
22:33happened if they would have ate from the
22:35tree of life. They ate from the first
22:37tree then sin entered, right? They they
22:40knew now they had a different type of of
22:42awareness and it wasn't the divine
22:44wisdom that they thought they were going
22:45to have. It wasn't that oh we going to
22:47match up and be gods and goddesses. It
22:49wasn't that.
22:51But they had a new awareness. Now they
22:52were conscious of everything which is
22:54why they knew they were naked. Now
22:55they're conscious and now they have done
22:57evil. They're conscious. They know evil
23:00and it's experiential.
23:02That means that there was an experience
23:04of the evil. It's not like someone told
23:06them, "Hey, look." No, they experienced
23:09sin.
23:11So now, if you eat from the tree of
23:12life,
23:14then what's going to happen?
23:18Y'all get what I'm saying? Like, so God,
23:20when people look and say, "Oh, you know,
23:22God's just mean." No, God was mindful.
23:25We saw in 3:15 there was a promise of
23:27redemption, right? We saw that that's
23:29the proto evangelium that we were
23:30talking about, right? There were going
23:31to there was going to be a seed from a
23:32woman and we went down the lineage and
23:34all of that. Then we saw the
23:35consequences of the fall.
23:38Now we're about to see the spread of sin
23:40as sin goes from one person to another
23:42person and sin keeps going. It's now a
23:44cycle. It keeps going. But even still,
23:48we still see God's mercy. Okay. To give
23:51y'all a little runback for those, I will
23:53put enmity. I will put hatred, a deep
23:55hatred between you and the woman and
23:57between your seed and her seed. He shall
23:59bruise your head and you shall bruise
24:01his heel. That is what we call a proto
24:03evangelum. That means that was the first
24:05proclamation of the gospel. If anybody
24:08missed last week, that was the first
24:09proclamation of the gospel. Immediately
24:12after sin enters the world,
24:16God is saying that evil will not
24:18ultimately prevail. There's going to be
24:20I'm going to do something about this.
24:24So, we already see there's a
24:25foreshadowing of Jesus right there. So,
24:27when people say Jesus was just in the
24:28New Testament, think again. You can read
24:29Isaiah and everybody else. They were
24:30talking about it. Okay. So, God
24:33addresses the woman. Y'all stop raising
24:36y'all hands real quick. That's that's
24:37easy to me. God addresses the woman.
24:41Then he addresses the man. He addresses
24:42creation. Right? We see that the woman
24:44is going to have pain when she has
24:45childbirth. This is the consequences of
24:47sin. There has to be some type of
24:49justice and there has to be a
24:50consequence for you not to go back.
24:52She's going to have a painful child
24:53birth. She's going to try to control her
24:54husband. She's not going to be able to.
24:56Now, there's going to be tension and
24:58struggle. So, even in the first marriage
25:00that was recorded, what you see is God
25:02saying there's going to be conflict and
25:03contempt.
25:05Y'all are going to have that. There's
25:07going to be a back and forth that's
25:08going to happen in your relationships
25:09and your marriage between man and woman.
25:12The unfortunate thing is, as I see it, I
25:14see it even in the gender wars that we
25:15have faced for the past couple years.
25:16There's constantly going to be a back
25:18and forth in conflict. That's the way I
25:20see it, but I'm looking at a little bit
25:21different. Okay. The ground became
25:23cursed.
25:25Mhm. Provision would come through labor,
25:27sweat, and difficulty. So, whenever you
25:30see whenever you see the dynamic of of
25:32women and men, you see women, they want
25:33family and they want children and stuff
25:35and all that. And men, they want to be
25:36able to provide. It's in the word of
25:38God. It's right there. If you ever talk
25:40to people about their values, usually
25:42when it comes to women, their first
25:43couple of values are going to be family
25:44oriented. It's going to be relational.
25:46And then if you talk to a man, his first
25:48couple of values, his first couple of
25:49core values are going to probably be
25:50about provision and stability, financial
25:53stability. Well, it's right there in
25:55Genesis. It already says it's what it's
25:56going to be.
26:00That's it says it right there. So,
26:01whenever you see like women who like, I
26:03can't have children. I struggle with
26:05that. I don't know. And they they have a
26:07hard time accepting that. And you see
26:08men who have a hard time with accepting
26:10not being provisional, it's from the
26:11beginning. This is this is the struggle
26:14from the beginning.
26:16Okay.
26:17Okay. So, death now enters the human
26:20experience. That's not what God wanted
26:21for humanity. Okay. For dust you are and
26:24to dust you shall return.
26:27We were formed from dust. It's it's also
26:28a way to keep us humble too cuz look,
26:30remember where you came from. You were
26:31dust.
26:33You can go back. Okay. So now the
26:36ultimate consequence of sin was now
26:39mortality.
26:41That was the ultimate consequence of
26:44sin.
26:45Right. Okay. Let's let's keep going. So
26:48when we see grace in the midst of
26:49judgment, right? We see Adam names his
26:52his wife Eve that meaning life. Okay.
26:55She was a mother of the living. I don't
26:56think we really got to cover much of
26:57that. We know what that means. Okay.
26:59Despite that flaw though, life continues
27:03and the promise of the coming seed
27:05remains. So despite sinning,
27:08God still had a promise. There was still
27:10a promise that was made. How merciful is
27:13our God? Right? The reason why we went
27:16from Exodus all the way to 12 back to
27:18Genesis is because I need people to see
27:20how merciful God has always been.
27:23Cuz when you read Exodus, it can look
27:25like, God, why were you doing this to
27:26the Egyptians? Why were you doing this
27:28to Pharaoh and stuff like that, but you
27:29can see how merciful God was. So when
27:32you have to go through Noah and
27:33everything else, you'll see like, I see
27:35why God was mad.
27:37He's been merciful.
27:39Even when they rebelled against him, God
27:42has always been merciful.
27:45We serve an amazing God. God makes their
27:48garments. We we talked about that. We
27:50talked about that introduces the first
27:52theme, right? Well, one of the first
27:53theme, not the first theme, but one of
27:54the first themes that this introduces is
27:56that something innocent must die to
27:59cover human shame. So, when you get to
28:01the crucifixion of Jesus, you take it
28:03all the way back to Genesis. take it
28:06back to the garments and say, "Oh,
28:09it's all a foreshadowing of Jesus
28:11Christ. It's all a foreshadowing."
28:14Because it later it anticipates the
28:17sacrificial system that we see later and
28:20the ideal of atonement. Nothing in the
28:22word of God is wasted. Okay? If you look
28:25at the Hebrew word for tunics and some
28:27of the translations, it'll say tunics
28:29instead of garment. It refers to a
28:30durable clothing that covers the body.
28:34It it refers to a durable
28:37What's another word that y'all think of
28:39when when you hear the word durable?
28:40What's another word y'all think of?
28:44In the Hebrew word for for tunics, which
28:46is tough, right? There we go. Strong.
28:48I'm so glad that. That's the word I'm
28:50looking for. It refers tunics in some of
28:53the translation when it talks about
28:54garments refers to a durable clothing
28:56that covers the body. This indicates
28:59that something stronger and more
29:01permanent was going to be used than fig
29:03trees. This indicates that something
29:05stronger and more permanent was going to
29:09be used instead of fig trees. When Adam
29:11and Eve realized that they were naked,
29:14they sold fig trees together to cover
29:16themselves. Those fig trees, those cover
29:19and they represent a human attempt to
29:21manage shame and guilt. A human attempt
29:24to manage shame and guilt is just simply
29:26not going to work. Their solution was
29:28temporary. Whenever we try to hide from
29:30God and we try to manage our shame and
29:32guilt, it's always temporary. We can
29:34never go by our own strength. So, it was
29:36temporary and it was insufficient by
29:38them using the fig leaves. And then here
29:41comes God.
29:44Here comes God that says, "I'm going to
29:46give you something stronger."
29:49There you go. Y'all know God loves to
29:51talk in metaphors.
29:53We got to dig. That's why we study the
29:55word. That's why we just don't read it.
29:57Oh no, you're a challenge. It's why we
29:58study it, right? God said, "I'm going to
30:00give you something stronger and more
30:03permanent." That's going to cover
30:06that shame and that guilt in a way of me
30:09forgiving you. The debt is cleared.
30:12Y'all get that? Am I going too fast?
30:14Y'all understanding me? We together. So
30:16God didn't abandon them. Even though
30:19they abandoned God and they betrayed
30:21God, God did not abandon them. Has
30:23anybody can anybody agree that maybe
30:25we've done something to God
30:27and he never abandoned us? Like he was
30:30still there like Lord I I mean still
30:33there. Let's keep going. Okay. So we
30:36already talked about that. So the first
30:38death that we actually see in scripture
30:40is this animal. Even though it doesn't
30:42say the actual animal, it was animal
30:43skin. So where's the animal at? First
30:45death was an animal. Okay. That's the
30:47first death that's documented in
30:49scripture. An innate life, an in sorry,
30:51innocent life was given so that the
30:53guilty can be covered. I want to make
30:54sure y'all write that down. An innocent
30:56life is given so that the guilty can be
31:00covered. Thank you, Christ Jesus. Okay.
31:02The atonement through sacrifice. I want
31:04to make sure we got that thing. Okay.
31:06Okay. Let's keep going. Genesis 22- 24.
31:09Okay. Then the Lord God said, "Behold,
31:12the man has come like us." Right? We
31:14talked about that very briefly. There
31:16was now an experience. There was a moral
31:18awareness. Okay. God said you cannot eat
31:22from the tree of life.
31:24If humans were to live forever and they
31:26were compromised in a fallen condition,
31:30they would be living in a corrupt state.
31:33Couldn't imagine that. So they were
31:35expelled from the garden.
31:38Mhm. And there is an angel and a flaming
31:40sword that guards the entrance. If you
31:43try to find the Garden of Eden on on the
31:45map, you're probably not going to find
31:46it. We're talking about something more
31:47spiritual now, right? So the but the
31:49sword, the flaming sword was to prevent
31:52them from trying to reenter. God made
31:54sure that they couldn't.
31:57Mhm.
32:04Oh, I don't I don't know what that what
32:05are y'all saying? Innocent life. What
32:07were y'all saying?
32:10An innocent life was given so that the
32:12guilty can be covered. Is that what
32:13y'all talking about? Yeah. that an
32:15innocent life was given. Uh-huh. So that
32:17the guilty can be covered. Right. Okay.
32:19I see what y'all saying. Okay. So now we
32:21already through here. We we done got
32:22through the chapter 3. Let's get to
32:24chapter 4 because this is where we start
32:25getting good, right? This is where we
32:27really start talking. Let's talk about
32:28Cain and Abel. The one thing I want
32:30y'all to see. There's a difference in
32:32the King James version.
32:35Let me see. It says yes. Um, hold on.
32:38Let me pull my King James cuz I got my
32:39New King James. What's the New King
32:41James Version? But in the New King James
32:43version in uh chapter 4, the first
32:45verse, it says, "And Adam knew Eve his
32:48wife." And [snorts] then if you look in
32:49the Ethiopian version, it says, "Now the
32:51man had marital relationships with his
32:53wife Eve."
32:56Okay,
32:58can we talk about that for a minute,
32:59y'all? Can we go deep for a second?
33:01Y'all with me? Just flow with me. We
33:03going to go deep for just a a split
33:05second. I have to talk about this
33:06because we got to talk about it. New in
33:08Hebrew means yada. Okay. Sexual. NLT
33:11says sexual. Okay.
33:14Yada means to know, to understand, to
33:16experience,
33:18to become intimately acquainted with. So
33:22when Genesis says Adam and Eve, Adam
33:25knew Eve, sorry. It describes a deeply
33:28personal union, not just a physical act.
33:33So when people say sex is just physical,
33:36it's not. It is a deep knowing. It now
33:39becomes a personal union which is why it
33:42was reserved for marriage. It took me a
33:44while to fully understand that. Okay? It
33:46took me a very long time to fully
33:47understand that. Amen. Okay? [snorts]
33:49And so sex in scripture is not presented
33:53as this is just biological. This is this
33:55is just something physical. It's not
33:56that. It's tied to covenant. It's tied
33:59to unity. It's tied to a relational
34:02knowing. A knowing that's so much more
34:04deeper than just our bodies.
34:08It's a deep knowing. So when you think
34:11about how many people you know,
34:14okay, I'm not going to take it there
34:15because, you know, God had to whoop my
34:16butt on that. But when you think about
34:18how many people actually know you, how
34:21many people have you laid with in
34:23Genesis earlier on? Okay. Okay. Guilty.
34:27Okay. In earlier on in Genesis, it says
34:30the two shall become one flesh. It says
34:33that the two come on y'all think
34:35spiritually. Think deeper than this. The
34:36two shall become one flesh. That's in
34:38Genesis chapter 2. I think like 24
34:39something like that. Uh but the idea of
34:41knowing expresses a unity. Sex is
34:44portrayed is portrayed as a moment where
34:46two lives two lives two lives
34:51are joined in vulnerability
34:53and intimacy.
34:58Throughout
35:00scripture,
35:03sexual intimacy is linked with knowledge
35:06and covenant,
35:08not merely
35:10desire.
35:12This is why sexual relationships outside
35:15of covenant are treated so seriously in
35:18the Bible
35:21because now this person, there's a
35:24knowing that takes place. And each time
35:26you attach yourself to somebody, there's
35:28a knowing that takes place. And then
35:30when you detach from that person, hey
35:32baby. And then when you detach from that
35:34person,
35:37some of you is taken with them.
35:40I promise y'all I'm not I'm not going to
35:42get that deep. Okay? I promise y'all I
35:45am. I'm on subject. I'm I'm I'm staying
35:48on subject. This is what we talking
35:49about. We're talking about this. I'm not
35:52going to go too deep that way. I'm going
35:53to stay here. But I want y'all to
35:55understand that this was because it's in
35:56scripture, so I got to talk about it. It
35:58was reserved.
36:03It was reserved for for covenant for
36:07that reason. And I say that because this
36:09is the reason why I'm talking about it.
36:10For one, it's in scripture, so I have to
36:12talk about it. But I want people to
36:14understand that this is the reason why
36:15when we start reading the word of God
36:17more, especially in Genesis where there
36:19was a lot of sexual sin, you're going to
36:21understand why God was so serious about
36:24how he treated sexual relationships.
36:27Okay.
36:30Okay. I'm sorry. Okay. It wasn't about
36:31me. Sorry. Okay. Because now whenever
36:35you have sex with a person, there now
36:37involves a level of exposure
36:41and union that scripture treats as
36:43sacred.
36:45Key word sacred. We'll come we'll be in
36:48Genesis. So we'll we'll flow from that a
36:49little bit a little bit more later. But
36:51I want y'all to understand it because it
36:53said he knew her. That's a deep knowing.
36:56And so sometimes when we start thinking
36:58about the sex that we've had before
36:59marriage, how many people really know
37:01you? Soul ties are real. Okay, let's
37:04keep going. I'm sorry, y'all. I'm keep
37:06going. Okay,
37:08we're going to keep going. All right, so
37:10Eve gives birth to Kane. She gives birth
37:12to Cain first, right? Yeah, that that
37:14was a whooping on me. I remember the
37:16first time I read it, I was like, "Oh,
37:17Lord, it's a whole lot of people I had
37:19to unknow." Y'all hear me? It's a whole
37:23lot of people I had to unknow.
37:26Okay. All right. So, Eve gave birth to
37:28Cain first. She said, "I've acquired a
37:31man with the help of the Lord." And then
37:34later she gives birth to Abel. Okay.
37:38[snorts] Now, what you'll see is the
37:40reason why because there's two v there's
37:42two different vocations between Cain and
37:44Abel and it reflects their livelihood.
37:47You have Cain that worked the soil. Cain
37:50was after working the ground, tilling
37:51the ground. And then you had Abel who
37:54tend to the flock, right?
37:57Y'all remember in uh in like Exodus,
38:00they really didn't take shepherds
38:02serious. There was certain people who
38:03didn't care for shepherds, but we'll get
38:04to that later. Okay, so there is already
38:07a contrast between these two brothers
38:09that is already set right here. The
38:11stage was already set for the first
38:13conflict. It was already set for the
38:15first conflict between humans was
38:18already set right here. You had one who
38:20tilled the ground. Can y'all imagine if
38:22you get to move around the sheep and
38:24stuff and then you got your brother who
38:25is over there slaving on the ground.
38:28Can y'all imagine that? Like of course
38:31if you're not jealous, you know, you
38:32don't worry about but I just want y'all
38:33to like really think about that. Really
38:36think about that. Like it already set
38:38the stage for there to be conflict. So
38:40both brothers
38:42both brothers later on we go we keep
38:44reading. Both of the brothers gave an
38:46offering to God.
38:50several intentional distractions in the
38:52chat tonight. Uh,
38:58okay. It's Well, I don't know what's
39:00going on, y'all, but we going to keep
39:01going. Um, I I just want to y'all just
39:04we going to keep going, okay? It's okay.
39:07Let's smooth it over, okay? We don't
39:09need no distractions. All right. So,
39:11there were two different offerings.
39:13I love you all. Let's we stay we we
39:15brothers and sisters in Christ. Let's
39:16stay on track. Okay. Both brothers bring
39:18offerings to God. Cain offers produce
39:21from the ground. Not the first.
39:25He just offers some of his fruit. That's
39:26what the Ethiopian Bible says. He
39:28offered some some of the produce. Not
39:30all of it. Some of it. Not the first or
39:33some of it. Not not the good selection
39:34of it. Just some. And then Abel,
39:37however, offers the firstborn of his
39:40flock and their fat portions. Exactly.
39:43So God says, "I accept Abel's offerings
39:48because they were given in faith." And
39:50you'll see that later because Paul talks
39:51about that. He says, "I Yes, Paul." He
39:54said, "I accept this offering because it
39:56was given in faith."
39:59But Cain's offering was not given in
40:01faith. It was more like a here God.
40:03It was more like a Here you go. You can
40:05get the Ethiopian Bible on Amazon. it. I
40:07I'll put it in in there in a minute, but
40:09it was like it was more like a hear God.
40:13You're already starting to see the
40:14character, right?
40:17So then as God is is talking to them,
40:20Kane gets upset. And God is like, "Well,
40:22if you do right, you'll be fine.
40:26If you just you have a God said, I'm
40:28giving you a chance to make this right."
40:32He said, "Listen to what I'm saying,
40:34y'all. God told Cain, "I'm giving you a
40:37chance to make this right. What your
40:39brother gave to me was done in faith,
40:43but I'm giving you a chance." Does God
40:45not give us chances?
40:49He said, "I am giving you a chance to
40:51make this right."
40:55And then Cain now has a downcast and
40:58he's angry. He's very angry. Like, this
40:59ain't a little bit of anger. Like, man,
41:02here we go. It wasn't that. like he was
41:04angry like it now you can see the heart
41:08behind what he was doing it the the
41:10issue wasn't the gift it was the heart
41:13behind it and that's what God was trying
41:15to tell him it's your heart behind it
41:18you probably gave me something because
41:20you felt like you were supposed to give
41:21me something but he gave me something in
41:23faith it's a tad bit different so it's
41:26now it's the heart behind it and then
41:28God talks directly to Cain and he said
41:30if you do well will you not be accepted
41:34And if you do not do well, sin lies at
41:38the door. Sin is crouching at the door.
41:41Sin is described like a predator waiting
41:44to seize him. Sin to us is like a a
41:47predator waiting to seize us. Do y'all
41:51understand that?
41:53This is the reason why we walk with our
41:54crosses, right? This is the reason why
41:56we walk with the nails in our head and
41:58our feet because we know Satan is
42:00waiting.
42:02And that's exact exactly Satan took this
42:05moment and said, "Let me play on your
42:07anger." How many of you all have seen
42:09people get angry and sin was able to
42:12enter their heart because anger was
42:14already residing in it? This is the
42:16reason why we cast our cares and our
42:18anger onto the Lord. This is the reason
42:21why because when we don't whenever
42:23there's anger that is festering now your
42:25heart starts to become hardened and now
42:28you're not receptive to God's
42:29instruction. You're not even receptive
42:30to the spirit or his voice. Now you are
42:32looking at how can I get revenge? I'm
42:35bitter. I'm resentful. And now sin is
42:38like there we go. Exactly. Don't give
42:40Satan a foothold.
42:42That's all I'm saying.
42:45So God says, "I'm giving you a chance.
42:47But if you
42:49if you don't do well, if you don't do
42:51what's what's right, sin is lying at the
42:53door. A predator." That's what that's
42:55what the enemy is identified as in the
42:58word of God as well. God makes it clear
43:01that Cain still has the ability to
43:04master his impulses. Do y'all understand
43:06that Cain still had the ability to
43:11master his impulses that were coming as
43:13a result of his anger?
43:16He still had the choice to choose
43:18righteousness.
43:22Now, we're really starting to see the
43:24responsibility after the fall, right? He
43:27had a choice. It was jealousy. Jealousy
43:30is a nasty thing. Okay? So then Cain
43:34goes and says, "Abel, let's go out into
43:38the field."
43:41Exactly. No internet or social media to
43:42make him do wrong. Him. Okay. Cain
43:44invites He He This was premeditated
43:47murder, by the way. The first murder was
43:49premeditated. There we go. I like the
43:51way y'all said that. It was
43:52premeditated. He said, "Hey,
43:56why don't you come somebody that he
43:59trusted, Abel trusted Kane, that's my
44:01brother. You wouldn't think your brother
44:03would do that to you. He said, "Hey, why
44:06don't you come in the field?" He comes
44:07in the field and then he kills him.
44:11The first recorded act of violence is
44:13right here in Genesis 4. And it occurs
44:15between two brothers.
44:19So sin has now moved from internal
44:22rebellion from Adam and Eve and them.
44:25That was internal rebellion. Sin has
44:27now, this is how dangerous sin is,
44:29y'all. It has now moved from internal
44:33rebellion, rebelling God's instruction.
44:35It has now moved from we have rebelled
44:38and been disobedient to God to now
44:40external destruction. Now sin is showing
44:43up as killing somebody else. Do we get
44:46that? There's nothing new under the sun.
44:49People try to rewrite the word of God.
44:52You can't rewrite the word of God. This
44:53has been here for thousands of years.
44:55There is nothing new under the sun. It's
44:56the same word. It's the same
44:58experiences. It's the same sin. Ain't
45:00nothing changed. We just got a habit of
45:03trying to change the word of God. I'm
45:05going to keep going y'all so we can get
45:06out of here. Okay. So then God comes.
45:09Remember it went from internal to
45:10external. First it was rebellion here.
45:14Now it's malice. I love that. Who said
45:16that? Shelanda. I love that. Now it's
45:18malice. Okay. I love that. That that is
45:21so great. So then we got now God comes
45:23to Cain. Kane is arrogant. Y'all right.
45:28Kane is we're not g we're not gonna
45:30highlight too many key terms this time.
45:31Yeah, we don't have a lot of we don't
45:33have much of that today. So God comes to
45:35Kane and he said, "Where where's your
45:37brother?"
45:39Kane's snarky.
45:42Kane say, "Am I my brother's keeper?"
45:45Oh,
45:47you don't have no remorse in your heart
45:49for what you've done.
45:52There's no remorse in your heart.
45:55Hm.
45:57Cain. Then we see Cain is denying
45:59responsibility and he's trying to evade
46:02accountability.
46:05And God replies
46:07now that Abel's blood cries out from the
46:10ground. Now, I want us to really think
46:12about blood. This ain't just talking
46:13about the blood that just leaked from
46:15Abel as it is. Now Abel's blood and his
46:20lineage, all that come from him,
46:23the generations that would have flown
46:25from Abel are crying from the ground. So
46:29what I had for Abel, you just killed
46:32that y'all. Do y'all get that?
46:35You just shed innocent blood, which is
46:37the reason why that is one of the
46:38abominations that God calls out in
46:40scripture.
46:43Hands that shed innocent blood. That's
46:45the reason why God called that out. Here
46:47we are. What I had for Abel and the
46:50generations after him is gone because of
46:52your sin.
46:55Come on now. It's more than just the
46:57blood that actually came from the
46:59physical body. You don't know what you
47:00just stopped.
47:05Okay, let's keep going. Let me get let
47:06me get back on track. Okay,
47:09so now he said he screams from the
47:10ground. Now we have the earth who's now
47:12a witness to the injustice.
47:16My God. got onto that. So now God says,
47:19"All right, I'm going to give you your
47:21punishment."
47:24Right? He didn't ask because he didn't
47:26know. God just gives us a chance to
47:28repent. He gives us a chance to talk and
47:31and repent and tell what we've done.
47:34Right?
47:36So now Cain is cursed.
47:39It ain't just going to be the ground
47:40that's cursed. You're cursed. Cain is
47:42cursed.
47:44And the the identity that Cain had was
47:47someone who actually tended to the
47:48ground. And now the very identity that
47:52you've had,
47:54the life that you've lived of working
47:56the ground, now this ground is no longer
47:58going to yield crops for you.
48:03It's not going to.
48:05It's no longer going to yield crops for
48:07you.
48:09So now you see in the word of God now
48:12Cain becomes well let's let's go back
48:14for a minute. Cain is about to become a
48:17restless wanderer on the earth. A
48:19restless y'all a restless wonder.
48:24He going to be gone forever.
48:26He just going to be just wandering
48:28around trying to figure things out. He
48:30ain't going to have no rest. I couldn't
48:31imagine not being able to have any rest.
48:35The very land that once sustained him is
48:37now going to reject him. I could not
48:39imagine. Can y'all imagine that? The the
48:41what God has blessed you with. Can y'all
48:43imagine the things that God has blessed
48:45you with now rejects you? Can y'all
48:46imagine living that kind of life? The
48:48work, the career that God has blessed
48:50you with, the calling that he has placed
48:52on your life and now it rejects you. Can
48:54y'all imagine that? This this is a part
48:56of my identity.
48:59Now it's rejecting me all because you
49:02sinned.
49:07All because you sin. Just just keep
49:09flowing with me. We going to get there.
49:10Keep flowing. Okay.
49:13Now, Kane's fear shows up. Y'all notice
49:16that as you read, Kane still ain't
49:18apologized for killing his brother.
49:19There is no remorse.
49:23There's not any remorse, but God is
49:24still going to show mercy.
49:26God is giving Abel justice right now. He
49:30is showing that these are the
49:31consequences of Cain's sin. I'm giving
49:33you justice, Abel. Even in your debt,
49:36you will have justice. Sometimes we want
49:38our justice to be right then. Sometimes
49:39it won't be until you in the ground.
49:41Okay? But even Abel, for Abel, I'm
49:43giving you justice, Cain, because you
49:46did this. You're going to have the
49:47consequence. So Cain says he still has
49:49not said, Lord, I'm sorry for killing my
49:52brother. I didn't think about that. He
49:53didn't. He wasn't remorseful. He wasn't
49:55repentant. None of that. He complained
49:57that my punishment is going to be too
49:58great. How selfish and arrogant can you
50:01be? Right. That's the first documented
50:03sociopath. Right. Well, actually, Satan
50:06is, but
50:08Kane came next. Okay. [laughter]
50:10Kane complains that my punishment is
50:12going to be too great.
50:14It's going to be too much for me to
50:16bear.
50:17He said, "I'm scared that other people
50:19going to kill me as a wanderer. You
50:21putting a target on my back, God. They
50:23going to kill me as a wanderer. But you
50:26killed your brother. But now you
50:28worrying about somebody taking your
50:29life.
50:32He's afraid that other people going to
50:34kill him in revenge.
50:36So now we see that Cain's focus is on
50:39his own suffering rather than a life
50:41that he took. How selfish is that?
50:44Prideful. I love that queen. Prideful,
50:48right? So God then says, "All right." He
50:51says, "Okay, I'mma put a mark on you so
50:55that no one will kill you." And that
50:57will steal God's protection. Listen to
51:00what I just said. That was still God's
51:04protection. You just killed your
51:05brother, right, Lynette? You are still
51:08merciful. What
51:11God said, I'm I'm going instead of me
51:14shaming you and saying you killed your
51:16brother. You deserve to die. People
51:19should avenge the death of your brother.
51:21God said, "Okay,
51:24I'm going to put a mark on you that
51:27stops the cycle of vengeance.
51:31I'm going to put a mark on you that
51:33stops the cycle of vengeance." We saw
51:35mercy in verse 21 of chapter 3, and we
51:37see mercy again in verse 15 of chapter
51:404. God said, "I'm going to prevent even
51:44though you right, even though you don't
51:46deserve to live, my God." Now we see the
51:50merciful God. Right y'all? We are truly
51:52seeing the merciful God. Even though you
51:55don't deserve to live and you should die
51:57for the things that you have done, for
51:59the sinful acts. You should be going
52:02through what I should be taking you
52:03through. But I ain't going to do that to
52:04you cuz I am a merciful God. And God is
52:08always consistent in his character. He
52:10never changes. I am consistent in who I
52:13am. Absolutely. I am a God of mercy.
52:17Justice and mercy exist together in the
52:20word of God. And we only at chapter 4.
52:22But now we see justice and mercy. They
52:25both exist.
52:27I'm giving your brother justice. There
52:29is a mark on you that lets people know
52:31you are a wanderer. However, my mercy
52:33says that they can't kill you even
52:35though you killed your brother. But you
52:37have to live with the consequences of
52:39your action. But I'm going to preserve
52:40your life. Y'all get that?
52:45We love God, right?
52:49We love that, right? So, we we have God
52:52who's showing up as a protective God
52:54instead of the God who shames you.
53:00As a protective God instead of the God
53:01who shames you.
53:05Yeah.
53:07So, God still showed up in his mercy
53:11and he said, "All right then, if anyone
53:12kills Cain that you will be avenged
53:15seven times." He said, "If anyone kills
53:16you, Cain, you will be avenged seven
53:20times.
53:22If anyone kills you, but you killed your
53:24brother.
53:26You killed your brother. I am avenging
53:29your brother. But if anyone touches you
53:31and you are a murderer just like Moses
53:33like someone said and you are a
53:34murderer, you will be avenged seven
53:37times." Mercyful God, right? His mercy
53:40never fails, right?
53:44So he placed a special mark on him.
53:49That's our Bible study, y'all. That's
53:50our Bible study for today. I told y'all
53:51it was going to be light. It wasn't
53:52going to be nothing heavy because it
53:54ain't nothing heavy until we go further
53:56into Genesis. But I wanted to make sure
53:58that we understood that God showed his
54:00mercy so many times. And we see once
54:03again the foreshadowing of Christ Jesus.
54:06We are seeing all of it work together
54:08because God gave he shed innocent blood.
54:13to cover their guilt and shame in
54:16Genesis. So now we already see the
54:18sacrificial system, right? We talked
54:20about the seed, the proto evangelum, the
54:22first gospel, and we talked about the
54:24seed, right? The seed of a woman, which
54:26was Jesus Christ, right? Which was
54:28confirmed in the parallel scriptures
54:29that we got. So we're we're seeing a
54:31consistent God. He's a God of mercy.
54:35He's a God of justice. And he is a God
54:37of his word. So if God said that it is
54:40going to be so, he said there would be a
54:43seed of a woman,
54:45right?
54:47And we had Jesus Christ. He showed up
54:50and said, "This is the atonement right
54:51here. I gave you something stronger,
54:55more durable, more permanent than what
54:57you tried to do to cover yourself. I
54:59gave you something to cover your sins,
55:02to cover the results of your sin." And
55:04then we see that when Jesus Christ
55:06comes, right? One thing we know about
55:08the word of God is God speaks through
55:10this word and this is why we have to
55:12study because the Holy Spirit will
55:13always reveal something new. The word is
55:14alive and well. This is the reason why
55:17because we need to understand that
55:18Christ Jesus just didn't happen out of
55:21nowhere. It didn't happen just out of
55:23nowhere. There is a movement and there
55:27were themes. So even when we get back to
55:29Exodus and you all see more of the
55:30themes, if y'all haven't got a chance to
55:32see Exodus, hopefully there's enough
55:33that y'all can go back to cuz we covered
55:35Exodus for a while. But God promised
55:37redemption, right?
55:40He promised us redemption.
55:43It was promised early that there would
55:45be a redeemer. He may not have said it
55:47already right here verbatim, but it's
55:49right there. There will be redemption.
55:53And he's merciful.
55:56So when we start getting into Israel and
55:58why people can go into the promised land
56:00and everything else, you are fully going
56:02to understand that. Okay. The only key
56:04word that I really want to focus on was
56:06the new today because we talked about
56:07sorrow the last time. Enmity, of course,
56:09we already know what that is. That's the
56:10hostility and animosity. But that was
56:12the main thing. If y'all are
56:15uh well, let me tell y'all the parallel
56:17scriptures for a moment. So y'all
56:18hopefully y'all got about 5 minutes to
56:20flip through your Bible. Go to Hebrews
56:22chapter 2:14. I'm going to go through
56:24some parallel scriptures real quick. Go
56:26to Hebrews
56:28chapter 2 verse14 cuz I I always want to
56:31make sure that y'all have parallels. so
56:33y'all can understand because I I never
56:36want y'all to think I'm just making
56:37stuff up. I'm not.
56:40Hebrews chapter 2 verse14.
56:44Matter of fact, let me let me pull that
56:46in Ethiop.
56:47Let's do it. Look, I'll do y'all one
56:49better. Give me a second cuz Ethiopian
56:51the way this is, it don't have it to
56:53where I can mark off stuff, y'all. It be
56:56a lie. Okay, work with me. Hebrews,
57:00where you at? Okay. Uh
57:04Hold on.
57:05Give me one second. Y'all said I'm in
57:07the Ethiopian. So, it's kind of It's
57:10funny. What' I tell y'all? Hebrews 2:14.
57:23Okay, hold on. No, I don't want to do
57:25that one, y'all. I'm sorry. I don't want
57:27to do that. Go to 11:4. I don't want to
57:29use that scripture. Let me take that one
57:31off. Go to chapter 11. Hebrews chapter
57:3311 verse4. I'm sorry about that. I don't
57:34want to use that scripture. I don't want
57:36to confuse us. I did write that down,
57:38but I don't want to do that. Hebrewsap
57:3911:4. Say amen when y'all got it. I'm so
57:42sorry. [laughter]
57:43I'm so sorry. Okay. Hebrewsap 11:4. By
57:46faith,
57:48Abel offered God a greater sacrifice
57:50than Cain. By faith. So, if you need to
57:54understand the reason why God was upset
57:56about the offering, here we are in
57:58Hebrews. By faith, Abel offered God a
58:01greater sacrifice than Cain. And through
58:04his faith, he was commended as righteous
58:08because God commended him for his
58:09offerings.
58:12And through his faith, he still speaks
58:14though he is dead. And then it talks
58:17about Enoch. Okay. So there, right
58:19there. So if you need to understand,
58:21well, why in the world did what was the
58:23issue? We see it is confirmed right
58:25here. By faith, Abel offered God a
58:28greater sacrifice than Cain. And through
58:30his faith, by faith, y'all know faith is
58:33a big thing when it comes to God. Even
58:34when you see Abraham, Abraham had faith.
58:38No proof of anything, just faith. Y'all
58:41understand that? So faith is extremely
58:42important when it comes to God.
58:44Leviticus chapter 17 verse 11. Leviticus
58:49chapter 17 verse 11.
58:52I love Lucas even though it'd be a lot
58:56be a whole lot in Leviticus. Chapter 17
58:5811
59:05because of sin.
59:08Sometimes I'm going to be honest with
59:09you JT. Sometimes we don't necessarily
59:10have the answers when it comes to God,
59:12but it was because of sin.
59:16Sometimes that just happens.
59:19sin itself, murder and pride and anger
59:22and hate and all of those things will
59:24kill.
59:27A lot of times it's been times in my
59:28walk where I've asked God, why? Why
59:30didn't you save that person? But I just
59:33don't have the answers for that.
59:36I wish it could have saved Abel, but
59:37then also if it would have saved Abel,
59:42what would have happened? Would would we
59:44be where we are? So it's a lot of things
59:46that I even with that it's like I it
59:49doesn't really give us a confirmed
59:50reason why
59:52I wish you know sometimes we just don't
59:54know what God is doing. Leviticus
59:56chapter 17 verse 11. For the life of
59:58every living thing is in the blood.
1:00:01For the life
1:00:04of every living thing
1:00:08is in the blood.
1:00:10For the life of every living thing is in
1:00:15the blood there. So what sin does what
1:00:18we typically see where there's a pattern
1:00:19in the word of God where there's a
1:00:21battle between righteous and evil.
1:00:23There's a battle between righteous and
1:00:24wicked. Abel was deemed righteous.
1:00:27Cain was deemed wicked.
1:00:30We have seen a lot of righteous people
1:00:32be taken because of wicked people and
1:00:34schemes.
1:00:37But we see the first conflict of
1:00:38righteous and evil. I know y'all see a
1:00:40lot of war between righteous people and
1:00:42evil people all the time. It's in
1:00:44different countries. It's online. I know
1:00:46y'all see it,
1:00:48right? His ways are not our ways. You
1:00:50already got it highlighted. I love it.
1:00:52Isaiah 59, chapter 59, verse two. I'm
1:00:55giving y'all parallel scriptures so
1:00:56y'all can go back and read it. Isaiah,
1:01:00let me [clears throat] flip over to
1:01:01Isaiah. Isaiah, and I'm in Ethiopia,
1:01:03y'all, so give me a second cuz baby,
1:01:06it's a little tough to go through this
1:01:07one. Isaiah 59:E2,
1:01:12but your sinful acts have alienated you
1:01:14from God. There's a separation that
1:01:16happens with sin. You are separated from
1:01:20God. There's a separation. And it says,
1:01:22"But your sinful acts have alienated you
1:01:25from God." There is a separation that
1:01:27happens in sin. It separates you from
1:01:31God.
1:01:35I don't think any of us want to be
1:01:36separated from God.
1:01:38Right. I don't think any of us want to
1:01:41be separated from God. Right.
1:01:43Absolutely. Y'all go to Romans for a
1:01:46second.
1:01:47I think we only got like two or three
1:01:48more parallels. Go to Romans chapter 5
1:01:52verse12. I'm giving y'all scriptures to
1:01:54highlight. So if y'all want to go back
1:01:56and study those, you can. There we go.
1:01:59Come on. Come on. This Ethiopian return
1:02:02me up. Okay. Chapter 5:12.
1:02:06Now y'all know if y'all want the
1:02:07Ethiopian Bible, you ain't going to
1:02:09really be able to put no tabs on it like
1:02:10that cuz it's it's kind sometimes it's
1:02:13all over the place. So then, just as sin
1:02:16entered the world through one man, and
1:02:17death through sin, and so death spread
1:02:19to all people, because all sin. So then,
1:02:23just as sin entered the world through
1:02:25one man, and death through sin, and so
1:02:30death spread to all people because all
1:02:33sinned.
1:02:34Okay, y'all got that? In Revelations
1:02:39chapter 22 verse two, we will see the
1:02:42tree of life again in Revelations.
1:02:45Okay, if y'all want to go and look at
1:02:47that, cool. In Revelations
1:02:5022:E 2,
1:02:53in the new Jerusalem,
1:02:56there is going to be a tree of life.
1:03:00So now, this is in Revelations, okay?
1:03:02That's [snorts] that's something deep.
1:03:03If you new to the Bible, I'm not going
1:03:05to tell you to read that right now.
1:03:07Okay, I'm not going to tell you to read
1:03:08Revelations if you're new to the Bible.
1:03:10Not right now. You got to get a little
1:03:11bit deeper in your word. Okay, but you
1:03:13will see the tree of life again. So, if
1:03:15any of you all are like, "Are we ever
1:03:17going to see the tree of life again?"
1:03:18It's in Revelations. I know people have
1:03:20asked that before. What happens with the
1:03:22tree of life? It's back in Revelations.
1:03:25Okay, it's back in Revelations. Okay,
1:03:30last one is First Peter. Last parallel
1:03:33scripture we have is first Peter chapter
1:03:365 verse 8. This is our last parallel
1:03:38scripture.
1:03:40Let me see if you're in your Ethiopian.
1:03:42It's Peter is going to be like real
1:03:43small to itself and it is going to be
1:03:46like right at the top.
1:03:48There we go. It's going to be like real
1:03:50small in the quarter where you can see
1:03:52where Peter is in the corner.
1:03:55Chapter 5:8. This the last one. 1 Peter
1:03:585:8.
1:03:59Be sober and alert.
1:04:03Be sober and alert. Your enemy, the
1:04:06devil, like a roaring lion.
1:04:09Okay,
1:04:11like we talked about in uh Genesis, he
1:04:14was waiting, right? Crouching, right?
1:04:16Waiting, right? Okay. Your enemy, the
1:04:19devil, like a roaring lion, is on the
1:04:21prow looking for someone to devour.
1:04:27Okay.
1:04:30Be sober and alert. Be vigilant. Be
1:04:34sober and alert. Thank you so much,
1:04:36Destiny. Be sober and alert. Your enemy,
1:04:38the devil, like a roaring lion, is on
1:04:40the prow looking for someone to devour.
1:04:43Resist him.
1:04:45Strong in your faith.
1:04:47Resist him.
1:04:50Strong in your faith. The enemy is
1:04:53always looking for a moment to make you
1:04:55sin. And that's what he did with Cain.
1:04:57He got a hold of his anger. So for all
1:04:59of you all who may have something
1:05:00against somebody,
1:05:03for all of you all who may have anger
1:05:04and unforgiveness in your heart, for all
1:05:07of you all who are struggling to release
1:05:09an offense that was done to you, if that
1:05:12anger sits in your heart, the devil is
1:05:15waiting.
1:05:17He is waiting for the very moment
1:05:21to get you. This is why we stay sober
1:05:24and alert. This is why we stay in the
1:05:26word of God and we stay close to God
1:05:29because Satan is waiting to devour you.
1:05:31Which is why God was telling Cain, if
1:05:33you subdue it,
1:05:36you won't have no problems. But he
1:05:37couldn't. This is the reason why God
1:05:39tells us to resist him. Be strong in
1:05:42your faith. So if there's anything that
1:05:44you holding in your heart,
1:05:46you're going to have to go to God to
1:05:48release it. Because it's going to be
1:05:50that very anger, that very
1:05:51unforgiveness, that very hurt, the
1:05:54resentment, the bitterness that will
1:05:56cause you to sin because Satan's going
1:05:58to get in your ear.
1:06:00Okay? Which is another reason why we're
1:06:02commanded to forgive.
1:06:05Okay? Let's go ahead and leave. Go out
1:06:07in prayer, y'all. I hope you all learned
1:06:08something. What are we taking from
1:06:10today's Bible study? What are we taking
1:06:12from today? I love you all. I'm so happy
1:06:14that you all were here were here. Be
1:06:16country again. What were you all taking
1:06:19from today's study?
1:06:25He is still merciful. Absolutely.
1:06:29Absolutely.
1:06:34Absolutely.
1:06:38Mhm.
1:06:43Someone said, "If that anger can help
1:06:44you through a breakup," I want to tell
1:06:45you that there is a such thing as
1:06:46righteous anger. When something has been
1:06:48done and you know that you're innocent
1:06:49of it, it's okay for you to feel angry.
1:06:52The problem is is that when you allow
1:06:53anger to fester, when you allow anger to
1:06:56sit and it's not being released, the
1:06:58problem is when it's not being released.
1:07:00But when we go to God with our anger, we
1:07:02start to release it. The anger no longer
1:07:04controls our thoughts. It doesn't
1:07:05control what we want to do. So, we don't
1:07:07become impulsive from that anger. So, if
1:07:09we refuse to release that anger, it's
1:07:11going to sit on your heart. And that
1:07:14anger is going to cause you to become
1:07:15bitter and it's going to cause you to
1:07:17become resentful. And then that right
1:07:19there is what's going to you may think,
1:07:20"Oh, I'm getting past this breakup, but
1:07:22now you're holding an offense against
1:07:23somebody." And God commands us to
1:07:25forgive. And a lot of people are not
1:07:27free from what they have been going
1:07:29through in the stronghold because they
1:07:30refuse to forgive. You got to release
1:07:32it. The same way that Christ Jesus died
1:07:34on the cross and that ledger that we
1:07:36have was cleared of all of our debts and
1:07:38all the offenses that were claimed
1:07:39against us. The same way that Jesus died
1:07:41on the cross so there would be no
1:07:44condemnation to us. So that way we are
1:07:46debtree.
1:07:48When it comes to our sins, we don't owe
1:07:51God when it comes to our sins. It's the
1:07:53same way we have to do other people. We
1:07:55can't have the grace from God and the
1:07:58grace that was shed by the blood of the
1:08:00lamb and then say that you got to pay me
1:08:03for what you did to me. But Jesus
1:08:04already paid for it all on the cross.
1:08:07Okay.
1:08:09Okay. And I know that can be tough
1:08:11sometimes. I have a lot of trauma. I
1:08:13have done I've done some things. I've
1:08:15lived through some things. I've been the
1:08:16offended. I've been the offender. I have
1:08:18done I felt I've hurt. I I understand
1:08:20it. But you got to release these things.
1:08:22You got to go repent to God. You got to
1:08:24ask for forgiveness and you got to
1:08:25forgive those cuz what does the Lord's
1:08:27prayer say? Always repeat that.
1:08:31Always repeat what the Lord's prayer
1:08:32says.
1:08:37Come on. Our Father who art in heaven,
1:08:39hallowed be hallowed, not hallowed. H
1:08:41hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come,
1:08:42thy will be done on earth as it is in
1:08:44heaven. Give us this day our daily
1:08:46bread. and forgive us
1:08:49our trespasses as we forgive those who
1:08:52trespass against us. Forgive us our
1:08:54debts as we forgive our debts hurts.
1:08:58It's right there in the Lord's Prayer is
1:09:00commanded of us to do so. So, a lot of
1:09:02times people say the Lord's prayer and
1:09:03they forget, they just say that one line
1:09:04and forget. No, no, no, no, no. You
1:09:06actually got to do it. The word of God
1:09:08also tells you that when you pray, make
1:09:10sure you forgive. Jesus said that.
1:09:14He said, "Whatever you pray for, it can
1:09:16happen. If you believe it, it can
1:09:17happen. But make sure when you pray, you
1:09:19forgive." So that's the biggest thing to
1:09:20make sure that you release it from your
1:09:22heart. Okay. Okay.
1:09:27Oh, thank you so much, Lynn. I I didn't
1:09:29see the whole message, but I appreciate
1:09:30you. All right, y'all. So, I hope you
1:09:32all had a good Bible study. We going to
1:09:33go ahead and lead out. We're going to go
1:09:35out in prayer, and then I will be back,
1:09:37y'all, in two weeks on Tuesday.
1:09:39Two weeks on Tuesday. And I think all of
1:09:42you all have seen the encouraging words
1:09:43and things like that. I've seen the
1:09:44encouraging messages and stuff. Somebody
1:09:46wrote me in the email. Uh, your name
1:09:49starts with an R. I'm so sorry, but you
1:09:51have really been writing me and stuff.
1:09:53Thank you, Tia, so much y'all. I'm okay.
1:09:55I love God. I carry my cross. I There
1:09:58you are. I see your name. I love God. I
1:10:00carry my cross. And I am doing this for
1:10:02God. And I believe you all are doing
1:10:04this for God, too. Right.
1:10:07We all working in the kingdom, right?
1:10:09Absolutely. All right. Heavenly Father,
1:10:11we thank you for the time that you have
1:10:12spent with us in this moment, Father
1:10:14God. And we are so grateful to be able
1:10:16to be in your presence. What a mighty
1:10:17word this was, Father God. We thank you
1:10:20so much for the mercy that you have
1:10:21extended to us, Father God, and the
1:10:23favor that has been extended to us even
1:10:25when we do not deserve it. Your grace is
1:10:28so sufficient, Father God.
1:10:30And we thank you for showing us what it
1:10:33means to love, to love you. We thank you
1:10:36for opening up our eyes and opening up
1:10:38our hearts to see just how powerful you
1:10:41are, Father God. We are so undeserving.
1:10:45Yet you are a God of justice. You are a
1:10:47God of mercy, Father God. You are the
1:10:50highest judge, Father God. And whomever
1:10:52thinks that they can sit in the seat of
1:10:54the judge by choosing not to forgive,
1:10:56Father God, I ask that you correct them,
1:10:58Father God, for we know that you are a
1:11:00compassionate God, and your character
1:11:03has never changed. And we are so
1:11:06grateful to be able to live in your
1:11:08presence and have this life that you
1:11:10have given us with abundance, Father
1:11:12God. If there is any correction that we
1:11:14need in our life, Father God, please
1:11:15correct us, Father God. If there are any
1:11:17hearts that are failing to repent,
1:11:18Father God, please open those hearts
1:11:20that they will be in your presence and
1:11:22repent for the things that they have
1:11:23done so they can live such a transformed
1:11:25life. Father God, those of who us all of
1:11:28us who are about to be commissioned into
1:11:29these new places, Father God, we ask and
1:11:31we pray for a hedge of protection,
1:11:33Father God. A hedge of protection in
1:11:34whatever room it is that you have
1:11:36designated for us, Father God. For we
1:11:38understand that this is soul business
1:11:40and we are here fighting for souls and
1:11:41we thank you for allowing us to be
1:11:43vessels and entrusting us, Father God.
1:11:45And so I want to take the time to exalt
1:11:47your name on high, Father God. On the
1:11:51mountain tops, I am exalting your name
1:11:53because you are so great and you are so
1:11:57good and worthy are you to be praised.
1:11:59Wonderful is your name. Faithful are you
1:12:02for us to believe and faithful are you
1:12:04who has continued to perform, Father
1:12:06God. And so I ask that this message
1:12:09lives in the hearts of those who have
1:12:10been able to receive it and that it may
1:12:12bless thousands of others to be able to
1:12:13receive the word of God, Father God. So
1:12:15we thank you for this time of fellowship
1:12:17and community, Father God. We thank you
1:12:19for loving us in the mighty and
1:12:21matchless name we pray. Amen. Amen.
1:12:24Amen. Again,
1:12:28everybody be safe. If y'all was on
1:12:31worship, go listen to them songs again.
1:12:33Okay. [laughter]
1:12:36All right. I love you all. I will see
1:12:37you all uh not next Tuesday, but the
1:12:40Tuesday after that. And I'm excited to
1:12:42see you all. Y'all have a blessed day.
1:12:45Protect yourselves. I love you. I love
1:12:47you. I love y'all. Okay. In two more
1:12:50weeks, y'all. Not one. I see y'all.
1:12:52Y'all ain't slick. In two more weeks.
1:12:54[laughter]
1:12:55Two more Tuesdays. Okay.
1:12:58Yeah.