Genesis 4:1–16 | Cain — a brother’s worship curves inward

January 25th, 2026

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Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe
Genesis 4:1–16

  1. DISORDERED WORSHIP
  2. SIN IS CROUCHING AT THE DOOR
  3. BLOOD CRIES FROM THE GROUND

Hebrews 11:4 (ESV)
By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.

A.W. Pink
First, he owned that God was righteous in driving fallen man out of Eden (Gen. 3:24). Second, he owned that he was a guilty sinner, and that death was his just due. Third, he owned that God was holy, and must punish sin. Fourth, he owned that God was merciful, and willing to accept the death of an innocent substitute in his place. Fifth, he owned that he looked for acceptance with God in Christ the Lamb.

Isaiah 1:12 (ESV)
“When you come to appear before me,
who has required of you
this trampling of my courts?

Martin Luther
… our nature has been so deeply curved in upon itself because of the viciousness of original sin that it not only turns the finest gifts of God in upon itself and enjoys them … it even uses God Himself to achieve these aims, but it also seems to be ignorant of this very fact, that in acting [with such great injustice], so perversely, and in such a depraved way, it is even seeking God for its own sake.

James 4:1–3 (ESV)
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

James 4:6–8 (ESV)
Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Hebrews 12:24 (ESV)
to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.