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#CAIN AND ABEL LESSON FULL#
Take care of your mind, body, and heart so you can face each day with a full tank, ready to bring your skills and talents to the altar with a willingness to use them to the fullest for the glory of God. Lesson 3 - God accepts Abel but rejects Cain Cain and Abel Bible Craft. When you get up and go to work, give Jesus your very best, not your leftovers. Cain offered some produce from his crops as his offering to. The story is presented in the Qur’anic chapter al-Ma’idah (the Table Spread with Food), verses 27-31. God had made a man, and a woman, called Adam and Eve and a beautiful garden for them to live in but they had not trusted God and had not followed his rules so Adam and Eve had to leave the garden and go out to live in the world. The following are 14 lessons that can be gleaned from the story of Prophet Adam’s two sons: Qabil (Cain) the wicked one and the murderer, and Habil (Abel) the righteous one and the victim. While it probably wasn’t his worst, it also wasn’t his best he brought his leftovers and his brother brought his very finest!įriend, I encourage you to view your work as an offering to the Lord and to live in the spirit and attitude of Abel. Abel was faithful and offered the best meat from his best lamb in his flock to God as a sacrifice. 14 Lessons from the Story of Cain and Abel. On the contrary, it doesn’t appear that Cain put much thought into what he gave he didn’t specifically look for the best apples or the sweetest cherries, he just picked something at random and brought it to the altar. Today, it would be like saying that he brought the filet mignons before the Lord, not the flank steak! Abel gave the most valuable, sellable, worthwhile, and delicious parts to God, and this pleased Him. Scripture says that Abel’s offering was the fatted portions in other words, the most expensive parts. Naturally, this evokes a lot of questions, and one of the biggest is why did God accept one offering and not the other? Thankfully, the text offers some clues. While we don’t know the exact details, the Bible says that God rejected Cain’s offering but that He accepted Abel’s. Cain brought a selection from his groves and trees before the Lord as an offering and Abel brought the fatted portions of his flock. When it was time for the harvest, Cain brought some of his crops as a gift to the Lord. When they grew up, Cain became a farmer and Abel became a shepherd. Cain was the older brother and Abel was the younger brother. In addition to teaching us some things about our hearts, I believe this account teaches us some important lessons about our attitudes towards our work.Īs you may recall, Cain was a farmer and Abel was a shepherd of some sort - those were their jobs. Our Bible lesson today is about two brothers named Cain and Abel. Many of you are familiar with the story of Cain and Abel. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering…” And Abel also brought an offering-fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord. “Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.