- God created man to subdue all things through him and establish His government on this Earth. However, through the serpent’s deception, Eve disobeyed God, ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and gave it to Adam. Because of this disobedience, sin entered the world, and death began to reign. Now man, created to do God’s will, became a bearer of the serpent’s seed, sin. Fallen man was injected with the devil’s genetic makeup. Everything we do in the flesh bears Satan’s fingerprint. We need to realize the gravity of what happened here! Oh Lord Jesus! (Gen. 2:17; 3:1-6; Rom 5:12, 17, 19; 7:14, 17-18, 20-25).
- After the injection of the devil’s seed, fallen man began to live in slavery to sin. This is why Paul said, “O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body of this death?” (Rom 7:24). The only way out for humanity is the cross of Christ, that is, the death of the old man. Through faith in Christ we have been included in His death. We need to love the work of the cross of Christ; this is a matter of our redemption and liberation from the serpent’s genetic makeup. We do not need to do anything; Christ did everything. God does the work through the Word, Christ. When we believe in the word of the kingdom, the seed of God is injected into us. Now, we carry God’s genetic makeup, His DNA. This is Satan’s defeat. We have overcome him by the blood of the Lamb (Rom 7:24-25; 6:6; Matt 13:24; Rev. 12:11).
- The story of Cain and Abel reveals to us what the fallen human nature is like. Cain, whose name means “I have acquired a man with the help of the Lord,” imagined he would be the descendant that was promised in Genesis 3:15 and would bruise the serpent’s head. For this reason, Cain, through his natural efforts, sought to please God. However, human efforts, in their natural form, can never please God, because they carry the serpent’s DNA. The name “Abel” means “passing breath” or “vanity”. Adam and Eve, faced with this situation, realized that human life outside of God’s presence, that is, outside of the Garden of Eden, was vanity. As wonderful as human life is everything is vanity. What point is there in storing up treasures? Today, our lives are no longer without hope because we are living in the Garden of Eden, which is the church (Gen 4:1-5; Ps 39:4-7).
- Cain was of the Evil One. He had the Evil One’s genetic makeup and walked according to it. Even though they seemed good, his works were connected to the Evil One. The way of Cain represents those who serve God according to their own way, not His. The result is envy and jealousy toward those who truly serve God according to His principles. In the end, we “kill” our brothers. To please God, it is necessary to seek His presence, to hear His word, and, through it, to know God’s heart, His desires and His will. This is God’s principle. To follow God’s principle is no longer to trust in the flesh but to realize that one is a sinner, and, as such, to humble oneself to be accepted by God because the best way to escape the connection with the devil is through repentance (Gen. 4:5-6; Jude 10-13; John 8:44; Phil. 3:3-9; Luke 18:9-14).
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