From the Fall to Murder

June 06, 2021

Pastor Rick Hum

We have seen the effect that sin had on Adam and Eve. We recognize that, especially the self-centeredness, is something we see as a characteristic of our society. Because our society often applauds the values of Satan, it elevates self centeredness as a prized goal to emulate. In fact, there are two ways at least for us to “picture” the world, that of man-centeredness, which we call anthropocentric (regarding humankind as the central or most important element of existence, especially as opposed to God…) as versus theocentric, where God is the central motivating being. It is clear that man being central is lifted up as the greater value by many in the world. This Sunday, we continued to trace the degradation of the impact of sin, and see that it naturally will lead to death. And not just death in the general sense, but specifically death in that the first murder takes place. We will learn much about God, about the principle of grace, God’s teaching Cain about sacrifice.J