Amidst all the recent shootings and demonstrations I felt we revisit a question asked by Cain to God and that is "am I my brothers keeper"? Both audio and slides can be found at www.cmcoc.org Sermon by: Brian Birdow

1. Am I my brothers keeper?
by
Brian Birdow
Sermon text: Genesis 4
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2. Objective of lesson
1. What does (not) GOD respect?
2. What does being your brothers keeper look
like?
3. God is aware of what is going on!
4. How can we reverse the tides of what is so
current in our society?

3. Respect defined
• Respect-shaah in Hebrew or Chaldee= to
gaze at or about
• Looking around in amazement, regard
• When Cain brought his offering, the LORD
did not have RESPECT!

4. What does GOD respect?
• Hosea 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and
the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
• Micah 6:8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is
good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to
do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with
thy GodGod?
• Isaiah 56:1 Thus says the LORD, Keep justice, and
do righteousness: for my salvation is soon to come,
and my righteousness to be revealed.

5. What does GOD respect?
• Isaiah 1:16-17 Wash you, make yourself clean; put
away the evil of your doings from before my eyes;
cease to do evil; Learn to do good; seek justice,
relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for
the widow.
• Deuteronomy 28:1 And it shall come to pass, if thou
shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD
thy God, to observe and to do all his
commandments which I command thee this day,
that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above
all nations of the earth:

6. What GOD does not respect?
• Due to the current things going on near us can GOD
have respect for us?
• Facebook, emails, youtube, twitter, social media
• Ephesians 4:31-32 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and
anger, and clamour (shouting with a harsh voice), and
evil speaking (abusive speech), be put away from you,
with all malice (evil intent): And be ye kind one to
another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as
God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

7. What does being your brothers
keeper look like?
• Luke 10:25-37….turn with me please
• Galatians 6:9-10 And let us not be weary
in well doing: for in due season we shall
reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore
opportunity, let us do good unto all men,
especially unto them who are of the
household of faith.

8. What does being your brothers
keeper look like?
Teach
• Matthew 22:36-38 Master, which is the great
commandment in the law? Jesus said unto
him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all
thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy
mind. This is the first and great
commandment.
• Matthew 22:39-40 And the second is like unto
it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On
these two commandments hang all the law

9. Reversing the tides
• Proverbs 15:1-13 turn with me please
• Proverbs 10:12 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but
love covereth all sins.
• Judges 2:10 And also all that generation
were gathered unto their fathers: and there
arose another generation after them, which
knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which
he had done for Israel.

10. Reversing the tides
• Genesis 4:5 But unto Cain and to his offering
he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth,
and his countenance fell.
• Ephesians 4:26-27 Be ye angry, and sin not:
let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Neither give place to the devil.
• Reversing the tides starts with teaching the
next generation GOD!