The Two Bloodlines

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Hello, my name is Paul, and I am the voice for a new ministry provided to you by Jim Pugh at God Is Government called Your Daily Bread, taken from Christ's teaching of the Lord's Prayer in Matthew chapter 6, verse 11. This is a daily devotion ministry focused not only on uplifting scripture, but scripture that will grow your spiritual connection with Christ. We hope that you receive these devotions to uplift you, encourage you, but most importantly, advance your knowledge base of the Holy Scriptures. We're going to look at these two bloodlines that we saw in Genesis 3.15. This promise of a Messiah, this promise of a redeemer, and this promise of two lines that would come from Eve, right? From the line of woman and from the line of Satan. The parallels both of the tragedy that is the bloodline of Cain that we're about to look at, and the incredible godliness of the bloodline of Seth that's going to come from Adam are very clear. And I want you guys just to be thinking about asking yourselves the question which one of these two bloodlines best represents me? Genesis 4, verse 1 says, Now what's Eve thinking in this moment as she's talking about her response to this male, this child that she has? Now remember, Eve had no idea that Genesis 3 verse 15 wasn't speaking about Jesus Christ and the coming Messiah. All she knew is that God was going to bring from her line a male who would one day crush the head of Satan. And she says, in this moment, it certainly seems like she is responding here in belief, and thinks, Lord, is this the guy? Is my son going to be the one that will deliver us from this atrocity and evil that I and my husband have committed? And as we know as the story rolls forward, unfortunately that is not at all the case. But now we have a second kid, verse 2. Again she gave birth to his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of the flocks, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. Cain and Abel, two of the most well-known Bible stories, even outside of the church. These two brothers that represent now these two lines moving forward, two kids in two very different responses to God. And I want you to notice in verse 3, both of these kids, both of these sons of Adam and Eve, bring an offering to the Lord. Look at verse 3. So it came about in the course of time that Cain brought an offering to the Lord of the fruit of the ground. Abel on his part also brought the firstlings of his flock and their fat portions. It says, So Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell. Then the Lord said to Cain, Why are you angry, and why has your countenance fallen? If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door, and its desire is for you, but you must master it. Cain is furious at God for rejecting or not accepting his offering. And just like Adam and Eve after they sinned, God now gives Cain an offering to say, Hey Cain, push the pause button, stop what you're doing, come to me, confess and repent, change directions, don't continue to go down this line of where anger can lead you. Before anger turns into something far greater, come to me. God is in a sense saying, Hey, sin, Cain is crouching at your door. It will consume you if you allow it to. You need to turn back to the truth and turn back to me. But unfortunately we know the story, don't we? That is not at all how this ends. Look at verse 8. Cain told his brother Abel, and it came about when they were in the field that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him. In cold blood, vengeance is now enacted by Cain to his innocent brother Abel. He's angry at the Lord and now takes it out in this jealous, fueled rage and murders literally his brother. And yet God in his graciousness offers Cain now, not just a one opportunity, but now a second opportunity to turn back to him. Cain, the line of Satan, not the line of woman. We'll see that shortly, and the outflowings of that. So we can imagine, if we start with Cain, boy, this is not good. When the first sin outside of the garden that we see committed in humanity is murdering your own brother, boy, we're going downhill fast. And we're going to see now seven generations from Adam. The first guy was Cain. Genesis is making the point that though the ungodly line of Cain, or through this ungodly line of Cain, the world's greatest at this point in time, significant cultural discoveries emerged not from the line of Abel, not from the godly line, but from the ungodly. Crazy. And yet God is present in this line in name only. We live in a society today where technologically we are skyrocketing, but at the very same time, our morality is in the toilet. We can put a man on the moon, but we can't walk across the street to love our neighbor. We've all but eradicated diseases like malaria and polio and smallpox and measles, yet we can't heal the evils of the human heart. Thousands of years later, we don't look so different, do we? The famous comedian George Carlin, I'll paraphrase, said it like this. The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. Now, if you've been keeping up, you should be asking the question: wait a second, I thought there were two lines, and Cain slew Abel. What of this promise? What of this promise from God that he said that he would bring a he, a singular male pronoun, to rescue the world out of their sin and out of the suffering? What has happened now? Aren't there still two lines? Well, we're gonna see moving forward that God is still good, and he's going to keep his word, and he will most certainly deliver. And as the line of Cain looks to self, there's another line that lifts their eyes to the Lord. Look at verses 25 and 26 of chapter 4. It said, Adam had relations with his wife again. She gave birth to a son and named him Seth, whose name, by the way, means appointed. For she said, God has appointed me another offspring in the place of Abel, for Cain killed him. To Seth, to him also a son was born, and he named him Enosh. And men began to call upon the name of the Lord. Despite the train wreck that is the other line, God's keeping his promises. And in these difficult days, we are not left without hope, here in the story of Genesis. Chapter 4 tells the story of this ungodly line that live for themselves. In chapter 5 now, moving forward, it's going to tell the story of this godly line and the genealogy that comes from them. Now, for whatever reason, as Moses penned this, he gave us a ton of details on chapter 4 in this ungodly line. We don't get a lot of information, a lot of stories on what this godly line looks like. In fact, we really only get two verses. The rest of chapter 5 is the genealogy, but two verses within this chapter give us a hint of what's going on. The first we just read, Genesis chapter 4, verse 26. Men began to call upon the name of the Lord. When Enosh, the son that is born to Seth, arrives on the scene, there's something that is changing. Men, humanity, begins to call upon the name of the Lord. That idea is worship. They look to, they speak of, they talk about Yahweh and his incredible graciousness on this earth. In Seth, his son, specifically Enosh, when this event occurs, men begin again finally to look to the Lord. The second verse that we see is verse 24 of chapter 5, and it's written about a guy by the name of Enoch. Let's know what God says about him. It says, Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him. Man appointed mortal sorrow. The blessed God shall come down teaching. His death shall bring the disparaging rest. Isn't that great? There's a sense even in this line, even as we point through ten generations, that there is still the hope of a Messiah, that God has not forgotten humanity, that one day rest, that's what Noah's name means, will come not just through Noah, but from the seed of Noah that's coming on down the line. And that God, by the way, that kept his promises thousands of years ago, and did indeed bring about Jesus Christ, to us our Redeemer, the final crusher of Satan's head, that God was faithful then, and he is faithful today. And friends, that is really our job, our call as the church, to be faithful men and women that worship God, that speak of him and the grace that he has offered to us and point not to the name on the back of our jerseys, but to the name on the front, because we live for something far greater than just you and I. In our name, in our reputation, in our toys, whatever, we live for him. Thank you for joining us in this exploration of the two bloodlines. Until next time, remember to keep the faith, stay strong, and continue to shine your light in the world. To hear these daily devotions of your daily bread, please log on to goddessgovernment.com. Goodbye, and may your faith always lead the way.