Genesis 4

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 4:1-26

Genesis 4:0 I. From the story of Cain we gather the following thoughts: I. Eve's disappointment at the birth of Cain should be a warning to all mothers. Over-estimate of children may be traced sometimes to extreme love for them; it may also arise on the part of parents from an overweening estimate of themselves. II. We see next in the history of Cain what a fearful sin that of murder is. The real evil of murder (apart from its theftuous character) lies in the principles and feelings from... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 4:3-5

Genesis 4:3-5 Hebrews 11:4 We learn from our text: I. That religion actuated men in the very earliest times. (1) Religion as a principle was found in the members of the first human family. The most prominent thing connected with Cain and Abel was their religion. (2) All nations of men have practised religion. Conscience, like the unresting heart that sends its crimson streams through the system, and so perpetuates its life, is untiringly impelling men to die to sin and live to God. (3) The... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 4:3-7

Genesis 4:3-7 I. The first question to be asked is this: What did Cain and Abel know about sacrifice? Although we should certainly have expected Moses to inform us plainly if there had been a direct ordinance to Adam or his sons concerning the offering of fruits or animals, we have no right to expect that he should say more than he has said to make us understand that they received a much more deep and awful kind of communication. If he has laid it down that man is made in the image of God, if... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 4:4-5

Genesis 4:4-5 There are two things which distinguish the Bible from every other book: the view it gives us of man, and the view it gives us of God. The one is so human, the other so Divine; the one so exactly consistent with what we ourselves see of man, the other so exactly consistent with what we ourselves should expect in God, in other words, with what our own conscience, which is God's voice within, recognises as worthy of God, and ratifies where it could not have originated. I. "The Lord... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 4:7

Genesis 4:7 The key to the interpretation of these words is to remember that they describe what happens after and because of wrong-doing. They are all suspended on "If thou doest not well." The word translated here "lieth" is employed only to express the crouching of an animal, and frequently of a wild animal: "Unto thee shall be its desire, and thou shalt rule over it" Words like these were spoken to Eve: "Thy desire shall be to thy husband and he shall rule over thee." In horrible parody... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 4:8-13

Genesis 4:8-13 Sin finds in the very constitution of the human mind the enginery of its own retribution. I. The very consciousness of sin is destructive of a sinner's peace. II. Sin tends to develop sin. III. The consciousness of guilt is always more or less painfully attended with the apprehension of its discovery. IV. A foreboding of judicial and eternal retribution is incident to sin. V. From all this we see the preciousness of the work of Christ. He becomes a reality to us, only because He... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 4:9

Genesis 4:9 The feeling of our sonship to God in Christ is a topic which requires to be constantly dwelt upon, because our conventional acceptance of such a relationship is apt to be compatible with a life which has no real apprehension of it. I. Of the dangers which are partly rooted in our animal nature and partly fostered and intensified by the drift of our time, the one likely to press most heavily on us is that of exaggerated individualism. Where this is not tempered by an infusion of the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 4:26

Genesis 4:26 Prayer is speaking to God on any subject, with any object, in any place, and in any way. I. Prayer so regarded is an instinct. It seems to be natural to man to look upwards and address himself to his God. Even in the depth of lost knowledge and depraved feeling, the instinct of prayer will assert itself. A nation going to war with another nation will call upon its God for success and victory; and an individual man, from the bedside of a dying wife or child, will invoke the aid of... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Genesis 4:8-10

DISCOURSE: 9THE DEATH OF ABELGenesis 4:8-10. And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper? And He said, What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.IT is scarcely to be conceived how much iniquity there is in the heart of fallen man. That we have... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Genesis 4:26

DISCOURSE: 10INSTITUTION OF PUBLIC WORSHIPGenesis 4:26. Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.OF the various institutions of religion, some were clearly founded on an express appointment from God himself; others appear to have arisen, in the first instance, from the suggestions of holy men, and to have been afterwards authorized and established by divine authority. It is manifest that baptism was practised by the Jews long before it was appointed by Christ as the rite whereby his... read more

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 4:1-26

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 4:3-5

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 4:3-7

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 4:4-5

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 4:7

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 4:8-13

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 4:9

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 4:26

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Genesis 4:8-10

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Genesis 4:26

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