Dale Partridge - Genesis 4_9-10 - The Blood of Able

00:00:00.000 Praise God, we are here still in this great book of Genesis, and we are in chapter 4.

00:00:11.860 And if you recall, we are focusing on chapter 4 as this design of life after Eden.

00:00:20.900 That's really the description of this chapter.

00:00:23.680 And more than that, it's the continuation of life, but also the intensification of the fall.

00:00:34.160 So we saw in chapter 3 the fall of Adam and Eve, but here in chapter 4, we see the intensification of that sin,

00:00:42.880 of the symptoms of the fall, have gotten greater and greater.

00:00:47.560 Now last week, we covered verses 1 through 8.

00:00:51.640 It was the birth of Cain and Abel.

00:00:55.020 It was their offerings that they each made to God.

00:00:57.920 We know that one offering was accepted by God through faith, the offering of Abel.

00:01:03.980 And we know that one offering was rejected by God.

00:01:07.520 It was the offering of Cain.

00:01:09.720 We saw Cain's resulting anger.

00:01:12.300 and we also saw his ultimate murder of Abel, who became the church's first martyr.

00:01:21.880 Now Hebrews 11.4 tells us that, quote,

00:01:25.640 By faith, Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain,

00:01:32.740 through which he was commended as righteous,

00:01:36.420 God commending him by accepting his gifts,

00:01:39.600 and through his faith, though he died, he still speaks, end quote.

00:01:46.240 Now, today we turn our attention to the next section, which is really verses 9 through 16.

00:01:52.940 By God's grace, you have a preacher who goes very slow, and so we're only going to get through the

00:01:57.180 first two verses, 9 and 10, and we're going to break up this section, and we're going to have

00:02:02.900 next week's sermon. We'll get through the rest of this text. Now, this section, we're going to learn

00:02:08.300 three primary truths in this section between this week and next week. The first is that

00:02:14.980 there is a design for blood in redemption. It is very important that every Christian

00:02:21.540 understands the significance of blood as it pertains to the gospel. This isn't something 0.94

00:02:27.300 that you should figure out 10 to 20 years into your walk with Christ. It is a fundamental,

00:02:33.980 foundational understanding of blood for the grasp of the gospel. The second thing we're going to

00:02:41.360 learn is that unrepentant sin always results in covenantal expulsion. Unrepentant sin always

00:02:52.600 results in covenantal expulsion. And third, that God is sovereign over human affairs and human

00:03:00.260 vengeance while still executing justice on the wicked. We will see that Cain is marked and

00:03:08.960 you think, man, this guy should just be killed. Why is God saving him from the wrath of man? 0.74

00:03:15.440 Well, we will learn that vengeance is the Lord's and it is a great piece of text for the benefit

00:03:23.460 of our own souls. So today we're going to read verses 9 and 10. I want you guys to follow along

00:03:28.560 with me. Look down in your Bibles because there's a lot of word connections that we need to make

00:03:32.820 today. So follow along. It says in verse nine, it says, then the Lord said to Cain, where is Abel

00:03:40.980 your brother? He said, I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper? And the Lord said, what have

00:03:49.600 you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground. Now, if you remember

00:03:58.060 several sermons ago, God approached Adam in the same way that he approaches Cain in this moment

00:04:08.000 after sin. After the fall, the Lord questioned Adam. He says, where are you? Where are you?

00:04:14.560 Now, we discussed, is this a valid question or is it a rhetorical question? You know, this isn't

00:04:20.580 because God lacked information. It's not that he didn't understand where Adam was. It also doesn't

00:04:25.280 mean that he doesn't understand where Abel was. No, he was offering Adam and Cain both the

00:04:35.560 opportunity of confession, the opportunity of repentance. And we see this same judicial and

00:04:42.740 pastoral pattern here with Cain. And so God says to Cain, where is your brother Abel?

00:04:49.920 and really the question is a question of mercy and it's an opportunity that Cain might confess

00:04:58.240 his sin but unlike Adam who at least spoke honestly we see if you look back to Genesis

00:05:08.100 chapter 3 Adam says I heard the sound of you in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked

00:05:14.000 and I hid myself. So at least he responded honestly. But Cain responds with a lie.

00:05:22.600 He says, I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper?

00:05:29.080 Now, here we see another pattern similar to Adam in the pattern of Genesis chapter 3.

00:05:35.180 If you remember, Adam's disobedience quickly expanded into further disobedience through

00:05:42.420 excuse-making. And Cain's disobedience follows a similar pattern. Murder gives birth to lying,

00:05:51.400 and lying gives birth to the evasion of responsibility. And what that means is this,

00:05:57.120 sin gives birth to more sin. And every single one of you understand what that means.

00:06:04.660 Sin gives birth to more sin. I want you to consider this in your own life.

00:06:09.280 Have you ever lied because it was required to protect another lie?

00:06:18.700 When has sinful anger then led to insults and then led to violence or physical altercations?

00:06:28.000 I think there are plenty of children in the room this week who have had that experience.

00:06:32.200 when has compromise led to further compromise and that those things that once convicted your

00:06:42.420 conscience have become numb to your conscience and no longer convict you and you've become more

00:06:48.340 and more sinful in your ability to not be offended by what is wicked

00:06:55.800 calvin famously says one sin opens the door for another

00:07:03.200 it's almost something i want to have on my wall to remember that one sins opens the door for

00:07:11.380 another thomas watson adds he says a lesser sin draws on a greater as the little thief opens the

00:07:18.980 door for the robber and the robber for the murderer it is always an escalation

00:07:25.240 and so it's our duty as Christians this week I want you to think about it when you have an

00:07:33.580 opportunity of sin it's always a duty to kill sin when it's small it's much easier to kill a small

00:07:41.360 shrub than an oak and when that sin grows large it is much more powerful

00:07:47.960 now the phrase am i my brother's keeper it's a very important phrase i want to look at together

00:07:56.140 with you it's not an innocent question it's not like am i my brother's keeper no it's a calculated

00:08:03.100 sarcastic retort toward god think about that think about the wickedness of being sarcastic

00:08:11.560 to the maker of heaven and earth.

00:08:16.760 Cain knows exactly where Abel was.

00:08:21.420 Cain also knows that Abel was a keeper of sheep.

00:08:26.960 If you look back in your ESV translation, at least,

00:08:29.500 it'll say that Abel was a keeper of sheep.

00:08:33.160 And it's the same Hebrew word that we see here.

00:08:35.500 And he says, am I my brother's keeper?

00:08:38.520 Essentially, Cain's saying, we know that there are keepers of sheep, but there are no keepers of men, and I am not a keeper of my brother.

00:08:49.980 Answering this way, Cain is trying to deflect responsibility through kind of a cynical wordplay.

00:08:57.560 And again, if you think that you've never done this, you're wrong.

00:09:02.620 In fact, many children do this to their parents.

00:09:06.160 Many spouses do this to each other.

00:09:09.200 We use cynical wordplay to disrespect and deflect responsibility.

00:09:15.280 Again, when we read about Cain, it's easy to look down upon Cain and not see yourself in Cain.

00:09:22.320 The reality is that we all sin, and it's the reason we need Christ.

00:09:29.960 Now, God responds to Cain by saying, what have you done?

00:09:35.640 The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.

00:09:43.080 I think this is one of the most theologically packed sentences in Genesis.

00:09:47.060 And I don't think I understood it until I started studying it this week.

00:09:50.380 And it's what made me stop at verse 10.

00:09:55.140 Now a lot of commentators, and I read a lot of commentaries,

00:10:00.420 will look at this passage of scripture or this particular verse,

00:10:03.220 and they'll just go, it's merely a poetic personification of Abel's blood speaking.

00:10:14.620 But really it is much, much more significant than that.

00:10:23.800 This is the first mention of blood in the entire Bible.

00:10:27.420 It's the first mention of blood in all of the scriptures.

00:10:30.280 and I think it's very important that we lay some foundation so that we as Christians can understand 1.00

00:10:39.440 the significance of blood in redemptive history so that you're not one of these Christians that's 0.76

00:10:44.500 20 years deep and you don't know the fundamentals so that we can actually mature and really connect 0.99

00:10:50.860 why did Christ have to die why was blood spilt throughout the Old Testament I don't know if you

00:10:59.000 understand how much blood is in the Old Testament. It may be the most significant consistency in all

00:11:06.880 of the Old Testament is blood. And so for us to move past this passage about blood without really

00:11:13.200 understanding the significance of blood, I think would be incorrect. And so I'm going to give you

00:11:19.200 three understandings of this passage that really connects systematically to the rest of the Bible,

00:11:25.180 but I think will also help us understand this text. So first, in the Bible, blood is not symbolic

00:11:35.480 of life. Blood is life, and life is blood. You need to understand this. Blood is life, and life

00:11:45.120 is blood. In fact, Genesis 9-4 says exactly, it says, but you shall not eat flesh with its

00:11:55.160 life that is its blood leviticus 17 11 says for the life of the flesh is in the blood and i have

00:12:07.440 given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls for it is the blood that makes

00:12:14.080 atonement by the life three verses later it says for every life or sorry for the life of every

00:12:24.460 creature, your creature, right? For the life of every creature is its blood. Its blood is its life.

00:12:33.780 This is still scripture, by the way. Therefore, I have said to the people of Israel, you shall not

00:12:39.180 eat the blood of any creature for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it

00:12:46.340 shall be cut off. The substance of your life is in your blood. The substance of life is in blood. 1.00

00:13:00.900 When your blood spills, your life spills. And you need to understand this because when we sing

00:13:07.500 songs that Jesus's blood was spilt for us, you need to understand that that's really a synonym

00:13:13.180 for Jesus' life was poured out for us.

00:13:17.340 So Jesus said in the New Testament, he says,

00:13:20.580 For this is my blood of the covenant,

00:13:24.660 which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

00:13:32.600 What he's really saying here is that this is my life.

00:13:36.160 This is my life poured out for those who need a substitute 0.98

00:13:42.500 that they might die and that I might die in their place. 0.99

00:13:46.380 That I might give their life where they ought to have given theirs. 0.98

00:13:50.720 That's the gospel.

00:13:52.820 Their blood should have been spilt on that cross,

00:13:55.840 yet my blood came and spilt in their place.

00:13:59.480 That's the communication that is being said here.

00:14:02.320 We're getting into what's called the doctrine of penal substitutionary atonement.

00:14:07.140 It's a very technical term, but it's very helpful.

00:14:10.760 Very helpful to understand the gospel.

00:14:14.940 Now, this is also why we as Christians are forbidden from drinking the blood of fallen animals and of men.

00:14:26.880 But we are commanded to drink the blood of Christ sacramentally through the Lord's Supper.

00:14:33.760 when we are drinking the cup of the Lord's Supper

00:14:41.980 we are sacramentally drinking the eternal life of Christ

00:14:47.940 again there's so much connection here

00:14:50.880 you could write books on each one of these points

00:14:53.740 now blood is extremely solemn in the scriptures

00:14:58.180 it's a substance that cannot be reduced

00:15:03.060 In fact, I think that it will be very helpful for us to understand how we should think about blood in general.

00:15:11.960 In fact, if you're a hunter, if you fish, if you cook, anytime you see blood, you ought to think of it different than you probably do now.

00:15:25.040 I'm going to read you Leviticus 17, 13.

00:15:27.420 It says,

00:15:27.920 whatever men among the children of Israel or among the strangers who sojourn among them

00:15:37.840 who hunts and catches any beast or bird that may be eaten he shall pour out its blood

00:15:46.360 and cover it with earth. I wanted to look this up so I looked up some commentaries on this

00:15:52.920 particular passage and i found two commentaries that i'd like to read to you one of them is from

00:15:58.420 the 1800s theologian octavius winslow he says the hunter even in the midst of his occupation

00:16:06.500 must keep atonement in mind when he captures his prey he must reverently stand still pour out its

00:16:13.540 blood to jehovah the provider and cover it from the gaze of man and the appetite of predatory

00:16:20.400 creatures. God desires the sinner's soul to send up adoring thanks to him for atonement, 0.94

00:16:28.600 even amidst the forests of wild animals. No one should be in a circumstance where they cannot

00:16:35.340 see the value of blood. Israel's huntsmen were to be the men of faith, hunting not to satisfy 0.78

00:16:42.960 the passions of their hearts or for food, but for necessity. The solemn act of pouring out blood 0.78

00:16:51.860 served as a check on the hunters. Only those willing to pause their intense pursuit to reflect

00:16:59.380 on the value of blood should engage in this activity of hunting. It is not for the carefree,

00:17:06.100 the wild sports of youth. It is for the serious person who sees sin, life, death, and atonement

00:17:13.760 whenever they see blood. Powerful. It shifts the way we think about blood. Another theologian

00:17:25.820 made a shorter comment, Horatius Bonar in the 1800s. He says,

00:17:30.360 Let them go, let them ride furiously over the rocks and chasms, let them shoot the arrow, but behold, the field becomes a sanctuary that leads them into the presence of the Holy God.

00:17:43.820 They must stand still at the blood of their kill.

00:17:47.540 How awe-inspiring is the atoning blood.

00:17:51.240 End quote.

00:17:51.620 so blood according to god is not some inanimate liquid

00:18:00.700 it's the substance of life and all life is holy because it is given by god god is the giver of

00:18:11.480 all life the life that you have is given by the lord and so when blood spills the life that god

00:18:20.480 gave spills. And it is a solemn act. Point number two. So that was point number one. Point number two.

00:18:31.080 Cain's murder is not an individual crime. It's not merely an individual crime.

00:18:39.320 but a covenantal act in the war between the two seeds okay i want you to grasp this

00:18:50.880 cain's murder

00:18:52.940 is not merely an individual crime

00:18:59.640 it's an act of war between the two seeds now who are the two seeds well we know we have the

00:19:09.020 seed of the woman who leads to Christ, and we have the seed of the serpent, and that there is a

00:19:14.680 eternal or at least an earthly war waging between these two seeds that was told to us in Genesis

00:19:21.560 chapter 3. Now, if you remember, 1 John chapter 3, 8 says that Cain is of the evil one. Cain is of the

00:19:32.660 evil one, and that God has placed enmity between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent.

00:19:41.640 Now, Jesus says that another group is of the evil one. He actually uses the phrase of the devil.

00:19:51.600 John 8, 44, speaking to the Pharisees, Jesus says, you are of your father, the devil,

00:19:58.660 and your will is to do your father's desire.

00:20:02.580 He was a murderer from the beginning, end quote.

00:20:07.140 Now, why is that important to our text in Genesis chapter 4?

00:20:12.320 Well, because in Matthew 23, which is kind of a parallel text,

00:20:16.340 in verse 35, Jesus also speaking to the Pharisees says this,

00:20:21.680 so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth from the blood of righteous Abel

00:20:31.660 to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the 0.70

00:20:40.940 altar. Think about that. Think about some man coming up to you telling you that you murdered

00:20:50.420 someone that was killed several

00:20:54.580 thousand years ago.

00:20:58.640 That means that Jesus is thinking in a

00:21:02.740 framework different than most people.

00:21:08.860 Jesus assigns the

00:21:10.620 murder of Abel, not only to Cain,

00:21:15.480 but also to the Pharisees.

00:21:17.740 he's not thinking just individually he's thinking covenantally he's thinking in groups

00:21:25.220 he does this again because history to god is covenantal it's federal you're either represented

00:21:35.180 by adam or christ or the seed of the woman or the seed of the serpent you're covenantally represented

00:21:44.460 again even though they're separated by millennia Cain and the Pharisees

00:21:51.680 belong to the same seed they share the same father and ultimately they have the same guilt

00:21:58.840 think about that think about the implications theologically of what's going on here of the

00:22:06.300 the federalism that's happening here this is difficult for our radically individualistic

00:22:10.680 minds to think about to grasp but again in god's economy identity precedes activity

00:22:18.000 you behave based on who you are who you are will determine your behavior

00:22:25.480 we are judged not only by what we do but to whom we belong

00:22:31.660 do you belong to adam and the seat of the serpent or do you belong to christ in the seat of the

00:22:38.760 woman. You will have a federal representative. You'll stand before the Lord one day and the

00:22:46.760 Lord will say, who is your federal head? Is it Adam or is it Christ? Are you in Adam or

00:22:53.840 have you been born again in Christ? Third, it's my final point. When Abel's blood speaks,

00:23:06.020 It says that Abel's blood cries out.

00:23:12.800 When his blood speaks, it's crying for justice.

00:23:17.800 Now, Hebrews 12.24, very important connection verse for this text today.

00:23:23.280 Hebrews 12.24 directs us to another blood that speaks.

00:23:27.780 In fact, there are only two passages in Scripture specifically that says blood speaks.

00:23:33.420 And it's Abel and it's Christ.

00:23:35.540 And we're going to read it right now in verse 12, 24 of Hebrews.

00:23:38.820 It says, we have come to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

00:23:55.300 Now, I cannot tell you how difficult this passage is to interpret.

00:23:58.580 OK, I spent hours trying to get through how to interpret this correctly.

00:24:06.440 Commentators are divided on this particular text.

00:24:09.980 And they're divided over the phrase, the blood of Abel, in this passage in Hebrews.

00:24:16.700 I'm going to read it for you again.

00:24:18.040 It says, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant,

00:24:20.540 and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

00:24:26.740 Now, they're divided here because they're wondering,

00:24:30.140 is it talking about Abel's own blood

00:24:33.760 that was shed in the killing or in his murder

00:24:36.100 or

00:24:37.540 is it speaking of the sacrificial blood

00:24:41.440 that Abel offered from the firstborn of his flock?

00:24:46.580 Okay?

00:24:48.160 The first initial point is

00:24:49.720 oh, it's got to be talking about Abel.

00:24:51.600 Abel's blood.

00:24:53.300 But when you start to dig a little bit deeper

00:24:55.420 I think you find systematically

00:24:59.140 that it's more connected that the sacrificial blood of Abel

00:25:03.100 offered from the firstborn of his flock fits more theologically and

00:25:07.020 systematically. Let me explain. Now, I will say this. In one sense, I think

00:25:11.100 they're both valid views because there's really a two-sided

00:25:15.000 reality here. Abel's

00:25:18.640 personal blood spilled unjustly. His life is

00:25:22.820 spilled unjustly. What does it cry out for?

00:25:26.620 cries out for judgment and what happens the blood of christ cries out fulfilling that judgment

00:25:32.300 it fulfills the justice it satisfies the judgment of abel's blood so yes you can say yes that that

00:25:40.300 actually occurs abel's blood speaks a word of justice demanded christ's blood speaks a better

00:25:47.820 word of justice satisfied that's essentially what's happening here however abel

00:25:56.060 was also the first man recorded to shed sacrificial blood. So just stay with me here.

00:26:04.120 We're going to be a little theological. Abel was the first man ever recorded

00:26:08.400 to shed sacrificial blood, and he did so in faith.

00:26:14.040 He offered the blood of a firstborn lamb. And Hebrews 11.4 tells us,

00:26:21.200 By faith, Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous.

00:26:30.540 God commending him is accepting his gifts, and through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.

00:26:41.260 So Abel still speaks because of why?

00:26:45.440 How does he speak?

00:26:48.300 Well, he speaks in three ways.

00:26:51.200 one, his sacrifice that he made, the offering that he made,

00:26:58.060 the fat of the firstborn calf in which he slit the throat

00:27:03.200 and poured the blood on the offering in Genesis 4.

00:27:08.180 Abel speaks in testifying that sin requires death.

00:27:14.660 Now, we don't know what the conversations were between Genesis chapter 3 and 4.

00:27:19.560 We don't know if God gave instructions on blood.

00:27:23.300 All we know is what we have in the scriptures.

00:27:25.820 But we know that Abel's testimony of his sacrifice says sin requires death.

00:27:35.000 Number two is that God's wrath must be appeased by blood.

00:27:41.380 It must be appeased by blood.

00:27:43.220 and again we know that because the consequences of 1.00

00:27:48.800 Romans right it's

00:27:50.600 the wages of sin is death

00:27:53.260 the wages of sin is death

00:27:55.900 what will you pay

00:27:58.600 for sin

00:28:00.860 well you will pay with your life

00:28:02.680 but just because you pay with your physical life

00:28:08.480 does not mean that you have lost eternal life

00:28:10.660 and here it says that god's wrath must be appeased by blood

00:28:16.240 and the third point is that the old testament faith looked beyond the animal sacrifice to

00:28:23.320 something greater it was pointing people to and preparing people for a different lamb

00:28:31.360 and again when you see John say

00:28:35.160 behold

00:28:36.700 and he looks at Jesus

00:28:39.100 the Lamb of God

00:28:41.040 that takes away the sin of the world

00:28:43.620 you start to understand

00:28:45.800 that you have the firstborn Lamb of Abel

00:28:47.660 and that Jesus

00:28:50.860 his blood speaks

00:28:53.120 better than the blood

00:28:55.760 of Abel's Lamb 0.88

00:28:56.820 and so Abel

00:29:00.120 as faithful as his sacrifice was, we know Hebrews 10, it says, for it is impossible

00:29:08.460 for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Think about this.

00:29:14.840 All throughout the Old Testament, blood of bulls and goats were slain. And then Hebrews says,

00:29:21.600 for it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

00:29:31.060 So while Abel's physical blood and his sacrificial blood both spoke of a need for justice and atonement,

00:29:42.380 Jesus' blood spoke a better word as the fulfillment of that justice and a fulfillment of that atonement.

00:29:50.520 You need to see the connection points here.

00:29:52.400 And what I want to say is this.

00:29:54.760 Christ's blood does what neither Abel's shed blood could do.

00:30:00.120 Or Abel's sacrificial blood could do.

00:30:05.680 It secures justice, which is hell for Cain.

00:30:11.340 And it secures mercy for the faithful.

00:30:16.140 It is a better sacrifice.

00:30:19.200 Now we have to remember that the cross is where mercy was purchased, but justice was paid.

00:30:27.660 Mercy was purchased, but justice was paid.

00:30:30.500 I'm going to read Romans 3, 25 through 26.

00:30:32.880 It tells us that God put Christ forward.

00:30:36.900 This is the reason that God put Christ forward at this particular time.

00:30:40.540 It says to show God's righteousness, that there is a standard.

00:30:46.060 And it says, because in his divine forbearance, he had passed over former sins.

00:30:51.760 In other words, when Jesus comes and the cross is coming in time,

00:30:57.220 God is saying, I am not going to ignore sin.

00:31:00.500 All of it will be punished.

00:31:02.200 It will either land on your shoulders or the shoulders of the Savior.

00:31:06.880 But no sin will go unpunished.

00:31:15.760 And why is this important?

00:31:17.960 We often think about the blood of Christ only securing mercy.

00:31:22.480 but it really does secure judgment for those who reject christ the cross does not remove the

00:31:31.620 judgment it confirms it it confirms the judgment

00:31:37.400 the very sacrifice that could have saved them becomes the standard by which they are actually

00:31:44.740 condemned it's why jesus in john 3 18 says whoever believes in him is not condemned but

00:31:50.900 Whoever does not believe is condemned already.

00:31:55.800 And so I'm going to sum it up in just this one line.

00:31:58.480 And if you don't remember anything from today, remember this one line.

00:32:02.320 Christ's blood fulfills what Abel's sacrifice anticipated.

00:32:10.880 And resolves what Abel's murder demanded.

00:32:15.840 Okay, I'm going to say it again.

00:32:18.060 christ's blood fulfills what abel's sacrifice anticipated he's sitting there cutting the

00:32:28.840 throat of a lamb and that blood cannot redeem him and so christ's blood anticipates and resolves

00:32:39.240 that sacrifice. It also resolves what Abel's murder demanded. It satisfies the justice

00:32:50.380 that was demanded for sin. And so Genesis 4 reminds us that there are only two bloodlines

00:32:58.420 in history. Two bloodlines in history. Cain and Abel were brothers by birth and enemies by covenant.

00:33:06.140 they're brothers by birth and enemies by covenant one belonged to the seat of the serpent and the

00:33:14.060 other belonged to the seat of the woman warring throughout history scripture and i think our own

00:33:21.780 experience tells us that that division still runs today there are people that are the seat of the

00:33:27.640 woman and there are people who are seat of the serpent. And you will die one day and you will be

00:33:38.960 in one family and one bloodline or the other. Your blood will either confirm your guilt or it'll rest 0.97

00:33:49.780 in Christ. The gospel is not telling us that we can avoid physical death, but that death

00:33:58.020 has been overcome. And though Abel died, yet he lived. It's why Jesus in John 11, 25 says,

00:34:06.640 I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he dies, yet he lives.

00:34:14.180 and so let's walk away today understanding a little bit more about the importance of blood

00:34:23.560 the appreciation of blood and that when we see spilt blood we think of the atonement

00:34:30.160 we think of the cost of our sin we think of life we think of death and we think of the gospel

00:34:37.180 let's pray father we thank you lord

00:34:40.000 that you have given us

00:34:45.000 understanding for why

00:34:47.240 you have chosen blood

00:34:48.460 as a means of redemption

00:34:51.020 Lord we pray that you would

00:34:52.520 let us see more

00:34:55.080 of the wisdom

00:34:55.980 and brilliance

00:34:58.120 of the mechanics of redemption

00:35:00.600 Lord we thank you

00:35:04.960 for the blood of your son Jesus

00:35:06.120 we think that diamonds are valuable

00:35:10.900 and that gold is valuable

00:35:12.960 but Lord we know that

00:35:15.160 one drop of the Savior's

00:35:17.440 blood is more valuable than all the diamonds

00:35:19.260 and gold in the world

00:35:20.100 because one drop

00:35:23.340 of blood

00:35:23.800 is powerful enough

00:35:27.280 to redeem humanity

00:35:29.460 Lord we ask that you help us to grasp these

00:35:33.300 deep truths

00:35:33.940 in the name of your son

00:35:36.340 amen

Dale Partridge - December 29, 2025

Genesis 4_9-10 - The Blood of Able

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