Sermons on Genesis (V) - THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ABEL’S FAITH AND CAIN’S FAITH

If we look at the Scripture passage we read today, we could see that there were ancestors of faith who knew the end of the first world. They were none other than Methuselah, Lamech, and Noah. Methuselah was Noah’s grandfather, and Lamech was his father. Methuselah had Lamech at the age of 187, and Lamech had Noah at the age of 182. So, Methuselah was 369 when Noah was born. Noah’s grandfather, Methuselah lived for 969 years, and his father Lamech lived for 777 years. When Noah was 500, he had Shem, Ham, and Japheth. At the time, Methuselah was 869 and Lamech was 682 years old. Thus, what this means is that Noah’s grandfather and father were alive at the time when Noah had his sons. In other words, Methuselah had lived until Shem, Ham, and Japheth were about 100 years old.

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Today’s Scripture passage from Genesis chapter five presents the genealogy of Adam, and here, it is repeatedly mentioned how long a certain man of faith lived and when he died. The word “to live” here is “chayah” in Hebrew, and apart from its simple meaning, this word is used diversely to denote various meanings, such as “to have life, remain alive, sustain life, live prosperously, live forever, be quickened, be alive, be restored to life or health.”

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The word “lived” in this verse does not mean to “live and then to die.” So what does it really mean? The Hebrew word for “to live” is “Chayah” and except for “to live” this word also means, “to restore to life, to give life, to revive and to rescue.” In other words, Adam also received salvation from sin by believing in God’s righteousness in exactly the same manner as us, and he spread the gospel of the water and the Spirit to the lost souls who had fallen into sin so that they could also receive the remission of sin. He thus did the work of giving new life to the lost and then went before God. After Adam met the Lord, throughout his life he worked together with the Him. Adam lived his entire life to save other souls.

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Among the people of the days of Noah, there were many giants. However, even in today’s Christianity, there are also many so-called famous preachers. Because they are spreading false gospels that differ from the gospel of the water and the Spirit, the souls of many people who have received or listened to their gospels are dying, imprisoned by their own sins. That is why God has no choice but to pass judgment on those who are spreading false doctrines, back then and even now. God had passed judgment on people during the days of Noah not only because their wickedness was great, but also because sons of God had taken daughters of men as their wives and their souls had fallen into corruption, which is the greater reason.

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Someone comes to my mind when it rains. He is one of our ancestors of faith, Noah. Noah knew that God would bring down the Deluge during his days, and by making an ark in preparation for that disaster, he saved himself and his family members. People at the time of Noah were extremely violent. And at the time, wickedness was great in the earth. At the time, the spiritual state of people was a mess because the sons of God were taken in by the beauty of the daughters of men and took them as their wives. Thus, God decided to pass judgment on that world.

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