#173 LTLT S5 EP 47: Genesis 4:16-26; The Door Cain Left Open

What can the lineage of Cain teach us about what can happen when sin is invited into the earth? Join me, Catherine, your host and pastor of Exposed Life Change Ministry, as we continue our exploration into Genesis, specifically chapter 4, verses 16 to 26. We'll unravel the journey of Cain after he leaves the presence of the Lord, settling in the land of Nod, and starting his family line with the birth of Enoch. Together, we reflect on the significance of Enoch's role as a builder and its deeper meaning within God's grand narrative.

As we move through the generations following Cain, meet his wives, and children. Discover how Lamech's sons, Jabal and Jubal, significantly shape the spheres of pastoral life and music, revealing the diverse gifts bestowed by God within a community. Grab your Bibles and prepare to be inspired by the ways God uses ordinary individuals to achieve His extraordinary purposes. Let us uncover how the lives of these early figures mirror our own roles in today's world, guided by divine intentions.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:15

Hello, hello, and welcome back to Learning to Live in Truth. So glad to be before you one more time. I hope all is well. You are having a great day, a great night, whenever you're listening to this Amen, always excited to get into the word of God. So grateful that you would listen, amen, that you would allow the Spirit to use me to help you. So glad that I can be here, amen.

Speaker 1: 0:46

So we are right at chapter 4, picking up at the 16th verse. Amen, I'm not going to waste any time just because we don't have very long to be before you, so let's go ahead and pray and get into it, amen. So, father, we thank you so much for your grace and your mercy. Thank you, god, for allowing us yet another day to be able to do something that is pleasing in your sight. Pray that your will will be done here. Pray, god, that you'll continue to bless this platform, continue to bless every diamond that comes forth to here. Pray, god, that where they are, you will meet them there. I pray in the name of Jesus. Eyes and ears will be open to hear and see what it is that you have to give. Father, we love you so much. We're so very grateful, so thankful. We pray it, we ask it in Jesus Christ's name. We do pray amen, amen, hallelujah.

Speaker 1: 1:42

I didn't introduce myself because you should know who I am by damn, but my name is kathleen amen. I am also pastor of exposed life change ministry, amen. And we are always exposing the enemy. Amen, exposing them, so you cannot have power in our life, that we can genuinely truly be changed for the glory of god. Amen. That is what my ministry is all about. Amen. Here's just one of the extensions amen, where we can um, where the lord is using me to help you through the word of God. Amen, book by book and verse by verse. Amen as he leads us.

Speaker 1: 2:21

So we stopped yesterday on uh at verse 15 and we're gonna pick up right here at 16 of Genesis, chapter 4. Make sure you got your bibles. If you're listening in the car, get your ears ears tuned in and wide open, amen. But also pay attention to that road. You heard me. Come on somebody. Hallelujah. Excuse the ding. Amen, that was my messenger.

Speaker 1: 2:45

But verse 16 says and Cain went from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of Nod and the, and let's see, in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden and Cain knew his wife and she conceived and bare Enoch and he built a city and they called the name of the city after the name of his son, enoch. Okay, so in the meantime some time has definitely passed and Cain is dwelling in the land of Nod and now has met his wife, now having a child. His child is a builder Architecture, yeah, works with his hand and built this city called Enoch. Obviously a lot of time, a lot of space in between, but this is obviously because it's there, because it's highlighted. It is this young man, enoch. Uh is important um to um what God is building, amen.

Speaker 1: 3:51

So verse 18, he says and unto Enoch was born Irid, and Irid begat Mahu child and my who child child, he says, began a Methusel and Methusel begot Lamarck Lamech. Okay, so we getting into the lineage a little bit here. So y'all bear with me with pronunciation. I'll do the best that I can. Every time I do this uh gets a little bit better. Praise god, hallelujah, but y'all bear with me, amen.

Speaker 1: 4:28

So verse 19 he said lamech took up or took unto him two, and the name of one was Ada and the name of the other Zillah, and Ada buried Jabal. He was the father of such as dwell in tents and of such as have cattle, and his brother's name was Jubal. And his brother's name was Jubal, he was the father of all such as handled the harp and organ. Okay, so he's the father of musicians, okay, and Zillah. She also bore Tubalcan, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron, and so he was a blacksmith and the sister of Tubalcan was.

Speaker 1: 5:35

And Lamech said unto his wives, adah and Zillah hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech, for I have slain a man to my wounding and a young man to my hurt. If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly, lamech, seventy and seven fold. And Adam knew his wife again and said oh, and she bare a son and called his name Seth. For God said she hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew and saith to him. Also, there was born a son and he called his name Enos. Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.

Speaker 1: 6:31

Okay, so I just read the whole thing to finish it out. So let's kind of back up of the lord. Okay, so I just read the whole thing to finish it out. So let's kind of back up, all right. So last thing I commented on was it's a blacksmith, this is okay.

Speaker 1: 6:48

So lemak had two wives and so you got ada and look, lilla, zilla, I'm sorry, um, the name of one was okay that his first wife, or one of his wives, or Jabal, and then Jabal became the father of, let's see, he was the father of such as dwell in tents and of such as have cattle. So he's the father. He became like a shepherd, I guess you could say. And his other wife, she bore Zabulkin. No Zabookin, no Tubalkin, I don't know in the word y'all, he said an instructor and of every officiator of Brass and I a blacksmith and a sister. So Zilla had a daughter as well and sister of Tubalkin. Tubalkin was not Maya, I'm sorry, y' like, it's not like.

Speaker 1: 8:09

It probably got a little low as far as the volume. I'm just trying to figure out the words. I want to make sure that I'm saying as best as I can. Um, the mac told his two wives to listen to what he was saying. He said I have slain a man to my wounding and a young man to my hurt. So what does that mean? Let's see. Let's look at the commentary. Make sure we got a full understanding.

Speaker 1: 8:42

Lamech's speech, the longest by a human being To this point in the Bible, represents the dark climax Of the Canaan Canaanite Genealogy. His level of retaliation against A man for wounding him and a young man who merely hurt him Goes far beyond the biblical limits. Okay, so along the way he got hurt and so he wants to retaliate. He physically got hurt, and another one, let's see. And a young man who merely hurt him Goes far beyond the biblical limits, and his boast of killing for vengeance foreshadows the violence that led to the flood in Noah's day. Oh, okay, so he committed the second murder, and it lets us know these are just a couple of the reasons why. Which the Lord was, he was upset with himself, he had me and man had just gone buck wild. Basically, this is why he flooded the earth, because man had just gone buck wild. Basically, this is why he flooded the earth, because man had just gone buck wild. And this lets us know, based on the commentary and what we're hearing in the spirit.

Speaker 1: 10:15

They said this was like a, a the first murder was an open door to to this, this sort of sin, yeah, and so this furthered that. It was like, now that that door was open, it was like sin began to come in. But you know, even though sin has its authority, it doesn't prevail. Sin doesn't prevail because sin is not from God and we know that he already defeated death, because sin, that's what sin leads to death and Jesus, through his obedience, gained victory over death. So, I don't care how much strength have, how much strength sin and death sin has, how much uh destruction it causes, how much pain, how much murder, how much everything that's attached to sin, it still doesn't win, you know. But it's definitely a thing, sin. I mean, you'd be a fool to not admit that.

Speaker 1: 11:23

Sin doesn't have power, because it does. It does it? Sin kills, steals and destroys? Yeah, it does it, but it doesn't prevail the end of the day, even though, uh, just like a tornado or or a hurricane or anything, that is strong, it's strong and it does leave a mark, but it doesn't kill or destroy the purpose of the plan of god. It doesn't because we see, um, the aftermath of a, of a tornado, the aftermath of hurricanes, how it destroys, uh, whatever comes into its path. But it does not, um, it does not completely defeat. I mean, some places don't rebuild some homes, some old homes can't be rebuilt, sure enough, but a new home can be built for those who are a victim to it, if that makes any sense. I hope that makes sense. I'm just leaning on the Spirit to guide me in words that make the Scripture verses make sense Amen.

Speaker 1: 12:43

So Lamech is like, he's like. You know, cain killed his brother. He said, you know, I did even worse than he did, and so in a sense he is. Even though he took revenge out on himself, well, he got back at who hurt him. It still doesn't excuse it. Basically, that's what 24 tells me. Yeah, it doesn't excuse the act. Yeah, even though they did something to you, it does not give you permission to respond or take vengeance, because the Bible does clearly tell us vengeance is mine, amen. So he knows he's kind of, in a sense, haveouncy over his head Because you know, because he did what he did and you know, from here we don't see anything Any further that Speaks to you know to that.

Speaker 1: 13:42

But we'll see, probably In five, because I see Verse 28 and 29 A little bit more about Lamech's Descendants. So we just going to go on. Then, in 25 and 26, we see where Adam he impregnates his wife and they have another child. His name is Seth, and then this is when they say that men began to call the name of the Lord. So we'll stop right there. I know it's kind of early, but we'll stop there and get into five for tomorrow.

Speaker 1: 14:25

We actually recently did this in a Bible study that we have on Wednesdays from 5 to 6 on site. We went through Genesis and now we are in Exodus, and so in doing this previously, I can tell you that these descendants people typically just kind of brush over it, but they're important to understanding who's who as we go along in the other chapter of the Bible. So you know, I highly suggest writing down, kind of doing like a family tree with the descendants. It is difficult to do. I've tried to do in personal study. It's a difficult thing to do, but it can be done if you put your mind to it. So you know, that's one task that you could probably add on to as we go through here, as we begin to get into the descendants. You could build a tree, and I myself I think I might do that Just kind of, just to do it, just to do it, to have it to kind of look at maybe in other teaching sessions, and so there you have it for today Y'all. Make sure y'all come on back with me tomorrow as we dig. Make sure you bring your pen and your paper, something to write down or try to create your family tree, starting in the beginning.

Speaker 1: 15:57

So, without further ado, let's go ahead and pray. Father, we thank you so much. Be a grace and your mercy. Once again, we bless your name as we bless your people. I thank you so much for drawing us yet again here to get into your word. Pray that all is pleasing and acceptable in your sight. Pray that I've done it well. Pray that you are pleased. I pray that everyone, every diamond that is here, they got what they were supposed to get out of the lesson. I pray the blessings of the Lord be upon your people as we continue to go forth in your name. We pray that this is again pleasing to you. We pray all of it in the precious name of Jesus Christ. We do pray. Amen, amen and amen. Again, come on back with me tomorrow and let's pick it up, chapter 5. So many blessings, so much love from me to you Y'all. Have a good day and a good night. Amen, amen and amen.