DAY TWO Genesis Chapters 3-5

On the second day of our Bible read-thru, we have already reached the doorstep of the Flood. I don’t want to just whisk my way through these familiar passages. Is there something the Lord wants me to notice for the first time? Are there fresh insights and new applications? These first 11 chapters of Genesis are absolutely critical for our grasp of the rest of the Bible. I just read in an awesome commentary by Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum (What a name!) these stats:  “Genesis is quoted or cross-referenced throughout the Scriptures more than any of the other books of the Bible…the New Testament quotes or refers to Genesis at least 200 times… About 100 of these are from Genesis 1-11.”

What we are reading in these opening days of 2014 is foundational to all that we believe.

In Genesis 3-4, I am intrigued by the questions God asks people. “Where are you?” He asks Adam and Eve. Where is your brother?” He asks Cain. God asks questions not because God doesn’t know the answers, but so that human beings have the opportunity to respond to Him. Will we respond with honesty or deception?

One more little FRESH INSIGHT:  Surely I knew this:  but Cain is the “big brother,” and Abel the “little brother.”  From near the beginning, God warns us, by a negative example, how important it is for older siblings to love and include the younger ones!

See you tomorrow!

Pastor Gary