"Able loved God and had faith; therefore, his sacrifice was accepted. When Cain could not superficially please God with a half-hearted sacrifice, he became angry. Had he been sincere and just a little lazy, he would have become ashamed and learn a lesson from the encounter. However, as it was, Cain continued the disrespect toward God and jealousy toward Abel, which eventually thrust him into an explosion of a monstrous murderous rage that resulted in the death of his brother." (unquote)
We see this often in the lives of narcissistic people. They cannot tolerate the victories or accomplishments of others so they do something to ruin their joy and fulfillment.
In Cain's case, he could not ruin God's love for Able so he took his rage against God out on Abel. He destroyed the object of God's love.
We see this in politics too, those who are not in control but want to be will lie against the victor to derail any progress. We see this in churches with apostate leaders who fight against one another to be superior. Anyone who attempts to correct the leaders of the apostate churches will be summarily chastised for their insubordination and in some cases asked to leave the church.
The apostate church leaders are more about power, pleasure and popularity than they are about obedience to God's Word. In fact, these gatherings teach lies against God's word to keep the pretenders happy and satisfied.
Jealousy drives discrimination against a target for the narcissist. No one is allowed to outshine the narcissist without retaliation, either overtly or covertly.
This is the world we are living in that is growing worse every day. Notice that the jealousy and narcissists existed way back in the beginning of time.
Adam and Eve were the first parents, they disobeyed God in eating the forbidden fruit and one of their children disrespected God and killed his own brother.
Two children in the same family, one loved and obeyed God and the other hated him for it. This is a picture of the human condition.
Those who love God will be hated by those who hate Him. Get used to it!!!! Then pray for these broken souls who are headed for hell while you remain faithful to God's commands.
One of those commands is to love you, enemy. How do we do that? We do to them what we would like done to us and when we are in their presence we bless them when they curse us.
Another way to love our enemies and the greatest way of all is to bring them the gospel.
Romans 10:13-16
13 for “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
14 How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher?
15 How will they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news of good things!”
16 However, they did not all heed the good news; for Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”
17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ."
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