Genesis 4:1-5:32
Key Verse 4:7 “If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”
1. What did Cain and Abel bring to God as offerings and how did God regard each of them? (1-4; Hebrews 11:4)
2. How did Cain respond to God’s rejection of his offering? (5) In what sense did Cain reject God’s sovereignty?
3. How did God counsel Cain? What does it mean, “Sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it”? How can we rule over sin’s desire?
4. Why did Cain murder Abel? (8; James 1:15) How did God both punish and protect Cain? (10-16)
5. Why did Cain build a city and name it after his son? (17) What does Lamech’s family show about human culture without God? (19-24) How did Lamech use God’s word of grace and mercy to justify his actions?
6. How were the descendants of Seth different from the descendants of Cain? (26, 5:24,29) What are the signs of hope in Seth’s line?