Cain’s Anger

The LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it” (Genesis 4:6-7).

Cain was so angry he would not be talked out of his sin . . . even by God. Remember back to Eve, she however, had to be talked into her sin by Satan; but Cain “was of the wicked one” (1 John 3:12). It is as if he could not wait to destroy his brother; a natural man’s solution to his own failure.

God’s advice was that if Cain would please God by doing what is right, all would be well. But if not sin would be crouching at his door, ready to overcome him. Sin desires to have Cain (this is the same word God used to Eve in Genesis 3:16), yet Cain could have the mastery over it. Here is the perpetual struggle between good and evil. Anyone filled with envy and strife is prey for the evil one.

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