Two Ways of Love

Two Ways of Love

Love — Not As Cain Loved

Love — Like Jesus

We looked at Cain, in light of the Older and Newer Testaments and gleaned a few thoughts about life and love. Cain was a man of great passion and love. He loved who and what he loved but his life and love were fundamentally flawed. What seemed and felt RIGHT, was wrong and what was WRONG seemed and felt right. Why? Here's the thing. Man's greater issue is not WHAT he believes but WHO he believes. Cain believed Cain and not God, therefore it affected what he believed. The way of Cain, like the way of all who line up on the wrong side with God, is a WAY that rejects and replaces God's way for their own. And that's where his troubles began. Who you believe will directly and indirectly dictate what you believe. And if you're believing the wrong one then what you're believing to be right will be off, too.

For example, as it applies to Cain. The description is called "the way of Cain" and we are told that we should not love as Cain in (1 John 3:11-12. John says, "love not as Cain, who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. Cain's works, which he (Cain) loved, that he would risk his life and kill for, he loved more than God's way. That's why his way and doings are called evil.

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