Faith Exemplified - Able Worshiped by Faith

Well, if you would take your Bible, turn back to Hebrews 11 verse 4. I did say earlier that we will be here in Hebrews 11.4, although we read Genesis chapter 4 verses 1 to 8. I'll reference those verses a little later, and as a matter of fact, I'll read some of those verses from verse 9, verse 10, some of those other portions of Genesis chapter 4. Now, last week we got started here in Hebrews 11, and chapter 11 is this familiar chapter that can be called the Hall of Fame of the Saints of God. And in helping us see the main point of the chapter, I said that the book of Hebrews is all about the supremacy of Christ. We know that.

That is the series title. Hebrews is all about the supremacy of Christ, and chapter 11 is all about the supremacy of the life of faith, the supremacy of the life of faith. You may want to write that down, note that in your Bible. I will say this over and over, so eventually it will get into your mind and your thinking. Chapter 11 is all about the supremacy of the life of faith. Now in our message last week, we covered verses 1 to 3 in what I called the meaning of faith, faith exemplified, faith explained, the meaning of faith, faith exemplified, and faith explained. First we saw the description of faith.

Faith is the confident assurance or the title deed of things to hope for, and the confident conviction of things that are not yet seen. And these things that are hoped for, these things that are not yet seen are in the future. It speaks to our ultimate freedom from sin that will happen one day, to be rescued from the grave that would be also to be in heaven with Christ Jesus for forever. And then next we saw the testimony of faith. For by faith the Old Testament saints of old received a commendation from God. That means that God gave them a good report because they lived by faith. And then third, we saw the great illustration of faith.

By faith we understand that the universe, and this includes all that is seen and unseen as well as times in human history and also the time that we would call eternity, all these things were created by the very word of God so that all that was created was made out of nothing. So from verses 1 to 3 we learned about the meaning of true Christian faith. Faith is explained and faith is exemplified. But before we continue to see how faith is exemplified and able in His worship, I want us to make sure we remember something I shared last week, and this is a mistake that many make without even knowing it.

We must not believe that the author is calling us to live different than the Old Testament saints of God. It is not that there was one way of living for those Old Covenant saints, and there is a new way of living for the saints of God who were under the New Covenant, and that would be us. Last week I borrowed this phrase from John MacArthur and I really wrote it all throughout the message. I'll use it again this morning. MacArthur says faith is the way to life and faith is the way to live. Faith is the way to life and faith is the way to live. Now notice what I'm aiming at here. Let me explain what I mean.

Abraham who was an Old Testament saint of God and who is listed here in the Hall of Fame of the saints of God, Abraham was made right with God by faith, not by works. Genesis 15.6 says that Abraham believed God and it was counted or credited to him as righteousness. Again faith is the way to life. And Abraham attained, he acquired spiritual life by faith. And those who originally received this letter, how were they made right with God? And people in our day and our time, how are we made right with God? Ephesians 2.8.9 says that we are saved or made right with God by grace through faith, not of any works.

And on top of that, grace and faith are gifts from God as well. Again, faith is the way to life and we are made right with God by faith. But back to Abraham who was clearly an Old Testament saint of God. He's listed right here in the great Hall of Fame of the saints of God. Because starting in verse 8 we see that he lived a life of faith because he knew that the life of faith was and is the way to live as a saint of God. Of course we know that at times he struggled to live by faith, I thought about it like this, he struggled to live by faith when he went down to Egypt.

And as New Covenant saints of God, how were those who received this letter to live? And as New Covenant saints of God, how are we to live? The life that God expects us to live is the life of faith. Remember, faith is the way to live. And verse 6 even tells us that without faith it is impossible for us to please God. Now my point right here is this. People under the Old Covenant were made right with God by faith. And people under the New Covenant are made right with God by faith. And those Old Covenant saints were commended by God because they lived by faith. And we are expected to live by faith as well.

And the only way we will be commended by God like those Old Testament saints of old is if we live by faith. Again, faith is a way to life and faith is the way to live. And look at how good all this is folks. Starting right here in verse 4 the author gives us saint after saint. Saint after saint who live by faith in their own and unique way and circumstances. And they serve as examples to us to help us live by faith in our time, in our life, even though our circumstances are much, much different than theirs. Now before us this morning we have the Old Testament saint of God Abel. But before we get going with Abel I want to ask two questions.

First, who was Abel? We read of Abel in Genesis 4 but Abel was the second son of Adam and Eve and he was murdered by his brother Cain. Abel was a keeper of sheep or keeper of flocks while his brother was a worker of the ground. We can say that he was a farmer. But Abel was murdered by his brother Cain and Jesus spoke of Abel as the first martyr in Matthew 2335. And Jesus referred to him as righteous Abel. What a name. Righteous Abel. It is sad that Abel was murdered by his own brother and it is interesting that he was replaced by another brother and that was Seth. Think about it. He was murdered and replaced. Murdered and replaced.

But that was God's plan for his life. But then second, why is Abel the first? In the Hall of Fame of the Saints of God. Have you thought about it? Why was Abel the first? Why was it Adam and Eve listed first? I thought about this as I was doing some study and I ran across one person who mentioned this. MacArthur says that Adam and Eve could not have been people of faith like Abel and the others because they had seen God face to face. They had fellowship with God face to face. They had talked with God face to face. And they had lived in perfection free from sin in the garden until they sinned.

And they had no need of faith because they lived in the very presence of God. Think about what they saw and experienced as compared to the others. I think he's right. Adam and Eve did not need or possess faith like Abel and these others needed. So now that we know who Abel was and why I believe God started with Abel, let's get started in this list of these great examples of the life of faith. Verse 4 is rather short. I'll be honest with you. We'll come back to it over and over. But let's read the verse.

By faith, Abel offered to God a more acceptable, some translations say better, sacrificed than came through which he was commended as righteous. God commending him by accepting his gifts and through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. Now this is how I want us to approach this verse and the message. First I want us to see that Abel presented a better or a more acceptable sacrifice. And why that was the case. And this is where we will spend the bulk of our time in the message. But then second, I want us to see that Abel was commended by God as righteous by and through his sacrifice.

And then third, I want us to see that by his faith, even though he is dead, Abel still speaks even today. So number one, I want us to see that Abel offered a better sacrifice. Abel offered a better sacrifice. We see this in the first part of the verse. Again, go back and look at it. By faith, Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain. Now here it is easy to see that the author is going right back to Genesis 4 when Cain and Abel both brought their offerings before God. And it is easy to see that the author is making a comparison and explaining that God accepted Abel's offering and Abel, but he rejected Cain and his offering.

But to see why God accepted Abel's offering, we must see a few details. And this will require some thinking. And this will require some healthy speculation. First, notice it certainly appears there was an expected time of worship. It certainly appears that there was this expected time of worship. Genesis 4, verses 3-4 says, "In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground, and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions." In this term, "in the course of time," it literally means at the end of the days or at the end of a certain period of time.

And language scholars tell us this can refer to the end of a week, maybe to an end of a year, but to an end of a particular period of time, maybe even to an end of a season. So it certainly appears that there was this accepted and expected time of worship for Cain and Abel. But then second, it seems there must have been a place of worship. It seems there must have been a place of worship. Now it is speculation on my part to say that there was a place of worship given by God when there is no mention of an assigned place spoken here in Hebrews 4.11 and also in Genesis 4 in that account. So how can I say that?

Simply it is safe to say that Genesis 4, 3-4 tells us that there was this understood, even expected time of worship and sacrifice for Cain and Abel. In the course of time or at the end of a certain time in time period, both Cain and Abel worshiped. They made the sacrifices that they made. So to me, it is safe to say that if there was this expected time of worship, there must have been a designated and accepted place of worship. It just makes sense. Then third, it also seems there was a prescribed or a commanded way to worship. It also seems there was this prescribed or commanded way to worship.

Again, one may say that I am speculating here on the text to say that Cain and Abel were given a prescribed way to worship when no specifics like this are mentioned in the verses. But notice how this builds to form what I see as a firm case that they were given instructions as to how to worship God. Simply if there was an understood and expected time of worship, which speaks to what I see as a place of worship, then this points to a prescribed and instructed way to worship.

Matthew Henry goes as far as to say, and I'm quoting him, "At some set time, Cain and Abel brought two Adam as the priest of the family, each of them an offering to the Lord, for the doing of which we have reason to think there was a divine appointment given to Adam." So in the words of Matthew Henry, Henry is saying that God instructed Adam in a prescribed way to worship, which included the time and the place of worship. And he even says that Adam acted as the priest of the family. He's not alone. Other scholars like Kenneth Woost basically say the same thing.

He says that Cain and Abel learned how to worship and what to bring in worship from their father. So Henry and Woost and their others, I believe they're right. That would mean that God instructed Adam when, where, and how, and they were to worship and make sacrifice according to how God instructed Adam and then Adam his sons. But let me continue. If we introduce some reasoning into this situation, I believe the picture becomes more clear, and I believe my case becomes more solid.

It would be unimaginable and contrary to God's character and goodness to think that he would leave Adam and Eve outside of the garden without clear instructions about how they were to worship him. Think about it. Before the fall, when Adam and Eve were in the garden, they enjoyed unbroken fellowship with God, and God gave them very, very clear instructions about how they were to live and how they were to relate to him. Nothing was left to be guessed or assumed.

So God being God and Adam and Eve being his children, it would have been unthinkable that God would leave them without instructions as to how to worship him after they were removed from the garden. And it would be unimaginable to think that God would leave Adam and Eve and their descendants to invent ways to worship, even to guess what would be acceptable or unacceptable to God in worship. And think about it. In their fallen state, Adam and Eve were fallen, their descendants were fallen. If they were left to guess what would be acceptable to God in worship, it is safe to say that Adam and his sons would have missed the mark every time.

But God's instruction, sinful man always misses the mark in worship. And from what we see of God in all of the Scriptures, we know that God does not work that way. He always tells his people how to worship. So for God to leave Adam and Eve and their descendants guessing in how they were to worship God, that would be contrary, in my opinion, to God's character as God and what we see of God all throughout the Scripture.

MacArthur says here, "It is inconceivable that Cain and Abel accidentally stumbled upon sacrifice as the way of worshiping God." The fact that God accepted only the one sacrificial offering also seems to indicate that he had established a pattern for worship. So look at what we have here. Genesis 4, 3-4 says, "In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground, and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions." So at the appointed, at the expected time, and I believe place of worship, they worshiped and they brought sacrifices to God.

And it really seems that all of this came about out of the fact that they were given instructions as to how to worship God. But back to the main point. Why was Abel's offering more acceptable to God? Why was Abel's offering more acceptable to God? Now to answer that question, I want us to examine two specifics. First it was Abel's actual offering that was accepted, not his attitude or his heart in worship. Let me restate that. It was Abel's actual offering that was accepted, not his attitude or heart. Now what I'm getting at is this.

Some speculate that Cain and Abel's offering was not the main point here, but their attitude or their heart in the offering. I disagree. I disagree with Leon Morris who says that it was the attitude of the worshipper in Cain and Abel that mattered and not the actual offering that was brought. Notice that the verse says, "Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice." The Legacy Standard Bible says, "Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain." The text does not say that Abel offered to God a more acceptable heart and attitude in his sacrifice. So it was Abel's actual offering that he brought to God that was acceptable to God.

But why? Why was Abel's offering acceptable? Think about it. Somehow Abel knew what was acceptable. He did not guess. And to me this is another indication that Adam and Eve and their sons have been instructed by God in how they were to worship God. So if that was the case, then the instructed and God-accepted way of worship involved the slaying of an animal, the shedding of blood of that animal, and the offering of those things to God. So Abel's actual offering was better and more acceptable to God because it involved the slaying of an animal and the shedding of blood. I like what Al Mohler says here.

He asks, "So why did God accept Abel's sacrifice?" And he goes on to say that Genesis does not answer that question, but the rest of the Old Testament provides hints and that Hebrews 9.22 clarifies those Old Testament hints by saying, "Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins." So Abel's actual offering was actually better and it was acceptable because I believe it was the offering required by God. And the offering required by God, I believe, was the slaying of an animal, the shedding of blood. But second, Cain's actual offering was not acceptable to God.

Cain's actual offering was not acceptable to God. Now why was that the case? Some say that within the Old Covenant sacrificial system, grain offerings or offerings from the harvest were commanded and accepted. So why wouldn't Cain's grain offering, his offering from his produce, why wouldn't that be acceptable to God? Well first off, those instructions and commandments concerning offerings from the harvest were not yet instituted at the time of Abel. The Mosaic law and all those sacrifices had not yet been instituted by God. Those things came about centuries later in the history of God's people.

But the slaying of an animal and the shedding of blood had already occurred even before the time of Cain and Abel. In Genesis 3, after Eve and then Adam had sinned against God, verse 21 tells us that God himself performed the first animal sacrifice to provide garments of animal skins for Adam and Eve. And look what the animal sacrifice and those garments of animal skins symbolize. The death of the animal symbolizes the death of the Lamb of God on the cross. And the garments of skin picture the righteousness of Christ provided for those who were redeemed through the death of Christ.

But notice what we have here in Abel's accepted sacrifice and Cain's rejected sacrifice. It is certainly safe to say that both brothers knew what God wanted in their worship. Again, it would be unimaginable to believe that God would hold them accountable for that which they did not know and that which they would guess about. But Abel's sacrifice was better because his sacrifice was that of a slain animal in blood.

Remember Hebrews 9.22 says, "Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins." And Abel's sacrifice was truly needed because his sacrifice was that which pertained to his deepest need. And what was his deepest need? The forgiveness of sin. And Abel's sacrifice was truly by faith. He trusted in God's instruction in the way to worship and sacrifice to deal with his deepest need, his need of spiritual cleansing. And by faith he obeyed what God commanded him to do in worship. Again, he did not act by faith by guessing, but the opposite is seen in Cain.

His sacrifice was rejected because I believe he ignored God's instructions and I believe he chose to worship God in his own way. But church, let's not make a mistake here in our thinking. It was not that Cain and Abel were somehow in competition. It was not that Abel's sacrifice was better in that they were in some kind of a spiritual competition here. Abel's sacrifice was better and acceptable to God because his sacrifice is what God instructed and what God expected again. How could he be commended for something if he didn't know what was right? But Cain's sacrifice was according to what he wanted and what he desired.

But a question, do people compete in their service to God in the church today? Do they? Do you compete in your service to God in the church today? So what we have here is this. We've seen quite a lot here in the first part of verse 4. Simply Abel's animal and blood sacrifice was acceptable to God because that was commanded and expected by God while Cain's offering from his crops was not because that was not what God expected. Again, how could God expect obedience if they did not know what obedience was? And look at how this pertains to us today. Abel worshipped by faith.

By faith Abel trusted in God's instructions as to how to worship and specifically God's way of seeking forgiveness for his sin. And today we worship God by faith when we worship God the way God has instructed us according to his word. And we seek forgiveness for sin according to God's prescribed way. That is by trusting in Christ and his sacrifice on the cross. But Cain worshipped by and through self effort. He believed in God sure. Cain knew he was supposed to worship God sure but he tried to worship God in his own way through his own efforts. And today many do the very same thing.

They try and worship God outside of how God's word says he is to be worshiped. And look when someone is working to somehow be right with God outside of repentance and faith and trusting in Christ for their salvation they are doing exactly what Cain did. Is that you? Are you seeking forgiveness for your sin in the way of Cain which is the way of self effort? So Abel offered a better sacrifice. Now the next two observations will be rather shorter. So number two I want us to see that Abel was commended by God as righteous. Abel was commended by God as righteous. This is in the second part of the middle part of the verse.

Let's read the verse again. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable, a better sacrifice than Cain through which he was commended as righteous. God commending him by accepting his gifts. Now we can see that Abel offered to God a better, a more acceptable sacrifice to God than Cain but that does not mean that Abel was not a sinner. What I'm aiming at right here is this. Both Cain and Abel were sinners. Both needed forgiveness for their sin. Both needed to offer an animal blood sacrifice for their sin. Again I believe God instructed them in this way.

And again I believe that God instructed them in the proper way to worship and that they needed to both bring an animal sacrifice and blood before God for their sin and sinfulness. But here we see that Abel is commended as righteous and we need to see what this means. First Abel was commended as righteous by God. Abel was commended as righteous by God. Now listen to this verse in the New American Standard. It reads, "Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain through which he obtained the testimony that he was righteous." God testifying.

And this commended, the New American says, "obtained a testimony." It means to bear witness, to witness, to affirm. Now we've already seen this. This is the same thing God said of those saints of old who live by faith in verse 2. So the saints of old obtained witness and good testimony from God because they live by faith. Verse 2, we saw that last week. And Abel obtained a witness and a good testimony from God that he was actually righteous. And this righteousness speaks of being right before God, righteous before God. Not only does the writer of Hebrew say this about Abel, but Jesus does as well.

I mentioned this earlier in Matthew 23.35, Jesus calls him righteous Abel. Again, what a name. Righteous Abel. So Abel was commended as righteous by God. God gave and he still gives the testimony that Abel was righteous. And then second, Abel was commended as righteous by his sacrifice. Here we see how he was made righteous by and through his offering or his sacrifice. Look back at the verse. Again, this is in the middle portion. By faith, Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than came through which he was commended as righteous. God commending him by accepting his gifts. Simply this is what took place.

Abel provided his offering of blood by faith as prescribed and instructed by God. Therefore he obtained God's acceptance and God's testimony that he was a righteous man. And if we go back into Genesis 4.4, we can see that God implies the very same thing there in the verse. Genesis 4.4 says, "Abel also brought the first morn of this flock and their fat portions and the Lord had regard for Abel." You see that? The Lord had regard for Abel in his offering. I like how MacArthur summarizes this. I really put it all into my words.

He says, and I say, "Abel's faith was the kind of faith that allowed God to move on his behalf and make him righteous." And get this, Abel's true faith and righteousness was made known how? By and through his obedience and faith and his sacrifice. You see that? Abel's true faith and his righteousness was made known by and through his obedience and faith in his sacrifice. So Abel was commended as righteous by God by and through his sacrifice. So look at what we have here. God commended Abel and he bore witness that he was righteous through his sacrifice. And look church, this is the very same thing taught in James 2, 21 to 22.

We remember this because we just finished our study through James and small groups. But James says in 2, 21 to 22, "Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?" You see that faith was active along with his works and faith was completed by his works. So just like Abel, Abraham was counted as righteous by God and his righteousness was demonstrated by his offering. Abel offered the prescribed offering of an animal sacrifice and blood. Abraham offered the prescribed offering of his son Isaac. So both Abel and Abraham were counted righteous by God by and through their sacrifice.

Now some questions here. First, can God commend you as righteous before him? Can God, does God bear witness that you are savingly in Christ Jesus and in a right standing before him? Look folks, you are either righteous before God or unrighteous. You are either righteous before God or unrighteous. There is no in between. Second, do the sacrifices you offer and worship correspond to and give evidence to being righteous before God? You hear that church? Do the sacrifices you offer and worship correspond to and give evidence to being righteous before God? Can God put you in the same list with Abel and Abraham?

Can God put you in the same list with Abel and Abraham saying you are commended as righteous by God by and through your sacrifice and service? Can he? Can he? So Abel was commended by God as righteous. And then last, number three, Abel still speaks. Abel still speaks. You see this in the last part of verse four. "By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts." And this is where we are in this last portion of the message.

"And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks." Now we have read all about this in Genesis 4, 1 to 8, and we know that Cain rose up against his brother and he murdered him. I guess we could pause right here and say that they needed more gun control. They didn't have guns, so I guess they needed more rock and stick patrol. They should have banned all rocks and sticks here to keep Cain from killing his brother. Look folks, you can ban guns, you can ban knives, you can ban rocks and sticks, and Cain will always kill Abel if he wants to. Man is sinful. You'll never stop him from murdering people.

It's not a gun problem or a knife problem, it's a heart problem. But jokes aside, we know that Cain killed Abel. But notice that Abel speaks through his death in two ways. First his blood cries out. Now we did not read these verses earlier, but back in Genesis 4 starting in verse 9, when God confronted Cain after he killed his brother, God basically said something like this, "What in the world have you done?" God already knew. But he says, "What in the world have you done?" And in verse 10, God says, "The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground." In here we see Abel's first testimony.

We see his blood cried out from the ground that Abel's murder be avenged. And look church, there's something we need to see here. Albert Barnes points this out and we need to see it. By God's providence and design, the blood of the innocent cries out to God and he hears. In a day when it seems that God does not hear the voice of the innocent who are slain, we need to see that God sees and God hears and he will avenge the innocent. All of those innocent babies who've been aborted, he will avenge all those murders. God's not asleep, but here with Abel, his blood cries out to be avenged and God did avenge his murder starting in verse 11.

Now go and read how God avenged his murder. Jane was dealt a pretty harsh punishment. But then second, notice his testimony cries out. We saw that his blood cries out. Now we see that his testimony cries out. Now here we're back in verse 4 of Hebrews 11. In here the author tells us that by and through Abel's faith, he still speaks. Listen to the New American Standard. By testifying about his gifts and through faith, though he is dead, he still speaks. And what we see here is this. Abel's story and testimony spoke to those who came after him.

Abel's story and testimony spoke to later generations and Abel's story and testimony still speaks today. He is speaking to us today. And look at what we see here. Abel's testimony. His blood cried and cries out and God avenged his murder. God punished Cain accordingly. And by faith and through his faith and through his sacrifice, his testimony still speaks today. Now a question before I move on to some very timely messages from his life. How does Abel speak today? How does he still speak? And the verse says that Abel is still speaking. Well how is he speaking? He speaks today saying man comes to God by faith for salvation and in worship.

You see? Abel still speaks saying man comes to God by faith for salvation and in worship. But Abel is also saying that man comes to God by faith for salvation and worship in obedience to how God commands. You see? He is saying do not make up the way like Cain did. You come the way God commands. We come to God for salvation in one way through one person as seen in the scripture. We come to God in worship only the way God commands and only the way we see it in the scripture. So that leads me to the title of the message. Faith exemplified Abel worshiped by faith. Faith exemplified Abel worshiped by faith.

And notice what we see more and more now. Faith is a way to life and faith is the way to live. Now I want to close by offering some lessons from Abel's life. Five specific lessons from Abel's life and testimony. You may say pastor the first lesson is if you have your brother, if you have a brother you better watch your back. That might be the case. But I will give you some instruction here. Take these five lessons, pray over them and you can kind of flesh them out a little more now. There is still some meat to be put on the bones.

But lesson number one, man is to come to God by faith and biblical faith, true Christian faith is exercised in obedience to God as recorded in God's word. Look folks, faith always rests on and is acted out of God's word. Faith always rests on and it is acted out of God's word. Look church, so much of what many call faith is about like believing in a unicorn. They just make it up as they go along. Biblical faith always rests on and it is acted out of God's word. lesson number two, man can only come to God according to God's ways and God's ways are found in God's word.

When man goes to God according to his own ways, he is always going the way of king. Man can only come to God according to God's ways and according to God's ways found in God's word and when a man goes to God according to his own ways, he is always going the way of king. Lesson number three, man in many ways of worship are always rejected by God no matter the intentions. You ever heard someone say it like this, well their heart is in the right place. If it is contrary to God's word, no it is not. Someone might say, well her heart is in the right place. Well if her heart is contrary to the word of God, her heart is not in the right place.

As in many ways of worship are always rejected by God no matter the intentions. That is because man invented ways of worship are always man centered and those things are always sin. And look church, man centered, man invented ways to worship, it is going the way of king. Number four, sin and disobedience are always punished. Sin and disobedience, those things are always punished severely. Cain's punishment was severe. Go look at his punishment. And then lesson number five, we all leave behind a testimony of worshiping like Abel or like Cain. Which one will it be?

We all leave behind a testimony of worshiping like Abel or like Cain but the question is which will it be? And look church, if you leave behind a testimony of worshiping like Cain you will destroy your children and your children's children. You will destroy your family, you will destroy your witness. It always happens. I need to repeat that. Church, if you leave behind a testimony of worshiping like Cain you will destroy your children, your children's children, your family and your witness. It always does.

Look church, we will all leave a testimony behind long after we are dead but the question is will our testimony be like that of Abel or like that of Cain? So faith exemplified Abel worshiped by faith.