Your Choices
READ: Genesis 4:5
CHALLENGE: Make Good Choices
A. REVIEW YOUR THINKING
Vv5-6 – but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast. Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?
1. Calm Yourself Down
· Don’t Fuel Your Anger
James 1:19-20 – My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20 because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
· Don’t Allow Your Thinking to Sour
· Ask Why You Are Angry
B. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY and DO RIGHT.
V7 – 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;.
1. Do Right
a. Right is a Choice
Hebrews 5:13-14 – Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. 14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.
b. Choices Bring Consequences
(1). Acceptance
1 Peter 3:7 – Husbands,.
(2.) Dominated by Darkness
Ephesians 4:26 – “In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, 27 and do not give the devil a foothold.