The opening chapters of the Bible are the seedbed for the truth found throughout the rest of Scripture.

As we study the first 11 chapters of Genesis, we will discover principles that can guide us as we seek to have a new beginning with God. Are you in need

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You You can learn something from everyone.

Sometimes you learn what not to do, and sometimes you learn what to do.

That's very true in scripture.

When you study the characters of the Bible, some of them are negative examples, and God gives them as warnings to us.

And then others are positive examples.

In other words, follow this path.

This is the right path.

We've come today in our study to the final two verses of Genesis chapter number four, and I've got to be honest with you,

the last couple of studies have been a little depressing because we've been looking at darkness. After a while, you just look at the

darkness all the time, and you think, this is awful. You look at the tragedy of Keynes' life. Someone said

the saddest words of tongue or pen are these four, it might have been.

You know, the reality is when you see people not living up to their full potential,

it's terribly sad.

That was Kane's story.

That's his legacy.

That's what he leaves behind.

Then you look at it his offspring.

His great, great-great-grandson Lamek not only contended in the same sin, but went even

further in it. That's the way it always goes. Someone said children do it in excess what their

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