Notes of Faith November 5, 2025
Fog Bells
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.”
Genesis 4:6-7
Ben Fogle is a popular British personality who had something of a breakdown two years ago. “I was being overstimulated,” he said. “I was doing too much, I was expecting too much of myself and I eventually popped, burst.” The problem, he said, was that he “didn’t listen to some of the little warning signs.”1
Neither did Cain. He should have learned from his parents that sin doesn’t pay. He should have followed the example of his brother Abel. He should have heeded the warning God gave him in Genesis 4:6-7. But he didn’t listen, and he is remembered today as a tragic figure, the first murderer in history, the man who shed his own brother’s blood.
Let’s have ears to hear. God has a lot to say to us—31,102 verses in the Bible. Let’s be still and have a quiet time every day, listening to His voice and heeding His directions.
God’s warnings are sent in love. They are fog bells to warn us of the rock that could wreck our souls.
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1“Ben Fogle Admits He ‘Didn’t Listen to Little Warning Signs, ’” Yahoo! News, February 24, 2025.
Gen 4:1-15
4 Now the man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, "I have gotten a manchild with the help of the Lord." 2 Again, she gave birth to his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of flocks, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 3 So it came about in the course of time that Cain brought an offering to the Lord of the fruit of the ground. 4 Abel, on his part also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and for his offering; 5 but for Cain and for his offering He had no regard. So Cain became very angry and his countenance fell. 6 Then the Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? 7 "If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it." 8 Cain told Abel his brother. And it came about when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.
9 Then the Lord said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" And he said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?" 10 He said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground. 11 "Now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. 12 "When you cultivate the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you; you will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth." 13 Cain said to the Lord, "My punishment is too great to bear! 14 "Behold, You have driven me this day from the face of the ground; and from Your face I will be hidden, and I will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me." 15 So the Lord said to him, "Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." And the Lord appointed a sign for Cain, so that no one finding him would slay him.
Rom 6:23
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Through sin, we have earned death and eternal separation from God. But because of God’s love, mercy and grace, we are offered forgiveness of sin, a new life and perfect communion with Him forever!
Rom 12:1-2
12 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
Pastor Dale