The lesson on October 27, 2019 was part 30 of the "Genesis" study.  Wayne opened up with a comment that a lot of what we have covered in the Genesis study is that of beginnings. Much of what we learn in Genesis relates to events during the Acts period and Acts 28.  Further, right division of scripture is so important that Christians need to rightly divide the ministries of the Apostle Paul. Then while diving into Genesis, we learned more of the double curse the ground that God had put on the Earth.  Next, we lean of the Hebrew word behind "keeper" which was "shamar".  Wayne points out all the 448 verses that use "shamar" and the importance of understanding the meaning since God uses it frequently.  In the end, we learned that Cain confused works for service with that of the gift by grace and he compartmentalized his life. He took what he was specifically ( a tiller) and did not keep the responsibility of the ground and its progeny.  The scripture reading was from Jeremiah 26:1-7 KJV

The lesson on September 22, 2019 was part 25 of the "Genesis" Study. In today's lesson, Wayne gave us another perspective of a serpent's attributes before the interaction with Eve.  Adam had named every beast of the field, and by naming them understood their attributes, which usually was reflected in the name Adam gave them.  The curse that God put on the serpent after the fall was that he would crawl on his belly and eat dust.  Well then, before then he must have been able to speak and move around without slithering. Perhaps he was originally rejected by Adam and the serpent thought he would get back in the Garden through Eve being more subtle than any beast of the field.  This brings a new light onto it.  In today's lesson, we look at Cain and Able.  We reviewed 1 John 3:11-12 "11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous" which described what we find in Genesis 4.  When God cursed the ground after Adam fell, he told him it would be hard to yield fruit since the ground was cursed and filled with thorns and thistles.  Cain was a tiller of the ground and Able was a keeper of sheep.  When they made an offering to God, Able's was accepted and Cain's was rejected.  That seems harsh but God had established the doctrine of forgiveness was to shed the blood of a lamb, not fruit of your own labor.  Wayne summarized by saying their are really only two religions in the world, the righteous way of Able or the religious way of Cain.  The scripture reading was from Genesis 4:1-8 KJV