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Blessed Through Paying The Price
Blessed Through Paying The Price
Blessed Through Paying The Price
CHAPTER SIX
Cain's Children
If we are blessed, we have to pay the price tag for the ridicule and hurt that Cain's children will put on us. If
we are blessed, the children of Cain are going to hurt us. If we are blessed, the children of Cain are going to
talk about us and isolate us. There is a spirit of Cain in the children of Cain that still exists in the world and in
the church today.
Do we remember Cain of the two brothers Cain and Abel? God blessed Abel's sacrifice. Abel had a more
acceptable sacrifice, and Cain didn't like that. So Cain rose up against his brother and slew him. The spirit of
Cain still exists, and Cain's children really believe that the blessings we have belong to them.
Cain thought that Abel's blessing belonged to him, and the Cains of today really think that the blessings we
have belong to them. They think that house we have really ought to be their house. They think that husbands
we have really ought to be their husbands and the wives we have really ought to be their wives.
Cain's children do not want to pay the price of being blessed. They're set on pulling us back with them. So
what do they do? They isolate us. They stop talking to us. We're not accepted. They want us to be a part of the
unblessed group as they are. So Cain's children will criticize us. Cain's children will be jealous of us and
ridicule us. They will talk about us and criticize us so we will weaken under the pressure. Then, rather than
find favor with God, we want to find favor with the children of Cain.
They work on us so hard until we decide that we'd rather find favor with the children of Cain than find
favor with God. If we get a big raise or a promotion on our job, some of Cain's children show up. If we are
happy and positive all the time, some of Cain's children show up. Cain's children don't like positive, happy
people. They will say, "What's wrong with them? They're just pretending. They aren't all that happy." If we
get married to a blessed person, some of Cain's children show up. If we stay single for a while and then get
married, some of Cain's children show up.
Here is a word for any single person: You need to understand that when you get married, if and when God
decides to bless you in that way, you will lose some of your friends. You need to understand this fact because
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Cain's children will be there. They're so close to you, it's hard to discern. You must pray for the gift and
power of discernment.
It's just like Judas and John sitting at the Lord's Supper. In other words, Cain's children may be sitting right
beside you, all around you, close enough to give you a kiss of betrayal.
Summary
If we want to be blessed and find favor with God and man, we must pay the price. There is a price tag on
every blessing. Paying the price means accepting the responsibilities that inevitably come with blessings.
Paying the cost of being blessed also means enduring the isolation, rejection and criticism of those who don't
want us to be blessed, namely the descendants of Cain. These descendants of Cain think our blessings should
have been their blessings.
To overcome the Cain Immunity Deficiency Syndrome (CIDS), we must 1) accept the responsibilities that
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come with blessings, 2) not be small-minded, 3) exercise and practice our faith, and 4) remove Cain from
self and serve notice on his children that we are not scared of them anymore.