The founders of America gave us limited government, which requires people to act in self-controlled manners, not giving in constantly to temptation.
In scanning the headlines, it’s amazing how many of them chronicle the fall of those who have given themselves over into one temptation after another.
This tune I refer to is called “the Westminster chimes,” as in Westminster Abbey. This tune is heard in churches and college campuses across America — and if you own a grandfather clock, or any kind of chiming clock, you too are very familiar with this 16-note melody that plays at the beginning of every hour.
Cain was a farmer. Abel was a shepherd. They both made offerings of their harvest to God, but the Lord accepted Abel’s and not Cain’s. This made Cain sullen and angry at his brother. In John Steinbeck’s book, East of Eden, there are four elderly Chinese men who study the first 16 verses of Genesis 4 over a period of two years. Initially, they think that God’s command to Cain was that he shalt or that he must master sin. But they learn from the original Hebrew that it could be better translated as “thou mayest” .
Dr. Os Guinness was a guest in our Providence Forum series of films on America’s Judeo-Christian heritage. It’s called The Foundation of American Liberty. The late Dr. Walter Williams told our viewers, “Our Constitution and our government was made for a moral people, people who love liberty. And the reason why is that initially we had very, very few laws, because people’s behavior was governed by customs and tradition and religious values. Today, we’re moving away from that … we’re seeing more and more laws being written to control human behavior, as opposed to personal values.
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