God's First Messages to Man: Part 3 Forty Messages From Genesis Chapters 1 to 11 — Zac Poonen

Genesis 4 and the First Lessons After Eden

So this is the third in our series of 40 messages that we find in the first 11 chapters of Genesis. We want to look today at Genesis chapter 4. This is the first chapter of man's history after he was put out of Eden, and there's a whole chapter that teaches us many, many lessons.

God Accepts the Person Through Faith

First of all, we read about this offering that Cain and Abel brought in Genesis chapter 4 and verse 3. It came about in the course of time. Cain brought an offering, the Lord of the fruit of the ground, and Abel brought the firstlings of his flock and their fat portions.

And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, but for Cain and his offering, he had no regard. So the first lesson we can learn is that God accepts us on the basis of faith in our hearts. Because it says here that God accepted Abel and his offering.

Now we shouldn't put it the other way around like some people do. I think a lot of Christians preach that. Most Christians, I'd say 90%. They reverse what the Bible says in verse 4. They say the Lord had regard for Abel's offering and therefore for Abel.

And then they read the Lord did not have regard for Cain's offering and therefore he didn't have a regard for Cain. It's amazing how people twist the scriptures and 90 of even believers twist it like that and say that Abel brought blood, that means his offering, so God accepted Abel.

Cain did not bring blood, so he didn't accept Cain. But is that what the Bible says? It's amazing how many errors you can go into when you don't read the Bible carefully. Read it. The Lord had regard for Cain, Abel, and then for his offering.

And the Lord had no regard for Cain and for his offering. Don't ever think that because your offering is so wonderful, God will accept you. Maybe you give a hundred thousand rupees. God will just throw it in the trash can.

Somebody else like the widow brings two mites, two pices. God accepts it. Not the offering, the person. It's the person that God accepts and then the offering. Don't ever make that mistake. People think, well, I'm serving the Lord so much because he'll accept me.

Rubbish! Martha served so much in the kitchen and God said, you're wasting your time. I come to so many services. I take part in the choir. I do this, I do that. There are multitudes of Christians who because of a wrong interpretation think that because they offer something to God, God will accept them.

I want you to get that out of your heads today forever. That if he doesn't accept you, whatever offering you bring, however wonderful and however sacrificial, God will not accept it. He does not accept us on the basis of what we bring.

Hebrews chapter 11 explains that. Hebrews 11 and verse 4. What was it that made Abel's offering better? It wasn't the offering itself. It was faith. God accepts us on the basis of faith in our hearts.

Hebrews 11 verse 4, by faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained the testimony that he was righteous and God testified about his gifts and through faith, though he's dead, he still speaks.

What Abel is speaking to us today is of his faith. Through faith, he still speaks, even though he's dead. Salvation is by faith in our hearts. With the heart man believes unto righteousness. Jesus also made that clear once in Matthew chapter 5.

Is it the offering or the person that God accepts? It's a very important question because many of us may be deceiving ourselves in this area. See Matthew chapter 5 and verse 23. Now you got to read this in this context.

Don't jump in the middle of a verse. He's talking about somebody who got very angry with his brother one day. Verse 22, someone who's angry with his brother and went and said to him, you good-for-nothing and then went and said to him, you fool.

That's verse 22. This is the context. Then this man brings an offering to the altar. Verse 23, and there you're presenting your offering at the altar and there you remember that your brother has something against you because you hurt him.

Will God accept your offering? It may be a wonderful offering. God won't accept it. He says you fool. First of all, I mean you said you're fool to your brother. Leave your offering there. Verse 24, first be reconciled to your brother, get your heart right, then come and present your offering.

Then only God will accept it. In other words, God will accept you only when you have set your heart right. That's so important because some people think, oh I come and I present the sacrifice of Jesus, the blood of Jesus, the blood of Jesus.

I don't think saying the blood of Jesus, the blood of Jesus will open you up into fellowship with God. It will not. If your heart doesn't have faith, if your heart is not set matters right with other people, Jesus said that.

That if you don't forgive others, your Heavenly Father will not forgive you, even if you claim the blood of Jesus. A lot of people have gone to hell claiming the blood of Jesus because they didn't forgive somebody.

So remember, God accepts us on the basis of faith in our hearts. If He accepts you, He'll accept your offering. And He accepts us on the basis of faith in our hearts. It's faith that God looks for, a trust.

Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, trust in Him and you shall be saved. It's trust, not just emptily presenting an offering. And that is so important. And there's something else I want you to see here, that the man of faith, here's a manifestation of what faith really is and an example of what true faith brings.

Notice a difference here in Genesis 4. The reason why Abel brought a lamb was because that was his job. He brought the lamb because he was looking at a keeper of the flocks and Cain didn't keep flocks, so he didn't have any lambs to bring.

He tilled the ground, so he brought from the fruit of his garden and that was perfectly okay. In fact, even in the book of Leviticus, you read that people could bring a grain offering to God in which there was no blood and God accepted it.

So that was okay, but you see a difference here. Where do we see faith in Abel? Notice, Abel brought the firstlings of his flock, the very best of his flock. He looked around his flock and he said, I'll take the best and give it to God.

Cain, it says here, brought an offering, verse 3. You notice the difference? Cain brought an offering. He just went into the field and said, okay, I'll just pick up something from here. But Abel brought the very best and that is how you know whether you have faith in your heart or not when you come to God.

If you come to God and you bring the very best in your life, the very best of everything you have, then you have faith in your heart. That's what Abel did. Cain just went casually and picked up something, an offering.

And all of us may be giving offerings to God, but there's a difference. There's that Cain and Abel division line even in our midst. Some of you are bringing an offering to God. Some of you are bringing the very best you have.

And there's the dividing line. It's an invisible dividing line you find in every church, including this one. Those who give their very best to God and those who give an offering to God, those who give the very best of their energy, their life, their time, their money, their everything, the very best to God and those who give an offering to God.

So today, you know whether you're following Cain or whether you're following Abel. Don't forget it. Don't ever forget it. That's the mark of faith. The man of faith always gives the very best. You know, I've had people write to me that I've retired from government service now and I'd like to join your organization.

They spent the best of their life living for the world and now they want to make money joining some Christian organization. There's multitudes of people like that. It's like giving the dregs to God. You invite somebody for a cup of tea, drink your cup and then give him the dregs.

That's exactly how some people are treating God. And that's why their lives are so shallow. They never get victory over sin. They read the Bible. They never get any revelation on the Bible. They wonder why.

How is it other people are getting revelation? They're giving their best. That's the difference. You can make that choice today. Say, Lord, from today I'm going to give my best. It's your choice. Okay, the second lesson is this.

Anger, Jealousy, and the Need for Self-Examination

In verses five and six. Beware of anger and jealousy. It's the first sin that you read of in the garden of, I mean after being man was put out of the garden of Eden. Anger and jealousy which led to hatred, murder and so many other things.

We think of anger as not something very serious. But notice here. The very first sin mentioned outside the garden of Eden. The very first sin is verse five, last part. Cain became very angry and his face changed.

And that's true. When a person is angry, you can see it on the face. When a person is upset with you, you can see it on the face, even if they manage to produce a weak smile. You know they are upset. And you see that in the very first man that was born into the world.

That is Cain. He was angry. And this mark was on his face. And when it was there, the Lord said to him, why are you angry? We saw that in our study of Genesis 3. God says, where are you? Here's another question.

Why are you angry? You like to hear God say, where are you? What about when God comes to you and says, why are you angry? Do you ever hear God asking you that question? Why are you angry? You're hurt about something?

You're hurt because I blessed somebody else more than you? You're angry with God? You're angry with your brother? There's a lot of that in Christendom. Maybe somebody else was given some preference in the church, which is not given to you and you get angry with the elders.

It could be anything. There could be so many reasons. And the Lord, if you can hear that voice saying, why are you angry? You can be saved. But if you shut that voice out and say, keep quiet. You say to God, keep quiet.

I don't want to hear it. Then you'll continue to get angry. And that's why I believe some of you haven't got victory over anger even after 25 years. 25 years after being born again, still learning ABC, sitting in the kindergarten, haven't got victory over anger because the first time you got angry, you never heard God speak to you and saying, why are you angry?

The second time you got angry, you never heard God saying that to you. The 10 ,000th time you got angry, you still never heard God saying to you, why are you angry? Well, I'll tell you something. After a while, God may just stop speaking to you and go your way.

And he probably has said that to some of you. That's why you never hear that voice anymore. Why are you angry? Do you hear it? Do you hear God speaking to you in your conscience? Why are you angry? I remember the days I was a slave to anger, even after I got married.

But I never took it seriously. I thank God I did finally. And I heard God's voice, why are you angry? And I could see I was hurt. It was me. I hadn't died. I was not willing to die with Jesus and be crucified.

That's why I was angry. Jesus was never angry. They would call him Beelzebul, Prince of Devils. He didn't take them to court for calling him Prince of Devils. They crucified him, killed him, spat on him.

He got angry when people made money in the name of religion. Sure, that concerned the glory of God. I want to get angry all my life when I see people making money in the name of Jesus Christ, swindling poor people and calling themselves preachers.

Jesus turned the money changers out of the temple, but when it concerned himself, he was never angry. That's the meaning of be angry and don't sin. Be angry when it concerns the glory of God, but not when it concerns yourself.

So anger is the first sin that God warns us about here. And he was jealous. It's sort of coupled, you know. Very often anger is coupled with jealousy. You're jealous that God has given somebody else more than you.

I think those three preachers who came to preach to Job. Aliphaz, Zophar and Bildad were jealous of Job. Because he was a spiritual man. He had 10 God-fearing children and he was rich. I mean if he was poor living in a hut, okay, they'd have been happy.

But when a spiritual man is rich, they get upset. They're jealous. Why is he rich and spiritual? Why are his children following the Lord? And they were so happy when Job got sick. And when his children had died and lost all his money, they pretended that they sympathized with him.

They were jealous. Be careful. Is jealousy that destroyed Saul when he saw David, a younger brother, rising? Let me ask you older brothers. How do you react to young brothers coming up who are gifted with the word and can speak far better than you and are anointed?

Do you rejoice and say, Lord, that's wonderful? If you're not, then you're really not functioning as the body of Christ. See in the body, no part is jealous of another. The right hand can do certain things better than the left hand and left hand is not jealous at all.

Not even for a second. That shows you're part of the body, subject to the head. When you're jealous of some other member of the body and particularly somebody younger than you, it proves you're not really part of the body.

You think you are. You better wake up. And what we see here is that religious people can be very evil. Remember, Cain was a religious man. He wasn't an idol worshiper. He wasn't an atheist. He didn't go and offer to some other god.

He offered to Jehovah, the true God. But his heart was full of anger and jealousy and evil. You can call yourself a Christian and your heart can be full of anger and jealousy. It's the heart that God looks at.

Sin Is Crouching at the Door

So there's something that we can learn. Lesson number three, chapter four, verse seven. Sin is closer to us than we think. Sin is closer to us than we think. That's what the Lord told Cain He says here, sin, in the middle of that verse seven, sin is crouching at your door, Cain.

It's crouching at your door. You've got a wrong attitude in your heart and something worse is crouching at your door. I mean, if you knew when you looked out of the window that the fierce tiger or lion is crouching outside your front door, I think you'd be a little careful opening that door.

Because once that lion puts its foot into the door, you're not going to escape. How many of us really believe that sin is crouching? Crouching is a word in the English language used always for wild animals.

You don't say a dog is crouching at the door. It's a lion is crouching or a tiger is crouching at the door. It's a wild animal who's determined to tear you to pieces. If we can recognize that sin is not far away, it's not one mile down the street.

It's not even 10 yards away. It's not even one yard away. It's crouching at your door all the time. Not just anger. There'll be so many things. It could be sexual lust. It could be so many things. If you can recognize that sin is crouching at your door, you would be constantly alert.

I mean, if you really knew a fierce lion is just sitting outside your door, you'd be extremely careful all the time it's there until it's gone. You'd try every means to get rid of it. I want to say to you, my brothers and sisters, that as long as we live in this earth, sin is crouching at the door of our hearts.

That's why we sin so easily. People wonder, how is it I sin so easily? How is it I had a wonderful time of praise and worship and listened to a powerful message on Sunday morning and then I went home and suddenly I sinned?

I'll tell you why. Because you never realize that sin is crouching at the door of your heart. It doesn't matter which meeting you go to. It doesn't matter how many hours you spend worshiping God. Sin is crouching right outside the door.

That's why we need to be filled with the Holy Spirit and constantly look at Jesus our example. That's the only way we can keep that door shut and drive sin away and conquer it like Samson tore the lion to pieces.

The power of the Spirit, we can tear that lion to pieces. But recognize it's closer to you than you think. And if you recognize that, you can be saved from sin. Number four, Genesis 4, 7. God wants us to be overcomers.

God Calls Believers to Overcome Sin

God wants us to be overcomers. Sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you. But you must master it. What a word. You must overcome sin is way back in Genesis 4. It's not in Romans 6. It's in Genesis 4.

You must master sin, God's desire for man. Why is it more Christians are not preaching that? Why is it more preachers are not preaching that you must conquer sin? Even after Jesus has come and the Holy Spirit has come.

A message that is found way back in Genesis 4. Not you should try and master it. I mean if it was something which was too tough for God to help us to overcome, then we'd say try. You know, like some difficult situations you go to somebody to help you and you say, well, I'll try to help you.

I'm not sure whether I can. You know, supposing you have some problem and you go to some official and say, can you help me with this problem? He'd say, well, I'm not so sure. I'll try to help you. It's a tough problem.

You go to some doctor and you have some disease and the doctor says, well, I'll try and heal you, but I'm not so sure whether I can. You think God says that about sin in your life? Yeah, that's a tough sin.

I'm not so sure whether I can help you overcome it, but maybe I'll try. No. Which sin is stronger than God? You must master it. You must overcome. There are no two ways about it. I wish we would understand.

There are no two ways about it. You must conquer it. And can God say that to Cain if it was not possible? Now, God didn't ask Cain to overcome lusting with the eyes or dirty thoughts, because that would have been impossible under the old covenant.

Until the Holy Spirit comes to dwell within, it is impossible for any man. To overcome dirty thoughts and sexual lust in his heart, no, impossible. And if you're still not defeated, still defeated by it, maybe you need to be filled with the Holy Spirit in your heart and live in the fullness of the Spirit.

God didn't ask Cain to overcome those things, inward sins and coveting and desiring in your heart because he knew nobody could do that. What he told him to conquer was this anger against his brother, this jealousy against his brother.

That was possible even without the Holy Spirit dwelling within. Otherwise, how in the world could God tell Cain, you must master it. Imagine God telling a man who did not have the Holy Spirit, you can conquer anger even without the Holy Spirit.

This attitude, the external application of it, I mean, you may still not be able to conquer it within, but this thing, this attitude towards your brother, that's why God gave the commandments in the Old Testament to people who did not have the Holy Spirit dwelling in them.

They could conquer murder. They could conquer adultery. They could conquer idol worship. And many of them did. How many millions of non-Christians have never committed adultery, never committed murder, are very honest and don't steal.

So there are external sins that can be conquered even without the fire of the Holy Spirit. When it comes to inward sin, we need to be filled with the Holy Spirit. That could be possible only after the day of Pentecost when God gives us grace within.

But the principle remains the same. You must master sin. So don't ever forget that. God wants us to be overcomers. Number five, the fifth message we get here is in chapter four, verse nine, the Lord said to Cain, where is your brother?

Responsibility for Our Brothers and Sisters

Next question. We are responsible for our brothers and sisters. That's the fifth lesson we need to learn. We are responsible for our brothers and sisters. Where is your brother? You know, it's just like if one part of the body is injured, say accidentally, I got an injury in my left hand.

My right hand doesn't say, oh, that's not my hand. I'm not bothered. I mean, your hand may say that because it's not part of my body, but my hand never says that. My hand immediately says, hey, that's a part of me.

I got to fix it. That's how we discover whether we are in the body or not. If one member suffers, we all suffer with it. If one member rejoices, all rejoice. One member is honored, all rejoice. It's very easy to find out whether we are integrated with the body of Christ.

When a member is honored, if you are jealous, that's the proof you don't really belong to that body. If you rejoice, you're part of that body. I mean, take a football match. Now here's, you know, most of the goals in football are scored by the forward line.

Those five people who stand up in front who are called the forwards, they go and score the goals. Here's a person playing at the back or a goalkeeper. They never score a goal in their whole life. But how is it they're so happy when some center forward scores a goal?

Because they say, it's our team. So what if I didn't score it? But who's the one who's not happy? Somebody on the other team. And when you're not happy that somebody, not you, but somebody else did a wonderful thing for the Lord or preached a wonderful message or is very gifted and you're not happy, it proves you're on the other team.

You're not on the same team. That's why you're not happy. Or you're a spy. Or it's a match-fixing case where you are really pretending to be on the same team. I tell you, it's like that. The devil fixes a lot of matches.

Why is it you're jealous when something good has happened for the kingdom of God but it didn't happen through you? Why are you jealous when a younger brother is mightily anointed by God and says, does something and he came to the church three years ago, whereas you came 20 years ago and you're just sitting there wasting your time like a useless brother and that brother has come forward and is anointed.

Why are you jealous? Why aren't you rejoicing? Hey, it's our team that won, that scored the goal. Because you're not on the same team. We are responsible for our brothers. Where is your brother? If your brother is hurt, are you concerned?

See, that's why God puts us in small churches. You know, in a mega church with thousands of people sitting there, you don't even know if your brother is hurt. You don't even know if something has happened to that person.

That's why God puts us in small churches where we are committed to one another and we know what's going on with our brothers. I don't mean everybody who attends the church. I don't believe that everybody who attends CFC is really committed.

You can see that pretty clearly by the amount of responsibility they take so well. And I don't bother about such people either. I mean, they come and sit here and break bread, but I don't think they're committed to the church.

I mean, over a period of time, you can discover who is committed to the church, who has a concern, who is burdened. And those are the only people I feel any responsibility for. So we are responsible for such brothers.

And Cain says, am I my brother's keeper? Yes, you are. I mean, it's not that every single, all the millions of brothers in the world, but a few ones. God was not asking Cain about someone he didn't know, but his own brother there was closely connected to.

Those we are closely connected to, we have a responsibility. We can't wash our hands and say, well, it's none of my business. It's like the story of the Good Samaritan. You know, that man lying down there was an Israelite.

And so therefore, he was a brother of the Levite who walked by. The Levite saw his brother lying down there, didn't do anything. The priest was also a son of Abraham, and that was a son of Abraham who was beaten up there.

He didn't do anything. Then a Samaritan came who was not a son of Abraham. Samaritans came from Assyria and all. He went and helped. That's the point of that story. People didn't help their own brothers, so somebody else helped.

That's the story of Richman and Lazarus. Lazarus was his own brother. Both were sons of Abraham, but he didn't care. So that's the fifth lesson. We're responsible for our brothers. Number six. We read in chapter four in verse 10, the voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.

Accountability and Confession Before God

We will have to give an account to God for everything. We will have to give an account to God for everything that we have done. It may take time, but one day there is no escaping the fact that even the things done in secret, no man saw Cain kill Abel.

Maybe no man saw that sin which you committed somewhere in some dark corner many years ago. Because it's happened many years ago and nobody knows about it, you think it's all conveniently covered up and forgotten.

No, it isn't. One day God will say, I saw it and you have to answer for it. We have to give to God an account and that is why we need to be absolutely honest with God and be broken and confess our sin, especially those sins that nobody knows, which you committed in secret, maybe many years ago, which your husband doesn't know, your wife doesn't know.

Go before God and repent of it and if you have hurt some other human being, go and ask that person's forgiveness. Settle all accounts before Christ comes again. I tell you, it's far better to settle it here than to have to settle it at the judgment seat of Christ.

Everything that is not settled on this earth, you will have to settle one day when you stand before God. There's no escaping that and if we recognize that, we shall be very quick. See, I don't want to stand before the Lord and the Lord brings up some sin of mine and I say, hey Lord, I forgot that.

Well, the Lord said, why did you forget it? Because every time I brought it to your mind, you just cast it off. I brought it to your mind a hundred times, you cast it off, gradually you forgot it. That's how we forget it.

You can't commit a sin that disturbs your conscience and say you forgot it unless you kept on, no, no, no, no, I won't remember that, I won't remember that. After some time, you'll forget it. Yeah, what your conscience disturbs you about, I'm not saying that we should rack our mind and dig up all the dirt and mud and try to discover what we did in the past.

Ask the Lord to show you the things that you have not settled with God and with man and settle it now so that you don't have to face those things when Christ comes again. I many times told the Lord, I said, Lord, if there's anything which I have need to settle, some money I owe to somebody, maybe even to the government, I don't want it to be in my account, I want it to go to the government.

I probably mentioned this once, I was many years ago, I prayed this prayer, I said, Lord, I don't want to have one rupee in my account which doesn't belong to me and if there is something, I accidentally have cheated the government or something, I want you to somehow or the other make sure the money goes to the government from my account, maybe in some way so that ultimately when I stand before you, my conscience is clear.

So one day, I was making a long-distance phone call with my landline and when I finished the call and I put the phone down, it didn't turn off, it was still on and I said, hey, those are the days when we had to pay 60 rupees per minute for a phone call, those were those days, more than 20 years ago.

I didn't know what to do and I didn't have another phone, there were no cell phones, there's no way to call the telephone exchange and say, hey, your thing has not tripped and the call is still on and I'm paying.

I had to go somewhere else to somebody else's house and make a phone call to the exchange to get that thing down and I don't know how many minutes passed by that time but it did cost quite a bit of money and I felt, ah, maybe I owed the government some money which I didn't know and God has settled the account through the telephone department which in some countries doesn't go to the government, in India it does thankfully.

So I was very thankful, I came back and praised the Lord. Are you really serious about being wanting to have your conscience absolutely clear before God and men? Okay, number seven, we read here in chapter 4 verse 11, you are cursed.

The Seriousness of Sin Against Others

What a word when God looks at a man and says, you're cursed. He never said that to Adam. So that's the seventh lesson, sin committed against another, sin against another is more serious than sins that harm only yourself.

Sins that harm another are more serious than sins that harm only yourself. Please remember that, sins that harm another are more serious than sins that harm only yourself. When Adam sinned, he harmed himself, that's all.

When Cain sinned, he harmed another, Abel. And so Adam was not cursed. When God told, met Adam, he said the ground is cursed, Genesis 3, 17. But when God met Cain, he said you are cursed. You see the difference between saying the ground is cursed, your work is cursed, and you are cursed.

Why the difference? I call them Genesis 3 type of sins and Genesis 4 type of sins. Genesis 3 type of sins are those which I harm myself, I take drugs or get drunk, I harm myself. But you gossip and speak evil about somebody, you've harmed another.

How many of you really believe that gossiping is worse than taking drugs? I don't think there are many Christians who believe that. How many of you believe that gossiping is worse than getting drunk or smoking cigarettes?

Supposing you saw a brother smoking, smoking 10 cigarettes a day, and here's another person who just gossips once a day. How many of you really believe that person is worse than this cigarette smoker?

I don't think many Christians believe that. But yet that cigarette smoker has only harmed himself. The gossiper has harmed somebody else. One is a Genesis 3 sin where he hurt himself, another is a Genesis 4 sin where he hurt another person.

Do you speak against others at home, evil, to harm others, try to tear people down in their reputation? It's worse than getting drunk. It's worse than smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. It's worse than taking cocaine and marijuana and opium.

I don't know whether you believe it. It's there in the first chapters of the Bible that sins that harm another are more serious in God's eyes than sins that harm only yourself. We need to have a proper understanding of sin.

There's a human understanding of sin and the so-called Christian's understanding of sin. Taking drugs is worse than gossiping but God's opinion is very different. If you want to know what sin is, you better get God's opinion.

I mean if you want to harm yourself, go ahead and harm yourself as much as you like. Think of the the Gadarene demoniac. There was that demon possessed person in Gadara who had thousands of demons in him.

He used to take stones and cut himself. He didn't hurt anybody else. He was not as bad as the gossiper. You'd think he was worse, right? No, he only hurt himself. You take a stone or a knife and hurt another person with your tongue or in some other way.

You spread a story about someone and afterwards you discover it's not true but it's too late to rectify it because what you've said has already spread many places. That's why it says guard your tongue from evil.

You won't have any regrets when you stand before the Lord. You won't be cursed. Take it seriously. If you're determined to sin, sin hurting yourself but don't hurt other people. When you hurt other people, God takes it seriously.

That's why it says if you hurt another person, God will not accept your offering. We saw that earlier. Go and set it right with that person otherwise God will not accept your offering. There are so many husbands and wives who hurt one another with hard words, angry words and they don't even apologize to one another.

There are people who hurt others in the church and don't even apologize. Maybe you think it's beneath your dignity because that person is on a lower social level than you. Shame on you. Which religion are you following the caste system?

Who is there who's if you hurt a beggar on the street by your words you must go and apologize to that beggar. Say I'm sorry for speaking like that. Forgive me. Do you believe in the equality of all human beings?