“Do not be like Cain”

"Do not be like Cain" (1 Jn. 3:12).

Like Cain, we should not hate our brothers (v. 15).

“Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer” (v. 15).

Like Cain, we should not kill our brother (v. 12).

We must know that “no murderer has eternal life in him” (v. 15).

Cain killed his younger brother Abel because his own actions were evil (v. 12).

Be like Abel!

We must be killed like Abel.

Doing like Abel means saving another person through our own death.

To be like Abel is to be like Jesus.

Jesus was killed to save us (4:9).

We too must be killed like Jesus.