In Genesis, chapter 4 we have seen God's glorious work of creation recounted in Genesis 1. Specifically the creation of Adam and Eve and the covenant relationship that God established with them in Genesis 2. We have seen that sad picture of the fall in Genesis 3 and in our study of the first half of Genesis 4, we've already begun to see the effects of the fall in human history. And tonight as we come to Genesis 4, verses 16 through 26, we view there the unfolding of the original human civilization, with all its potential and creativity and evil. In all the cultural advances and accomplishments which are catalogued in this part of the chapter, there is not one shred of redemptive hope. Only in God's gift of a covenant child, Seth, in the line of the seed of the woman at the very…