Life is full of choices like a “choose your own adventure” story. The Bible begins with a fundamental question: Who or what is your most high?

In this eighth message, we turn to Genesis 4 and the split between the line of Cain and the line of Seth. Cain's descendants build cities, advance the arts, and pioneer technology, yet they live as "practical atheists," enjoying God's good gifts while pushing Him to the margins. Their story names the subtle danger of "God-ishness": knowing about God, even carrying His name, but treating Him as an accessory instead of King, building families, careers, and legacies without ever truly surrendering them to Him.

Their story confronts how easily we do the same, crowding God out with busyness, entertainment, and the pursuit of comfort, making this temporary world feel permanent while neglecting prayer, worship, and obedience. It warns us against defiant, distracted, and pleasure-driven living, and calls us instead to redeem our time, cry out to the Lord, and live as citizens of a better city to come, letting the everyday God reign over every ordinary moment of our lives.