Lesson of Faith via Abel

By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain,...
Hebrews 11:4

"Faith is that which takes hold of present truth and acts upon it. There is much that people call faith that is not faith at all.

To believe what God has not said is not faith at all.

I may believe it but not by faith, because faith must have God's word to rest upon. Abel offered a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain. Cain's was rejected because he did not offer that which expressed a faith in the Christ. Abel brought a lamb, the blood of which was offered in expression of his faith in the blood of Christ."
A.T.Jones