Joan Boney ... apostle / prophet
Hebrews 11 ... 4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts:and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
Able's gift was righteous because Able gave "by faith". When there is a true love of God and recognization of God and the person gives out of a belief in God and gratefulness to God, that is a gift of faith.
Cain's gift was of works.
We can look at this this way. God touches a person and changes that person and that person is so aware of God' presence and God's good works in his own life and in the creation of the world and all the benefits of creation ... That person gives with heart of joy and gladness toward God.
Another person who has joined a church but has not really been touched by God is watching the person who has been touched by God. He copies the person, trying to do what that person is doing. This is not giving by faith but by works.
In Jude it is described as "mocking" imitating the person who has been touched by God. Jude says the imitator is one "having not the spirit."
I had an aunt who was very different from everyone else. I never found her to be harsh nor frightening but she was so different from all others in the family. And everyone (except me) in the family was afraid of her. Many times I heard them say of her, "What would Ardath think?" She had a type of morality others didn't. She had godliness and was a light as she lived on this earth and the others tried to copy her. If she gave, they gave. Her gift would have been "by faith". Their gift would have been by "works". She gave out of love of God. They gave because she gave, imitation.
Jude ... 17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; 18 How that they told you there should be mockers (imitators/copiers) in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. (Their lusts are often approval of men and desire for praise of men.) 19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
The people who have the Spirit and the mockers who imitate those of the Spirit sit side by side at church. Often they look the same. The one of the Spirit is baptized in water. The mocker sees this so the mocker goes forth and is baptized in water. But only the one born of the Spirit belongs to God. They both look like members of the church. But they aren't. Only one of them belongs to God.
If you are of God you recognize this.
We also see this in ministers. Many ministers are not of the Spirit. They come copying other ministers. But they have not the Spirit.
This is difference between Able's gift and Cain's gift.
Able's gift was "by faith" in God.
Cain's gift was of himself, a work of his own thinking, of his own flesh.
Mt. 7 ... Jesus says ... 21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you:depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not:for it was founded upon a rock. 26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell:and great was the fall of it.