If you will, let's turn to Genesis
chapter 5. Genesis chapter 5. Again in verse 21. Genesis 5, 21. And Enoch lived sixty and five
years and begat Methuselah. And Enoch walked with God after
he begat Methuselah three hundred years and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Enoch were
three hundred, sixty, and five years. And Enoch walked with
God And he was not, for God took him. I can talk loud. You can just mute it. I want
to talk to y'all this morning anyway, like we're sitting in
my living room. Okay. If you come over to the house
and you said, Kevin, what is it to walk with God? I want to
tell you, is that all right? Cameron and I have just come
back from Yosemite National Park, and it is beautiful. The Lord
made that. He declared who He is and His
creation, and I've got to go stand in awe of it. It was something. We walked through that place.
We walked a whole bunch. We walked a little over 30 miles
this week, and it was up and down. We sweated, and it got
hot and it got cold, a whole bunch of things. Before we went,
we read several books on it. We watched a lot of videos on
it, but other people walking, Things about that walk. But it
didn't do us no good. I hadn't walked it. When I got
there, I walked. I stretched my legs. I was sore. I got tired. I got sad. And then
I got happy. I got to see some things. And
it was wonderful. And the snot was coming out of
my nose. It wasn't pretty sometimes. I smelled bad at the end of it.
But I walked. I did it. I didn't read about
it. I didn't hear about somebody else's experience of it. I experienced
it. I walked it. And while we was
walking, there was a couple we found there. And they didn't
know what the path was. And they walked alongside us.
They walked in the direction that we walked. But I wasn't
walking with them. I was walking with her. I might have said hi. Might have
exchanged some niceties. I wasn't walking with them. I
was walking with my bride. That's who I was walking with.
We walked a lot and we enjoyed it. But the words to someone,
if I tell you I walked with Kimberly, the actual walking is different
than just telling somebody about it. It rolls off the tongue so
easy. People say, oh, that person walks
with God. That person walks with God. Walking with God and talking
about walking with God are two different things as well. It's
a different experience. You can read all the books you
want on it. You can memorize all the facts you want about
it. You can watch all the videos of other people's experiences,
but you haven't felt the heat on your face. You haven't felt
the pain in your legs. You haven't felt the desire to
say, boy, that path over there is a whole lot easier, but the
one I'm walking with is on this path. The ugly side of it. The smelling bad. The snot coming
out of your nose. The tiredness. Wanting to quit.
Thirsty. And then the joys of what you
get to see. The joys of who you get to spend that walk with.
It's a whole lot different reading about it, isn't it? We can read until we got
calluses on our fingers. It ain't going to do you a bit
of good unless God walks with you. We look before at Cain and his
lineage and everything that was spoken about of his people, his
children. Well, they did this and they
made that and they taught them these things. They made iron.
What a lineage. People want to leave a lasting
legacy. What could it be said of me? If all that my life amounted
to is that he had a family, had some kids, but he pleased God. He walked with God. Is there
anything else that's necessary? Anything else more needful. We
need to be reminded of those things. I need to walk with the
Lord. I need the Lord to walk with me. Not the way I want and
He's my co-pilot on my path. I need to be with Him, where
He is, whenever He's there. And that's my desire, is to be
with Him. That's it. Some would call it salvation.
That's a good way of putting it. To be with God. Be in His
presence. For Him to say, I am pleased
in you. That's something. What kind of lasting legacy would
we want to leave? What kind of words would we want
people to remember about us as the greatest thing that could
be said about us? That we walked with God. The
Lord was pleased with us. There's a lot of facts that's
not mentioned here about Enoch. It's a very short sentence. Enoch
walked with God. That's simple, isn't it? There's
a whole lot of things that go with that. Who was it that walked
with God? Let's go look at Enoch this morning.
Who walked with him? Well, we're going to see later
on, he was a prophet. He was the first prophet we have
listed. Was he a good religious man? Did he have clean living?
Did he quit reading the books that other people was reading?
Did he quit going to the movies that other people went to? And touch not, taste
not, handle not? Enoch was a sinner. He was a
child of Adam. You know what that is? If you're
a sinner, that's good news. That's the best news that we
could hear. Who can walk with God? Sinners. Sinners. That's who walked with him. He
was a fallen creature. He was from Adam's loins. His
seed. He was conceived in sin. He was shapen in iniquity in
his mother's womb. And when he come out of that
womb, he lied. Like every one of us. That's
hope for me. I'll be hope for you, Vietnam.
It was a sinner. And he did this for a long time.
Did you know that? Look here in verse 21. And Enoch
lived sixty and five years and begat Methuselah. And Enoch walked
with God after he begat Methuselah. Something happened to Enoch.
For sixty-five years, Enoch did not walk with God. He walked
with Enoch. He had his thoughts on his mind,
his own desires, his own lust. He did what he thought that seemed
right to him. Does that mean Enoch didn't go
to church? No, of course, he probably did, didn't he? Mom
and Daddy told him. Same thing Adam had preached
to him, hadn't he? He'd saw these things, he'd heard these things.
And then one day, one day the Lord called Enoch. One day, when
the Lord was pleased, He came to Enoch and revealed Himself
to Enoch. He had heard for 65 years about
the Gospel of Christ. Nothing's different. There's
not an Old Testament Gospel and a New Testament Gospel. That's
a bunch of nonsense. He heard the same thing that
you and I believe. Christ the Lamb. What happened
in the garden? Adam fell and we all fell in
Him, and God provided Himself a Lamb. Blood was shed. A covering was provided. Substitution. Happy. And through that, that
serpent's head is going to get crushed. It's going to bruise
his heel. He's going to be crushed. At that appointed time, the Holy
Spirit abounded toward Enoch. Moved upon Enoch and gave him
ears to truly hear. He heard these things his whole
life. Sixty-five years. Now he heard something. Now he
was listening to the Lord. He was made spiritually alive.
He had ears to hear, eyes to see, and a heart that loved the
Lord. That's what happened. One day he heard. Paul wrote to us in Romans 10.
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.
I want to ask you a hard question. Has anyone ever been saved apart
from the preaching of the Gospel? No. That's the means God chose to
save His people. Well, how did Adam and Eve know?
The Lord showed them. The Lord spoke to them. He told
them, didn't He? It was preached to them. They
heard the Word of the Lord. They heard about Christ and Him
crucified. Who He is. What He did. What
He accomplished. Where He is now. Nothing's changed. Nothing's changed. That's the
means that the wisdom of God chose to use. If a man comes
to God by another way, by his deduction, or he's figured this
stuff out, it ain't of God. As he told Jeremiah, he said,
I didn't send them. That's the dreams that they dreamed
of, not dreams I sent. That's how he chose. That's who
the Lord walked with. A sinner, saved by grace. A man,
a human, born of Adam. That's miraculous. That's something
I want to hear about. Even me. He might walk with me. He might walk with you, wouldn't
he? How did Enoch walk? To walk with God, there must
be spiritual life. A dead man don't walk nowhere,
do they? God had to give him life. He had to be born again. It didn't start at Nicodemus. We read about that and looked
at it not too long ago when the Lord told Nicodemus, you must
be born again. Nothing has changed. The same thing happened with
Enoch. The Lord had to give him life. And God must do it. Just
like with our physical life. When we first come into this
world, I didn't say, boy, I think today I'm going to be a human.
I'm going to be born. I think I'm going to come into
this world and I've chose to do it. That's nonsense. We'd
laugh some of you. You could ask my committed if they said those
things. And man walks around, I passed 20 million of them on
the road this week. Well, I chose to serve God today. He was just sitting there begging
and wringing his hands in need, and he was hurting, and I come
to the rescue. And I chose him. Nonsense. Hogwash. Just as our physical birth, our
spiritual birth is the same. God must do it. We must be born
of Him. Born of that incorruptible seed. And you know, whenever
the Lord gives life, I know I'm physically alive. That's a huge
hindrance we have, isn't it? I can breathe air. I can physically
walk to the door. I can go to sleep. I can eat.
I can drink water. And I think I'm spiritually alive.
Everybody comes to this earth thinking they're spiritually
alive because they have physical life. There's proofs of spiritual life. Do you know that? Faith and repentance
is two of them. That's proof of life. To have
faith. Saving faith. To believe on God.
And to repent from what we were. Paul told us, he said, for we
walk by faith. This walk that we have with the
Lord is by faith, not by sight. These aren't things you can see.
They'll be made manifest. They'll be evident to your brethren
and people around you and to your enemies. They're going to
know. They'll have something to say
about it too. But not by what we see. That man must walk with
God. I've never seen him touch a cigarette
or a beer or he's never done nothing wrong. He's not kind
to little children. That's sight. That's what you can see. That's
what you can do. That's what's not seen. That's what's not seen.
Turn over to Hebrews chapter 11 again. Hebrews chapter 11 verse 5. It says, Enoch, this one that was born
of God and given faith, by faith Enoch was translated. That means
he was changed. He was changed. That he should
not see death and was found not. Because God had translated him.
He changed him. For before his translation, he
had this testimony that he pleased God. That's man's testimony a
lot of times, isn't it? What I'm doing is right. I'm
pleasing God. It has to be. I'm a good person. Man's testimony
doesn't matter what God says. God says, I'm pleased with that. That's something good. That's
salvation, isn't it? But without faith, it is impossible to please
Him. For he that cometh to God must
believe that He is. We can get a hold of that for
two or three hours. He must believe that he is. Well, I believe there's
a God. That's not what he's talking about. The devils believe in
one God. They think they do right. Those
demons said, Lord, is your day our time? They knew judgment
was coming. We believe he is who he says he is. God is holy. He is righteous. He is perfect.
He will not clear the guilty. By no means will he clear the
guilty. Sin must be punished. And we believe that He's the
Savior. He's the substitute for His people. He is. And that work that He came to
do, it's finished. He's the accomplished. He's the
captain of our salvation. It's done. He is. And He is right
now on His throne ruling and reigning every molecule in this
whole wide universe. To the electrons and the protons
and the neutrons, everything. to who's in charge of us, to
how many speeding tickets we get, to if we get sick, if we
get healthy, if I sneeze, if I sleep, if I wake up, it's all
ruled by Him. He is. He is. It said, but without faith it's
impossible to please Him. For he that cometh to God must
believe that He is. That's part of that faith. And
that He is a rewarder. Who has the right to reward?
One that has. Do I reward God by gracing Him
with my presence? No, He's the rewarder. He has. He gives. He takes away. That's
who He is. He's the rewarder of them that
diligently seek Him. So many people say, why assault
the Lord? And there it is. They have a zeal. They have a
zeal for God, but without knowledge is what Paul said. They don't
know Him. They read their Bible every day. They read commentators. And they do all kinds of great
things. It's without knowledge. If you believe God is, He is
absolutely holy. And I'm not. I'm a sinner. I'm
like Enoch. I'm bored of Adam. I'm the perfection
of Adam's corruption. That's me. I fell in the garden.
He's going to reward who diligently seeks Him. How can I seek Him?
Lord, You must seek me first. Just like we read in Jeremiah
29. He must know His thoughts of love and not evil towards
His people. He must come to us, give us a heart to seek Him.
And you know what we'll do whenever we have life and we have faith
to believe on Him? You're going to grab ahold of
Him. I ain't going to let you go. Oh, it's too good. It's too good. And you know what?
I will be with you. You who know Him, you who love
Him, you who have been given life. I'm not going to latch
on to you. I'm not going to let you go either. I want to know about
you. We'll sit later. I'll get ahead of myself. To know that He is, to know that
He's a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him, that's to
agree with God. That's to take sides with God
against yourself. He's given life and He's given
faith. We believe Him who He is. We love our brethren. We
believe on Him. We know that I'm wrong and he's
right. For 65 years I did things my
way. I'm wrong. Every bit of it was
nothing but bringing me to Christ. That's the good side of it. But
I had no stake in it. I'm on his side. He's brought
me there. Amos 3.3 says, Can two walk together
except they be agreed? You can't chase two rabbits at
the same time. You'll chase neither. It's old
Chinese proverb. You can't chase the world and
chase the Lord. You can't seek yourself and your
lust and seek Him. It can't happen. We take sides
with the Lord against ourselves. Those that walk with God, they
believe in God. Of course they do. But we believe
God and we agree with Him and we agree with His Word. We agree
we're in need. That's something we never ought
to get away from. And if it gets old hat, it's dangerous. It's
a dangerous thing. The blood of Christ. He was in
that garden of Gethsemane and he sweat great drops of blood
knowing he was going to be made me. He was going to be made you. His people. That feminine noun,
sin. His bride. And he was going to
bear all the wrath and all the punishment that I deserve. We
need saving. We need a Savior. We need a Lord
to come to us. We get away from that and we
start getting into the details of things. You're going to get
lost in the woods. You'll be deceived. It'll be a horrible
thing. But we believe in Him who is. We believe He's the rule of order
and He's made us diligently seek Him. How do we have that faith?
Where does that faith come from? Turn over to Ephesians 1. Ephesians
1. We were dead just as Enoch was
dead. A long time. We were made alive
and we were given faith by God. Salvation of the Lord, isn't
it? Ephesians chapter 2 verse 1. And you hath He quickened.
That means made alive. Ephesians 2 verse 1. And you
hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins, wherein
in time past ye walked according to the course of this world."
You walk with God, I walked according to the course of this world.
I walked according to the course of Kevin. That's who I walked
with for God's sake. according to the prince of the
power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children
of disobedience, among whom also we had our conversation in times
past in the lust of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the
flesh and of the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath,
even as others. But God. We walked according
to the course of this world. And walking with God, people
think, oh, it's just, they're going to talk different and just
squinch up a little bit, and it'll squeak when they smile,
and oh, they're just so clean and good. Think all them apostles. That was commercial fishermen.
They had calluses and scars, and you didn't want to cross
them in a dark alleyway. They could probably handle their own.
And you'd come across them and say, there ain't nothing comely
about them. just as their Savior. Just as our Lord walked this
earth, wasn't nothing comely about Him, was it? It ain't what
we think. And this walk of the flesh and all these things after
the thoughts of our minds and the lust of our flesh, we think,
oh, that's horrible. That's down in the dirty side of town. You
don't want to go down there. Oh, no, that's in a church pew.
That's in the high seats in the synagogue. That's in public saying,
hello, give me a title. You will call me by that title.
looks good on the outside, that's not walking by faith, that's
walking by sight of what we saw. How can we get out of that? Verse
4, Ephesians 2, 4, But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great
love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sin, hath
quickened us together, made us alive together with Christ, by
grace are you saved, and hath raised us up together, and made
us sit together in heavenly places in Christ, that In ages to come,
He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness
towards us through Christ Jesus. This is done and it's going to
be revealed to you. Christ revealed in you. For by
grace are you saved through faith. There's that faith that we have
to believe He is. And that not of yourselves. It's
the gift of God. He bestows it. He gives it. He
puts it in His child. Those that He's made alive. Not
of works. Not of doing. Not of outward show. Not of sight.
Lest any man should boast. If I had one thing to do, That
house we have stays clean. I wear about the same three shirts
because she washes clothes so fast it puts them back on top
and I just take what's on top. I take one bag of garbage out
and I'm proud of it, ain't I? If I do that in my home, what
do I do with God? I'd boast, wouldn't I? I chose, I did, I
read, I studied, I agreed, I did something. It can't be. It must
be all of Him. For we are His workmanship. That's the whole of it. Created
in Christ Jesus unto good works which God hath foreordained that
we should walk in them. How are we going to walk? We're
going to walk in good works. The Lord gives poor, dead, wretched
sinners life with that incorruptible seed of Christ and then in His
infinite grace, His infinite mercy, He gives faith to trust
Him, to love Him, to walk with Him. And that walking is good
works. Walking in righteousness. That's
what we looked at all through 1 John. He that doeth righteousness. What is that? Believing on God
and loving our brethren. Loving Christ in them. That's
loving Him. The closest thing we have to Him on this earth
is Him dwelling in our brethren. We cling to Him, don't we? He
gave life, He gave faith, and He gives repentance too. Enoch
walked in humility. He walked in humility. He declared
the Word of God. Not what His words were, not
what He thought, not His perception, His take on it, what good sense
makes, what He perceived. He gave what God said, what God
taught Him. God taught Him something too.
He taught Him He was in need of saving. He taught Him who
the Savior was and that He's coming. He's coming. That's what
He prophesied. Turn over to Jude. If you get
to Revelation, turn to the left one page, you'll be right there
at Jude. Jude, just one chapter, and we'll
be looking at verse 14. Jude 14. And Enoch also. The seventh from Adam. You think it's important that
that's there? What does seven mean in the scriptures? Completion.
Completion. Enoch was completely from Adam. Totally. I'm 100% Adam. Adam fell in the garden. I fell
in him. I fell in the garden. That's 100% my DNA. That's all
of me. That was my spirit and my image
and everything else, my desires, was in Him. So this is who's
speaking. Enoch also, the seventh from
Adam. A dead dog sinner. Nothing good in him. Here's what
he said. He prophesied, saying of these, saying, Behold, the
Lord cometh with 10,000 of His saints. He told that wicked,
corrupt world he was in at that time, God's coming. to execute
judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them
of their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed,
and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken
against him." These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their
own lusts, walking after themselves, and their mouth speaks great
Swelling words. Oh, it sounds so good. Having
man's persons in admiration because of advantage. You know, it's
a two-edged sword that Enoch prophesied. That's condemnation. That's death to those that they
hear ungodly, ungodly, ungodly, ungodly, and they get upset about
it. Well, that ain't me. I'm not totally bad. There's
a little bit of good in me. That's death. That's savor of
death unto death, isn't it? God's coming and boy, He's going
to deal with sin. But to those with a broken and
contrite heart, those the Lord gave life to and gave faith to,
that's not bitter. It's not bitter, is it? I am
ungodly and the Lord's going to come. And it says in verse
15, to execute judgment upon all and to convince all that
are ungodly. Are you ungodly? meant all that are ungodly among
them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed
and of all their hard speeches with ungodly sinners have spoken
against him." That's all I was. What did the Lord say that the
Great Comforter is going to come and do? He's going to convict
of sin. That's the first thing He's going
to do. This sounds so bad, Kevin. That's
wonderful. If you believe that He is, The
Lord's gave you faith and life. That's good news. God's going
to convict us of sin because then He's going to convict us
of righteousness. Christ our righteousness. And then He's
going to convict us of judgment. That it's all done. Ever been. And we'll never see death. We'll
be translated. Death can't touch us. Sin won't
touch us. The law can't touch us. Christ
saved His people. Where did He not walk? That's
who walked with Him. That's how He walked. Where did
He walk with God? He walked in this wicked world.
He was in this world. Everything was bad going on around
him. And he didn't say, well, I'll worry about the Lord later.
I'll walk with Him later. I've got to take this path, this
trail over here, and I'm going to fix some things on this earth.
He walked in this world. He walked. Leave it alone. We
have to live in this world. You've got to go buy groceries.
You've got to pay electric bills. We have children to raise, things
to do. Do it as unto the Lord and leave
the rest of it alone. Don't go chasing them rabbits.
You're going to end up in a hole. Leave it be. Enoch walked in
this world. He walked in his community. All
those people around him. Everyone in his village or town
or whatever he was in. And you know what? They knew
he walked with God. It was evident. Not by the clean
living, not by the works, but because when trials came. When
hard times come, when that rain and snow came and the sun was
beating on him and everything else, he got down, he got sidetracked,
he took deep breaths, he got weary. But he said, this is the
Lord, the Lord sent it. And that makes me just fine.
That makes it right. Whatever it is. Well, that was
horrible. I cried, I wept, but God sent
it. And I said, something's different
about that person. They don't have a fear. It's like they got
an inheritance down the road. They ain't that worried. They
work hard. They do well. Something's different about them.
That's what the community says. I've had people throughout my
life tell me, and it was brutal honest. It was honest. They said
if I was going to believe in a God, I'd believe in your God.
They mean that as a compliment. I don't take it as a compliment.
That hurts my soul. People I love, people I care
for, You spoke right. Enoch walked with God in his
own home. What a great privilege that is to have believing parents.
Most people don't know about that. That's a great privilege.
It's also a great privilege to be a parent that believes and
has children with you. To speak to those children when
they come up and say, why we do this? Why we go to church? Why we have the Lord's table?
Why we sing these songs all the time? Tell them why. That's why
we have it. And he not walk with God in his
heart. You'd be all by yourself. If
I was up in Yosemite, by myself I could walk with Lord. It's
not just on certain days, on special times, it's allotted,
it's all the time. Just as blood flows through my
heart all the time that I'm alive, the Lord is with me always. It's
with His people always. A lot of times that blood's pumping,
I don't pay no attention. Normally, I've got to wait until
my heart's pumping hard before you notice it. While you're sleeping,
while you're awake. Paul said, for with the heart
man believeth unto righteousness. That's not just that outward
walk. Outward in words and in deeds and in good sayings, swelling
words. We believe in the heart when
nobody's looking. And he believed with other children
of God. How do you walk with believers? How do we walk together? We walk in fear, don't we? I
won't have you turn to these, I won't go too far over. In Acts
9.31 it says, Then had the churches rest throughout all Judea and
Galilee and Samaria, and were edified, and walking in the fear
of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, they were
multiplied. We come to Him, to worship Him
in fear and in trembling, And in so, knowing Him who He is,
coming to Him in fear and trembling, we're comforted by that. Because
of who He is. We believe Him who He is. And
we're multiplied. We walk in fear and we walk in
comfort. We also walk in truth. John said, I rejoice greatly
that I have found of thy children walking in truth as we have received
commandment from the Father. We walk in fear. We walk in truth.
We walk in love. And we walk in the light that
the Lord is pleased to give us, in the measure that He's given
us. John also said in 1 John 1.7, but if we walk in the light
as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another. And the blood of Christ Jesus
the Son cleanses us from all sin. What do we acknowledge when
we're walking together? God saved us. I didn't have nothing
to do with it. And you agree! That makes us
family, doesn't it? People have read books about
walking with God. They've watched videos about
walking with God. But they won't walk with the Lord. They won't
walk with His people. They won't sit underneath the
preaching of the gospel. They won't suffer with the prophets
that God sent in that day. My pastor said, those that won't
bear the scars of battle won't ever wear the crown of glory. They don't smell it. They don't
feel it. They don't do it. That's because they don't walk
with God. They like reading about it. They like talking about it. I like talking about Yosemite.
I got about halfway up that mountain. That was hard. That come at some
cost, didn't it? That hurts me. Hurts my feelings. What was that
walk like? David told us, he said, yea,
though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. Well,
that's not sashaying and dancing all the time and health and wealth,
is it? It's a valley of the shadow of
death. I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and
thy staff, they comfort me." He has His rod. Who can withstand
His rod and His staff? No one. Who is He walking with? His people. We have anything
to fear? Nope. Him. We honor Him. We respect
Him, don't we? Walk with Him in truth. Walk
with Him in light that He's given us. Paul talked to that in Romans
7, how hard that walk was. Because that old man is still
with us. We stray from that path. We struggle. We get tired. We
battle. It's a battle. It's a war going
on inside of somebody. But they walk with God. How far
do we walk with the Lord? Twice on Sunday and every Wednesday?
No, that's not it. His people walk with Him to the
end. They walk with Him to the end. I know a lot of people that
used to believe the gospel. There's a bunch of people that
used to preach the gospel. The Lord didn't keep them until the
end. That's not pride. That's not
me putting myself on a pedestal or you. You know that. That hurts. That's a painful weeping, isn't
it? Sorrow for those people. Paul
wrote to Timothy, he said, For I am now ready to be offered,
and the time of my departure is at hand. I'm close to the
end. I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course. The
walk that he had with the Lord, it was finished. I've kept the
faith. Henceforth there is laid up for
me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous
judge, shall give me in that day, and not only to me, but
unto all them that also love His appearing. How do we walk
with the Lord? We walk because He's given us
life. We walk by faith, not by sight. We walk in truth. And
we walk looking to Him. If the Lord gave us that, if
we knew for sure He's coming in an hour, would you go hide
in the hills and beg that they fall on you? I would say, wonderful! He's coming. It's going to be
wonderful. We love His appearing. The end
of this walk. What happens at the end of it?
I said there in Hebrews 11, Enoch was not. I would like to have that on
my headstone. He's not. He was here. His body was here. He's gone. That's the only thing we can
say about believers, people that walk with the Lord. To the end, in
faith, believing on Christ as their only hope. They're not
here. What happened? The Lord took
them. He translated them. He changed
them. Conformed them to the image of His Son. And now they don't
walk by faith. They walk by sight because they
see Him face to face as He is. They're in His presence. What
a fault we have. And it says He was not found.
They looked phrenic. He had family, didn't He? He
had children and friends. They went looking for Him. And
they didn't find Him. He was missed. When a believer
walks through this world with God, God walks with them. They're
one with Him. And the Lord takes them home.
And they're not. They're not here anymore. They're
with Him. We miss them. We miss them. But the children
of God are just not here. They're gone. They're with Him
now. We think on these things and we say, who gave that sinner
life? The Lord did. Who gave them faith to walk with
Him, to look to Him? The Lord gave that. Who gave
them repentance to turn from that themselves? The repentance
is the pilgrimage from the mind of the flesh to the mind of Christ.
Who gave that repentance? The Lord did. Who will keep me
walking with God to the end? Is it my stamina? I'm prone to
wander. I'm prone to leave the God I
love. He must keep me. And who receives all the praise?
Who receives all the honor? Who receives all the glory for
every bit of that sinner's salvation, every bit of that walk? He does.
He does. It's my prayer that we can wake
up every morning, not just two days a week. You wake up on a
Tuesday morning, good and early, and say, Lord, I want to walk
with you today. I want to be conscious of you. I want to bow
to you and be thankful for you. Rejoice in you. And whether it's
snowing, raining, sunny or cold, it doesn't matter. Keep me walking
with you. Keep me. And we'll praise Him for a moment.
Amen.