Seeking for the help of the Lord,
I direct your prayer for attention to Genesis chapter 5, and reading
for our text, verse 24. And Enoch walked with God, and
he was not, for God took him. We're told this twice concerning
Enoch. In verse 22 we read, And Enoch
walked with God. And then it is restated again,
and Enoch stands out in this long genealogy. After every one that had gone
before and after him, We read these words, and he died. But with Enoch, we do not read
that. Apart from Enoch and Elijah, all mankind will die, except,
we would say, for those when the Lord returns, they shall
be like Enoch. Paul says in his writing to the
Thessalonian church, that when the Lord returns, then the dead
in Christ shall rise first, and that we which are alive and remain
shall be caught up with them in the air. We shall be changed. So it is the same change, body
and soul at the same time. Whereas for most of mankind,
The body is laid in the tomb, the soul returns to God that
gave it, and to await that great resurrection morn, when the Lord
shall return, and then the body and soul reunited. And yet, in a way that we cannot
fathom here, because for us that believe here, we have a constant
opposition in our bodies. The flesh, the Apostle Paul,
he says, if I do that which I would not, there's no more I that do
it, but sin that dwelleth in me. We have a body of death,
and yet that resurrected body to actually be in possession
of the same substance body, and yet there be no conflict within,
we cannot cannot really enter into that here, because we are
used to that all the time, that drags us back to sin, that wants
to sin, that loves this world, that goes with the things of
this world all the time. But here with Enoch we have a
little time, the same with Elijah, what it shall be at that last
great day. But it is not so much the fact
how God took him, that is upon my spirit this evening. It is the fact that Enoch walked
with God. We read in Hebrews also of Enoch
and the way it's set before us there is by faith Enoch was translated
that he should not see death and was not found because God
had translated him. For before his translation he
had this testimony, that he pleased God. So in Genesis we are told
that he walked with God, in Hebrews we are told that he pleased God. And it is that walking with God,
pleasing God, that I desire to speak of this evening. It will be a challenging word,
I hope we can echo the words of our first hymn, which was
really a prayer that we might walk closer with God. We're in
Calvus hymn 95804, a closer walk with God, a calm and heavenly
frame, a light to shine upon the road that leads me to the
Lamb. and may it be a desire that we
do walk with God. We have his presence with us
here below. So I want to look at two main heads. Firstly, what a walk with God
is, and then secondly, how walking with God is evidenced. It may be that which directs
us as to how we should walk, but also it may be to those who
fear they're not the Lord's, who cannot see the mark of being
the Lord's, you might see some of these marks of walking with
God that the Lord has actually walked with you and you are walking
with God. We know that no one here below
will walk with God perfectly as a saint without sinning. David
was a man after God's own heart but he still sinned, he still
did those things that were wrong. But Enoch here, he wasn't perfect,
he was a sinner as well and we should remember that. We mentioned
Elijah who's passing from this world similar to Enoch, and we're
told by James that he was a man of like passions as we are. And we need to be reminded of
that. When we read of the apostles,
we read of the Lord's people gone before us, they were the
same as us. They had fears and needs. They
weren't any different than what we were. The only difference
was, as Apostle Paul says, what I am, I am by the grace of God. That is what makes the difference. So I want to look then at our
first head, what a walk with God is, and this is more in a
general and overall way. The first thing I'd say, it is
an intentional walk. Joshua said, as for me and my
house, we will serve the Lord. It was an intentional thing. Now, there are many things in
our lives we might say, oh, I wish I was this, or I wish this could
happen, or that could happen. But unless we actually intentionally
do something, unless we desire to walk in that way, then it
won't be done. walk with God, the person that
is walking with God, that is what they want to do. That is
their intention. With the grace of God and help
of God, just like Joshua, that is their resolve. There are many
things in our lives that we know if we didn't actually intend
to do it, walk in that way, it wouldn't be done. We're not to
think that the things of God We just drift along, and it just
happens with no prayer like our first step, no desire, no seeking,
no intention. No, if we desire to walk with
God, then there's be a looking at our lives, how we spend our
time, what we do with our time, and various other headings that
we look at tonight. and is actually considering and
thinking, what is my intention? Do I really want to walk with
the world or walk after the world? Or do I want to walk after the
things of God? Do I want to walk with God? Now, that is not supposing that
we have power, say, oh, I'm going to walk with God, and then we're
able to do it and we do it. that which is given is of God. But these things are set before
us so that we do walk with a purpose. Remember the Apostle Paul running
the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, striving
to enter in the straight gate. The words that are used in scripture
are words of those that are are fighting, as it were, fighting
the good fight of faith, or is not beating the air, as the apostle
said, concerning his corruptions and his own heart, not as one
that beateth the air, but one that really fights. It's no use
if we have an enemy, an opposition coming against us, and we just,
instead of landing blows on them, we're just punching the air.
That's easy to do. but to actually land it where
it hits the enemy. And so with a walk with God as
well, it needs to be that intentional walk. The second is a walking
in agreement. In Amos chapter 3 verse 3, can
two walk together except they be agreed? there is to be an
agreement with God, agreement with His Word, not, as it were,
pulling the Word of God apart. You know, over the years there's
been many that have lower criticism, higher criticism, undermining
the Word of God. Instead of the Word of God being
uppermost, instead of that being what is our worldview, Cut it
about. Well, if we are to walk with
God, then we're walking in agreement with Him, with the Word of God. The next I would say is a close
walk in fellowship. The Lord says of those that are
heavy and weary, heavy laden, take my yoke upon you and learn
of me. That's a very close walk. if
we are yoked together with the Lord or bound together with Him,
walking together. Now it's said with Elisha that
he was ploughing with the oxen and he with the twelve. And the
oxen of course, they're yoked together. And if we are walking
with the Lord, it is in fellowship with the Lord and also with His
people. John in his epistles, his first
epistle as he opens that, he says this, that which we have
seen and heard declare we unto you that ye also may have fellowship
with us and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his
Son, Jesus Christ. And he writes that these things
that your joy might be full. The reason why I bring these
three points under this first point is that it is not just
following rules, it's not just following doctrines, it's a personal
acquaintance and a loving walk together. You know, Elijah and
Elisha before Elijah was taken, we read that they walked together,
and every place that they came, there was the sons of the prophets,
and all of the way, they walked together. And then at the last,
there came the chariot of fire, horses of fire, separated between
them, and Elijah was taken up. Those two on the way to Emmaus,
they walked together, Jesus himself, Through Nia, they went with them,
he went with them. And it is a real loving relationship,
like Ruth and Naomi, her mother-in-law. They walked together and there
was a real love and bond that was between them. Thy people
shall be my people, thy God, my God. That is a close walk. And we see these times his illustrations
in the Word. We think of it with David and
Jonathan, a real love in their tribulations, in their trials. They walked, they were together,
they were knit together. And this is the idea what I want
to convey in this walking with God. He is known by his people
and Our Lord said that they might know Thee, the only true God,
and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent. So if we have an intentional
walk with God, walking in agreement with His Word and with fellowship,
then how is that evidenced? How would it actually be seen? So I want to Look then with our
second point, with splitting this up again into three headings. The first is our spirit and frame
of mind, and the second is our spiritual life, and the third
is our outward walk. And I believe that walking with
God Enoch did, it will be covered by those three headings. So our spirit and frame of mind. Humility, meekness. Paul, when he writes to the Philippians,
he said, let this mind be in you, which was in Christ Jesus. that he made himself of no reputation,
took upon him the form of a servant, was obedient unto death, even
the death of the cross. And he set before us the example
of the Lord. Well, it is the Lord that it
is said here, walking with the Lord. This is how the Lord was. And we say it about taking the
yoke of the Lord upon us, learn of me. Remember the disciples,
when the Lord's face was set to go to Jerusalem, and they
were with Him, the Samaritans wouldn't receive Him. So they said, shall we call down
fire from heaven and consume them like Elijah did? And the
Lord said, you know not what spirit ye are of. There was the
dear disciples, and they had a different spirit to the Lord.
The Lord said, the Son of Man is not come, to destroy men's
lives, but to save them. And we think of Moses, a Moses
that was meek above all men, and meekness is not weakness.
Meekness is being humble when one could be exercising authority
and power. Moses had that power, he had
that authority, but he chose not to exercise it. He walked
in a humble way, and the way he exercised it was in a humble
way. Really our authority is not in
ourselves, it is in the Lord, it is in the Word of God. And so the Lord reproving those
dear disciples as they were walking with him, literally, they were
drinking into his spirit, they were learning what was his will
and how he would act in that situation. and it had to do with
the spirit that they had. Now you think of an opposite
spirit like they had, a harsh spirit, a critical spirit, a
very different spirit. You think of the ten spies that came back from Canaan
they had, What was said was Caleb and Joshua had a different spirit. The other spirit was the Lord
couldn't overcome. He couldn't bring them in. They
were against the Lord. But the spirit that Caleb and
Joshua had was that the Lord was able to bring them in. And
what is highlighted is the spirit that they had. Then there is love, a spirit
of love. The Lord Jesus Christ, having
loved his own, loved them unto the end, the very token of being
a child of God. We know that we have passed from
death unto life in that we love the brethren, the two tables
of the law, towards God, towards man. And love is the greatest
of commandments, And it is in that spirit that is evidence
of walk with God, a love to Him and a love to His people. Then there's consistency. It's
one thing to be right for a moment and then change. It's another thing to be consistent,
day by day, hour by hour, a consistent walk with the Lord. That is a
vital thing. If we're walking with someone,
you know the Apostle Paul got greatly wounded when Mark left
him. He got even more wounded when
Demas had forsaken me and gone back to the world. The Lord with
his ancient people Israel. There were times as a nation
they walked with the Lord. But then they changed, they had
another judge, another ruler, a judge died, and then they forsook
the Lord and they started going off with idols and other things. You don't see through the history
of Israel a consistency right through their history. You do
when you look at those that are like Nehemiah or Hezekiah or
Josiah, And we see those that the Lord had called and their
lives were consistently towards the Lord. They didn't change,
didn't deviate from that. And so if we're to walk with
the Lord, may our prayer be, Lord, make me consistent. Instead
of aiming and thinking, well, I want to do this or that, it's
better to walk in a little, as it were, but consistently, day
by day, continuing. Continue thou. And closely aligned
to that is endurance. You're told regarding Job, you've
heard of the patience of Job, or margin, it would be endurance
of Job. Through those tribulations and
through that which he was going, he continued on with the Lord. And that is a vital thing for
us, to have that spirit of endurance. If we're to walk with the Lord,
it's not just one mile or two miles. It's our life. It's from the time the Lord begins
with us, or with Enoch here, endure it until the Lord took
him, or for us, until the Lord takes us home. I used to think when we were
at school and used to do the long distance runs, some who
didn't aim at the endurance, they would sprint off, fast as
fast, you'd see them disappear into the distance, and after
a while, me plodding along, I'd catch up with them, sitting on
the side, puffing, and they couldn't, they'd done a sprint, they weren't
going for the three miles. And we, it's the endurance, it
was just a long, term. To be spiritually minded. The
Apostle Paul in Romans 8 is very emphatic upon this. To be spiritually
minded is life and peace. To be carnally minded is death. The carnal mind is enmity against
God. If ye through the Spirit do mortify
the deeds of the body, ye shall live. But if we go after the
Spirit, then that is what mortifies the deeds of the body. And so
a right spirit is spiritually minded. That is, our thoughts
are upon the Word of God. The Word of God is dwelling in
us. We're thinking of spiritual things
instead of the lust of the flesh, desires of the heart. Instead of the world filling
us and leaving no room for the things of God at all, The things
of God are very close with us and very suddenly we can be in
the Spirit. We get into trials, get into
troubles, and immediately we have the Lord with us and to
come before Him in prayer. If we are like Enoch and walking
with the Lord, our spirit is to be spiritually minded, not
calmly minded. And then there will be a tenderness.
It's a blessed thing to have a tender conscience, a teachable
spirit, one that is soon aware when sin is starting to enter. The Lord deliver us from a seared
conscience or that still small voice that ceases to speak and
to bear witness. We're walking with the Lord.
Pray that the Lord would give us a tender conscience and keep
it tender and to have a teachable spirit. One of the first blessings
and marks that we might have as walking with the Lord is that
simple prayer, Lord teach me about thee. As if it were we
were drawing near to this person to walk with and didn't know
how to walk with them, didn't know what to do, what was expected,
what was the right way. but you are teachable. And you
said, I don't know, but teach me, show me, instruct me. And
we have the beautiful promises. I will instruct thee and teach
thee in the way which thou shalt go. I'll guide thee with mine
eye. And I hope there are some of
you here that know what it is to have a tender conscience and
tender spirit and also be made teachable. You want to learn. You want to be taught. You remember
that promise of God. They shall all be taught of God.
Great shall be the peace of thy children. As we said about in
the beginning, we don't automatically walk with God. We don't automatically know what
is right. But it is the Lord that will
teach his people. And may we have that teachable
spirit. Another thing, again under the
heading of a spirit and frame of mind, is to have the fear
of the Lord. We're told the fear of the Lord
is the beginning of wisdom. It regulates everything that
we do, that we think, thou God seest me. And the Lord uses several
ways to teach us that fear. We think of David, we mention
it many times when bringing up the ark with joy, with gladness,
and Uzzah put forth his hand and took the cart that was being
shaken by the oxen, steadied it. And the Lord slew him. They
were not doing it after the due order. He was not walking according
to the commandments and what had been set forth as how that
the ark should be carried on the shoulders of the Levites.
And so the Lord marked it. And David feared to bring the
ark to Jerusalem. He sent it to the house of Obed-Edom. that the Lord blessed that house.
And when he saw that the Lord blessed it, then he brought up
the ark again. He said to the Levites, see that
you do it after the due order. We didn't do it at the first.
And that fear of the Lord, it regulated what he did. And we have the same in the New
Testament with Ananias and Sapphira. The Lord is a sovereign God.
There must have been many that thought If Ananias and Sapphira
were struck dead for lying to the Holy Ghost, what's God going
to do with Saul of Tarsus who is hailing men and women to prison?
And what God did with him was convert him. The sovereignty
of God, mercy for one, not mercy for another, stops us from just
presuming. But if we are to walk with the
Lord, it won't be as solemnly as it is in some assemblies a
familiarity, a looseness, a carelessness. No, God is greatly to be feared
in the assembly of the saints, to be had in reverence of all
them that are about him. We might picture sometimes with
two walking together and they are equal in that way. But when
a child of God is walking with the Lord, they are mindful who
he is. Always there will be that reverence.
analogy of the child-like filial fear. Because a child walking
with the parent, while they're obedient, while they're walking
in esteeming that parent, then maybe it's not evidence that
one is above the other. But if the child is irreverent,
if they disobey the parent, then immediately you realise that
there's a difference. A number of years ago, and sadly
I don't think it's like that in our colleges and schools now,
but when I was in my apprenticeship, and just after my apprenticeship,
so early 20s, the masters in that school, they were all called
Sir. You never called them by their first name. And there was
one chap, one of the students, and he was showing off to all
his mates. He knew this teacher's first
name, And so he just called out to him, and, G'day, Mike. And,
well, Mike happened to be an ex-Navy man. By the time he'd
finished with this chap, he was so small in front of all of his
mates. And I've never forgotten that,
because that teacher, he was really, in fact, in later years,
I sat side by side in the electronics class, and we were both being
taught the same as students. But that was years later. And
it was just an evidence of where the authority of one or the just
authority comes forth. And the Lord will do that. He
won't permit his people to be familiar to the extent that they
do not reverence the Lord or glory in his name or give him
the esteem that is due unto him. If we are walking with him, we
will have a very and we will not like any familiarity,
extra familiarity, or lightness, or careless. One dear brethren,
now in glory over in Australia, in our TBS meetings there, he
walked very close to the Lord and you could tell in prayer,
not because he was light or familiar, he was familiar. He called his
Heavenly Father, his Father, but the very tones evidence not
only a real, real closeness, the Lord knew him, he knew the
Lord, but also a profound reverence and esteem. And it is a blessed
thing to see it and to evidence that. And having the fear of
the Lord and esteeming him is especially in trials, tribulations
and troubles. It's a blessed thing to live
close to him. One of the hymns says, living
so near him, his secrets disown. And may we then pay heed unto
our spirit and think that this is a major point in walking with
the Lord. What spirit we are of? Do we
have the Lord's spirit? Do we have a gracious spirit?
Do we have a godly spirit? Or do we have a worldly spirit,
a carnal spirit? Our spirit will often tell us
where we stand. You know, David, after he had
sinned and he was fleeing away from Absalom, and Shimei was
casting dust and cursing by the way. Naboshai, he says, let me
go over and take off his head. Why should this dead dog curse
my lord the king? But David said, let him curse,
the Lord hath bidden him. It may be the Lord will requite
me good for his cursing this day. David was under the chastening
hand. The Lord had said, the sword
shall not depart from thy house, and that thy neighbor shall sleep
with thy wives under this sun. And he did, Absalom did. And
David knew this, and that affected how he walked. When we have a
sense of under the chastening hand of God, then it really evidenced
the difference between David's spirit and Abishai's spirit. You take Job and his wife. Curse
God and die, she says. But Job had said, the Lord gave,
and the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
And he says to her, shall we not receive good at the hand
of the Lord? And shall we not receive evil? And so under trials,
our spirit comes out. Sometimes we might think that
we've got a right spirit. And the Lord says, I'll show
you what kind of spirit you'll have. And he brings his trial
into our lives and up comes a spirit that we didn't know was there
at all. But it's in that way the Lord
sanctifies and cleanses his people. And we have to notice the Lord's
teaching in this way. Has the Lord brought us into
things and we've been shocked at what spirit we've evidenced?
The Lord has done it for a purpose, and may we fall under it and
learn of it and make our prayers to suit what the Lord has shown
us within. Remember in Ezekiel, turn again,
son of man, thou shalt see greater abominations than these. And
it is to humble us, to bring us down low. We want to look
then at the spiritual life. What is our spiritual life? A
life of faith and prayer. Apostle says, the life that I
now live, I live by the faith of the Son of God. Not faith
in the Son of God, as the ESV would say, but by the faith of
the Son of God. The faith that God has given
us, we apply it to everything in our lives. We walk by faith
and not by sight. And that faith also based upon
the word of God. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet,
a light unto my path. The word of God, it sets our
course, it shows us the way that we are to go. When thou turnest
to the right hand, when thou turnest to the left, thou shalt
hear word behind thee. This is the way, walk ye in it. And that will evidence a walk
with the Lord as we walk with him. in his word. Also it will
be a path of prayer, a blessed thing to live a life of faith
and prayer. With the Apostle Paul, all as
he was, evidence right at the start, behold he prayeth. Those that walk with God, those
that are like Enoch, will be those that pray. That is our
link, that is our communion between the Lord and our soul. He hears
from us and we hear from Him also through prayer, but also
through the Word, where we may make our petitions and the Lord
answers through His Word. Going back to Romans 8, the Apostle
there speaks of those that are led by the Spirit. Now I'm not
saying that we need a Word for everything. We don't need a Word
for everything. Very often Providence will dictate
it, but led by the Spirit. Remember when the Apostle Paul,
on his missionary journey, he was trying to go, he wanted to
go to Asia, but no, he's forbidden to go there. He tried to go to
Bithynia, and the Spirit suffered him not. And then he had the
vision to go over into Macedonia. There'll be some times that something
will be seemingly right, the Word of God, There's an opening
in Providence. But our own spirit forbids us
to put pen to paper, to sign a thing, to do a thing. And if
we're tender and walking in the spirit, we'll take heed to that.
Don't push past our spirit to do something which the Lord is
putting in a still, small voice. Don't do that. Don't walk in
that way. It's a blessed thing then to
be led by the spirit, and not led by the flesh, not led by
pride, by lust, by men, but by the things of God, the way of
the Lord. That be our light, that be our
lamp, that be what we follow. The apostle Paul, he said, be
ye followers of me, as I also am of Jesus Christ. When our Lord speaks of himself
as the good shepherd, he puts forth his sheep, He goeth before
them. Of course, with the walking with
God, it's walking with Him, close walk. But the Lord always has
that connection between the way He went and the way His people
are to go. And so again, we are to expect
that there'll be those trials and tribulations in the way. Confession to God. If we're walking
with the Lord, again John 1, if we confess our sins, He is
faithful and just to forgive us our sins, to cleanse us from
all unrighteousness. Our spiritual life will greatly
show how close we are actually walking with the Lord. Closet
worship, when no eye can see us. If we were on a desert island
and no one is viewing us, we'd still worship. We still seek
the Lord, we still go after Him. Very often, those of us who've
known the Lord for years, our spiritual life can be really
measured by that. How much, not just time in the
closet, but real quality time, real delighting to be with the
Lord, delighting to hear from Him, to read the Word of God. is vital that's a walk with God. We are mindful of what is our
spiritual life. Are we exercised? The Lord chastens
every son whom he receiveth. And in Hebrews 12, he says, now
no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous but grievous.
Nevertheless, afterward, it yieldeth the peaceable fruits of righteousness
to them that are exercised thereby. We can't expect that we'll be
sinless, but the Lord will chasten those He walks with, and He will
bring them to be exercised, to go over it, to ponder it, ponder
the path of thy feet. I remember years ago, walking
in a path that was not right, I shouldn't go, and the Lord
dropped that word, ponder the path of thy feet, really made
me to think of what I was doing. and how I was walking at that
time. It's good to pay heed to the spirit, hearing his voice,
that still, small voice. My sheep, they hear my voice. So be mindful then, not only
of our spirit, what spirit we are of, but what our spiritual
life is. We would say this, those that
are dead in trespasses and sins have really no knowledge of that
spiritual life. There may be many in the world
that do have a very lovely spirit. They're not the Lord's people
at all, but they just are naturally lovely people. But when we come
to the spiritual life, The Lord says, I am come that they might
have life. I give unto them eternal life,
and that life will be evidenced. And so may we covet earnestly
those best gifts and the blessing of spiritual blessings and spiritual
life. But then our last point, outward
walk. What is seen by other people? What is our outward walk? If
we're walking with the Lord, that will be evidence as well.
A walk in obedience with the Word of God. There shouldn't
be any that should come to us and say to us, look, what you're
doing is contrary to this Word, to that Word. We should be able
to justify what we're doing, how we're walking, by the Word
of the Lord. And to seek to know and do His
will. I know we put on, when we're
having a special service, we put the sign up and we put God
willing underneath it. But I think there's many of us
perhaps in business that if we write an email to someone and
we're making plans ahead, we don't put God willing. We keep
that just for the church community. But really it should apply to
everything. And we should be seeking to know
His will in all things and for most parts. The will of the Lord
is revealed in his word, and by providence, and by the spirit
that he gives us. Attendance on public worship,
those that gather this evening, bless the thing, be found in
the house of God. Not just by duress, as I was
in my childhood, but because we want to be there, want to
hear, and want to be with the people of God. Let thy people
be my people, Say not the assembling of yourselves together. If we
are walking with God, that will be a part of Him. It's a really
sad thing, though there's a great blessing of having the internet
and the ministry going forth, that some feel they don't need
to gather together. They can just have a pastor the
other side of the world, or just hear the Word in that way. And
where they could worship together, they don't. Well, I hope that's
not the case with those that may hear this sermon. But for
those that are in nations, and we certainly know there are those
that listen to our services here, that do not have a faithful ministry
near them or place of worship at all near them, and for them
we are thankful that they have a ministry. But wherever it is
so, the people of God The apostles being let go, they went to their
own company. There's a desiring the company
of the people of God. Another evidence of walking with
God is how we speak. You know, I said with Peter when
he was denying the Lord that his speech betrayed him, so immediately
he tried to change his speech, ashamed of his speech. But may
we not be ashamed of how we speak. The world will notice We're not
using cursing. We're not speaking as they speak. There is a reverent, right way
of speaking to the honour and glory of God. Submission to God's
providences. It's hard sometimes, isn't it?
When things go wrong, easy to rise up against the Lord, shake
our fist at Him, and sometimes I solemnly have done it, but
then the Lord has reproved and corrected. But that would be
one evidence. If we're walking with the Lord,
we're not saying, Lord, I don't want that. I disagree with how
you've ordered that. I don't want that illness or
that path. And all the time, there's a conflict
between the two. No, it is a bit less thing where
we're brought at one with the Lord's will and submission to
what He is bringing upon us. We mention David in that, let
him curse, for the Lord hath bidden him. I'll just add one
extra one, and that is, as in James, where James speaks of
a practical faith. That we won't just say to someone
where we have power to give them food or clothing, go and be warmed
and fed and not give them the things that they need. It'll
be a practical And we think of our forefathers, Gadsby, Tip-Tap,
they were all known for that. They were renowned for helping
those that were in need, not just of the faith, but any they
came across. And if we walk with the Lord,
then we'll have that spirit, the spirit that evidences real
faith and acts upon it. So may we know something about
what it is to walk with the Lord. I know this word, it finds me
very short, it's a very challenging word, but may it be that which
we pray over, and is I, like Joshua, that this be our intention,
and something that we seek the Lord, that it might be so. Lord,
that I might walk with Thee. Lead me not to walk with the
world, but let me walk with Thee and Thy people. and be found
at last to be with thee and them in heaven above. May the Lord grant us to be like
Enoch who walked with God. Amen.