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What Is It To Walk With God?

Genesis 5:24
Fred Evans January, 1 2023 Video & Audio
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Fred Evans
Fred Evans January, 1 2023

In his sermon titled "What Is It To Walk With God?", Fred Evans addresses the theological topic of the believer's relationship with God, emphasizing the necessity of faith in Christ for true communion with Him. He uses the life of Enoch from Genesis 5:24 as a focal point, drawing parallels between Enoch’s faithful walk with God and the believer’s journey today. Evans underscores that walking with God is fundamentally predicated on being in agreement with God, which is impossible apart from the righteousness of Christ. He supports his arguments with various scripture passages, notably Romans 3:10, Ephesians 2:13, and Hebrews 11:5, highlighting that reconciliation and sanctification come solely through faith in Christ. The significance of this doctrine lies in its affirmation of justification by faith alone, a core tenet of Reformed theology, which asserts that true communion with God is only possible through the work of Christ, not through human merit or law-keeping.

Key Quotes

“You cannot merit the presence of God. If God's walking with you this morning, there's only one reason: His son, Jesus Christ.”

“To walk with God, you must be reconciled to God. You must be in agreement.”

“Walking with God by faith is the only means by which we can please Him.”

“If you want to walk closer to God, you should believe God in every circumstance and every providence.”

Sermon Transcript

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them. I would take your Bibles
now and turn with me to Genesis. Genesis chapter five. We'll look
at verse twenty four. Genesis chapter five and verse
twenty four, we begin in verse twenty one. And I entitled this message,
what is it to walk with God? What is it? to walk with God. What does that mean? Let's read
about this man, Enoch. Scripture says in verse 21, and
Enoch lived 60 and five years and begat Methuselah. And Enoch
walked with God after he begat Methuselah 300 years and begat
sons and daughters. And all the days of Enoch were
360 and five years. And Enoch walked with God. And he was not. For God took
him. Enoch walked with God. Here in
this passage we have the history of a man. This man Enoch, the
seventh generation from Adam. And the only man other than Elijah
to be translated to not see death scripture says and God took him
God translated he he was taken from this life without
dying we know that in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ when
he shall return scripture tells us that there will be some who
are alive some believers who are alive that will experience
this same thing they will be translated first Thessalonians
416 it says the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with
the shout the voice of the archangel with the trump of God and the
dead in Christ shall rise first those who have fallen into Death
those who believers who have died the scripture says when
Christ comes they will arise first In other words everybody's
going to see this it's not going to be secret They're going to
rise and their bodies are going to be instantly met with their
spirits and transform into a holy body and The scripture says then
we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with
them in the clouds to meet the Lord and so shall we ever be
with the Lord the end that's it that's it forever we shall
ever be with the Lord isn't that a blessed thought isn't that
a blessed thought that no matter if we fall into the ground and
die or we're here when Christ comes it does not matter we shall
all together be translated This this mortal must put on immortality. This corruptible body must put
on incorruption. We who are saved by the grace
of God, we are saved body, soul and spirit. You got that you're
the whole man is saved. The whole man is saved. So when
it dies, we have this hope of being raised again and reunited
with the spirit And this man, Enoch, he experienced his experience
before he was translated. That's what I really want to
talk about this morning. This translation was a wonderful thing,
and every believer is going to be have that same translation. But I want to talk about Enoch. Before his translation, this
man, if you read all of the other men, they live, you know, 900
years or, you know, this guy walked This guy lived three hundred
and sixty five years. And what was a testimony of God
for these three hundred sixty five years of this man? The scripture
says he walked with God, walked. With God, go to Jude. Now. Give you a little understanding
of this man, Jude gives us this. Enoch was a preacher. He was
a preacher. In Jude chapter one, verse 14. It tells us a little about this
man, he says, Enoch, also the seventh from Adam prophesied. Prophesied of these sayings he
preached, he declared what? Behold, the Lord cometh with
ten thousands of his saints. This is what he's going to do
to execute judgment upon all. To convince all that are ungodly
among them of all their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly
committed and of all their hard speeches, which ungodly sinners
have spoken against him, this man. What do you do? He preached to the coming of
the Lord Jesus Christ. Jude was talking about this this
coming of Christ. He's what he was speaking of.
He's talking about Christ. That was his message. And, you
know, he's saying, look, you know, he preached the same thing
I'm preaching. He preached the gospel of the
Messiah. Consider this, that he was just
the seventh generation of man. And yet he was doing the same
thing we're doing right now, preaching Him that is to come Where'd he learn this message?
Well, he learned this From Adam God had preached the gospel to
Adam and Eve didn't he he said the seed of the woman Shall crush
the head of the serpent. He preached the Lord is coming. The Savior is coming And all who look to him shall
be delivered And he preached this he's coming
with his saints. In other words, there are people
that he will make holy. These saints sanctified ones,
that's what the word means. He will come with all those he
had made holy that he has sanctified. All those he had set apart unto
himself. And you who believe on Christ,
we, too, are sanctified. We are sanctified. We are set
apart by the Father in election, sanctified by the blood of Jesus
Christ. As I read to you in Hebrews 10,
we are sanctified once for all. Once for all. We are made holy by his blood
and by the power of the spirit we have been sanctified. He has
given us a new and holy nature. by which we are now capable of
what believing on Christ second Thessalonians 2 13 we
are bound to give thanks always to God for you brethren be loved
to the Lord because God has from the beginning chosen you what
he choose you for to salvation and here's the means through
sanctification of the spirit and belief of the truth This
gospel message that we preach is essential. Is essential to
the salvation of all God's elect. What Enoch did was essential
to those saints in that day. He prophesied of Christ. He preached
of Christ. And so today, this gospel message
that we preach is essential. This is the means that God has
chosen. He chose it in Adam's day, chose
it in Enoch's day. And today he has chosen this
same means of calling his saints by preaching. The Lord Jesus
Christ, first Corinthians 121, where after that, the wisdom
of God, the world by wisdom, do not God, you're not going
to know God by wisdom, not by earthly wisdom. Not by earthly
philosophy or or vain religion. You're not going to know him
by that. How shall a man know God? It please God by the foolishness
of preaching to save them that believe. God is pleased to save
his people. Through the preaching of the
gospel. Scripture to his plane, whosoever shall call upon the
name of the Lord shall be saved. But how shall they call on him
and whom they have not heard? You can't call on Christ that
you don't know. This false religion is preaching
a Christ that's not the Christ. They're calling upon a Christ
that's not Christ. But how shall you know Christ? Except someone preach the gospel
to you. How shall they preach except
they be set? It is the means that God is pleased
to call his saints to experience all that his purpose all that
Christ has accomplished. And by the power of the Spirit
of God through the preaching of the gospel is this message
applied. And so we see Enoch was a preacher.
He was preaching the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's
the job of every pastor, every preacher to study and to preach
this gospel to you. But it's also the responsibility
of the church to witness of this gospel where they are. We're to preach this gospel,
this testimony, the same message that Enoch preached Christ. This
is a testimony of Enoch, he preached Christ and his generation, even
so As we as we begin this new year, let's think of this, that
we are here for this purpose. God has placed us where we are
so that we should witness of him. We should testify of him
now, but this morning, I want to spend the rest of my time
now talking about this idea of walking with God, walking with
God. It was said of Enoch, he walked
with God. Now what then is it to walk with
God? What does it mean? Now there
are many people today making resolutions. Resolutions, everybody
does it every year. Nothing wrong, you can make a
resolution, but we know this. And many of these resolutions
are just pipe dreams, they're just illusions. We we have hopes. People say, well, I'm just going
to be a better person. OK, what's that going to do?
That doesn't work. But most of these are physical,
but I know there's some some people today are making religious
resolutions. Religious resolution, and one
of them is this. I want to walk closer with God.
They say that you hear that I want to just walk closer with God.
I'm going to go through this year walking close. I want to
walk with Jesus. Now, this by no means is a bad
resolution, I just don't believe many people understand what it
means to walk with God. I know what they're most of the
people when they say they want to walk with God, they they just
want to feel spiritual. That's what they want. They want
a spiritual religious experience. They think walking with God is
is literally actually walking with God that God's walking right
here beside me. And I'm sure they have sincere
I'm sure they're sincere in their resolution. I could deny their
sincerity. The problem is they don't know
what it means when they say that. I don't know what it is or what
it takes to walk with God. To walk with God. They want to feel his presence
or maybe they they want to live more pleasing to God. And so
what do they do? What do you do to walk with God?
They they think that you got to stop doing something and start
doing something religious. But you got to start trying to
obey the law or start doing better or be a better person, and then
God will walk with you. But none of these things have
anything to do with walking with God. You can be the best person
that you can possibly be and still not walk with God. That
will never merit God walking with you. Now. I want to see this first about
walking with God. That in order to walk with God,
you must be in agreement. You must be in agreement, no
man can walk with God. unless they are in agreement. That's what it says in Amos chapter
3 and verse 3. Can two walk together except
they be agreed? You can't walk with God unless
you are in fellowship with Him. Now how can a man be in fellowship
with God? How can you be in agreement with
God? There's only one way. by faith
in Christ Jesus alone no man can walk with God apart from
believing on the Lord Jesus Christ you can't walk with God apart
from faith now when God created man create
him his image he made him perfect Adam was a perfect man and this
perfect man walked with God. He was in agreement with God.
He walked in righteousness and obedience and therefore they
walked together in agreement. A man agreed with this. God is
God. When Adam was created, he knew
this. God was God and he was not. walked as a creature of God,
that God, he knew this God was to be worshiped, honored, praised
in all things. And man was to be obedient. That's
what Adam knew. He knew he must be obedient to
God in order for these two to walk together. God and man walk together until
when? Until Adam sinned When man fell into sin and disobedience
he could no longer walk with God In Genesis 3 it tells us
this and Adam after they had sold those thick leaves together
thought everything was okay That's always a picture of religious
works in it people think they just sew these works together
and And they cover their nakedness before God. We're all right.
We're good. Until when? Until they heard
the voice of the Lord. Isn't that true of you and me?
I'm sure we thought we were all right. Until we heard his voice
and listen when they heard the voice of the Lord walking in
the garden. In the cool of the day. And Adam
and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God
among the trees of the garden. And the Lord God called unto
Adam and said unto him. There aren't that. Isn't that
amazing? God condescending to ask a question
like that, knowing where he was. Knowing what he had done. God
came to them. God came to walk with his creation. But what did Adam do? Adam ran. He hid. This is true of us. Because we
were all born in sin by our father, Adam. We love our sin and our
hearts and minds were at enmity against God. This is who we are
by nature. We cannot walk with God by nature. Why? Because the carnal mind
is enmity against God. It's not at enmity, it just is
enmity against God. Why? It's not subject to the
law of God, neither indeed can be. You try to whip this flesh
into shape and it only gets worse. Can't get better. If you're here
without Christ. There's a reason you don't love
the things of God. You that are lost, you don't
have anything, any. Desire for the things of God.
Because your carnal mind is enmity against God, you love the things
of this world. You love to have your own way
to please your flesh. Therefore, all who are lost cannot
walk with God. Cannot walk with God. In fact,
they run from God. Have you ever tried to witness
to someone and watch them squirm? They just man, they just want
to get out of the room as fast as they can. You talk about righteousness
and peace with God and justice and sanctity. They don't want
to hear it. This is our nature. This is how
we were. We did not want to hear the things
of God. They don't want to hear about
the blood and righteousness of Christ. If the spirit of God
does not work upon them. They'll do anything they can
to get out or change the subject. Why? Because they're not in agreement.
They're not in agreement with God. God demands righteousness. To be in agreement with God,
to walk with God, you and I must be as righteous as God. We must be as holy as God in
order to walk with him. God is just and holy, and he
cannot overlook sin. He cannot. Man by nature is unrighteous
and disobedient. He sees himself as a superior,
as a supreme ruler. That's what man sees himself
as. And he he demands that God be in agreement with him. Lost man, but lost man is not
without religion. Therefore, he believes he's able
to walk with God. He man by nature believes he's
able to walk with God by his own merits. You know, but what does God's
word say? I don't care what men think or their opinion. I talk
to me and I witness to me and I start out with this. I don't
want you to I don't want you to hear my opinion. My opinion
just as good as yours. It's really worthless. What does
God say? What does God say? Men say, well,
you know, if I just stop doing this, I start going to church
and I get baptized and I take the Lord, I can walk with God. What does God say about that?
Look at Romans chapter three. You know this very well. Romans chapter three. Verse 10,
as it is written. There is none righteous, no.
Not one. There's none that understand
it. There's none that seek it after God. They are all gone
out of the way. They are together become unprofitable. There is none that do it good.
No, not one. What's the conclusion of that?
You can't walk with God. That's a conclusion. You can't
walk with God by your obedience. Verse 20. Therefore, by the deeds
of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight, for by
the law is the knowledge of sin. What's the purpose of the law
is the purpose of the law so that you can walk with God? No. The purpose of the law is to
show you that you are not walking with God, that you are not in
agreement with God. The purpose of the law is that
every mouth should be stopped and the whole world become guilty
before God. When I read the law, all I can
see is my guilt. There's no hope of walking with
God by obedience to the law. Oh, that man would cease the
foolish notion that they can walk with God by their obedience
or merit. I tell you, this thought even
enters into the believer's mind. You know, we may have a patch
in our life where we're doing real good. You know, we may even
feel the presence of God. Our faith may be ever so strong. And this notion, well, you know,
obviously God's walking with me because I'm doing well. God's walking with me because
I'm doing good. You cannot merit this walk, friends. You cannot merit the presence
of God. We would cease from this foolish
notion that we can walk with God or somehow God is moved to
walk with us by our goodness or by our obedience. Listen,
if God's walking with you this morning, there's only one reason.
His son, Jesus Christ. That's the only reason God ever
walked with me. Only reason God would ever have
any communion at all with me is because of the merits of his
son. And listen. No man could ever
walk with God unless God give him a new heart. Man will continually try to merit
the favor of God by his obedience until God gives him a new heart. A new nature. That's what man
needs. Unless God acts upon the heart
of man, these two will never be in agreement. Unless we are as holy as God,
we can never walk with God. Listen what the psalmist said.
Who can ascend under the hill of the Lord? Who can walk with
God? Who shall stand in the holy place?
Listen, he that hath clean hands and a pure heart. All right, go ahead and raise
your hand if that's you. See, by our merits, we can never
do this. He that had clean hands and a pure heart with not lifted
up his soul to vanity nor sworn deceitfully. That man, he shall
receive the blessing of the Lord and righteousness from the God
of his salvation. You know, there's only one man
ever did that. Only one man had clean hands and a pure heart. His name. is Jesus. He is the Christ, the son of
the living God. He alone received the blessing
and salvation from the Lord. And this morning, do you long
to walk with God? In order to walk with God, then
you must be reconciled to God. You must be reconciled. You must
be in agreement. In Ephesians chapter two in verse
13, it says, But now in Christ, you who are sometimes a far off. Now, that's where we were. We
were far off from God. We are made nigh. How in the world were you who
were a far off now made nigh? By the blood. Of Christ. He is our peace. who hath made
both one and broken down the middle wall of partition, having
abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments
contained in ordinances, for to make in himself twain one
new man, so making peace, and that he might reconcile both
to God in one body by the cross. How can you walk with God only
by this? Jesus Christ has come and reconciled
us to God. Reconciled us by his one offering. He has reconciled us to God. Those of you who are far off,
I have a message of peace. I have a message of good news. You who are far off You can walk
with God. You can. I have a message of
peace. But listen, you must come on His terms. His terms. God will not and cannot come
to you and walk with you based on your terms. If you go to God on your terms,
you will never walk with God. Hope that God would reveal this
to you. God is the offended party. Man seems to think that he's
the offended party and somehow God's got to got to work. No,
God's the offended party. It's our sins that have separated
us from God. God, knowing this, that you and
I could not reconcile ourselves to him. Listen, he has made provisions
by which man could walk with him. God made provisions. You remember that that history
of Abraham and Isaac, when they went up to God told him go offer
your son your only son on Mount Moriah and he's taking Isaac
up there and Isaac looking around he said dad we got here's a fire
I got the knife right here and we got the wood where's the lamb
and what did Abraham say God shall provide himself a lamb
God shall provide himself a lamb This was pictured by Adam and
Eve. You know, they they were separated
from God. They hid from God. God came to
them and he preached the message of Christ coming. He said, The
seed of the woman shall crush the head of the serpent. The
seed of the woman will do away with sin so that we are reconciled. And then he gave him a picture.
You remember that picture? He sacrificed an animal to cover
their nakedness. What a picture of Christ that
was. It was God, it was God who came
to man and it was God who gave them a sacrifice. I long for God to come even in
this place and make God come to the lost. And quicken them
so that they might see Christ is the only covering for sin.
Christ is the only reconciliation for sin. I hope that God offer this that
allow you to see that God has provided a sacrifice. So when God comes to the center.
They see their sin is exposed. And they see the only provision
is. Christ, the only way they can
be in agreement with God. The only way they can have peace
with God is by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. This is the picture of what God
has done for the guilty. What God demands for payment
is death. And yet God's son has come and
offered himself a sacrifice for sin. This is the terms of God's reconciliation
is that his son offer himself a sacrifice for sins and be the
righteousness of God for all those who believe. listen to
this in Romans 3 I just read that to you that there's none
righteous no not one and not by the deeds of the law you're
gonna be justified listen to this in very next verse in 21
it says this but now the righteousness of God without the law without your obedience to the
law is clearly manifest witness by the law and the prophets Enoch
witnessed of this he testified of this even the righteousness
of God which is by the faith of Jesus Christ in order to walk
with God you have to be righteous how then is this righteousness
procured how is it made it is made by the faith of Christ that's
how righteousness is made he made righteousness by his obedience and then this righteous is unto
all and upon all them that believe. To walk with God, you must be
reconciled. To walk with God, you must be
in agreement. And this is the agreement. Believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ. Trust in Christ. You cannot heal to God based on your service
or your obedience you must come to God as a sinner you come to
him with no goodness at all you sue for mercy and by faith you
believe and the moment you believe listen this you are walking with
God to walk with God is to simply believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. You know, I'm in complete agreement
with God about myself. I am a sinner. I'm in complete agreement that
I cannot merit the righteousness of God. I'm also in agreement
to this. Jesus Christ is all my righteous. Jesus Christ is all my atonement. He is the only way I can walk
with God. And that's what Jesus said. He
said, I am the way. I am the truth. I am the life. No man comes to God. But. You see how that does away
with all False religion. All these so-called
mediators. If you want to walk with God,
don't come to me. I can't I can't help you walk with God. I'm not
a mediator. People come to me and say, pray,
pray for me as though I'm being a preacher, I can I have some
kind of higher access. No. You just said no man comes
to God, but by me, you can't walk with God, but by Christ,
the only way. The man comes to God by the only
way that God is prescribed. He then has fellowship with God. Now, we say we walk with God,
but we're still trusting in something, some other thing. And religion, they'll tell you
this, well, yeah, you have to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ,
they'll don't deny that. But then after you believe, what
do they do? They refer you back to some kind
of law, some kind of way to continue walking with God. Well, you believed
and that's how you start walking with God. But in order to continue,
you have to sanctify yourself. You have to obey the law. You
have to do this and stop doing that in order to walk with God. What are they doing? They're
saying this, that Christ is not enough. That's exactly what they're
saying. They're saying, well, you began.
That's good. You began walking with God by faith. But but now
you you got to do something more. Christ is just simply not enough. If a man says you walk with God
by faith and then starts trusting in his merits, listen, That man
has fallen from grace. I didn't say this, Paul said
it. Remember that church in Galatia? They believed in election. They
believed predestination. They believed in Christ's perfect
work. They believed in his offering
for sin. They trusted him and they said, oh, that's good, but
you need to be circumcised. You just need to obey this one
law right here. And then you can walk with God.
What Paul say about that? He said if you be circumcised,
Christ profits you how much? Not at all, nothing. So if you
say you begin by faith and end by works, listen. You are not
walking with God. You're not in agreement. You're
not in agreement. God said Christ is all. You say,
well, Christ is Christ Christ is a big portion, but I have
to know you're not in agreement. Christ will profit you nothing.
What Paul said. John says it like this in first
John one six, he said that we say we have fellowship with him
and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth. Listen, if you refer back, if
you if you say you walk, it's easy to say you walk with God
in it. You say that? Well, anybody can say that. But
listen, he said, and walk in darkness. What is this? If you
go back to the darkness of vain religion. I mean, I get it that, you know,
you can see you see people walking in darkness, you know, in the
world. They're not saying they walk
with God. They don't have any interest in what this is talking
about religious people. All that believe on Christ as
their only hope, we walk with God. But I'll tell you this, if you
go back to the merits of the law, listen, you never walk with
God to begin with. We walk with God and our agreement
to this. I'm in Christ because God put
me there. You believe that? I do. But of God are you in Christ
Jesus. You believe that? You do, you're
walking with God. I believe that. And God hath
made him, made unto us, made Christ unto us wisdom. Is he
your wisdom? Righteousness, is he your righteousness? Sanctification, is he your sanctification? I'm harping on this because I
mean, this is this is the religion of the world. Is it, you know,
well, Christ, my righteousness. But, you know, my sanctification,
I got to do that. You're not in agreement with God. I'm in agreement, Christ is my
sanctification. Just as much as he is my righteousness
and my wisdom and my redemption. We're in agreement. We believe on Christ. He is our
everything. We are walking with God, are
you walking with God this morning? Do you believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ? Is he all your salvation? Are you convinced that in yourself
dwells no good thing? is he all you desire and need
to stand before God if he is your reconciliation then my friend
listen you are right now walking with God just as Enoch did Enoch
walked with God how did Enoch walk with God well God doesn't
leave us to doubt I've been saying this he walked by faith go to
Hebrews chapter 10 Hebrews chapter 10 quickly Hebrews chapter 10 look at verse
38 what does it say now the just shall live how by faith but if any man draw back what
is he talking about drawing back drawing back to what if you draw
back from faith my soul shall have no pleasure in him. One professes to believe on Christ
and draws back to the law or merits. What has he done? He
just proved this, that he never walked with God to begin with.
Why? Because those who are justified,
we live by faith. This is how Enoch walked 300
years. Isn't it something 300 years? Joanne, I don't mean to pick
on you, but you're probably the oldest one here. You were just
a baby compared to what? 300 years. What you got? What? 220 more years to go. 300 years. How did he walk with
God by faith? That's how we all walk with God.
you believe God this morning you're walking with God by faith
in chapter 11 even Paul tells us this in the example of Enoch
11 5 Hebrews 11 5 he said by faith Enoch was translated that
he should not taste death and was not found because God translated
him for before his translation listen before he was translated
listen he had this testimony he pleased God. How could a sinner like Enoch,
because he was a sinner, just like you, how did he please God? Verse six, for without faith,
it is impossible to please God. You can't walk with God except
you believe on Christ. Now, Enoch had no faith in his
faith. It astounds me people have faith in their faith. How
much faith do you have in your faith? What? I have no faith in my faith.
My faith fluctuates moment by moment. But I have no fluctuation
in the object of my faith. Faith has an object. And Christ
is the object of our faith. You know, walk with God by faith. This is the only way we are pleasing
to God. Now, then, I want to. I want
to close with this. You may ask this, how can I walk
closer with God? Only if God gives us more faith.
That's it. We began this walk by faith and
listen, we're going to continue this walk by faith. Listen, if
you want to walk closer to God, we should believe God in every
circumstance and every providence. We should believe God in every
circumstance and every providence. Listen, what Paul says. He said,
without faith, it's impossible to please him, for he that cometh
to God must believe he is and the rewarder of them that diligently
seek him. So as we walk with him, we not
only trust that he is God manifest in the flesh, we we know this,
we trust he is seated on the throne of God. to believe Christ
is to believe he is sovereign and the ruler over all things Hebrews 12 Paul said look we're
compassed about by these witnesses Enoch was a witness wasn't he
he's a testimony to us We're cumbered about with these witnesses,
a great cloud of witnesses. Let us lay aside every weight
and the sin that easily besets us. Let us run with patience
the race set before us. How are we to run? Looking unto
Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. That's how we're
running this race. That's how we continually walk
with God and walk closer with God is continually believing
and looking to Christ. The more you look to Christ,
The closer you feel toward God, that's what you really want in
it. You can't get any closer to God than you already are.
You're in union with Christ. But I know this as we go through
this life, we desire to have that presence of God. We desire
to feel his presence. The only way you can have that
is by looking onto Jesus, who is what? The author. Who's the author of your salvation? He's the author of it. But in the middle of this life,
we come into trials and difficulties and trouble, griefs, sorrows,
hate. How do we endure these things? By looking unto him who is not
only author, but the finisher. I'm so glad that Christ is all. I'm so glad that my walk with
God is not contingent upon my merits to walk with God. But my walk with God is contingent
upon his success His victory, His blood, His righteousness. And so in every providence, in
every circumstance, I believe this, that all things work together
for my good. They don't feel good. But they are working together
for my good. How can I how can I endure? Looking
on the Jesus. The author and finisher. Of my salvation. So if we walk
with God in the dark times of Providence. Let us continually
look unto Christ. I like that he looked to the
Lamb of God. Are you weary? Does the way seem
long? Look to the Lamb of God in joy
or sorrow, Christ is all in all. Look to the Lamb of God. And I'll tell you this, like
Enoch, we walk with God by faith. And we also look for a day that
we, too, are going to be translated like him. There's coming a day. There's coming a day and it is
fast approaching when we will forever live in the presence
of God. We will literally walk with God. Isn't that something? Right now, we walk by faith,
not by sight, not by feeling. We walk by faith. The just will
live by faith. That's how we walk with God.
You long to walk with God, but believe in his son. Rest in his
son. And you, my friends, are walking
with God. You're in agreement. You in agreement? I always take God's side against
myself. That's walking with God. I pray God will help you. Let's stand and be dismissed
in prayer. Our gracious Father, thank you
for this time. I do ask for mercy. I pray for
these. I pray that you'd pour out your
spirit on them. Father, You would cause every
heart to look to Christ, to flee to Him. And all who do,
we understand this, that we are like Enoch walking with You. I pray, Father, that You'd bless
us and keep us, bring us again to this place. In Jesus' name,
amen.
Fred Evans
About Fred Evans
Fred Evans is Pastor of Redeemer's Grace Church. Redeemer's Grace Church meets for worship at 6:30PM ET on Wednesdays and 11 AM ET on Sundays at 4702 Greenleaf Road in Sellersburg, IN. USA. To learn more or to connect with us, please visit our website at https://RedeemersGrace.com, or our Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/redeemersgracechurch. Pastor Evans may be contacted through our website and also by mail at: Redeemer's Grace Church, PO Box 57, Sellersburg, IN 47172-0057

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