Turn to Genesis chapter 5. If you could take or have the
choice to take a long walk with someone of your choice, who would
it be? Who would you choose if you could
take a person that you know and just have just a long walk with
them, where you could just talk and fellowship? It tells us in Genesis chapter
5 verse 21, look, And Enoch lived sixty-five years
in Beget Methuselah. And Enoch walked with God. That to me is just a profound
statement. Enoch walked with God. It says over in verse 9 of chapter
6, Noah walked with God. And I read to you in Hebrews
that Enoch was not. He went out one day and didn't
come home. I don't know if they sent a search
party out for him or not. I thought about that. I wonder
if they sent a search party out for him. But they couldn't find
him. He never came home. And the reason
he never came home, in walking with God, he walked
right into glory. God took him. Would you like to have that on
your tombstone? That you walked with God, and
that you had this testimony, he or she pleased God. That statement just, that's had
my attention for weeks. This thought has had my attention
for weeks. I want, I want for myself, and
I want for you, now, in this life, to walk with God. I want us to walk with God. I don't want to just learn some
doctrine, although Christ is not without His doctrine. But
I want to walk with the one that doctrine is about. I want to know God. I want you to know God. I want
us together, whatever time the Lord gives us together, I want
us together to come more and more and more aware of God and knowing God. I want to know God now. I want
to know God in this life. I want to be aware of His presence. I thought of this, to walk with
God is to walk in the best company. The best company. Could you get
any better than that? to walk with God. Now, I'm going
to try to give this outline to you briefly, but here's the four
points I want to look at. Who walked with God? How did
he walk with God? Where did he walk with God? And
the end result of walking with God. Who walked with God? A man named Enoch. We don't know much about him,
Don't know much about him at all. I know this, he was the
seventh from Adam. He wasn't too far from the fall. We know this also in Hebrews
11, as I already mentioned, that he pleased God and that God took him. We know
over in the book of Jude that he prophesied of the coming of
Christ. with 10,000 of His saints to
execute judgment. We know He prophesied. But other
than that, we don't read of any great exploits like we do Abraham,
David, some of these other great patriarchs. We don't read much
about them at all. But this, if anything could ever
be said of my life and your life, it's not that we conquered this
or that, pleased God, and that we walked
with God. God was well pleased with us. I want to be able to do that.
You know, I think that's the only, I didn't really go studying
it, but I think the only other one that God said, this is my
son in whom I'm well pleased. In this way, Enoch is a type
of Christ. He pleased God. And so did the
Lord Jesus Christ. He pleased God. He walked, our
Lord walked in perfect faith, believing God. As a man, as a
man, he believed God. And as a man, he believed God
perfectly. His faith and his faithfulness
is our righteousness. That's our righteousness. Who
walked with God? A man named Enoch, a sinner. A sinner walked with God. Not
an angel, not Michael, not Gabriel, a sinner walked with God. Enoch was a man like you and
me. This gives me such encouragement. He was a man like you and me,
born in sin, shaped in iniquity. You can trace his ancestor right
back to Adam. His family tree is just seventh
from Adam. He goes right back to Adam. This
man needed salvation in the same way I needed. And God saved him
in the same way He saves every sinner, through the blood and
righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ, through faith in Christ. We'll see this here in just a
little bit. This ought to encourage every sinner here who has a real
desire to walk with God. Who was this man? He's a sinner named Enoch, and
he's a family man. It gives his family. He beget
Methuselah. A family man walked with God. Here is a man who walked with
God before his family. Do you know what a blessing it
is? Many of you do. To have parents. Or to be a parent. And believe
the Gospel. And to be able to set an example
before your family, walking with God. Walking with God. How blessed
to have parents who walk with God. This man set a good example before
his family in an ungodly, ungodly world. In an ungodly world, he
walked before his family with God. Now how did Enoch walk with God?
He walked with God. This man walked with God. A sinner
walked with God. A family man walked with God.
He walked with God by faith. He didn't walk by sight. He walked by faith. Enoch walked
by faith, not by sight. God's invisible. God's invisible. You can't see God with these
eyes. The Scripture says God is spirit.
God is not made up of parts. You and I are made up of body,
soul, and spirit. But God is not made up that way. God is one undivided person. God, it says, is light. He's
light. It says in the Scripture that
God is life. And then he walked with light, life, and that one
he walked with was Jesus Christ. Back there. Back there in Genesis
5. And he walked by faith. It's a spiritual walk. He believed
God. That's why he's written in Hebrews
11, they call it the Hall of Fame of Faith. It says, without faith it's impossible
to please God. Therefore, it says, and it says,
Enoch pleased God, and he was not, for God took him. So it's
evident, this man believed God. This man believed the gospel.
This man believed the same gospel you and I believe. Enoch walked in the light he
was given. And I tell you what, he had a
whole lot more light than we think, than we realize. Because he prophesied
of the Lord's coming. and bringing judgment. This man
walked by faith. He believed God. He believed
God concerning the sacrifice. He believed God concerning the
blood. He believed God concerning the seed of the woman that was
promised in the Garden of Eden. He believed God concerning his
son. He believed the gospel of substitution,
just like we believe. Same gospel. And Enoch walked with God by
faith, and he walked with God, listen, day by day, not on special
days. Day by day. That's what I was
saying to Ed this morning. I said, if we could just get
up every day, because every day is the Lord's day. If we could
just get up out of bed every day, recognizing our Lord first,
beginning our day with God first, I said, boy, that'd make the
day go by much better. Get our focus right in the morning
first. He walked with God day by day. Each day started and ended with
God. And then he walked with God in
humility. He knew his place. He knew his place. He knew he
was a sinner. You know, it says here, let me go back over here. It says in verse 21, and Enoch
lived 65 years, and after he was 65 years old, he began Methuselah. And Enoch walked with God after
he began Methuselah. I think those first 65 years,
Enoch walked with Enoch. Enoch was Enoch. He was a man,
he was a sinner just like us. But after he begat Bethuselah,
God had revealed Himself to him. And from that point on, for the
rest of his life, for the next 300 years, in that wicked generation,
he walked with God. He believed God and he walked
with God. And he walked with Him in humility. And then he walked with an abiding
awareness of who God is and who he was and his need of
a Savior. Let us never ever get past that. Let us never get past being a
sinner in need of mercy. No matter how long, no matter
how long we have believed the gospel, there's never a time
that I don't need mercy. There's never a time I don't
need grace. There's never a time I do not need cleansing. There's
never a time I do not need the Lord to save me. Never a time. I need the Lord to save me day
by day. I do. I do. He walked with God with an abiding
awareness of God, an abiding awareness of himself, and an
abiding awareness of his need of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now,
where did he walk with God? Was there a special place? Adam was kicked out of the garden.
That place was over with. But I tell you this, where did
he walk with God? He walked with God on this earth
where he lived. Where he lived. He walked with God in this world
of sin and wickedness. He walked with God. He walked with God in his home.
I have no doubt he led his family in worship. He walked with God
in his community. He didn't walk with this world
that says Enoch walked with God. But he did so in his community.
And I guarantee you, all those who knew Enoch, knew Enoch believed
the gospel. They knew Enoch believed God.
They knew something was different about that man, Enoch. He's not like the rest of that
generation. They knew something was different. And he walked with God in his
heart. In his heart. Son, keep thy heart. Out of it
are the issues of life. Brethren, God is worshiped God
is believed with the heart. With the heart, man believeth
unto righteousness. It was a real heart worship.
It was a real heart faith in God. It came from His heart. In His heart, He worshipped God. He worshipped God in spirit. and in truth. That's the only
way God can be worshipped, in spirit and truth. There is no
other way to worship God. God is not worshipped, it says,
with our hands. It says He takes no pleasure
in the legs of a man. It's the heart. It was real,
it was genuine, and it was from the heart. And the end result of walking
with God is this. It says over in Hebrews 11, he
was not, for God took him. God took him home. God took him
out of that wicked generation. God took him. The Scripture says there in Hebrews
11, he had this testimony, that he pleased God. He pleased God. The scripture
says there, he that comes to God must believe that he is,
not that he just exists, but that he is who he says he is. God is not who I imagined him
to be. God is who he is. And God revealed
himself to Enoch, and Enoch believed him. And he worshipped Him. Listen, he worshipped God as
God is. As God is. Everyone who believes
on the Lord Jesus Christ, someday, someday this will be written
of you. He was not. For God took Him. God took Him. Over the years, I have performed
several funerals of believers. And the one great comfort I have
in those funerals is that I was burying a body of clay, but that
person is with the Lord. That person's with the Lord. Everyone who believes on the
Lord Jesus Christ will someday be taken away. Christ
said, I go and prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare
a place for you, I'll come again and receive you to Myself. Now
let me close. All true faith is of God. It's
in Christ. True faith is to believe the
Gospel. It's to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. True faith
is to trust the Lord Jesus Christ for all you need. Every bit of
it. All you need. True faith is to forsake your
righteousness and trust His. Trust His. He is all my righteousness. And true faith continues to believe
God all the way to the end. All the way to the end. I want to walk with Him. I want
us to walk with God. And the amazing thing is, we
can. We can walk with God in Christ, day by day, and someday,
someday, you're going to come in here and say, you hear of
John? John's gone? The Lord took him. And I'm going
to say that, if I live long enough, about some of you. The Lord has come and taken him
or her to the place that He's prepared in God's presence. A
place of acceptance. Enoch walked with God. I hope
it can be said, and I want it to be said that John walked with
God, Doug walked with God, Judy, Peggy, all of you. You can put
your name there. Walked with God. Okay.