I try not to forget that this is
Wednesday night, and I try to remember what it's like to go
to work all day and come here. You put in a special effort to
get here. You're tired. Often times you don't necessarily
feel like coming here, but you do. I believe the Lord will bless
that. I was sitting in my chair today,
my easy chair. I came home about 1 or 1.30 and
I decided to do a little work around the house and I did. I got tired and sat in that chair
and I thought, I'd just like to sit here just right on through
the night, not get up again. I know how you feel. I'll try to remember that. And
I want to be that faithful servant the Lord spoke of that will give
His people meat and do seasonable meat for you to go on the rest
of the week. I know this is good. Genesis 5. Look at verse 21-24, 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. Now all the days of Enoch were
three hundred and sixty-five years, and Enoch walked with
God. And he was not. But God took
him. How does that make you feel when
you read that? Enoch walked with God. And he was not. And God took him. I'll tell you
how it makes me feel. It makes me want to walk with
God. I want to be like Enoch. I want
it to be said of me. walk with God, don't you? Well,
it is true of every believer. Every child of God walks with
God. That's a fact. A person is either in the broad
road that leads to destruction or in the narrow way that leads
to life, right? We either walk in the course
of this world or walking with the Lord. This is not something mysterious. It's not
something that we don't know and experience. Every believer
does walk with the Lord. Some, now here's the thing, some
maybe walk a little closer with the Lord than others. But like
Caleb, I love the story of Caleb. I don't know when the last time
you read about Caleb. It says Caleb, the Lord said
about him, he's followed me fully, wholly, completely all his day. Now isn't that something? That
makes me want to do that, doesn't it? Doesn't it, you? So this
is not something mysterious. This is not something that superior
believers do. All of God's people do. And it's
not something you don't know. Like Paul said, see, and you
know these things already. But I'm going to remind you what
it means, and very simply, for ease of remembrance. Who, what,
and where. Who was Enoch? What did he do? Or what does it mean to walk
with God? Where did he end up? Who was
Enoch? Now, who was he? Was he a superman? No. He's just a man. Enoch was a sinful man. You can't be a man and not be
a sinful man. Doesn't the Scripture say, there's
not a just man on the earth that doeth good and sinneth not? All
have sinned and come short. of the glory of God. Enoch was
a sinner like you and me. Don't think of him as being something
other than that. He's a sinner saved by grace. Look at verse 22. It says, Enoch
walked with God after he begat Methuselah 300 years. It seems
to imply that Enoch was 65 years old when he began to walk with
the Lord. What was he doing for 65 years? walk in according to
the course of this world. He didn't know God. He didn't
walk with God. But he was a child of wrath even
as others. But God. There was a time when
the Lord came to Enoch and revealed Himself to Enoch. Enoch was born
of God. Didn't our Lord say, You must
be born from above? You must be born. How? Well,
not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the Word
of God that liveth and abideth forever. Enoch believed God. And how does faith come? Faith
cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. Well, how
did he hear the Word of God? It doesn't say that God spoke
with him out loud, does it? It does not say that anywhere.
But Enoch believed God. How did he believe God? Well, someone told him the truth. Just like you and me. Just like
we heard the truth from someone. Someone told him the Word of
God. It might have been Adam. Adam
knew Enoch. You know that? Adam knew Enoch. I think Enoch was, let's say,
I left my math on my desk. But he knew Enoch. And actually,
he knew Lamech, Noah's father. So who told him? Adam, maybe? Did Adam tell him the story of
the fall? You know he did. Maybe Seth. Maybe Seth told him. And what
did he tell him? Enoch? God's holy. And we're sinners. And God will
by no means clear the guilty. Ain't it? To be with God, to
be accepted by God, you have to be holy. And none's holy. We're sinners. God should have
killed your great-great-great-great-grandmother and I, Eve. But He had mercy
on us. He told us about the woman's
seed. We saw Him take an innocent lamb and shed His blood and cover
us with the skin of that lamb and told us from then on not
to come to Him except through the blood. And He told us that
that represents the Messiah who is to come to substitute the
sinner. That Christ is going to come. You need Christ. You're a sinner. God is holy. And God will have mercy. God is merciful and God is gracious.
Through a substitute. Anna, son, you need a substitute. You need to be covered by the
blood of God's Messiah. You need to be robed in His righteousness. Yes, he did. Or Seth told him
that. Or Jared, his father. Somebody
told him that, didn't they? Somebody told us that. Faith
cometh by hearing. And hearing by the Word of God.
Enoch was a man. Enoch was a sinful man. Enoch
was born of God. Enoch was a man. He was not a
superman. He was flesh. He was a man of
like passions like you and me. He had the same thoughts. He had the same problems. He
had the same needs. He had the same interests. He
had the same fears. He had the same doubts and troubles. He's just a man. The difference
being, He had the troubles we have for 365 years. Now is God's grace sufficient? It is. Ask Enoch. 300 years he'll keep you. He
walks by faith for 300 years. How many responsibilities did
Enoch have? I did do the math on this. I
do remember this. It says he did have sons and
daughters. And if his wife was as fruitful
as other women back then, he could have had as many as 5,000
children and grandchildren, and daughters-in-laws, and their
wives and husbands and so forth. 5,000. You think you have responsibilities. How many children did he have
at home at any one time to provide for? I thought about this. How
many teenagers could he have had in the house at one time?
How many girls? How many bathrooms did he have?
None. How much food did he need to
provide? How many homes perhaps? Lived 300 and some years. Get
one built and he'd build one for this boy or that boy. How
many? How many horses did he need to
provide? Jobs? How long did he have to
work to provide for his family? You ever think about that? He
walked with God. Can you have many responsibilities
and walk with God? How many doubts and fears did
he have? The more children you have, the more possessions you
have, the more worries you have, don't you? We worry about our
children. That's not unbelief, that's love.
How many sick children did he have at any one time? How many
died? He walked with God. God's grace
was sufficient. Here's the point. One can live
in this world and walk with God. One can have possessions and
not be possessed by them. One can have material things
and not be materialistic. He had to have material things.
He had a large family. But one can have material things
and not be materialistic. Now, this message is not to magnify
Enoch or to exalt Enoch, but to magnify and exalt the grace
of God that will enable a man to live 300 years by faith with
many responsibilities and troubles and trials. multiplied a hundred
times over a house. Enoch walked with God. He walked
with God. He was a sinful man, a sinful
world. The world that Enoch lived in
was right before the flood. It was right before the flood.
It couldn't have gotten any worse. It did, but he didn't think so. We're going to look at that Sunday. Is our world more sinful than
the world that Enoch lived in? Is our world worse than the world
that Enoch lived in? No. Because the Lord destroyed
that world just a little while later. So here's the point. One can walk with God in a sinful
world. Alright? What did Enoch do? What did Enoch do? What does
it mean to walk with God? Now, again, it does not say what
Enoch's vocation was, does it? It does not tell us what he did
for a living. And I love that. It talks about
Cain. Cain and his sons and his posterity
were wicked people. And it tells all about them.
what their occupations were and how talented they were. And apparently
they had many possessions, cattlemen and so forth, doesn't it? It
tells all about them. But then it tells us about Seth that was
born and his son, and it says, then men began to call upon the
name of the Lord. And it gives us lineage, the
line of Seth, by the way, that's who our Lord came from. Seth. Judah came from that line. Noah. But those people called on the
name of the Lord. And you read it with me back
there, didn't you? How that it doesn't tell what they owned,
it doesn't tell what their jobs were, it doesn't tell anything
about that. It seems like that's completely
secondary, doesn't it? But it does say they called on
the name of the Lord. What did Enoch do? Well, he walked
with God. That was his vocation. Doesn't
it say that about it, believers? Walk worthy of the vocation wherein
you are called. Look over at chapter 6. Look
at verse 9. Noah. It says these are the generations
of Noah. Noah was a just man and perfect
or upright in his generation. And Noah walked with God. What
was Noah's occupation? Anybody? Heart builder. It doesn't say
what he did for a living. Here's what Paul said. Well,
I heard about this fellow one time. He was a plumber. Somebody
asked him, what do you do for a living? He said,
I'm a plumber to meet expenses, but Christ is my life. Paul said, for me to live is
Christ. What do you do, Enoch? I do a lot of jobs here and there,
but oh, that I might win Christ and be found in Him. Christ is
my life. For me to live is Christ. That's what I want it to be said
of me. Enoch walked with God. That was his occupation. That's
what he did. What is it to walk with God?
Go over to the book of Amos. I've always loved this, ever
since I first read it. Amos, the little old book of
Amos. And I didn't mark it. I'm going to have to find it. Amos chapter 3. Got it. Amos chapter 3. What does it
mean to walk with God? Well, it means to believe God.
Number one, it means to believe God. Look at Amos 3, verse 3. Commit this to memory. Put a
mark there or something. Amos 3, 3. Can two walk together
except they be agreed? It's to agree with God. What
does it mean to believe God? It doesn't say believe in God.
The devil. James said the devil believes
there's one God. That's not faith. I mean, that's
part of it, but that's not saving faith. Saving faith is to believe
God. To agree with God. That is, whatever
God says, you believe. Whatever God says about Himself,
you believe. Whatever God says about yourself,
you believe it. Whatever God says about salvation,
you believe it. You believe the truth. You believe
God. The whole truth. The whole counsel
of God. You believe Him. It says in Hebrews
11 when it speaks of Enoch, it says in Hebrews 11,
let me find it so I won't misquote it. It says Enoch was translated
that he should not see death. He was not found because God
had translated him. Before his translation, he had
this testimony that he pleased God. Without faith, it's impossible
to please Him. He that cometh to God must believe
that He is, and that He is the rewarder of them that diligently
seek Him. So he believed God. He believed God's Word. He believed
what God said. He believed God's Son. He believed God's Son. No man cometh
unto the Father but by me, Christ said. That means beginning with
Adam to Zerubbabel. No man comes unto God but by
Jesus Christ. They shall all be taught of God.
And every man that hath heard and learned of the Father does
what? Cometh unto me, Christ said. Say, did Enoch know Christ? Yes, he did. Adam did. That's who talked with Adam in
the garden. Enoch knew him. No man knoweth the Father save
the Son, whom the Son will reveal him. or the Father, and vice
versa. He knew the Lord Jesus Christ,
and he looked to Christ. Looking unto Jesus, let us run
the race, or walk, looking unto Him, author and finisher. To believe God is to believe
His Son. To walk with God is to walk with God, and not with
the world. Not with the world. Can two walk
together except to be agreed? And what the world says is exactly
the opposite of what God says. You cannot walk with the world
and walk with the Lord any more than you serve two masters. You
can't serve God and man. You can't walk with the world.
The world says here's the way. Walk therein. The Lord says that's
the broad road that leads to destruction. The Lord says, that's
the way that seems right unto man, but the end is death. Christ
says, here's the way, walk it. I am the way. You walk with me. If you walk with them, you'll
end up bad. That's bad company. He's good
company. You want to be with good company.
Walk with the Lord. Walk with Him. It's to walk with
Him and not with the world. There was a time when Enoch didn't
walk with God. He didn't even think about God,
did he? The natural man receives not the things of God, the foolishness
to it. The natural man doesn't give
God a thought. God's not in all his thoughts. The natural man
is running away from God, if you will, but God. In every one of his sons, he
draws, blessed is the man whom thou choosest and causest to
approach unto thee. Enoch walked with God. Who's
on the Lord's side? That's what Moses said. Who's
on the Lord's side? The majority of people are against
him. Who's on the Lord's side? Enoch
would have said, I am. I am. Enoch walked humbly before
the Lord. If you walk with God, you're
going to walk humbly. You're not going to walk in pride,
are you? Those that walk in pride, He's
able to abase. You don't walk with someone greater
than you and walk in pride, do you? It's to walk humbly before
the Lord. It's to walk in communion with
God. When you walk with someone, you're
generally talking to them, aren't you? Aren't you? Even if they're
people of few words, you're going to say something. But you walk
with Him. Tell me, do you talk with your
Lord? I ever believe you don't. It's
like breath. You talk with your Lord. You
walk with Him. He'll talk to you. He says, cast
your care upon Him. I care for you. When James said,
draw an eye unto God, He'll draw an eye unto you. How do we do
that? We do it in prayer. We talk to the Lord. We talk
to Him. Tell him everything. Tell him
everything. Does he talk to us? Absolutely. How? Not out loud. How does the
Lord talk to his people? How does the Lord talk to his
people? One way. What do you read in the Sunday?
The voice of the Lord. The voice of the Lord. This is
how he talked. You walk through his word. You walk with him.
Commune with Him through His Word. You talk to Him, He speaks
to you through His Word. He speaks to you through the
Word that you read. He speaks to you through the
preached Word. How many times you've told me or other men who
preach, you've said, that spoke to my heart. It wasn't me, it
was the Lord. It was not the words of men,
but the words of the Lord. You walk in communion with God. You don't walk with those you
don't enjoy. Scripture says that His right
hand are pleasures every morning. You walk with Him and enjoy these
things. To walk with the Lord is to walk
with those who walk with Him. Who was it that said, Come thou
with us and we'll do thee good? Abraham. Come thou with us, his
father-in-law, is that who it was? Come thou Moses, Jethro,
I forget which one of them. Come thou with us, we'll do thee
good. Where are you going? Walking with the Lord. We'll
go worship the Lord. Come with us to walk with those
that walk with God. How can light have fellowship
with darkness? It can't. It can't. It just can't. But
now, John said, truly our fellowship. is with the Father and with His
Son. Fellowship with those of like
faith. To walk with those who walk with
God. Enoch walked with Adam. Enoch walked with Seth. Enoch walked with Jared. Enoch
walked with, I don't know, whoever, sons that knew him. To walk with the Lord is to walk
by faith and not by sight. Enoch didn't see the Lord. It
doesn't say that the Lord appeared to him in a vision, does it?
It does not say that. He walked by faith, not by sight. He had to trust an unseen Lord,
just like us. He had to look to Him to provide
for his every need. He had to look to the Lord to
protect his large family and himself. He had to look to the
Lord to lead him, to guide him, to direct him, an unseen Lord,
the same Lord that you and I look to. He didn't see the Lord with
these eyes. No man hath. Well, you see Christ
by faith. And some did, but it doesn't
indicate that Enoch saw the Lord, or the Lord spoke out loud to
him, but he did walk by faith and not by sight. That's what
it means, to walk with the Lord. Did he stumble? Did he fall? Most of us are going to walk
with the Lord for 30 or 40 years at best. Three hundred years. How many stumbles, how many falls
have we taken? How many? When you begin walking,
when these children begin walking, they're falling all the time,
aren't they? Huh? And if you walk long enough,
you're going to fall. If you start running, you'll
fall. The older you get, you'll fall. Won't you? You'll fall. How many times did Eden fall?
How often did he stumble? He's a man, like us. But the
Lord said, though a righteous man falls seven times, I'll raise
him up. Three hundred years, three hundred
years, he walked by faith. Is faith real? Is grace real? Is our Lord real? Absolutely.
Absolutely. And so much said of this walk
with God, so much is said. There are just too many Scriptures.
I wanted you to turn to some, but I'm not going to have you.
But it says to walk before the Lord. He said to Abraham, he
came and appeared to Abraham, and he said, Abraham, walk before
me. What does that mean? It means be transparent. Be conscious of me. Don't put
on anything. Walk. I see you. Walk before
me. Be transparent. Don't try to
put on anything. I know you better than you know
yourself. Walk humbly before me. Walk conscious of me. Walk
humbly before the Lord. Scripture says walk in love.
Walk in love. The Lord is not going to walk
with a rebellious or a moody child any more than we will.
You turn His face on. Walk in love. Walk in light,
as He is in the light. Walk in darkness. That's what
it means to walk before the Lord and walk circumspectly. Remember
who you are, our Lord said. To walk with God is to walk in
peace. full of trouble and anxiety and
stress and turmoil, because they don't know what's going to happen from one
day to the next. They have no hope. They have no peace, our
Lord said. There will be no peace to the
wicked, but to walk with God is to walk in peace. that passes
understanding. We don't know what tomorrow holds,
but we know who does hold tomorrow. Walk with God. The world frets. He says fret not. To walk in
with the Lord is to walk in safety. Walk in safety. I remember walking
with my dad, walking with my older brother, and I didn't fret
about anything. Because they were with me. I
didn't worry. To walk with Him is to walk in
safety. Yea, though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. Why? For
Thou art with me. Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort
me. The last line says, Surely, goodness
and mercy shall follow me. all the days of my life. And
I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever, like Enoch."
Walk with the Lord. He'll end well with you. To walk
with the Lord is to walk with patience. It says walk. But he
that believeth shall not make haste. The whole world's in a
hurry to go somewhere. Time is so short. Wait. To walk with patience before
the Lord, waiting on the Lord, waiting on the Lord. To walk
with the Lord is to walk in the light, have instruction. The world doesn't have a clue
about anything, does it? They don't have a clue. They're spiritual and understand
the whole thing. We have a book that our Lord
wrote, and in it are the mysteries of life. We need not walk in
darkness. The entrance of thy word giveth
light. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet,
a light unto my path. We are not walking in darkness
even as others. Walking with the Lord is to walk
in the light even as He is in the light. Did the Lord fear?
Huh? Was the Lord anxious? Huh? How did the Lord walk? The Lord
Jesus cried when He was a man. How did He walk? That's one of the most comforting
things I know of concerning our Lord, is that he walked by faith,
just like you do. He didn't have a place
to lay his head, didn't have anything but the clothes on his
back, and he depended on the Lord for every day's meal. Was he at peace? Was he a blessed
man? Blessed is the man who walketh
not in the counsel of the ungodly, but walketh in the law of the
Lord, the word of the Lord." Well, where did Enoch end up? Look at it. It says in our text,
in verse 24, Enoch walked with God and he was not. Hebrews 11 said he was not found.
God took him. God took him. says he had this
testimony that he pleased God, and God took him. Pleased God,
a man pleased God. How? Without faith, it's impossible
to please God. Without being in Christ, it's
impossible to please God. Without believing God, you're
not going to please God. Believe Him, trust Him, look
to Him, walk by faith, and that's your testimony from God. joy of the Lord, thou good and
faithful servant." He was not. He went to work one day, and
the same is going to happen to us. The exact same thing, although
he did not die. Enoch did not sleep. He did not sleep. His body wasn't
put in the ground like Elijah's. There were a few, but not many. Enoch, Elijah, but it says Enoch
was not found one day. What was he doing the day the Lord took him? What would
you do if you thought the Lord was going to take you tonight?
What would you do? Well, hopefully not anything
different than what you're doing now. I don't think Enoch was
doing anything different. He was walking with the Lord.
Talking to the Lord, wasn't he? Communing with the Lord. Worshipping
the Lord. One day he went to work. One
day his wife sent him to the store. Or one day something,
he was headed somewhere. And a little while later his
wife said, have you seen Enoch? No. Where's your dad? I don't know. Or the foreman
said, did Enoch show up today? I hadn't seen him. And nobody
could find him. I'll tell you where he's found.
Found in Christ. In the twinkling of an eye. And
that's what's going to happen with us. That's what the Lord
said in His Word in a moment. See, we shall not all sleep.
And I sure wish he'd come tonight, don't you? I sure wish he would. Wouldn't that be wonderful? But,
for the sake of some that don't know him, He hasn't come yet, so he must
be having mercy on somebody. That's fine, we'll just wait
on the Lord, and we'll be glad that we waited. But it would
be wonderful, wouldn't it? If it's going to happen,
and for us, some way, somehow, In a twinkling
of an eye, Enoch was walking down the road and the next thing
he knew, he was looking at the Lord Jesus Christ. Enoch walked with God. Can a
sinful man walk with God? Yep. Can a man live in this sinful
world and walk with God? Yep. Three hundred years. Nine
hundred years. Can a man have possessions and worries and responsibilities
and children and all these things and jobs and walk with the Lord?
Absolutely. Can a man walk that long by faith,
not by sight? God's very sufficient. Absolutely. What's going to be the end of
that person that walked with God? It's going to end up good. Guaranteed. God hears and guarantees. Okay, stand with me.