Genesis chapter 5. Good morning. Genesis chapter 5. Now we sing
our songs and pray our prayers to read the
scriptures beforehand before this time right here. Supposedly to prepare our hearts
to worship. Somehow or another, the first
few words of the message seem to get lost in the shuffle. I
don't know why that is. That's generally the case. It may be because of what Paul
said, principalities and powers and rulers of the darkness and
spiritual wickedness in high places are at work to prevent
men and women from hearing the gospel. And perhaps a preacher,
an ambassador of Christ who is a messenger of Christ with a
message from God's Word to the people, perhaps he ought to stand
up at the very outset of every message and holler at the top
of his lungs, Hear ye, hear ye, thus saith
the Lord. Because why are we here? We're
here to worship God. We're here to worship God. Well,
who is God? Who is God that I should worship
in my Pharaoh state? Who is it? What is he like? What's God like? Can God be known? Does God speak to men and women? Yes. And that's why we're here. We're here to answer these questions.
And nearly every time we meet together, hopefully every time,
we come to answer these very questions. And I say this with the utmost
confidence that those who are the most interested in hearing
these answers are those who are here the most. We're here to
know God, to find out something about God, to worship God, to
hear from God. Now, there are many descriptions
in the Bible of a true seeker. I've just been describing somebody
who's really interested in knowing God. There are many descriptions
in the Bible about a true seeker of God, a true believer, a true
Christian, a child of God. He's called a seeker. They that
seek me, the Lord said, shall find me. When they search for
me once a week, no, with all of their heart. They're called
hungry and thirsty people, not for this water, not for the bread
of this world, but hungry and thirsty after a righteousness
that they so desperately need. They're called disciples. or students or followers of the
Lord Jesus Christ following disciples are those who sit at the feet
of a master and listen very carefully and want to learn what the master
has to say and follow his example. They're called, not just hearers
of the word, not just those who like, and it wasn't an Ezekiel
that came in and said, he has a pleasant voice or he's a good
preacher or a good singer, but they don't do what he says. That's not one who's seeking
God. They're not only hearers, but
they're doers of the word, lovers of God. Let's sum it all up by
saying they love God, everything about God. And they want to know
God. They want to know God. Now, in
short, a believer, a child of God, can be described as one
whose greatest desire while he lives is like the Apostle Paul
when Paul said, Oh, that I might know him, to know God. That's what this life is all
about. Why? Because someday we will
stand before, or either dwell with, or apart from, this God
who made us. Thus we are, to thus we shall
return, and then someday to stand before the Maker, the Creator,
the Ruler. Do you want to know God? You want to know who God is?
You want to know what he's like? You want to be spoken to by God?
You want to speak to God? You're really interested, huh?
All right, now if that describes you, I've got a message for you
this morning. I've got a message for you about a man. plain old
ordinary man. We're going to see this. He's
just a plain old ordinary man like you and I. But God Almighty
revealed himself to this man in a special way. He revealed
himself to him. He spoke to this man, and this
man actually, he actually walked with God Almighty. I'm not talking
about just in a some kind of. Mystical saying I'm saying he
walked with God Almighty. Actually walked talked and was
spoken to and knew God. Like we know a friend. Are you
interested? Why? I am if God can be known,
I want to know him. If God walks with people, and
if I can walk with God, I want to do it. If God talks to some
people, I want Him to talk to me. Don't you? That's why I'm
here, folks. That's why I'm here this morning.
Not to deliver a sermon, but to reveal who God is and what
He's like to you. Now, look at Genesis chapter
5. Look at verse 21 with me. And Enoch lived sixty and five
years and begats Methuselah, or had a son named Methuselah.
And Enoch walked with God. After he begat Methuselah, three
hundred years. And he begat sons and daughters.
And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five
years, and Enoch walked with God. And he was not. Or ceased to be. Or God took
him. God took him. Now does that spark
your interest? Here is a plain old ordinary
man, just like us. An old man at that, just like
some of you. And he walked with God. Long
time. And one day he just up and walked into God's presence.
The four things I want to show you in this message, four things
I want you to consider with me. First of all, I want us to look
at the age or the time that this man lived in. And secondly, I
want us to look at this man's state in life, tell you a little
bit about what he did, what he was, his surroundings. And thirdly,
I want us to examine this walk by this man, how he walked. And
lastly, I want to look at where he ended up. All right, first
of all, look at Genesis chapter 6. Here's the age in which this
man named Enoch lived, very much like our day, strikingly like
our day. Let's read it here, the first
seven verses of Genesis 6. And it came to pass when men
began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were
born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men,
that they were fair, and they took them wives of all which
they chose. And the Lord said, My spirit
shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh,
yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years." There were
giants in the earth in those days, and also after that When
the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, they bare
children to them. The same became mighty men, which
were of old, men of renown. And God saw that the wickedness
of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of
the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually, or every
day. All he thought about was evil,
and it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth,
and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy
man, whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man
and beast, and the creeping thing and the fowls of the air, for
it repented me that I had made him." So the time in which, now we
just described the time right up until Noah, but Noah now Enoch,
this man Enoch, was Noah's great-grandfather. So it wasn't at all unlike Enoch's
day. The time leading up till Noah.
Men were the same, always have been. And this was an age of
corruption and violence. Look at verse 11. The earth was
corrupt before God. The earth was filled with violence. God looked upon the earth and
behold it was corrupt, all flesh had corrupted his way upon the
earth. And like we read there in verse
5, only evil continually, all men and women thought about was
evil. They lay on their beds and conjured
up evil. When they got up they practiced
it, and they practiced it just as long as their bodies would
let them stay awake, and then they went to sleep in a drunken
stupor, and then they laid in bed and thought about it again
and got up and did the same thing over again. Only evil continually. Sounds like our day, doesn't
it? He said there were giants in the earth, verse 4. Giants
in the earth. And we're living in a day where,
you know, we've got some mighty giants. Men are getting bigger,
aren't they? Miraculous. It's amazing how
This is. And you know how giant men are,
they like to throw their weight around. They like to prove their
manhood. So he was living, Enoch was living
in an age of corruption and violence, an age of strong men who prided
themselves in their strength and their physical abilities
of beautiful women. It says they were the sons of
God, looked for the prettiest women, an age where women were
more concerned with their bodies than their souls. It was an age of sensual, corrupt
desires, materialistic, violent and wicked days. It sounds like
1992 doesn't it? That was the day that Enoch lived
in. Look at Matthew chapter twenty-four with me. Matthew chapter twenty-four. The day he lived in was also
a very materialistic day. Very materialistic. A people
that was consumed with the world and everything in it. And they
had devoted their lives to accumulating possessions. Houses and land
and this and that and the other. Fleshly pleasures, very little
time for God, very little thoughts of God. If they had had any thoughts
of God, this wouldn't have happened that Christ said happened. If
they'd been thinking about God, this wouldn't have taken them
by surprise, or that is, the flood. They would have listened
to the man who was preaching. He preached 120 years. The thing
wasn't done in a quarter, building of that boat, preaching of the
righteousness, the gospel. wasn't done in a quarter. Everybody
everywhere heard of it, but no, they were too busy and too concerned
with other things. And Christ said it's going to
be the same way in the day when he comes again. Verse thirty-six,
"...of that day and hour knoweth no man." Well, why don't they? The Scriptures are full of warnings
and gives us the seasons and Christ himself said up there,
you ought to learn the parable of the fig tree. You ought to be able to discern
sometimes and so forth. And Paul said to the Thessalonians,
now that day is not going to overtake you as those that are
in darkness. It shouldn't. You're here in
the preaching. But he says, of that day and
hour, though, knoweth no man, or not very many anyway, no,
not the angels of heaven, but my Father only, as the days of
Noah were. So shall also the coming of the
Son of Man be, for in the days that were before the flood,"
right up until the time it started raining, they were eating and
drinking, marrying, giving in marriage, until the day that
Noah entered into the ark. And they didn't know until the
flood came and took them all away. So shall also the coming of the
Son of Man be." They didn't know. Most of them didn't know. Eight
people knew. It was a little old church, Henry, meeting in
a boat. Eight people were waiting, waiting on the coming of God.
So this was a materialistic age. They didn't have time for God.
They didn't have time to think about God, or the flood wouldn't
have taken them by surprise. And that scripture there, Christ
said to us, eating and drinking, marrying and giving and marrying.
There's nothing wrong with these things. Only it's wrong when
it takes you away from seeking God first. Seeking God first. So that was the day that Enoch
lived in. full of violence and age of materialism
materialistic. Now look back in chapter four
with me. Genesis. It describes these people as
being very clever. The people in this day were taken
up with their technology if you will look at verse And it says,
this man named Ada, Bear Jabal, he was the father of such as
dwell in tents and of such as have cattle. He was a farmer,
he was a top-notch farmer, this fella. And his brother's name
Jubal, Jabal and Jubal. He was the father, there's a
name for twins, if you ever have them. And he was the father of
all such as handled the harp and the organ. Now he was a musician,
he studied under the musicians of that day, and he became quite
skillful as a musician. And Zilla also bare Kubo Cain,
an instructor of artifice and brass, artificer in brass and
iron. He was an artisan. He was interested
in art. He had farmers, musicians, artists,
ingenious people, very clever about all the ways of the world. But I don't hear anybody talking
about God. I don't hear any mention of a
preacher. the most needful occupation among the day, except a few.
There were a few called sons of God, a few who called on the
Lord before Enoch, but it didn't last long. Let me show you that. Look at chapter 6. There were
a few that were religious. It said there were sons of God,
then men began to call upon the name of the Lord, but chapter
6, it didn't last long. Verse 2, the sons of God, or
those who looked like sons of God, are you with me? Those who
said they were sons of God, believed God, followers of God. They saw
the daughters of men, that they were beautiful. And they went after them. God's a whole lot prettier than
any woman he ever made. But they saw the children, the
women, that they were fair. And they took them wives of all
which they chose. And then God said, I'm going
to cut him off. I'm not going to strive with
him anymore. Evidently, and you surmise from this what I have,
evidently these fellows, these so-called professing believers,
sons of God, followers of God, became enamored with and taken
up with beautiful young ladies who evidently didn't love their
God. And these women took their hearts
away from God and they began to be taken up with and consume
with these ladies and forgot God. And if ever this was a picture
of our day this is it. How many times is our pastor
warned. How many times over the years
of our pastor warned young ladies not to get involved with unbelieving
me or vice versa how many. You remember hearing that Susan
growing up over and over again how many young ladies have we
seen how many young men have we seen Mary get enamored with
and taken up some fell out there who could care less about God
or some woman out there who could care less and they're gone aren't
they supposedly they love God supposedly they look were seeking
God, supposedly they were believers, they were raised under a nice
family, believing the gospel, and meet some beautiful girl
or some nice-looking fellow, where is he or she? I thought
they believed the gospel. Talking about apostasy here.
Apostasy. Age of apostasy that he lived
in. This happened frequently. It happened, we just read it.
Isn't that our day? Hmm? I will thank God to high
and high heaven if two or three of our young people remain on
the sound of the gospel after they get married. I'll thank
God with all I've got. If one, if two, if three or four,
we'll have a revival. Right? It just doesn't happen. It was an age of darkness. The
day that Enoch lived in was an age of darkness. They didn't
have a Bible. They did not have any Bibles. Enoch walked with
God. We haven't got an excuse in the
world. They didn't have any churches.
They didn't have any meetings, no preachers, no Bibles. And we live in the age of the
Bible. Everybody's got five copies.
We live in the Bible belt. Don't we? Good old Southern Christian
folk, white folk at that. Bible-believing Christian. Why,
it ain't so. You can tell people they got
Bibles, but they don't read them. Can't you? You can tell by their
talk. By their script. Their conversation's not full
of the scriptures in it. It's, I think, I think. Their walk. You can tell by their
walk. They look good on Sunday, but on Saturday night, you should
have seen them. Well, that was Enoch's day. Are
you following me where I'm at? A day of corruption and violence,
materialism, apostasy. People look good, but they turn
from God. A day of darkness, and nobody
was seeking God or resorting to God at all. That was Enoch's
day, and that's our day. That was Enoch's day, and Enoch
walked with God, and that's our day. And I want to walk with
God. Well, let's look again here at
Enoch's character. Look at chapter 5 with me. Look
at verse 21. Let's look a little bit about
Enoch then. That's the day he lived in. Look at verse 21. And
Enoch lived 65 years and begat Methuselah. And Enoch walked
with God after he begat Methuselah. He was sixty-five years old when
he started walking with God. Sixty-five years old before he
thought about God. Now that's remarkable. That doesn't
happen very often, does it? What's this a picture of? Is
this a picture, is this a story that we might admire Enoch? Huh? No. Stan, he was sixty-five years
old before he even thought about God. This is a picture of grace. An old man, sixty-five, and I
mean they're old when they get sixty or so. An old man is set in his ways,
isn't he? Set. You're not going to change
him, especially if he's got religious notions and whatever. And if
he's been walking sixty-five years in this world with no thoughts
of God, it almost seems impossible now. to convert that man. God
dealt with this man. That's a picture of grace, that
it's never too late. Picture. And God finally dealt
with this old man, and so you would know he was setting his
way. And Enoch was just a man, a 65-year-old man, a real man,
a son of Adam. He wasn't an angel. He was a
son of Adam. And he lived in a sinful day,
and he was a sinner. Enoch was a sinner, an ungodly
man. Yea, he was. He went sixty-five
years. Abraham was too. Abraham was an ungodly sinner.
He lived seventy-five years in idolatry. Moses for forty years. Right? Men. Just men. Enoch was a hell-deserving, sixty-five-year-old,
running to hell as fast as he could, man, sinner. Didn't think
about God Almighty one minute, but God had mercy on this old
boy. God granted him repentance and
faith. Look at this. Enoch, he says
he had a son named Methuselah and sons and daughters. That
means he's married, doesn't it? Had to have a wife. He was married. Sixty-five years old, he was
married. He was a family man. Enoch found
himself a little woman. Got his eye on a little woman
like the rest of these people. And he settled down, found himself
the prettiest one or at least the best cook, and settled down
and got married and started raising a family just like everybody
else. And he began to be taken up with his sons and his daughters.
Old Methuselah had the apple of his eye. Loved that boy. and
his sons and daughters and so forth. Taken up with them, making
a living, began to get him a job, worked real hard, thought about
his wife and kids when he came home from work every day. He'd
play with his kids until dark and then go to bed and wake up
and go to work and do it all over again. God was not in his
house. God was not in his plans. But
Enoch was in God's thoughts. Enoch was in God's plan. The
scripture says, God who is rich in mercy. But God who is rich
in mercy, for his great love wherewith he hath loved Enoch,
quickened this old boy, made him alive one day, somehow. It
doesn't tell how this happened. But one day, I guarantee you,
God opened this old boy's eyes to see himself. what he was doing, where he was
headed. God opened this old boy's ears to hear something about
God. God opened this old boy's heart
to receive the Word of God somehow. You say, how do you know that?
How do I know that? Because God saves every sinner
the same way. Yeah, he does. By grace are you
saved, the Scripture says. through faith, and that's not
of yourself. Enoch just did nothing one day, said, hey, I'm going
to start walking with God. He hadn't even thought of God.
God thought of him. And God one day, Henry, said,
you're going to walk with me. And he opened his eyes to see
who God was, who he was, where he was headed, opened his ears
to hear the word of God. He didn't care before. He had
his ears. He was listening to the headphones
of all kind of music of the world and listening to that. But God
opened his ears to hear the gospel. Something he never was interested
in before. And opened his heart to see his
need of God. And Enoch, from that day forward,
began to walk with God. You know how long he walked?
You think we got it tough? You think we live a long, hard
life? Three hundred years he walked with God in this corrupt
and violent and wicked world, just like I was. I say, I don't
know about you, but I say, I hope they shoot me when I get sixty.
Put me out of my misery and everybody else's. I don't want to live
that long, I really don't. I may change my mind when I see
my grandchildren come along and all that, but right now I can
say, I don't see how I'm going to make it another thirty-five
years in this wicked world. God's promised a seventy. I don't
think I can make it. By His grace I will. Same way
Owenna did. Three hundred years. Enoch was a married man. Now,
let me repeat this. There's no mention of his wife,
is there? What I surmise from this is that
Enoch's wife was an unbeliever. Now, this is the toughest trial
a man or a woman ever has to go through in this life, a believing
man or woman. Tough it. That's the reason I
warn you unmarried young people. You don't know what hell is until
you live with a hellion. You don't know what hell is until
you live with somebody who hates the God you supposedly love. You don't know what trouble is
going to be like until you come, if you love God, know God, and
come here and worship God and have your heart filled full of
joy, joy unspeakable, and go home and have that dude crash
it all down in front of your eyes and mock your religion. Don't
do it. Don't do it. Don't even get married, Paul
says, don't get married until you find somebody that loves
the same Lord you do. How can you? How can you? Well, Enoch was a married man,
but that didn't hinder him. You remember when Christ talked
about a parable of going out and bringing people into the
marriage feast? No, the parable was Christ said, follow me. And
one man said, Well, I've bought me some property. I got to go
see. I got to plow it today. Listen, I got to plow. You can't
get the crops in unless I plow it on Sunday. And another man,
what another man said, I'm married. I can't come to church. I can't walk with God. I'm married. My wife doesn't. I go down here
with my wife. She goes down here to this church.
But they don't know God and when you make her unhappy. In a walk with God his wife did
he did. He did. Now thirdly look at even
walk very quickly it says this twice in a walk with God in a
walk with God twice. How did he not walk. With his
walk about. It says he. There is a scripture that says,
He that will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. Only those who love God walk
with God and not the world. You see, God was in Enoch Scott,
not making a living. He did. He was an honest, hardworking
man, I'm sure, and provided for his family, or else he would
have been an infidel. But he was thinking about God the whole
time he was hoeing, or whatever. He liked to retain God in his
knowledge, unlike Paul said about the people in Romans 1. He liked
to think about God. He liked it. He liked to think
about God. His affections were set on things
above, not on things on the earth. He was not uncomfortable being
alone with God. I've said this so many times
before. What do most people do when they go into a motel room,
when they get into a strange city, or when they go into a
motel room? The first thing they do is turn the TV on. People hate to be alone with
their thoughts. Men and women can't be alone for a minute,
can't sit down and quietly read the scriptures and be alone with
their thoughts, contemplate, reflect, think. Why? Conscience
starts bothering them. Enoch liked to be alone with
God. There's nobody he'd rather be with. What's wrong with you,
Enoch? Why don't you ... I'm just having
too good a time. He liked to be alone with God.
And he only liked to be with those who liked his God. You
know, he had no fellowship with those who didn't love his God. Why? He loved his God. You can't
dwell with somebody who doesn't love your God. Not in any peace,
anyway. He loved to think about God.
He loved to talk about God. He loved to talk to God. He loved
to walk with God. And he did. He did. To walk with God means that you'll
probably walk alone. You'll probably walk alone because
there's not going to be many people out here in this where
you're working that's walking with him. Like I said, it might
not even be your bosom, the wife of your bosom or the husband.
You may walk alone. You may walk for 40 years alone. But you're walking with God.
You're walking with God. But if you walk with God, you
will probably walk alone, or at least out in the world you
will. Because the Scripture says there are few that are in this
straight gate, in this narrow way. Few, few. Most of them are
out there in the broad way that leads to destruction. And to
walk with God And be a friend of God and be befriended by God
means you cannot be a friend of the world. That's not my thoughts. That's God's Word. He said the
friend of the world is the enemy of God. He said he that loveth
the world, the love of the Father is not in him. Why? Because the world doesn't love
your God. I know that guy's real friendly and all. He's supposed
to be a friend of yours. Or she, but she doesn't love
your God, and if we come out strongly enough about the God
we'd love, we'd find out real fast whether or not they love
us or not. Right? Yes, we would. You cannot, Christ
said, you can't serve two masters. You'll either love the one and
hate the other. You'll either give yourself totally to the
one or the other. God and mammon can't do it. And. I love this woman over here I'm
married to she's got my name. She bears. She said something
the other day Mrs. I found something the other day
Mrs. Paul Mayhem and I said that's funny her name's Mindy I said
no it's not it's Mrs. Paul Mayhem. She's got my name
she's one you see if anybody's going to be mentioned it's me
right I'm the head of this relationship. There's no clearer picture. of
a believer than marriage in the scripture. The marriage of Christ
with his bride and the two become one and we take his name, right?
And if anybody's going to be mentioned, he is, right? We're Christians. I'm not Paul
Mahan, I'm a Christian disciple of Christ. OK? Now, you cannot
hate my wife and love me. Impossible. If you do hate my wife, I'm not
going to like you very much. Right, Stephen? If somebody doesn't
like your wife, and goes out spreading stories, and refuses
to have anything to do with your wife, but he says, she says,
they like you very well, you're fine enough. Well, you're not
going to like that person. It's either love me, love my
wife. I think that's love me, love my dog, isn't it? Love me,
love my kid. Love me, love what's mine. Right? Love me, love my God. Right? You love me, you're going
to walk with me. We're going to walk together.
How are we going to walk together except we be agreed? Huh? Now, am I walking with God or
am I walking with you? He's headed this way. I'm headed
this way. How are we going to get together
except Now he ain't going to come to me. He might come every
now and then, sit in church and go with me, but just long enough
to pacify me a little bit. But what's going to have to happen
in order for us to walk together? I'm going to have to walk with
him. Right? He's not going to come with me.
Unless God Almighty turns his path and heads him in the same
way that he headed me. Right? That's the way he did
me. Love me, love my God." The world hates God. Yes, they do. The carnal mind, Paul said in
Romans 5a, is enmity against God, hates God. You prove this
by their love of self. Turn to Jude, verse 14. Look
at the book of you, you know, the in the process out of this
team that came out strongly about his God name of all the money
that. They didn't like what he had
to say about some of the sovereignty of God. You know, they look at
you, you fourteen. Next, the last book in the New
Testament. You'd first fourteen and even
also the seventh from Adam. prophesied of these false prophets
and so forth, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand
of his saints to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all
their 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." Enoch spoke out. about the Lordship
of Christ, about man's sinfulness and God's coming judgment. And
their need to repent and come to Christ. So Enoch walked with
God and not the world. With God. Secondly, Enoch walked
as a child of God. Enoch walked as a child of God.
He believed everything that his father said. That's the reason
I really don't want to see my child grow up and get any older.
John, when they get a little older, they start going their
own way, don't they? Used to, they liked to walk hand-in-hand
with Daddy. They used to like to be seen
with Daddy, didn't they? They used to be proud of Daddy.
Everything Daddy did was good, right, John? Everything Daddy
said was right and true, because Daddy did it. And Daddy loves
me, and Daddy would never say anything to hurt me. He's my
father. He knows more than I know. He's
stronger than I am. He'll help me. He'll protect
me. Daddy would never say anything
to hurt me." And they get a little older,
and they begin to question Daddy. But Daddy hadn't changed. But Enoch was a child of God,
and he thought, My Father knows best, and whatever my Father
says is right, it's true. Even though it's hard, it's true.
Whatever my Heavenly Father says, Enoch agreed to it. He agreed
to it. He thought his Father was wiser
than him. He never questioned God. He thought
his Father was stronger than him. He knew his Heavenly Father
was holy. just, righteous in all his way,
and he knew for a fact that the judge of the earth would do right
whatever he does. And he said it to others, and
he boldly believed in this holy, sovereign God, and that's what
he said there in Jude 14 and 15. Enoch sought to please his father,
the scripture says, and to walk worthy of the Lord unto all well-pleasing,
being fruitful in every good work. It says this, to walk in
wisdom toward them that are without. It says this, to walk worthy
of God, the vocation wherein you are called. It says this,
Enoch sought how to walk to please God. Enoch wanted to please the God
he said he loved. Now turn back a few pages to
Hebrews 11. Enoch sought to please God, but
he did it the right way. He didn't do it like our generation
says that you can please God. He didn't do it by his walk. Let's look at Hebrews 11. Look,
how can one walk to please God? How can you? Look at Hebrews
11, verse 5. Hebrews 11, verse 5, and it says,
Enoch was translated that he should not see death and was
not found. Nobody could find him. He just
walked into heaven because God had translated him, for before
his translation he had this testimony that he pleased God. You mean
because he lived a good life? No, I said he lived 65 years
in sin and unbelief. Well, how did he please God?
Well, look at verse 6. Don't stop there. But without faith,
it is impossible to please God. Now, he that comes to God, he
that wants to walk with God, he that will be spoken to by
God or speak to God or be approved or accepted by God must believe
that he is. And that he is a rewarder of
them that diligently seek him or walk with him. He is. That God is. God is what? Holy. Just. Just. God is just. He will by no means
clear the guilty. That God's Son is he. Is God. Is God's only way of
acceptance. You think I'm bringing too much
out of this? Oh, no. Enoch knew the only way he could
approach this holy God was through a mediator, through an intercessor,
through the righteousness of another, not his own. He'd been
a sinner for sixty-five years. He knew God wasn't just going
to say, well, let bygones be bygones. We'll forgive and forget,
you know. Come on, Enoch, let's walk. No,
his sins had to be paid for. And he had to have a blood sacrifice
to pay for it. And he couldn't do it. He knew
that to be loved by God, to be accepted by God, somebody else
was going to have to be approved by God. Not him. He made a mess
of things. To be received by God, to walk
with God, he was going to have to be holy. Right? And he couldn't. You say, didn't
Enoch know all this? Did he? Sure he did. Sure he did. Christ said, no
man cometh unto the Father, but how? By means. That means from Adam, if Adam
knew God, to the last one who lives on this planet, no human
being is going to walk with God or be walked with by God, or
talked to God, or be spoken to by God, or approve of God, or
be approved of by God, except through Jesus Christ. No man
comes unto the Father but by me." Isn't that what Christ said? Job, the oldest recorded book
in the Scripture, Job knew Christ. He said, I know my Redeemer lives.
And so did Enoch. Enoch heard of the woman's seed,
guarantee you he heard of the woman's seed. He heard of God
killing that animal and shedding its blood and wrapping his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Adam and grandmother in that
skin, and then telling them, You've got to have a sacrifice,
you've got to come before me. He knew of Abel's sacrifice. He
heard about that story, about how Esau was rejected. Why? He did the best he could. He
heard that. But he heard that old Abel was
accepted. Why? He bought a lamb. He bought
blood. Enoch heard about that. And Enoch
walked with God by faith. How? Faith in God's Lamb. Faith in God's Son. Faith in
God's salvation. God salvation. And he walked
by faith in the Lord Jesus. You can't walk with God apart
from walking in Christ. Let's look at his walk real fast
or his end I mean where he ended up looking back at the text in
Genesis chapter five verse twenty four and I'll let you go look
at the text. It says here, and Enoch walked
with God, verse twenty-four, and he was not. He was not. He died daily. Enoch died. You say, no, didn't he live? No, he died. Enoch was not. A believer. I'm crucified with
Christ. walking by faith in Christ. Nevertheless,
I live. But it's not I. I'm not. I am
not. He is all. I am nothing. You see, when God saves a man,
he realizes he's not. He's a nothing. He's a nobody.
He's fit for nothing but to burn. He's a dead man. He needs to
be put in a grave. The only one God will look at
is Christ. If you're going to live before
God, it's going to be by faith in Christ. He didn't walk with
God, though, it says, and he was not, but God took him. One
day he got up. He got up one day and told his
wife, I'm going for a walk. Where are you going? I don't
know, just going to walk. I feel like walking. It's a beautiful
morning. Go down and get the paper and take a little walk. And she said, well, who are you
going with? God. Oh, you old fanatic, you. Go
on. It's chores to be done. I'll get them later. The first fruits of the morning
go to my God. He went down for a walk one day,
Steve. And he just walked into heaven. They found his shoes
on the road. Now, you know, the wonder of
this, I didn't say that The wonder is not, it says, he walked with
God and he was not, for God took him. What amazes you about that? The fact that the man just walked
up into heaven? Is that amazing? You know what amazes me, Sam?
God took him. Here's the sinner! A man! And God said, come on
up here. God took him as he was, just
as he is, a man. God took him, the holy, righteous,
sovereign God who dwells in light which no man can approach unto,
said to that old family man, 365 years old, walking along
that dusty road, come on, come on up here. I've seen you righteous. That's our study for tonight.
How was Enoch considered righteous? How well was Enoch accepted?
He walked by faith in Christ. Right? He walked. His day was
a corrupt, wicked day, no more so than ours, full of violence. He was a married man, an old
man, but he was seeking God. Thank God, God had sought him
first. He loved God because God first loved him. But he started
walking with God by faith in the midst of his generation.
And how did he walk? How is it to walk by faith? It's
to walk with Christ, to walk believing, trusting, looking
to, depending upon, studying, following, seeking, discipling
Christ, to win Christ so that I might know him. the power of
his resurrection to win Christ and be found with him. He studied
Christ, and he walked with God. He was not. God took him. And that's what I want to do.
That's what I want to do. on a walk with God by faith in
Christ.