If you will, take your Bibles
and turn with me to Genesis chapter five. Genesis chapter five. In Genesis chapter five, and
right in the middle of the genealogy of Christ leading up to the flood,
this is before the flood of Noah, The Holy Ghost causes Moses to
stop and tell us some things about Enoch. This one begat that
one, and this one begat that one. He comes to Enoch, and rather
than go to the next in the line of genealogy, he stops, he pauses,
and tells us some things about this man Enoch. And everything that I have to
say to you this morning is documented here in Genesis chapter five,
in Hebrews chapter 11, where Enoch is again singled out in
that faith chapter of the book of Hebrews and speaks about his
faith. And then in the tiny epistle
of Jude, He tells us some things about Enoch and his prophecies
concerning the coming Redeemer. Now I began my study concerning
Enoch, looking at his faith. I was not looking at him as a
type, even though these studies have been about types. But I
was looking at Enoch, looking at his faith, which is singled
out and we're told about in Hebrews chapter 11, and his walk. which
he tells us about back here in Genesis chapter five. And his
testimony, Hebrews 11, it said he left this testimony. And also his ministry and his
death. And maybe sometime I'll preach
about those things, but this morning I want us to look at
this man Enoch as a type of Christ. In Genesis 5.22 it says, and
Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah 300 years and
begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Enoch were
365 years. And Enoch walked with God and
he was not. Well, God took him. Now, how
is Enoch a type of Christ? When I first began my study of
Enoch, I was talking to Brian back earlier in the week and
I told him, I said, I want to say some things about Enoch because
I kind of skipped over him when we're doing our verse by verse
through Genesis. But I can't find how he was a
type of Christ. And then the more I studied,
the more I began to see that he was. So how is this man Enoch
a type of Christ? Well, first of all, as he was
chosen of God for the reconciliation of his elect. Both in Genesis
5 and in Luke chapter 4, Enoch is listed in a genealogy of God's
elect through whom the coming Redeemer would be born. I'm not suggesting that Enoch
had anything to contribute to the sinless birth of the Lord
Jesus Christ, except as he was chosen of God to verify that
Jesus is the Christ. All of the genealogies, when
we look at Paul actually referred to them as endless genealogies
because churches like to make more of them than what they actually
are. But all these genealogies of
Christ were documented and preserved so that the coming Redeemer would
be verified as he was prophesied of old. That is, that we would
know that Jesus, and not somebody else, is the Christ. And he proves
that by his genealogy. He was born of the seed of David. He was Abraham's seed, Paul says. God verified that. And every man and woman mentioned
in his genealogies were chosen of God to that end. And as Enoch
was set apart by God to verify the coming Redeemer, so Christ
himself came and was verified of God using those things. It is written, it is written,
it is written over and over and over, it tells us. So that we see him as the Messiah,
the seed of Abraham, the seed of David, and the seed of the
woman. There's only one elect seed,
and all the rest find their election in him. They all spake of him. because there's only him. If
we're in him, we're a new creation. Enoch is a type of Christ according
to God's own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ
Jesus before the world began. And then secondly, Enoch is a
type of Christ in that he walked with God. He walked with God. It says in
the scripture of our Savior, His name shall be called Emmanuel. What's that mean? God with us. God with us. God and man in one
person. Walking the streets of this world,
the streets of our cities, one man, the God-man, Christ Jesus. And twice in Genesis chapter
5, the Holy Ghost tells us that Enoch walked with God. Well,
what does that mean? That means that he was reconciled
to God, Enoch was, and he was in agreement with God. He was
not in any kind of conflict with God, he was in agreement with
God. He had fellowship with God, and God did not hide anything
from him. Here's this man Enoch, the seventh
from Adam, seven generations from creation, and here's a man
prophesying about the second coming of Christ. God hid nothing
from Enoch, because Enoch walked with God. John said, God is light,
he tells us, and in him is no darkness at all. And if we say
we have fellowship with God and walk in darkness, we lie. That's
what John said. We lie and do not the truth. It also means that the world
despised him as he walked with God. They despised him. Our Lord said in John 15, 19,
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But
because you're not of the world, but I've chosen you out of the
world, therefore the world hateth you. It despises you. The scripture says, can two walk
together except they be agreed? He was in agreement with God.
Now Christ, unlike Enoch, Christ said, I and my Father are one. He did the Father's will in all
things and therefore walked with God. He not walked with God by faith,
but Jesus Christ walked with God in perfect obedience, perfect
submission, perfect mind, perfect holiness, and perfect love. He
walked with God. In the beginning was the Word
and the Word was with God. He was with him and all that.
And the Word was God. And then he tells us that he
become obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. And then
thirdly, Enoch was a type of Christ in that he pleased God. Now this is the most likeness
that we have in this statement, that he pleased God. He pleased
God. And the gist of the doing and
dying of the Lord Jesus Christ was to please God. Our Lord said
in John 8, 29, listen to this. He that sent me is with me. The Father hath not left me alone,
for I do always those things which please him. On the Mount
of Transfiguration, they were going to build some monuments
there to Moses and Elijah. And the Lord thundered from heaven
and he said, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.
You hear him. Again, let me be quick to say
that Enoch pleased God by faith, and it says in Hebrews 11, 6,
talking about his faith, that without that faith, it's impossible
for us to please God. But Christ pleased God. He pleased
God by accomplishing the redemptive will of God. In Hebrews 10, 7,
he said, then said, I, lo, I come in the volume of the book it's
written to me to do thy will, O God. This is why he came. This was the purpose for his
coming, to accomplish the redemptive will of God, by the which we
were sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once
for all. How do we know Jesus Christ pleased
God? Well, God himself testified that
he did. That's number one. God said,
this is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. That ought
to be enough, shouldn't it? But I'll give you something else.
I know that Jesus Christ pleased God because he raised him from
the dead. Enoch was able to please God
because Jesus Christ, his antitype, did for him what he could not
do for himself. He provided him with a perfect
righteousness and a full atonement. And then fourthly, Enoch is a
type of Christ in that he left behind this testimony that he
pleased God. What is the gist of the gospel
we preach? We point men to Jesus Christ,
but what do we tell him? He pleased God. Huh? That's the testimony that he
left behind. He pleased God. We can't please
God, but he did. And he did it for us. When Jesus Christ was raised
from the dead and ascended back into glory, God set him at his
own right hand, the right hand of fellowship, the right hand
of his power. And he left his testimony, he
pleased God. His vicarious suffering and death
are sufficient to put away his wrath and satisfy his justice. And without a God-pleasing sacrifice,
there can be no salvation. Period. I don't care how many
holy days you keep. I don't care what you eat or
don't eat. I don't care what you wear or
don't wear. Without a God-pleasing sacrifice,
there can be no salvation. The law of God must be honored
and exalted by perfect, loving, and continual obedience. to the
God who gave it. That's what it takes. Paul said,
you that desire to be under the law, do you hear the law? You
understand what that law says? You understand what that law
requires? Perfect, continual, loving obedience. Paul said in Romans 321, but
now the righteousness of God without the laws manifested,
being witnessed by the law and the prophets, even the righteousness
of God, which is by faith or faithfulness of Jesus Christ.
And it's unto all and upon all that believe. And it's the grand
and glorious testimony of the gospel we preach that Jesus Christ,
our Lord, pleased God. The only way that you can be
said to please God is by faith, the same way Enoch was. And then
last of all, Enoch is a type of Christ in that both the redemption
of Christ and the impending doom of man, they were both manifested
by him. In the book of Jude, it says
in verse 14, and Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied
of these. These what? These ones who creep
into the church unawares. These false prophets and false
brethren that creep in unawares, foaming out their shame like
the waves of the ocean beating upon the rocks. And Enoch prophesied of these,
saying, behold, the Lord cometh with 10,000 of his saints, 10,000
of his saints, to execute judgment upon all and 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 had spoken against him. And in these verses,
the coming of Christ is prophesied and the judgment of this present
evil world. He preached the coming Messiah,
the seventh from Adam, stood on this earth and preached to
men. See, we won't picture these old
saints like cavemen, wearing animal skins and just dumber
than a box of rocks and just now learning how to build fires. It's just not so. It's just not
so. These men knew God, and they
prophesied of his coming, and all the things that we experience
when we preach Christ, they experience way back there. And he describes
it as though he lived today. He preached the coming Messiah,
the promised Redeemer, with whom he walked by faith. and faithfully
declared his coming. These old prophets knew more
than man gives them credit for. Do you know not a single book
of the Bible had yet been written when Enoch lived? He didn't even have the book
of Genesis. He didn't have Genesis 3.16 to refer back to. There
was not a book of this Bible that had been written and yet
God had presented, he had preserved six generations before him and
each one leaving their testimony to the next. That's why these
men are singled out. There was way more men upon the
earth than just Enoch or Seth or Enos. There was way more people
than that on the face of the earth. Kang was still around,
all his children were still around. Lots of people on earth, but
God only recognizes a few in that genealogy, and each one
of those men left a testimony to the following generation.
Generation after generation after generation until the book of
God was written. At the beginning of the genealogy
in chapter 4 in verse 26 it speaks of Adam's son Seth having a son
called Enos to which these words are attached. Then began men
to call upon the name of the Lord. Why would they do that? Why would they do that? Because
God raised up a witness. He raised up a man and taught
him how to preach and he preached to his generation. And as men,
now I'm not suggesting that Adam didn't call upon God, that he
didn't come together. We're told right there in the
scriptures that they did come together to worship God, but
there was just a handful of them coming together. It wasn't a
public meeting. This is talking about men publicly
beginning to gather to call upon the name of the Lord and to be
called by the Lord's name. Children of God. Just a little
bit later it says, and the children of God saw the daughters of men
and began to mix themselves. Not talking about some strange
form of creation that's no longer around, he's just simply saying
that these men had separated themselves into two camps, believers
and unbelievers. And as we call ourselves Christians
today to differentiate ourselves from this present evil world,
so they were called back then. And they began to call upon the
name of the Lord. They separated themselves from
their banquets and all the stuff that they did. And it doesn't
say that a man did this, it said men did this. God's name is manifested
in Christ. Acts chapter four, verse 12,
speaking of Christ, it says, neither is there salvation in
any other. For there's none other name under
heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. And these old
men knew that. And then sixthly, and I'll hurry,
Enoch was a type of Christ in that God took him. God took him. He didn't take him to judge him.
He didn't take him to send him into eternal hell. He took him
to be with him. He took him. He says he was not. One day, this old man was standing
out there preaching and just like I'm talking to you this
morning and telling those that were listening to him, this may
be the last time you ever hear the gospel. I told that to my congregation
one night. And there was a young man in
there, barely 18, in the Navy, getting ready to ship out. And
he was trying to get home for one more visit at home before
he shipped out to sea over that weekend. And he fell asleep at
the wheel. And as he started to go off the
road, he woke up and he overcorrected and went over another lane and
hit a log truck head-on. Killed him instantly. Another
man was killed by a boat trailer. Most unusual accident you ever
heard of. a boat on a trailer come loose,
and evidently the boat wasn't even secured to the trailer.
And when it hit the water, the trailer tongue went down and
the boat took off. And when it hit the other side,
it come up, come right in through the front window, cut him in
half, killed him instantly. There was men in these days listening
to Enoch, and he told them, this may be the last time you ever
get to hear the gospel, so you better sit up and listen. And
the next day they sought out for Enoch, and he was not. For God took him. God took him. Indeed, the way God took Enoch
was very special. While he was yet alive and walking,
the Lord took him. And so it was with Elijah that
a whirlwind took him up to heaven. And Elisha stood there and watched
it. But you know when he went and
how he went's not important. But it's who took him and why.
Who took him and why. And I'll tell you something else
about the Lord Jesus Christ. God raised him from the dead,
but he didn't ascend immediately into heaven. He stayed on this
earth for a full month, walking among men. And when he got ready
to leave, he didn't disappear. He didn't go back to the tomb. He walked out on the brow of
the hill, stepped onto a cloud, and his holy angels took him
up into glory, and they stood there gazing up into heaven.
And the angels said, why are you looking up here, folks? This
same one taken up, he's gonna return in the same manner on
that cloud. God took him. God took him, and
because he took Christ into glory, Victorious, all-sufficient Savior,
because God took him up there and seated him at his right hand,
God's gonna take us. And that's what it says, he raised
us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in
Christ. Because our Lord's death pleased
the Father and satisfied His holy justice, death has no more
dominion over us. where we close our eyes and sleep
or god changes all the angels to carry us home god will take
us and not to be judged but to sit with him in the judgment
of this world god i'll tell you that's in colchills up and down
my back god but that's my hope that's my hope when i lay down
my shipping in In that final sleep, when I lay down, as he
said about Lazarus, he sleepeth. When I lay down in that sleep,
that's my hope. God'll take me. And to be absent
from this body will be to be present with him. Enoch believed
that. We thought he was an old caveman.
No, he was a man of faith and a preacher of the gospel and
a prophet, a prophet of God.