The Faith of Enoch

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I want to invite you to open up your Bibles with me to Hebrews chapter 11 and we're going to be in Hebrews 11 looking at verses five and six this morning.
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When I first began our exposition of Hebrews chapter 11, I said that I wanted to parallel this study with a survey of the Old Testament because this is the passage of scripture wherein the writer of Hebrews gives us a entire list of Old Testament people of faith and gives us a little inkling into their lives, reminds us about the Old Testament.
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One of the things, one of the reasons that I really wanted to do this is because, you know, we emphasize a lot about being the church of the Lord Jesus Christ and that we are a New Testament church.
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And I think sometimes in doing so, we relegate the Old Testament to somewhat of a secondary status in regard to its level of importance.
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However, the truth is that all scripture is inspired by God and all scripture is profitable for teaching and for reproof and for training and righteousness.
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This is why Paul tells us that all scripture is this way, because it's not just the New Testament that we need to be reading and studying and memorizing and knowing, but it is all scripture.
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Hebrews chapter 11, as I said, gives us a listing of the great faith heroes of the Old Testament.
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And what we're doing is we're reading Hebrews 11 and then we're going back to the Old Testament to see these people and their lives and what their lives were all about.
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And last time I was here, I was out last week, but last time I was here, I preached on Cain and Abel.
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And the story of their lives and what happened with that this week, we're going to move on to the next character in Hebrews chapter 11.
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And I say character, not as if this person is just a character in a play of some kind.
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I simply say that sort of as a synonym for a person.
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This is an actual literal person.
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And that's something to remember.
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And the person we're going to be looking at today is a man called Enoch.
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And I want to begin by saying we're not only going to study the life of Enoch because the Bible says very little about that, but we're also going to look at the entire section of the Old Testament wherein we find his name because it is an extended genealogy.
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And I want to point out some truths in regard to it.
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And through this, I want us to see that even though Enoch's name may only have shown up in a very small section of scripture, he still made a very big impact on the kingdom of God because of his faith.
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So with that in mind, let us stand together and read Hebrews 11, chapter first five and six.
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By faith, Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death and he was not found because God had taken him.
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Now, before he was taken, he was commended as having pleased God.
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And without faith, it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists.
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And that he rewards those who seek him.
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Father, as we examine the scripture today.
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I pray first and foremost that you would keep me from error as I am a fallible man and capable of preaching error.
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And I pray for the sake of your people that you would keep me from that.
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And I pray also, Lord, for their sake that you would open their hearts to understand the word and that the word would not simply be an exercise in intellectual thinking, but that it would also be an exercise in spiritual growth.
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And Lord God, that we might all be changed by what your scripture has to say to us.
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In Jesus name we pray.
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Amen.
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One of the most common things that we find when we look into the Bible is listings of names that are commonly called genealogies.
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Genealogies appear at numerous places in the scripture, and some people are very tempted to skip over the genealogies when we're reading through the Bible.
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In fact, I know many people who begin reading the Bible and they find that the first four chapters of Genesis are really kind of easy and fun to read.
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I mean, when you read the first four chapters of Genesis, you get the drama of creation.
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You get the relationship of man and God in the Garden of Eden and the relationship between Adam and Eve and the drama surrounding the serpent and all of the situation that happened there.
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You get the story of Cain and Abel and the first murder.
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And then you get to chapter five, and oftentimes when people are reading through the Bible, their excitement somewhat wanes because chapter five is a long and extensive genealogy.
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I remember one time when I was younger, a man told me, he said, I tried to read the Bible when I got to all those begats.
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I just couldn't keep up.
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So I stopped.
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However, the genealogical portions of the Bible make up for us some of the most important parts of sacred scripture.
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They enunciate for us most clearly that the Bible is actual history.
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It is not just one mythological story after another compiled in a book full of myths.
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That's one of the reasons why we can be so glad that the genealogies are there, because there is no reason to put a genealogy in a book of myths.
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But it tells us that the Bible is not a book of myths, Adam and Eve were not mythological figures because their lineage or rather their their the children that came after them can trace their lineage back to Adam and Eve.
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Abraham can be traced back to Adam and Eve, and so all the children of Abraham can be traced back to Adam and Eve.
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That is such an important part of scripture that we understand these genealogies have a purpose.
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And one of the most important purposes that they have is they remind us of the historicity of the text.
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Thus, genealogies are very important.
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This morning, we are actually going to study a genealogy.
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Now, I imagine there's not many churches in America today where people are doing an in-depth study on a Sunday morning of a genealogy.
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But I think it's important that we do these things because, again, it reminds us of the history of the text.
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And it also points out to us some of the key figures in these genealogies that we need to know about.
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So with that being said, I want to ask you to open up your Bibles and turn back to Genesis chapter five.
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In Genesis chapter five, we are going to talk about this man named Enoch, the one that we read about in Hebrews 11.
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But before we do that, I want us to actually examine the genealogy first.
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Is there any way? Really hot.
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All right.
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Looking at Genesis chapter five, that feels better.
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I just I feel like I was shouting.
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I'm trying to hold my voice back.
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Now I can shout.
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So look out.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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All right.
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This is the book of the generations of Adam.
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That is how Genesis chapter five, verse one begins.
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This is the book of the generations of Adam.
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Just stop right there and think about what that's saying.
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That's telling us very specifically that Adam is a historical figure.
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You have no idea.
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Well, maybe you do if you're if you've ever studied apologetics and you've ever looked into the to the realm of of people who are actually out there who are opposing the Christian faith, who oppose the message of the gospel and who oppose the truth of Scripture.
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Just how difficult it is for them to believe that there were two human beings that started the entire human race.
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They want to believe that we somehow evolved from a lower life form, like an orangutan or an ape of some kind.
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They want to believe that we came from from some kind of a lower primitive life form.
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They don't want to believe that God actually created man in the condition that he's still in and that God actually created woman, the condition that she is still in, that we've actually been through the last seven thousand, eight thousand years of human history, however long it is, and that we are still in the same condition created in the image of God.
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They want to believe that we're in the image of an ape or a monkey or some lower life form.
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But this text is very clear.
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It says here that this is the book, the book, the word book there in Hebrew actually means the record.
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This is the record of the generations of Adam.
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This is telling us who came from Adam and it goes on to say when God created man, he made him in the likeness of man.
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That's very important.
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And we've talked about that truth before.
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What does it mean to be made in the image of God? We've discussed the fact that that means that there is something different about humanity than any other part of the created world.
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There is no other part of the created world wherein God said he stamped his indelible image.
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We see animals that somewhat behave like humans do.
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Did you know that elephants grieve? According to the Discovery Channel, that's true.
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That elephants will surround one of their dead and they will grieve somewhat how we grieve when someone dies.
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We surround one another to comfort one another.
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Does that mean elephants are made in the image of God? No.
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And did you know that that primate animals like monkeys, they will use tools, they'll pick up a stick and hit something with.
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Yeah, it's funny.
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They'll pick up a stick and hit something with a stick.
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And they say because they're tool users, that they're that they're human like.
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No, that's just one part of being who they are.
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That's the way God created them.
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But only in the human being, only in man and woman has God stamped his indelible image.
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That is why human beings have the capacity for grief and the capacity for hope.
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That's why human beings have the capacity to use tools and go to the moon and make symphonies and write stories and produce books and do things that are amazing.
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In a few weeks, we're going to read about the Tower of Babel and how the Bible says and about that story, when man sets his mind to something, it's almost it's almost infinite, the things that he can accomplish.
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Why? Because he's made in the image of God.
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He has that indelible stamp.
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And you've seen people who have when they set their mind to something, it's almost amazing the things that we can accomplish.
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Wasn't it within a decade that the Americans said we want to go to the moon? And we went now.
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So when we read this, it says when God created man, he made him in his likeness.
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We must never forget.
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That's what makes mankind different.
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That's what separates us.
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That's what makes mankind special.
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We are not just grown up apes.
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Again, I could talk about that all morning, but I just every time I read that passage and that truth, it reminds me of that truth.
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And it says in verse two, male and female, he created them and he blessed them and he named them man when they were created.
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The name that we usually associate with the first man is what? Adam.
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But actually, that is simply the Hebrew word for man.
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That's why this text says he named the man.
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He called them.
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You are mankind.
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You are different from all the other animals.
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You are man and woman.
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You are male and female.
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One is the counterpart to the other.
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I better not go.
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I get into that.
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That'd be a whole different sermon about how people have perverted that truth.
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But man is made for woman and woman for man.
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And then it says in verse three, it begins the genealogy when Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he fathered a son in his own likeness after his image and named him Seth.
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Is this Adam's first son? Is it his second son? Some people conjecture that it's his third son.
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I don't even believe it's his third son.
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Does the text later says Adam and Eve had many sons and daughters, but Seth is made and put in a position of importance.
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Why? Because Seth has been given to them as the ancestor of what we could say.
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First, he's the ancestor of Abram.
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Well, let's go even back further.
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He's the ancestor of Noah, who would be the ancestor of Abram, who would be the ancestor of Christ.
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You see, Seth has an important part.
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Remember, the Bible is not written to give us all of world history.
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The Bible is written to us to give us redemptive history.
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And Seth plays an important role in redemptive history.
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He is in the line of redemptive history.
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So this genealogy is specific to us to tell us who were the sons of Seth.
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And that's very important.
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But something I want you to notice about verse three that should not be missed, it says Adam lived one hundred and thirty years and he fathered a son in whose likeness and his own likeness.
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Beloved, may you never forget that while you bear the image of God, you also bear the sin of Adam.
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And that text is very clear.
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Adam was made in the image of God and he had a son after his likeness who, because Adam was in the image of God, also bear the image of God, but sadly also carried the image of Adam and in the image of Adam came sin.
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The Bible tells us very clearly that we have sin that has been passed down to us, that we are born in sin.
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Matthew Henry, in talking about this passage, Matthew Henry, who wrote the great Bible commentary, he said Adam was made in the image of God, but when he was fallen and corrupt, he begat a son in his own image, sinful and defiled, frail, mortal and miserable like himself, not only a man like himself, consisting of body and soul, but a sinner like himself, guilty and obnoxious, degenerate and corrupt.
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Unger's Bible commentary goes on to say both physically and morally, Seth inherited the corrupt and fallen nature of Adam as all men do.
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Do you ever wonder why sin is so universal? It is because we are all fallen sons and daughters of Adam.
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The Bible says, wherefore, as by one sin, as by one man, sin entered the world and death by sin and so death spread to all men because all men sin.
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Even David understood this when he wrote in Psalm 51 5, I was conceived and born.
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And so.
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We have the image of God, but sadly, we also have the image of Adam passed down to us.
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Now, that being said, we move on to verse four, the days of Adam after he fathered Seth were eight hundred years and he had other sons and daughters, right? There's the text.
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If anybody ever says, you know, Adam and Eve only had three sons.
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How could the whole world come from three sons? They want to ask.
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They had many sons and daughters.
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But then again, later on, Noah has three sons and that's where all the world comes from.
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So, yes, the whole world did come from three families, but it wasn't these three families.
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It was Noah's three sons.
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But the point of the matter is, it says here that he fathered Seth and then afterwards he lived 800 years.
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That would being put together with the other text, which says he lived 130 years before he fathered him.
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He lived a total of nine hundred and thirty years.
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And then he died, verse five indicates that very thing.
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Thus, all the days of Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years and he died.
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And I've been asked this question many times and I felt like since I'm in the text this morning and I'm I'm addressing it verse by verse, I might as well address this question because I'm sure if I don't, somebody will ask me eventually later anyway.
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And the question is this nine hundred and thirty years is is is almost a millennium.
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Is it true, Pastor, that these people lived almost a thousand years at this particular time in history? And many argue that they did not.
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Many say, well, they didn't have calendars like we have calendars.
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So maybe they measured it in terms of seasons.
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And if they measured in terms of seasons, there's four seasons a year.
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So if that be the case and he lived nine hundred years and you divide four seasons into nine, it would be somewhere around two hundred years and plus some.
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And that's a much more moderate number.
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That's how some get around the long years.
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I don't agree with that.
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I just I'm pointing that out to you.
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That's how some might try to point to say this isn't exactly a thousand years or nine hundred and thirty years.
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However, my argument against that would be to say that this wasn't written in that time period.
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This was written in the time of Moses.
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And Moses certainly did have an understanding of years and calendars because they had yearly dates that they did things they had yearly sacrifices.
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The Yom Kippur sacrifice was a yearly sacrifice.
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They certainly understood the concept of a year being four seasons.
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So and even further, we could contend that the Holy Spirit, who is the undergirder of Scripture, the one who supports the Scripture, certainly understands what a year is.
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And I believe that these dates are correct.
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I believe that the ages are correct.
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I believe so because of two things.
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Well, first and foremost, I believe so because it's in the text and I have no right.
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I have no prerogative to look at the text and say, well, I don't believe that because it doesn't fit into my naturalistic scientific paradigm.
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I can't do that to the Scripture.
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I can't look at the Scripture and say, well, because that doesn't happen today, it never happened.
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That would be a fallacy on my part.
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It's a logical fallacy to say that just because something doesn't happen today doesn't mean it could never have happened before.
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That's inappropriate of me to do that.
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But even further than that, I would say this.
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All of the people who live to these long, massive lengths of time did so prior to the Noahic flood.
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After the flood, the lifespan of man is tremendously decreased.
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And my contention would be that prior to the flood, the conditions were much more paradisiacal than they are today and much more available for longer, more healthy living.
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And as such, it makes sense to me that for someone to live a much longer time during that time period when they may not have had the same atmosphere that we have today, they could have had an atmosphere.
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There's one man who wrote a book about how the atmosphere could have been totally different and as such would have protected them from the harmful rays of the sun and would have given them more energy, more strength, more vitality.
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All of these things are possible and could be true.
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But one thing I know for certain is that the Bible is not unclear about the length of their lives.
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And I have no right to say because it doesn't fit into my naturalistic paradigm that it cannot be true.
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In fact, the opposite is true.
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I have to look at the text and believe what it says.
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It also makes sense when you think about this, a longer lifespan would mean a more speedy multiplication of people, longer time to be able to have babies, longer time to have for them to have babies.
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So there's a larger opportunity for the multiplication of people.
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And something else, it also preserves the knowledge of God.
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Because remember, at that time, there is no written record of God's word.
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You have Adam and Eve who walked and spoke with God and they remember what happened.
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They remember getting kicked out of the garden.
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They remember those cherubim holding them back from going back into the garden.
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They remember that.
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And they live nine hundred and thirty years and they were able to share with every generation that succeeded them the truth of what happened.
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The word of God is kept intact when long life's when rather long lifespans are intact like that.
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Could you imagine? Could you imagine if Martin Luther were still alive today, the stories he could tell? Could you imagine if if if we go back to St.
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Paul, the apostle, if Paul was still alive today? I mean, that's two thousand years.
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That's further than any of these lifespans.
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But you could could you imagine two thousand years of history, the stories that he could tell? The word of God would be alive in the mouth of the apostle.
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So with that being said, we mustn't forget the importance of of the fact that these lifespans were not only there because the conditions were good in a in a naturalistic way, but the conditions were necessary to keep the word of God intact.
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Now, beginning at verse six, we see a pattern.
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We're not going to go through all of verse six through the end because for lack of time we couldn't do that.
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But verse six begins a pattern where it will say this person lived this many years.
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He begot a son.
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He then lived this many years and he begot other sons and daughters and he lived this many years and all and then he died.
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That's the pattern that you will see all the way from verse six to the end.
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Let's say this person lived.
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He had this son.
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He had other sons and daughters.
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And then he lived this many years and he died.
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You'll find that pattern throughout the rest of the chapter.
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Now, here's where we see the difference is in verse twenty one.
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So I want to jump to verse twenty one.
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Verse twenty one, we see a difference.
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It says when Enoch had lived sixty five years, seems like it's following the pattern.
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It talks about how many years he lived when he could live sixty five years.
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He fathered Methuselah.
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Who's Methuselah? The longest living person in Scripture, right? The only person in this list that was probably still alive when the flood happened potentially or close thereabouts.
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He might have saw Noah building the ark.
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Let's put it that way.
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They said he fathered Methuselah, Enoch walked with God after he followed Methuselah.
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And I think the term after he followed there, I think that indicates that somehow in some way his conversion happened as a result and following his son's birth.
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As you all know, many times in our life, it is those times of extreme circumstance that bring about the most clarity in our thinking.
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And God uses those time to save our soul.
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Sometimes it's the death of a loved one that causes us to look at our own mortality.
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God uses that time to open our heart to the truth.
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But here it says it was after Methuselah was born, he began his walk with God.
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He walked with God after Methuselah was born.
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Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah, 300 years, had other sons and daughters.
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Thus, all the days of Enoch were 365 years.
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That relatively short life, if you compare it not to our lives, but if you compare it to the other people who live in 800, 900 years, if you look at the list, Enoch lived a relatively short life, 365 years.
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And here's the important verse, verse 24, Enoch walked with God.
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And he was not.
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For God took him, beloved, if you were just reading that as a cursory reading, you might miss the significance of what you just read, because when we read it and it says Enoch was not, you might think, well, that means he died.
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Maybe that's a fancy way of saying he passed away.
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But then when you go back to Hebrews 11 and you compare it, when it said this in Hebrews 11, 5, by faith, Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death.
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That is an amazing truth.
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Enoch walked with God.
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And as such, he did not see death.
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But instead, God took him, translated him to heaven.
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We only know of one other time in all of biblical history.
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That that occurred, does anyone know who that person was? Elijah, that's right.
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In 2nd Kings, chapter two and verse 11, it says when they had crossed Elijah and Elisha asked, what shall I do before I am taken from you? And Elisha said, please let there be a double portion of your spirit on me.
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And he said, you have asked a hard thing.
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Yet if you see me as I am being taken from you, it shall be so for you.
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But if you do not see me, it shall not be so.
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And as they still went on and talked, behold, the chariots of fire and horses of fire separated with two of them.
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And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
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And Elisha saw it and cried, my father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen.
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And he saw him no more.
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Think of the same language that's being used of Enoch.
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It says he walked with God and he was not for he was taken.
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Here it says Elijah was seen no more.
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Two individuals in Scripture who did not taste death, but instead were translated into heaven.
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Without having to taste the sting of death.
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Some people have conjectured as a result that these two men did not die, but were rather translated into heaven, that perhaps they will be the two that return as the witnesses.
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If you read Revelation 11, I don't want to go through it all this morning, but if you go home today, read Revelation 11 and it talks about there being two men who bear witness to the truth and that they are killed and their bodies are left and that their bodies were then raised from the dead and they ascend into heaven.
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And some people have conjectured that the two who will come and will testify to the truth will be Enoch and Elijah.
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Why? Because they have not died.
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And the argument goes like this, God is holding them for that time that they could come back and profess the truth before the nations.
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And then die for their faith again, we know that that will happen.
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We see that in Revelation chapter 11.
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I can't say it's going to be Enoch and Elijah could be two men.
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We don't know.
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It could be Moses and Elijah had a professor in seminary who was adamant that it was going to be Moses and Elijah, because he said that's the two men who saw Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration.
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Anyhow, something that we need to understand about Enoch is this, though, and this is very important.
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Enoch was a prophet.
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But how do we know that? Does Genesis tell us he was a prophet? No, Genesis tells us he walked with God.
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Does Hebrews tell us he was a prophet? No, Hebrews simply tells us that he did not die, but rather he went to be with the Lord.
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Where do we find that Enoch was a prophet? The book of Jude.
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And here's where we're going to go, and this will be our last place to look today.
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I just want to show you this because it's very important.
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The book of Jude and the New Testament, it's right before the book of Revelation.
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If you get there, take a left and go backwards.
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It's one page.
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Oh, excuse me, in the pew Bible, it's two pages in the book of Jude.
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There are no chapters.
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There are only verses.
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It's one chapter.
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And in talking about the history of the faithful, the writer of Jude says this.
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Now, Enoch, the seventh from Adam.
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And if you go back to the genealogy, you can trace it all the way back to Adam.
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He's seven generations from Adam.
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And Jude makes that point.
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Why? To show this is a historical character in a historical place in time.
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The Bible is not a book of myths.
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It's history.
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It's redemptive history.
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He says, now, Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men.
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Who are these men? They're false teachers.
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They're the wolves.
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They're the ones who come in to devour the sheep.
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And Enoch, even before Noah and the flood, prophesied that these men would come.
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He said he said he prophesied saying, behold, the Lord comes with ten thousand of his saints to execute judgment on all to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds, which they have committed in an ungodly way and all of the harsh things which upon which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
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This was Enoch's profession.
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This was his prophecy that God was going to bring judgment.
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On the ungodly, that God was going to bring judgment upon the false teachers and the false prophets, you might say, Pastor, what has this got to do with me? I want to end with this.
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Because we talk about this, it's very important.
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Yeah, this is the life of a man named Enoch.
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Probably many of you have never even looked at the life of Enoch very much because the Bible doesn't say much about it.
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But I want to tell you how this applies to all of us this morning.
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And I want to ask for your attention for just another moment as I finish this message, because this is where I want to apply this to us today.
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It is easy.
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It is so easy.
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To look at our lives as having very little significance, it's easy to consider ourselves to be a very small fish in a very large pond, particularly in the arena of faith.
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I know for myself, when I look at the great works of men like Luther and Calvin and Sproul and MacArthur, it sometimes can be very overcoming to imagine that one person could accomplish all those things.
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And it's easy to begin to feel like our lives are very insignificant.
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And one thing I was reminded of while reading the story of Enoch and studying these texts is that though we may only be a single name and a long family line, we may only be one entry in a lengthy genealogy.
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We may not have the largest ministry in Jacksonville or even in Ocean Way as long as we walk with God, we are making a difference in his kingdom.
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We are not without significance.
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One of the fears people often tell me about is their fear of insignificance.
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They want their lives to have purpose.
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Beloved, hear me today.
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No greater impact can you make on your job, on your family and on your church than you be one who is known to walk with God.
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Father God, as we come to the conclusion of the service, I pray that we would all ask ourselves and be honest with ourselves and say to ourselves, are we walking with you? And I pray that you would remind our spirits that if we are.
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That our lives have purpose, they have meaning, they have eternal significance, and I pray that you would remind us to encourage each other with these words, to be encouraged with the story of Enoch, a man who so little is written about.
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Yet what is written reminds us of a man whose life was the life of a prophet, and though his prophecy is short and is contained in only one short book of the New Testament, it is filled with meaning.
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The reminder of your judgment on the ungodly.
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It's something that should never leave our hearts and minds.
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And it's first prophesied in Scripture by Enoch.
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Lord, we love you and we thank you for your word.
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We thank you for this opportunity to have been in your word, studying your word, examining your word.
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And I pray, Lord, that this time of study has changed hearts, has encouraged lives and has been used by you to further the cause of your kingdom.
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We pray this, Lord, in Jesus name and for his sake.