The Enoch Walk (Genesis 5, Jeff Kliewer)

Worship in Spirit and Truth

Not just those who are leading the singing, but each of us would sing in spirit and in truth. Lord, we thank you for the Lord's table that we could take of this bread and cup and remember the body and blood of Jesus.

Help us to truly confess our sins and to be right and get right with you this morning. And then, Lord, help us to hear your word. Give us ears to hear and hearts that are attentive to your word. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.

So, this song that we're going to do first, this was big on Caleb about 15 years ago or something. This is made to worship, but just in going through Genesis and the story of Adam and Eve and the beginnings just brought to my mind about how we are made, we are created in the image of God to be worshipers of God.

And so, Lord, let's just pray. God, we pray that we would come to you as true worshipers, Lord, that we would come to you without hypocrisy in our hearts, Lord, just as like the Pharisees, they were praying to the right God, but in the wrong way with hypocrisy in their heart, Lord God.

We pray that you would cleanse us of that, that you would put in us that clean heart of worship, Lord, so that we can sing your praises. And that is what we'll do for all eternity as we're before your throne, singing praises to you, Lord.

And we give you all the praise and all the glory, Lord.

And wrote the story of his love for everyone. He has filled our hearts with wonder, so that we always remember. You and I are made to worship. You and I are called to love. You and I are forgiven and free.

You and I embrace surrender. You and I choose to believe. You and I will see who we were meant to be. You and I are made to worship. You and I are called to love. You and I are forgiven and free. You and I embrace surrender.

You and I choose to believe. You and I will see who we were meant to be. You and I will see who we were made to worship. You and I choose to believe. That you will see Worship, you and I all will see.

All things in the name. No purpose of yours can be thwarted. Lord, you are powerful, you reign. Almighty Lord God, we bless your holy name.

Blessed be your name. In the land That is plentiful Where dreams Of abundance Flow Blessed be your name. Blessed be your name When it found In the desert place Fall off through The wind. Blessed be your name Blessing you all.

Turn back when the darkness Closes in Lord's name. When the sun Blessed be with suffering Closes in Lord's name. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Blessed be your name. In the name of the Lord. Of the Lord I say, I used to say May it be your kingdom.

Take away I used to say Blessed be your Name. Blessed be your name. Blessed be the name Of the Lord. Blessed be your glorious Name. Blessed be the name. Blessed be the glory. I say, I take We'll choose to stay.

Lord, bless it Be your name. I say, I take We'll choose to stay. Lord, bless it Be your name. In all the adoration. That's all we see.

Who paid my debt And raised this life up From the dead. We've just sung that refrain. And I firmly believe That when we get the opportunity To sing a refrain like that Before the throne of God That when our heart is engaged This pleases the Lord.

When our worship And our adoration And our expressions to God Come from a heart that is genuine Even as Phil already spoke to This morning. When our praise is genuine It is really pleasing To God. We are at the end of Perhaps ten days Of the church calendar Where understanding And reflecting and responding To who God is And what he has done When it comes from the depths of our heart Is life changing.

You think about ten days ago As Jesus sent his followers Into the village To prepare a room where they could celebrate The Passover feast. And then as they went up And shared what we now would call The last supper.

How Jesus did so many things. This was like a master's course In theology. He washed their feet. He told them that he would be going. He broke bread He shared the cup. And then he even told Judas What you must do, go do.

And that time up there Had to have been An incredible time of warm fellowship With their Messiah With their Rabbi. And then Jesus Prays what we know in John 17 As the great priestly High prayer. And how Jesus prays For those That the father has given to him.

And then they go to the garden. Jesus says Pray with me a while. He goes into the inner garden And in anguish he prays And he sweats drops of blood. We know That Jesus knew What was coming down the pike And we can Reflect on.

And we can even consider The pain that he would have gone through. And the scourgings And the crown of thorns The cross, the nails. But I believe that what really Caused him to sweat drops of blood Was knowing that while on that cross.

For the only instant of all eternity. The father and the son Would not be in direct fellowship With one another. Because Jesus took my sins. The father can't look at sin. And it drove Jesus To say my God, my God Why have you forsaken me.

But then he says to Telistai It's finished. My sins have gone to the cross. His blood has washed away my sins. It's taken away as far as the east Is from the west. And so then he does die. The body does die.

And there's a tomb And there's a boulder. And there's a Roman guard and a seal on that boulder. And Saturday had to have been a very lonely Confusing day. And then Sunday morning Mary and Mary Before the break of dawn Head out to anoint the body.

Why do you search for the living Among the dead. Don't you know that he has risen Just as he said. And eventually Jesus Comes to them. And he says go tell my disciples That he has risen just as he said And tell Peter.

And so the news starts to spread. But there still is a little bit of uncertainty. And they're in a room by themselves. And Jesus just shows up in the room. But Thomas wasn't there. And he said unless I can put my hands in his side.

So Jesus comes back again. And for 40 days Jesus appears To the followers. And then there is Pentecost. And they're in a room again. And all of a sudden The Holy Spirit comes down In tongues of flame.

And they're given the power of the Holy Spirit. And Peter who at one time Cowered back from a little servant girl. No I don't know the man Now stands with the power And the courage and the strength That can only come from God.

And he proclaims the gospel message To the crowds. And everybody hears in their own voice. See the message that we have I delivered unto you for first importance That which I also received. Christ died for our sins According to the scriptures He was buried and he was raised.

On the third day according to the scriptures Is given. But what is also given to us Is laid out on this table in front of us. It's given for us as a remembrance As a reality As a celebration. I needed I needed I couldn't do on my own.

And so God the father Sent his son Who willingly went to the cross And on the table Represents his broken body And his blood shed. And we are encouraged to do this In remembrance of him. I'm going to ask the service to come forward.

Please. It's recorded for us in 1 Corinthians 11.

And I want to start with an important passage. They're all important. But Whoever therefore eats the bread or drinks The cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner Will be guilty Concerning the body and blood of the Lord Let a person examine himself.

Then and so eat of the bread And drink of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning The body eats and drinks Judgment on himself. So we are encouraged. And we're going to take a moment In prayer within our hearts.

We know that as believers We are made Whole. We are justified by the blood. But we also know that we do make mistakes. It's called sin. I want each of us In our hearts before the Lord To confess those things that we may be holding on to.

So as we come to this table We come prepared. Let's pray. Lord you know all things. You know my heart You know all things. You know that I am prone to wander. Lord you know all things. And I pray Father that what you know is that My desire is to follow after you.

But my flesh is weak Lord. I confess to you Not the generality of sin. But times when I have Fallen away I seek you Lord. Blessed are the pure of heart. For the same will seek God. And so we come to this table Confessing to you Anticipating In the great hope of the kingdom to come.

We pray in Jesus name. It is written For I received from the Lord What I also delivered to you That the Lord Jesus On the night he was betrayed took bread. And when he had given thanks He broke it and said This is my body which is for you.

Do this in remembrance of me.

Gentlemen Jesus' body on the cross Broken.

Because of my sin Do this in remembrance of me. In the same way he also took the cup After supper Saying this cup is a new covenant In my blood Do this as often you drink it In remembrance of me As often as you eat this bread And drink this cup You proclaim the Lord's death Until he comes.

Let's pray.

Father we wait for the coming of your son Who the first time came To pay for sins In his own blood And the second time Will come To trample underfoot In the winepress The wrath of the fury of God. We look for him because we know That he will come and rescue us To be with him.

He has gone to prepare a place for us That where he is there we may also be. So Lord When the son of God comes Will he find faith on earth. We pray that in this people In this church We would be filled with faith And that we would be walking In a way that pleases you.

Help us Lord this morning to Correct the way we walk Help us to think rightly Help us to repent And to have faith Stir in us devotion That we would be fully consecrated unto thee. In Jesus name we pray Amen.

D. L. Moody and the Power of the Holy Spirit

Dwight dropped out of school After fifth grade Because he needed to go help his family Make money. He moved to Boston. This was the mid 1800's. And in Boston he became a shoe seller. He worked for his uncle In a retail shoe store.

On April 21st 1885 He had a visitor In the shoe store. It was his Sunday school teacher named Edward Kimble. Edward Kimble came to Dwight Moody And told him more and more About the love of Jesus Christ And called him to repent of sin And believe in Christ.

And on that day And shortly thereafter On April 21st 1855 Dwight Moody became A Christian. And he continued to Sell shoes and continued to work As a retail shoe salesman. But now he was living for Christ.

He got involved with his church and the Sunday school movement There until finally he moved out to Chicago to open a shoe Store of his own. But he found that fitting people With shoes For their earthly walk Paled in comparison To fitting people With the gospel of Peace.

We're told in Ephesians that our feet ought to be fitted With the gospel of peace. And so Dwight Moody Began to evangelize working for the YMCA. And in the Sunday school movement Many kids Became Christians.

They were coming from families That often didn't have Loving Christian instruction. And so he became their instructor And he taught them He became their spiritual father. And more and more kids came To the Sunday schools To hear the gospel of Jesus Christ.

In 1864 He founded his own church Called the Illinois Street Church Which is now called The Moody Church In Chicago. And more and more people came to Saving Faith After the great Chicago fire. He realized the urgency Of the moment and so he went out Preaching the gospel across England And all across America Wherever he went.

Thousands upon thousands of people came To hear This man with a 5th grade education. Where did that power Come from? The Holy Spirit of God. And his preaching was blessed of God. He had imagination To paint a picture for people About the gospel of Jesus.

He told about how when Jesus sent The disciples back To the very place where he was crucified. Peter must have said Lord do you want us to go preach To the very people who killed you? And Jesus would have said Yes.

And find the man who spat on me And tell him That he too can have a seat at the table. And find the man Who pressed a crown of thorns on my head And tell him That I have a crown for him Only it has no thorns.

And find the man Who struck me with a reed On the head And tell him I have a scepter for him. For he can rule with me In the everlasting kingdom If only he repents. Find the man Who pierced my side With a spear and tell him There is a nearer way To my heart.

D .L. Moody had a way with words. He had a way of preaching The gospel such that thousands of people Would come to hear him burn For God. And many of them came to saving faith. But do you want to know the secret ingredient In D .L. Moody's Ministry.

It was not how he spoke. It was not that he could talk so well. Again he was not An educated man. The power came From the Holy Spirit. Because God blessed his ministry With the hand of his favor. In 2nd Chronicles The king Asa Had relied on Syria to bring deliverance.

And so a prophet Came and rebuked that king And said the eyes of the Lord Searched to and fro throughout the earth To strongly support The ones whose hearts are fully Committed to him. God was looking for a heart that was Fully consecrated.

And the turning point In Moody's ministry came When he heard an evangelist say. The world Has never seen what God Can do with one man Whose heart is fully committed To him. D .L. Moody when he heard that saying The Lord has.

The world has never seen what God can do With one heart that is fully Committed to him. D .L. Moody Resolved in his heart I will be That man I will walk with God. I will do Whatever God tells me to do.

Go wherever he sends me. Start Sunday schools. The student missionary movement That sent 5000 missionaries To the ends of the earth. Began in Moody's church. The power of God was in his ministry. But it did not come from him.

You see D .L. Moody was a man Who walked the walk. It's not just that he knew How to preach. It wasn't that he knew how to talk. It's that he walked With God. Turn with me to Genesis chapter 5. To learn about a man named Enoch.

Enoch Who walked with God. We're going to learn the Enoch walk today. Three things about it. One it's something that's learned And taught. Secondly it makes you rapture ready. And thirdly It will be vindicated And rewarded To understand the Enoch walk.

And what's happening in Genesis 5 Requires context. Some people set out to read The Bible in the year. Has anybody ever set out to read the Bible In the year. And You stop reading when it gets to the Genealogies.

You just give up. Well hopefully that happens maybe in Deuteronomy. Not Genesis chapter 5. But here we have a genealogy. And you hear about names and how long people lived. And you think well why do I need to know This information.

Is it supposed to conform me in some way. Or is it just knowledge. The answer is The Bible is delivering a message. And it's. It's cohesive. It flows from one point to the next. By the time you get to Genesis 5 You should be looking for the seed Of the woman.

Genesis 3 15. A seed of the woman Will crush the head of the serpent. And there's going to be this enmity Between the seed of the serpent And the seed of the woman. Conflict between the righteous And the unrighteous.

The serpent of course is Satan. And he has the seed. There are people that follow him. We see this in Genesis chapter 4. Eve was hopeful. When Cain was born I have begotten a man child. She celebrates.

But little does she know That this seed is not The promised seed of the woman. The one to crush the serpent's head. But Cain is actually A seed of the serpent. And so in a fit of jealous Rage He takes out that rage On his own brother Abel.

He murders his brother. And the blood of Abel cries out to God From the ground for justice And vindication. It's the struggle between the seed of The serpent and the seed of the woman. Righteous Abel Prefigures Christ Whose blood speaks a better message Than the blood of Abel.

And then we see unfold. From Cain comes An ungodly line. Descendants from Cain Who are just like their father. They learn from him They do like him. And before long Lame Lamech Is boasting to his two wives.

He's married two women now Instead of one Against God's created order. And he's boasting how he murdered A young guy For striking him. And he goes on And on In his unrighteous Deliverance. Here you have a city Being built Unrighteous people who are Worse and worse one generation After the next.

The world is descending Not evolving but devolving. Meanwhile Adam does have another son. His name is Seth. And Seth's son is Enosh. And here people begin to call on the name of the Lord. They're waiting on the seed of the woman.

But meanwhile they're walking with God In the garden of Eden. It was easy to walk with God. Remember Adam walked with God In the coolness of the day. Remember that saying in Genesis Because everything was perfect And God was visible to him.

Adam I think Was seeing the second member of the Trinity. He was walking with Jesus. But now God is invisible, they're out of Eden. Sin is in the world, how do you walk with God. Well men begin To call upon the name of the Lord.

They learn to pray. They learn to encourage one another And to worship. The first worship services are beginning to happen. And so in one city You have the seed of the woman A righteous godly line Who's learning to worship And to pray.

In the other city east of Eden You have the ungodly seed of Cain. And it's going From bad to worse Wickedness increasing. And so we pick up in chapter 5. These are not just Facts to remember but follow that Train of thought.

This is the godly line of Seth. This is the book Of the generations Of Adam. When God created man He made him in the likeness Of God, when it says the generations Of Adam there, this is that Godly line.

Those righteous ones who are generated From Adam and they bear his likeness. Male and female he created them And he blessed them and named Them man when they were Created, this is God's Design of maleness and femaleness.

When Adam Had lived 130 years He fathered a son in his own Likeness After his image Is the point and named him Seth. And so Seth bears The image of God as all humanity Does The image of God was defaced Not erased.

When sin came into the world All people have intellect Rationality. People are made in the image Of God. But what's indicated here Is that there's a spiritual likeness To Adam. Seth is like Adam as this godly line.

He's learning to pray. Adam was covered with the Righteousness Of animal sacrifice Obediently Wearing this covering For their sin and shame That prefigures Christ, Adam's a believer. And so is Seth. That's the idea, he's following In the likeness, the image of Adam Unlike Cain and the godless ones.

Here you have a righteous People, verse 4 The days of Adam After he fathered Seth Were 800 years. And he had Other sons and daughters. Which indicates with this much procreation There's a multiplier effect.

John MacArthur estimates that by the end Of this chapter there are 7 Billion people on the planet Just as we have today Because of the length of life and the multiplier. Verse 5 Thus all the days that Adam lived Were 930 years And he died.

When Seth had lived 105 years He fathered Enosh. Does that mean It takes 105 years to grow up? Some of the parents In the room are thinking That sounds about right, we're on about that pace. Well when he grew here It says Seth had lived 105 years and he fathered Enosh, did it take Seth 100 years to reach Maturity to be able to procreate?

I mean if you're going to live 900 years maybe you're a child for the first 100. I don't think that's the idea here. I think adolescence would be the same amount of time. And then a person Just doesn't decay as quickly.

The aging process Doesn't take over, death hasn't Had such a strong grip yet. So people live longer. Here's what I think is happening. Notice In verse 4 The days of Adam After he fathered Seth Were 800 years.

Was Seth The firstborn of Adam? No, Cain was. So this is not a list of the Firstborn, this is a list Of when the godly seed Ultimately it's pointing to Noah Who will Allow humanity to go on. And the seed of the woman The Messiah will come from Noah.

So we're tracing the Messiah's line. We're tracing the godly seed. The godly one Who was like his father Was born 105 years After Seth. Then verse 7 Seth lived after he fathered Enosh 807 years And had other sons and daughters.

Thus all the days of Seth were 912 years and he died. There could have been other godly Righteous ones among the sons. But what Moses is doing In recording this is giving us A line of faithfulness. And the big idea here is That this Walk with God Knowing how to pray, knowing how to hear From God, knowing how to worship.

It's taught Fathers teaching sons Sons teaching their sons And likewise Like D .L. Moody with the Sunday school kids There are spiritual offspring. Those who would hear this teaching And learn it Are following in that In the footsteps of the one who walks with God.

Verse 9. When Enosh had lived 90 years he fathered Kenan. Enosh lived After he fathered Kenan 815 years and had other sons and daughters. Thus all the days of Enosh Were 905 years And he died. Are you noticing the refrain?

Each one ends with And he died Because death entered the world. When sin came in Adam and Eve disobeyed. As God said You will surely die. Now each generation dies. We're waiting for one who can reverse that curse.

Who can take the death penalty In his body on a tree And then conquer it on the third day. We're waiting on Messiah. But until he comes Each one dies. And until he comes the second time Even Christians die.

The godly, the righteous Are dying Except for one Enoch is coming. Verse 12. When Kenan had lived 70 years he fathered Mahalalel. Kenan lived after he fathered Mahalalel 840 years And had other sons and daughters.

Thus all the days of Kenan Were 910 years And he died. When Mahalalel had lived 65 years He fathered Jared. Mahalalel lived after he fathered Jared 830 years And had other sons and daughters. Thus all the days of Mahalalel Were 895 years And he died.

When Jared had lived 162 years He fathered Enoch. Jared lived after he fathered Enoch 800 years And had other sons and daughters. Thus all the days of Jared Were 962 years And he died. So pause right there, what's happening in this text?

They're living righteous in their generation. Do you guys remember when The icky shuffle came out? You young fans of football You won't remember this. It was when I was growing up. It was a certain dance that this guy would do After he scored a touchdown.

It was called the icky shuffle. And when he started doing that Everybody in the country You could be playing in your backyard. You score a touchdown, you're doing the icky shuffle. And then there was the dab.

Remember when the kids were doing the flossing? The certain dance they called Flossing. I was glad when that fad ended. There's always these fads that come. And it's these different moves that people do.

How does it just sweep the nation that way? Because when people see someone Do something They emulate it. It catches on. It's taught, it's learned. Godlessness is taught. The cultural craze of Transitioning gender.

That's not Some new thing. What it is is Bad behavior modeled. And then taught and caught And passed on. It's a cultural contagion, it's learned. Just like the icky shuffle. Godlessness can be modeled.

Right? So it is with godliness. Fathers, take this seriously. Your children will hear What you say, and they'll listen. But what you do Will speak Much more loudly than what you say. How you walk How we walk.

As Christians, we're being watched All the time. In school, young people In school, they see you. Whether you go to a Christian school or not In a Christian school, they're not all saved. And those who aren't so sure They're walking on the fence.

They see you. How you walk teaches Others how to live. So now let's talk about a new Walk. The Enoch Walk. The Enoch Walk is remarkable. You want to know what this thing does? It's not just like the dab or whatever.

The Enoch Walk Is going along with God. And then like climbing a stairway to heaven It just walks right into heaven. Isn't that cool? Remember the refrain? And he died, and he died, and he died. Now watch what happens to Enoch 21 to 24.

When Enoch had lived 65 years He fathered Methuselah. Enoch Walked with God. That's the key. You should pick up on it. Because it's going to be repeated in verse 24. Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah 300 years.

And had other sons and daughters. Thus all the days of Enoch Were 365 years. Enoch walked with God. And he was not. It doesn't say, and he died. It says, and he was not. For God took him. He didn't die.

He just was taken Straight up into heaven. That is absolutely Remarkable. There's a word for this. The word. For being caught up into heaven Without having to die Is called rapture. Turn with me to 1 Thessalonians 4 Verse 17.

I want you to see this here. I've actually heard it said Quite often recently That the rapture is A modern invention A theological novum A newcomer to the theological scene. But I see it right here. In 1 Thessalonians 4 17 After talking about how the dead in Christ Will rise When Christ calls them to meet him in the air.

It says of us who are alive. And I'm hoping we live to the rapture. It says in verse 17. Then we who are alive Who are left Will be caught up. Harpazo in the Greek. In the Latin rapturo. Where we get this term rapture.

The rapture is taught right here. We will be caught up together With them in the clouds. We're not going to meet Jesus in Jerusalem. Where are we going to meet him? In the clouds because we're going to be raptured.

We're going to be caught up. Now there's some debate about how this unfolds. And I think it's a debatable issue. It's okay to hold a difference here. Some people believe that the rapture Is the very same moment as the second coming Which I call the reverse yo-yo effect.

A yo-yo you send it down. It comes right back up. This is an upward yo-yo Where the church goes up And meets Jesus in the air. As he's coming to Jerusalem. And he plants his foot On the Mount of Olives.

So the church is just a reverse yo-yo. We go up to heaven but boom. We're right back down in his wake. I don't hold that view If he pauses in heaven To greet us at all To spend some time with us Welcome us.

Then there's a gap. I think that gap is seven years long actually. I think Christ comes to meet us in the air. Revelation 19 describes The wedding supper of the Lamb In heaven Before the glorious appearing of the Lord.

When Jesus comes In his glorious appearing His robe is dipped in blood. He comes to trample the winepress Of the wrath of the fury of God. He's coming as the judge. But there's first a wedding supper For those for whom he comes We meet him in the air.

I think that there is A seven year period Where the church is with Christ. And then we follow him To the earth In that judgment. It's my view. It's okay to differ over the eschaton What's going to happen In eschatology.

But here's what we all need to understand And take to heart. We need to be rapture ready. Whether you think that The rapture is going to be one and the same With the coming of Christ And the glorious appearing.

Or whether you think we're going to go to heaven For some time and then come back With Christ. That part doesn't matter much compared to this. That when he comes Will he find faith on earth. Who will be walking with him.

Enoch Walked with God. Enoch walked with God. It's repeated twice in these few verses. Back to Genesis 5. Enoch walked with God. So he was ready for the rapture. And I think Enoch pictures the church in that That just like this one man In a pre-figure Was caught up to heaven.

So we as the anti-type The one to whom that points The church will also be caught up Like Enoch was. And what distinguished Enoch From the sons of Cain. He had made a break with the world. He saw what they did.

Now use your imagination The way that Moody imagined The sending of the twelve. And he saw When they had to go preach To the very people that crucified Jesus. Imagine what it was like for Enoch If there's only this small remnant On the straight and narrow path.

And everybody else is indulging In all manner of sin. We'll see next week how weird and crazy it had gotten. You think it's bad now? The seven people The seven billion people on earth At the time of Noah There were demonic beings Producing demonic Spirits of some sort.

We'll learn about that next week, Genesis 6. The sons of God who saw the daughters of men Were beautiful and they came into them. And the giants were in the land. It's crazy, but the thoughts of their heart Were nothing but wickedness all the time.

Enoch is part of the small remnant Who made a break from the world. Now don't you wish you could know What he was saying? We can know that Turn with me To where the New Testament Reveals what he said.

It's in the book of Jude Second to last book of our Bible. Of the Bible Jude verses 14 and 15. If you want to be rapture ready You have to make a break With this godless world. If you're all entangled In the ways of the world Walking as they walk Plunging in the same flood of dissipation.

You're not ready for the rapture. How do you know that you're genuinely saved? Those who are born Again Are children of light and walk in the light. In Jude Verses 14 and 15 we see that Enoch was the first prophet.

And he was preaching Against godlessness in the world. Jude 14 and 15. It was also about these that Enoch The seventh from Adam. Notice these are literal generations. The New Testament It's not eons or ages.

So the time can be calculated from Genesis. From Adam to Noah Is 1656 years. Do the math on your own In Genesis later. But the point is These are seven literal generations. It's not ages. This is how old the earth is At that point in time.

The seventh generation from Adam Verse 14 Prophesied. He was preaching. He was talking to the sons. The line of Cain To those who had rejected god. And here's what he said. Spoiler it's not A feel good Shiny smiley white teeth.

God wants your best life now. You want to hear what it says? Here's how Enoch preached. Behold The lord comes With ten thousands of his holy ones To execute judgment on all And to convict all the ungodly Of all their deeds.

Of ungodliness That they have committed In such an ungodly way And of all the harsh things That ungodly sinners have spoken against him. That was his sermon. It's a snippet of it. I'm sure he goes on and on.

But can you pick up the theme? He said it four times. Ungodly. The ungodly who do ungodly things In ungodly ways. And they shake their fists at god And they hate god. And here's Enoch who loves god. And he's pleading with them And he's warning them.

God will come in judgment. There is a god He's invisible to you. And you reject him. But he preached. He didn't have the gospel yet. Only in seed form. There will be a sin Breaker A serpent crusher. And I'm sure that Enoch preached About the coming Christ As best as he could see him As through a glass darkly.

But the point of Enoch's sermon Should hit us right between the eyes. We live in a godless world. Godliness. Very few follow that path. Godlessness. It's rampant It's everywhere. And it's conforming us.

It would push us into its mold. But the Enoch walk says I will reject that world And choose god. I will reject the godlessness Of this culture. I will make a break from it. And so The one who makes a break From the world is ready for the rapture.

When the son of man comes Will he find faith on earth. He's looking to and fro throughout the earth For a heart that's fully committed to him. That's the Enoch Walk. Next, back to Genesis 5. Notice also.

This is very important. The world rejects Enoch. But Enoch And those who walk like him Will be vindicated And rewarded. In Genesis 5 It says He was not. For God took him. His reward for walking with God Was heaven In this world.