Monday, January 6, 2014

Do you know how to walk with God? Genesis 4-7

Genesis 5:21-24 (NASBStr)
Enoch lived sixty- five years, and became the father of Methuselah. Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters. So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty- five years. Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

Hebrews 11:5 (NASBStr)
By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death; and he was not found because God took him up; for he obtained the witness that before his being taken up he was pleasing to God.

Back in Genesis 4:17 we read that Cain, the son of Adam, gave birth to a son named Enoch.  Cain was so proud he named a city after that son.   It would be a very proud moment to have an entire city named after you.   Cain's Enoch must have grown up very proud.   But, it doesn't say in Genesis 4 that Cain's Enoch walked with God.   However, in the above passage in Genesis 5 we see another Enoch.  He doesn't have a city named after him.  Nor does he have a statue built of himself in his honor.  He doesn't have a University building or athletic center built after him.  He doesn't have his face on the local currency.   No peace treaty or public policy is named after him.   But, this Enoch, the seventh from Adam, has something said about him and something that happened to him as a result that hadn't happened before of after.   Enoch was so in communion with God, in such great fellowship with him (the Hebrew word for "walk" above means to be intimate fellowship) that he went for a walk with God one day and just never came back.  God might have been protecting him from those around him, who would have despised his piety.    God took him right to heaven to be with Him.   The passage in the book of Hebrews states that God took him to heaven because he was so pleasing to God.   In the next verse in Hebrews 11 it states that without faith it is impossible to please God. So, we can make the judgement that Enoch was in fellowship with God, intimate fellowship, because he so believed in God and believed God.   His faith was the gateway to his pleasing God and having fellowship with God.  If we want an extraordinary testimony on this earth and an exceptional relationship with God we need to be a person of faith.  Faith allows us to walk with God and please God in that walk.   

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