“Enoch Walked With God” Genesis 5:21-24 Hebrews 11:5 “he pleased God” Jude 14,15 “prophesied” 7th Generation from Adam Lived 365 Years Disappeared from face of the earth “God took him” Without seeing death

“Enoch Walked With God” Was Contemporary with Adam Translated 57 years after death of Adam, 69 years before Noah, year of the world 987 Enoch and Elijah only two human beings of record who entered Glory without seeing death “Walked with God” – does not get better than that

“Enoch Walked With God” Amid most wicked surroundings Human race about 1,000 years old “Evil company corrupts good morals” - 1 Corinthians 15:33 Descendants of Seth corrupted by association & intermarriage with descendants of Cain Result: Genesis 6:5 “evil continually”

Enoch Walked With God

Humanity Same In All Ages Same temptations, conflicts and victories as we do Questions about them impossible to answer How did they live so many years? Cannot tell how or when he was “taken” On Authority of God’s Word, we know it was so Deuteronomy 29:29 “secret things belong to the Lord our God”

Walking with God in This World – No Easy Times NOT Easy for David, Daniel and Jeremiah NOT Easy for Jesus or early Christians NOT Easy NOW! Universal Principle – 1 John 1:7 “Walk in the light as God is in the light…” We have fellowship with God and God has fellowship with us. “blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.”

Genesis & Hebrews on Enoch Genesis 5:24 NKJV 24 And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.” Hebrews 11:5 NKJV 5 By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death,… before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.”

“Enoch walked with God?” God did not literally walk by his side on earth Figurative expression – implies close relationship with God To walk with God and to Please God one and the same thing Amos 3:3 “Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?” 1 Samuel 2:30 “those who honor Me I will honor”

TO WALK WITH GOD IS: To be in agreement with Him (reconciled to Him) 2 Corinthians 5:20 “be reconciled to God” Conducting ourselves as being under the continual inspection of His all-seeing eye – Hebrews 4:13 “no creature is hidden from His sight” To live a life of fellowship with Him and obedience to him – 1 John 1:6,7; 2:3,4 To please Him in everything, and offend Him in nothing - 1 John 3:22

What Happened to Enoch? Genesis: “He was not, for God took him.” Hebrews: “taken away so that he did not see death…and was not found, because God had taken him.” Not here – gone from the earth Transferred from earth to the presence of God Elijah and Enoch evidence of God and a realm beyond this veil of tears! Jesus to the thief – Luke 23:43

Enoch’s Message to Us? IF we walk with God, as he did, it will please God and when Jesus returns he will take us into the Heavenly realm To be pleasing to God, must be forgiven and justified by the shed blood of Christ Must render obedience to the Gospel of Christ: Believe, Repent, Confess, be Baptized Be faithful till death, receive the crown of life – Revelation 2:10

Walk with God = Walk with Christ Colossians 2:6 “Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him” – walk WITH = IN Him Many live “moral” lives, with no faith in Christ. John 3:16 “God so loved the world…” John 14:6 “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No man comes to the Father but by Me.” Have You Started to Walk With God?