Genesis 4:17-5:29 - ”The Two Roads” - Who Are We Series

our Old Testament scripture reading

comes from Genesis 4:1 17- 26 then 5

Genesis 4:1

veres 1:3 then verses 21 to 24 and 28 to

29 Cain knew his wife and she conceived

and bore Enoch when he built a city he

called the name of the city after the

name of his son Enoch to Enoch was born

irod and irod fathered

mahel and mahel fathered

meusel and meusel fathered lamek and

lamek took two wives the name of one was

adah and the name of the other Zilla

adab bore jabel he was the father of

those who dwell in tents and have

livestock his brother's name was jubil

he was the father of all those who play

the liar and

pipe Zilla also bore

tubalcain he was the forger of all

instruments of bronze and iron the

sister of Tu balane was

Nama lamech said to his wives

sorry Ada and Zilla hear my voice you

wives of lamek listen to what I say I

have killed a man for wounding me a

young man for striking me if Cain's

revenge is Sevenfold than LX is

77-fold and Adam knew his wife again and

she bore a son and called his name Seth

for she said God has appointed for me

another Offspring instead of Abel for

Cain killed him to Seth also a son was

born and he and he called his name enosh

at that time people began to call upon

the name of the Lord

this is the book of the generations of

Adam when God created man he name he

made him in the likeness of God male and

female he created them and he blessed

them and named them man when they were

created when Adam had lived 130 years he

fathered a son in his own likeness after

his image and named him

Seth now we're going to jump ahead to

verse

21 when Enoch had lived 65 years he

fathered

Methuselah 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 for God took

him skip ahead to verse 28 when lamech

had lived 182 years he fought bed a son

and called his name Noah saying out of

the ground that the Lord is cursed this

one shall bring us relief from our work

and from the painful toil of our

hands our new testament reading comes

from Hebrew 11 verses 1

to6 now Faith is the Assurance of things

hoped for the conviction of Things Not

Seen for by it the people of old

received their

Commendation by faith we understand that

the Universe was created by the word of

God so that what is seen was not made

out of things that are

visible by faith Abel offered to God a

more acceptable sacrifice than Cain

through which he was commended as

righteous God commending him by

accepting his gifts and through his

faith though he died he still

speaks by faith en o was taken up so

that he should not see death and he was

not found because God had taken him now

before he was taken he was commended as

having pleased God and without faith it

is impossible to please him for whoever

would draw near to God must believe that

he exists and that he rewards those who

seek him this is the word of the Lord

thanks be to

God all right genealogies these these

are fun

right anybody who studied genealogy goes

okay how do I preach this well actually

this one's not that hard to preach once

we understand it because it's very

stylized to make a point it's stylized

in such a way that it's actually talking

about what's happened before these

genealogies first that we just studied

have nothing to do with what you

consider your family trees or your

genealogies they were written

differently they weren't concerned about

every body in their past being in them

first and number two they had a certain

way of taking these genealogies which

would skip generations to make a point

all right and as we see that we will see

that what the point's being made here is

that there are two roads Humanity can go

on that's what these genealogies are

showing but before I get into that the

first thing we have to realize is it's

speaking of generational sin in part

okay

most of you have heard of generational

sin but I'll give you an example when I

was a young buck 23 years old I got

hired as a a Child Protection Officer

for the uh Department of Child

Protection in British Columbia you

imagine me 23 going into homes never had

a kid didn't even dream of a kid at that

point and I was going into homes where

people were abusing neglecting in all

ways their children and you would get

the call I was called an intake worker

so you would go in and you would be the

front line and you would go into these

situations now you had these files that

you had to read before you went in so

that kind of give you an idea what's

going on with this family and to see if

there's probability you have to

understand that not every call was

necessarily mean that there was

something going on in fact there was uh

a lot of people in communities who would

rat out each other that they were

abusing their children just CU they

didn't like their neighbors especially

in small communities see would often

come in and you'd realize pretty quick

that this was a false allegation just to

make somebody's life uncomfortable

but sadly more times than not there

really was something to it and you

walked into these homes and I'm going to

tell you I can't even tell you guys this

day because you wouldn't believe me to

the level of dehumanization people will

do to their own children it's it's it

was stunning it it shocked me but I

started to real realized something as I

worked in that place I would start to

read these files and then it would say

see file B so I'd go to file B and the

file B was their parents

file and you realize when you read the

parents file that they were doing the

exact same thing to the ones I was

investigating and then I'd read a

grandparents file and they were doing

the exact same thing as the parents file

that and the people that I was

investigating and pretty soon you

realized you were dealing with probably

30 or 40 families in that city of Prince

George of 800,000 or sorry

80,000 because there was something

generational do you see there was

something that was going on where there

was abuse and neglect and the same kind

and it would often increase Generation

by generation it was the first time I

realized having grown up in a fairly

normal home I say fairly because I think

nobody has a perfect home but certainly

nothing like

this that sin leaves its Mark to the

Next

Generation evil doesn't just stop with

you well I got it good news for you

number one the Bible knows this talks

about it and it actually gives us

hope let's

pray heavenly father I thank you for

your Living Word I thank you for Jesus

Christ

breathe upon this

text May the words of my mouth and the

meditation of my heart be pleasing unto

you and may you and you alone receive

all glory and

honor

amen so I'm going to get into the text

right away I could have been way meaner

to Laura I was nice I had a whole bunch

of other somebody begat somebody and

some of these names were pretty rough

but I was nice that's that's why I cut

it out so so just so you know I happen

to think highly of Laura and I don't

want to lose my singer either so

um Cain knew his wife I think we all

know I don't have to explain that we're

all adults here right yeah okay and she

conceived and bore Enoch now this is not

the Enoch that you're going to think of

or that became famous they all had

similar names back then and Cain is

starting to have a family now what do we

know about Cain well we just talked

about him last week and it's going to

help us to understand that what to

expect in his lineage Cain is the one

who killed Abel remember remember Eve

when she was going to have Cain she said

ah God and I put this together she

almost made herself semi Divine when she

announces the birth of Cain you see the

fall coming you can be like God well by

the time she's having Cain she's giving

I guess what they'd say partial credits

to God so it's no surprise then that

Cain acts out the fruit doesn't he and

of course he gets jealous of Abel kills

him and the most amazing thing is God

shows Mercy he should have been killed

by the way according to God's justice

but God sends him off with the mark but

he says I will have Vengeance on anyone

who attacks you up to seven times that's

great mercy and you would only be able

to do that if he was a family member he

didn't even remove move him out of his

family out of God's

family so then does everything get set

right well no you see Cain's sin is

going to go down the generations and

that's what this is about so Cain has

this uh Cain and his wife have Enoch and

they built a city good for them why did

they build a city most people think CU

they're outside of the protection of the

Lord right because he's been kicked way

out for protection by the way who are

these people living in this C

well maybe we shouldn't read it too

literally maybe they were created

amongst a time where there were other

people on the Earth

anyways after the name of his son Enoch

to Enoch was born elad elad fathered

yeah whatever you get it same points

right down fed and then we get down to

number

seven now why does that matter do you

remember from Revelation the number

seven it's a very important number in

Judaism complete or perfection

so now he's seven the seventh generation

is going to show us what his complete

lineage is so lamic is the main point

everything else is just window dressing

now we get to lamic so what's happened

what is the perfect or complete line of

Cain the complete line of Eve who said I

could be like God what is the fal fruit

of the Fall well we get to lamic and

what does he do the first thing he does

is he takes how many wives

how many are we supposed to have in

Genesis

2 one so already he's breaking and he's

taking that's the language he takes

that's ownership folks remember the fall

and you will rule over them remember

that this is the fall on steroids it's

an increase of even what Adam did even

what Cain did he is only expanding

this and then he says and the name of

one was Ada and the name of the other

Zilla these are beautiful names all

right adaa bore jabel he was the father

of those who dwell in tents and have

livestock his brother's name was jubil

he was the father of those who play the

liar in the pipe these just mean that uh

he was the precursors of the Prototype

of people like

that Zilla also bore Tucan he was the

forger of all instruments of bronze and

iron the sister of tubalcain was Nama

and then you get this point here lch

we're back to him number seven what's

this guy like this guy who takes women

well listen to the fruit of Cain this is

like who is Cain going to be which is

the way can's going to be like what's

the fall at its full

Glory he said to his wives now notice he

they're not talking to him he's in

charge he's taken them he rules over

them the fall is in full

force adaa and Zilla hear my voice you

wives of lamek notice he owns them there

you wives of lamic you're mine I own

you listen to what I say I have killed a

man for

what not for killing somebody he

knew he killed them for an

offense you see that do you see the

increase of violence from Cain

remember they said I would sit up and

stand up and protect you and in case

somebody tries to kill you but this

isn't even a kill he killed for somebody

who simply wounded him you see the

increase in Injustice the increase in

vengence the increase in violence do you

see that I killed a guy for just

wounding me a young man for striking me

the guy gave him a little pop in the

nose and he stuck out his gun and shot

him he didn't have a gun

but if he

did the point of that being in there is

this is horrible and the reader should

note that this is horrible that death

and murder is no longer something that

should be abhor

according to God's law lamek should be

destroyed and he goes if Cain's revenge

is Sevenfold and nether in other words

if God was going to go and back Cain

Sevenfold to have Justice oh I'm going

to be much more vengeful than LX is 77

fold I'm going to double it times

10 you see

that this is showing lamek at his fruit

this is showing the curse and increase

in violence an increase in ownership of

women an increase of societal

destruction that's what's being shown in

this line of Cain all because Eve sees

herself in the line of God she's an idol

worshipper she sees that she's someone

significant and the name of Cain by the

way is to

take and out of this line we see that

the full fruit Seven Generations later

you got a guy just killing people cuz he

offended them marrying a couple women

and owning them and calling them his

wives not calling them partners that

work the Earth Genesis 2

so if we were the reader we might go

well this is not going well right what

hope does Humanity

have well genealogies are not all just

meant to tell us history they're also to

give us

hope so he points to another

genealogy and it's just opposed to the

can one and it starts with our friend

Seth it says Adam knew his wife again

and she bore a son and called his name

Seth for she said and we want to note

cuz remember when she said with Cain God

and I put this

together look what she says about Seth

because there's no Divine

pretense God has appointed for me

another Offspring instead of Abel for K

killed him God gave me it it wasn't me

and God that put it together I'm not God

God Gave Me Do you see that there's a

perception there's a thankfulness and we

should note then that there's going to

be a different fruit in this

genealogy unlike the Cain genealogy of

violence and

hatred this genealogy is going to be

much more pointing towards what could

have

been to Seth also had a son was born and

he called his name enosh at that time

people began to call him the name of the

Lord and then in this section because

she doesn't think of herself as God as a

procreator what do the people do instead

of taking violence in their own hand

instead of owning things they start to

worship God do you see the

difference so the Seth line is the one

that does begins to worship truly caring

about God because they recognize they

aren't God because in their genealogy

their mother didn't raise them to think

they were God

it

continues this is the book of the

generations of Adam when God and then

sorry and then it stops and what does

the writer do he does something

incredible he's told us about Seth and

his line and then he does this little

short set of chapters 1 and two of

Genesis why does he do that why does he

remind us of that with Seth because Cain

is clearly product of the Fall he does

this because he wants to remind us of

what could have been the good and Seth

is the possibility so what he does is he

retells the story of chapter 1 and two

this is the book of the generations of

Adam when God created man he made him in

the likeness of God chapter 1 male and

female he created them chapter 1 and he

blessed them and named man when they

were created chapter 2 when Adam had

lived for 13 SE years he fathered a son

in his own likeness and after his own

image named him Seth remember that God

was going to bless them so that they

could have children and be fellow

creators this is the

ideal God gave them he created them in

his likeness and he's given them the

right to act like him this is so unlike

Cain this is what could have been this

Seth

line so what should we

expect well we should as the reader run

to CH to the seventh generation of this

line remember lch lamic is the seventh

generation of Cain and it's awful what

do we find when we go to the seventh

generation of this Seth guy who's doing

it

right

Enoch when the Enoch had lived 65 years

he fathered Methuselah and what does it

say Enoch walked with God walked with

God not only there people worshiping

he's walking with God what what happened

in that

Garden before God and the fall he was

walking in the garden in the cool of the

day remember

that Enoch is doing and acting out what

Humanity should have been doing he's

walking with

God that's

incredible that's the

ideal for those who refuse to try and be

like Gods then they get to have the

relationship after heathered methus

Methuselah yeah 300 years and had other

Sons and Daughters thus all of the days

of Enoch were 365 years this is stylized

writing if you want to go to my Bible

study explained

why the main point of 365 years is he

lived a perfect life that's where the

3065 comes from and Enoch walked with

God

twice he says it have I ever told you

how important to hear something twice is

in Judaism they didn't have

punctuation okay and so when they wanted

to put an exclamation mark or really

point out this they've said something

twice now think of Jesus saying truly

truly I tell you remember those he's

saying you better listen to this that's

my exclamation mark well in this section

it twice notes that Enoch walked with

the Lord

that this line of Seth who is not got a

line of people telling us that we're

like God but rather she says God has

given me right ends with a humility and

in this you have the opportunity to walk

with God and be truly human and it says

Enoch walked with God and then it just

ends and says he was

not and you say he was not my mean he

died no it can never mean that in the

Hebrew it just it's a weird way of

saying it maybe they didn't know where

he left but he was gone and whatever it

is he's in God's sphere he didn't taste

death he had the Tree of Life offered to

him because he did it

right do you hear me Cain does it wrong

and brings death and

destruction

Enoch by not being an idolatry ID dotor

gets true life and

lives and that's what this is about this

whole section is about is there are two

ways my friends you can go the way of

Cain that leads to lamic and the perfect

vision of Cain is dominating wives and

killing people in Vengeance that's

lamic or you can go the way of

Seth whose mother rather than saying she

made him with God she said God gave me

him in humility and you can walk with

God and people we can worship Yahweh

because people will and ultimately in

the end of this line if you go that

way that's the way of the tree of life

you see it now this isn't a prescriptive

way on how you get saved this is a

reminder to an ancient people that the

destruction and death is not God's plan

and there is another way that's why this

was told

it's brilliantly told don't you

think it's stylized to tell us that not

necessarily do we have to end down this

whole way of

Cain for God took him and then you kind

of end this section of these two

geneologies but I had to add in one more

point you've kind of got the options

between men you've got cursed man in can

and you've got blessed man in Seth you

got the one who's living when creation

is good and then you got the one that's

living living when creation's bad and

one is living out the destruction of

creation bad and one is living out what

could be but there's one point in this

that we haven't hit on that the curse

brought and do you remember what that

was what was cursed beside

Humanity the

Earth and though the writer knows this

so he doesn't end his genealogy he ends

us with a

hope what about Earth well listen to

this when lamek this is a different

lamek it's not the lamek that was the

bad guy had lived 182 years he fathered

a son and called his name Noah saying

listen to this now out of the ground

that the Lord has cursed this one shall

bring us relief from the work from our

work and from the painful toil of our

hands so in this section he's shown the

good and the bad of humanity but also

the promise of New Creation

now Noah's not going to fully show that

is

he but what this is is this is the

gospel that's going to go right through

to Jesus

Christ there's a bad way there's a good

way and creation he's I'm not giving up

on it you see

that it's very

powerful when it's properly understood

when now to them they don't have Jesus

Christ yet do they so they don't know

how God's going to work this out and I'm

going to tell you the Seth line just

gets in as much trouble eventually it's

obviously not the prescriptive way to

become a Christ a follower of Christ

because they become part of humanity

that gets destroyed by the

flood right they don't keep it going but

this was written to show us there are

two roads we can go on and thank God

we've got the rest of the book

right well let me tell you first of all

scripture speaks about the reality of

generational sin

okay there is a reality now how many of

you said even jokingly sometimes oh

there I'm I I have said this many times

oh my gosh that's a Cy thing that just

came out anybody else done that or oh my

Lord you ever you who have had children

ever look at yourself and said oh my

gosh my father's in the room because of

the way you're talking to your

kids have you ever noted in your own

lives that there are some things that

probably you looked at your parents and

thought that's not your best part of you

and you struggle with it

later it's called generational

sin that's what the Bible would call it

something that's passed on to us and the

Bible speaks clearly of it and the

number one generational sin that causes

the most problem is idolatry that same

thing of

Eve you can be like God and so Exodus

warns us of this he says you shall not

not bow down to them the idols or serve

them for I the Lord God am your I the

Lord your God am a jealous God visiting

the iniquity of the fathers on the

children to the third and fourth

generation do you see the generational

thing of those who hate me but showing

and look at this Mercy steadfast love to

those thousands of those who love me and

keep my

Commandments There's Hope there too

again Exodus moving further down L the

Lord the Lord a god merciful and

gracious slow to anger and abounding in

steadfast love and faithfulness keeping

steadfast love to the thousands there we

got the thousands right forgiven

iniquity and transgression and sin but

who will by no means clear the guilty

visiting the iniquity of the fathers and

of the children and the children's

childrens to the third and the fourth

generation

you see there's a reality he wants to

pour out Grace Grace Grace but he also

recognizes that there are some canes in

the world

right and he will give you it's not that

he's angry and disciplining he giving

you over to your

sin and it becomes a generational

thing though even within the Old

Testament let me tell you in Ezekiel

somebody questions God about this

generational sin and he goes am I then

bound chapter 18

to do sin because my father and God says

no because if you do good you will break

it so even then the point being there is

generational

sin all

right and here's the bigger problem for

us not only that there's generational

sin but the sin is

universal Seth's family all died they

all were part of the curse they all have

to suffer through the flood see here's

the reality it isn't just whether you're

part of a generational sin you are under

the generational sin of

Adam do you see you are under the sin

all of us are we're all infected by this

desire to be like God right we all want

control or am I the only

one all of you are kind of like I don't

know m i got this figured out okay well

good for you

but in genu

reality every day each one of us are

infected by this thing this generational

Sin from Adam that says I can be like

God and it destroys Our

Lives

ironically even in the church people are

no longer seeing sin as a problem it's

just a therapeutic thing you need to

deal with a

disease you're a victim

unfortunately no one gets healed and no

one gets saved when you're a

victim it just doesn't happen it can't

happen because it's not a

disease it's a part of us that does

wrong because we want to do wrong and

it's in all of us in fact this whole

idea that original sin is kind of pass

and we should think of it as more as

medicine is the most obnoxiously silly

thing ever and actually in my opinion

discounts

evil when you think of the Holocaust

you're trying to tell me that was just

because some people had some

illness

right I like what uh GK Chesterton said

by the way if you ever want to just get

good quotes this old angle Catholic he

had great ones certain new theologians

dispute original sin which is the only

part of Christian theology which can

really be

proven anyone do a history lesson can

prove that guess what we've been sinning

for a long time and everyone's

guilty you ever watch the news at night

how does it make you feel oh good

everyone's happy and doing

well sin sin sin what about those babies

recently that were

killed do you see that little babies

murdered

all because of

ideology oh if you don't believe in sin

my friends I don't know what else to

say sin has hit us all again I'm going

to quote the great Charles Hodge

original sin is the only rational

solution of the undeniable fact of the

deep Universal and ear early manifested

sinfulness of man in all ages of every

class and in every part of the world

there's no place you can go to get out

of it there's no race there's no

gender there's nowhere you can go it's

in all of

us in fact the Bible makes it very clear

by the time Paul's writing that this is

our

problem why Paul says as by one man sent

sin entered into the world and death by

sin and so death passed on all men

for that all have sinned do you see

that and pretty much if you take that

serious we all are in the line of Seth

because we're all in the line of Adam we

all have that in us don't

we and really if the Bible just left it

at that we have no

hope and this is why Jesus matters so

much we couldn't deal with this problem

there's nothing we could do

we just keep doing it and doing it and

the harder we tried to do good Paul said

The more garbage was in his life I

sinned all the more says

Paul but we have a

redeemer and this is why I say to you my

friends you cannot save

yourself you need a

savior you can't in no matter how hard

you tried you can hold your breath you

can sit sit on a tree for 20 years all

by yourself sin is going to come and get

you I promise you there's nowh to

hide except

one Jesus of

Nazareth Paul wrote about how this sin

has infected us and then he writes this

beautiful thing of the Cure right after

in chapter 5 listen to these

words but the free gift is not like the

trespass the gift of redemption the

trespass Adam for if many died through

one man's trespass much more have the

grace of God and the free gift of the

grace of the one man Jesus Christ

abounded for

many and the free gift is not like the

result of that one man's sin for the

Judgment followed one trespass led to

condemnation but the free gift father

following many Tres trespasses brought

justification for if because of one

man's trespass day death Reign through

that one man much more will those who

receive the abundance and grace and the

free gifts of righteousness reign in

life through that one man Jesus Christ

he dealt with the curse and when he got

on that cross and he took it it no

longer was something that we were bound

voided to death because now Grace was

released do you see and it's bigger than

your sin isn't that

great no longer were we bound to go the

line of Cain now perhaps the way of Seth

and Enoch might be open to us because he

didn't give

up you

see a lot of people say well I find

Salvation in Buddha

or all or

I don't know new age something

Trump

whatever

Biden I tell you the truth my friends

they didn't die for

you none of

them none of them took sin on themselves

for

you only

one salvation is found in no other

in no one else for there is no other

name under Heaven given to mankind to

which we must be

saved that's

it the good news is we know that here I

know I'm preaching to people believe it

I'm trying to tell you guys wow this is

amazing CU we were going the way of

Destruction and Jesus Christ opened the

way of

Seth do you see the way that seemed

impossible up till Jesus Christ has now

been

opened Jesus has changed everything

today Jesus Christ is being dispatched

as a figurehead of a religion a mere

example he is that but he is infinitely

more he is salvation he is the gospel of

God he sets you free to go this way

he is it you

guys and it's

wonderful he's paid your

penalty and you're forgiven if you

believe in him isn't that amazing let me

tell you what that means

you when you die and you

will have access to the tree of life cuz

he's opened the

door and you will live

forever isn't that great

but I got even better news you can start

living it

now you can begin to walk with God now

well he didn't just pray for us he

didn't just pay the cost he gave us his

Holy

Spirit and here's the power that we can

overcome generational

sin you see I saw all of that darkness

and it was dark darks in ways you most

of you will never have to and I wouldn't

tell you and if I told you some of the

things I saw you wouldn't believe me

anyways and somebody said did you get

PTSD I said everybody who went in those

places got to touch a PTSD

guaranteed and I'll tell you what if I

didn't have this cross and this

Resurrection Life and the Holy Spirit I

wouldn't be standing

here but here's the truth not only did

he die for our sins he's given us new

life so we can can begin the pro

process of being

different it isn't just do we get saved

and go to heaven it's do we get to save

and get to be like we were created to be

walking with God remember remember this

quote everyone knows Micah

68 he has told you oh man what is good

and what does the Lord require of you

but to do

justice to love kindness and to what

walk humbly with your lord

we couldn't do that before

him but his Spirit got dropped so we can

now and when we walk by that we can

break those generational sins because we

can choose to not embrace them because

the spirit can come and convict us and

Empower us to walk a different way

that's incredible what a

gift what a gift I used to like this mic

there we go

and now we still have the two roads in

front of us even us

Christians which one are we going to

walk because the truth is oh Christian

are you going to walk by the spirit and

in the light of Jesus Christ the line of

Seth that leads to eternal life or are

you going to walk through the flesh your

own desires yeah I got saved but I'm

going to do what I want and watch your

life fall apart with violence and

control and taking

I think this is what Paul means when he

got to

Romans I think he's talking exactly

about these two roads there is therefore

now no condemnation to those who are on

Jesus Christ we're saved there's no

question pop back on me there

go but according to the spirit but who

do not and it goes so let's start again

there is therefore no condemnation of

those who are in Christ Jesus who do not

walk according to the flesh the way of

Cain do you see it that's the way of

Cain but according to the spirit the way

of Enoch Walking with

God for the law of the spirit of Life of

Christ Jesus has made me free from the

law of sin and death for what the law

could not do in that it made me weak

through the flesh God did by sending his

only son in the likeness of sinful Flesh

on account of sin he condemned sin in

the flesh

that the righteous requirement of the

law might be fulfilled in us and listen

to this this is our

options who do not walk according to the

flesh to the

idolatry to the Edom the eve can

line who choose not to go through

Vengeance and violence and owning women

and all of those evil things that come

out of

it but live according to the spirit

walking and worshiping like that Seth

line

did that's our options today it isn't

about salvation it's what you're going

to do I remember the great car Carl Bart

said to his students and it's so true I

wake up every morning and I had decide

whether I'm going to be a Christian not

whether I am a

Christian but I'm going to walk this out

I'm I going to walk with the Lord

the incredible thing my friends and this

is what an invitation it's not a

challenge it's an invitation that God

right now is here and he wants to walk

with

you he wants to give you Abundant

Life he doesn't tell you not to do

things because he's a party pooper he

says don't go that way because that way

leads to

death he tells you to walk another way

and he gives us his Spirit to help us

isn't that

incredible he wants you to have Abundant

Life right now he doesn't just want you

to suck it up and wait till Heaven

holding you know like you're sucking

lemons cuz life is so hard

now I agree with Charles uh Charles

uh W forget it I can't remember the name

Spurgeon who said we should be the

happiest human beings

Christians because we're walking with

the Living God

I think you need to understand that this

genealogy they had no hope through we do

these options are available and the door

has been made open to walk with God and

then one day be with him forever just

like Enoch All Because of Jesus now it's

our choice whether we want to walk in

that

life and T said those in whom the spirit

comes to live are God's new Temple

they are individually and corporately

places where Heaven and Earth meet these

are the people and you are

them you say well I haven't been a

Christian long

enough you are them I'm not good enough

you are

them do you believe Jesus Christ is your

lord then he's paid the price and he

wants to walk with you

today and the best news

just like Enoch being taken away because

he walked with the Lord is one day we're

going to walk with

god listen to now they're poetic words

in an apocalyptic genre but I think

you'll get the point listen to this

promise and

Revelation then I saw a new Heaven and a

new Earth for the first Heaven and the

first Earth had passed away and there

was no longer any sea what do we know

about sea now there's no longer any

chaos right

chaos is

gone and I saw the holy city the New

Jerusalem coming down out of Heaven from

God prepared as a bride beautifully

dressed for her

husband and I L heard a loud voice from

the throne saying look behold God's

dwelling

place is amongst his people and He will

dwell with them we will walk with him

again

they will be his people and God himself

will be with them and be their

God the Fulfillment of

Enoch he will wipe every tear from their

eyes there will be no more death or

Mourning or crying or pain for the old

order of things have passed

away you know I don't know why churches

everywhere aren't full

because this is the most incredible

story you will ever

hear the greatest promise not just for

your life of being saved but your life

that you can live now and the greatest

promise you have of The

Eternity why people aren't embracing

this shows that sin is powerful the line

of C is

strong but I promise you if we follow

this maybe we will be witnesses to that

other

line that there's a better

way and maybe they will come

in and have their generational sins

broken through the love of Jesus Christ

maybe they then will live the life we've

tasted and know that for eternity they

get to hang out with

God that's what we should be as a church

that's who we are this is the

gospel this is good news hang on to it

with all your life and on that day you

will see it face to

face let's

pray Heavenly Father we worship you for

you are

good to even put words to the goodness

here

that you showed us through those

genealogies that there were two ways to

be human and through your son Jesus

Christ you opened the door so that we

could walk with you just like Enoch that

you made the Tree of Life available like

you did for

Enoch all because of your sacrifice

because you took the curse upon

yourselves help us now to walk in that

new life

turning from the death of Cain the death

of

lamic turning from that line that's in

us and Lord put that hope within us that

truth that one day we will walk with you

in eternity and see you face to

face in Jesus name amen