Walking with God in a World Walking Away - DJ Dickerson - 3/15/26

and your Bibles, I would encourage you

to turn to Genesis chapter 5. Genesis

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chapter 5

be talking about walking with God in a

world walking away.

And a lot of what we're going to be

talking about is the remarkable life of

Enoch. Now,

I was trying to kind of focus only on

Enoch, but I was uh mentioning this uh

to a couple of folks when I was

preparing this study that this this uh

lesson kind of grew legs uh and and that

means that I really just started kind of

going down trails and I was trying to

rope it back in. But I'm going to share

with you several things that I hope is

beneficial to you this evening in your

study with me of God's word and the

applications that we make in this

lesson. Well, when we come to chapter

five of Genesis, uh there are many

readers that uh move past it. And why

would we do that? Well, because it

appears to be nothing more than a

genealogy that stretches from Adam and

to Noah. And you'll you'll see that of

course in the first obviously when you

look at all 32 verses and

the pattern

repeats

with kind of a solemn rhythm.

Uh he lived, he begats, and he died.

It's kind of how that goes. Uh and again

the words kind of fall like uh the

tolling uh almost of a funeral bell if

you kind of think of it that way that

speaks to the very pattern of death in a

genealogy.

Uh and again and I try to put all 20

verses up here. Of course it makes it

quite small when you do it that way but

I kind of highlighted and put in bold

certain words. There are three words

that you'll see highlighted and uh in

bold and that is and he died. Uh you

you'll notice this. Adam lived and died.

Seth lived and died. Enish lived and

died. Kenan lived and died. Miel lived

and died. Jared lived and died. You see

that?

And I believe that the repetition is

certainly intentional. I believe that

because scripture wants us to

feel the weight of what has happened to

humanity. Uh back in the Garden of Eden,

if you back up a couple of chapters in

Genesis, uh God warned Adam that if he

if he disobeyed

the command that he was given not to eat

of the tree of life, the knowledge of

tree of life that's in the midst of the

garden, that death would enter the

world. For what we know of Genesis 2:1

Genesis 2:1

17, but of the tree of the knowledge of

good and evil, you shall not eat, for in

the day that you eat of it, you shall

surely die. And we know that in that

account, of course, that's what

happened. Uh when sin entered through

Adam's rebellion, that warning became

reality.

And even as the apostle Paul would speak

to uh those in Rome in Romans chapter 5

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and verse 12, this is how he said it.

Therefore, just as through one man sin

entered the world, who's that one man

we're talking about? Well, Adam, sin

entered the world and death through sin

and thus spread death spread to all men

because all sin.

So again, when you go back to Genesis

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chapter 5, when you reach that point, it

reads like a funeral procession of

humanity that every generation is

marching toward the same destination. Uh

no matter how long they lived, what's it

prove? Death eventually came. I think we

take that away when we read the

genealogies here. But this chapter

reminds us that sin did not only affect

or merely affect Adam. It affected the

entire human race.

But

suddenly the pattern breaks. As you're

reading along Genesis chapter 5, when

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you get down to verses 21- 24, we find

the man who broke the pattern.

Interestingly, in verses 21- 24, read

with me. Enoch lived 65 years and begat

Methuselah. After he begat Methuselah,

Enoch walked with God 300 years and had

sons and daughters. So all the days of

Enoch were 365

years. And Enoch walked with God and he

was not for God took him.

When the genealogy reaches Enoch,

the familiar words

disappear.

Instead of saying, "And he died,"

scripture tells us something different.

Notice it. Enoch walked with God

and he was not for God took him.

And I thought about a chapter like

Genesis 5 that is dominated by death

that his life just stands out in

dramatic contrast.

that while every other man in the

genealogy is remembered primarily by how

long he lived, Enoch is remembered for

how he lived.

That stands out to me.

And Genesis emphasizes this by actually

repeating that remarkable statement.

What is that remarkable statement? Enoch

walked with God.

Verse 22 and verse 24.

And that phrase appears twice because I

believe it captures what we would call

the defining feature of Enoch's life. Uh

to walk with God implies certain things.

What it means to walk with someone.

Well, to walk with God implies

fellowship. It implies that of agreement

as well as direction. The prophet Amos

kind of hit on this a little bit.

question that was posed in a in Amos

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chapter 3 and verse three in Amos 3 and

verse three he said can two walk

together unless they are agreed I mean

that kind of lends itself to what we're

talking about that walking with God

means living in harmony with God's will

it means aligning one's life with God's

truth and choosing his path instead of

the path of the world think about that

for 300 years Enoch lived in that kind

of relationship of with with God

day after day, year after year, he chose

to live his life in fellowship with the

Lord.

But I would submit to you to truly

appreciate

Enoch's faithfulness

walking with God in such a way, we have

to consider the world in which he lived.

And I submit to you two paths in early

humanity.

And you go back in Genesis chapter 4. In

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Genesis chapter 4, and I tell you, I I

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this is where some of my rabbit trails

went a little bit when my study. I I

thought I had things plotted out and

then I was I took a whole different uh

turn with some other things that I was

thinking about. But when you go in in

verses 16 through 26 now again what

you're finding there is more genealogy

stuff, right? Uh now the early chapters

of Genesis reveal that humanity was

already dividing into two very different

directions.

And and I really kind of got just

looking at this passage

and I remember from when I was younger

and had read this many times, but for

some reason again like I've said many

times our we have to keep filling up the

bucket because I got holes in mine. As I

get older, it seems like the holes are

getting more or bigger. I'm not really

sure. It could be both. Uh but what ends

up happening is is we start forgetting

some things that we we had we learned a

while back. But you know what's

interesting? I was noting this yet again

is that there were two eno.

There's two enics.

Where did the other unic come from?

Well, one eno was in the line of Cain.

The other Enoch was from the line of

Seth.

And and I think that's very interesting

when you look at the Bible and how these

paths are. Now we know Cain very well,

don't we? We we know him. And so you

have one path that is represented by the

line of Cain. And after murdering his

brother Abel, Cain went out from the

presence of the Lord. We know from

chapter 4:1 16 that says his

descendants. It goes on to some things.

It talks about building cities and

develop tools and advanced culture.

There's a lot that's going on there. Uh

talks about the harps and all those

things. Music appearing. There's metal

working that's going on that was

developing. And we'd say, well,

civilization is just progressing, you

know, in in in this. Yet, what's

interesting is although in the line of

Cain, you find that

what else is happening at the same time?

Spiritual

deterioration,

spiritual decline

is happening. And by the end of Genesis

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chapter 4, one of Cain's descendants,

Lamech, what's it say in verse 23 and

24? boast about violence and revenge

instead of humility before God.

Arrogance and aggression was filling the

culture. So, you kind of get a kind of

get an idea of what's going on. So,

humanity, yeah, I would say in in their

time was truly advancing

while declining spiritually though. But

then you also have another line that was

that's being introduced because after

Abel's death, Adam and Eve, we know had

another son and that son's name was

Seth. Verse 25. And through Seth's

descendants, we see a different pattern

that begins to appear. Now, Genesis

records in verse 26 that men began to do

what? Call on the name of the Lord. That

is something.

And when you go in and you flip to

Genesis chapter 5, as we just noted,

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Genesis 5 traces this line, this is

important, right? And right in the

middle of all of that genealogy of of

what's being traced is that of Enoch

that's in the line of Seth.

While many around him were were drifting

farther from God, you have Enoch here

who was choosing a different direction.

and even his placement in the genealogy

carries significance.

Now,

I I kind of had to figure out where to

put this, so hopefully it flows,

but there's message that the message

that's hidden in the names here that

sometimes is quite easy to overlook. Uh,

but if you ever done a study on names,

especially looking back to their Hebrew

meaning,

there's a message that's actually in

here hidden that we may not think about

it. Again, we go to Genesis chapter 5

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and we we read these names. They live,

they died, so forth.

But I believe it's a fascinating feature

of the genealogies that's often time

overlooked and that is the meaning of

the names themselves.

Having having to understand uh ancient

Hebrew culture as we certainly know with

many that are identified not just by

their name but about the significant

meaning of those names.

Parents frequently chose names that

reflected certain things like

circumstances, hopes, spiritual truths.

Uh when the meanings of the names in

this genealogy are considered together,

they appear to form a remarkable message

about the human condition and God's

redemptive plan. I want to share with

you a few things here.

So the genealogy begins with Adam which

we know and his name simply means man. I

know that's not a shocker for us. It's

not a shocker means man. Genesis 5 and

verse one as we see that reference there

to Adam. Then we in the genealogy verse

three we have his son named Seth which

means appointed or placed.

Then you have Enish whose name carries

the idea of mortal or frail humanity.

Then you have Kenan whose name is

associated with sorrow or lament.

Now

are you kind of putting some things

together as you walk through that?

When those meanings are placed together,

they describe actually the tragic

condition of humanity

after the fall that we just talked

about.

How does that sound when you look

through that? Man is appointed mortal

sorrow.

Isn't that what's going on?

From the moment that sin entered the

world, what followed?

sorrow.

Every generation

experienced the consequences of sin. I

mean, think about how uh uh tending to

the ground and thinking about all the

things that that uh that resulted uh

from the fall of man, the thorns and

this just I mean, you know, you got to

get that imagery there. It's pain, it's

sufferings, and ultimately death.

But what's interesting is the genealogy

doesn't stop with despair though. Keep

walking through it.

The next name that you find in the

genealogy of verse 12 is

which means blessed God or the praise of

God.

And then you have Jared whose name means

shall come down or descend.

When those meanings are placed together,

there's a remarkable hope that begins to

appear. And what is that? The blessed

God shall come down.

Now, where's your mind going?

Long before, long before the angel sang

over the shepherd in the fields,

Genesis

seems to whisper

the promise that God himself would come

down to intervene in the human story.

Is that what happened? I I think we know

that quite well when we look at John

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chapter 1 and verse 14. What is

recorded? And the word became flesh and

dwelt among us. And we beheld his glory,

the glory as of the only begotten of the

father, full of grace and truth.

Jesus

Emmanuel means what? God with us.

Where does that take us to? Well, you go

back to Genesis chapter 5 and you look

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at the next name, we come across

Enoch,

whose name carries the idea of teaching,

dedication

or consecration.

So, as the message continues,

what you're finding in Genesis chapter

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5, it almost reads like prophecy,

doesn't it?

Man has appointed mortal sorrow, but the

blessed God shall come down teaching.

Is that not exactly what we see in the

ministry of Jesus himself?

Throughout the gospels, we repeatedly

read that Jesus began to teach. He

taught in synagogues, on hillsides,

beside the sea, and in the temple

courts.

Yes.

I think we're seeing a message that's

hidden in genealogy.

That's all pointing forward.

And then we come to another name.

Most people say, "Well, I know Methusa,

right? 969 years."

His name is often understood to mean his

death shall bring.

His name carries the sense of warning

about coming judgment which leads you to

Noah which is the next one who's listed

in the genealogy and his name means rest

or comfort. Now again what's happening

here Genesis it itself explains the

significance of Noah's name when his

father said look at this Genesis 5 verse

Genesis 5:29

29 look at it and he called his name

Noah saying this one will comfort us

concerning our work and the toil of our

hands because of the ground which the

Lord has cursed.

Now you take all of those names,

consider them together, and the

genealogy appears to form a remarkable

message. Here we go again. Man is

appointed mortal sorrow. What was the

next thing? The blessed God shall come

down teaching. And what does his death

bring? His death shall bring rest.

That sounds like a gospel story to me.

Long before the cross, long before the

empty tomb, long before the gospel was

preached to the nations, the earliest

chapters of scripture seem to whisper

the very promise of redemption there in

Genesis chapter 5. And right in the

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middle of that genealogy, you have this

man named Enoch. A man who chose to walk

with God. And that brings us back to the

remarkable life of Enoch.

Because as we see what's happening in

the world around him, a world that was

walking away from God

and a world moving toward corruption in

a generation drifting away from God, he

chose to walk with God.

Now, for a long time, we'd say, where is

Adam? I mean, where is Enoch in all of

this?

And for a long time, even when I was

younger, I thought uh you know, and have

to be reminded that Enoch is actually

mentioned more than once in the Bible.

Sometimes, you know, you'll hear

sometimes say, "Well, Enoch's only

mentioned in Genesis." Uh it says he

walked with God twice, right? 22 verse

24, and he was not. I mean, he, you

know, so so forth.

But actually, Enoch is mentioned in

other places in the Bible.

Now there's some very specifics that's

pretty interesting and I wanted to bring

these out too with all the genealogy

things and that is he specifically

mentioned as the seventh from Adam.

This is specific when you actually go to

Jude in verse 14. There's a record here

that says now Enoch the seventh from

Adam prophesied about these men also

saying behold the Lord comes with 10

thousand 10 thousands of his saints.

Now, is that detail accidental? I don't

believe it is. I I don't I I believe

that there's definitely a specivity for

a reason that throughout scripture, even

the number seven often emphasizes and

symbolizes completeness or divine order.

You know, we talking about that in our

study of Revelations a while back. But

from the very beginning of the Bible,

God completed his work of creation in

how many days? Seven, right?

He had he had six days he completed and

then the seventh day what did he do?

Rested.

Well, Enoch appears at the spiritual

center of the generations before the

floods. And while the surrounding

generations are are summarized as we

noted a moment ago by the repeated

phrase and he died, Eno comes in. He

interrupts the pattern. His life was

serving and even today serves as a

reminder that even in a declining

society, in a declining world, God

always preserves faithful witnesses.

Even when society, the world moves away

from righteousness, God still has people

who walk with him. But Genesis also

reveals that something significant

happened in Enoch's life that changed

that I believe is is quite interesting.

that Methuselah is mentioned after we

got Methuselah. Enoch walked with God

300 years.

Now again think about Methuselah whose

name is understood as we m a moment ago.

His death shall bring. And when the

timeline of Genesis is examined

carefully, the year Methuselah died is

the same year the flood began. I was

trying to to put a chart and I had what

but but it it was just not going to be

able to you weren't going to be able to

make anything out of it really by the

time I had it up here. So, I'm going to

work on trying to get handouts for that.

But if you've ever studied timelines,

it's pretty impressive uh when you

examine that because and I'm going to

try to break it down here just a little

bit. Uh Genesis 71 talks about the 600th

year of Noah's life in the second month,

the 17th day of the month. On that day,

all the fountains of the great deep were

broken up and the windows of heaven were

open. Now, obviously, we know that's

where the flood began, and that was when

Noah was 600 years old. Now, when you

trace the genealogies and you go back,

you look at Genesis chapter 5, you can

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actually calculate, I don't know if you

ever done that, but you can calculate

the timeline from Adam to the flood. And

you can break that down about how old

Adam was. Adam was 130 when Seth was

born. Seth was 105 when Enish was born.

Enh was 90 when Canaan was born. Canaan

was 70 when Mahilo was born. Mahilo was

65 when Jared was born. Jared was 162

when Enoch was born. Enoch was 65 when

Methuselah was born. Methuselah was 187

when Lamech was born. Lamech was 182

when Noah was born. And Noah was 600

when the flood began. Now, when you take

all those and you you you're doing all

the mathematical stuff here, and I'm not

a math wiz. I just want to go and put

that out there. I've told y'all numerous

times on that. This is Kinsey's really

area expertise for that matter. U but

you come up with 1,656.

That would be 1,656th

year from creation.

No, Methuselah was born in the year 687

from creation. And Methusela lived how

long? 969

years as Genesis 5 and verse 27 records.

And so 687 plus 969 is what? 1,656.

What does that mean? Well, it means

Bethusa died in the very same year that

the flood began.

The important point that I want to take

away from there, if you're still writing

down numbers, if you would like those, I

can get those to you. Uh because I went

by I went through that pretty quickly.

But but the important point I believe

with that is the year Methuselah died

was the very year Noah would enter the

ark and the flood waters came. Now

scriptures does not explicitly say

whether Methusela died just before the

flood broke forth or as that year began.

But the when you look at this in

chronological order shows that his death

and the beginning of the flood occurred

in the same year. And so Methuselah's

life stretched all the way to the

threshold of the flood. And the same

year he died, the flood began. And

that's why I believe that when you're

looking at these names and this message

that we were talking about a moment ago

that's hidden here for us in these names

that Methuselah's life itself reveals

something quite important about the

character of God. And I want to make

sure to get this in this lesson as well

is Methuselah

in regards to the very patience of God.

When we think about Methuselah who lived

969 years which again is the longest

lifespan that's recorded in scripture

his I would say extraordinary longevity

uh reminds us something profound about

the heart of God. Um you know we try to

I mean we try to think about just you

know making it to a hundred years old

right? Think about being 969 what that

would be like. Um judgment was coming

but God delayed it and for nearly a

thousand years the world was given

opportunities.

You know

God gave humanity time

to turn.

But during those years of mercy God also

raised up a voice to warn the world. Now

sometimes our mind automatically goes to

Noah. Well, it's true that Noah was a

preacher of righteousness and we know

that because Peter speaks about that.

But who else was raised up during that

time period?

Well,

Enoch.

Enoch was

a prophet.

Now, I'm going to go back to that verse

that I just went by there when Peter

explained, "The Lord is not willing. The

Lord is not slack concerning his

promises. Some count slackness, but is

long suffering toward us, not willing

that any should perish, but that all

should come to repentance." That speaks

to the very heart, the very love that

God has for his creation.

Now with all of that, even speaking

today,

you have Enoch who is the prophet

during this. How do I know that? Well,

actually Jude, if you go back to Jude

and you look at verses 14 and 15 again,

now Enoch the seventh from Adam

prophesied about these men also, saying,

"Behold, the Lord comes with 10

thousands of his saints to execute

judgment on all to convict all who are

ungodly among them, of the of all their

ungodly deeds, which they have committed

in an ungodly way, and all the harsh

things which ungodly sinners have spoken

against him."

You see, he was more than a righteous

man. He was also a prophet. He warned

his generation that the Lord would come

in judgment against ungodliness.

Now, you have a great contrast here, a

stark contrast between Enoch and the

world that he was living.

In the world that was ignoring God,

Enoch spoke about God. In a world that

was in hot pursuit of sin, Eno warned of

judgment. in a world walking away from

God. Enoch walked with him. And this

message reminds us from the earliest

chapters of scripture that God has

always warned humanity about the

consequences of sin.

But the New Testament gives us some more

about Enoch.

A little bit more insight in the secret

of Enoch's life is going to take you to

the book of Hebrews.

Hebrews chapter 11 we know is commonly

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called the hall of faith. uh in the in

Hebrews uh in the book of Hebrews we

find that Enoch is placed among the

great examples of faith that before God

took him there are scriptures that are

recorded about his faith that says in

verse five and six of Hebrews 11 by

faith Enoch was taken away so that he

did not see death

and was not found because God had taken

him. For before he was taken, he had

this testimony

that he pleased God.

Y'all notice that

he pleased

God.

That's a remarkable statement

because the Bible does not say, "Well,

Enoch was powerful or Enoch he was

wealthy or Enoch was famous."

Instead, the defining feature of his

life is that he pleased God.

Because what does the writer of Hebrews

in verse six go on to say right after

this? But without faith,

it is impossible to please him. For he

who comes to God must believe that he is

and that he is a rewarder of those who

diligently seek him.

What does that say about Enoch? Well, it

says that faith was the foundation of

Enoch's walk with God.

That was the foundation

in a world that was walking away.

Enoch was walking with God.

He pleased God.

And that leads me to a

a point here about

walking

against the current.

The importance

of faith

in the midst of

the faithless

when we're walking against the current.

There's a couple passages that I thought

about and that was well one of them was

that of Romans 12 and:es 1 and 2.

Romans 12 1 and 2. If you'll notice

there, I beseech you therefore,

brethren, by the mercies of God, that

you present your bodies a living

sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God,

which is your reasonable service. and do

not be conformed to this world, but be

transformed by the renewing of your

mind, that may prove what is that good

and acceptable and perfect will of God.

The other verse that I was thinking

about was Matthew 7.

Matthew 7 13- 14. Again, thinking about

this sermon on the mount Jesus is giving

here in verses 13 and 14. He says,

"Enter by the narrow gate, for wide is

the gate and broad is the way that leads

to destruction. And there are many who

go in by it because narrow is the gate

and difficult is the way which leads to

life and there are few who find it.

You know

if you imagine a a river since talking

about rivers last last Sunday kind of

kind of goes with my thoughts here but

imagine a a river flowing swiftly

downstream.

Everything caught in the current drifts

along effortlessly,

but occasionally you see a fish swimming

upstream.

Kind of seems, you know, but while

everything else is moving in one

particular direction,

it pushes against the flow. And you know

what that is? That's Enoch. That's how I

think Enoch. I think of Enoch in such a

way that while the world was drifting

away from God, Enoch moved toward him

because anyone can drift with the

current of the world. Anyone.

But you know what it takes to walk

against it?

It takes faith.

thinking about the very distressing

times and what obviously was leading up

into chapter six,

the wickedness and judgment of man that

was coming. We know that to be the great

flood and the command that Noah will be

given

to build an ark to saving him, his

household

that Noah would preach

of righteousness.

And all of this was coming

because even as a uh Enoch was

doing

what he could

to turn the tide, if you will, turn the

direction.

The world continued to walk away

while he continued to walk with God.

Well,

as we close, Genesis 5 proves to be far

more than a list of names. I think you

agree with me. It's far more than just a

simple list of names that we look at and

we just read and we're like, "Oh, that

person lived, they begott, and they

died."

I see it as a chapter that whispers of

death.

It's a chapter that warns of judgment,

but yet it's a chapter that still offers

hope.

Again, the record says, "And he died,

and he died, and he died." That's the

very rhythm of the fallen world. Sin

entered, death followed, and every

generation felt its weight.

But as we noted in the very middle of

that pattern, Enoch is the one who

stands out. any scripture says Enoch

walked with God and he was not for God

took him.

That in a world that was moving away

from God, Enoch walked with God in a

dark generation.

It was dark.

Enoch lived by faith. And that's a

reminder that it is still possible to

walk with God even when the world is

walking away.

We came to Methuselah.

Methuselah who reminded us of the

patience of God. He lived 969 years. In

the very year Methuselah died, the flood

began. God delayed judgment. That was

not indifference. That was mercy.

But God's patience was not permission.

Judgment delayed is not judgment

canceled.

And then comes Noah. As I mentioned a

moment ago, when you flip over to

Genesis chapter 6,

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Noah shows us that when judgment finally

comes, safety is found only where God

says safety is found. Noah believed God.

He obeyed God and he entered the ark.

God

provided.

Noah built that ark according to the

pattern that God gave him. And again in

a world walking away from God, the

message we have noted simple and

powerful, Enoch says this, walk with

God. Methuselah says, "Do not be

presumptuous upon the patience of God."

And Noah exclaims, "Enter the refuge

that God has provided."

And all of that points to Jesus. every

bit of it

because what Genesis shows in shadow

Christ fulfills in substance.

Anch walked with God but Jesus perfectly

pleased the father. Methuselah reminds

us of God's patience but in Christ we

see that patience fully revealed. Noah

entered the ark, but Christ is the true

refuge from judgment for all who will

obey him. And that's why this thought

about the names is such a striking

illustration.

Man appointed mortal sorrow, but the

blessed God shall come down teaching,

and his death shall bring the desparing

rest.

What was it that Jesus said in Matthew

Matthew 11:28

11 verse 28? Y'all remember?

Come unto me all ye that are weary and

heavy laden and I will give you this.

Take my yoke upon you and learn of me

for I meek and heart.

I think there's something to it.

It's not just I think I know there is

because whatever one makes of the

observations of what we have noted

briefly this evening

the gospel certainly says exactly that

man is mortal

sorrow is real death is certain but the

blessed God has come down in Jesus

Christ God with us came near teaching,

calling, saving, and through his death,

he brings rest to the despair.

So the question this evening is is not

whether we admire Enoch, Methusela, even

or Noah. So I kind of branched off into

those as well tonight.

The question really is what will we do

with Christ?

Will we walk with God or with the world?

Will we repent while God is patient or

keep the lane? Will we enter the refuge

that he has provided or remain outside?

The good news

is that the door is still open.

The door of grace is still open. And if

you're outside of Christ, you do not

have to remain under sin, sorrow, and

death.

Christ has come. Christ has died. Christ

has risen. And the rest is offered to

your soul.

Friends, as I end, I I noted where

someone once imagined Enoch's final day

like this. And I thought I I liked it,

so I I'm going to share it with you.

For 300 years, Enoch had walked with

God.

And you think about day after day and

step after step step and conversation

after conversation. You know, there's a

lot of those, I'm sure.

Until one day, as they walked together,

God said, "You are closer to my house

than yours today.

Why don't you just come home with me?"

And Enoch did. He walked with God right

into eternity.

And I believe the lesson for us is

simple. that the safest place to be in a

corrupt

and dying world

is walking with God.

And if we walk with him faithfully, one

day our walk will end the same way. God

will take us home.

Isn't that Jesus promise in John chapter

John 14 · chapter mention

14?

Absolutely it is.

So the question for us this evening,

which direction are we actually walking?

May we strive each day to walk with God

in a world that's walking away from.

The lesson is yours.

Song of encouragement. If you need to

begin walking with God tonight,

you can do that having heard the word.

You believe that Jesus Christ is the son

of God. Repent of your sins. Confess

Jesus to be the son of living God and be

baptized for the remission of your sins

to rise and walk in newness of life as

Romans 6:es 3 and 4 says.

You can do that. All things stand ready.

Or if you have wandered from the walk,

come to him in faith. Turn from sin and

repentance.

And if you need prayers on your behalf,

you need that rest tonight, you come to

Christ. Walk together. We stand. We sing

the song that's been selected