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Welcome to Ocean Water.

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We hope you feel refreshed by the Living Water of Jesus Christ as we help people receive

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drinking water from the ocean for free.

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Thanks for joining us for this weekend's message and if you enjoy it, please share

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it with a friend.

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We install systems that turn ocean water into drinking water for small, marginalized rural

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communities in the 108 countries of the world that have direct ocean access like here behind

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me in California where I live.

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Now this water is distributed for free for the community and the annual savings goes

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towards empowering local people towards the things that they need for their future.

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Now we do this while starting easy to go to beach churches revolving mostly around reading

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the Bible together each day and eating food and spending a lot of time together.

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Now we'd love for you to be involved so I'd like you to email me at ryan.oceanwateratgmail.com

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because I'd like to send you a book that I wrote about a bicycle ride that I went on

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for a year.

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It documented my travels from Canada to Columbia and this journey that began and turned into

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what we know today as ocean water.

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It's a really fun read and it documents the beginnings of how we got started.

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I'd love to get that to you as a gift for watching today's show.

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So in the next 12 months we'll go to El Salvador, Indonesia and Bangladesh.

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I'd love for you to be on one of these trips and so you can go to our website to find out

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more information.

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Now when I teach I'm pretty straightforward and this is my approach because it's very

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important that we understand every word of God in the word of God.

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Now I like to laugh and I'd love for you to hang out and catch some waves with me or go

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on a trip to another country or ride motorcycles or grab coffee.

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When I teach the Bible I accept that responsibility because this isn't all fun and games.

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This is actually the most important book in the world.

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So I want you to come ready to learn every time we get together because it's my job

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as a pastor to help you grow.

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So our objective is simple, it's disciples making disciples who plant churches that plant

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churches.

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Now today we're looking at Genesis chapter 5 and Genesis chapter 5 is about the descendants

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of Adam.

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Now this is kind of an introduction to a genealogy of Adam that we find in verses 1 and 2.

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Now this is the book of the genealogy of Adam in the day that God created man.

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He made him in the likeness of God.

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He created them male and female and blessed them and called them mankind.

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Now in that day when they were created.

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Now this genealogy is here for a good reason and it's to believe that the end of this

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is Adam's direct account which was preserved and passed down to Moses who acted as its

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editor.

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Now the history of heaven and earth compromises the things regarding creation that nobody

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witnessed and was given by direct revelation to either Adam or Moses.

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Now this history ended at Genesis 2-4 and from there on to this point we have the record

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of Adam.

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And it says that he called him mankind.

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Now this is the human race.

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Mankind was the name given man by God from the beginning.

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It is not the most gender bias or the most popular name but it was a general heading

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that all human beings fell under.

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I have a few thoughts on genealogies.

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We can arrange the following genealogies in a sequential manner and chart them out kind

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of on a timeline.

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However, we can't establish an absolutely reliable timeline with this method because

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biblical genealogies are not always complete.

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Sometimes generations are skipped over.

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If one takes the genealogies as being without omission, now the time of Adam comes to about

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4,000 or 5,000 years before Jesus.

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Now even with omissions it's hard to imagine that the time of Adam was significantly more

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than 10,000 years before Jesus.

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Now this puts the biblical record at variance with findings and assertions of modern science

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and history.

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Yet there's good reasons to believe that God created the earth with age built into it as

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with Adam and the trees in Eden had age built into them.

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Adam wasn't built as a one year old.

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Trees weren't created as a one year old.

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So in this chapter no one lived less than 365 years.

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That's a really long time.

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Methuselah actually lived a total of 969 years.

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That's a long fruitful life full of juicing and many other things.

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Some have thought of the ages as figurative or they count as they count months and years

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yet on this basis it would mean that Enoch fathered Methuselah when he was five and a

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half years old.

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Now that's not true.

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It's more likely that people did live much longer in this era before the flood.

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This is because of the degenerate of effects of the fall of sin and the gene pool hadn't

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yet accumulated greatly and because of the environment in a pre-flood world was so different

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with the blanket of water vapor surrounding the earth.

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In the post-flood world life spans quickly came down to the modern life span that we

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have today which we find the longest humans live around 120 years.

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Now during this era the world would be populated quickly.

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One writer has estimated that if Adam during his lifetime saw only half the children he

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could have fathered grow up if only half of them had gotten married if only half of those

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who had gotten married had children then even these conservative rates Adam would have seen

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more than a million of his own descendants.

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That's a big family.

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Using these calculations it's easy to say at the time of the flood there could have

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been maybe seven billion people on earth close to what we have today.

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Genealogies can be very instructive.

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They speak to us of both the absolute historical character of the scriptures and the powerful

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testimony to the end of every person on this earth.

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We all live a life with a beginning and the end.

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Charles Spurgeon said have you never heard of the one who as the lesson for the Sabbath

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day the long chapter of names where it's written that each patriarch lives so many hundreds

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of years and he died thus it ends the notice of the long life of Methuselah with and he

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died the repetition of these words and he died woke the thoughtless here to a sense

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of their own mortality and led to his coming of a savior.

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We all have such a small life.

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Now the descendants of Adam through Seth are talked about in verses three and five.

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It says that Adam lived 130 years and he got a son in his own likeness and after his image

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his name Seth he had begot Seth the rest of the days of Adam were 800 years and he had

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sons and daughters so that the days that Adam had lived were nine hundred and thirty years

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and he died.

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And then it says that he begot a son in his own likeness and after his own image and named

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him Seth even as Seth was Adam's fallen image and likeness so also is every one of us.

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We have sons and daughters of Adam born even as Adam was fallen.

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It'd be redundant to say it but every other person has been born in Adam's image and likeness

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except Jesus.

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So and he had sons and daughters.

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This tells us that Adam had many other sons and daughters who are not specifically named

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in the biblical record.

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These daughters became the wives for the sons of Adam.

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Now verses 16 through 17 talk about from Seth to Mahalel.

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Seth lived 105 years and begot Enosh and then they had many other sons and daughters.

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So are the days of Seth were 912 years and he died.

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Now Enosh lived 90 years and begot Canaan and it goes on through more of a description

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of the longer genealogy that exists existed in this chapter because God cares about his

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original family and God cares about our family now.

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God is very detailed.

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He keeps track of all of the things that are necessary for a family and then it talks about

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Jared and Mahalel.

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They lived 830 years and they had sons and daughters and Mahalel was 895 years and he

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Now in verses 18 through 27 it picks up and says that Jared lived 162 years and begot Enoch

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and Jared had lived 100 years he had more sons and more daughters.

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He actually lived to 962.

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Now Enoch lived 65 years and begot his children.

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Enoch walked with God 300 years and had sons and daughters.

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So the days of Enoch were 365 and Enoch walked with God and he was not for God took him.

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Methuselah lived 187 years and begot Lamech and he begot Lamech and when Methuselah lived

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782 years and he had sons and daughters so all the days of Methuselah were 969 years

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and he died.

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Now Enoch walked with God and he was not for God took him.

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Enoch the son of Jared was carried away to God in a miraculous way while God speaks of

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a true deep relationship.

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St. Charles Spurges said you can't consciously walk with a person whose existence is not

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known to you.

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When we walk with a man we know that he is there for we can hear him.

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We have a very close perception that there is such a person at our side.

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Now he also said if I wish to find a man's most familiar friend it would surely be one

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with whom he daily walked.

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In walking friends become communicative one tells of his trouble the other strives to

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console him and imparts him his own secret return.

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You see God longs to walk with us and have a relationship with us.

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Enoch walked with God.

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He walked by faith and not by sight.

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He walked in agreement with God.

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Now after walking like this with God one day God told him you don't need to walk home why

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don't you just come home with me.

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So God actually took him to heaven.

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Now God took him a very remarkable expression.

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Perhaps it did it in some visible manner.

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Perhaps he made an example of him to everyone around of how close of a relationship he wanted

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to have with us.

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Now there was some distinct taking up as if this one choice would bring him up to God

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in heaven.

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Hebrews 11 5 tells us that the foundation of Enoch's walk was with God by faith Enoch

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was taken away so that he did not see death because God was watching out for him and that

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he pleased God.

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You see we can't walk with God or please God apart from having faith in God.

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If we walk contrary to the things of God we contradict the things of God.

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God wants us to walk closely with him and tightly with him and as close as we possibly

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can in our journey here on earth.

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Our whole goal is to get as close to God as possible in this life not as close to sin

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as possible in this life.

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God wants us to walk with him and talk with him and breathe with him.

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And it says that Enoch walked with God it says that Enoch walked with God in a special

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way after the birth of his son Methuselah.

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The name Methuselah means when he is dead it shall come.

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Now at the birth of Methuselah Enoch had a special awareness from God that judgment was

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coming and this was one of the things that got him closer in his walk with God.

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Jude 14 says that Enoch was a prophet even from his vantage point long ago he could see

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the second coming of Jesus.

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Now Enoch walked with God after Methuselah had been born 300 years and doubtless he had

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walked with him before.

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Now what a splendid walk.

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He got to walk with him a hundred years.

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Hundred years of a daily close relationship with Jesus.

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That is the type of relationship that God wants for us to have a daily close walking

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relationship with Jesus.

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So all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty nine years and he died.

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Methuselah's long life was no accident it was because of the grace of God.

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When Methuselah died the flood came.

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God kept him alive longer than anybody to give people as long as possible to repent.

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Now verse 28 to 32 it says from Lamech to Noah.

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Lamech was a hundred and eighty two years and he had a son called Noah.

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That means this one will comfort us concerning our work and all the toil of our hands because

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the ground which the Lord has cursed.

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Now after he begot Noah Lamech lived a hundred and ninety five years and had sons and daughters

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so the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy seven years and he died and Noah was

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five hundred years old.

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Noah begot Shem and him Japheth.

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Now Lamech lived a hundred and eighty two years and had a son and he called his name

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Noah.

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And these genealogies are consecutive.

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Noah was born only 14 years after the death of Seth, Adam's son.

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Seth died in year 1042 from creation and Noah was born in year 1056 from creation.

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And the genealogies are consecutive and without gaps.

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Now it's remarkable to think that Noah could have known and spoken with Adam's grandson

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Enosh and his other grandchildren.

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This is how long they lived at that time.

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And Abel and Seth in Genesis.

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It's even possible and timely that Noah spoke with with one of them and he died.

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And the overwhelming emphasis of Genesis is that five of these men died.

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They were all under sin and subject to death.

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Now some of them many of them were great men but none of them was the deliverer that God

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had promised.

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Martin Luther wrote this is the greatest glory of the primitive world that it had so many

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good, wise and holy men at the same time.

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We must not think that these are ordinary names of plain people but next to Christ,

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John the Baptist they were the most outstanding heroes this world has ever produced.

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And on the last day we shall behold and admire their grandeur.

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Now that concludes our time in Genesis chapter 5 today.

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Now every time we finish I'd like us to pray together and I'd like us to say right now

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would you pray with me say God would you help me to follow you today?

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Would you help me to turn away from the things that keep me from doing your will?

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I want to do your will in my life.

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I want you to transform my life.

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I want you to help me walk with Jesus every single day.

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I ask you to forgive me.

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I ask you to come into my heart and fill me with your spirit in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Now I always want to thank those of you for your generosity, for giving and generosity

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as part of our worship.

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What enables us to do all of this work here at Ocean Water.

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My prayer is that you discover the joy that happens in your life when you connect your

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generosity with serving the poor.

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Now as your pastor I always want to pray and ask, I want you to pray and ask the Holy Spirit

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what to do and then to go and do it.

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Apply this principle to your finances.

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In fact I'd like you to pray right now, God what do you want me to give?

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How do you want me to worship you with this part of my life, my finances?

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Whatever he puts on your life today go and give it at OceanWater.com.

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You'd like more information about Ocean Water Church, how to join us on an upcoming trip,

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how to be part of one of our Clean Water projects, how to financially support our movement or

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even information on how you can start an Ocean Water Church yourself.

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Please look us up at OceanWater.com.