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Good morning. How are y'all doing today? Awesome. We're here.

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You know, sometimes that is the prayer, right? God, just let me

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get there. And I amen when He does. So, we like to start our

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Sunday services by saying welcome to anybody that is here

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in our sanctuary for the first time, if you're joining us for

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the first time, awesome. Or if you're joining us online for the

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first time, we want to say welcome. We're so glad you guys

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are here to worship with us today. I am Pastor Nathan, and

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this morning we're going to be learning about walking with God

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in the midst of a godless culture. That doesn't apply to

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us today, does it? Yeah. You know, as we've been studying

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through Genesis, we just finished last time our look at

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Genesis 4, which was a record of human degeneration. That

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chapter started first with Cain's murder of his brother

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Abel. And we saw in that story how even in the midst of that

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sin, God, I believe, gave an opportunity for Cain to repent.

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But unfortunately, Cain just stood firm in his rebellion,

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lied to God about his part in it. And so, God ended up cursing

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Cain. And that curse carried down through his line because

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then we looked at the account of growing degeneration amongst

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mankind in Cain's descendants, ultimately capping with his

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descendant, Lamech, and his kids, Jabal, Jubal, and Tubal

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Cain, who were the fathers of agribusiness and the arts and

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technology. And we looked at that story where Lamech ends up

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giving us this thing called the sword song, where he boasts

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about his extreme violence, where he boasts about killing a

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young man because that man just wounded him slightly. And

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really, it was a picture of the degradation of morality in

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Cain's line. That Lamech would boast that his violence was much

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more than his famous ancestor, Cain. But even in the midst of

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that, we saw that God allowed advances in civilization as

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Lamech's three sons, I said, were the father of agribusiness

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and arts and technology. They pushed the envelope of the

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development of civilization, even though they were a sinful

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line. And, you know, it just shows us a picture that despite

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the advances of civilization, despite the things we

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discovered, despite all of it, it has nothing to do with our

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morality, that our mortal soul is one that is born into sin.

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We are born with the nature of sin. And mankind, with his own

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discoveries and advances, is never going to solve the problem

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of his sinful and fallen heart. And that's simply just true

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through all ages, that no matter what mankind's inventor comes

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up with, it does not change the moral issue of the heart. And

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instead, the advances of mankind are often used to further pursue

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sin and debauchery. And so it was a very bleak picture of the

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development of mankind there, but it's not without hope.

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Because at the very end of chapter four, we saw that the

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contrast to the degrading line of Cain and the great sin and

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violence that his line was known for came the line of Seth. And

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the line of Seth was a line of people who recognized their need

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for God, who recognized and understood that there is ultimate

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salvation in no one and nothing else, that it was God and God

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alone who is the important one. And so that line, the Bible

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tells us, began to be known for calling upon the name of the

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Lord. Now chapter five is then going to give us the genealogy

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of Seth. Now it is a list of names. And some people go, how

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interesting can that be? I promise you it's very interesting

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as we get to it, and I'll show you that later. But the line of

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Seth is a line that ultimately ends up with Moses and

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ultimately ends up with Jesus Christ, God himself, being born

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in the flesh. Now here in Genesis five, it's going to take

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us from Adam all the way up to Noah, who is the last patriarch

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before the great flood that wiped out all of humanity except

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for Noah and his family. And so Seth's line as we look at it

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today, it's very, very different than the line of Cain. See in

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Cain's genealogy, it's just the names. There's no mention of how

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long they lived. There's no mention of when their first born

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was born. There's none of the details like that that are

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included in Seth's line. And I believe because Cain's line was

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not meant to be eternally remembered in any way but the

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bad way, that it was the cursed line. It was the line of the

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curse down from Cain, and it was ultimately the line that was

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wiped out in the flood. But in Seth's genealogy, we see the

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ages of each patriarch at the time of the birth of their first

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born. We see the number of years they lived after that birth. We

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see the total number of years they lived upon the earth. And

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what we see in contrast to Lamech in Cain's line is what

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walking with God looks like in a man named Enoch. But first,

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we're going to praise God and worship Him. Because as God's

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people made in the image of God, who know God, who've received

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salvation in God, we're so thankful. We just want to praise

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Him, right? He is almighty. He is everything. And despite our

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failures and despite our sins and mistakes, God's promises

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stand, don't they? Amen. Let's pray. Father, we love you so

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much. We thank you, God, that today, Lord, we get to celebrate

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communion as the body of Christ, Lord. To remember what you did

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for us. How, Lord, you came and you died on the cross. Your body

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was given to suffer the full wrath of God for us, and then

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your blood was shed, establishing a new covenant of

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faith. That we would be able to walk with you. Because it's not

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based upon our strength and our effort, but it's based upon your

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spirit and your power. So God, as we look at Genesis 5 and we

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look at the line of Seth, Lord, may we be encouraged, God, that

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Lord, despite what mankind does, evilly, if that's even a real

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word, Lord, but God, that you would work through and still

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have your promises come to fruition, God, as we see in

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Seth's line that your promise and your blessing on mankind was

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carried through. And Lord, may we be encouraged to know that we

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can walk with you, God, despite the sin in our flesh, despite the

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challenges of our culture, that God, we are able to walk with

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you. Because you are God. You are who you say you are, and

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therefore everything you say is true and faithful. Your promises

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are true and faithful, Lord. And as your people, we trust in

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nothing else but you for everything. We love you. We

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praise you, God. It's in the name of Jesus Christ we pray.

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Amen.

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All right, guys, we are in Genesis chapter 5 this morning,

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and we're going to be covering the entire chapter. But in the

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first couple verses of this chapter where we're introduced to

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the Sethite genealogy, it takes us all the way back to Adam. But

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these first two verses start out by reminding us about a very,

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very important aspect of the creation of mankind,

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specifically that we are all made in the image of God or the

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likeness of God. And so read with me in verse 1. It says,

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This is the document containing the family records of Adam. On

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the day that God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.

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He created them male and female. When they were created, he

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blessed them and called them mankind. So these opening verses

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to this genealogy are meant to remind the readers, the original

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readers, and us today that the fall of mankind didn't destroy

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the image of God that we were created in, right? Oftentimes,

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when we stumble into sin, we go, Oh, I'm a terrible Christian,

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and I can't be a Christian. And of course, the devil is right

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there, right? Shame on you. You call yourself a Christian. How

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dare you? You don't represent God. And that's a lie from the

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devil, right? We don't want to sin, but when we do, it doesn't

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destroy the image of God that we were created in. And so we're

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being reminded here of that very thing. It takes us all the way

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back to the beginning in Genesis chapter 1 verse 27, where it

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says, He created man in his own image. He created him in the

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image of God. He created them male and female. And so the

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reminder of these opening two verses in this chapter is

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reminding us that not only are we the image bearers of God, but

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because we are the image bearers of God, we have an incredible

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potential, and we have an incredible calling. As image

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bearers of God, we have the capability as humans to hear

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God's word, to understand God's word, and to apply God's word.

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That is a very, very high privilege that we have. Nothing

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else in all of creation except angels can hear God's word,

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understand God's word, and then live according to God's word.

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The animal kingdom can hear it maybe, but doesn't understand

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the teachings and the morality of it. Plants don't. Nothing

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else in God's creation has this privilege that we have because

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we are made in the image of God. Now, also as image bearers of

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God, we were commissioned to rule over the earth on behalf of

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God. And as image bearers, what that meant is that we as

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humanity, we as people, God's special creation, we have the

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possibility of having an intimate relationship with our

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Creator, that we would know Him and that He would know us. It is

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a very special and beautiful thing. And so when we're

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reminded that the image of God was not destroyed by Adam and

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Eve's sin in the garden, that the image of God was not

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destroyed by the fall, we're also reminded here that neither

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was the blessing that God pronounced upon humanity. In

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these verses, it tells us when they were created, He blessed

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them. We can't forget that we are blessed by God. Now, in this

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genealogy as we're about to go through it, this phrase, this

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reminder that He blessed them was meant to bring us back to

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again the creation and really the context of the blessing. You

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see in Genesis chapter 1 verse 28, it says God blessed them and

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then He said to them, start your career and become a CEO. Climb

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the corporate ladder. Have the biggest house, the nicest car.

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Right? Does it say any of that? No, it says what was the

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blessing that God laid on humanity? It was be fruitful.

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Multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. Rule the fish of the

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sea and the birds of the sky and every creature that crawls on

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the earth. Humans do a lot of things. We do a lot of things.

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We have a lot of goals and a lot of purposes, but really the

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original image of what mankind was blessed to do was as

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God's creation, to bring image bearers of God to come together

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as one flesh, procreate, creating more image bearers of

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God and then raising them to know God and to worship Him and

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to praise Him. Then the next generation would do the same

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thing and the same thing. On and on as God's creation, His

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special creation, mankind covered the entire earth, ruled

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over it on behalf of Him and that was the intent. That is the

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high calling that God has placed on man. It's one of the

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reasons, incidentally, I believe Satan has worked so hard,

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especially in our modern culture, to diminish parenthood

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and to diminish motherhood and to, no, don't have kids and no,

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no, that's going to ruin your life and kids are going to mess

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you up and it was really the pinnacle of God's blessing. Now

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this doesn't mean having a career is bad or, you know,

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having a nice car is bad. None of that's bad. Those are good

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things, but to diminish what God blessed us specifically to

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do and to be, to raise up people who know and love and

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worship God, it shouldn't be diminished. And so here in these

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verse two verses, we're reminded, we're reminded of what

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God had commissioned mankind to do and the genealogy of Genesis

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five shows us that they did exactly that. The Sethite Lydon

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did exactly that. It also suggests that they did it quite

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well, right? Massive multiplication as we'll look at

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and what we see here in these verses is that as each

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generation birthed a son, that's what this generosity

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tells us, this person birthed this person and then it also

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says, and other sons and daughters, right? That phrase

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follows each patriarch through this genealogy and so what

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we're seeing here is that the patriarchs in Seth's line are

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living, actively living out God's blessing upon their lives,

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multiplying, spreading the image of God throughout humanity

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and being people who called on the name of the Lord. See,

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that's the difference from Cain's line in chapter four.

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Chapter four, we saw Cain defy God's order and start

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building cities as when he was supposed to be a nomadic

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wanderer. We see Lamech, the seventh generation from Adam

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boasting that his violence, his, his just murderous intent was

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greater than his famous ancestor Cain's. But here in

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Seth's line, it told us at the end of chapter four that Seth's

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line is when people started to call upon the name of the

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Lord and so that's what we're gonna see through the line

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here. Now, I'm gonna read the whole chapter, okay, and then

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we'll come back to the parts that I wanna focus on. So, but

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pay attention to phrases that repeat, right? That's what I

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want you to pay attention to. Genesis chapter five verse

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three. Adam was 130 years old when he fathered a son in his

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likeness. There's that image passing on, right? According to

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his image and named him Seth. Adam lived 800 years after he

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fathered Seth and he fathered other sons and daughters. So

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Adam's life lasted 930 years, then he died. Seth was 105

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years old when he fathered Enosh. Seth lived 807 years

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after he fathered Enosh and he fathered other sons and

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daughters. So Seth's life lasted 912 years, then he died.

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Enosh was 90 years old when he fathered Canaan. Enosh lived

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815 years after he fathered Canaan and he fathered other

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sons and daughters. So Enosh's life lasted 905 years, then he

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died. Canaan was 70 years old when he fathered Mahalalel.

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Canaan lived 840 years after he fathered Mahalalel and he

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fathered other sons and daughters. So Canaan's life

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lasted 910 years, then he died. Mahalalel was 65 years old

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when he fathered Jared. Mahalalel lived 830 years after

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he fathered Jared and he fathered other sons and

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daughters. So Mahalalel's life lasted 895 years, then he died.

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Enoch or Jared was 162 years old when he fathered Enoch. Jared

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lived 800 years after he fathered Enoch and he fathered

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other sons and daughters. So Jared's life lasted 962 years,

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then he died. Enoch was 65 years old when he fathered

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Methuselah. After he fathered Methuselah, Enoch walked with

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God 300 years and fathered other sons and daughters. So

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Enoch's life lasted 365 years. Enoch walked with God, then he

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was not there because God took him. Methuselah was 187 years

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old when he fathered Lamech. Methuselah lived 782 years after

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he fathered Lamech and he fathered other sons and

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daughters. So Methuselah's life lasted 969 years, then he died.

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Lamech was 182 years old when he fathered a son and he named

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him Noah, saying, this one will bring us relief from the

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agonizing labor of our hands caused by the ground that the

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Lord has cursed. Lamech lived 595 years after he fathered

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Noah and he fathered other sons and daughters. So Lamech's

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life lasted 777 years, then he died. Noah was 500 years old

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and he fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth. So did you guys

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notice repeating phrases through that chapter? Yeah,

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there's a few here. Now, you can imagine after all these

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years of multiplying, right? Because the years listed here

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for their lifespans, they're not metaphorical. They're real

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years. They're 969, 365 day years, right? It's real time

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that's being recorded here and people go, well, how did

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mankind live that long back then? Well, we're that close to

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creation, right? The earth is still good. You know, all the

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pollution and chemicals and corruption of sin and all that

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is just barely in the beginning here and so I think it was easy

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for man to live a long time. I mean, if we didn't have all the

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stuff today that wrecks our body and on top of that, God

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reduced the lifespan as we got past the flood, I think we

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would live a long time. In fact, in the original design in

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the garden, weren't we meant to live forever? Yeah, so think

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with all those hundreds of years of multiplying, probably

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thousands, thousands of offspring, all who passed on or

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received the likeness of God, the image of God as their

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parents came together as one flesh and gave birth to their

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children and on and on and on. Now, these people in Seth's

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line were all people who despite the fall and despite

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sin, were people that could hear God's word, were people

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that could rule and subdue the earth, that people who could

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have relationship with God and that's the picture we see in

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this line. Now, surely not every single person in Seth's

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line followed the Lord perfectly. Some probably

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didn't, you know, because when you look at Kane's line,

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you're like, well, weren't they procreating and weren't they?

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Yes, the image of God was going through their line too, but

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the focus, the contrast between the two chapters really

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highlight what took place as those lines developed and as

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we've talked about before, Kane's line degenerated into

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just ever increasing sinfulness, but we're going to

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see something different here in Seth's line. Now, despite the

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encouraging picture, right, that God's blessing them and

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they're multiplying and wow, look at how God's promise is

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still going through this line because again, this is the line

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that ultimately Jesus Christ, the Savior comes from. There

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was still a depressing reminder of the results of the garden.

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Did you guys hear it mentioned over and over and over? This

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person gave birth to this person and then they lived this

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many years after and so the total of their years were this

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many. They gave birth to other sons and daughters and then

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they died and then they died and then they died and then

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they died, right? Except Enoch. Now, it's been that way

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since the fall. We weren't supposed to die, but we sinned

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against God. We disobeyed him. In an instant, our spirits

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died, our spiritual connection to God and then the decay of

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creation began and so then humanity would start to

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physically die as well and you know, death is a present

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reality for all of us. You know the most sure statistic in

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all statistics ever created, right? Ten out of ten people

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will die. None of us are gonna make it out of here. Now, of

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course, we look through the Bible and we're like, well,

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some did, but that's rare movements of God. For the most

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part, we are going to face death one day. Now, all of us,

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all of us have a day before us should the Lord not return yet

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that our time here will be over, that the life we live

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here will be over, that the things we're accomplishing and

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doing here on this earth will be over and we will not be

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able to accomplish anything else here. Now, there's a lot

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of people that have told stories or witnessed that when

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someone's at the threshold of death, often time as they're

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reflecting back on their entire life, it could seem like

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that. It could seem like such a short amount of time and then

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what happens is people close to death or on their deathbed are

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like, where did my life go and what happened? It seems like

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yesterday I was doing that. Two seconds ago I was doing that

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and that's an idea or something that people experience

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when they're on their deathbed. It even happens as people are

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getting older and aging, right? When we start to reflect on,

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oh, I wanted to do this or I had that goal or this and that

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and as time marches forward, we wonder what happened. Yes, I'm

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gonna be 50 years old in a couple weeks and it's like, you

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know, that is half a century. Now, of course, I've had some

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lovely congregants here that are older than me and go, you're

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just a kid still, you know, so but I don't feel like a kid

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still, right? Or at least my body doesn't feel like a kid

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still, you know, and I'm like, you know, two seconds ago I was

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snowboarding and playing paintball and starting

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businesses and now I pull my calf getting up from a chair,

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right? And it's like, what happened? And I reflect back on

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my life and I feel like it's gone so fast but when I look

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back to, well, when did this happen? I realized, gosh,

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there's been a lot of time and then I look forward in the

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future and I'm like, that's gonna come fast too and pretty

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soon, well, Nathan was not there because he went to be

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with the Lord, right? And we don't look forward to that type

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of thing. We all have things we want to accomplish and, you

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know, again, many people that when they're at the end of life

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and on their deathbed, sometimes they have a lot of

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regrets. I should have done more of this. I should have done

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more of that, less of this, you know? I should have spent more

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time with my family and less building my business. I should

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have spent more time with my kids and less at the office,

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right? I should have spent more time with my spouse than, you

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know, and those types of things people will voice at the end

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and, you know, I think even with the peace of knowing God,

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you know, sometimes Christians could have regrets about what

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they maybe didn't get to do, you know? Even though we're

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like, I can go into heaven and it's great. As they're

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approaching that, they're like, oh, but, you know, a lot of

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young people, I used to do young adults ministry and I

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would hear a common theme amongst young people. They're

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like, God's coming back. Heaven. Awesome. But can you

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wait until I get married? I really want to get married. I

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really want to start my family. Like, God, hold on, God. I

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mean, yes, yes, I want nothing more than to be with you, but

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but I want to do this first, right? And then, you know, some

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people, as they miss those things, they'll even have

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regrets, you know? Now, I think for a believer, the closer you

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get to the end, and I've witnessed this over and over, the

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more the believer who has a piece of Jesus Christ is simply

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like, I can't wait to get there. You know, I'm done with

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this nonsense. Take me home, Lord, you know? And God takes

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us in his time according to his will and his plan. But as we

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see here in this generational story of Seth Sline, as each

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generation of patriarchs came and went, you know, the the

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excitement of life, the bright hopes and dreams eventually all

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came to an end as a predictable dark cloud of death descended

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on all of them. But right in the middle of this, right? Right

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in the middle of then he died, then he died, then he died. We

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come to the seventh generation after Adam, a man named Enoch.

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Now, this is not Cain's son, Enoch, in chapter four. This is

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a different Enoch, a different man of a different line with a

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different heart and different spirit altogether. Now, in three

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short verses, this almost depressing story that death is

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ever present, in three short verses, Enoch's story shines a

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bright light on that rhythm of death in mankind. Now, Enoch's

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place in the genealogy is also very, very interesting because

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if you count from Adam in Cain's genealogy and Seth's

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genealogy, you'll notice that Enoch is the seventh generation

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from Adam. In Enoch, or in Cain's line, Lamech, the evil

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dude, was the seventh generation from Adam. Now, I

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don't believe anybody was having kids and going, okay,

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hey, you know, seven generations now, make sure you

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name them Enoch because we want to create this contrast. I

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think God created the contrast for us to learn from. That is,

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you take the seventh generation in both lines, the evil line

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and the godly line, and you line up Enoch against Lamech. It

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just creates an eternal contrast of the choice, the

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choice mankind has, that it's gonna be heaven or hell. It's

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gonna be death or life. It's gonna be despair or hope. And

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so, I believe God orchestrated this, that we would learn from

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Enoch's life and choose what is right and good. And so, look

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again with me at verse 21. It says, Enoch was 65 years old

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when he fathered Methuselah. And after he fathered

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Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and fathered

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other sons and daughters. So, Enoch's life lasted 365 years.

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Enoch walked with God and then he was not there because God

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took him. See, as you read through this genealogy, that the

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detail of how long he lived should stick out to you right

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away. Everybody's living hundreds of years, like 900

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years, 900 years. And then you get to Enoch and it says he

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only lived 365. Like the people that were older than him there

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were going, 365, you're still a kid, right? But the detail is

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here, so we go, whoa, what is it about this man's life that's

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different? And so, it tells us that he walked with God. It's

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specifically telling us that, right? It doesn't say that about

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all the others in the line specifically, but it stops here

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to say, in contrast to this man who was boasting about even

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greater violence and murder than his ancestor Cain, in

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contrast to that, we had a guy in the Sethite line who was

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walking with God. Now, you might think, okay, yeah, walk with

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God. I know what that means. Well, do you? We're gonna look

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at that right now because this phrase that he walked with God

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is only used of two people in the Old Testament, Enoch and

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Noah. Now, it's a special phrase. It doesn't just mean

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walking with God. It's referring to the closest, deepest, most

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intimate personal communion with God. It's the picture as

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if you're walking with him on the same path side by side, but

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you're the little kid reaching up and holding his hand, and he,

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the father, is just walking along with you. That's the

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picture of this, this beautiful, just innocence and purity of

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childlike faith. Childlike faith is a beautiful thing. Childlike

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faith doesn't doubt. Childlike faith doesn't, you know, like,

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wait, what a second, there must be an explanation. They're

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just like wowed by things, right? Like my grandson James,

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you know, we do things in his life or playing with him and

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stuff and make sounds and noises, and he's just like, oh,

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you're a magician, right? And it's just, he's innocent. It's

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just that childlike faith. Everything is new and fresh and

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exciting, and of course, you know, as the older we get, we

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start to get cynical and all these things, and walking with

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God is walking with him in that childlike faith. There's not a

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whole lot of argument and debate. It's just like, you're

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dad. You can do anything. Like, if anybody picks on me, I'm

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going to say, I'm going to tell my dad, and I have absolute

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faith and confidence that my dad's going to kick your butt,

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right? That's that kind of faith that kids have, and so it's

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different from other Old Testament phrases, because as

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you read through the Old Testament and you see other

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godly men or godly people that were referenced, you'll see

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phrases like they walked before God or they walked after God,

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right? But you only see in Enoch and Noah that they walked

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with God. Now, those other phrases are referring to blame

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and endless moral and ethical behavior, right? They walked

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before God, right? They were being obedient. They walked

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after God. They were following his precepts in their behavior,

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but walking with God is something very specially,

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uniquely intimate, very intimate, and it indicates that

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deepest commitment and dependence and faith and trust,

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and again, like I said, it's that idea of continuing the

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same direction with him, not on your own, but holding his

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hands. How many of you remember that poem, Footsteps,

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right? I just thought of it now, so I don't remember the

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whole thing, but yeah, you know, God, I looked back and

458
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there was only one set of footprints. What's up with that?

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Why did you leave me? I didn't leave you. That was when I was

460
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carrying you, right? And so what walking with God looked

461
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like in Enoch's life, we get details of it through the New

462
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Testament, especially in the book of Hebrews. In Hebrews,

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chapter 11, verse 5, it tells us this. By faith, Enoch was

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taken away, and so he did not experience death. He was not

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to be found because God took him away, for before he was

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taken away, he was approved as one who pleased God. So it

467
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tells us some things about there, about what his walk with

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God was like. One, it was by faith. It was by faith. And

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we're gonna see in the next verse, Hebrews 11, 6, what

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that's defined as, but he had faith, he walked with God by

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faith, and then it tells us that he was approved as one who

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pleased God. So he had a pleasing faith to the Lord, and

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you go, well, what does a pleasing faith look like? Verse

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6 of Hebrews 11. Now without faith, it is impossible to

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please God, since the one who draws near to him must believe

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that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. Now

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contextually, this is tied to Enoch, so what we can presume

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about Enoch's pleasing faith is that it had these two major

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characteristics, that his faith was such that he lived in a way

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that demonstrated he believed that God exists and that he

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believed that God rewards those who seek him. Now that idea of

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believing that he exists is, yeah, I believe he's real,

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right? I believe God is real, but it also means that I believe

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he is who he says he is, that I believe his words, that I

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believe his promises, and I believe his warnings, and I

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believe them to such a degree that my life is changed and

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transformed by those beliefs. And so the idea here is this

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Enoch, who is made in the likeness of God, who was able to

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hear God's word, and he responded to God's word, believed

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that God was real in all his heart, mind, soul, and strength.

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Where do we hear that? In the New Testament. That God is who

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he says he is, and it says this pleased God. It pleased God

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then, it pleases God today. You see, when God's people simply

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completely believe in him, what his word says about him, God

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is pleased by that. You see, I think it bums God out sometimes

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when we say, I believe you, God, I believe in your promises,

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and then we face a situation that's difficult, and we

498
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instantly start going, oh no, is God here? Is God with me? I

499
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think that bums him out, because he's like, you say you

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believe me, but then when you get into the difficult

501
00:31:51,980 --> 00:31:57,980
situation, now you're doubting me? Like, do you really believe

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if you're having that, you know? And it's a weakness of our

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flesh. It's a real challenge in our life that we want to

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trust God, to have that faith in him, in who he is and what

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00:32:10,540 --> 00:32:15,820
he's done, and just, that's true, right? I mean, how many

506
00:32:15,820 --> 00:32:20,060
of you believe in gravity? Do any of you doubt gravity?

507
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Right? Is anybody like, I mean, I've read about it in science,

508
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and I learned it in school, and you know, I believe it's

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there because nothing flies off the earth. But do any of you

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find yourself going on top of a tall building and going, well,

511
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maybe if I jump off, I'll fly? Kids do that. Childlike faith.

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But the reality is, is for us, the point is, is we believe

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that gravity exists so much that you don't see any of us

514
00:32:50,140 --> 00:32:55,580
jumping off of tall things. It's not a question in our mind.

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We don't ponder that. We're just like, no, that's reality.

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Therefore, I don't jump off of tall things. You live in

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according to the belief, right? Well, do you do that with all

518
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of God's promises in his word? Do you do that with all of God's

519
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warnings in his word? Right? This is the idea of Enoch's

520
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faith, and then that pleasing faith, it says that they must

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believe that he rewards those who seek him. That's really

522
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believing in his promises. That because Jesus died for me and

523
00:33:28,700 --> 00:33:33,820
I put my faith in him, I am going to heaven. Not I might. Not

524
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maybe. I am. Because the Holy Spirit lives within me, I have

525
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the ability to say no to the temptations that come at me. Not

526
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I might have the ability. I do. Now, whether we use it or not,

527
00:33:48,860 --> 00:33:53,420
different Bibles study, okay? But sometimes people are like,

528
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hey, can you pray that God would give me strength? And

529
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that's a good prayer, but the thought hit me one day where I

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was like, do you believe that God lives within you? Yes. Do

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you believe God created the universe out of nothing? Yes. Is

532
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there any more strength he can give you? No. So the prayer

533
00:34:16,380 --> 00:34:18,540
should be God help me use the strength you've already given

534
00:34:18,540 --> 00:34:22,860
me. Right? It's a subtle shift in ideology, but it's there.

535
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And so now when it says that Enoch's faith, he believed that

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he rewards those who seek him, it also implies that he believed

537
00:34:29,980 --> 00:34:33,180
the opposite of that, right? That he judges those who reject

538
00:34:33,180 --> 00:34:36,300
them and continue to go their own way. How do we know that?

539
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Well, in Jude verse 14 and 15, it tells us this about Enoch.

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Now it says, it was about these that Enoch in the seventh

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00:34:45,020 --> 00:34:48,540
generation from Adam prophesied. Now, these he's talking

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about in Jude prior to verse 14, he's talking about

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apostates. He's talking about people that say, oh, yeah, no, I

544
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think I believe in God, but they change it. They don't rely

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on it. They do their own thing. They live their own way, which

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is probably very common in Enoch's day. This is what he

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prophesied. This is what Enoch was preaching in his 365 years

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or 300 years after Methuselah. Look, the Lord comes with tens

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of thousands of his holy ones to execute judgment on all and

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to convict all the ungodly concerning all the ungodly acts

551
00:35:20,620 --> 00:35:24,300
that they have done in an ungodly way and concerning all

552
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the harsh things ungodly sinners have said against him.

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Now to quote the character of Ray Comfort, the great

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00:35:34,700 --> 00:35:38,540
evangelist, do you see there God, Enoch saying, hey, God

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loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life.

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Now, God does love us and God does have a plan for our life

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and his plan is wonderful. But so often we want to soften

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the truth of the gospel and not preach sin and not warn

559
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people that a holy righteous judgment is coming on those who

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reject Jesus. We don't want to do any of that because, wow,

561
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that creates conflict. And yet this man, Enoch, who God says

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was approved as one who pleased God, who lived his life by

563
00:36:12,460 --> 00:36:18,220
faith, described as walking with God, the only quote we have

564
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that he ever said in his life of ministry was a warning of

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judgment on those who reject God, a warning of judgment on

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those who are ungodly. Now you don't just preach that either

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because God is love and you want to tell people that he's

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made a way. But you can't leave out the fact that if you

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reject God, even if you say, oh yeah, I know God, but you're

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living your own way constantly and consistently, you're in

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danger because God is going to judge those who aren't saved.

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And so what this tells me about Enoch is that he had full

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belief in who God was, his character, full belief in the

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fact that God is perfectly fair and perfectly impartial and

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perfectly right in all of his decisions. If God said this is

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bad, Enoch wasn't going, well, I mean, come on, some people,

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and you don't know how they were raised. He's just like, no,

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God said it was bad, it's bad. So I'm going to walk you through

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that. So I'm going to warn people, hey, if you're doing

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00:37:19,340 --> 00:37:22,060
that, that's not a good thing. You know what? You need to give

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00:37:22,060 --> 00:37:24,300
your life over to the Lord because he did, you know, and

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all that stuff. Enoch believed that God will indeed reward

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those who seek him and judge those who don't. And so the

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picture we get of this walk with God is one of a man named

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Enoch who was completely saturated with God. His whole

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life was just defined by his relationship with God. His

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decisions were guided by God's will and what God wanted. He

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didn't have this ongoing, well, God, I say I love you, but I'm

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00:37:57,100 --> 00:37:59,660
going to live this way. It was just, I'm sure he wasn't a

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perfect man. None of us are. But just like many imperfect

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people throughout the Bible, especially in Hebrews chapter

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11, we don't see God focusing on what they did wrong. We see

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God focusing on the fact that they had faith in Jesus Christ.

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They had faith in God. They had faith in the one who would

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save them. And so Enoch's walk was rooted down in this

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deepest intimacy he had with God. The idea is that he knew

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God and God knew him. He knew God. He knew God's character.

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He knew God's will. He knew what God wanted from his life.

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He knew what God wanted him to do, how he wanted him to live.

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And then God knew him because he gave himself fully over to

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his Lord. What he was doing in his walk with God and what a

602
00:38:51,180 --> 00:38:54,700
walk with God looks like is he believed God with all his

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heart, mind, soul, and strength. He had great faith in

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the Lord and because of his great faith in God and his

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promises and his truths, it caused him to not only live a

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life that was pleasing to God, but then also to preach the

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righteousness of God and the judgment of God. You see, this

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00:39:12,220 --> 00:39:16,060
wasn't just a season of Enoch's life, right? It doesn't

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00:39:16,060 --> 00:39:19,340
tell us here that, hey, Enoch lived 365 years and you know

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00:39:19,340 --> 00:39:22,540
what, between year 282 and 283, man, he had a thriving

611
00:39:22,540 --> 00:39:29,180
ministry. It tells us in the verses about Enoch that at 65

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he gave birth to Methuselah and then it says after that he

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walked with God for 300 years. What that tells us is that for

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three centuries of his life, he continually, daily pursued God,

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sought the Lord, tried to live a life pleasing to him, tried

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to tell people about him and warn those who reject him. For

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three centuries, can you imagine that? I know a lot of

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us, you know, we'll do great ministry for a month. They're

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like, whew, I'm worn out. I'm gonna back off. You know, I

620
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passed out 10 tracks this month. Whoa, man, I'm done. Now,

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again, passing out 10 tracks is great. Please do that, right?

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But we'll find ourselves backing off of ministry

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sometimes because maybe we're in a difficult season of life.

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Maybe, you know, there's other things we need to attend to or

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maybe we're just lazy and we back off and we say, well, I'm

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a Christian, but that's it. I don't need to serve. I know the

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church keeps announcing that they need volunteers, but I'm

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good. I know the, you know, and we just, oh no, it's just me

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and my faith and that's it. And as we read through the whole

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New Testament, our faith was never meant to be about us and

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us alone. We're part of a community. We're a part of

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family. We're part of a kingdom. And that kingdom is at

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war with the kingdom of this world and we're all called to

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be a part of that battle. Now, again, as Enoch was living and

635
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depending on God, pursuing the Lord for three centuries,

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every day, progressively getting closer and closer to

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him, he was doing it by faith. He wasn't doing it because

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Enoch was great. He was doing it by faith. That tells us that

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there was this daily moment to moment like, God, I can't,

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please help. God, I'm weak, please help. God, I can't say

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00:41:24,780 --> 00:41:30,140
no to my sin, please help. Right? That's the walk of faith.

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And then after three centuries of that, one day at the age of

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365 years, still a young man in light of the days he lived in,

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00:41:37,660 --> 00:41:41,260
it says in verse 24 of Genesis 5 that he was not there because

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God took him. And before you go, well, what does that mean?

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Hebrews told us, right? It means he didn't die. He didn't

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experience death. Now, we can only speculate how God did this,

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right? It doesn't tell us. And I don't think it's an important

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detail. But there are other examples in Scripture when God

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took Elijah. It was in a chariot of horses, right, of fire

651
00:42:06,620 --> 00:42:10,700
and whirlwind. You're like, ooh, that's exciting. And then it

652
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might be just maybe he vanished because that's how the Bible

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00:42:14,140 --> 00:42:18,540
describes the rapture, that in a twinkling of the eye will just

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be caught up to be with the Lord in the air. The only thing

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00:42:21,420 --> 00:42:28,300
we know for sure is that his wonderful walk with God went

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00:42:28,300 --> 00:42:31,420
straight from living this life for God to poof, eternity

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forever with God. Just how awesome was that, right? He

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didn't experience physical death. Mom.

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Alright, back to the study. Enoch didn't experience physical

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death, right? He was exempted by God from the law of death, the

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law of decay, the corruption that would lead to this

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00:43:03,500 --> 00:43:06,540
physical body dying. He was exempted from that. Instead of

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experiencing that, right? Instead of experiencing the age

664
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and the slowing down and instead of experiencing all that

665
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stuff that's part of that, he was just changed in a moment.

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Now, why does God include this Bible or include this in the

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Bible? Why is it here in this genealogy of Seth? Because I

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believe Enoch's example to his contemporaries, his example to

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the people of his day was a great encouragement and a

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consolation for those. You see at the time, right, there's

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these these two lines of civilization developing. This

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line over here is evil and sinful, but man, they're coming

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up with all these great inventions of civilization and

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then you have this other line over here that that maybe was

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doing some of that too, but what they were known for is

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calling upon the name of the Lord and then God says, look,

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look as these generations went on, horrible violence and

678
00:43:59,980 --> 00:44:03,100
look over here, this man who believed in God, believed in

679
00:44:03,100 --> 00:44:08,460
his promises and then experienced the promise right

680
00:44:08,460 --> 00:44:13,020
in the middle of his life. He believed and he was a

681
00:44:13,020 --> 00:44:16,220
testimony to all the people of his time that God does indeed

682
00:44:16,220 --> 00:44:21,100
reward those who seek him and because that's true, it also

683
00:44:21,100 --> 00:44:25,420
means he will judge those who reject him. He was translated

684
00:44:25,420 --> 00:44:29,980
up into eternal life with God. That's just too cool and I

685
00:44:29,980 --> 00:44:34,140
believe it happened and it's recorded to encourage and

686
00:44:34,140 --> 00:44:39,500
awaken the hope of life after death in humanity. You see,

687
00:44:39,500 --> 00:44:41,980
every human today and every human that has ever lived has

688
00:44:41,980 --> 00:44:48,700
the choice. Reject God, accept God. Do it your own way, do it

689
00:44:48,700 --> 00:44:52,780
God's way and what the Bible tells us over and over is man

690
00:44:52,780 --> 00:44:55,180
has tried and tried and tried to do it his own way, to make

691
00:44:55,180 --> 00:44:57,660
up his own religions, to create his own moral code, to do

692
00:44:57,660 --> 00:45:01,100
everything and over and over and over again, nothing changes

693
00:45:01,100 --> 00:45:05,980
in the degenerate heart of man and then you have in this

694
00:45:05,980 --> 00:45:13,180
other line, the same exact thing except people who said,

695
00:45:13,180 --> 00:45:17,980
God, I have faith in you and in that line, eventually came the

696
00:45:17,980 --> 00:45:23,740
savior of the world and then and today we're told you have

697
00:45:23,740 --> 00:45:29,660
faith in him you're saved. It's not by your own works. It's

698
00:45:29,660 --> 00:45:33,020
not by anything you've done. It's simply by the grace of God

699
00:45:33,020 --> 00:45:36,460
but all that forgiveness, all that grace, all that mercy is

700
00:45:36,460 --> 00:45:40,860
given through faith. I believe you God. I believe you are God

701
00:45:40,860 --> 00:45:43,820
that you exist and I believe you're the rewarder of those

702
00:45:43,820 --> 00:45:46,540
who seek you and by extension, I believe that you're gonna

703
00:45:46,540 --> 00:45:48,940
judge those who reject you so God, please forgive me of my

704
00:45:48,940 --> 00:45:51,340
sin.

705
00:45:52,380 --> 00:45:56,860
Now, if you look at the timeline of the Sethite genealogy

706
00:45:56,860 --> 00:45:58,940
of his pick that's gonna go up on the screen, hopefully you

707
00:45:58,940 --> 00:46:02,700
can read it. This is a graph of the ages of all the

708
00:46:02,700 --> 00:46:04,940
patriarchs and some of you have seen this before but if you

709
00:46:04,940 --> 00:46:08,700
haven't, you're gonna be intrigued. What you see there is

710
00:46:08,700 --> 00:46:12,860
that middle red line is that God took Enoch at just over

711
00:46:12,860 --> 00:46:17,100
halfway from creation to the flood, right? Now again, these

712
00:46:17,100 --> 00:46:21,420
years that the patriarchs lived, these are real years.

713
00:46:21,420 --> 00:46:27,100
So, Enoch was taken. Now, every patriarch before Enoch except

714
00:46:27,100 --> 00:46:33,100
Adam was still alive when Enoch was taken. You get that? Seth,

715
00:46:33,100 --> 00:46:36,620
the direct offspring of Adam and Eve was still alive for

716
00:46:36,620 --> 00:46:43,660
another 55 years. It's very possible that in Enoch's early

717
00:46:43,660 --> 00:46:49,580
life, he got to sit down with Adam and go, great, great,

718
00:46:49,580 --> 00:46:50,540
great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great,

719
00:46:50,540 --> 00:46:55,660
Adam, grandpa Adam. What was it like to walk with God in the

720
00:46:55,660 --> 00:47:02,780
garden? What was it like to be there with him? And I'm just

721
00:47:02,780 --> 00:47:07,260
speculating here but I imagine Adam going, oh man, let me tell

722
00:47:07,260 --> 00:47:12,220
you because I've never forgotten it because we lost it

723
00:47:12,220 --> 00:47:17,900
and it has been hard ever since. Wow. But God made a

724
00:47:17,900 --> 00:47:21,660
promise and he gave us a prophecy and he's gonna fix it

725
00:47:21,660 --> 00:47:29,660
and Enoch, wow, I believe that. I believe that. See, Enoch's

726
00:47:29,660 --> 00:47:36,380
dad lived for 597 years after Enoch was taken. All these

727
00:47:36,380 --> 00:47:41,180
patriarchs except for Adam, of course, and then Noah who was

728
00:47:41,180 --> 00:47:46,620
born 69 years after Enoch was taken, they all had hundreds of

729
00:47:46,620 --> 00:47:52,140
years to ponder Enoch's translation, to talk about it, to

730
00:47:52,140 --> 00:47:55,100
share the story, to wow, what was his life like? What did he

731
00:47:55,100 --> 00:47:58,620
do? Yeah, he was just taken. People possibly right there

732
00:47:58,620 --> 00:48:02,860
that say I saw it or I didn't see it because he was there in

733
00:48:02,860 --> 00:48:07,660
the not there. And hundreds of years of talking about this

734
00:48:07,660 --> 00:48:11,500
truth that it happened, that you know that stuff where we're

735
00:48:11,500 --> 00:48:14,300
always being told that God is gonna fix it and there's an

736
00:48:14,300 --> 00:48:16,780
afterlife and there's a paradise with God if you live for him

737
00:48:16,780 --> 00:48:23,900
and Enoch went straight there. Imagine how encouraged they

738
00:48:23,900 --> 00:48:26,300
were as they faithfully awaited their own reward for following

739
00:48:26,300 --> 00:48:33,180
God. To see God one day again. To know that this physical

740
00:48:33,180 --> 00:48:37,340
death was not the end. And this great hope I believe surely

741
00:48:37,340 --> 00:48:40,460
led to many calling upon the name of the Lord in his time and

742
00:48:40,460 --> 00:48:43,740
the time before the flood. Now by the time the flood came,

743
00:48:43,740 --> 00:48:47,500
obviously we're gonna read that the degeneration continued and

744
00:48:47,500 --> 00:48:50,540
it's gonna continue to the place where the only man who is

745
00:48:50,540 --> 00:48:54,700
faithful on the earth is Noah. Noah's dad prophesied, hey,

746
00:48:54,700 --> 00:49:01,180
he's gonna be the one that's gonna bring some relief. Now

747
00:49:01,180 --> 00:49:05,260
this hope that those who walk with God will see God as their

748
00:49:05,260 --> 00:49:08,620
reward. It was voiced by many great men in the Old

749
00:49:08,620 --> 00:49:11,980
Testament. We see it in people like Job. Job chapter 19 he

750
00:49:11,980 --> 00:49:16,220
said, I know that my Redeemer lives. Many people think the

751
00:49:16,220 --> 00:49:20,620
book of Job was actually a story of Job pre-flood. We don't

752
00:49:20,620 --> 00:49:23,900
know that for sure but think about it. If Job was alive

753
00:49:23,900 --> 00:49:27,740
pre-flood and we're hearing these words from Job where he

754
00:49:27,740 --> 00:49:30,860
says, I know that my Redeemer lives. It could possibly be

755
00:49:30,860 --> 00:49:35,420
because he'd heard about the story of Enoch. Speculation. But

756
00:49:35,420 --> 00:49:38,620
he goes on to say at the end, he will stand on the dust. Even

757
00:49:38,620 --> 00:49:41,100
after my skin has been destroyed yet I will see God in

758
00:49:41,100 --> 00:49:45,180
my flesh. I will see him myself. My eyes will look at

759
00:49:45,180 --> 00:49:50,380
him and not as a stranger. My heart longs within me. Job

760
00:49:50,380 --> 00:49:53,500
believed in the reality that I can have a relationship with

761
00:49:53,500 --> 00:49:57,740
God. God can know me and I can know him. Daniel chapter 12 he

762
00:49:57,740 --> 00:50:00,620
says, many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake,

763
00:50:00,620 --> 00:50:02,940
some to eternal life and some to disgrace and eternal

764
00:50:02,940 --> 00:50:06,300
contempt. Those who have insight will shine like the

765
00:50:06,300 --> 00:50:09,020
bright expanse of the heaven and those who lead many to

766
00:50:09,020 --> 00:50:13,100
righteousness like the stars forever and ever. Even years

767
00:50:13,100 --> 00:50:16,220
later, even though Enoch didn't die and he was translated, the

768
00:50:16,220 --> 00:50:18,940
hope that the message that when you die, if you know God,

769
00:50:18,940 --> 00:50:21,660
you're gonna be with him forever. That hope still existed

770
00:50:21,660 --> 00:50:27,180
in Daniel's time. And the reality that all who die are

771
00:50:27,180 --> 00:50:31,660
gonna go somewhere. You're either gonna go the path of the

772
00:50:31,660 --> 00:50:35,900
Sethite line or you're gonna go the path of Cain's line. And

773
00:50:35,900 --> 00:50:38,140
then in that judgment of the flood, that's Cain's line was

774
00:50:38,140 --> 00:50:41,500
completely wiped out. So this of course all foreshadows the

775
00:50:41,500 --> 00:50:45,740
New Testament promises of the promises that are hoped for by

776
00:50:45,740 --> 00:50:49,420
those who trust in Christ, right? Especially the promises

777
00:50:49,420 --> 00:50:51,900
that are written in 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, the

778
00:50:51,900 --> 00:50:55,020
promises that we're told that when Christ returns for his

779
00:50:55,020 --> 00:50:57,580
church, that it says that those who are alive at that moment

780
00:50:57,580 --> 00:51:02,140
will be taken, caught up with the Lord or caught up to the

781
00:51:02,140 --> 00:51:06,060
Lord in the clouds. We're looking forward to that. We're

782
00:51:06,060 --> 00:51:10,220
waiting for that day. And then right after that in 1

783
00:51:10,220 --> 00:51:14,380
Thessalonians 418, Paul writes, therefore, encourage one

784
00:51:14,380 --> 00:51:18,780
another with these words. Do you think people were being

785
00:51:18,780 --> 00:51:23,500
encouraged with the words about Enoch's translation? Do you

786
00:51:23,500 --> 00:51:25,340
think people were being encouraged by like, look, all

787
00:51:25,340 --> 00:51:28,060
this stuff we've heard down through the centuries at this

788
00:51:28,060 --> 00:51:33,820
point, it's real. Put faith in it, trust in it. I believe

789
00:51:33,820 --> 00:51:35,980
that Enoch's contemporaries were very comforted by his

790
00:51:35,980 --> 00:51:42,060
testimony, his life, his walk, and his reward. So we who bear

791
00:51:42,060 --> 00:51:46,060
the image of God, who have that past to us through our

792
00:51:46,060 --> 00:51:50,220
natural birth, who are able to hear God's word and to

793
00:51:50,220 --> 00:51:54,460
understand God's word and apply God's word, well, we need

794
00:51:54,460 --> 00:51:57,020
to know that God's word is our foundation for everything,

795
00:51:57,020 --> 00:52:02,140
right? His word front to back is a promise that one day God

796
00:52:02,140 --> 00:52:05,180
will restore all that was lost in the fall. That's the hope

797
00:52:05,180 --> 00:52:08,700
of heaven that we carry. And really it's like if we would

798
00:52:08,700 --> 00:52:11,980
just trust him and put our faith in him and his word and

799
00:52:11,980 --> 00:52:15,820
his faithfulness for our ultimate salvation. Trust in

800
00:52:15,820 --> 00:52:18,780
him and him alone, right? Now we know that when the fall

801
00:52:18,780 --> 00:52:21,820
happened, it was prophesied to Eve that her seed would one

802
00:52:21,820 --> 00:52:26,780
day defeat Satan and then it was also spoken through his

803
00:52:26,780 --> 00:52:30,860
people. What do I mean by that? Well, we all know that names

804
00:52:30,860 --> 00:52:35,500
have meaning, right? I once found a bookmark at Knott's

805
00:52:35,500 --> 00:52:40,540
Berry Farm and it said, Nathan, given of God. I was not

806
00:52:40,540 --> 00:52:43,820
a Christianist this time, so keep that in mind. I took that

807
00:52:43,820 --> 00:52:46,220
bookmark around Knott's the rest of that night and I'd go

808
00:52:46,220 --> 00:52:53,020
up to girls and go, hey, I'm a gift of God. It didn't work

809
00:52:53,020 --> 00:52:59,100
one single time, but names have meaning, alright? Names mean

810
00:52:59,100 --> 00:53:01,980
things. And so in Genesis five, we have Adam, Seth, Enosh,

811
00:53:01,980 --> 00:53:06,060
Kennan, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, and Noah.

812
00:53:06,060 --> 00:53:08,460
Those are the names in this generational list. Why did God

813
00:53:08,460 --> 00:53:12,380
include it all? Why didn't he just give us Enoch's story?

814
00:53:12,380 --> 00:53:14,620
Well, if we look at the meanings of all the names, this

815
00:53:14,620 --> 00:53:21,180
is what we see. Adam means man, okay? Seth can mean

816
00:53:21,180 --> 00:53:29,260
appointed or granted. Enosh means mortal. Kennan can mean

817
00:53:29,260 --> 00:53:35,580
sorrow or dwelling. Mahalalel means the blessed God. Jared

818
00:53:35,580 --> 00:53:40,380
means shall come down. Enoch could mean teaching or

819
00:53:40,380 --> 00:53:45,820
dedicated. Methuselah means his death shall bring. Lamech

820
00:53:45,820 --> 00:53:50,780
means dedicated or despairing, sorry, despairing. Did I skip

821
00:53:50,780 --> 00:53:54,460
Enoch? Yeah, no, Enoch means teaching or dedicated. Lamech

822
00:53:54,460 --> 00:53:57,980
means despairing and Noah means rest or comfort. Now, if you

823
00:53:57,980 --> 00:54:02,060
put those names in a list, in a left-hand column, and you put

824
00:54:02,060 --> 00:54:05,420
the meanings of their names on the right side, it actually

825
00:54:05,420 --> 00:54:08,860
gives you a prophecy. This is what the prophecy says. Go

826
00:54:08,860 --> 00:54:12,060
ahead and put it up on the screen. Man appointed mortal

827
00:54:12,060 --> 00:54:16,140
sorrow. The blessed God shall come down teaching. His death

828
00:54:16,140 --> 00:54:22,780
shall bring the despairing rest. Isn't that awesome? Now, a

829
00:54:22,780 --> 00:54:26,540
few of those words had a second definition, right? And so I was

830
00:54:26,540 --> 00:54:30,860
like, well, what does it mean if we use the other definition?

831
00:54:30,860 --> 00:54:35,500
And so this is how it reads with the second definition of

832
00:54:35,500 --> 00:54:37,980
the words. Here's what's beautiful. The names of all

833
00:54:37,980 --> 00:54:41,900
these generations over hundreds of years, God however

834
00:54:41,900 --> 00:54:44,300
inspired and spoke to the parents to name the kids, He

835
00:54:44,300 --> 00:54:46,380
even spoke to the ones to name the kids that have two

836
00:54:46,380 --> 00:54:49,180
definitions of words that aren't even the same and it's

837
00:54:49,180 --> 00:54:53,420
still prophetic. This is what the second way says. Man

838
00:54:53,420 --> 00:54:58,460
granted mortal dwelling. That we lost our immortality and

839
00:54:58,460 --> 00:55:01,260
weren't killed for it but God allowed us to continue living.

840
00:55:01,260 --> 00:55:06,460
The blessed God shall come down dedicated. That Jesus Christ

841
00:55:06,460 --> 00:55:11,260
was the sacrifice dedicated for our sin. His death shall

842
00:55:11,260 --> 00:55:15,580
bring the despairing rest. Even in the names of the people

843
00:55:15,580 --> 00:55:19,900
in Seth's line, you have God declaring the gospel, declaring

844
00:55:19,900 --> 00:55:23,100
his hope for mankind and so it's in Christ who is the

845
00:55:23,100 --> 00:55:27,500
blessed God who came down that we find rest. Rest from guilt,

846
00:55:27,500 --> 00:55:31,340
rest from striving, rest from condemnation and ultimate rest

847
00:55:31,340 --> 00:55:35,580
one day. When we're absent from this body and face to face

848
00:55:35,580 --> 00:55:40,140
with God, walking with him hand in hand in heaven forever. For

849
00:55:40,140 --> 00:55:43,820
many, that'll come when these physical bodies perish, right?

850
00:55:43,820 --> 00:55:45,580
The Bible says to be absent from the bodies present with

851
00:55:45,580 --> 00:55:50,940
the Lord. For some, for some it's gonna be when the Lord

852
00:55:50,940 --> 00:55:54,700
comes and you're still alive and you're raptured up in a

853
00:55:54,700 --> 00:55:58,620
twinkling of an eye. Your testimony will be and they

854
00:55:58,620 --> 00:56:05,580
weren't there for they are now taken by God. But until then we

855
00:56:05,580 --> 00:56:09,180
have a mission as the church to call on the name of the Lord

856
00:56:09,180 --> 00:56:12,780
to be people who are known for that, to walk with God. We are

857
00:56:12,780 --> 00:56:15,420
his people in this earth that are called to have a deep,

858
00:56:15,420 --> 00:56:21,340
intimate, close, open, honest life, walk a communion with

859
00:56:21,340 --> 00:56:26,460
him. To live in such a way that people go, whoa, you believe

860
00:56:26,460 --> 00:56:29,180
something radically different from the rest of us. What is

861
00:56:29,180 --> 00:56:35,980
it? To walk side by side with him in this world, holding his

862
00:56:35,980 --> 00:56:41,020
hand, reaching up to Papa and saying, hey, let me walk with

863
00:56:41,020 --> 00:56:45,340
you, keep me safe, completely at peace knowing that he is with

864
00:56:45,340 --> 00:56:51,180
you. Now the question is, is are you walking with God today?

865
00:56:51,180 --> 00:56:53,180
Are you walking with God today? You know, it's through Christ

866
00:56:53,180 --> 00:56:57,340
that we're able to know God intimately and personally. It's

867
00:56:57,340 --> 00:57:00,540
through Christ that the barrier of our sin is dealt with once

868
00:57:00,540 --> 00:57:06,940
and for all. Seeing Christ, we see the Father. Right? Jesus

869
00:57:06,940 --> 00:57:10,300
said, if you've seen me, you've seen the Father. When we see

870
00:57:10,300 --> 00:57:14,140
Christ and we read and study his life, we're seeing God, God

871
00:57:14,140 --> 00:57:18,460
himself. And when you see God in Christ pouring out his love

872
00:57:18,460 --> 00:57:22,780
for the world, pouring out his love for you, that's when you

873
00:57:22,780 --> 00:57:27,100
begin to understand. When you believe that he is God and that

874
00:57:27,100 --> 00:57:30,940
he died for you and paid the price for your sin. And you

875
00:57:30,940 --> 00:57:34,140
trust in his work to redeem you and to wash away your guilt.

876
00:57:34,140 --> 00:57:38,940
When you get to that place and do that, you know God. You know

877
00:57:38,940 --> 00:57:44,380
him. He already knew you. But you come to the place of knowing

878
00:57:44,380 --> 00:57:48,860
God. Your dead spirit is made alive again. And you're able to

879
00:57:48,860 --> 00:57:51,660
hear and not just hear the words, but comprehend and

880
00:57:51,660 --> 00:57:55,740
understand and apply and live according to. You have a

881
00:57:55,740 --> 00:57:58,780
completely different sense of things because your spirit is

882
00:57:58,780 --> 00:58:03,820
alive. And then when you by faith, you receive Christ,

883
00:58:03,820 --> 00:58:08,060
you're receiving God. And by growing in Christ, your

884
00:58:08,060 --> 00:58:11,500
character becomes more like God. Hey, we're the likeness of

885
00:58:11,500 --> 00:58:15,420
God, right? We're the image of God. And then by being more and

886
00:58:15,420 --> 00:58:19,660
more God's likeness, we just walk closer and closer with

887
00:58:19,660 --> 00:58:25,500
him. And so today we're gonna celebrate communion as a body

888
00:58:25,500 --> 00:58:28,460
because we're talking about this deep close walk with God,

889
00:58:28,460 --> 00:58:31,740
this communion with him in every part of our life. And we

890
00:58:31,740 --> 00:58:35,020
celebrate communion because we are in communion with our

891
00:58:35,020 --> 00:58:39,020
creator. Jesus, God in the flesh, he told his disciples on

892
00:58:39,020 --> 00:58:41,180
the night before his crucifixion as they gathered

893
00:58:41,180 --> 00:58:44,700
upstairs for the Passover feast, which really was a feast

894
00:58:44,700 --> 00:58:50,300
for Israel to celebrate. God delivered us from Egypt. As they

895
00:58:50,300 --> 00:58:52,300
were gathered there, he explained that the bread in the

896
00:58:52,300 --> 00:58:57,260
cup represented him. It represented him and what he was

897
00:58:57,260 --> 00:59:01,420
gonna do for him or do for them and all who trust in him.

898
00:59:01,420 --> 00:59:05,100
Jesus was saying, I am the deliverer. I'm the one who

899
00:59:05,100 --> 00:59:07,980
delivers you from the power of sin. I'm the one that delivers

900
00:59:07,980 --> 00:59:11,020
you from the penalty of sin. I'm the one that gives you the

901
00:59:11,020 --> 00:59:16,620
hope of eternal life, not eternal judgment. He told them

902
00:59:16,620 --> 00:59:19,900
by the communion that he established that that he was the

903
00:59:19,900 --> 00:59:23,420
sacrifice and the atonement that would pay the price for

904
00:59:23,420 --> 00:59:29,420
them. He was the hope looked for ever since the beginning. So

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Jesus is the blessed God who came down to this earth and he

906
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taught us about God's heart and he taught us about God's will

907
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for us. And at his death, he was indeed dedicated as the

908
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atoning sacrifice. And through what he did, all the despairing

909
00:59:47,100 --> 00:59:51,820
will truly indeed find rest. It's in him that we find peace.

910
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It's in him that we find true hope for that eternal rest. And

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that's why we celebrate communion because we never wanna

912
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forget that. And so you guys should all have a communion cup

913
01:00:02,060 --> 01:00:04,780
here in your hands. If you've been here before, you know the

914
01:00:04,780 --> 01:00:07,740
instructions but there's two tabs on the front. There's this

915
01:00:07,740 --> 01:00:11,180
really thin plastic tab. If you pull that back, it'll reveal

916
01:00:11,180 --> 01:00:16,860
the cracker here on the top. And what this represents is the

917
01:00:16,860 --> 01:00:21,500
bread that Jesus took at the supper as he instituted this. It

918
01:00:21,500 --> 01:00:23,660
says that he took this bread and he broke it and he gave it

919
01:00:23,660 --> 01:00:28,220
to them. He said, this is my body which is for you. He said,

920
01:00:28,220 --> 01:00:30,460
do this in remembrance of me. What did he want us to

921
01:00:30,460 --> 01:00:33,820
remember? He wanted us to remember that walking with God

922
01:00:33,820 --> 01:00:36,380
isn't about earning his favor. It's not about a

923
01:00:36,380 --> 01:00:38,940
transactional relationship. Well, if I do this, God is happy

924
01:00:38,940 --> 01:00:42,220
with me. If I don't do this, God is mad at me. Walking with

925
01:00:42,220 --> 01:00:49,180
God is a matter of faith. His body was devastated for our sin.

926
01:00:49,180 --> 01:00:50,780
Like when you read through the gospels, you read through the

927
01:00:50,780 --> 01:00:53,100
crucifixion, you see what he went through, being whipped,

928
01:00:53,100 --> 01:00:56,060
being nailed to the cross, disfigured by being punched in

929
01:00:56,060 --> 01:01:02,940
the face with a bat, all of that. He did that for you. Or to

930
01:01:02,940 --> 01:01:06,220
put it another way, you were supposed to go through that

931
01:01:06,220 --> 01:01:09,900
because you're the sinner. I'm the sinner. But he said, I'll

932
01:01:09,900 --> 01:01:14,460
take the wrath of God for you. What kind of amazing love is

933
01:01:14,460 --> 01:01:19,340
that? How could we ever earn God's favor? We're sinners

934
01:01:19,340 --> 01:01:23,020
through and through. We just simply have to have faith in who

935
01:01:23,020 --> 01:01:26,860
he is, to believe that he is God, that he exists, and to

936
01:01:26,860 --> 01:01:33,500
believe that he rewards those who diligently seek him. And

937
01:01:33,500 --> 01:01:35,900
when we simply trust and have faith in him and hold on to his

938
01:01:35,900 --> 01:01:39,260
hand, walk side by side with him and cling to him for

939
01:01:39,260 --> 01:01:43,740
everything, we find that our despair melts away. We find

940
01:01:43,740 --> 01:01:51,180
that all of that concern and worry just because we're

941
01:01:51,180 --> 01:01:54,060
holding the hand of our God, our creator and our savior, and

942
01:01:54,060 --> 01:01:57,900
there is no other safest place to be. You can realize today

943
01:01:57,900 --> 01:02:02,140
that when you walk with him, that you gain hope, that you

944
01:02:02,140 --> 01:02:04,940
gain hope that one day through physical death or rapture, you

945
01:02:04,940 --> 01:02:08,700
will be taken from this place and stand face to face with God

946
01:02:08,700 --> 01:02:11,340
to walk with him forever. That's what we remember in the

947
01:02:11,340 --> 01:02:16,300
bread. Father God, we thank you so much for who you are. We

948
01:02:16,300 --> 01:02:21,980
praise your name. God, we know that you gave yourself as the

949
01:02:21,980 --> 01:02:27,820
atoning sacrifice. Lord, that the full wrath of God against

950
01:02:27,820 --> 01:02:32,780
sin that should have fallen on us, Lord, you took in our

951
01:02:32,780 --> 01:02:39,420
place. That would be, we would be able to trust that your work

952
01:02:39,420 --> 01:02:44,460
paid the price for our sin. God, that we would be able to

953
01:02:44,460 --> 01:02:48,860
through faith in that know and believe in the promises that

954
01:02:48,860 --> 01:02:56,620
you have for us that we will one day be with you forever. And

955
01:02:56,620 --> 01:03:01,100
God, we're so thankful for that. Help us to never forget

956
01:03:01,100 --> 01:03:08,620
what you did for us by giving yourself on the cross. We thank

957
01:03:08,620 --> 01:03:12,940
you. We love you. Let's partake together.

958
01:03:17,100 --> 01:03:21,260
Now, if you have the cup, if you very delicately pull back

959
01:03:21,260 --> 01:03:26,700
the thicker tab, it'll reveal the the juice here and what

960
01:03:26,700 --> 01:03:32,060
this represents is in that last supper. There was a cup that

961
01:03:32,060 --> 01:03:35,020
they would pass around and Jesus took that cup and he said,

962
01:03:35,020 --> 01:03:38,780
this is the new covenant in my blood. Do this in remembrance

963
01:03:38,780 --> 01:03:44,780
of me. What did he want them to remember? Well, one of the

964
01:03:44,780 --> 01:03:48,220
things they would remember is from the very moment in the

965
01:03:48,220 --> 01:03:51,980
very beginning after Adam and Eve sinned, an animal was

966
01:03:51,980 --> 01:03:58,620
slain. Blood was shed to to cover their sin and mankind

967
01:03:58,620 --> 01:04:02,700
knew from that point forward that the penalty of sin was

968
01:04:02,700 --> 01:04:09,180
death. They knew that just as God had said and from the very

969
01:04:09,180 --> 01:04:14,220
earliest point in history, that truth was preached and Enoch

970
01:04:14,220 --> 01:04:19,500
preached that truth that if you don't have God as your

971
01:04:19,500 --> 01:04:23,580
savior, judgment will come. The only way to salvation is to

972
01:04:23,580 --> 01:04:27,420
trust in God and what he's done. If they would just trust

973
01:04:27,420 --> 01:04:33,420
their creator, it wouldn't be their blood shed for their sin

974
01:04:33,420 --> 01:04:38,460
but the blood of someone else, the blood of another. And so

975
01:04:38,460 --> 01:04:43,100
in this part of communion, we remember that walking with God,

976
01:04:43,100 --> 01:04:47,580
it means grace, it means mercy, it means faith and trust. It's

977
01:04:47,580 --> 01:04:54,300
a remembrance that because he shed his blood for our sin, our

978
01:04:54,300 --> 01:04:59,500
fallen and hopeless condition is remedied. That is his blood

979
01:04:59,500 --> 01:05:02,700
was spilt. That was the payment, the final payment. You

980
01:05:02,700 --> 01:05:08,140
are forgiven forever if you trust in that. And that's it,

981
01:05:08,140 --> 01:05:12,780
just faith in Jesus Christ and his sacrifice. We remember in

982
01:05:12,780 --> 01:05:16,620
this part of communion that because he hung up on the cross

983
01:05:16,620 --> 01:05:19,100
through faith in him, we will one day be up in heaven with

984
01:05:19,100 --> 01:05:25,340
him forever. Father, we love you so much. We're so grateful

985
01:05:25,340 --> 01:05:31,340
you sent your son to die for us. God, we know in the mystery

986
01:05:31,340 --> 01:05:37,900
of your Trinity that you are three persons and yet one God.

987
01:05:37,900 --> 01:05:41,420
And that the father, Lord, you were pleased with the son as he

988
01:05:41,420 --> 01:05:46,140
came to the earth to clothe himself in frail humanity,

989
01:05:46,140 --> 01:05:51,820
dedicated, appointed to be the sacrifice for all of mankind. To

990
01:05:51,820 --> 01:05:55,660
save us from this life of sorrow and in mortal dwelling that

991
01:05:55,660 --> 01:05:59,020
we could again be restored to the immortality and the eternal

992
01:05:59,020 --> 01:06:06,060
life of blessing and joy that we originally had with you. But

993
01:06:06,060 --> 01:06:11,740
God, you are a holy God. You are a pure and righteous God. And

994
01:06:11,740 --> 01:06:18,140
sin is so just defiling. The only way to atone for it was the

995
01:06:18,140 --> 01:06:24,540
shedding of blood. But God, the blood of animals, it was

996
01:06:24,540 --> 01:06:26,860
corrupted just like all of creation was corrupted by sin.

997
01:06:26,860 --> 01:06:33,580
And so it only covered. But Lord, you came, took the wrath of

998
01:06:33,580 --> 01:06:39,100
our sin and then shed your perfect sinless blood. And that

999
01:06:39,100 --> 01:06:43,260
blood washes us clean of the stain of our own sin. And we

1000
01:06:43,260 --> 01:06:47,740
never forget that. That as we strive to be people who walk

1001
01:06:47,740 --> 01:06:51,020
with you, we won't do it in our own effort, but we'll do it by

1002
01:06:51,020 --> 01:06:55,340
faith. We'll trust and depend on you to help us do what we

1003
01:06:55,340 --> 01:06:59,420
cannot do on our own. And that every time we're feeling

1004
01:06:59,420 --> 01:07:02,060
tempted, we're feeling discouraged, we're feeling like

1005
01:07:02,060 --> 01:07:04,780
the enemy is winning, that we would remember the blood of

1006
01:07:04,780 --> 01:07:09,500
Jesus Christ. That when the enemy is condemning us because

1007
01:07:09,500 --> 01:07:13,580
we messed up, we would remember the blood of Jesus Christ. And

1008
01:07:13,580 --> 01:07:16,220
know that we are forgiven because that's what your word

1009
01:07:16,220 --> 01:07:21,340
says. Thank you God for loving us so much. Let's partake

1010
01:07:21,340 --> 01:07:23,740
together.

1011
01:07:23,740 --> 01:07:34,700
I pray God would bless you guys. I hope that study of a

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01:07:34,700 --> 01:07:39,100
genealogy was interesting. And there's so many genealogies in

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01:07:39,100 --> 01:07:42,220
the scripture and God even speaks to these things. So I

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01:07:42,220 --> 01:07:44,540
encourage you to even read those in your devotional time.

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01:07:44,540 --> 01:07:49,820
But you know, Enoch was such a great example to all of us, not

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01:07:49,820 --> 01:07:52,940
only of a man who walked with God, but that it's possible

1017
01:07:52,940 --> 01:07:56,860
because he was a sinful person as well. We can walk with God.

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01:07:56,860 --> 01:08:01,340
Trust in him. God sent the Holy Spirit to live within you. Why

1019
01:08:01,340 --> 01:08:04,780
do you think he did that? It's a seal of the promise of

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01:08:04,780 --> 01:08:08,780
salvation, yes. But the Bible tells us he's our comforter,

1021
01:08:08,780 --> 01:08:12,860
he's our counselor, he's all these things. Why? Why does he

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01:08:12,860 --> 01:08:19,820
dwell within us? So that we can ask him for help. Say, God, I

1023
01:08:19,820 --> 01:08:24,380
can't do it by myself. I need you to help me walk with you.

1024
01:08:24,380 --> 01:08:27,660
And if you pray that prayer every single day, guess what?

1025
01:08:27,660 --> 01:08:31,420
God's gonna answer. God's gonna give you strength and God's

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01:08:31,420 --> 01:08:33,820
gonna give you power and each day you're gonna progressively

1027
01:08:33,820 --> 01:08:36,940
get closer and closer and closer to the Lord. Not perfect,

1028
01:08:36,940 --> 01:08:39,500
you're not gonna be perfect till you get to heaven. But we

1029
01:08:39,500 --> 01:08:41,900
don't focus on that, we focus on what we can be through the

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power of Jesus Christ, amen? Alright, God bless you guys.

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Let's worship church.