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Collegedale Korean SDA Church

Kurt Osena

Enochs in This Our Day

This morning we're gonna be looking at a character in the Bible named Enoch.

There's not much said about Enoch, but even though there's little said about him, there's a lot we can get from his life.

But before we get into God's word this morning, Let's go ahead and bow our heads for a word of prayer, and let's invite the Spirit into this place.

Our Father which art in heaven, dear God, I thank you for bringing us here together as a family to be able to study your word this morning.

Father, as we are in your presence, we come anticipating to hear your voice.

And Lord, we pray that as we examine the life of Enoch, as we look at his faithfulness to you, we ask that you please speak to us and that you would teach us how we can be faithful as He was.

Father, I pray in a special way that as the Word of God is presented this morning, that truly I would hide behind the cross of Calvary, and Lord, that I would simply be your instrument this morning, that I would be your mouthpiece.

And so I pray in a special way that you would sanctify my lips.

I pray you fill my heart with your Holy Spirit, Lord, that the words that proceed out of my mouth will be only words that you desire for us to hear this morning.

And so I pray that you please guide us through this study.

And I pray, Lord, that we will be able to leave from this place blessed.

We ask these things in Jesus' name we pray.

If you have your Bibles, please turn with me to the book of Genesis.

And we're going to be looking at Genesis chapter 5 this morning.

Now, if you were to read ahead, if you were to skip to Genesis chapter 6, you'll find a very sad story.

You'll find that the condition of the world became so bad that there came a point where God had to say, that is enough.

And because He saw that the world was so wicked, He destroyed the earth with a what, friends?

The condition of the world, the spiritual condition of the world was so bad, the Bible says in Genesis chapter 6, you're in chapter 5, but I'm just going to read Genesis chapter 6 and verse 5, The Bible says, and God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that, notice this, every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

You know, I can't imagine what type of a world that must have been like for everyone around you to have evil imaginations, evil intentions continuously.

That would be a scary world to live in, wouldn't it?

That was a spiritual condition of the world.

It became so dark that God had to say, it is enough, and so he caused the earth to be flooded.

And what is interesting, in Genesis chapter 5, you're gonna see this genealogy.

And in this genealogy, there are certain individuals that are highlighted if You look at Genesis chapter 5 if you notice what it says in verse 1 Are all the Saints there?

Genesis chapter 5 looking at verse 1 notice what it says the Bible reads This is the book of the generation of Adam.

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

Male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created." And so what we're seeing here in Genesis chapter 5, we're going to be seeing a genealogy.

We are going to be seeing the descendants of Adam.

And we're not going to read through the entire chapter, but you'll see that there is quite a list of individuals that are listed there.

But what I want to highlight in this chapter is it's so interesting that God actually makes notes or he actually he actually explains more on the lives of Adam, Seth, Enoch, Methuselah, and Noah.

Well, we all know that these men were faithful men.

And the reason why God wanted to put extra emphasis on these individuals is because these men were worthy of being noted of.

They were notable because of their connection with the Lord.

We know Adam, obviously Adam, he was created after the image of God.

But we know sadly from the beginning in Genesis chapter 3, we find that he was the 1 that was responsible for causing all the sin in this world.

However, we know that after Adam had committed the sin, he lived a life still committed to the Lord, and he continued to preach, telling others that, hey, listen, I know I had messed up.

I know I had failed you as a people, but I want you not to forget that Jesus is going to die for you I want you not to forget that you have a Redeemer in Jesus Christ And so Adam all of his life He preached that there is mercy from God that you can receive even though we are sinful.

Seth was obviously Adam's son and his name means appointed or compensated.

He followed the footsteps of Abel, and so he represented God very well.

Then we have Enoch, but we're not going to get into Enoch just yet.

We'll get to him throughout the rest of the sermon, but let's go and skip to Methuselah.

His name means a man sent out, or that is a man on a mission.

You see, Methuselah, if you try to dissect his name, it actually means, when he dies, it shall be sent.

Methuselah was a man that was to represent God.

He lived that long and perhaps he lived that long because he took care of his body really well.

Maybe he applied the principles of health into his life.

Vegetarian diet, I don't know, he was healthy.

And by the way, I just can't, you know, I was just kind of sitting down in my room and kind of thinking about that.

What would be the conversations that you would have with other people?

Maybe you're gonna be talking about marriage.

But marriage in those days, for us, We talk about marriage being sometime around 25, 26, you know, 30, some 35, I don't know, right?

We talk about marriage being around that time, but what would happen if you live 900 years?

Yeah, you know, I could probably wait off of marriage for a little bit.

Maybe 90 years old, I'll start thinking about it.

If you look at the genealogy, you'll find that many of them had kids like in their early hundreds, right?

But 1 thing is for sure, the men and women that lived during that time, they were incredibly smart.

Just everything about them was just amazing because they were closest to Adam, right?

But here is this generation of people who lived long, and Methuselah, he lived a very long time, lived the longest, 969 years, and his life was a sermon in and of itself.

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