WALKING WITH GOD And Enoch walked with God and he was not, for God took him' Genesis 5:24

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WALKINGWITH GODAnd Enoch walked with God and
he was not, for God took him. (Genesis 524)
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Hebrews 115

• By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did
  not see death, "and was not found, because God
  had taken him" for before he was taken he had
  this testimony, that he pleased God.

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Taken away

• to transfer, transport, change sides (Strong).
• Enoch was transferred, transported to the other
  side of death.
• He did not die as people do today.
• There was no body to be put in the grave.

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was not found

• Someone must have looked for him.
• No physical body left behind.
• No physical trace of Enoch.

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1 Corinthians 1550

• Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and
  blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God nor
  does corruption inherit incorruption.

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WHY DID ENOCH RECEIVE THIS REWARD?

• Had this testimony that he walked with God.
• Enoch was faithful to the will of God.
• Noah walked with God.

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Genesis 69

• This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a
  just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked
  with God

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Genesis 622

• Thus Noah did according to all that God
  commanded him, so he did.

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We Can Walk With God

• By imitating God.

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Ephesians 51-2

• Therefore be imitators of God as dear
  children. And walk in love, as Christ also
  has loved us and given Himself for us, an
  offering and a sacrifice to God for a
  sweet-smelling aroma.

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Deuteronomy 533

• "You shall walk in all the ways which
  the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may
  live and that it may be well with you, and that
  you may prolong your days in the land which you
  shall possess.

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We Can Walk With God

• By imitating God.
• By walking in Christ.

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COLOSSIANS 26-7

• As you have therefore received Christ Jesus
  the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built
  up in Him and established in the faith, as you
  have been taught, abounding in it with
  thanksgiving.

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received

• to receive near, that is, associate with oneself
  (in any familiar or intimate act or relation)
  (Strong).

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walk in Him

• Talking of how we live.
• Includes every area of life.
• Follow His example.

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John 1315

• "For I have given you an example, that you should
  do as I have done to you.

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1 Peter 221

• For to this you were called, because Christ also
  suffered for us, leaving us an example, that
  you should follow His steps
• Example To write under a copy for imitation.

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1 John 26

• He who says he abides in Him ought himself also
  to walk just as He walked.

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HOW DO WE KNOWWE ARE WALKING WITH GOD?

• All things become new.

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2 Corinthians 517

• Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a
  new creation old things have passed away
  behold, all things have become new.

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HOW DO WE KNOWWE ARE WALKING WITH GOD?

• All things become new.
• We walk in newness of life.

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Romans 61-4

• What shall we say then? Shall we continue in
  sin that grace may abound? Certainly
  not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer
  in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as
  were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized
  into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him
  through baptism into death, that just as Christ
  was raised from the dead by the glory of the
  Father, even so we also should walk in newness of
  life.

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HOW DO WE KNOWWE ARE WALKING WITH GOD?

• All things become new.
• We walk in newness of life.
• No longer slaves of sin.

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Romans 66-7

• knowing this, that our old man was
  crucified with Him, that the body of sin
  might be done away with, that we should no longer
  be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been
  freed from sin.

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HOW DO WE KNOWWE ARE WALKING WITH GOD?

• All things become new.
• We walk in newness of life.
• No longer slaves of sin.
• We walk in the light.

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1 John 17

• But if we walk in the light as He is in the
  light, we have fellowship with one another, and
  the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us
  from all sin.

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cleanses us from all sin

• "isin the present tense, thus revealing that it
  is a constant process, conditioned on our walking
  in the light. As we thus walk the blood operates
  to keep us constantly cleansed from the
  defilement of sin and the condemnation which
  attends it. (Guy N. Woods).

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HOW DO WE KNOWWE ARE WALKING WITH GOD?

• All things become new.
• We walk in newness of life.
• No longer slaves of sin.
• We walk in the light.
• We walk circumspectly.

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Ephesians 515

• See then that you walk circumspectly, not as
  fools but as wise,

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circumspectly

• "to live carefully, deviating in no respect from
  the law of duty. (Thayer).
• The Christian walk is to be a careful walk.

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HOW DO WE KNOWWE ARE WALKING WITH GOD?

• All things become new.
• We walk in newness of life.
• No longer slaves of sin.
• We walk in the light.
• We walk circumspectly.
• We walk worthy of our calling.

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Ephesians 41-3

• I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord,
  beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with
  which you were called, with all lowliness and
  gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one
  another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of
  the Spirit in the bond of peace.

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Revelation 34

• "You have a few names even in Sardis
  who have not defiled their garments and they
  shall walk with Me in white, for they are worthy.

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Genesis 524

• And Enoch walked with God and he was
  not, for God took him.
• A great example for us.
• Why not walk with God by obeying His will today?

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GODS PLAN OF SALVATION

• Hear the gospel (Romans 1017)
• Believe that Jesus is the Son of God (John 824)
• Repent of sin (Acts 238)
• Confess Christ before men (Romans 109-10)
• Be baptized for the remission of sins (Acts 238)
• Live a faithful Christian life (Revelation 210)

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GODS SECOND LAWOF PARDON

• Confess your sins (1 John 19).
• Repent of your sins and ask God to forgive you
  (Acts 822-24).