gen 05v24 Enoch
"ENOCH
WALKED WITH GOD"
Genesis
5:24
This is an astounding statement: "Enoch", a
sinful man like you and me, "walked with God!" And "he had this
testimony, that he pleased God." In his daily life Enoch walked in company
with the living God, living in God's presence as his constant Friend, IN
WHOM HE CONFIDED AND BY WHOM HE WAS LOVED. What kind of man was Enoch? What
kind of life did he live? The answer is clear: Enoch was a man of faith; and he
lived a life of faith. He was not a sinless man. He did not live a higher life,
a deeper life, or a holier life than anyone else who lives by faith. IT WAS
NOT ENOCH'S CONDUCT, HIS PERSONALITY, OR HIS DISPOSITION THAT PLEASED GOD, BUT
HIS FAITH IN CHRIST (Heb. 11:5-6).
There was nothing at all
remarkable about the character or works of this man, Enoch, by nature, which
caused God to look upon him with pleasure. Enoch did not win God's favor by
something he did. GOD WAS PLEASED WITH ENOCH, BECAUSE ENOCH BELIEVED GOD.
He believed that which God has spoken. Enoch's faith was the same as Abel's
before him and Noah's after him. The faith by which Enoch walked with God and
pleased God was the same faith that the dying thief possessed. And it is the
faith of God's elect today. My friend, WALKING WITH GOD IS NEITHER MORE OR
LESS THAN BELIEVING GOD. The only way anyone can walk with God and please
God is by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. NO MAN PLEASES GOD, BUT HIS SON.
NO MAN WALKS WITH GOD, BUT HIS SON. AND THE ONLY WAY ANY FALLEN CHILD OF ADAM
CAN PLEASE GOD AND WALK WITH GOD IS BY FAITH IN HIS SON, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.
Our sanctification, like
our justification, is by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. We grow in grace as we
grow in faith. Having begun in the Spirit, we are not now made perfect by the
flesh. We do not begin and go a certain distance by faith in Christ, and then
finish our course by the works of the law. TO WALK WITH GOD IS TO CONTINUE
AS WE BEGAN. BY FAITH IN CHRIST. "As ye have therefore received Christ
Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: rooted and built up in him, and stablished
in the faith."