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THE MAN WHO WALKED WITH GOD

Hebrews 11:5-6

If you have joined us in the past few weeks, we have looked at the series from the table to the tomb a series on Easter. But today we are switching back to our regular Bible preaching and we come now to the book of Hebrews. We are right now in chapter 11 of the book of Hebrews, so if you have your Bibles it would be great if you could open to that very chapter Hebrews chapter 11, this morning.

There was a young man who wanted the use of the car and so he asked his dad, "Dad, could I borrow your car?" The father says, "Sure son, if you could fulfil two conditions. Number one, you have to improve on your academic grades and number two, you've got to get your long hair cut." The son worked hard for his exams and he did well and showed his dad. "Dad I, I got better grades. Can I have the car now.?" The father said, "No, you can't. Your hair is still very long." The son then said, "But dad, give me a break. Even Jesus had long hair." And the father says, "Yah, but Jesus didn't drive and he walked everywhere."

Today we are talking about walking and in particular walking with God. There are many people in the Bible who are said to walk with God. But today I want to emphasize on one man because he deserves special attention this morning. His name is Enoch found in Hebrews 11 verses 5 and 6. And Enoch is a man who uniquely walked with God. Now, others walked with God. So what's so unique about Enoch. I think it's unique because there is very little known about Enoch in the Bible. You compare him with Noah, with Abraham, with David - very little information. But whatever little information we have, this sticks out, this shines, this is obvious - Enoch walked with God. Not just once but twice. Genesis 5 actually verses 21 to 24 are the only four verses in the Old Testament about Enoch and in these four verses, two times, it is said he walked with God. We don't know his trade, we do not know what he grew up learning but this we know - he walked with God.

I pray today I will be a man who walked with God. I pray you will be a man, a lady who will walk with God. So I want to study his life, I want to share with you what is his secret, what is so special about this man whom God chooses to say, two times, he walked with me.

Let's learn a little bit about this man. First of all Enoch is the great, great, great, great, grandson of Adam. You got that? Enoch is the great, great, great, great grandson of Adam. Well, this makes it easier for you. You see that in Adam's family tree he had Cain and there's another Enoch, not the Enoch we're talking about, it's another one. So there's Cain who killed Abel and then they subsequently had Seth and after Seth came Enos and Cainan and so on and Enoch came right after that. So you could see that Enoch is the great, great, great, great grandson of Adam. In Jude, he is said to be the seventh from Adam, because this is considered first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh generation. He is the seventh from Adam.

Now, in our day and age, it is quite rare for anyone of us to have seen or talked with our great grandparents. How many of you have been able to speak with your great grandparents? Can I see by a show of hands? 1,2,3,4. OK, out of a church like this is four, five or five of you. Not bad. How many of you have seen your great-great-grandparents? Anyone? Alice you have? Alright, I have to up the game a bit. How many of you have seen your great-great-great-grandparents? Aah, this is where it stops. Very few of us would have seen our great-great-grandparents. Just one. Now, that's why we find it so difficult to understand that, I think, possibly Enoch would have seen Adam and met with Adam. I wouldn't to be surprised. You see the way, that the life they live was, was very long. It is not like for us today, 90, 100 years, it is remarkable. In those days, he lived for 930 years and just to show to you, this is the life span of Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan and so on and you see Enoch lived in a time where Adam would have lived. They were contemporaries. The great-great-great-grandson is living together with the great-great-great-great-grandfather and I wouldn't be surprised if they had reunion dinners. They are Chinese, you know. Now of course, they are not. They would have gatherings, maybe one big family. One time everyone comes home to great-great-great-great-grandfather Adam and they have a feast together.

Of course, the Bible doesn't say that. But I wouldn't be surprised if they've met and I wouldn't be surprised if Seth, Enos, Cainan would have shared also with Enoch what Adam has always been sharing with his children and grandchildren. You know when Adam, we were looking at the life of Abel, right, and Cain. When Adam had Abel and Cain, what would they talked about? Wah, the latest movie Batman versus Superman. No, they had nothing like that. What would they talk about? They will talk about God. They will talk about the garden. They will talk about that sad day when they sinned against God. They will talk about the curse. That's why the life they live today is so different from the life Adam and Eve had when they were in the garden. And Adam no doubt would have talked about the promised Savior who would crush the head of the serpent. This would be the conversation. They would recount those realities Adam and Eve personally have experienced. So I suggest to you, when they have reunions Enoch came together, if he were to meet Adam and Eve or even Seth or Enos and so on, Enoch must have heard about God, about the garden that once was, about that sad day when our great-great-great-great-grandparents fell into sin, about the curse and about the promised Savior.

But even though Enoch heard these things, I think as he was growing up, it didn't mean a lot to him. It didn't change his life. He knew it in the head, but there was nothing in the heart and so he grew up. Now a young man learning a trade to survive, he met a girl, got married and soon she got pregnant. And then the Bible tells us, "When Enoch had lived 65 years, he fathered Methuselah. (and) Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah." (Genesis 5:21-23 ESV)

Keyword "after". There is a change in Enoch's life. There's a turnaround. He did not walk with God before this, but after he became a father, after he, he had Methuselah, he walked with God. There is a change, there is a repentance, there's a conversion kind of experience for Enoch. Say why, why did he now walked with God after he fathered Methuselah? Well, some of you may say, because he is now a father for the first time in his life and being a father for the first time is a life-changing reality. Yah, I think so, it changed my life, big time but I don't think that's the reason why he now begins to walk with God.

Nonetheless, it is very related to Methuselah and I think the key is in the name Methuselah. What does Methuselah mean? Very few of us would have thought about it but the word is taken from two root Hebrew words. Two root words to form this one word, compound word. And the words are 'death' and 'sent' in essence. So scholars tell us the name Methuselah really means 'when he is dead, it shall be sent'.

Very strange name. How many of you will call your son Methuselah - when you are dead, it will be sent. Send what, undertaker lah. Now what, what, what does it mean? None of us would really want a name that is related to death. Yet this is the name given to Enoch's firstborn. I suggest to you that 'it' here refers to judgment. When he is dead, judgment shall be sent.

I know it's Sunday morning but I like you to do a little bit of a mathematics with me, alright. Methuselah lived for 969 years (Genesis 5:27). He is a world record holder for longest lifespan, world record. Wah today you read the newspaper someone in Japan, Okinawa, whatever, 130 years old, we cheer. Aiyoh, you come to Methuselah and say 130 years old, you like a baby to me. He lived really way long, 969, longest in the Bible and in the in the world. But he started family, rather late, because he had his son Lamech, when he was 187 (Genesis 5:25). That's all found in Genesis 5:27, 5:25. And Lamech also started his family rather late, because 182 years later, Noah, his grandson was born (Genesis 5:28). Now Noah rings a bell to many people. So, test your maths, how old was Methuselah when Noah was born? 369 Very good. So, Noah was born when Methuselah was 369 years old. Now what was the judgment that would come in those days? Everybody knows it is the, the flood. The flood would come. And when did the flood come? The flood came when Noah was 600 years old (Genesis 7:11). You don't even have to figure that out. It is given to you in Genesis 7:11. So if you do your math properly, the flood came when Methuselah was 969 years, the day or the year he dies. When he dies, when he is dead, it shall be sent.

Somehow, God had revealed to Enoch that there will be a coming judgment, it is linked to the life of his son. Well, this is a picture of how the flood came the day or the year Methuselah died. Jude tells us that "It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam (that's where we get that seventh from Adam from), prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones, to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all of the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him." (Jude 1:14-15 ESV)

Now, Enoch was a preacher, he is a prophet. He spoke about something that is coming. He's spoke about the coming judgment against an evil ungodly world. Where did he get that? I supposed to you when he fathered Methuselah, God said, this is why you call your son 'when he is dead, it shall be sent' because I will send a judgment. And it is only after he knows about this when he receives the Word of God. We not sure how or when exactly but it is clearly in my mind, why he now turns repents, believes and walks with God.

Maybe it's the exceeding sinfulness of sin that is brought clear to him. Maybe it's the holiness and the wrath and the judgment of God that comes to him. But now he, he realizes it all makes sense. There is God. We were supposed to be in the garden but we sinned and the curse has now come to this earth. And God is not just to let this remain as it is. There will be a judgement. But He did say there is a Promised One who will crushed Satan's head and I will turn and believe in God.

And since 65 years old, conversion, but by the way, if you are not 65 and you have not believed in Jesus, not too late. I hope you take an encouragement from Enoch. At 65, he turned to faith in Jesus, not Jesus Christ, but in God and the promised Messiah and he walked with him. He walked with God.

It's an amazing fact, do you know that that he could walk with God because man has been banished from God. Adam and Eve had to hide from God. There is a flaming sword that guards the way to intimacy with God. But here we have Enoch is able now to walk with God. Not only did he walk with God, he "pleased God" (Hebrews 11:5 ESV). He, he, he lived in alignment with God. He lived in intimacy and communion with God. Not just once in a while, not just on the Easter or Christmas, but he walked 300 years, consistently with God. This is the man Enoch. And one day, something amazing, never happened before, happened. The Bible says, "Thus all the days of Enoch were 365 years. Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him" (Genesis 5:23-24 ESV). Now chapter 5 of Genesis is often called the graveyard chapter of the Bible. Why is it graveyard? Because it is a chapter that says, and he died, and he died, and he died, and he died, and he died, and he died, and he died. And here, suddenly, he was not. He did not die, he was not found. He did not die for God took him.

To be clearer, Hebrews, the author, he tells us "By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him" (Hebrews 11:5 ESV). It must be quite a day in the history of the world then, that suddenly we couldn't find Enoch. He didn't come home for dinner, the children would say. The wife must be angry. I cooked, I prepared the soup and he didn't come and drink. How could he. Call the police, call everyone, put on the newspaper, social media, Facebook - Enoch, seventh from Adam, is missing. They got the CSI, the police and no one could find his body and then finally, they could conclude God must have taken him because he's a man who walked with God. So he was not found.

A Sunday school girl describes this event something like this. Not true, of course, but this is how she sees it. "Enoch was a man who learned to walk with God, and they used to take long walks together. One day they walked so far that God said, 'Look, Enoch, it's too far for you to go back; just come on home with me.' So he walked on home with God."

Here's a man who walked with God, walked with God, walked.. Now, of course not the literal walking, but the way he lives his life that God said, it's enough Enoch, you don't have to see death, come home. So Enoch represents a life that demonstrates there is a future to come. A glorious future, beyond death that we could be with God forevermore. This is the man who walked with God. Abel was killed for his faith. Enoch did not die for his faith but both of them have a common fate and reality. They are with God henceforth forevermore.

The question is how did he walk with God. I mean, this is a fascinating life; short story, short account. But how did he do it? How did he walk with, how can you and I today walk with God? Answer, very simple, Hebrews 11, "By faith (Hebrews 11:5 ESV). He walked with God because he had faith in God. He exercised faith in God. It's interesting, the word faith and belief is not found in Genesis when it describes Enoch at all. But the author of Hebrews says, when I look at Enoch's life, the fact that he could walk with God and the fact that he "pleased God" (Hebrews 11:5 ESV) and that God showed it by taking him without allowing him to see death must mean Enoch had lived a life of faith. His logic is that he pleased God and the only way to please God is by faith. He puts it very strongly in verse 6 "And without faith it is impossible to please him (Hebrews 11:6 ESV). It is not difficult, it is impossible. It is impossible to please God apart from faith. And so he sees Enoch's life and says he must be a man walks by faith, folks.

This is what God looks for. This is what pleases God. And the whole point the author is trying to say is that Enoch represents a powerful illustration of faith. Walking with God, pleasing God, because it's only faith that could please Him. He kept believing in God. That's what Enoch is. So he draws this ancient example, a father that every Jew will be familiar with, Enoch, and said, look at him, he's a man of faith. And now you can understand why he uses Enoch.

Remember the Hebrews or the letter of Hebrews is written to a bunch of people, to group of people, who were tempted to give up on their faith. They were so persecuted for their faith, they were so discouraged for their faith that they feel like leaving Christ and going back to Judaism. They were tempted to stop believing and so the author says don't you do that. Look at Enoch, he's a life of faith, he keeps walking, keeps believing, 300 years..you keep the same. So the context is laid for us, we have studied this months ago. "Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.. (look at Enoch. Almost you could hear the echoes of Enoch here)..For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised" (Hebrews 10:35-36 ESV). Enoch kept believing and he's with God. "For, "Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay, (the Savior will return); but my righteous one shall live by faith, (or in King James, the just shall live by faith) and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him. (Hebrews 10:37-38 ESV)

So he says, but I'm persuaded that you are not like that. I'm persuaded you guys who are reading my epistle right now, you "are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls" (Hebrews 10:39 ESV). So you see the point, you've got to keep believing, keep believing that God "(exists and that he rewards those who seek him" (Hebrews 11:6 ESV). Enoch believes God exists, believes God is who he reveals himself to be, Enoch believes that he will rewarded, he will be rewarded if he keeps walking and believing in God. So guys, he says, don't you give up, hang in there, hold on fast to your confession of faith in Jesus Christ. You will not be ashamed, you will not be disappointed, you will receive, because he is God who rewards.

So I hope I've given to you the context, the explanation of why Enoch is raised and what it means for us. But let me close with some closing thoughts on faith. Walking with God requires faith. Faith, as we have defined in our sermon earlier, is a confidence in God's Word, regardless of circumstances and consequences, that will result in obedience to God. And there's some characteristics we can develop further, to understand faith.

Number one, I want to say to you..

1. Faith is powerful

It is life-changing. Faith is not just something I articulate with my mouth. Faith is the power, it's a reality that will change my life. Well, it changed Enoch's life, didn't it? He turned to God by faith, he believes in God and now he walks with God. It's totally powerful and life-changing. Now some of you say, aiyah Enoch easy lah. In those days don't have temptations like what we have today. Easy for him to live that kind of a life. Well, not true. I think Enoch lived in also a very wicked world. I don't think it's hard for you to see that. Based on what he preached, what he prophesied, he said. By the way, it's a, it's a phrase, it is a sentence that has 'the ungodly' occurs four times. So he must have felt the, the force of the wicked and he said, the "deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way" (Jude 1:14-15 ESV). I could sense his vexation and frustration and the sinfulness of the world he lives in. And it was 969 years later that God also said "that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually" (Genesis 6:5 ESV). This is, this is bad news. So Enoch didn't live in a sweet and holy and godly era. No, he lived in a difficult time. Yet, he lived a life that was different, life that was godly, a life that is absolutely powerful because faith is powerful.

Sometimes I think about my kids and I sort of worry for them because we live in a world that is spiralling downwards morally. Right? I mean, it doesn't take a genius to figure that out. Within the last hundred years morality standards, everything has gone downhill and it will only go downhill. That's what is said in the Bible. Perilous times shall come, men will become lovers of themselves and so on and so forth. So, it's a downward trend. But does it mean that we have no hope for our kids that they will live godly lives? No. Why? Faith is powerful. What your children need today is faith. Now I know you give them tuition, you send them for swimming, ballet class, everything. You, you prepare them in life. You, you say, don't mix with that child, don't mix with that friend, don't go to this, don't go..You build fences around them. Nothing wrong with that. But besides that, make sure you're building faith inside your child.

The Bible tells us, "For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world - our faith." (1 John 5:4 ESV) Faith. You've got to build that in them. You've got to fill them with the Word of God. You've got to lead them to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Why? What is faith? "Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?" (1 John 5:5 ESV) This is why I think our children ministry here in this church must be pointing our children to the gospel. We are not here, I've said this many times, to teach moral behavioural change. Our church is not leading people to be kinder on the outside, gentler on the outside, be less this, more that..no, no.

The key thing is that even if that is being taught, it must flow from faith, and the gospel of Jesus Christ. This is the power to change lives, not moral education, but the gospel. I believe in the power of the gospel, I believe in the power of faith. Do you? Do you? Do you believe that you can live a holy life if you are steeped in the gospel, if you learn of it, study it, pray through it, preach yourself to it.. Do you believe it will change your life? I believe it, I've seen it in my own life. Faith is powerful. There is hope for your kids - Jesus. May they learn to cling on to him.

2. Faith is pleasing

A second thing I see about faith is that faith is pleasing. Now I want to qualify. Pleasing of course to God not to man, to God. Faith, real faith is pleasing to God. I mean it is clear. "By faith Enoch.. pleased God" (Hebrews 11:5 ESV). "..without faith it is impossible to please God.." (Hebrews 11:6 ESV) because faith is judging and reckoning that God is worthy,".. that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him" (Hebrews 11:6 ESV). It is insulting when we do not believe God. Do you know that? But it pleases God when we trust him, when we obey him, when we follow him. I want to say something a little bit abstract but I hope you get it and it is this. There is a kind of moral living that doesn't please God at all. It's like, it's linked to the first point, actually. Teaching our kids to be moral but their hearts are not changed, it doesn't please God, alright. There is a kind of moral virtuous living that does not please God. You can be a very nice person, very generous, very helpful, but it does not please God. Why? "..without faith it is impossible to please him" (Hebrews 11:6 ESV). So you can look virtuous, act virtuous, behave virtuously but it does not please God. Without faith it is impossible to please him.

Spurgeon puts it even more strongly than I would. He said, "Virtues without faith are whitewashed sins. Obedience without faith, if it is possible, is a gilded disobedience. Not to believe, nullifies everything." If what I do today does not spring from faith in God, in who he is and that he is a rewarder.. You know what, that's not faith-based obedience. That does not please God.

For example, I can be charitable to others because I want others to see that I am charitable. That does not please God. You are charitable but not because of faith. That does not please God. You can go out and share the gospel but that's just to, to soothe your guilty conscience. It's not out of faith, it does not please God. You can give lots of money in the offering bag, but that's just because you just struck Toto and you feel bad that you didn't give any to God. That's not pleasing to God. There many things we can do that are not God-centered, faith-based and it does not please God.

Faith, however, changes everything. Faith pleases God, even when you eat or drink, if you do all to the glory of God, trusting that he will reward you.. That is pleasing to God. I want to add one more thing about this. What may be pleasing to God may not be pleasing to man. Do you realize that? Often times if you want to please God you will offend man. Now not always, but enough times, I think.

See Enoch walked with God, pleased God but I tell you his preaching must have offended lots of people, irritated them to no end. Wah lau, Enoch come and tell me about my ungodly ways. Cannot do this, aiyah, go away lah Enoch. Now, I suppose Enoch preached a lot, but not many people believed him. I think so. When the flood came, Noah was also a preacher for maybe 120 years, but nobody listened to Noah, do you realise that? Nobody except his own family. Enoch preached against sin, ungodliness. And let me say this, he preached against false teachers. How do you know that, Jason? Go read Jude. The whole context of Jude is about false teachers. Even in those days they had false teachers running all over the place and Enoch was preaching against the false teachers. He is not a popular guy, he is not there to win a popularity contest. He was single-minded in pleasing God, and sometimes it means you have to displease others. But are you prepared to pay that price, or will we be compromising?

Faith lives to please the audience of one, that is God himself.

I pray that in our church, our message will be pleasing to God and if it means offending people at times, we have no choice, we are here to serve him and be faithful to him.

Now, lastly I want to say to those who may be thinking of quitting on your faith. You have gone through hardships, difficulties, trials and you think, I think I'll just give up on Christianity altogether. I want to remind you faith, real faith is persistent. That's the whole point, that's the whole point of the author in Hebrews 11, to prove to us that the "righteous one (the just) shall live by faith" (Hebrews 10:37-38 ESV). They don't shrink back. Don't you quit because look at Abel, look at Enoch, look at Abraham, look at Moses. They are people of faith, they keep believing, they keep believing for the promise that is to come. So don't you shrink. Nothing new is happening to you. This has always been so, since ancient times, since the beginning. That's the path of faith. "We are not of those who shrink back" (Hebrews 10:39 ESV), I've said this, and we can believe that God "will reward those who seek him." (Hebrews 11:6 ESV)

It's tough, but it will be worth it at the end. It doesn't always reward with an easy life on this earth. No, because some may be killed like Abel, but the promise is always about the future that is to come. That's where the eyes are looking towards - the city built without hands, the city, built by God himself. Real faith persists. You don't give up. So, "do not throw away your confidence..you will receive what is promised." (Hebrews 10:35-36 ESV)

So this morning we have looked at this man's life. Enoch, a man who walked with God. Amazing character, don't you think? Very little, but very instructive. I guess that the way it is so concise highlights the importance of what it means to walk with God. By the way, you know Methuselah means 'when he is dead, it shall be sent'.

Do you know the meaning of the name Enoch. Well, it simply is 'the dedicated one'. I think he lived up to his name. Here is a man who walked with God, is dedicated to him, who is aligned with him, who pleased him because he walked by faith, not by sight. He's a man who lived with great consistency. He didn't let, he didn't live by feelings or emotions. He lived by faith 300 years. Power of faith in this man's life.

I pray that when I die, it will not be said 'Jason Lim worked for God in Gospel Light Christian Church'. Okay, I mean, that's fine but I prefer another W. I pray I pray it will be 'Jason Lim, he walked with God'. I pray it will be true for you as we follow the example of faith.

Let's bow for a word of prayer together. A remarkable man Enoch whom we know little about, but this we know, is a man who walked with God. He did what very few could do, to come to God because man has been cut off from God because of our sins. But by faith, faith in God and what he said, faith in the Savior that is promised, he comes to God and he now he walks with God. My friends, this morning, if you're here, I want to say to you, there is a way back to God. Yes, we have blown it. We sinned against God and by ourselves we can never return to the holy God who made us. But he sent His Son Jesus Christ. He is the promised one. He paid for your sins on the cross fully, because on the third day, on Sunday, on Easter Sunday last week we remember, he rose from the dead. And you can trust him and believe him and have your sins forgiven and you can walk with him.

You know this passage reminds us of the kindness of God. Do you realize that? Methuselah is a picture of judgment. Sure. But let me say at the very same time, he is a picture of mercy and grace because he lived 969 years, the longest anyone had lived, that people may have an opportunity to turn to him. This morning, you have an opportunity to turn to Jesus, if you have never done so in your life. Jesus died for your sins, he gave his life for you. Would you today, repent like Enoch did and believe in the promised Savior? Something you have to decide, something you ought to think about.

Some of you may be really like Enoch. You come to church and every week someone tells you about the same story - God, garden, sad day, curse, promised Savior. I preach this every week, but maybe you've just been some head knowledge for you, but it has never changed your heart. Maybe this morning is a turning point because you hear Methuselah, there will be a judgment to come. The judgement that he was prophesying amazingly I believe is about the second coming of Jesus. He had seen that from afar of. I say to you, there will come a day when God will judge you for your sins. He will, he is righteous, all sin will be dealt with. Could you stand in that day? The only way we can stand is if we are found in Jesus. So my dear friends, come to Jesus this morning, repent of your sin, cry out to him, Lord, save, I believe in your Son who died for my sins, change my heart that I may walk with you, follow you.

This morning, I ask you, do you have the reality of a changed life? Some of you think you are a Christian because you were baptized, because you raised your hand, because you said a prayer but for all these 10 years you did not walk with God. You know what I conclude? You have no faith. How did the author of Hebrews conclude Enoch was a man of faith? He walked with God. So how do I know if you have no faith? If you do not walk with God.

So, do not deceive yourself. Do not allow yourself to be deceived. Check your life, examine yourself, whether you have been in the faith. How do you know that? Look at your walk. Is there change? Is there alignment? Is there obedience? Not perfectly, not sinless perfection but is there a sincere progression? And if you have not, maybe at 65, like Enoch did, you can come to Jesus.

I hope Gospeliters, we will be a people filled with the gospel, full of faith, living out the life of Jesus in this sinful wicked world. You know I.. someone asked me just now, how do you see the church. I suppose he was asking about Punggol, but I say, that's not what I'm really concerned about. I'm concerned about you, your life, because I yearn to see Jesus in everyone of you, including myself that will live such radical grace-centered, God-fearing lives that will glorify him. And it has to be in faith.

Some of you are thinking of giving it all up. Don't you do that. Keep believing. God will come through for you. It has always been so. That has been experience of Abraham and Enoch and Abel. I say to you, he will not disappoint you. The just shall live by faith.

Father such, so much has been spoken this morning and I pray that whatever is of you, to establishing in hearts. O Lord, we need to draw near by faith. As we look into the word, I pray your spirit will continue to do the work of convincement and conviction. I pray for salvation for those who have yet to believe, help them to do so, give them the privilege to do so. I pray for those who are desiring greater heights of godliness, help us all. Father, thank you for this time. Bless each one. We pray in Jesus Name, Amen.

 

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