By Faith Enoch
Minister: |
Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: |
1/24/2016 AM
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Text:
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Hebrews 11:5,6
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Psalters: |
203, 247, 90, 389 |
Sacrament of Baptism |
- Enoch’s faith is evidenced in his walk.
- Faith enables one to walk with God.
- How can this be seeing God is perfectly holy and is pleased only with perfect holiness of His human creatures?
- To walk with God is to have intimate communication with Him.
- It is to live before God in obedience, for “walk” refers to our life as it is lived in this world.
- It is to walk after God in trust.
- This faith pleases God.
- What pleases God is not that we are perfect in ourselves, but that He declares that He judges us holy in Christ.
- Therefore, what pleases God is that we believe “that God is.”
- Enoch’s faith is evidenced in his witness.
- Enoch’s walk with God was a powerful witness declaring the way we ought to live.
- Also Enoch’s walk was a walk against the world in which he lived; he walked antithetically.
- Enoch’s witness consisted of his being a preacher of righteousness (Jude 14,15).
- Enoch anticipated the coming of the Lord because he know God was the rewarder of them that seek Him.
- Enoch promised that would be a day of divine judgment.
- Enoch’s faith is evidenced in his triumph, for his faith was rewarded in God translating him.
- To be “translated” is a wonder of God’s grace taking one out of sin into wonderful relationship with God (Col. 1:13).
- By faith Enoch was translated into heavenly glory.
- By faith he and we are pleasing to God, for we proclaim the glory of His grace which elected us unto adoption of children.