Title:** Walking With God
Text: Genesis 5:21-24
Date: March 9, 2025

Introduction: Today we are talking about walking, in particular walking with God. There are other people in the Bible who are said to walk with God. However, this morning our focus is on one man because he deserves special attention. We find his story in Genesis 5, which reads like an obituary. “Altogether, Seth lived a total of 912 years, and then he died…. Altogether, Kenan lived a total of 910 years, and then he died…. Altogether, Jared lived a total of 962 years, and then he died.” (See Genesis 5:6-20) What dreary monotony!

However, one name stands out like a gardenia in this desert of death, his name was Enoch. When he was 65 years of age, Enoch became the father of Methuselah (5:21). When he was 365 years of age Enoch went to be with the Lord (5:23). In all the days between the Bible recorded, “Enoch walked faithfully with God” (5:24).

What do we need to understand about this phrase? What can we learn from this great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandson of Adam?

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Conclusion: Charles Stanley said, “When you come to the end of life, what do you want to be remembered for? Your kindness, your love, your generosity, your knowledge, your wisdom, your abilities and skills, that you knew how to relate to other people, or would they remember you for your stinginess, your pride, your antagonistic attitude, your dishonesty, you didn’t love anybody, you were just an angry person? What are people going to say about you when you’re gone? Well, you may be the kind of person who says, ‘Well I hope they don’t remember anything about me.’ Well, not much maybe, but they will. So, will anybody say, ‘I don’t know a lot of things about him or about her, but this I do know: he walked with God. She walked with God. That much I know about him and about her.’ How could you have anything more uplifting and Christ-like than that to say, that somebody walked with God.”

Larry Gipson
First Baptist Church Oneonta