Weekly Events
Sunday June 21
8:30am - 9:35am Worship Service
10:00am - 11:05am Worship Service
7:00pm - 8:30pm Book Study
Tuesday June 23
7:00pm - 9:00pm Celebrate Recovery
Wednesday June 24
6:30pm - 8:00pm Men’s Bible Study
Thursday June 25th
7:00pm- 7:30pm Keep Praying
Sunday June 28
Youth Sunday
8:30am - 9:35am Worship Service
10:00am - 11:05am Worship Service
7:00pm - 8:30pm Book Study
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Walking With God
The movie Like Arrows shows the difference between believing in God vs. walking with God. When their first child rebelled and their second child seemed to be doing the same, Charlie and Alice enrolled in a parenting class at their church and realized they had their priorities all wrong.
Charlie and Alice start to see their kids as arrows that they aim at a target. They seek God for a vision for each of their kids’ lives, and they begin to model a relationship with Jesus for them. At their 50th wedding anniversary, Charlie and Alice’s kids talk about the changes they saw in their lives as they put Jesus first. This is what true faith is all about as modeled by Enoch.
Four Action Words Describing Enoch’s Faith:
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God.
“God…rewards those who earnestly seek him.” —Hebrews 11:6
To seek is to “strive” or “strongly desire” or “go after something with a singular focus”.
“Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things will be added unto you.” —Matthew 6:33
Don’t be a D- Christian whose only goal is to make it to heaven. In Your Eternal Rewards: Triumph and Tears at the Judgment Seat of Christ, Erwin Lutzer writes, “Tears in heaven! In the minds of many Christians, tears and heaven simply do not belong together…Our tears will be those of regret and shame, tears of remorse for lives lived for ourselves rather than for God.”
I Corinthians 3:15 describes Christians whose works will be “burned up…he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames.” Don’t waste your life on trivia! Truly seek after God!
He
With God.
“Enoch…was commended as one who pleased God.” —Hebrews 11:5
To please God can also be translated as walking with God (Genesis 5:22-24). Enoch is the first person to be described as walking with God, although Adam and Eve may have done this in the Garden (Genesis 3:8). You are also called to walk with God by loving him with all your heart (Matthew 22:37).
We walk with God by being full of the fruit of the Spirit (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control).
“Since we live by the Spirit let us keep in step with the Spirit.” —Galatians 5:25
He
About God.
“Before [Enoch] was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.” —Hebrews 11:5
Enoch was commended by God for bearing witness of him.
“Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men: ‘See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones to judge everyone.’” —Jude 14
Enoch named his son Methuselah (“muth” means “to die”, and “shalach” means “to send”). Literally his name meant “when he dies, it shall be sent”. God gave Enoch a vision of coming judgment via Noah’s flood. Methuselah reminded everyone that, 1) judgment is coming; and 2) there is still time to get right with God. In the year Methuselah died (969 years), the flood came!
He Was
to God.
“By faith Enoch was taken from this life so that he did not experience death; he could not be found, because God had taken him away.” —Hebrews 11:5
To be taken means “to be translated; to be carried over”. This is a beautiful preview of the Rapture when our Lord’s people will be caught up into the clouds without dying (I Thessalonians 4:17).
There are two Enochs in the Bible. The seventh descendant from Adam is God’s Enoch who came through the line of Adam’s son Seth. The third descendant from Adam is the Devil’s Enoch who came through the line of Adam’s son Cain (Genesis 4:17-18).
In our world today we have two groups of people – God’s people and the Devil’s people. There are only two camps (Matthew 7:13-27). If you are not in God’s camp, by default you are in the Devil’s camp. Which camp are you in? Are you “all in” with God? Are you walking with Him?