BY FAITH ENOCH
(Transcribed
Message)
Sunday Morning:
January 6, 2002
Text:
Hebrews 11:5-6 "By
faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was
not found, because God had translated him: for before his
translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6. But
without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh
to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that
diligently seek him."
Genesis 5:21-24
"And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
22. And Enoch walked with God after he begat
Methuselah (= when he is dead it shall be sent, the flood) three
hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: 23. And all the days of
Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: 24. And Enoch
walked with God: and he was not; for God took him."
Amos 3:3 "Can two walk together, except they be agreed?"
Jude 1:14-15
"And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of
these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15. To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly
among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and
of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against
him."
Luke 11:50-52
"That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the
foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
51. From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias,
which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It
shall be required of this generation.
52.
Woe
unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge (by
killing the prophets): ye entered not in yourselves,
and them that were entering in (who responded to the prophets)
ye hindered."
1 Peter 1:9-12
"Receiving the end of your
faith, even the salvation of your souls.
SALVATION IN CHRIST
2 Timothy 2:9-10
"Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but
the word of God is not bound. 10. Therefore I endure all things for the
elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which
is in Christ Jesus with eternal [agelasting or
kingdom age] glory."
10.
Of which
salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who
prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
11.
Searching what, or
what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when
it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should
follow.
12.
Unto whom it was
revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto
us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by
them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from
heaven; . . ."
Jude 1:14
"And Enoch (Genesis 5:18) also, the seventh from
Adam (not the Enoch of Cain, Gen. 4:17), prophesied of
these [masculine plural], saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten
thousands of his saints."
Jude 1:4
"For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of
old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our
God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus
Christ."
2 Peter 2:1-2
"But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there
shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable
heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and
bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2. And many shall
follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be
evil spoken of."
PAUL WARNED OF
Acts 20:29-31 "For I know this, that after my departing shall
grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the
flock. 30. Also of your own selves
shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw
away disciples after them. 31. Therefore watch,
and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn
every one night and day with tears."
THESE WHO ARE SAVED
Jude 1:10-17
"But these [masculine plural] speak evil of those things
which they know [present passive] not: but what they know
naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt [present
passive]
themselves.
11.
Woe unto them
[masculine plural]! for they have gone in the way of Cain
(hating their brother), and ran greedily after the error of Balaam (lawlessness)
for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core (Korah, Num.
16-1-3).
2 Peter 2:15 "Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray,
following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the
wages of unrighteousness;"
WITHOUT FEAR
12.
These
[masculine plural] are spots in your feasts of charity, when they
[masculine plural] feast with you, feeding [present active,
shepherding] themselves without fear: clouds they are
without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without
fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13.
Raging waves of the
sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom
is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever [age, millennial
kingdom].
HEAVENLY SEED
Hebrews 11:12 "Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead,
so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand
which is by the sea shore innumerable."
Jude 1:14-15
"And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of
these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15. To execute judgment upon all (them, from the
context), and to convince all that are ungodly among them [masculine
plural] of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly
committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners
have spoken against him (the Lord)."
1 Peter 4:17-18
"For the time is come that judgment must begin at
the house of God: and if it first begin at
us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of
God? 18. And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the
ungodly and the sinner appear?"
Hebrews 10:30-31
"For we know him that hath said,
Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And
again, The Lord shall judge his people. 31. It is a fearful thing to
fall into the hands of the living God."
Jude 1:16
"These [masculine plural] are murmurers, complainers,
walking after their [masculine plural] own lusts; and their
[masculine plural] mouth speaketh great swelling words, having
men's persons in admiration because of advantage."
1 Thessalonians
4:13-18 "But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren,
concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others
which have [ecw, present active] no hope. 14. For if we (brethren,
elect, who esteem hope) believe [present active] that Jesus
died and rose again (power of the resurrection, Philippians
3:10, 11), even so them (brethren, elect, who esteem hope and
believe, present active) also which sleep in Jesus will God bring
with him. 15. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord,
that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord
shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16. For the Lord
himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the
archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead (who hope and
believe, present tense) in Christ shall rise first: 17. Then we
which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them
in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be
with the Lord. 18. Wherefore comfort [parakalew, exhort] one
another with these words."
DON'T BE MOVED AWAY
Colossians 1:22-23 "In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy
and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: 23. If ye continue in
the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope
of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every
creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;"
WARNING AND TEACHING
EVERY MAN
Colossians 1:26-28 "Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and
from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: 27. To whom
God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery
among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
28. Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in
all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:"