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Havasu Christian Church                   

July 19, 2026

Characters in Genesis

“Enoch; the guy who didn’t die!”

INTRO: We are skipping a few people today. “How dare you! Skipping people who are in the Bible!”  The Trouble is that all we know about them is that they are part of the genealogy that goes from Adam to Noah, from Noah to Abraham, from Abraham to David, and from David to Jesus!

         So we are looking at Enoch today. We don’t know a lot about him, but what we do know is pretty unusual and surprising!

         It starts out like most of the rest of the men in this genealogy…

Genesis 5:18–21 (NASB95)

         18      Jared lived one hundred and sixty-two years, and became the father of Enoch. 

         19      Then Jared lived eight hundred years after he became the father of Enoch, and he had other sons and daughters. 

         20      So all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years, and he died. 

         21      Enoch lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Methuselah. 

         So far, so good. Enoch is someone’s son. He’s also someone’s dad. His son is Methuselah, who will wind up being the oldest man to ever live!

         For this genealogy however, that’s not too extraordinary. But what comes next is quite strange.

Genesis 5:22-24 Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters. 

         23      So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. 

         24      Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

         WOW! That was unexpected! First, you have it written down that someone “walked with God.”

1. What does it mean that Enoch “Walked with God?”
2. The first time we read anything like this is when we read about God coming in human form to walk with Adam and Eve in the cool of the evening.
3. I don’t think that’s what is going on here.
4. In Scripture, our “walk” refers to how we live our life.
5. We see this over and over.
6. Genesis 6:9 “Noah walked with God.”
7. Genesis 17:1 God tells Abram (Abraham) to “walk before me and be blameless.”
8. Genesis 24:40  Abraham tells his servant to go find a wife for Issac. When the servant asks how this is going to work, Abraham replies “The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you to make your journey successful, and you will take a wife for my son from my relatives and from my father’s house;”
9. Exodus 16:4 (NASB95) Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether or not they will walk in My instruction.
10. Leviticus 18:3 (NASB95) You shall not do what is done in the land of Egypt where you lived, nor are you to do what is done in the land of Canaan where I am bringing you; you shall not walk in their statutes.
11. Leviticus 26:12 (NASB95) I will also walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people.
12. Deuteronomy 8:6 (NASB95) “Therefore, you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.
13. 1 Kings 8:61 (NASB95)“Let your heart therefore be wholly devoted to the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as at this day.”
14. I counted over 25 more Old Testament verses like this and I stopped in I Kings.
15. There are plenty of verses like this in the New Testament as well!
16. Mark 7:5 (NASB95) The Pharisees and the scribes *asked Him, “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with impure hands?”
17. Luke 1:6 (NASB95) speaking about Zachariah and Elizabeth, John the Baptist’s parents. “They were both righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and requirements of the Lord.”
18. Romans 6:4 (NASB95) Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
19. 2 Corinthians 5:7 (NASB95) for we walk by faith, not by sight—
20. 2 Corinthians 10:3 (NASB95) For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh,
21. Galatians 5:25 (NASB95) If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
22. Again, there are MANY more examples.
23. Our “Walk” is how we live.
24. So Enoch lived in a way that was pleasing to God!
25. This couldn’t have been easy, with the way more and more people before the flood were allowing themselves to live immorally.

Genesis 6:5 (NASB95) Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

1. Enoch “walked with God” for at least 300 years.
2. That’s a long time to serve God in a tough place!
3. Did the birth of his son bring him around to serving God?
4. He lived 365 years.
5. He “walked with God” for 300 years after the birth of Methuselah.
6. Did his son’s birth have some kind of effect on how he lived his life?
7. For many, the birth of a child is the catalyst that makes them rethink the way they are living.
8. Did Enoch spend time with Adam and Eve?
9. We know that Adam lived long enough for lives to overlap.
10. Maybe he did. Think how amazing that would have been, to hear straight from Adam how things were!
11. Enoch didn’t Give up!
12. He remained faithful!
13. So much so that we learn something amazing about him from the New Testament.

1. From the book of Jude in the New Testament, We know that Enoch was a prophet.

Jude 12-16  These are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted; 

         13      wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever. 

         14      It was also about these men that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of His holy ones, 

         15      to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.” 

       16      These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; they speak arrogantly, flattering people for the sake of gaining an advantage.

1. Enoch was Prophesying before the flood, but he was talking about how things would be, not just then, but now!
2. People then were “hidden reefs.”
3. You wouldn’t know they were hurting you until it was too late.
4. People only cared for themselves.
5. People like that were not embarrassed by their shame. They reveled in it.
6. They had the “black darkness” reserved for them forever.
7. These people would have Judgement executed on them.
8. They would be “convicted of all their ungodly deeds.”
9. They were “grumbling fault finders.”
10. “They follow their own lusts.”
11. They “speak arrogantly.”
12. They flatter people for the sake of gaining an advantage.
13. Jude saw these things in his time, just as Enoch prophesied.
14. We see all these same things in people in our time as well.

1. Enoch gave an example of faithful living, even if it was only for 365 years!
2. That example was apparently heard about by his Grandson, Noah.
3. Did Noah hear about God from Methuselah?
4. Did Noah hear about God from his father, Lamech?
5. The way Enoch lived, MATTERED!
6. God honored his faithful life and “took him up.”

Hebrews 11:1–6 (NASB95) Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it (faith) the men of old gained approval. By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained the testimony that he was righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through faith, though he is dead, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death; AND HE WAS NOT FOUND BECAUSE GOD TOOK HIM UP; for he obtained the witness that before his being taken up he was pleasing to God. And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.

Conclusion: What can we learn today from all of this ancient history?

• First off, this ancient history isn’t so ancient!
• We live on an earth that is MUCH younger than many modern scientists would like you to believe.
• The idea of “deep time” gives those who do not wish to acknowledge God, the delusion that there is more room for miracles to “spontaneously happen.”
• “A tiny piece of matter (that we have no idea where it came from) suddenly, for no apparent reason, exploded.
• Somehow, that matter was flung out into an empty void, and in defiance of all we know about how things work, globs of it coalesced into suns, planets, and the rest.
• Somehow, on at least one of those planets, incredible complexity “happened by chance.”
• That incredible complexity somehow became all the life as we know it on the earth.
• That seems a bit far fetched to me.
• It makes much more sense to believe that an intelligent designer, situated outside of His Creation, made everything!
• That designer, has explained what He did in His word.
• Not in enough detail to take away the fun of discovery, but enough to give us clues.
• How we live our lives matters!
• Sometimes, it seems that we are way too small a drop in a very large bucket.
• We feel as though we have no power to change anything!
• On a large scale, for most of us, this is true.
• My single vote doesn’t affect public policy.
• But when I share what I believe with others, and together we act on what we believe, we can be a powerful force!
• What I do for myself is very temporary.
• But what I do for others as I follow Christ, matters for eternity!
• What we do for Christ will affect our family!
• What we do for Christ will affect our world!
• Even if family, friends, or our world at large choose not to follow our example, they have at least had the opportunity to see it and do something about it.
• They are “without excuse.”
• We have an important mission to carry out during our time in this body, on this earth.

Micah 6:8 (NASB95) He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God?

• We are not called to be perfect.
• We are called to do our best in the service of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!
• The One who died, so we could live forever.
• The One who rose from the dead, so we would know that we will rise too!

Next week: NOAH!