As you can tell from the reading, we, chapter 5 moves through quite a bit of names, quite a bit of territory, a lot of years, a lot of generations. This is going to take us from around creation in that time and the first hundred or so years and it's carrying us all the way to the flood. We're going to build up for that time around the flood, the time of Noah. It's carrying us to that next major segment in human history and it's a regroup and I think it's helpful periodically to regroup to get our bearings to see how things align and are connected. We don't want to be walking around confused all the time. Though sometimes I look around and some of you give me the impression you like to be confused. But either way, we don't want to be that way. And this is a little bit what Genesis is doing. You're going to see that throughout Genesis. These are, there's times when there's these regroup moments. that help us tie things together, help us understand the movement of God's story, the story of our beginning. These points often start with, these are the generations of, or this is the book of the generations of. And what we're finding here in chapter five is the second one of these. Now, do keep in mind that obviously we're seeing a singular line of people And there's a reason behind that. We are tracing the line of Christ. We're going to see that through the genealogies. And it doesn't mean that other people weren't important, that other people weren't valuable, that other people didn't have significance or were believers. It's just that as we're tracing the story, what God is recounting to us, what he's letting us know, is the connection to his son who's going to be born. And we're going to see that Genesis 1 through 11 is going to carry us to a key person which is Abraham. And that's what we're looking at getting to. Now the first time we had a generational lock-in was Genesis 2-4 where we're told after creation was completed and was declared good that these are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens." It's God's declaration. Here we have it. It's done and it's completed. And it summarized, in essence, what had unfolded before and then carried forward with more details. Now in Genesis chapter 5, verses 1 to 2, we get the regroup. And it's almost like it's Adam's regrouping. His lineup, so to speak. Possibly even his direct writings that were passed down of what has happened from the last regroup until now. And so Genesis 5, 1 through 2 stated, this is the book of the generations of Adam. in the day that God created man, and the likeness of God made he him. Male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam in the day when they were created." And this is him summarizing from 1 or 2, 4, all the way down to where he is now. And it's his run on earth, regrouping after all that had unfolded since creation. And you notice what he links back to. He links to Genesis 1, 26 through 28, which shared some interesting things. It talked about the uniqueness of humanity in God's creation. It reminds us again that we're made in His image. We were made to have dominion over His creation, which in essence also tells us that if we're made to have dominion over this earth, and we're made in God's image, then he has dominion over everything, linking there. Made as male and female. He's reinforcing this. He's letting us know that we were distinct creations and designed for a specific function. A lesson our world wants to forget. As you see tucked in Scripture in the early part, you wonder, is Scripture relevant? Well, we've now repeated twice something that our society just doesn't want to listen to at all. Sadly, one of the things that blew my mind a little bit when you're walking around King's Dominion is the number of people you see who want to ignore this, blatantly ignore it. And you're thinking, oh man, I haven't been out in public enough apparently. I'm seeing things I don't want my kids to see. I don't want to see this. But the reality is, is our world wants to forget what God started out with. He was very clear. And you see Adam, just imagine he's recording this up to this point and he's reminding his generation that would follow afterwards that, hey, you know, we were special, created by God in his image. Male and female created this way for a reason, for a function. But as we know, and we've read through the story, Adam and Eve had sinned and the effects of sin had shown. They were sent from the garden They've seen Cain murder his brother. But now in these genealogies that follow, we start seeing the unfolding of when you sin, you will die. The natural effect of our death sentence is now unfolding. And God shares that with us, not to depress us, but in his grace and his mercy, he wants to connect us to the reality of the outcome of sin. One of the things that's repeated over and over, except for Enoch, which we'll talk about, was, and he died. So it says, and Adam lived 130 years and begat a son in his own likeness and after his own image, and he called his name Seth. And you see this kind of tie-in. Adam is created in God's image, and we see that replicated now in people moving down the line. And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were 800 years, and he begat sons and daughters. Critical to understand that they're fulfilling God's command to fill the earth. And all the days that Adam lived were 930 years. And then that critical phrase, and he died. Adam dies. Verse 8, Seth dies. Verse 11, Enos dies. Verse 14, Canaan dies. Verse 17, Mahalilel dies. And Kelvin did a great job pronouncing that. You just play that back in your head. Verse 20, Jared dies. Verse 27, Methuselah dies. Verse 31, Lamech dies, which actually happens before Methuselah dies. And what we see in this genealogy, what we were reminded of, as we see a list of people, we see this legacy, we see this link, all of them died. God had clearly stated that the result of sin would be death. Now when we see the murder, it's out of, right, it's out of line. It's a break in something. But what is reminded or what's reinforced over and over again is we would grow old and we are decaying. And this genealogy brings that reality home. Death had been seen, right? The murder of Abel. But here is the picture of death as the natural close of life because of sin. We weren't created to die. Sin brought death. And we see this kind of unfold. The average age of these 10 generations is 912 years, if you don't include Enoch, because he would really throw the average off since he's still alive. So that would really blow the average lifespan that's there. They lived a long time. Long enough to maybe lose sight of the reality of sin and its consequences. We live in the world thousands of years later. We are wrestling with It seems like umpteen diseases. We have medical advances that move rapidly, for which I'm grateful for, but it seems like we've done a bang-up job giving ourselves more and more diseases with the things that we do and all the things that we get involved in. And so we battle and we have seen the degradation of the genetic code even in that sense. And so we struggle with more things. These people lived a long time. I believe they lived a healthy life for a long time. How easy to think that maybe sin's consequence wouldn't get to you after close to a thousand years. But no one can avoid death. Because as Hebrews 9 27 notes, and it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this judgment These individuals had a long time, along with the people that aren't recorded here. I don't think that they were necessarily, well, these guys lived a long time, but everyone else was keeling over after 70, 80 years. I think we see a lot of people living a long time, but they all face death. These individuals remind us that no matter how long or even good life is, sin comes with a reckoning. Don't miss that as we work through this genealogy. The purpose, if you look at the context or as you're looking through scripture, what is Genesis 5 doing? What is an overarching purpose of that chapter? It is moving us from creation to the flood. It's carrying us. It is that regroup and reconnect. But as Ken Ham writes, as we read this, it's also a reminder that everyone will die and meet their creator. God, in his mercy and grace, gives repetitive reminders to the accountability we face before him. He's not being vindictive when he does this, as he's so often accused. What is it Ben Franklin said? What is the only constant? Taxes and death, right? We know this and here God is graciously reminding us as he's linking everything. Linking to what? And keep this in mind. Linking us in this context to Noah who will be in the line of Christ and so linking us to deliverance and linking us to redemption. He's still graciously reminding us of something we do know because we serve a gracious and merciful God but we also serve a holy God. He's not a permissive, flawed God, as so many people want to create. He's a holy God. Sin cannot be brushed under a rug, and we're reminded that sin's consequences are real. Don't miss the repeat, and he died, and he died, and he died. Because sin's effects must be handled or dealt with. Why? Because those effects are real. So regardless of the fact that these individuals live close to a thousand years, sin's consequence has not been brushed aside and it never will be brushed aside. Sin's consequences must be faced. These heads of the human race live for an extended period on earth, but they still came face to face with their mortality. Now, there are a host of people that will trip over themselves about the age of these patriarchs. They'll use it, I've seen it, to discredit God's Word. God was exaggerating. God was doing what other people have done. And there's people, there's a whole, I don't know if it's Babylonians, or there's a certain old history where they would have certain people living 65,000 years. And so people say, well, this is just another story. It's a fabrication. They'll use it to minimize literal interpretation of God's Word. But these were literal years lived, time to actually fill the earth, a time when God, through His planned environment, Before the flood, there was a distinct different environment. And I would say, according to God's planned purpose, if you want to know the real reason they lived 912 years, because God let them, because God allowed it, because God orchestrated that, because he still holds this world in his hand. As the New Testament tells us, he gives us our breath. And so if he wants to give him breath for 912 years, most certainly he can do that. And he chose to do that. He had humanity living long lives there. But we want to keep in mind that these were generations that carried us forward to Noah and then on to Abraham and all the way to the Savior. These lines were recorded because of their connection to the promised one to come. The one that was promised in Genesis 3.15. These people are given to us. We know about them because they're part of that lineage. And many of these men bore unique names of prophecy. Names that pointed out something about them and their time. Adam. Why does it say he created Adam? Adam means man. And he's the first human on earth and the namesake for all of us. He has a son named Seth which means appointed one. Because this one was the unique replacement for Abel. He had other sons and daughters. It was 130 years, but this was distinctively, Seth was known to be the one that would then carry the line forward. Enos, Seth names him mortal frailty, and it showed that Seth had a grasp of our existence and pointed to his humiliation before God, proper submission to God. Canaan was named Smith, and I think it has the possibility of pointing to the growing creativity of humanity and the materials they began to work with and upon. Mehelelel, that's a rough thing to say. We should all just say it out loud together so you can stumble over it. I'm just kidding. I don't need you all to mispronounce it too. It means, God be praised. as surely God would be praised and lifted up. This is a priority of humankind. Jared's name means descent, carrying forward the line chosen. There's a, there's history, Arabian histories that say that Jared was the first, first descendant of Seth to marry a descendant of Cain. I'm not sure what the reality of that is or if there's any significance, but that's just a note that's in there. His son is named Enoch, dedication. initiation, a fitting name for the one who would passionately and publicly be devoted to his Lord. Methuselah. This one is fascinating. It's two meanings to his name. The one that that kind of shines out is when he dies judgment. There's some argue that it means man of the spear. Regardless, here is the oldest one to have lived and from all accounts and measures, he died the year of the flood. His dad is Enoch who walks with God and is taken and is not, doesn't die, but he's taken to heaven. And he names his son when he dies, Judgment. You can see that there's a connection and an understanding and there's prophecy woven into him. Lamech, whose name means conqueror, he dies before his father Methuselah and he's the father of Noah and he says Noah is going to bring rest or deliverance And he has a prophecy about Noah. Rests, he would bring a rest of righteousness and of a godly life. And as you know, and we'll get into in chapter six, when Noah's generation is coming to fruition, and remember he's 500 years, and by that point has three sons, the three that are noted, and the world is horrifically wicked by that point. And he's going to bring deliverance and bring righteousness and find favor with God. Names that tell a story that show us that humankind was aware of the sad direction of all humanity and how they were spiraling deeper and deeper into sin. Because these genealogies also help tie us to the next key component of our story. Ten generations that take us from Adam to Noah, that move us to the patriarchs that are used to bring the promised Messiah, and sadly show us how quickly and completely humankind will prefer evil over righteousness. I don't think there's gaps in this lineage and this line. This is a great measure of the time that transpired, the actual time. I know there's genealogies in the Bible where there's generations skipped to maintain a certain number and that's obvious from the context that's there. The context that is here is that this is the line that takes us to Noah. The reason for five is to tell us exactly what happened and when it happened and how it got to where it was. By Genesis 6-5 it says, "...then Yahweh saw the evil of man was great on the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." It's harder to find more words to describe how horrifically wicked society was. It makes our society seem tame by comparison. And that's something I hope we can fix in our mind as we move even next week into Genesis 6 and we see how they are and how wicked the world is. We have a tendency to think that we are the most wicked or some other generation that we know more about. But that statement right there tells you how quickly we will go from creating his image, we saw how quick we murdered, and then we see how quickly they're all evil. yet woven into the fabric of these ten generations. The purpose of moving to Noah, we find a picture of commitment. Enoch. Verse 21 through 24 says, Enoch lived 60 and 5 years in Begat Methuselah and Enoch walked with God. And if you highlight things in your Bible, just highlight that. Walked with. Because I'll mention it later. Everyone else, after they list the one they, like so, after Methuselah has Lamech, it says he lived and begat. Enoch's the only one where after he begats Methuselah, it says, and Enoch not lived and had more children. It says, Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah 300 years and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Enoch were 365 years and Enoch walked with God. And he was not, for God took him. And we have this really unique break in the he died statements. God and his infinite wisdom and his inspiration changed the verb that he's using. He didn't say that he lived. He says he walked. And he walked. And he walked. And he reinforces that. Enoch doesn't die, but instead he's taken into heaven before death. No indication that he's at the brink of death. It's not like, oh well, dad wandered off and he died, but he was struggling anyway, so I guess we didn't find him. It's not that. This is a healthy, thriving individual. He, along with Elijah, are the only ones for whom this takes place. I believe that they show back up on the horizon. And there's a lot of discussion on this. And so I don't want to get into the weeds here. But if you go to Revelation, you're going to read about two witnesses that come during the tribulation. And a lot of people think it's going to be Moses and Elijah. I have always thought it's going to be Enoch and Elijah. And a lot of other people agree with that because those two witnesses end up dying. And who are two people that haven't died? Those two guys. And they're going to come back and be a witness. But amazing though, in and of itself, And I want to fixate, you got this unbelievable miracle that someone goes to heaven, God took him. What a beautiful phrase that is. It's like he reached down and picked him up and just brought him to heaven. But what's repeated twice and I think is more impactful for our life and understanding, we know where Enoch and Elijah are and we know what was done, but then looking at his life, it's said twice and it says, Enoch, he walked with God. As I mentioned, preview the other generation. And I'm not trying to bring a negative vibe to this at all. I'm not trying to throw shade on the other guys because they didn't have the walk with God statement. But God's Word is worded for a reason. There's rhyme and sequence and rhythm to why He would do it. Even in a poetic way, and our language isn't overly poetic in English, you go into more of the Latin languages, you see more of a flow and a beauty to it. In the Hebrew language, they love this sequence. This is normal. To break this sequence is critical. To say, instead of that he lived and begat, to suddenly say he walked. It was all done for a reason. And so all these guys lived after they begat the specific patriarch named and begat other sons and daughters. And notice that Enoch is said to have walked with God after he begat Methuselah and begat sons and daughters. He still had more kids. We're talking about this growth of the people there. But he was defined by something. And he was defined by the fact that he walked with God. I want to emphasize this. His identity is the fact that he walks with God. Now keep in mind, It's a walk that can and should be replicated today. I know immediately what my mind would do. It's like, well, we're going way back. It's probably some different scenario. It's some weird mystical thing taking place. It was like Adam in the Garden of Eden. It wasn't. This is after sin. He walked with God as we walk with God, in close fellowship, in prayer, in obedience, in communion with God. And I tucked right here because I feel like in this genealogy as we look, the main point is movement. Understand this, it's a regrouping. It's taking us from creation to this point of the flood. It's carrying us to this person, Noah, that we need to zero in on because it's like a reset. Everyone's gonna be realigned back to the Noah figure. But right in that genealogy is this key lesson about this man named Enoch who walked with God. and walked in a way that we can and should walk, and then I put a question, but what about you? Would you be identified as someone who walks with God? Not that you go to church. I'm not talking about that. Not that you identify in this current religion, because that's how it's seen in our government and our politics. Well, this is the Christian segment, and this is this segment, and this is this segment over here. But instead, that you literally walk with God. Is that apparent in your life? We spent two and a half days with the teens diving into this in depth about being committed. And if you want to summarize that in the language of Genesis, it means that we want them to understand that they should walk with God. It was obviously central in Enoch's life. So much so, that everyone else lived and begat more, and Enoch walked with God and begat more children. He was identified as someone who walked with God. And I put here, would that be how your genealogy would be written? Would this list, if it included your name, be he lived and begat and begat and begat, or would you be the one that stood out because you walked with God? Notice he's taken at the end. The walk with God is emphasized all the way through it. I can guarantee not if while you're living it can't be said of you that he or she walks with God. That is who you are. That is central to what you do. Enoch walked with God because God was first and central in his life. The teens know. I've said this for two days. Is he central? Is he the primary focus? Is he the all? Is he way above any other priority you might have? All the other components in Enoch's life were not given permission to undermine his walking with God. Now that doesn't mean that he neglected his responsibilities. It doesn't mean that he was a poor farmer or that he neglected his family. That's why we're reminded that he had a lot of family, had a lot of children. Instead, I think he would have had a strong and very effective family life. He would have worked diligently to reach his own children with truth. And as we see in the New Testament and really in the name of Methuselah, remember who names Methuselah? Enoch. Enoch says about his son, when he dies, judgment. And that points to something that is even more emphasized in the book of Jude is not only that he walked with God, but he also prophesied about God. The name of his son said, judgment is coming. If you go to Jude verse 14 and 15, there's no chapters there because it's just one chapter. Verse 14 and 15 of Jude says, And Enoch, also the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, now we're talking about sinners, wicked, unrighteousness, rebellious against God, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints 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. Sounds like he didn't mince his words. Sounds like he made sure you knew that you weren't living for the Lord. Could you imagine him today? Boy, we would all be sweating. We're sweating now because maybe the AC's not keeping up, but we would have been really sweating if he was preaching now. I want you to realize Genesis 3.15 talks about Christ's coming and that he's going to be our redemption. Enoch, very soon thereafter, is not preaching about that first coming. Instead, he's preaching about Christ's second coming. He's highlighting judgment. He highlights two things. He highlights the action of sin, and then he highlights the words of sin. The ungodly, he says, have a lot to say, harsh and sinful things to say against God. And I put some things never change. So here's a guy that by his life and example, walk with God. we should. He's not just up here, oh Enoch, he's amazing. Enoch was an example to what you should be doing. You should be defined as an individual who walks with God. That's not something you tell people. It's something they will know. Because if God is central, then it'll become glaringly apparent that you walk with God. Two, he prophesied. And I come to this and I say, are we listening to his message, which bears very direct relevance today? Do you recognize that much of this world's and maybe even your own speech is against God and was condemned by his prophet before the flood? God has not changed his mind. It's not something new. God has not suddenly become overly permissive of sin and he's changed his mind from when the beginning was to the end. Understand this, the world speaks pretty harsh words against God. I've heard a lot of them. I hear it from people even that go to church here at City Light and they'll say words like, wow, they may not believe in this or they'll condemn God or undermine him and maybe not even intentionally. Don't we all say these foolish, hard, ungodly words and speeches? And I want us to realize something about the words the world speaks against God. It's not special, nor is it a surprise, but it's most definitely sinful. I put here, are we giving the same message though? Here we are. We're supposed to walk like him. We're supposed to walk with God in a way that we would be identified as people who walk with God. Not because we told someone, hey, I walk with God. Don't you know that? Now remember, Kenny walks with God. Kenny walks with God. Now repeat after me. Kenny walks with God. We're not, we're not trying to manipulate people, but it's so obvious that we walk with God. That's how we'd be identified. And then he prophesied for God. And what is the one prophecy that scripture gives us? What's articulated for us? Judgment. What is he saying? They're ungodly deeds and they're ungodly words. And he says, they're going to be judged. I put here, do we preach with this boldness to our society? Let me answer that for you. We often do not. Sadly, we hide behind political correctness and perceived rights and neglect to say the truth clearly and concisely. God is, I put here, the words and what people are doing, it's not special and it's not a surprise, but it's definitely sinful. And we act like the sin of today needs to be handled with kid gloves. Oh, don't upset those sinful people. They might get angry, those sinful people at you. And I'm not talking about being obnoxious. I think you've heard me say that for 10 years. I don't think the Bible calls us to be obnoxious people. But boy, we pander to sin. I put here, I want to encourage you to see Enoch's life and learn to speak the truth in love. But let's make sure the in love part is not your excuse to water down the truth. How about maybe increase sensitivity to the sin of this world instead of it becoming normal? How about being shocked when we see vileness instead of saying, well, you know, that's the world. God had this lineage recorded, as I've told you, it's a regroup for a specific reason, and that was to bring us to a specific person, a person who would be a promise of deliverance. Here's Noah. Lamech, verse 28, it says, Lamech lived 180 and two years and begat a son. And he called his name Noah, saying, this same shall comfort us concerning our work and tool of our hands because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed. In other words, he's going to bring rest and deliverance. And I don't even know if Lamech understood the depth of what he was saying in that moment. We do know that he passes away before the flood. He passed away before Methuselah. So he's not going to see the end destruction, or that explains why he's not on the ark. Because I want us to keep in mind the Ark only had eight people on it. Genesis 6-5, the world was growing exponentially in wickedness. We read that. Can't describe more wickedness than that. We know from Scripture that everyone on earth except Noah, his wife, three sons, and their wives drowned. That's a destruction of millions, if not billions. One of the guys I read thinks there were seven billion people in the world at that time. I'm not saying I've done the math, and so I'm just throwing it out there. We kind of think there was a thousand people that got drowned. It's not a thousand people. Millions of people died. And so it would be through Noah and his line that God would bring forth deliverance to this world. he would bring deliverance through him. Noah would be the one who found favor in the eyes of Yahweh as MacArthur notes. He would know God's grace as he was a man that believed in God as creator, sovereign, and the only Savior from sin. You know how many people didn't believe that? Everyone else that lived on the world Is that not shocking? I mean, when you think about that in a second, as you grapple with this reality that at that point with the Ark, eight people believed. Eight out of millions and millions of people. And what did he believe? He believed that God was the Creator, that He was sovereign, He's the Savior from sin. Everyone else was saying, whatever God. That should help us as we sit, because we get caught up in our time, our society, and the idea of time, space, and matter, and we get locked in, and we think, what's happening? What's going on? God is losing control. Look at all these people thumbing their nose at God. I've read so many people that make such foolish statements about God, about how they're gonna get up, and if there's a heaven, they'll tell God not enough evidence. So they're gonna say, we're just machines, we die, and they're gonna mock anyone that believes in God, and you think, they get away with it. Why doesn't God just strike him dead? I bet a lot of people before the flood thought that. Who's God? He doesn't do anything. What's happening? And then judgment came, which is what Enoch was preaching. And remember, we kind of say, well, it was only like five verses ago. Think how many generations, how many years went by. More years than our country's been around. Before a couple of generations ago, we were way past the history that we read and know so much about. That wickedness permeated all of society. A saturation point we cannot even fathom. And I want you to realize, and we're gonna really hit on this next week, but Noah was not swayed. You fixate on only the eight, then you start thinking about this guy that built a boat for a hundred years in a place that never saw rain. And that preached, by the way, he didn't just build the boat and keep his mouth shut. He preached to these people who literally spurned everything he said over and over again. And I just want to throw this little nugget out there because we'll hit on it next week. Do you have that kind of spiritual fortitude? If we think about Enoch, when you get to Noah, my goodness, and he's the other character who walks with God and is used, I think the only other one in the Old Testament is used with the same word that's described with Enoch, walk with God and that kind of relationship that would be there. See, Genesis 5 gives us a regroup and points to the next key person in God's history of our existence. It pointed to Noah. But in that process, kind of come back, we got to see a very unique individual named Enoch. A man described as walking with God. He was not afraid to be aware of humanity's sin and to preach against it. I hope that's convicting. I know for myself, when I think of Enoch and I read what he preached in Jude, and you realize where the world is moving, the movement that's taking place, and how easy it has been to pander to sin, to kind of brush it aside, to give excuses, to make jokes, to do whatever else it is. And I just wondered if Enoch and Noah, I don't think they'd get the jokes we make. I don't think they would find them funny at all. I don't think they found sin funny at all. Do you think about Enoch and the fact that he was aware of, he was in tune, he was discerning. It's a word I use with the teens over and over. Discerning. You've got to understand what's going on to discern your times. Discern what's there and see it from God's perspective. And then he preached against it as God would want. And as we close this morning, I do want us to think on a few things. Are we, City Light, are we here sitting in this moment even aware of the depth of humankind's sin? Not that we sit around and talk about how horrible the world is and look at this political ruling and that political ruling. And I'm not trying to de-importantize. That's a couple words that aren't in the Bible or anywhere else. To make less important the things that are happening in our culture and society and our politics. But have we grasped the depth of humankind's sin? And understand, Enoch grasped the depth of sin as it was an affront to a holy God. Not, this affects my lifestyle, my traditions, and what I like and what I believe in, which is important, but he understood the effect of sin against a holy God. Do we see sin the same way? That's a question I ask myself a lot because I find myself personally ticked off about what people are doing. And I'd love to go talk to Congress, both sides, because they all seem like buffoons to me. But either way, I'd love to give them a piece of my mind or maybe all of it in one setting. But I realize I'm offended for me. I'm not offended for God. These men were offended for God. They recognized the holy God and then the depth of sin is seen in comparison to that. You see a hint of that with Paul when he says, I'm the chief of sinners. How does a guy like Paul say that? Because he understood the holiness of God. He grasped where it was. Enoch understood the holiness of God and so he was sensitive to what sin was against God. That's going to change your individual behavior. It is going to change what you are okay with and it's going to change what you end up doing. Are we sensitive to sin or have we slowly numbed ourself to its effects? And then are we like Enoch at all? Did we truly walk with God or would our description only be that we were alive at a certain time? Isn't that fascinating? And again, I don't want to make a critique, but everyone else was just alive. They lived, they begat a lot of sons and daughters, and their name to claim is passing on the lineage of Christ. And it's important, and it's listed for a reason. But here's a guy that says he walked with God, and we get this emphasis in just a brief moment, changing one verb. He lived, and they said he walked. Would our description be that we walked with God? or that we're just alive at a certain time? Will we have the courage to speak boldly of God's certain judgment of this sinful world and all its behavior, or are we just going to pander to it and make a few jokes and walk away?