In Genesis chapter number 5 in your Bibles tonight, Genesis chapter number 5. Find your place there if you would please. It seems odd not to say Psalms, doesn't it? Seems odd. We will go back there. We'll take a break this summer. A number of years ago, I was in Boston, Massachusetts. Actually, I was in Haverhill, and I was visiting one of our missionary church planners, Chris DiGiacomo, doing a tremendous job there outside of the city of Boston, one of the suburb cities. And we went to downtown Boston. We were touring downtown, sort of walking parts of the Freedom Trail. and we visited a cemetery. One of the pilgrims were buried there, and we visited several other spots. But then we crossed the street. We're walking down a sidewalk, and there on the side of a building was a copper-plated memorial. It had been fixed to the side of that building. I began to look at it, and here's what it said. It said, D.L. Moody. Christian evangelist, friend of man, founder of the Northfield schools, was converted to God in a shoe store on this site April 21, 1855. It was amazing. I stood right there at the place where the shoe store was in 1855 when a man by the name of Dwight Lyman Moody was led to Christ, by the way, through his Sunday school teacher. Sunday school teacher had a burden for everyone in his class. He actually had a young adult class. He was a young adult man and had a burden for every one of them to know the Lord. And he went out visiting them and he went to the shoe store where D.L. Moody was working. His goal was to sell a million pairs of shoes. And he was led to Christ. He changed his goal. He wanted to see a million people come to Christ. Isn't that amazing? D.L. Moody went on to shake two continents, Europe and America, North America for the Lord. Thousands and thousands, tens of thousands of people were saved under Moody's ministry. Matter of fact, Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois was started. Moody Memorial Church was started there in Chicago. It had a great impact. He was born and saved there in the Boston area. Most of his ministry was in Chicago. I stood there on that sidewalk, bustling downtown city of Boston, Massachusetts, moved emotionally and spiritually. is I read that plaque several times, took a picture of it, I have a picture of that plaque. I began to look around at the masses of people that passed by that marker every day. Day in, day out, they walked by that spot and had absolutely no idea who Dwight Lyman Moody was. Had no idea what happened on that spot. Had no idea what God did through his life. Dwight Lyman Moody was a famous evangelist in his day. but he's now forgotten by the majority of Bostonians, as well as Americans. If I was to walk in an average group of people, other than in a local church, and many folk, unless their preacher has mentioned his name, they wouldn't even read a book or a sermon or something in which he was read. They wouldn't even know who he was. As a matter of fact, he would be a forgotten life. of great impact, a man of great influence for God, a statesman in our community that was looked upon as a great leader in America, spiritually in America, but now he's a forgotten life. Isn't that amazing? Amazing. Can I help us understand something tonight? A forgotten life doesn't necessarily mean that it was not a significant life. Just because Dwight Lyman Moody's life is forgotten by the majority of people doesn't mean that it wasn't significant. As a matter of fact, the impact of Dwight Lyman Moody's life is still being felt in Christian circles around the world today. It's impacted my life and many of your lives, whether even you realized it or not. He's had an impact on our lives. Say, Preacher, how do you know that? because he was the leader of what we would understand as the American Sunday School. And I believe he started the first bus ministry. It just wasn't a bus. It was a wagon that they went through the streets of Chicago picking up kids and bringing them to Sunday School. Isn't that amazing? Today, guess what? Buses travel all over America to pick up boys and girls all over the place. We do that to bring them to church to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ. And you know what? We have Sunday schools or life groups every week where people walk in and they're taught and they're blessed and they're encouraged. And he was one of the key leaders in America with that movement. It moved me as I began to think about that a series of messages from the Bible. entitled, Fascinating Lives of Forgotten People. Not my original title, but something that struck me. You see, some people that we're going to study over the next several weeks will be well known to us. They're not known to the majority of Americans. Many around the world have no idea who they are. If you were to go and mention these names and drop them in circles of people that have never been in church or maybe never been in Sunday school or whatever, they wouldn't know even the well-known names such as Noah and Samuel. One of the most funnest things that I do is to watch Jeopardy. How many of you watch Jeopardy? I don't watch it all the time, but I have. You've watched that show where they ask trivia questions. I always love it when they do a Bible question. Here's some of the smartest people that know stuff about nothing. You ever notice that? They know something about nothing. You know, it's trivia, and they know all these answers, but yet they're asked a Bible question and they couldn't even tell you who built an ark. I've got kids in our Sunday school that's five years old that can answer more questions on Jeopardy than they could. But the reality of it is we're going to study people like Noah and Samuel, but then there's others that are not going to be as well known to you like Gehazi. We're going to look at some of their lives as well. And although these individuals have been largely forgotten by the world, their lives still have significance for you and I today. The first one we're going to look at we find in Genesis chapter number 5 and it's a man by the name of Enoch. Look if you would please in Genesis chapter 5, verse number 21. The Bible says in verse 21, And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and beget Methuselah. It means he had a son at the age of sixty-five. And Enoch walked with God. What a testimony that he had. And he beget Methuselah three hundred years. after he beget Methuselah three hundred years, and beget sons and daughters. So he walked with God after he beget Methuselah three hundred years, and beget sons and daughters. Look at verse 23. And all the days of Enoch were three hundred, sixty, and five years. And Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him. It's interesting that when you study the life of a man by the name of Enoch, that we're sort of just given a little thumbnail sketch of his life, about 144 verses, 51 verses in the Old Testament, 94 verses in the New Testament, three passages in the Bible that really give us a snapshot of his life, actually three snapshots, here Genesis chapter 5, Hebrews chapter 11, and then Jude mentions him in Jude verses 14 through 16 as a preacher of righteousness, and the subject of his preaching was the second coming of Jesus Christ. He looked even beyond the first one and preached the second one, and the flood hadn't even happened yet. Isn't that amazing? He was ascended to the godly line of Seth. He was the father of Methuselah. He's the great-grandfather of Noah. He was both a patriarch and a prophet. He prophesied of the second coming of the Lord Jesus. You find in Hebrews chapter 11 that he was inducted into God's hall of faith, so to speak. And we see his life story here in Genesis 5. Now to give you a little background, you're going to find a recurring refrain throughout chapter 5 when you begin to read all of these baguettes. And many times we get bogged down in our own personal Bible reading in this particular passage of Scripture. But we'll read this phrase, And he died. And he died. Time after time after time. You're going to read through Genesis 5 and you're going to hear the death bell toll, and he died, and he died, and he died. As a matter of fact, George Bernard Shaw, Riley wrote that the statistics on death are impressive. He said one out of every one died. And we all know that. Isn't that true? We know that the death statistics are still one for one. Everybody's one day going to die, but yet we're going to meet a man today that didn't die. Adam lived 930 years, but he died. Seth lived 912 years. The third mentioned son of Adam lived 912 years, yet he died. Enos lived 905 years, and he died. Methuselah lived a whopping 960 years. Can you imagine that? Boys and girls lived almost 150 years. thousand years, but still there came a day in Methuselah's life that he died. But when you come to this man Enoch, there is a pause in the refrain. The death toll, the death bell, so to speak, stops. The Bible said, look in verse number 24, the last phrase, Enoch walked with God, and he was not. Now watch this next phrase, for God took him. I wrote at the top of my Bible, Enoch, the man God took. The man God took. Let's learn what that means and understand the significance of His life tonight. Lord, we thank You for Your Word. We thank You, Lord, that while there's people in the Bible that may have been forgotten and sometimes even forgotten by believers or maybe just not aware of or known or maybe heard much about, that their lives have great significance. And Lord, over the next weeks as we look at some of the great men and women of the Bible, forgotten lives, Lord, but yet their lives were fascinating and they're of great, great import to us. I pray that we would learn lessons and truths, and Lord, that their lives would impact our lives tonight. And Lord, we're going to thank You for what You do for us. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen. Well, Enoch is only one of two men in the Bible who went to heaven without dying. The other one was Elijah. Both of these men escaped death and were taken to heaven in their natural body. Of course, I believe that they're in heaven and their spirit is there. I'm not sure that flesh and blood, according to the Bible, inherits the kingdom of God, but these men were taken to heaven. I don't know all the details. I don't know all the circumstance, but I know what the Bible says and I believe it. We're going to learn some wonderful truths about this man Enoch, the man God took. First of all, I want you to learn something about his life. And we're going to see that he is a converted man. There was a day in his life that he came to know the Lord. Look again, if you would, please, in verse number 21. And Enoch lived sixty and five years and beget Methuselah, his firstborn son, And throughout this passage, you have a father and the firstborn son. And Methuselah is the firstborn son of a man by the name of Enoch. Look at verse 22, And Enoch walked with God after he beget Methuselah three hundred years, and beget sons and daughters. Now, here's what that tells me, that Methuselah was born to Enoch when he was sixty-five years of age. Now, I can promise you, I don't know many men sixty-five years old that want to be starting over with a baby. How about you all know what I'm talking about right there? You guys say amen with me if you want to, alright? Babies are made for young people. How many know what I'm saying? Amen. But anyway, we're going to keep moving along here. And so he was 65 years old, but the Bible said that after he begat Methuselah, he walked with God. You know what tells me that there was a time in his life when he didn't walk with God? During the first 65 years of his life, Enoch knew about God, but he didn't know God. He was sort of like John Wesley on the video that we saw, that he knew about God, but he didn't know God. He didn't know God in a saving way. And he was from a long line of godly men. I mean, think about it. and Seth and all this long line of godly men in his life. But that didn't mean that Enoch was saved. Just because he had come from a godly family didn't mean that he was a godly man. Just because his family was saved didn't mean that he was saved. He was lost and he needed to be saved. Boys and girls, why don't you listen to a preacher tonight. Listen, just because mom and dad are saved tonight doesn't mean you're saved. Just because mom and dad's going to heaven doesn't mean that you're going to go to heaven just like Enoch. You have to be saved. There needs to be a time in your life when you receive Jesus Christ as your Savior just like your mom and dad did or Enoch did. And can I just remind all of us tonight that listen, We're not born saved. We have to be born again. We have to be saved. And so Enoch, there was a time in his life that he was so impacted by the birth of his son that it forever changed the tenor and the direction of his life. And from that day forward when he met the Lord, the Bible said that he walked with God. And that turning point was at the birth of Methuselah, his firstborn son. Think about it. He was transformed because of a baby. The birth of Methuselah had such an impact on his life. He saw parenthood as such an awesome responsibility. He knew that he needed someone wiser than himself, greater than himself, to help him raise his son right. Can I say something to every mom and dad in the building tonight? We need somebody greater than us and wiser than us to help us to raise our own children, don't we? We need the Lord. And Enoch realized he needed the Lord. You know, it's interesting that there's times that we knock on people's door, we witness to them, we invite them to church, we hand them a track, and they seem hard, they seem closed. It was interesting, Sunday morning I was shaking hands, and one of our members mentioned to me, he said, Pastor, I can't believe it. He said, I invited one of my co-workers to church, and they're sitting back there. And I got to meet his co-worker on the way out the door. And you know, how many of us invite, invite, invite, invite, and nobody comes? Can I encourage you? Don't give up inviting people. Invite the same person again and again and again. You say, preacher, why is that? Because you don't know when there's going to be a crisis in their life that will soften their heart and open them to the message of the gospel. It's amazing how we're going to see that in one of the next men. We're going to see that God uses crises in life prod us to move us to Himself. And there was the crisis of a baby being born in Enoch's life, and it moved him to God. And so we find that he's a converted man. Something else I want you to notice, he's a consecrated man. Two times in these verses God says something of Enoch that He only says of one other person in all the Bible that he walked with God. You say, Preacher, what's Enoch's claim to fame? Well, it wasn't part in a Red Sea. It wasn't raising the dead. We never read that he healed the sick or led an army to victory. Matter of fact, his entire life can be summed up in the words, with God. Can I help you to understand something? Your life, to be significant, does not have to have something in it that makes it famous, or grand, or great, or glorious in the eyes of man. Can I help us to understand tonight that our lives become significant because we walk with God? Your life can become a significant life when you choose to walk with God. There's where the impact is. Matter of fact, nobody outside your family may know your name. Nobody outside your family may have even remembered that you were on planet earth. But I can help you understand something. When you determine to walk with God, there's people that you're going to impact with your life. And you know what? There may come a day that we're forgotten, but a forgotten life is not necessarily an insignificant life. Impact is made. It carries on. I just want to tell you tonight, my granddaddy's in heaven, but the impact of his testimony and his life carries on into the lives of my children, and on into the lives of his great-grandchildren, and on down into great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren's lives. And they never knew him. but yet the impact and the significance that He had for God in my life and the lives of others is carrying on throughout the lives of those that He knew, the ones that He led to Christ, the lives that He impacted on the job because He determined that He was going to walk with God. And can I say tonight, church, when you and I determine to walk with God, we may be forgotten so far as this world is concerned, but the significance of our life carries on far beyond our days just like it did a man by the name of Enos. Enoch, his very name means dedicated or dedicated one. Enoch's life was true to his name. After his conversion, he gave his life to God. And boys and girls, can I help you to understand something tonight? Once you're saved, the most important thing that you can do with your life is to give your life to Jesus, to live your life for Him. There's no greater life. No greater life, no greater significance in life than to live your life for Jesus Christ. To give your life to Him. To live out His will, His plan for your life. You're going to find that Enoch, from the moment that he was saved, determined he was going to walk with God, and from that moment on, that was the testimony, and that was the direction, and that was the witness of his life, that he was a man who was consecrated to the God that saved him. You know what that word walk means? It means to walk by the side of. I love that. Anik walked side-by-side, hand-in-hand with God. It was more than just taking an evening straw. It implied the whole tenor of his life. Everything about his life was one that was involved with him walking with God. God was an intimate part of Enoch's life. Can I encourage you tonight? Listen to me. Let's be a people who walk side by side with God. Hey, when I get ahead of Him, I follow behind Him, I get in trouble, but listen, I want to be a man who walks with God. What about you? This is the term we're going to walk with God. Alan Ross said, the expression of walking with God became a common description of the life of fellowship and obedience with the Lord. He was a man who walked with God. Here's a man who lived before the flood, before Noah, before God ever destroyed the earth with a flood and an ark was built. Here was a man. Here was a man. Before there was ever a Bible, here was a man that determined he was going to walk with God. Enoch was going in the direction God was going. Let me ask you a question tonight. Are you going in God's direction? John Phillips, I love this, he said, when the Bible says that Enoch walked with God, it means that he and God were in agreement. They were in agreement about the way he spent his time, about the way he spent his money, about the way he ran his business, about the way he treated his family, and about the way he supported his place of worship. Enoch was a man who walked with God. Aren't you glad tonight we can walk with God? I want to help you understand God created you and made you and saved you for Himself. God didn't create people just because He thought it was a good idea. God didn't make you just because He didn't have anything else to do. God made you for Himself, and you never reach the highest aim of your life until you're walking with God and being who and what God wants you to be. But not only was he converted, not only was he consecrated, he was consistent. Look at verse 23. And all the days of Enoch were three hundred, sixty, and five years. And Enoch walked with God. Can you imagine three hundred years? 109,500 days Enoch walked with God. You say, preacher, what is that? That's a model of faithfulness. That's what that is. He wasn't a fickle Christian. He wasn't up one minute, down the next, in, out, up, down. You know what? How sad it is for Christians. I know many a Christian. There are even some, no doubt, that are members of our church. In, out, up, down. Now you see them, now you don't. Then now you see them, now you don't. And one minute they're living for God, next minute they're not living for God. One minute they're doing it, next minute... No, he was just consistent. Can I tell you the greatest thing, Mom and Dad, if you'll pay attention to me tonight, that you'll give your children? It's a consistent walk with God. Something that's faithful and consistent and authentic and real. Just not perfect, but day in, day out, best you know how, you walk by His Spirit for His glory, that you're a person who it can be said that you walked with God. That God is real in your life. I'm convinced. I'm convinced. Not always. But not always, because you're going to find when we study a man by the name of Samuel, that Samuel was a man that lived his entire life for God, but his children didn't walk in his ways. And there are people that live their lives consistently for God, but their children choose a path other than that that mom and dad has walked. But that is the exception and not the rule. Many times it's the flip side. that young people fail to grasp the importance of living for God because it's never important in the life of mom and dad. I want you to jot something down in your heart and your mind, a piece of paper, wherever you want to do it. But the Christian life is more caught than taught. You can teach it all day long. But it's more caught than taught. People do what people see. And when people see the reality of God in your life, it impacts them and it inspires them to live for God. And that's never more true than in your own home. In my own home. You see, I can still blow it. You say, preacher, when are you home free? When you get to heaven. That's when you're home free. Enoch's life was one of progress. Walking with God implies steady progress in his course. He didn't walk for a while and then stand still, but no, each day found him nearer the divine goal. In unbroken companionship, Herbert Lockyer says, with his friend, he found himself more weaned from the world and more ripe from heaven. He walked with God as he took each step, his eyes were fixed on his heavenly companion. He had eyes looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. We've seen something of His life. He's a converted man. He's a consecrated man. He's a consistent man. But I want you to notice, secondly, very quickly, His leaving. His leaving. Look down at verse number 24. And Enoch walked with God, and he was not... What does that mean, preacher? That means he didn't die. He was not. He didn't go the way of everybody else, all of His ancestors. No. Of every one of them before Him, and He died, and He died, and He died. But you get to Enoch, and the Bible says, and He was not. He didn't die. Why? For God took Him. That was not implies that Enoch escaped death. The word took means to take away. It means to carry away. It means to snatch away. Death is a river that divides this world from the river to come. But Enoch didn't have to cross that river. God carried him across. Isn't that good? God picked him up and carried him over and set him down on the other side. He didn't face a tomb. He experienced a translation. Hebrews 11 verse 5 says, 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. You say, Preacher, what does that translate mean? That means to transfer from one place to another. God secretly and suddenly and swiftly transported Enoch from earth to glory. G. Campbell Morgan said that Enoch and God spent the day walking together. And toward the end of the day, God said to Enoch, Well, you're closer to my house than yours, so come on up, Enoch. Can I tell you, Ian, it's a type of another group of people that God will take. You say, preacher, who is that? That's the generation of Christians that will not see death. Do you realize that you and I don't have to die? Jesus could come. Hey, listen, our future doesn't have to be a hole in the ground. It can be the clouds in the sky. Amen? Now I know this, that if the Lord doesn't come in our lifetime, every one of us is going to have to go home by way of the grave. But aren't you glad there may be that group, we could be in that group, that Jesus come and snatch us all away. That sure is what I pray for. Is that what you pray for? For the Lord to come. I always pick at my wife about that. I can already see the look on her face when I even bring it up. I just remind her. I'll say things like, you know, you'll miss that when I'm gone. Do you guys ever do that kind of stuff? You know, pick each other up. Yeah, same way. Usually it's that moment when I'm doing something she doesn't like. Anybody know what I'm talking about? You're not doing something she's really... And I'll say, now you'll miss that one day when I'm gone. And about that time she's really upset and I know to back off and leave that alone. But I pick at her at that. But the truth is that both of us pray we go up together. Isn't that what you pray? I don't know that God's going to let that happen, but aren't you glad that there's going to be generations of Christians that Jesus is going to come? And in a moment, the Bible says, a twinkling of an eye, we're going to be transplated. We're going to be transported. God's going to say, listen, you're closer to my house than you are yours. Just come on up here with me. The Bible says, For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain in the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, the voice of the archangel, the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. 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. We'll be caught up together. Can I tell you, friend, whether we go by the way of the grave or we go by the way of the sky, the good news is we're going to be together with the Lord. Hey, never to be parted again. Isn't that a blessing? Could you imagine living life without hope? I'm sure glad we have hope tonight, aren't you? That phrase, the Bible said he was not found in Hebrews. That means that they searched for him, but they couldn't find him. They couldn't find him. You know what? I believe there's going to be a day that they're going to be searching for us. Someone's going to be glad we're gone. They don't care whether it's a UFO or what, you know? I've often wondered how the Antichrist would explain the rapture through the years we've talked about that the UFOs come and got all of us and took us off and all that kind of stuff. And that the world would use that as an explanation for that. It's amazing that right now all of this has gotten really big in the news, hasn't it? And I think they do hope that aliens come and get us. I really do. I just got good news for him. He's not an alien. He's my friend. He's the Lord. He's my Savior. He's going to come for us. We've talked about his life tonight. We've talked about his leaving. I want to share with you lastly his legacy. Enoch didn't live a long life. He said, wait a minute, preacher. He lived 300 years. His son's going to live almost a thousand. Adam, going all the way back, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, and lived 930. I mean, when you begin to look through his lineage, I don't know there's anybody much under 800 years that died. That's a pretty long time. What do you think? And he only made it 300. He didn't live a long life so far as that was concerned in that day, but he did live a significant life. You don't have to live a long life to live a significant life. To this day, the five men that were in that missionary group to the Aka Indians in Ecuador, most of us know Jim Elliott. We don't know the names as much of the other four. We know Nate Saint. He was the pilot. But it wasn't just Jim Elliott or Nate Saint. There was three other guys with them. And they had a burden to reach. people that have really never even had contact to the outside world. They had a burden to reach them with the gospel. Do you realize that anthropologists believe that in the Amazon jungle that there are still people groups that have never made contact with the outside world? Still there. There is still a need for trailblazers in missions. There is. They began to drop little things out of the plane and they began to wave at them. They began to try to make contact. The day they thought that they had arrived there, that they could actually meet them safely, they landed the plane and then something went horribly wrong and their lives was taken. And they were martyred. Jim Elliot, if you read his life story, asked not for a long life. He asked for a significant life. We still talk about His impact today. You cannot mention His name in Christian circles in the area of missions that there is not something that stirs in the heart of people. Not a long life, but a significant life. Christian, I want to live a long life, don't you? I do. I think every person desires that. But let's make sure that we're living like Enoch, a significant life. a life that matters. And he had a testimony. Here was the significance. The writer of Hebrews said he had this testimony that he pleased God. Let me ask you a question. Do you please God? Did you please God today? Say, don't worry about next month, next year, ten years. Did I please Him today? That's the question I need to ask. Is God pleased with my actions, my attitude, the way I lived my life and conducted it today? You don't know that you've got tomorrow. Did you please Him today? You say, preacher, how do you please God 300 years? How do you walk with God consistently for 109,550 days? You just please Him today. And then you get up tomorrow and you make your business that day to please Him. And then you get up the next day and you make it your business that day to please Him. And then before you know it, you've lived a life of consistency. That day after day after day after day, the best you know. Not a perfect life, but a life best we know how live pleasing to God. You say, Preacher, I just don't believe anybody can live a life like that today. The world is just too wicked. Can I help you understand something? Our world is nothing compared to Enoch's day. God said the thought of man, that the very impulse and the imagination of his heart was wicked continually. As a matter of fact, it was so bad that God said the end of all flesh has come. He was going to destroy the world with a flood. And Enoch lived in that day. It was far more rotten than it is today. But Enoch reminds us it's possible to live a life pleasing to God in spite of who we work with and what we work around and who we shop around and the world in which we live. Yes, we live in a wicked society. Yes, our nation is rotten to the core. Yes, but that doesn't mean that you and I have to follow suit. We can be different in the day. Enoch was different in his day and you and I can be different in our day. That was his legacy. It's forever recorded in the annals of God's Word that Enoch was a man who walked with God and pleased God with his life. He's an inspiration to everyone. That's his legacy. What's your legacy going to be? There was a preacher talking to a group of kids in a Sunday school class. And he was asking them the question. He said, Why do you love God? And little kids were saying different things. And one little girl, she said, Well, you know, preacher, I really don't know why I love God. I guess it just runs in my family. Let me just ask you this. Does loving God run in your family? You say, well, preacher, my family didn't live for God. I may be the first Christian in my family. Well, you know what? You have an opportunity to start a new legacy in your family. Make it your business. My granddaddy was really amongst his siblings one of the first born again in his family. His family really didn't live for God. But he started something. that as far as I know, down into the lives of the great-great-grandchildren, may not all go to a church that maybe I would go to, but as far as I know, all of them profess Christ and all of them pretty much attend church on a regular basis. And it goes back to him. He left a legacy of consistent faithfulness and walking with God. Never pastored over 30 people in his whole life. Over 50 years of ministry, never pastored over 30-35 people. He never did anything big or significant as far as the world's concerned. Matter of fact, he's forgotten by probably most anybody but the few friends that he had, family, maybe a few people that he pastored. But the significance of his life lives on. And it's even impacting you tonight. Because I wouldn't be where I am if I didn't have a granddaddy that walked with God. And God can use you tonight. Let's determine we're going to be like Enoch. that we're going to leave a legacy. We please the Lord. What's your testimony going to be? Let's bow our heads in prayer. Father, thank You for the time You've given us tonight in the life of Enoch. Lord, some things I've shared before in the past, but I felt so reburdened as You refreshed my mind about this man, many times forgotten. Lord, named, not mentioned very often. But yet the impact of His life and the legacy that He left and the lessons that He teaches are worth being reminded over and over and over again. Lord, You spoke to me afresh and new in His life. Father, I pray You'll use it in the lives of Your people tonight. Lord, I pray if there's a boy or girl tonight that's never been saved, that tonight they'll come to Jesus. I pray there may be some that would give their lives to Jesus to live for You. I pray for moms and dads and grandparents and Christians in the building that we just determine that we're going to be a model of faithfulness, that we're going to be like Enoch. We're going to walk with God the best we know how. Lord, there's times we're going to fail. We're not going to be what we ought to be. But yet, Lord, I'm glad that You forgive us, pick us up, move us along. Lord, help it to be our business every day of our lives to please You. And we'll thank You for it. In Jesus' name, amen.