A Man Who Went to God

The Succinct Statement of Enoch's Going to God

0:00 Now then, let us turn to the Word of God as we consider this morning our last study in the life of Enoch, and I would ask you to listen as I read in your hearing verses which I trust are very familiar to you by now. Genesis chapter 5, Genesis chapter 5, 21 to 24, and then we shall read the Hebrews 11 passage which refers to Enoch as well. Genesis 5 and verse 21, And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah. And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. 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. And now to Hebrews 11, and especially

1:11 verse 5. Hebrews 11 and verse 5. Faith, Enoch was translated that he should not see death, and he was not found because God translated it. And Enoch was not found because God translated it. And Enoch was translated that he should not see death, and he was not found because God translated it. And Enoch was For he hath had witness borne to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God. The scripture says that it is appointed unto men once to die after this cometh judgment. It is appointed unto men once to die.

2:09 And after sin entered the garden of Eden, death has the human cutting down in every fallen and daughter of with but two striking exceptions. Those Elijah, the fiery, who went up to heaven in a chariot, and Enoch, the seventh from Adam, of whom it is said, and he was not, for God took him. Amen. As we come today to our final study in the life of Enoch, I would remind you that the total biblical witness concerning this man of God

3:06 can be gathered under the three very simple headings, Enoch, the man who walked with God, the man who witnessed full, and the man who went to God. Having considered the first two facets of his life, we now take up the third, Enoch. The man who went to God. And as I attempt to open up the biblical materials concerning this aspect of his experience as a man of God, the statement of his going to God, the succinct, summarized statement, stated negatively and then positively. At the end of that verse, we read, And Enoch negatively, was not, positively, for God,

4:21 he was not, negative, for God.

4:30 Now the words, was not, what do they intend to convey? Well, they are telling us that in the 365th year, Enoch got up and went forth to his responsibilities in communion with God, seeking to live in conformity to the will of God. He went out to the duties of a given day, prepared where necessary to get into the face of a wicked generation, and to witness for God. Suddenly, he was gone. Not, that is, on the face of the earth. As some of you, perhaps most of you, have seen someone engaging in sleight of hand, that which is wrongly called, magic, and they hold an object before us and says, now you see it. They wave their hand and they say, now it's gone, now you don't see it.

5:41 And they say, you don't see it, and wave their hand, and there it is, you see it. And I even was toying with the sleight of hand trick I do with the kids in the church. And they want to find my secret, and I haven't told them. But the point is, when someone engages in sleight of hand, now you see it, now you don't.

6:02 And that's the sense of what it is said, what is said of Enoch. That on a given day, in his three hundred and sixty-fifth year, in the midst of an ordinary day of walking with God and witnessing for God, suddenly, it was, and the positive for God took him. As one has quaint, God could not engage in loaning to this world. The Hebrew word for Enoch is exactly the same as in 2nd Kings 3 and 5, knowing of Elijah.

6:46 The sons of the prophets meet Elisha, and they say, don't you know your master this day? The same word is used. God is going to take away your master. We are told that God took him.

7:03 The God with whom he had walked three hundred years. The God who had opened his eyes to accept the witness born by the ancient Adam. The God who had revealed himself to Adam and spoken to Adam. And the witness of those realities had been passed on to Enoch.

7:27 And he had embraced them as absolute. Truth as concerning himself. This man who had come to know himself as a sinner. Who had come to see the grace of God in the promise of one who, through the woman, would crush the head of the serpent.

7:45 This Enoch who had known the renewal of his nature and found delight in communion with God in a real sense, experienced what Jesus. I will come and receive him unto myself. That where I am, there he may be also. This then is the succinct statement of Enoch's going to God.

8:16 It leaves many questions unaddressed and unanswered. Did anyone see him? When it is said of him, he was not, for God took him. Was there any previous announcement that this was going to happen?

8:32 Was he able to gather his immediate or extended a family around him as our Lord Jesus had him when he ascended up into heaven? I say there are many questions and the text gives no hint of an answer to them. All we know in this succinct statement of his going to God is negatively stated. He was not, positively, for God took him.

The Expanded Account of Enoch's Going to God

9:03 But then consider, secondly, having looked at the succinct statement of his going to God, the expanded account of his going to God as it is set before us in the book of Hebrews. Here is an expanded account of Enoch's going to God. And it also has both negative and positive statements. The difference being here, there are two negatives.

9:33 And one positive. Look at the text. By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death and he was not found because God translated him. The two negatives are he did not see death and he was not found.

10:00 He did not see death. Now the words to synonyms for experience. He did not experience, in the plainest terms, death. There was nothing of that unnatural, frightening earth of the rending of the soul from the spirit in the experience of Enoch.

10:37 Had he lived in our day and been hooked up to modern medical technology by which people monitor the point at which he was going to die, when someone dies, Enoch had no in which the monitor of no experience of the heart beats with its little bleep-bleep whence there was death. He was not here that his experience was of Elijah. Perhaps as in the case of Elijah, some went looking for him or else why would the text say he was not found? Usually don't say of anything it was not found.

11:49 Unless some regarded it lost and went looking for it. And that's exactly what happened in the case of Elijah in 2 Kings chapter 16 and 17. The sons of the prophets were a little bit skeptical as to precisely where Elijah was. And in 2 Kings chapter 17, this is what we read.

12:15 And they said unto him, Behold now, there are with thy servants fifty strong men. Let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master, lest the Spirit of the Lord have taken him up and cast him upon some mountain or into some valley. What a distorted view they had of God that he would take his choice servant and just pick him up and dump him on a mountain somewhere. But nonetheless that was in their thinking.

12:42 So they said, Let's go. And he said, No, you shall not send. And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men, and they sought three days, and here is very parallel language, but found him not.

13:02 And they came back to him, that is to Elisha, while he tarried at Jericho. And he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not? And it could well be that the Spirit of God is alluding to this very incident. That on that given day, when Enoch went forth to his ordinary activities, and at the end of the day, he was not there in the family circle to gather the extended family together for evening worship.

13:31 Where's Dad? Where's Uncle Enoch? Where's Grandpa Enoch? Where's Great-Great-Grandpa Enoch?

13:38 And Great-Great, with all of that extended family, the central figure was not. And perhaps late at night or in the middle of the day, we don't know the circumstances, a select search party was sent out to all of the places where perhaps he was known to have spent seasons of intense fasting and prayer. Times when the burden of living in the midst of a wicked and perverse generation with all the responsibility of that extended family, and kept him from his ordinary meal times, we do not know, but there seems to be a strong kind of a sin at last, that he is nowhere to be found. But positively, the text in Hebrews tells us, he was translated, God translated him. Now this verb, translated, what precisely does it mean? The Greek word is metatiphymy, and it's exactly the same word that is used in Acts chapter 7, and I think it gives the heart of its meaning very clearly, and a dastardly meaning.

14:58 And I'd ask you to turn to that passage, Acts chapter 7, verses 15 and 16. What does it mean, God translated him? When we translate something, we bring it from one language into another. And so the word does not register with us.

15:18 But here in Acts chapter 7, we have a wonderful example of the true significance of the word. And Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers, unto Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver of the sons of Hamor in Shechem. What did they do with Jacob and the other fathers? When they carried them over to Shechem, they turned to another.

16:01 And that's the precise significance, of this verb. In secular Greek, it is used in one segment of literature to describe what happened when a man was into a horse-drawn his body, the terra firma, and placed in a carriage. He was translated, he was to any vile in fact, being more accurate, in contempt, say he was, he did not see death, he was not born, he was not trans. So what God is saying is, that in the full vigor of his at an age when people were living two to two and a half times lived, Enoch the man, body,

17:16 amazing union of body, one day he woke up on earth, and he had the smell of a fist in his, he had the sounds of perhaps birds that may have chirped in his area, he had the sound of the bustling of his lard, he woke one morning, amidst all the familiar sights and sounds, he turned over to kiss his wife, and they had had something with garlic the night before, and she had dragon's breath, and he pecked her on the forehead and said, we'll wait for a kiss on the lips till later dear, an ordinary day, and he went out to the place where he had his special communion with God, where alone with God is any man who for his grace, in adoration, in mercy, in crying for God, in intercession for the well-being, that in his calling he might glorify God, that he might continue to have boldness in the face of his generosity, behold the Lord came with ten thousands, with myriads of his holy ones,

18:43 to execute judgment upon the ungodly, and he went forth to whatever tasks were his appointed duty that day, to perform them with all of his might as unto the Lord, for his walk with God, is a matter of a mystic flight, out of duty, and away from reality, with smash, and even a wife's morning dragon breath, and somewhere in the midst of that day, the man who body and soul got himself out of bed, who body and soul smelled and saw, and was engaged in the duties of ordination, that day, that man in the midst of the smells of earth, was walking with God, before the day of judgment, before the day was over, was amidst the sights, and the sounds, and I have reason to believe even the smells, of heaven and above all else, he saw his God with whom he walked by faith on earth, now face to face, and you see for a man who walks with God, though it is a glorious experience, it's not a jarring experience, for it is not something,

20:10 of a qualitatively different kind, it is something of an intensely augmented quantity, we see through a glass darkly, but what we see, quantitatively in terms of the clarity of vision, yes, and as this man walked with God, amidst the scenes and smells of this life, he ended the day, looking upon the face of his God, no longer any need to struggle, and to wrestle in prayer, with his remaining pressure of an ungodly, and that which, intercession and entreaty, and if some of you say, why you think heaven will have smells, when you have those hints, of the visions of John, in the book of the revelation, when it speaks of the prayers of the saints, that are like vials, full of odors, and if our glorified God,

Lesson 1: A Vivid Display of God's Glorious Purpose in Redemptive Grace

21:39 bodies have continuity with the present ones, I doubt God's going to call factory nerves, next time you put your nose to a sweet smelling lily, say, this is skunk smell, compared to the smells of heaven, the next time you hear the most beautiful symphony, say this is cacophonous, out of tune, stuff compared to what we'll hear, when we're in his presence, well, this is what the scripture tells us, about the man who went to God, the succinct account of his going to God, the expanded account of his going to God, we come now in the third place, lessons of his going to God, we've looked at the succinct statement, the expanded account, now what are the crucial lessons, of his going to God, do the scriptures give us any hints, or a question, why from Adam through the godly,

22:54 for surely they walked seven years, people had seen the fulfillment of the promise, dust, why did God at this point, let me suggest three things, that I believe can be properly deduced, from the word of God, without fancy, and the first is this, it was a vivid display, of God's glorious purpose, in redemptive grace, Enoch's going to God, the great sacrifice, of God's glorious, in redemptive grace, after man sinned, and God said, he alluded to the text, in Genesis 3, and verse 9, the sweat of thy head, till you return to the ground,

24:18 for dust you are, and now that, in the case of Adam himself, there were no doubt, many other deaths, remember Genesis 5, the life and deaths, and these main, and we have no right to infer, that there were no infant deaths, Infant deaths and young people dying prematurely.

25:06 To Adam there was a peculiar significance because God had said to Adam, Dust you and to dust you will. And Enoch had said, That funeral service in which how many hundreds or thousands may have been gathered when the head of the human race was placed in the earth.

25:27 Decomposition had long since set in. Fifty-seven years had passed. But before Adam went into that place to which we are all destined, Adam had passed on the knowledge of that marvelous gospel promise embedded in the curse upon the serpent that the seed of the woman would crush the head of the serpent, that that enmity injected would be perpetuated and consummated. But what would that mean?

25:57 Shall the dead live again? Shall those who...

26:03 What is the promise of God in which that enmity would be consummated? Would they come out of their graves? Would they one day again be found in a paradise restored? Body and soul in living communion with...

26:20 Those questions come from the minds of the godly. And therefore in this seventh from Adam, when ungodliness through the line of Cain has reached its...

26:34 This man Enoch bears power. That in redemptive grace he is committed to taking to him man,

26:57 bringing him into paradise restored. Leupold, the very perceptive and helpful Lutheran commentator on the book of Genesis, stated this incident was the first definite indication of immortality offered in the scriptures. John Owen commenting in Hebrews on this text, Hebrews 11.5, writes, This was a divine testimony that the body itself is also capable of eternal life.

27:34 When all mankind saw that their bodies went into the dust and corruption universally, it was not easy for them to believe that they were capable of any other condition, but that the grave was to be their eternal habitation, according to the divine sentence and the entrance of sin. Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. But in this, God gave us a pledge and assurance that the body itself has a capacity of eternal blessedness in heaven. But whereas the evidence of a capacity in the body to enjoy eternal life and blessedness was confined unto such as never died, it could not be the ultimate and convincing... pledge of the resurrection of bodies over which death once had dominion.

28:26 This, therefore, was reserved for the resurrection of Christ. As Pastor Bozzino and I were talking this morning, before having prayer together about this, could it be that it was this very act of God at this point in human history that gave to Job the confidence to say, I know that my Redeemer liveth, and though the worms destroy this...

28:56 shall I see God? I'm personally persuaded that in the unfolding of God's purposes of redemption, next to Genesis 3.15, this act of God in translating Enoch was the next major building block in the structure of objective revelatory data upon which the faith of...

29:23 the godly was to be built. And it illustrates a marvelous principle that God reveals his mind by way injected, enmity perpetuated, enmity consummated, by deed, he says, in the consummation of that warfare. All those who know me now, walk with me in this life, have as their destiny...

29:59 being with me, body and soul, forever. And the words of Jesus found fulfillment again, proleptically. I am the resurrection and the life. He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.

30:17 And whosoever lives and believes in me shall what? Never die.

30:26 Believing in him, this one never died. He was not.

30:42 Heaven and gave a vivid display of his glorious purpose in redemptive grace.

Lesson 2: A Vivid Display of God's Only Method of Conferring Redemptive Grace

30:53 And then furthermore, the purpose of God in Enoch's going to God the way he did was this. It was a vivid display of God's only method of conferring redemptive grace.

31:11 Why was Enoch given this privilege? Given to none other, because it was God's good pleasure. Yes. Pleasure was not meant arbitrarily in terms and condition of Enoch.

31:31 Hebrews 11, 5 and familiar to all of us in verse 6. This man before he was trans witness bore him that he was well septuagint and without pleasing unto God for he that and that he is a rewarder of them that seek after him. By faith he was transferred or trans He had become a penitent believing sinner as we underscored yesterday. And as with all penitent believing sinners who are not immediately taken as the thief on the cross,

32:49 that penitent believing disposition implanted in God's initial work of grace will result in the penitent believing sinner becoming one who to some extent to some degree like Enoch walks with God. For none go to God in death or bypassing death at the second coming who do not walk with God here on earth. And none can walk with God who are not reconciled to God and none are reconciled to God with God. From this life the epitome of their joy and of their happiness. And remember the words of Gernal, Say not that thou art whole, and hast royal blood in thy veins, unless thou canst show thy pedigree by daring to be holy. Holy and walking with God as Enoch

34:03 in a sensuous secularized age. Enoch became a vivid display of God's only method of conferring of grace. It is conferred but not to us elect that brings the heart. In taking Enoch as he did, our first to give a vivid display of his glorious and redemptive grace.

Lesson 3: A Vivid Display of Realities Awaiting Those Who Reject Grace

34:45 Secondly a vivid display of his only method of conferring redemptive grace. But thirdly, it was a vivid display of the great realities which await all who despise and reject redemptive grace. A vivid display of the great realities which await all who despise and reject redemptive grace. Remember the focal point of the witness of Enoch in Jude 14 and 15.

35:21 Remember the great issues that were at stake as he got into the face of his sensuous secularized generation that more and more was living had nothing but a body with appetites and nerve endings nothing but eyes to see things and ears to hear sounds. In that generation, what was the burden? What was the burden of God's message? I remind you it's this.

35:56 The Lord came with ten thousand or myriads of his holy ones to add judgment upon all and to convict all the ungodly of godliness which they have ungodly and of the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. You see in an age of sensuality, the thought of resurrection and judgment is made the equivalent of the judgment of God. It's made the occasion of mockery. Men have as much as they can without destroying their humanity convinced themselves were just like the animals We are here and when we die we are God. all else is of reality he is our food appetites the things we can see and touch and smell and in the language of first corinthians 15 that's always let us eat. let us eat. do not deliver us from this şimdi us drink, let us make merry, for tomorrow we die. That's the end of us. And if that

37:05 is the end of us, then why do we want to bring into judgment what we have done with our eyes and feet and our bodies? And by God taking this man, body and soul, up into heaven in an age of sensuality and materialism, for the two always are found together, what was God saying? He was saying, look you guys, this man's been preaching about another world that you can't see. He's been preaching about a whole spectrum of realities that you act as though God and an angel are the beings of a madman. I'll show you there is such a world. I'll take this man. You don't deny that he has flesh and blood and bones. You

38:14 don't deny that he's a real man. You think he's a crank. You think he's a nut. You think he's a mystic.

38:20 You think he's off base, but you don't deny he exists. Neither do you deny that he exists with a certain amount of specific weight. Put him on scales and gravity will pull the scales up to a given poundage. You won't deny that he has bodily existence, that he has weight and substance. And on a given day, God snaps. He was not, for God took him. There is a world that cannot be seen with these eyes. With realities that cannot be touched with these fingers. With realities that cannot be heard with these ears. That's where Enoch is. You see, the witness this was to a sensuous,

39:13 materialistic age that lives as though there's nothing but what can be seen and touched and smelt and held and possessed. God's Enoch home in that context was gone, particularly to those who despise him. The redemptive, grace which alone could prepare them for the great day of judgment. Owen picks up on this theme and writes, I am fully satisfied. In other words, Owen says, this is my settled conviction. From the prophecy of Enoch, recorded by Jude, that he had a great contest with the world about faith, obedience, the worship of God, with the certainty of divine vengeance on ungodly sinners, with the eternal reward of the righteous. And as this contest for God against the world is exceedingly acceptable unto him, as he manifested afterward in his taking of Elijah to himself, who had managed a similar contest with a fiery zeal, so in this translation, in this transporting of Enoch upon the like

40:32 contest, God visibly judged the cause on his side, confirming that God had a great contest with Enoch to his ministry to the strengthening of the faith of the Church and the condemnation of the world. And then in what I regard as an even more perceptive insight, Candlish in his marvelous exposition of this passage writes, but more than that, as the doctrines of the resurrection, the final judgment, and the eternal state were probably those which have been太平 which a scoffing generation most earnestly corrupted or denied, so Enoch was appointed to be a witness in his person as well as by his ministry to these vital articles of faith. His translation in the body by the immediate and perhaps visible hand of God in Genesis 5 was a palpable proof of the reality of what he had been commissioned to teach to a gainsaying generation. The Lord whose advent is just, all he announced, he spoke as surely coming to lay hold of the ungodly,

41:58 and attested that in the body all must at last be a giver and king. This was the great truth which the men of that day set aside, and by setting they embodied, believing or affecting to believe that the body perished utterly, they deemed it of little or no consequence what they did in the body, since, if the soul survived it all, it would be in a state into which the deeds of the body could not follow it. This is the evil communication of which the apostle speaks as corrupting good manners in his day, 1 Corinthians 15.33. The truth of God, the general resurrection, is God again, fundamental doctrine by deeds.

43:19 This man had been preaching in the face of a godless generation. Behold,

43:30 men into judgment for deeds done in the body, implied that will be bodily judgment,

43:42 to whom the concepts of resurrection and future judgment and punishment were not. I'll take one who's ready to be brought into my presence, body and spirit, to validate all the days I can take.

44:08 Reflected on this, the more I've become convicted that indeed, my preacher brethren, this is a note we need desperately to sound flesh and generation.

44:22 What you're doing in the day of judgment, for Paul is very specific when he says, we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ that we may receive the deeds done in the body.

Application to the Unconverted: Don't Play Russian Roulette with Your Soul

44:45 Knowing, remember the Lord,

44:56 the triumph of Enoch directly into the presence of God,

45:01 witness to it, that there was more than what meets the eye. And I would say to those of you who this very day have begun to have something of that self-created armor of defensiveness against the gospel, against the claims of Christ, the overtures of his mercy, and his servants one after another have pleaded, have entreated, have warned, have sought to entice you to come to Christ. What can I do? Something in me says, Lord, am I just going to add intensity of their heat in hell if they have one more entreaty?

45:44 One more entreaty! For I may never open my mouth again to speak in the name of my God. And if you heard the words, have you heard? On the way back to Jersey, Pastor Martin was killed in a car wreck.

46:05 You who are unconverted, I want you to know, my soul would be in the presence of my Lord Jesus, and wherever they laid my body, it's just lying there waiting the day of resurrection to join that glorified spirit. Enoch's God is my God, and he who...

46:36 of every redeemed man. But what of you? Your soul will go to the place of the damned, and your body will be buried under the sod somewhere.

46:50 It... it too will be raised, but raised to what the Bible calls the resurrection of damnation.

47:00 Until you're ready to reach back through the corridors of time, and pull even... and get him back on earth...

47:16 with the doctrines of bodily resurrection and judgment in the body.

Application to Believers: Comfort in the Experience of Dying

47:25 But then I close on this note of... the people of God.

47:29 For if we're honest, there are very few... very few of us...

47:36 no matter how strong our faith may be, no matter how confident we may be of those realities that Pastor Bazzino preached last night, that the death of Christ has secured our glorification, we sing with top lady, yea, I to the end shall endure as sure as the earth... If you're honest, though you do not fear death, you do have great apprehensions about the experience of dying.

48:14 If I am left to be conscious during the last struggle, I'm not snuffed out quickly or die under anesthesia. If I am alive and I have my faculties to know that life is ebbing away,

48:33 how shall I think of it? How shall I prepare for it? Well, I believe Enoch has something to say to us. And though Alexander White in his Bible characters often takes off on flights of imagination and fancy into realms where...

48:49 Where I could not responsibly go as an expositor of the word, there are other times when his insights are nothing short of brilliant.

48:59 I close on this note. Listen to Alexander White's closing words on the life of Enoch. Are there any of you, my brethren, in your secret heart, in continual fear of the experience of dying? Be honest.

49:14 Don't raise your hand, but be honest. Are there not fears about the actual act of dying, not death and what it will do to you, but dying and what it will be like? Are you, though no one knows it, all your lifetime subject to a measure of bondage? Well, Enoch, of all the Bible characters, is the best of them for you.

49:41 For Enoch was translated that he should not see death. Begin then tonight, and as long as you're left on the earth, a living...

49:51 Walk with God as Enoch knew. Walk with God. Walk with him into whose presence and in whose whole kingdom no grave is ever dug. You've neglected God until tonight, but you're not yet dead.

50:11 Your body's still warm and free and your own. Your soul is still in this Sabbath night. You're not yet in hell. God has not yet in anger said, cut that cumberer down.

50:22 Instead of that, he's waiting to be... Gracious to you.

50:25 Here he is pleading with the unconverted and urges them to begin to walk with God as men and women, boys and girls.

50:34 Then he turns to those who have come to faith and says, if you will only walk close enough with Enoch and with Enoch's God, you will never really taste death. You will not know where you are. Is it past? You will ask in astonishment.

50:53 Am I really gone over Jordan? Am I really gone over Jordan? And it will all be because you importunes so often on earth and said and would not be kept quiet from saying, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Behold thy deliverer for whom thou didst so often cry.

51:14 Behold, he has come at thy cry, and he has come for thee out of Zion. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin, is the law.

51:27 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Personal Illustration: Father's Death and Peaceful Transition

51:35 May I share this illustration out of the recent experience of my own father's death, which has been such a bittersweet experience. I had visited with him on the Monday and Tuesday before he died on the following Lord's Day, four days later. And there are times when he was semi-conscious and coherent, the more fervent, the more fervent, the more fervent, the more fervent, the more fervent, that was being administered to kill the pain of the cancer that had riddled his frame at times would cause him obviously to see things and his hand would reach out like to touch or catch a butterfly. I don't know what was in his mind.

52:15 And then his mind would return and as I held his hand and for three or four hours sang hymns and it was amazing how the Spirit of God brought to remembrance verses of hymns I hadn't sung in years. And at times my dad's mind would come alive and he would sing along with me. I heard that two days later he sang in three-part harmony with two of my sisters and one sang the soprano and the alto and he sang the bass. And as we were singing those songs of Zion and intermittently praying, it was evident that the end would not be far away and after we returned home on the Saturday night I called my mom and said, Mom, how's Dad?

52:55 She said, Son, he's in great pain. And as I've just been holding his hand with every breath I've been praying for him the prayer of Stephen, Lord Jesus, receive his Spirit. Lord Jesus, receive his Spirit. Lord Jesus, receive his Spirit.

53:17 Well then I knew Mom had given him up emotionally and in every way only a cruel, sick, perverted selfishness called love would have kept him any longer and I prayed in earnest, Lord, take him soon. And when the Lord took him the next night, how precious it was to have my siblings who were about his bed say that his breathing just became more and more shallow, more shallow.

53:46 And then there was the last breath.

53:54 He walked,

54:00 he went without terror.

54:06 I wonder that I might die. But if you want to die, the sin in all remains

Final Exhortation and Prayer

55:11 in an instant in the presence of evil. And it'll only be a matter of time before the trumpet will sound in the voice of the ark and then we will all be Enoch's body and soul glorified in the presence of the Lord Jesus. My friend, if you can go out from this place contemplating those realities after looking at this man who walked with God, witnessed for God and went to but what I see to give you over to judicial heart so that you'd be as good as in hand of intense gospel life. If God has shed upon you this week or in the eternal counsels of God this week for some of you could be God's line in which he said if that man, that woman, that boy, that girl sits under this kind of intense pouring out of my heart and my love

56:35 and my yearn never again until you wake up in hell feel one twit of any internal risk to the gospel.

56:58 The Bible says The Bible teaches that God does that to some in this life and there is God.

57:15 Don't play Russian roulette with your never dying soul. Man, woman, boy or girl but seek the Lord while he may be found for he will abundantly pardon. Turn to him now.

57:44 What better time? What waits you back there at home? The unbelieving friends, the skeptical, those of this lame act generation that will drop in God's name. In God's name.

58:06 Don't leave unconverted but go to Enoch's God in the way of the appointment that has been set before us in the evening messages. If God's spare should become the kind of man who with the Joshua's will say as for me and my house we will serve the Lord. Let us pray.

58:38 Father we thank you for the record of that man who went to be with you whom you took by passing the rough door of death and we thank you that somewhere in this vast that man body and soul a glorified saint is in your presence able to do what the disembodied spirits of all the millions of the spirit just men made perfect even serve and worship you now with a glorified body. Oh Lord, may we join that man by the grace that brought him there may we be with him and above all with his savior forever and forever seal to our hearts the witness the lessons of the life of this man and may we too so walk with you that at the end of our allotted time we will go to be with you. Amen.