Walking with God

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.

INTRODUCTION

walking in close fellowship with God. Then one day he disappeared, because God took him.

INTRODUCTION

According to medical authorities, walking is one of the most profitable forms of physical exercise. It stimulates the heart and lungs, strengthens the bones and muscles, increase the blood flow throughout the body.

Walking has great report on helping a person lose weight.

Because of its multiple value Americans have been encoruaged to leave their cars in their garages and start walking more.

Did you know that the average pair of feet take 7000 to 8000 steps a day about two and one-half million steps a year.

So that means in your lifetime, you will have walked around 115,000 miles.

The first man to walk around the world name was David Kunst of Minnesota. He completed his walk on October 5, 1974 after walking 15,000 miles.

This trip required four and one-half years during which time David went through 22 pairs of shoes and wore out two donkeys.

God wants us to understand that the Christian life is a walk, a journey which requires dedication, courage and persistence.

The walk with God is a call for self-surrender, a fully yielded life, and an intense desire to please God instead of ourselves.

This Spiritual walk that the Bible talks about is one of exercising your faith.

And the completion of this walk is dependent not on your own natural talent or physical resources but upon the strength, leadership, and the controlling influence of the Holy Spirit.

In our text tonight, it mention a man named Enoch. Enoch is one of but two men of it said he walked with God.

Enoch is one of but two men who the Bible said Enoch lived on this earth and went to heaven without passing through the grave.

Enoch is the only one except Jesus Christ our Lord that the Bible said he pleased God.

I think that are several things regarding this spiritual walk that I think are important:

This is a walk with God.

Our text said, Enoch walked with God. This is not an ordinary walk and you do not keep company with the ordinary. You are walking with God.

However strange it may seem to our finite minds. It is possible, according to the Word of God to live in the realm of the Spirit and walk in fellowship with our heavenly Father.

Enoch’s walk emphasizes an important relationship between humanity and divinity, between God and man, between that which is weak and limited and that which is powerful and unlimited.

Think about it I can walk with God!!

The God who clothes Himself with honor and majesty.

God who stretched out the heavens like a curtain. God who walks upon the wings of the wind.

The God who laid the foundation of the earth that it should not be removed forever.

You mean I can walk with Him. The answer is Yes.

If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.

There is verse 3 God lays out some requirements to be able to walk with Him, if you walk in my statutes and if you keep my commandments and not just quote them and talk about them but do them.

Then from verse 4 to verse 11 God tells of all the blessings because of you being obedient to Him. But here comes the kicker: I will walk among you and will be your God and you will be my people.

So God tells us in:

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

True fellowship with God and true fellowship with one another is made possible through and by Jesus Christ, God’s Son.

The walk that the Bible speaks of deals with a quest for the truth. Pilate was not the first man to ask “What is truth?

Men and Women of every generation have asked that question. From every religion from the Buddha, Confucius, Mohammed have proclaimed that they are the truth.

But the voice of Jesus Christ speaks loud and clear above all others as Jesus declares:

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Some people say, Let’s be broad-minded. All roads lead to heaven. You go your way and I will go mine and we will all arrive at the same destination.

But the truth reveals there is only one way to heaven. The Bible say it like this:

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:

Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Others have said it doesn’t really matter what you believe as long as you are sincere in believing it.

Sincerity must be based on the truth, not on feelings.

I have no doubt that Adolph Hitler was a sincere man. He believed in what he was doing and sold a nation on it.

Jim Jones with his cult in South America was sincere but his sincerity could not be commended when he tricked and forced nearly 1000 people to commit suicide in the name of religion.

It does matter what you believe. Our faith must be based upon the Truth.

Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.

2. This walk is a walk of faith.

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.

Enoch had this testimony that he pleased God. So the question must be asked is “How was Enoch able to please God?

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Here in the book of Hebrews it tells us that without faith it is impossible to please God.

So we must have a clear understand here that Enoch could walk with God because he was a man of faith and he would place his trust in God.

God is a bid God. He is the God of the maximun and not the minimum.

The God of might and miracle. He is the God of unlimited power and He will reveal Himself to us if we will believe and trust Him.

I believe that God will shake heaven and earth to reveal His glory and power to His people.

We are confident of all this because of our great trust in God through Christ.

It is not that we think we are qualified to do anything on our own. Our qualification comes from God.

Apostle Paul never glory in himself but gave all the glory to God.

Now let’s look at this:

a. Walking in faith means walking in power for God is power.

His power is at work in us and through us and for us.

This being true, our lives do not have to be sick and weak, but we can be men and women of faith.

I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God's power for us who believe Him. This is the same mighty power

that raised Christ from the dead and seated Him in the place of honor at God's right hand in the heavenly realms.

By God's grace and mighty power, I have been given the privilege of serving Him by spreading this Good News.

Now all glory to God, who is able to make you strong, just as my Good News says. This message about Jesus Christ has revealed His plan for you Gentiles, a plan kept secret from the beginning of time.

b. Walking by faith also means growing in Christ.

And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow Him.

Let your roots grow down into Him, and let your lives be built on Him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness.

In this one passage Paul talks about four elements of the Christian experience. Walking — Growing — Building— Abounding

Walking expresses life.

Growing expresses an inner power.

Building up shows progress of character until God perfects His work in us.

Abounding reflects abundance of joy and proper attitude for the great benefits that God gives to us.

If you walk with God, you will grow in Christ. You walk grow, build and abound.

The reason some people have so little joy in their Christian walk with God is that they are not following these four simple steps.

Instead, some people sit, soak, and sour.

But a true life, the Christ-life is a growing life. Our life must first be build downward, they being rooted in Christ. Then we build upward, built up in him and established in the faith.

And finally, we get abounding joy and thanksgiving because that is the results of walking with God.

3. When we walk with God by faith, we experience intimate fellowship with God.

What a fellowship, what a joy divine, leaning on the the everlasting arms, I have blessed peace with my Lord so near, Leaning on the everlasting arms.

Just like Enoch did we can to, live in the presence of God with this blessed fellowship and sweet communion with God.