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Enoch Pleased God, August 2
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
Genesis 5:24
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God had a church when Adam and Eve and Abel accepted and hailed with
joy the good news that Jesus was their Redeemer. These realized as fully then
as we realize now the promise of the presence of God in their midst. Wherever
Enoch found one or two who were willing to hear the message he had for them,
Jesus joined with them in their worship of God. In Enoch’s day there were some
among the wicked inhabitants of earth who believed. The Lord never yet has left
His faithful few without His presence nor the world without a witness.
Enoch was a public teacher of the truth in the age in which he lived. He taught
the truth; he lived the truth; and the character of the teacher who walked with God
was in every way harmonious with the greatness and sacredness of his mission.
Enoch was a prophet who spake as he was moved by the Holy Ghost. He was a
light amid the moral darkness, a pattern man, a man who walked with God, being
obedient to God’s law—that law which Satan had refused to obey, which Adam
had transgressed, which Abel obeyed, and because of his obedience was murdered.
And now God would demonstrate to the universe the falsity of Satan’s charge that
man cannot keep God’s law. He would demonstrate that though man had sinned,
he could so relate himself to God that he would have the mind and spirit of God
and would be a representative symbol of Christ. This holy man was selected of
God to denounce the wickedness of the world, and to evidence to the world that it
is possible for men to keep all the law of God....
Enoch not only meditated and prayed, and put on the armor of watchfulness,
but he came forth from his pleadings with God to plead with his fellow men. He
did not mask the truth to find favor with unbelievers, thus neglecting their souls.
This close connection with God gave him courage to work the works of God.
Enoch walked with God and “had the testimony that his ways pleased God.” This
is the privilege of every believer today. It is man dwelling with God, and God
taking up His abode with man. “I in them, and thou in me,” says Jesus. To walk
with God and have the witness that their ways please Him is an experience not
to be confined to Enoch, to Elijah, to patriarchs, to prophets, to apostles, and to
martyrs. It is not only the privilege but the duty of every follower of Christ to
have Jesus enshrined in the heart, to carry Him with them in their lives; and they
will indeed be fruit-bearing trees.—
Manuscript 43, August 2, 1900
, “The Prophet
Enoch.”
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