346: H.P. Mansfield – Enoch’s Witness

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This week’s class is the 5th

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class given by brother HP
Mansfield at Idlewild Battle

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School in 1982.
The title is Enoch’s Witness.

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I listened to most of this
series and we will post it on

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the extended podcast.
That series title is Before the

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Deluge.
It was a really a fun lesson

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kind of tough at points.
Brother Mansfield is very

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negative about the state of the
world throughout the class as

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he.
You know, it’s a mindset I can

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understand even especially
today, but it it did feel

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repetitive through the first few
classes just how much of a kind

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of repeating the point that, you
know, the the world is in a

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terrible place and the flood was
needed.

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Man was awful.
And so change was coming to the

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world.
And he makes the point

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repeatedly in the earlier
classes and then a lot in this

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class, class 5 here that that
our, you know, our current state

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of the world is really the same
that we are nearing the end of

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the return of Christ in which he
kind of, you know, uses as a

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symbol of the flood, you know,
comparing it to Armageddon.

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And that’s the encouraging part
about this class.

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Is it kind of he he he kind of
explains the background to

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Enoch.
Enoch’s translation does a lot

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of interesting work on the
meaning of some of the names in

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the Old Testament.
So it’s all all really, really

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easy to listen to.
He does have AI think a unique

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style.
I mean it does feel like yelling

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sometimes.
He doesn’t really change his the

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tone that often, but but I found
this really easy to listen to in

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this class, particularly
encouraging.

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Idle 1982 is legendary because
the speakers were HP Mansfield,

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Harry Tennant, and Bob Lloyd.
I was not in attendance.

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I wasn’t born yet.
My parents got married that

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year.
That’s not even true.

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They got they met that year,
they married, they got married a

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couple years later.
But it’s a really neat kind of

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neat time to think back on.
Actually, I thought about

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including a clip from Class 2
where Brother Mansfield spends a

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while talking about President
Reagan and how many problems

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President Reagan has in the
country.

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And I thought you could just
swap out the name of the current

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president and the point would
have been the same.

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So we very interesting and and
fun less and really glad to

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Here is Class 5 from before the
dailies by HP Mansfield, Enoch’s

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witness.
But dear brother and sisters,

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this is Odwall 1982.
Brother HP Mansfield will now

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continue with his studies.
He will present his fifth

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address on the subject before
the deluge.

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And so I would invite him to
address us to the theme, Enoch’s

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Witness.
Brother Mansfield.

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My dear brethren and sisters in
Christ Jesus, yesterday we

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introduced the 5th chapter of
Genesis and to the book of the

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generations of Adam.
We planted out a reoccurring

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theme of that chapter is the
statement.

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And he died.
And despite the long ages of the

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men that lived at the time,
inevitably death was their

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destiny and he died.
We also find that that

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particular chapter that there is
outline the people that came in

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the line of Seth.
And these, the very names of

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these people are an index of the
state of the conditions of that

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particular time.
I submit in this line, of

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course, you have the lines of
the sons of God really

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constituting the ecclesia of
that age.

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Whilst the word Seth means
appointed, the name of his son

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Inosh means.
That would just wink and.

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Evidently A decline soon, said
he, in as far as the ecclesia.

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Of God is.
Concerned, Enoch Enos named his

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son Canaan after Canaan of all
people, and so we can see a

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further decline.
But Canaan’s son Malalil

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signifies praise God, and
evidently there was a revival at

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that time.
And we pointed out yesterday

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that the symbol in the Bible of
the ecclesia is the moon, and

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the moon is always waxing and
waning.

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So are ecclesias.
And there’s comfort and mourning

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in that.
Because when things are going

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very well, then we imagine that
the moon is that it’s full and

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it can decline.
I’m rather fearful when brethren

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come to me and say things are
going very well.

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I remember the words of Christ
of the Laodiceans quite

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frequently in Australia at this
present moment.

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I have heard them say things are
going very well.

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I heard that recently from a
brother in a certain ecclesia in

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South Australia.
Things are going very well.

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He told me at the present moment
they’re not going very well with

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that eclesia, and there’s a need
for very careful supervision of

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that Eclesia as they know and as
they’re working on now, in order

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that it might be a revive, that
there might be a revival there.

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So you see in the line of men
from the South onwards, you have

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a decline and you have a revival
and so forth.

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And it’s really not the history
of an ecclesia.

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When you come, for example, to
Mallaliel, his name means praise

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God.
And I am sure that if there’s an

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index at the time when there was
a revival among the sons of God,

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but his son was called Jared,
which means the decliner, and

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evidently there was another
decline there.

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And so things are not going very
well with the sons of God

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leaving to leading to the
apostasy of the 6th chapter of

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Genesis.
We read in this chapter

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concerning the death of Adam and
it’s very interesting to find

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out that Adam died around about
the time when Lamech the Father.

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Of Noah was born.
So Adam lasted the long epoch of

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time to see the fruits of his
own disobedience manifested

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among the sons of God.
He had the distressing

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experience of seeing all that
had happened during those epoch

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of time, the murder of his own
son, the decline in the ecclesia

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among the sons of God, the
varying fortunes that took place

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there until at last death
claims.

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He died about 50-7 years before
Enoch was translated that he

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should not see death.
And it’s almost as though there

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was a choice set before the sons
of God at that particular time.

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They can follow Adam to death or
they can follow Enoch and his

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example to life.
There was that anyway in the

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fact that he lived for such a
long period of time so that he

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was able to hear the voice of
Lamac and the song of Lamac and

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the situation that was developed
in the family of Lamac, the

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arrogance and the power that he
manifested in supporting the

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things of flesh.
And he also saw the witness of

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another descendant of his by
name of Enoch.

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Now let us remember again what
happened as far as Lamac was

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concerned, because we see in
that a foreshadowing of the

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state of life about us.
Lamac was noted for Belugnamy,

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his first son for Prophet, his
second son for pleasure, his

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third son for Tubal came for
power and his daughter for

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permissiveness.
There was the empire of Lamech

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and all the power of Lamech at
that time.

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His son was a commercial genius.
Another son exercised power.

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There was pleasure.
Everything was catered for as

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far as the flesh is concerned,
and as he surveyed his empire at

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that particular time and he
could see no one that could

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match him anywhere.
With blatant arrogance, Lamac

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composed that song that he gave
to his wives and doubtless his

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son put to music.
I will slay a man if he wounds

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me.
I will murder anyone or kill

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anyone or destroy anyone if I am
attacked.

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If pain is avenged 7 times, I
will avenge myself. 70 * 7.

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I, Lamac, do not need God to
predict me.

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I have the power to do it myself
and I will do it just 70 * 7.

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I Lamac have spoken.
And, you know, that was the song

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that he composed and the
attitude of the world at that

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particular time as far as
they’re concerned.

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That brethren and sisters, it’s
the song of the present world

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today.
And we see in Lamech and he

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needs family and all that was
established there, a

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foreshadowing of what we see in
the earth today.

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And it’s a challenge, you know,
to the truth itself.

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Because the very environment, as
I have tried to stress that is

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about us at this time is that
very environment.

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It it comprises a danger that
can undermine the truth itself.

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I see it on all sides.
I see it in my own country and I

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see it in all parts of the
world.

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And the truth can be undermined
with that sort of thing.

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And there was a very, very
definite and determined

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declaration by Leymac as to
what.

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He would do.
If anyone stood in his path now,

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a man did stand in his path.
A man did stand up to oppose

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him.
And he witnessed against Lamac

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with a voice of truth.
And he stood up to warn his

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contemporaries not to be misled
by the prosperity of Lamac, not

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to be misled by the arrogance of
Lamac and the power that he

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witnessed and manifested at that
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That man was enough.
And we read concerning Enoch in

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verse 21 of that 5th chapter.
And Enoch lived 60 and five

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years and begat Methuselah.
And Enoch walked with God after

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he begat Methuselah 300 years,
and he begat sons and daughters

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he.
Walked with God.

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We read it there.
What a wonderful statement in an

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age of corruption and
wickedness, in an age where the

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sons of God were imitating the
ways of the world.

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And there’s no doubt about that.
You read again the list of names

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that you have in that 5th
chapter, the list of names of

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the sons of God, and see how
they imitate the names of the

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sons of Cain.
So here was an age of which the

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ecclesia itself as being being
affected by the way of life

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about them, and they’re
imitating the ways of the world.

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And this man stands up and he’s
unique almost.

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He walks with God.
That was a challenge that he

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issued to Lamech and do all the
cleaver at that time.

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He walked with God.
The last time we read about that

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is in the Garden of Eden.
So he restored the fellowship

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with God in that way.
He walked with God, which means

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that to him God was a reality.
He recognized the power of God

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greater than the power of Lamac,
and God to him was a reality.

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He walked with God.
It is so God was at his side.

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While he walked along, he
didn’t.

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Mean he mean merely talk about
God.

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He didn’t have a statement of
faith in which it stated what

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God is.
To him God was a reality and he

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walked with God, and that is a
sign of true maturity.

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When a person can walk with God,
I can.

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Talk to you about God.
I can.

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Turn to the scriptures about
God.

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I can explain how God is 1, but
to walk with God is a different

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thing to that.
You know, the main, the main.

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Commandment.
The first commandment to Israel

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was they were to love Yahweh
their God with all their heart,

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with all their mind, with all
their soul, and with all their

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strength.
Love Yahweh thy God.

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What does that mean?
Ever thought it out?

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If you love a person, don’t you
want others to respect them and

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love them too?
If you.

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Love a person?
Don’t you speak about their good

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qualities?
And aren’t you drawn to them by

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their good qualities?
How do we love God with all our

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hearts?
Because we say we love God.

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We love God with all our heart,
where we respect and honour Him

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in our lives.
We love Him with all our heart

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and all our strength, where we
know of His good qualities,

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where we want to hearken to His
Word and understand what that

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word means.
When we are prepared to go and

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speak to others about the grand
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where we are prepared to
maintain the standards that He

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has set in the Word of God, then
we love Him.

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If a man loves me, saith the
Lord Jesus Christ, he will keep

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my commandments.
That’s the measure of love.

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And to keep the commandments of
the Lord Jesus Christ or to love

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our God, I must sacrifice self.
I must do more for him than I

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will for myself.
And that’s a challenge.

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A challenge every day of my
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This.
Man.

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Walked with God.
God was with him as he went

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through life.
He was with Enoch.

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He walked with God.
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In the first epistle of John
chapter 1 and verse 5, we read

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that God is light, so He walked
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In the first of John chapter 4
and eight, we read that God is

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love, so He walked in love.
In the first of John chapter 5

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of verse 26, we read that God is
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So He manifested that life.
He walked with God because he

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walked in life, He walked in
love and he walked with a true

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life before him.
He was manifested in his life

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and that has been that is what
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In the 17th chapter of Genesis
and verse 1, Abraham was told

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walk before me and grow up, be
perfect, be mature, walk before

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me, walk as though you are
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That’s what Abraham was told.
And we are told later on in the

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24th chapter of Genesis of verse
40 that Abraham did that very

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thing.
He walked before God and Jacob

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when he was dying, and he
brought his grandsons deep

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before him.
He said in the 48th chapter of

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Genesis and verse 15, the Angel
before whom I have walked, he

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was conscious of the presence of
that Angel and of God, and he

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walked before him in that way.
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of verse 12, we read that God
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They were to build a Tabernacle
that He might walk in their

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midst.
What a wonderful thing was that

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He was an encampment and God was
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And they looked at the
Tabernacle, they looked at the

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cloud, they looked at the fire
and they had there the visible

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presence of God day after day.
They knew that until brethren

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and sisters, I believe they came
like we might cut become.

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They became so familiar with it,
they took it all for granted and

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the power and the awe inspiring
realization that God was in

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their presence was forgotten by
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Until the time came that God
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And all the earth shall be.
Filled with my glory.

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But they didn’t realize he
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They now the words of God.
They went into the Tabernacle.

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They bought their sacrifices
there, but God live he and their

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presence of God.
We’re hungry and.

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We want water.
And who’s this Moses, anyway?

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And look at the difficulties of
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And what we’ve got.
And Jesus Christ says in

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Revelation chapter 2 and verse
one, Jesus Christ says, I am

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here that walk from the midst of
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We need to remember that, don’t
we, when we come before the Lord

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in worship?
That in that.

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Audience there is Jesus Christ
quite a controversy once in the

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Adelaide ecclesia because we
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that this is the table of our
absent Lord was quite an issue

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because they said he wasn’t
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So you see this is this is
walking with God in the 86th

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Psalm and that verse 11, the
Psalmist speaks concerning our

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attitude towards God and he says
this Psalm 86 and verse 11.

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Teach me thy way, O Yahweh, I
will walk in thy truth.

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Unite my heart to fear thy name.
And there should be fear and

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reverence in our approach to the
Father.

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Teach me Thy way because we
don’t know it.

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And Moses, you know, on one
occasion when God came to him

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and things were bad in Israel
and he’s pleading with God, he

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said show me thy way.
Even Moses wanted to know that

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way.
And here we have the psalmist.

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Teach me thy way.
And we need to continuously

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learn about that.
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we need to show humility,
seeking out what God requires of

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us and try to build it into our
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In the 6th chapter of Micah and
verse 8, the prophet was told,

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He shall show thee, O man, what
is good, and what doth Yahweh

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requires thee but to do justly
and to love mercy, and then to

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take the marginal rendition, to
humble thyself to walk with thy

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God, to humble thyself to walk
with thy God.

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That’s what that man Enoch did
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Lamech at that day.
He humbled himself to walk with

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his God.
You know the Lord Jesus Christ

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needed the presence of God.
He could not have conquered

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unless God was with him.
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even whilst he hung up on the
cross, that Father was with the

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Son.
He said to the these apostles in

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the 16th chapter of John and at
verse 32 he said to his

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apostles, all you are going to
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But I’m not going to be left on
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I won’t be on the own, my own
because the Father will be with

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me.
The Father will be with me.

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And in all the torture that came
upon him, in all the end, the

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accusations that were pressed
against him, in all that he

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suffered, the Lord Jesus Christ
was able to lift his mind above

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those things to the Father on
high.

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And that’s the way to conquer in
anything given that.

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And a person can conquer if he
lifts his mind up and fills his

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mind upon the things of God.
You know, years ago I was, I was

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called into an ecclesia.
An ecclesia was breaking up.

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It was very, very severe, very,
very difficult in Australia.

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This was not in SA.
And they called me over to do

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something about this.
And my word, they talk about

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antagonism.
It was very, very marked there

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on both sides really.
But one side was worse than the

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other, terrible really.
And I met that that company, the

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Brazil and the sisters there,
and they were telling me things

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and saying this and plowing me
with ideas about this and about

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the wickedness of the other
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And I was trying to reason with
them on this sort of thing,

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whether they will look, we can
do this or do that do the other

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one man stood up in the midst of
that.

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He stood over me with express
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And he was.
Talking like that I could do

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nothing.
So I sat down and they’re going.

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They’re still going.
They’re, I think going two or

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three of them going at once.
I could do nothing.

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I just sat down.
You know this.

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I sat down and I let my mind get
on the other things.

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I lifted it to the Father.
I prayed unto God at that

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particular time not to solve
anything, but merely that I

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myself wanted to be confident.
And you know, I’m a tendency to

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flare up and I didn’t want to do
that and ruin everything.

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So I got my mind on that, do you
know, before that meeting was

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over and I cannot.
Tell you the processes.

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Now before that meeting was
over, I had an offer to the

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other group in my hand for
these.

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Sight and by that means the
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It’s amazing in that regard.
And you see here we have the

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Lord Jesus Christ.
The Father is with me.

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There are certain requirements
necessary to have the Father

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with us and in the second of
Corinthians chapter 6 of verse

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16 we have one such This
incidentally used to be a means

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that we used to use in the
courts when we appeared on

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behalf of our young people
because we had the we used to be

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able to do that.
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chapter 6 of verse 16, verse
says well there it says.

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I will dwell.
With them and walk with them,

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says God, that ye are the temple
of the living God.

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I will dwell.
With them and walk with them,

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and I will be their God, and
they shall be my people.

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Now in verse 17 Paul says,
therefore come out from among

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them, and be ye separate and
touched up the unclean thing,

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and I will receive you see there
were conditions.

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God says I will be with you.
I will dwell with you.

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I will be your God.
‘S own conditions therefore come

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out from among them, and be ye
separate, saith the Lord, and

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touch not the unclean thing, and
I will receive you, and I will

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be a father unto you, and you
shall be my sons and daughters,

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saith the Lord Almighty.
There are conditions, and if we

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follow those conditions, He will
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And so you see.
God will dwell with us, and we

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will walk with God.
And then as John says in the

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first of John one and seven,
then shall we have fellowship

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with the Father, Fellowship with
the Father, the most precious

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thing that we can possibly have.
Because if one has fellowship

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with the Father, it really
doesn’t matter much what happens

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because you can share it with
God.

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If one has fellowship with the
Father, then we are going to

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gain a great benefit in our
lives now.

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And let us understand that that
does not necessarily necessarily

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mean that we will be saved from
every problem and every trouble

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that faces us by no means.
But we will be able to gain

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comfort in trouble and we will
be able to gain the strength to

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surmount trouble.
And I think I want to show you,

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and I’m going to say it now,
it’s out of turn, but in case I

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forget it, when you come through
Hebrews Chapter 11, you have two

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men of faith mentioned, and then
you have a break.

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You have Abel and Enoch and then
a break.

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And Paul says without faith it
is impossible to please him for

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God.
For if without faith it is

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impossible to please God, for
what?

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Without faith it is impossible
to please him, For he that

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cometh to God must believe that
God is and will become a reward.

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Now Abel knew that God is he.
God was a reality to him.

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Enoch found that God.
Was a rewarder.

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Abel died, he was murdered.
God didn’t save him.

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Enoch was translated.
Both were moved by faith, but

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God acted towards each one in a
different way.

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So don’t let us presume upon
anything that maybe that God

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will save us out of trouble,
maybe He will not.

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But whether He does or whether
He doesn’t, we will gain the

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great benefit of fellowship with
Him, a sharing of our troubles,

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a resting upon Him, and a
comfort in the midst of misery

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that nothing else can give us.
And that is what fellowship with

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the Father means.
And finally, in the 4th chapter

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of Proverbs and at verses 18 and
19, we have the benefits of

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walking with God, because we
read there the path of the

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justice as a shining light that
shone of more and more unto the

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perfect day, a shining light
that shine of more and more.

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When we come and embrace the
truth, the light begins to

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shine.
If we pursue a course of study

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of the Word and application of
that Word, irrespective as to

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the darkness that might crowd us
in our path will be a shining

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light.
And we will find by experiences

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that that shining light will
shine brighter and brighter

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towards the perfect day, and we
will be looking with

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anticipation and joy to the
coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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On the other hand, the way of
the wickedness as darkness, they

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don’t even know at what they
stumble.

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So there we have.
In that age of darkness, when

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Lamech was standing up with his
bold boasts, when the sons of

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God could see the prosperity of
the wicked and wondered whether

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00:28:01,280 –> 00:28:05,120
they were doing right in their
way of life, there was a man who

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walked with God like a shining
light in the midst of darkness.

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00:28:08,920 –> 00:28:12,360
He walked with God.
He wasn’t a silent man.

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00:28:12,360 –> 00:28:17,160
Understand we come over to the
the epistle of Jude and we find

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that the way in which he
conducted himself in that age in

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Jude’s record.
So in the epistle of Jude, we

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read these words in verse 14 and
Enoch also the 7th format of

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00:28:32,600 –> 00:28:37,480
prophesied of these saying,
Behold, the Lord cometh with 10

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00:28:37,480 –> 00:28:41,120
thousands of his Saints to
execute judgement upon all, and

446
00:28:41,120 –> 00:28:44,840
to convince all that are ungodly
among them of their ungodly

447
00:28:44,840 –> 00:28:48,360
deeds which they have ungodly
committed, and of all their hard

448
00:28:48,360 –> 00:28:51,720
speeches which ungodly sinners
have spoken against him.

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00:28:52,520 –> 00:28:57,480
That’s the witness of the of
Enoch try to create the drama of

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00:28:57,480 –> 00:29:01,280
the situation.
On the one hand you have lame

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00:29:01,280 –> 00:29:07,400
act with his tongue.
I will Slayer man if he wounds

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00:29:07,400 –> 00:29:11,840
me, I will destroy anyone that
stands in my path.

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00:29:12,320 –> 00:29:18,760
If Kane is avenged, 7 * I lame
that will avenge myself. 70 * 7

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The Lord Thomas with 10,000 of
his Saints, to execute judgment

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00:29:24,640 –> 00:29:28,160
upon all, and to convince all
that are ungodly among them, of

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00:29:28,160 –> 00:29:31,400
all their ungodly deeds which
they have an ungodly committed,

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00:29:31,600 –> 00:29:34,600
and of all their hard speeches
which ungodly sinners have

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00:29:34,600 –> 00:29:38,280
spoken against him.
There was the challenge of Enoch

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00:29:38,280 –> 00:29:42,400
standing up boldly, defiantly
before Lamech, sitting before

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00:29:42,400 –> 00:29:46,160
the world, the truth in Christ
Jesus, warning them of judgment

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00:29:46,160 –> 00:29:48,680
to come, because he knew the
judgment was coming.

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00:29:48,880 –> 00:29:52,600
He realized that judgment was on
the way, and there was his

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00:29:52,640 –> 00:29:54,880
witness to that end.
They.

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00:29:55,400 –> 00:29:58,560
Enoch lived at a time when he
recognized the signs of the

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00:29:58,560 –> 00:30:01,720
times, and he knew that the time
was rapidly coming when

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judgement would be poured out
upon that evil generation.

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That’s why he called his son
Methuselah, the oldest man that

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ever lived.
Methuselah, whose name means

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when he dies it shall come.
And the year in which Methuselah

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died, the flood came.
So there was a set time, you

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00:30:24,080 –> 00:30:27,160
see, as far as that period was
concerned.

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And evidently Enoch had received
the revelation from God, and he

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knew.
What he was talking about so

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00:30:32,800 –> 00:30:34,720
that when his son was born, he
called.

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00:30:34,720 –> 00:30:40,280
Him, Methuselah, and Methuselah
stood as a witness to all their

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00:30:40,280 –> 00:30:43,720
generation, that they were
living in the set time when

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00:30:43,720 –> 00:30:47,200
judgment would be brought about
upon that generation.

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He not witnessed like that the.
7th.

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From Adam.
Why should Jude say that?

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00:30:54,000 –> 00:30:57,920
Well, as a matter of fact.
He is the 7th from Adam if you

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00:30:57,920 –> 00:31:00,680
add up the numbers that from
Adam down.

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And on the other side, Lamech
was the 7th from Adam too, but

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in the line of cave.
So there you have your

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contemporaries, the 7th from
Adam.

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00:31:10,640 –> 00:31:14,600
But in a measure, I think that
what Judas telling us is that

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he’s really a type of those that
live at the epoch of the 7th

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00:31:19,360 –> 00:31:23,640
Millennium ourselves.
And there is the form of witness

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00:31:23,640 –> 00:31:27,560
against an evil world against
which we must battle.

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00:31:28,120 –> 00:31:31,360
You know, I think that today is
never before the truth should go

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00:31:31,360 –> 00:31:35,400
forth in a forthright,
belligerent fashion, so that the

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00:31:35,400 –> 00:31:38,760
world about us understands
exactly what is required of us.

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00:31:39,800 –> 00:31:42,240
And this is the witness of
Enoch.

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00:31:42,240 –> 00:31:47,000
He spake out plainly and showed
the people the error of their

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00:31:47,000 –> 00:31:50,720
ways and directed them to
judgments about to fall upon

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00:31:50,720 –> 00:31:53,960
that generation.
He is mentioned, as we saw

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00:31:54,000 –> 00:31:56,640
before, in this 11th chapter of
Hebrews.

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00:31:57,000 –> 00:32:00,080
And here we have a.
Further commentary upon this man

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00:32:00,080 –> 00:32:05,200
even Enoch the 7th from Adam.
And here we read in verse 5 of

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Hebrews Chapter 11 that by faith
Enoch was translated that he

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00:32:11,400 –> 00:32:18,520
should not see death and he was
not found because God had

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00:32:18,520 –> 00:32:22,840
translated him.
Before his translation.

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00:32:22,840 –> 00:32:26,960
He had this testimony that he
pleased God.

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00:32:28,440 –> 00:32:31,080
So you see, there’s a witness
that he pleased God.

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00:32:31,080 –> 00:32:34,920
He walked with God, and God has
given that testimony.

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00:32:35,160 –> 00:32:38,840
It’s a sort of a judgment.
Upon him, and then having.

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00:32:38,840 –> 00:32:41,400
Given that judgment, he
translated him that he should

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00:32:41,400 –> 00:32:46,840
not see there, and we read in
that verse those words and was

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00:32:46,840 –> 00:32:54,240
not found and was not found,
which means that there was a

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00:32:54,240 –> 00:32:58,640
search made for him and they
could not find him.

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00:33:00,240 –> 00:33:05,000
One day Enoch was there
proclaiming the Lord cometh with

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00:33:05,000 –> 00:33:11,200
10,000 of his Saints, a familiar
figure to that generation, and

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00:33:11,240 –> 00:33:15,160
then he’s not there and people
ask, where’s Enoch?

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00:33:16,120 –> 00:33:22,200
They can’t find him, so a search
is made for him, but they can’t

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00:33:22,200 –> 00:33:25,680
find me not he’s not.
To be fair, that says it here.

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00:33:25,800 –> 00:33:29,160
He was not found.
He’s the 7th from Adam.

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00:33:29,800 –> 00:33:33,600
He seems to be a type of this
generation and the time is

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00:33:33,600 –> 00:33:37,040
coming, brethren of sisters,
when a search will be made for

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00:33:37,040 –> 00:33:41,240
us and we won’t be found when
the Lord Jesus Christ returns.

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00:33:41,240 –> 00:33:45,080
Paul says in the Second of
Thessalonians chapter 2 and

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00:33:45,080 –> 00:33:48,200
verse one that we will be
gathered unto him.

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00:33:49,040 –> 00:33:51,240
We will be taken unto the Lord
Jesus.

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00:33:51,520 –> 00:33:55,720
We will be taken out out of our
immediate circles and to the

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00:33:55,720 –> 00:34:00,440
presence of the Lord Jesus
Christ and our voices will be

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00:34:00,440 –> 00:34:03,040
stilled as far as the witness of
the world is concerned.

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00:34:03,440 –> 00:34:06,960
The doors of our halls will be
kept locked and closed.

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00:34:07,240 –> 00:34:10,719
Our homes will not be will be
vacated.

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00:34:10,840 –> 00:34:13,679
We will not be there and people.
Will wonder what?

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00:34:13,679 –> 00:34:16,719
Will happen.
You imagine the scene.

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00:34:16,719 –> 00:34:20,960
It’s a real scene.
But when the Lord returns and

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00:34:20,960 –> 00:34:24,159
we’re taken out of our homes,
people are going to ask what’s

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00:34:24,159 –> 00:34:26,000
gone wrong?
Where’s these people?

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00:34:26,760 –> 00:34:30,040
Where have they gone?
And like in the days of Enoch,

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00:34:30,040 –> 00:34:33,480
it will be a seven days wonder.
A search will be made.

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00:34:33,760 –> 00:34:37,000
Have they all gone away?
There may be mortgages to be

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00:34:37,000 –> 00:34:38,760
paid.
There may be commitments to be

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00:34:39,480 –> 00:34:41,679
fulfilled.
They can’t do that and they’re

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00:34:41,679 –> 00:34:44,400
not there to do it.
And people will wonder what is

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00:34:44,400 –> 00:34:47,239
the matter.
There will be the halls closed

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00:34:48,719 –> 00:34:51,600
and ultimately I suppose
somewhere will say, well look,

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00:34:51,600 –> 00:34:54,920
we’re going to force those upon
the hall and they will open the

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00:34:54,920 –> 00:34:57,080
hall and then they’ll see the
herald of a coming age or

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00:34:57,080 –> 00:34:59,280
something like that.
And then they will know what’s

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00:34:59,280 –> 00:35:00,760
happened.
We’ve been taken away.

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00:35:00,760 –> 00:35:03,400
The Lord has come.
The witness will be fulfilled.

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00:35:03,400 –> 00:35:06,640
And I believe it’s good to set
forth that witness that the Lord

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00:35:06,640 –> 00:35:09,680
is coming and this is going to
happen, and let the world know

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00:35:09,720 –> 00:35:10,920
it’s.
Going to happen.

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00:35:12,640 –> 00:35:15,320
Whether we let the world know it
or not, that’s going to happen.

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00:35:16,120 –> 00:35:18,000
It’s going to be they’re going
to return.

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00:35:18,000 –> 00:35:20,720
We’re going to be called to him.
These places are going to be

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00:35:20,720 –> 00:35:22,600
locked.
Our opportunities will be

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00:35:22,600 –> 00:35:24,800
closed.
We will no longer be gathered in

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00:35:24,800 –> 00:35:27,600
Bible school.
We will be no longer gathered at

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00:35:27,600 –> 00:35:31,040
our meetings.
The chance the opportunity will

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00:35:31,040 –> 00:35:35,320
cease and it will be like this
and the possibilities are that

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00:35:35,320 –> 00:35:38,720
we like Enoch maybe translator
that we should not see there.

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00:35:39,040 –> 00:35:42,840
Thank God that that will be our
destiny at that particular time.

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00:35:43,000 –> 00:35:47,440
That we should be like him in
that that faithful witness that

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00:35:47,440 –> 00:35:51,360
he has set forth before all
mankind at that particular time.

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00:35:51,920 –> 00:36:00,240
So that in the case of Enoch and
in the case of of layback, the

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00:36:00,440 –> 00:36:05,760
way of the world and the way of
truth is faithfully set before

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00:36:05,760 –> 00:36:08,280
us at the beginnings of
creation.

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00:36:08,840 –> 00:36:13,720
So that God has laid it down
there what we should do and how

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00:36:13,720 –> 00:36:20,040
we should act in the face of the
growing climax of these times,

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00:36:20,400 –> 00:36:26,040
in the face of the growing crime
and immorality, the decline in

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00:36:26,040 –> 00:36:29,760
the things of God that is
manifested in the world, the

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00:36:29,760 –> 00:36:33,040
repudiation of principles of
righteousness.

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00:36:33,400 –> 00:36:40,880
Let us walk with God and let us
witness faithfully in relation

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00:36:41,040 –> 00:36:47,080
to the future that God has
designed to set up upon this

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00:36:47,120 –> 00:36:50,000
earth.
You see that little verse?

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00:36:50,440 –> 00:36:54,560
And Enoch walked with God and he
was not.

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00:36:54,960 –> 00:36:57,080
This is back in Genesis chapter
5.

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00:36:57,360 –> 00:37:01,160
He was not.
That is not sound, for God took

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00:37:01,160 –> 00:37:04,960
him.
And so you see that was Enoch’s

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00:37:04,960 –> 00:37:08,640
witness.
He had witnessed for for his,

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00:37:08,880 –> 00:37:12,120
the days of Enoch were 365
years.

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00:37:12,800 –> 00:37:18,440
It’s like a lunar.
It’s like a year, a solar year

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00:37:18,440 –> 00:37:23,920
of years, 360 years.
And there in the midst of

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00:37:23,920 –> 00:37:28,120
darkness, there was light.
You know, just in passing,

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00:37:28,560 –> 00:37:31,600
there’s a very interesting
statement in the 24th chapter of

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00:37:31,600 –> 00:37:37,720
Isaiah in which actually our
witness, at least in these

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00:37:37,720 –> 00:37:42,720
times, is the foreshadowed or
foretold predicted by eyes are

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00:37:42,720 –> 00:37:45,480
the prophet.
The chapter starts with the

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00:37:45,480 –> 00:37:48,640
emptying of the land of Israel,
scattering of the people of

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00:37:48,640 –> 00:37:52,040
Israel because of their wicked,
their disobedience, their

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00:37:52,040 –> 00:37:55,760
wickedness.
And when that happens, we read

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00:37:55,760 –> 00:37:58,600
in verse 13, when it shall be in
the midst of the land, among the

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00:37:58,600 –> 00:38:01,760
people, the people of Israel,
there shall be as the shaking of

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00:38:01,760 –> 00:38:04,680
an olive tree and as the
gleaming grapes when the vintage

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00:38:04,680 –> 00:38:08,400
is done, a few berries.
You see, they shall lift up

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00:38:08,400 –> 00:38:11,040
their voice, they shall sing for
the majesty of Yahweh.

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00:38:11,200 –> 00:38:13,400
They shall cry around from the
sea.

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00:38:13,520 –> 00:38:21,080
It means from the from land far
removed, Australia, New Zealand,

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00:38:21,080 –> 00:38:24,160
America, Canada.
They shall lift up their voice,

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00:38:24,160 –> 00:38:28,080
they shall sing for the majesty
of Yahweh, they shall fly all

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00:38:28,080 –> 00:38:31,560
out from the coasts for the far
extremities of the earth.

597
00:38:32,200 –> 00:38:35,440
And the excitation is to glorify
Him in the fires.

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00:38:35,440 –> 00:38:37,840
Verse 15.
But the word in the Hebrew is

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00:38:38,000 –> 00:38:42,080
you.
You, The lights glorify Him as

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00:38:42,080 –> 00:38:45,200
lights.
Even the name of Yahweh, Elohim

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00:38:45,200 –> 00:38:47,640
of Israel, glorify Him as
lights.

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00:38:48,080 –> 00:38:50,840
That’s the point the brother
Lloyd brought out when he

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00:38:50,960 –> 00:38:55,240
referred us to the statement in
Philippians where we should

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00:38:55,240 –> 00:38:58,640
shine as lights in the world.
That’s what Enoch did.

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00:38:58,880 –> 00:39:01,880
He walked with God.
His way of life as well as his

606
00:39:01,880 –> 00:39:06,640
witness by the word of mouth was
a testimony to the world that he

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00:39:06,640 –> 00:39:10,000
knew of what he was speaking.
He walked with God.

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00:39:10,160 –> 00:39:13,640
He lived with a purpose and that
purpose was clearly set before

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00:39:13,640 –> 00:39:17,040
his mind.
It was the Kingdom of God.

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00:39:17,600 –> 00:39:22,080
And so in that place in Hebrews
we have Abel, and then Enoch,

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00:39:22,280 –> 00:39:25,560
and then the emphasis.
Without faith it is impossible

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00:39:25,560 –> 00:39:29,160
to please God.
So back in Genesis we read

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00:39:29,160 –> 00:39:31,200
concerning Methuselah.
The.

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00:39:31,200 –> 00:39:36,680
Oldest man that ever lived.
His name means when he died it

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00:39:36,680 –> 00:39:39,560
shall come.
And the record shows that

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00:39:39,560 –> 00:39:43,800
Methuselah died in the same year
as the flood.

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00:39:45,000 –> 00:39:48,000
What a dramatic moment that
would have been for those who

618
00:39:48,000 –> 00:39:53,720
understood.
Here is a boy or a man now whose

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00:39:53,720 –> 00:39:56,120
name means when he dies, it
shall come.

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00:39:57,040 –> 00:39:59,880
He would know what that name
meant because his father would

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00:39:59,880 –> 00:40:02,200
have told him.
His relations would have

622
00:40:02,200 –> 00:40:07,120
understood that.
But year after year after year

623
00:40:07,320 –> 00:40:12,920
after year, rolls die as far as
he is concerned, for he lived a

624
00:40:12,920 –> 00:40:15,560
nearly 1000 years.
Not quite.

625
00:40:16,000 –> 00:40:21,280
He didn’t live a Millennium.
He lived, however, over 900

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00:40:21,280 –> 00:40:24,320
years, about 969 years of
playing.

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00:40:24,520 –> 00:40:27,960
Remember writers down here, he
lived for that period of time,

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00:40:27,960 –> 00:40:31,000
year after year after year,
until what would happen.

629
00:40:31,240 –> 00:40:35,840
People would get used to it.
They’d take it for granted.

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00:40:35,840 –> 00:40:41,160
I think he’s never going to die.
Or they would lose that sense of

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00:40:41,160 –> 00:40:44,520
urgency.
You know, time and time again in

632
00:40:44,520 –> 00:40:48,120
the Bible that’s emphasized.
Do you remember when Joseph

633
00:40:48,120 –> 00:40:50,280
died?
Joseph died and he says God

634
00:40:50,280 –> 00:40:53,200
shall surely visit you and you
shall take up my bones from

635
00:40:53,200 –> 00:40:55,040
hence.
So they put him in a coffin and

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00:40:55,040 –> 00:40:59,760
put him in in Egypt, in the land
of Goshen, in some dark recess.

637
00:40:59,920 –> 00:41:03,080
And for year after year after
that, I am sure people would

638
00:41:03,080 –> 00:41:06,240
say, look, that confident is a
witness to us that God is going

639
00:41:06,240 –> 00:41:08,840
to visit us.
But by the time that God did

640
00:41:08,840 –> 00:41:14,320
visit them, they’d forgotten,
and Moses had to wake themselves

641
00:41:14,320 –> 00:41:16,320
and wake them up to the
realization of it.

642
00:41:16,320 –> 00:41:19,600
They’d forgotten and they were
fully immersed with the things

643
00:41:19,600 –> 00:41:22,320
of Egypt.
There was an evidence there.

644
00:41:23,120 –> 00:41:26,600
Take the taking of Jericho.
You’ll imagine the people locked

645
00:41:26,600 –> 00:41:29,800
up in the city of Jericho, and
they see the army of Israel

646
00:41:29,880 –> 00:41:32,000
moving across from the river
Jordan.

647
00:41:32,280 –> 00:41:35,080
But the army only goes and it
encircles the city and goes

648
00:41:35,080 –> 00:41:38,240
back.
Curious thing that next morning,

649
00:41:38,360 –> 00:41:42,480
the same thing, very curious.
The 3rd morning, the 4th

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00:41:42,480 –> 00:41:45,840
morning, they didn’t even worry
to watch it, the title.

651
00:41:47,040 –> 00:41:50,000
And by the time the 7th day
comes, and in fact the walls

652
00:41:50,000 –> 00:41:52,520
fall down, they’re all taken off
guard.

653
00:41:52,720 –> 00:41:56,400
The walls like that.
The voice of the trumpet, the

654
00:41:56,400 –> 00:41:58,720
trumpet of the apocalypse is
sounding full.

655
00:41:59,080 –> 00:42:04,400
But it’s been so continuous that
we take it all for granted. 30

656
00:42:04,400 –> 00:42:08,480
years ago, if we would see the
things happening, what we see

657
00:42:08,480 –> 00:42:13,600
today, we would be alerted.
And so we are to measure today.

658
00:42:13,960 –> 00:42:19,800
But they happen so continuously,
Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Russia,

659
00:42:19,960 –> 00:42:24,000
here’s well the worst, the
common market, everything, so

660
00:42:24,000 –> 00:42:28,760
much of it that we taking it all
for granted and therefore that

661
00:42:28,760 –> 00:42:31,000
we may lose that sense of
urgency.

662
00:42:31,160 –> 00:42:36,400
So it was here.
So it was here because the sons

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00:42:36,400 –> 00:42:42,960
of God did not take heed to that
Lamac, we are told in verse 28

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00:42:43,520 –> 00:42:49,240
and lived for 182 years and
began a son and he called his

665
00:42:49,240 –> 00:42:54,080
name Noah, saying this plane
shall comfort us concerning our

666
00:42:54,080 –> 00:42:57,760
work and toil of our hands
because of the ground which

667
00:42:57,760 –> 00:43:02,320
Yahweh cursed.
They next looking for the

668
00:43:02,320 –> 00:43:07,160
Messiah.
He’s looking for the seed that

669
00:43:07,160 –> 00:43:13,440
will blaze the serpent’s head.
He calls his son’s name Noah.

670
00:43:14,320 –> 00:43:18,760
And there was kept alive the
messianic hope, and his

671
00:43:18,760 –> 00:43:24,760
statement is really a hope that
this one Noah may be the

672
00:43:24,760 –> 00:43:28,320
promised seed.
And in type he was the promised

673
00:43:28,320 –> 00:43:31,560
seed.
As we know, his name means rest.

674
00:43:32,040 –> 00:43:36,120
And he brought rest and comfort
to that generation, when of

675
00:43:36,120 –> 00:43:40,000
course it would be washed clean
by the flood.

676
00:43:40,960 –> 00:43:45,360
And so that brings us to the 6th
chapter of Genesis and the

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00:43:45,360 –> 00:43:50,080
record of the flood.
When we come to the 6th chapter

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00:43:50,080 –> 00:43:54,000
of Genesis, there is a summary,
first of all of what has taken

679
00:43:54,000 –> 00:43:57,120
place.
It came to pass when men began

680
00:43:57,120 –> 00:43:58,840
to multiply on the face of the
earth.

681
00:43:58,880 –> 00:44:02,280
Now in the Hebrew, I think I may
have mentioned this before, the

682
00:44:02,280 –> 00:44:05,760
definite article is given, and
in the Hebrew it reads, It came

683
00:44:05,760 –> 00:44:09,560
to pass when the atom began to
multiply upon the earth.

684
00:44:10,040 –> 00:44:13,040
Now the atom is called male and
female.

685
00:44:13,720 –> 00:44:17,000
So it became to pass, when they
began to multiply upon the

686
00:44:17,000 –> 00:44:18,680
earth, and daughters were born
unto them.

687
00:44:19,200 –> 00:44:23,720
So they not only had Cain and
Abel, they had daughters as well

688
00:44:23,880 –> 00:44:28,120
that were born unto them, that
the sons of God saw the

689
00:44:28,120 –> 00:44:31,160
daughters of men.
And here again the word is

690
00:44:31,160 –> 00:44:33,880
rendered elsewhere, the
daughters of other men, that

691
00:44:33,880 –> 00:44:36,880
they were fair.
This was the condition in which

692
00:44:36,880 –> 00:44:40,760
they saw themselves, and I think
it possibly would have been that

693
00:44:40,880 –> 00:44:44,480
daughter of Lamech, Naima, that
led the way in this.

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00:44:45,000 –> 00:44:48,480
The statement they were fair,
actually in the Hebrew can be

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00:44:48,480 –> 00:44:50,840
rendered.
They made themselves fair.

696
00:44:51,840 –> 00:44:55,640
They gave particular attention
to that aspect of life.

697
00:44:56,280 –> 00:44:59,360
They made themselves beautiful
outward, but not inward.

698
00:45:00,080 –> 00:45:02,640
And that was a pity, and it
always is a pity.

699
00:45:03,280 –> 00:45:08,560
Nothing wrong with beauty, I
like it very much, but it’s

700
00:45:08,720 –> 00:45:11,640
beauty within that counts for
most.

701
00:45:12,400 –> 00:45:15,640
Sarah was a beautiful woman, we
are taught.

702
00:45:16,000 –> 00:45:19,120
She was a beautiful woman in
every regard.

703
00:45:19,720 –> 00:45:23,960
She was a beautiful woman
inwardly and outwardly as well,

704
00:45:24,400 –> 00:45:28,200
and therefore she helped her
husband in that way.

705
00:45:29,240 –> 00:45:34,480
The bride of Christ is mentioned
in the 45th chapter of the

706
00:45:34,480 –> 00:45:39,240
Psalms, and it says concerning
her, the bride of Christ, verse

707
00:45:39,240 –> 00:45:43,360
13, the King’s daughter is all
glorious within.

708
00:45:44,680 –> 00:45:49,520
She has a personality that is
pleasing to her husband, Christ.

709
00:45:50,240 –> 00:45:55,440
He sees in her a reflection of
himself, and she’s beautiful

710
00:45:55,440 –> 00:45:58,120
within.
It’s not me the port with

711
00:45:58,120 –> 00:46:03,040
outside that counts.
It’s real motivation from

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00:46:03,040 –> 00:46:06,480
within.
And that is the difference

713
00:46:06,480 –> 00:46:10,120
between them and the daughters
of other men here who had made

714
00:46:10,120 –> 00:46:13,960
themselves fair externally but
not internally.

715
00:46:15,880 –> 00:46:18,720
Now archaeologists who have
excavated an ear of the cow

716
00:46:18,720 –> 00:46:22,040
these and have suggested that
this may have been the period

717
00:46:22,040 –> 00:46:26,160
before the flood, point out that
there is no real evidence of

718
00:46:26,160 –> 00:46:29,520
paganism.
So when we come to this part of

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00:46:29,520 –> 00:46:33,680
the gods revelation, the 6th
chapter of Genesis, it’s not so

720
00:46:33,680 –> 00:46:37,840
much a Pagan or idolatrous race
that we’re considering, but a

721
00:46:37,840 –> 00:46:41,320
godless 1.
And that’s more difficult.

722
00:46:41,440 –> 00:46:44,080
It’s a godless one.
It’s the worship of flesh.

723
00:46:44,080 –> 00:46:48,160
It’s the worship of self.
And so we have a a godless race.

724
00:46:48,360 –> 00:46:51,240
We have a people that are proud
and arrogant.

725
00:46:51,960 –> 00:46:55,920
We have a people that are
lawless and totally unconcerned

726
00:46:55,920 –> 00:46:59,560
about God, his revelation or his
will.

727
00:47:00,480 –> 00:47:03,640
We have a people that are
progressing in material things,

728
00:47:03,640 –> 00:47:07,560
that are clever in their way,
but as far as spiritual

729
00:47:07,560 –> 00:47:11,240
qualities are concerned, they
are utterly bankrupt.

730
00:47:11,600 –> 00:47:15,320
That’s the position that
presents itself in chapter 6,

731
00:47:15,480 –> 00:47:19,600
which is the climax of what
we’ve read in chapters four and

732
00:47:19,600 –> 00:47:22,720
five.
There was also an ecclesial

733
00:47:22,720 –> 00:47:26,520
problem, that separateness was
being destroyed.

734
00:47:27,040 –> 00:47:29,800
The sons of God took the
daughters of men and they

735
00:47:29,800 –> 00:47:33,600
married them.
There was a marriage problem, as

736
00:47:33,600 –> 00:47:37,120
we have it at the present time
throughout the world, so that

737
00:47:37,120 –> 00:47:40,840
there was a breakdown even in
the family life within the

738
00:47:40,840 –> 00:47:44,400
ecclesia, so that there was a
picture of the world in the days

739
00:47:44,400 –> 00:47:47,280
of Noah.
And Jesus Christ said as it was

740
00:47:47,280 –> 00:47:50,440
in the days of Noah, so shall it
be at the coming of the Son of

741
00:47:50,440 –> 00:47:53,320
Man.
So you had externally in the

742
00:47:53,600 –> 00:47:57,880
family of Lamac and his
descendants, an attitude of mind

743
00:47:57,880 –> 00:48:00,640
and a way of life that is
permitted to us today.

744
00:48:00,920 –> 00:48:06,200
And the challenge on this
ecclesia in the days of of Noah

745
00:48:07,560 –> 00:48:12,760
in his day, the challenge on the
ecclesia right likewise was

746
00:48:12,760 –> 00:48:17,320
affected thereby.
The truth was corrupt, and

747
00:48:17,320 –> 00:48:21,720
possibly the long lives of the
antediluvians had induced in

748
00:48:21,720 –> 00:48:24,560
them a sense of permanency and
power.

749
00:48:25,400 –> 00:48:31,240
Be that as it may, God says
this, My Spirit shall not always

750
00:48:31,240 –> 00:48:36,920
strive with man for that also He
is flesh.

751
00:48:37,720 –> 00:48:45,080
God is saying He’s only flair,
she’s only flesh, and being only

752
00:48:45,080 –> 00:48:51,320
flesh will get rid of Him.
You see, when Abraham prayed

753
00:48:51,320 –> 00:48:58,560
unto the Father, he said I am
but dust and ashes, and he

754
00:48:58,560 –> 00:49:03,120
approached the Father,
recognizing his low estate.

755
00:49:03,120 –> 00:49:06,520
I am but dust and ashes, and I
presume to come before this.

756
00:49:07,120 –> 00:49:09,000
What do we do with dust and
ashes?

757
00:49:10,200 –> 00:49:12,920
You did a vacuum cleaner, pick
it up and pulling it away.

758
00:49:14,400 –> 00:49:19,360
And that’s all we’re worth
unless we put something in it.

759
00:49:21,400 –> 00:49:26,000
Now what we can put in it we’ve
been virtually told this morning

760
00:49:26,000 –> 00:49:30,960
in that reading from Jeremiah,
because there He tells us what

761
00:49:30,960 –> 00:49:35,360
He did for Israel, and we are in
the place of Israel.

762
00:49:35,880 –> 00:49:41,600
And in that 13th chapter of
Jeremiah and the verse 11, we

763
00:49:41,600 –> 00:49:44,480
read as the girdle cleaveth to
the loins of a man.

764
00:49:44,800 –> 00:49:48,240
So have I caused the Cleveland
to be the whole House of Israel

765
00:49:48,240 –> 00:49:54,040
and the whole House of Judah,
that they might be unto me for a

766
00:49:54,080 –> 00:49:58,800
people, and a name, and a praise
and a glory.

767
00:50:00,760 –> 00:50:02,880
But they should live to
themselves, they should live

768
00:50:02,880 –> 00:50:05,120
under God.
They should build into their

769
00:50:05,120 –> 00:50:08,320
lives the qualities of God.
They should know what those

770
00:50:08,320 –> 00:50:11,200
qualities are, be familiar with
them, and build them into their

771
00:50:11,200 –> 00:50:13,080
lives.
Then they will be for him a

772
00:50:13,080 –> 00:50:15,560
people and a name and a praise
and a glory.

773
00:50:15,920 –> 00:50:19,760
But he said they wouldn’t hear
because it’s by the process of

774
00:50:19,760 –> 00:50:23,080
hearing that we will learn those
qualities and build them into

775
00:50:23,080 –> 00:50:25,960
our lives.
The more we study the Word of

776
00:50:25,960 –> 00:50:29,280
God objectively and think about
that Word of God, the more our

777
00:50:29,280 –> 00:50:32,840
mind is going to reflect to it.
And as a man thinketh in his

778
00:50:32,840 –> 00:50:35,960
heart, so is he.
The more we fill our mind with

779
00:50:35,960 –> 00:50:39,040
the things of God, the less we
will have time to think of the

780
00:50:39,040 –> 00:50:41,720
things of flesh.
It’s in the mind that the battle

781
00:50:41,720 –> 00:50:45,400
of life has won or lost.
In the mind where that is done,

782
00:50:46,400 –> 00:50:48,600
I can say I’m going to do this
for God.

783
00:50:48,600 –> 00:50:51,360
I’m going to do that for God,
but it’s in the mind that I’m

784
00:50:51,360 –> 00:50:53,440
going to act for God or against
God.

785
00:50:54,240 –> 00:50:58,480
And if I allow things to creep
into my mind, as unfortunately I

786
00:50:58,480 –> 00:51:01,920
do, if I allow that to happen,
then I’m not going to be

787
00:51:01,920 –> 00:51:06,200
pleasing unto God because it’s
there in the mind that my will

788
00:51:06,200 –> 00:51:09,320
govern my action.
Now you see, Israel was called

789
00:51:09,320 –> 00:51:10,160
out.
What for?

790
00:51:10,280 –> 00:51:13,480
Why did He do that?
Why did He pour out the flags on

791
00:51:13,480 –> 00:51:15,800
Egypt?
Why did He open the Red Sea and

792
00:51:15,800 –> 00:51:18,040
take them through?
Why did He give the matter in

793
00:51:18,040 –> 00:51:19,720
the wilderness of water out of
the lot?

794
00:51:19,800 –> 00:51:27,160
What for?
That they might be unto me a

795
00:51:27,160 –> 00:51:34,320
people and a name and a praise
and a glory, that they failed

796
00:51:34,640 –> 00:51:40,360
and they rotted in the
wilderness. 2 million people on

797
00:51:40,360 –> 00:51:43,680
the other side of the Red Sea.
The song of victory.

798
00:51:44,280 –> 00:51:47,000
The song of victory.
A glorious thing.

799
00:51:47,000 –> 00:51:50,200
We will choose Yahweh for his
goodness.

800
00:51:50,400 –> 00:51:54,400
The horse and the rider.
His clash into the sea we’ll

801
00:51:54,400 –> 00:52:00,960
save three days later.
You’ve brought it in the real

802
00:52:00,960 –> 00:52:04,560
earth that we might die.
That’s flesh.

803
00:52:05,240 –> 00:52:08,280
And here God is saying that he’s
only flesh.

804
00:52:09,200 –> 00:52:14,200
He’s but flesh that his days
shall be 120 years.

805
00:52:14,480 –> 00:52:18,640
So is a set time now a set time
for affirmation.

806
00:52:19,560 –> 00:52:25,720
Peter says in the first of Peter
chapter 3 he says God waited in

807
00:52:25,720 –> 00:52:29,360
the days of Noah.
And in the second epistle of

808
00:52:29,360 –> 00:52:33,840
Peter chapter 3, he said,
account the long-suffering of

809
00:52:33,840 –> 00:52:38,760
God, our salvation, the 1st as
relation of Noah’s day, the last

810
00:52:38,760 –> 00:52:41,720
two hours.
This is salvation.

811
00:52:41,720 –> 00:52:47,720
God’s God is waiting as he did
then, but in the meantime there

812
00:52:47,720 –> 00:52:52,960
is a time of salvation.
So you see 120 years and there’s

813
00:52:52,960 –> 00:52:57,280
a set time, you know, there’s a
set time to favour Zion today.

814
00:52:57,640 –> 00:53:02,880
We’re told that in Psalm 102 and
this term, the set time is used

815
00:53:02,880 –> 00:53:10,040
frequently in the Scriptures.
In Psalm 102 and these words in

816
00:53:10,040 –> 00:53:15,480
verse 13, thou shall the rise
and have mercy upon Zion for the

817
00:53:15,480 –> 00:53:18,960
time to say for her, yeah, the
set time has come.

818
00:53:21,120 –> 00:53:26,560
Then again in context, verse 16,
when the Lord shall build up

819
00:53:26,560 –> 00:53:32,760
Zion, we seen that He shall
appear in His glory the next

820
00:53:32,760 –> 00:53:36,480
verse.
This shall be written for the

821
00:53:36,480 –> 00:53:44,320
generation to come, not that
generation ours, and the people

822
00:53:44,320 –> 00:53:46,880
that shall be created shall
praise Him.

823
00:53:47,720 –> 00:53:52,120
Psalm 75 at the set time that I
appoint, I will judge.

824
00:53:53,040 –> 00:53:57,440
That’s the House of Hebrews
Chapter 11 and verse four.

825
00:53:57,440 –> 00:54:01,480
I think it is.
The times are thoroughly

826
00:54:01,480 –> 00:54:07,200
adjusted to God’s command.
Romans Chapter 11 where the

827
00:54:07,200 –> 00:54:11,280
apostle Paul says if the casting
away of them be the riches of

828
00:54:11,280 –> 00:54:15,440
the world, what does the
receiving of them be what we see

829
00:54:15,440 –> 00:54:18,680
in Israel today?
Paul says what does that mean?

830
00:54:18,920 –> 00:54:26,080
It means life from the dead, the
token of the resurrection in the

831
00:54:26,080 –> 00:54:30,040
land of Israel today, the total
of the time of the end, the

832
00:54:30,040 –> 00:54:34,920
witness of Almighty God to ask
him for the whole that he’s

833
00:54:34,920 –> 00:54:37,640
about to move.
As it was in the days of Noah,

834
00:54:37,640 –> 00:54:43,560
120 years were appointed and
what happened then we hope to

835
00:54:43,560 –> 00:54:59,360
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00:54:59,360 –> 00:55:01,000
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