H.P. Mansfield – Before the Deluge – Class 5 – Enoch’s Witness

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But dear brother and sisters,
this is Odwall 1982.

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Brother HP Mansfield will now
continue with his studies.

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He will present his fifth
address on the subject before

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the deluge.
And so I would invite him to

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address us to the theme, Enoch’s
Witness, Brother Mansfield.

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My dear brethren and sisters in
Christ Jesus.

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Yesterday we introduced the 5th
chapter of Genesis and to the

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book of the 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 that 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 which is
winked, and evidently A decline.

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Soon said he in as far as the
ecclesia of God is concerned,

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Enoch Enos named his son Canaan
after Canaan of all people, and

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so we can see a.
Further.

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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 very well, then we imagine

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that the moon is at its full and
it can decline.

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I’m rather fearful when brethren
come to me and say things are

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going very well.
I remember the words of Christ

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of the Laodiceans quite
frequently in Australia at this

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present moment.
I have heard them say things are

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going very well.
I heard that recently from a

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brother in a certain ecclesia in
South Australia.

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Things are going very well.
He told me at the present moment

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they’re not going very well with
that eclesia, and there is a

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need for very careful
supervision of that eclesia as

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

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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 of 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

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find out that Adam died around
about the time when Lamech, the

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father 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 polygamy,

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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
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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 has 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.

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That was the song that he
composed and the attitude of the

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world at that particular time as
far as they’re concerned, that

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

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And we see in Lamech and in his
family and all that was

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established there, a
foreshadowing of what we see in

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the earth today.
And it’s a challenge, you know,

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to the truth itself because the
very environment, as I have

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tried to stress that is about us
at this time is that that very

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environment, it, it comprises a
danger that can undermine the

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truth itself.
I see it on all sides.

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I see it in my own country and I
see it in all parts of the

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world.
And the truth can be undermined

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with that sort of thing.
And there was a very, very

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definite and determined
declaration by Lamac as to what

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he would do if anyone stood in
his path.

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Now, a man did stand in his
path.

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A man did stand up to oppose
him.

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And he witnessed against Lamac
with a voice of truth.

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And he stood up to warn his
contemporaries not to be misled

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

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Lamac and the power that he
witnessed and manifested at that

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time.
That man was enough.

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And we read.
Concerning Enoch in verse 21 of

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that 5th chapter.
And Enoch lived 60 and five

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years and begat Methuselah, and
Enoch walked with God after he

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

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walked with God.
We read it there.

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What a wonderful statement.
In an age of corruption and

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wickedness, in an age when the
sons of God were imitating the

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ways of the world.
And there’s no doubt about that.

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You read again the list of names
that you.

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Have in that 5th chapter.
The list of names of the sons of

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

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So here was an age in which the
ecclesia itself as being being

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affected by the way of life
about them, and they’re

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imitating the ways of the world.
And this man stands up and he’s

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unique almost.
He walks with God.

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That was a challenge that he
issued to Lamech and to all the

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equator at that time.
He walked with God the last

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time.
We read about that is in the

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Garden of Eden.
So he restored the fellowship

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with God.
In that way.

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He walked with God, which means
that to him God was a reality.

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He recognized the power of God
greater than the power of

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Lamech, 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 mean he mean merely

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talk about God.
He didn’t have a.

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Statement of faith in which it
stated what God is.

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To him God was a reality and he
walked with God, and that is a

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sign of true maturity.
When a person can walk with God,

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I can.
Talk to you about God.

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I can.
Turn to the scriptures about

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God.
I can explain how God is 1 but

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to walk with God is a different
thing to that.

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You know, the main, the main
commandment, the first

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commandment to Israel was they
were to love Yahweh, their God

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with all their heart, with all
their mind, with all their soul,

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and with all their strength,
love.

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Yahweh thy God, what does that
mean?

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Ever thought it out?
If you love a person, don’t you

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want others to respect them and
love them too?

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If you 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
qualities of Yahweh, our God,

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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
life.

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This man walked with God.
God was with.

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Him as he went through life, he
was with Enoch.

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He walked with God.
What does that mean?

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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
in light.

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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
life, so He manifested that

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life.
He walked with God because he

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walked in life, He walked in
loves, 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 it’s meant by

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walking with God.
In the 17th chapter of Genesis

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and verse 1, Abraham was told
walk before me.

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And.
Grow up, be perfect, be mature.

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Walk before me walk.
As though you are conscious of

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my eyes upon you.
That’s what Abraham was told and

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we are told later on in the.
24th chapter of Genesis of verse

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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.
In the 26th chapter of Leviticus

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of verse 12, we read that God
walked with Israel.

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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
in the midst of it.

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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 all inspiring
realization.

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That God was in their presence.
Was forgotten by them.

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Until the time came that God
said to Moses, Truly I live.

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And all the earth shall be
filled with my glory.

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That they didn’t realise he
lived they.

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Now the words of God, they went
into the Tabernacle, they bought

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their sacrifices there, but God
live He and their presence of

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God.
We’re hungry and we want water.

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And who’s this Moses, anyway?
And look at the difficulties of

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life and what we’ve got and
Jesus Christ says in Revelation

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chapter 2 and verse one, Jesus
Christ says I am here that walk

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through the midst of the
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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 audience
there is Jesus Christ.

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Quite a controversy once in the
Adelaide ecclesia because we

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used to say or some used to say
that this is the table of our

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absent Lord was quite an issue
because they said he wasn’t

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absent, which is true enough.
So you see this is this is

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walking with God in the 86th
Psalm and that verse 11, the

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psalmist speaks concerning our
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And he says this Psalm 86 and
verse 11.

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Teach me thy way, O Yahweh, I
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Unite my.
Heart to fear Thy name, and

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there should be fear and
reverence in our approach to the

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Father.
Teach me Thy way because we

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don’t know it.
And Moses, you know, on one

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occasion when God came to him
and things were bad in Israel

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and he’s pleading with God, he
said show me thy way.

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Even Moses wanted to know that
way.

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And here we have the psalmist.
Teach me thy way.

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And we need to continuously
learn about that.

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If we’re going to walk with God,
we need to show humility,

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seeking out what God requires of
us and try to build it into our

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lives.
In the 6th chapter of Micah and

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verse 8, the prophet was told,
He shall show thee, O man, what

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is good, and what doth Yahweh
require of thee, but to do

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justly and to love mercy, and
then to take the marginal

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rendition, to humble thyself, to
walk with thy God, to humble

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thyself to walk with thy God.
That’s what that man Enoch did

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as he witnessed against the the
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He humbled himself to walk with
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You know the Lord Jesus Christ
needed the presence of God.

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He could not have conquered
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And at every moment of his life,
even whilst he hung up on the

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cross, though that Father was
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He said to the these apostles in
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verse 32 he said to his
apostles, all you are going to

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flee for my presence.
But I’m not going to be left on

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my own.
I won’t be on the own, my own,

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because the Father will be with
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The Father will be with me.
And in all the torture that came

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upon him, in all the end, the
accusations that were pressed

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against him, in all that he
suffered, the Lord Jesus Christ

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was able to lift his mind above
those things to the Father on

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high.
And that’s the way to conquer in

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anything given that.
And a person can conquer if he

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lifts his mind up and fills his
mind upon the things of God, you

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know?
Years ago I was, I was called

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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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Brazilian sisters there, and
they were telling me things and

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

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wickedness of the other group.
And I was trying to reason with

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them on this sort of thing
whether they will do, look, we

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can do this or do that, do the
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One man stood up in the midst of
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He stood over me with express
like this and he was talking

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like that.
I could do nothing.

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So I sat down and they’re going.
They’re still going, man.

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I think going 2.
Or three of them going at once.

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I could do nothing.
I just sat down.

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You know this.
I sat down and I let my mind get

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on the other things.
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I prayed unto God at that
particular time not to solve

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anything, but merely that I
myself.

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Wanted to be.
Confident and you know I’m a

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tendency to flare.
Up and I didn’t.

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Want to do that and ruin
everything?

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So I got my mind on that.
Do you know before that meeting

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was over?
And I cannot tell you the

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processes now.
Before that meeting was over, I

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had an offer to the other group
in my hands for these beliefs.

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And by that means the situation
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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. 2nd of Corinthians

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chapter 6 of verse 16 we have
one such this incidentally used

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to be a means that we used to
use in the courts when we

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appeared on behalf of our young
people because we had the we

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used to be able to do that and
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chapter 6 of verse 16 verse 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
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I will dwell with.
Them and walk with them and I

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will be their God and they shall
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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 and

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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.
On 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 ye
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
be for us a father.

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And so you see, God will grow
with us and we will walk with

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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

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most precious thing that we can
possibly have.

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Because if one has fellowship
with the Father, it really

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doesn’t matter much what happens
because you can share it with

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God.
If one has fellowship with the

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Father, then we are going to
gain a great benefit in our

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lives now.
And let us understand that that

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does not necessarily necessarily
mean that we will be saved from

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every problem and every trouble
that faces us by no means.

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But we will be able to gain
comfort in trouble and we will

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be able to gain the strength to
surmount trouble.

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And I think I want to show you,
and I’m going to say it now,

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it’s out of turn, but in case I
forget it, when you come through

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Hebrews Chapter 11, you have two
men of faith mentioned, and then

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you have a break.
You have Abel and Enoch and then

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a break.
And Paul says without faith it

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is impossible to please him for
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

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

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reward.
Now Abel knew that God.

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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.

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That maybe that God.
Will save us out of trouble.

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Maybe he will not.
But whether he does or whether

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he doesn’t, we.
Will gain the great benefit of

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fellowship with Him, a sharing
of our troubles, a resting upon

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Him, and a comfort in the midst
of misery that nothing else can

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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.

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We have the benefits of walking
with God because we read there

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the path of the justice as a
shining light that shone of more

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and more unto the perfect day, a
shining light that shine of more

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and more.
When we come and embrace the

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truth, the light begins to
shine.

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If we pursue a course of study
of the Word and application of

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that Word, irrespective as to
the darkness that might crowd us

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in our path will be a shining
light.

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And we will find by experiences
that that shining light will

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shine brighter and brighter
towards the perfect day, and we

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will be looking with
anticipation and joy to the

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coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
On the other hand, the way of

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the wickedness as darkness, they
don’t even know at what they

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stumble.
So there we have.

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In that age of darkness, when
Lamech was standing up with his

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bold boasts, when the sons of
God could see the prosperity of

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the wicked and wondered whether
they were doing right in their

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way of life, there was a man who
walked with God like a shining

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light in the midst of darkness.
He walked with God.

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He wasn’t a silent man.
Understand we come over to the

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the epistle of Jude and we find
that the way in which he

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conducted himself in that age in
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So in the epistle of Jude, we
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and Enoch also the 7th from
Edith prophesied of these

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saying, Behold, the Lord cometh
with 10 thousands of his Saints

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to execute judgment upon all,
and to convince all that are

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ungodly among them of their
ungodly deeds which they have

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ungodly committed, and of all
their hard speeches which

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ungodly sinners have spoken
against him.

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That’s the witness of of Enoch.
Try to create the drama of the

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situation.
On the one hand you have lame

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act with his son.
I will Slayer man if he wounds

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me.
I will.

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Destroy anyone that stands in my
path if Kane is avenged 7 times.

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I.
Lame act will avenge myself 70 *

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7.
The Lord Thomas with 10,000 of

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his Saints, to execute judgment
upon all, and to convince all

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that are ungodly among them, of
all their ungodly deeds which

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they have an ungodly committed,
and of all their hard speeches

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which ungodly sinners have
spoken against him.

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There was the challenge of Enoch
standing up boldly, defiantly

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before Lamech, sitting before
the world, the truth in Christ

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Jesus, warning them of judgment
to come, because he knew the

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judgment was coming.
He realized that judgment was on

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the way, and there was his
witness to that end.

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They Enoch lived at a time.
When he recognized the signs of

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the 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
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Man that ever lived Methuselah,
whose name means when he dies it

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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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see, as far as that period was
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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 that when his son was born,

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he called him Methuselah.
And Methuselah stood as a

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witness to all their generation,
that they were living in the set

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time when judgement would be
brought about upon that

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generation he not witnessed
like.

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That the 7th.
From Adam.

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Why should Jude say that?
Well, as a matter of fact, he is

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the 7th from Adam.
If you add up the numbers that

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from Adam down.
And on the other side, Lamac was

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the 7th from Adam too, but in
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So there you have your
contemporaries, the 7th from

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Adam.
But in a measure, I think that

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what Jude is telling us is that
he’s really a type of those that

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live at the epoch of the 7th
Millennium ourselves.

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And there is the form of witness
against an evil world against

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which we must battle.
You know, I think that today is

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never before.
The truth should go forth in a

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forthright, belligerent fashion,
so that the world about us

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understands exactly what is
required of us.

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And this is the witness of
Enoch.

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He spake up plainly and showed
the people the error of their

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ways and directed them to
judgements about to fall upon

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that generation.
He is mentioned as we saw before

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in this 11th chapter of Hebrews.
And here we have a further

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commentary upon this man, even
Enoch the 7th from Adam.

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And here we read in verse 5 of
Hebrews Chapter 11 that by faith

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Enoch was translated, that he
should not see death and he was

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not found because God had
translated him.

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Before his translation.
He had this testimony that he

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pleased God.
So you see, there’s a witness

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that he pleased God, He walked
with God and God has given that

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00:28:43,040 –> 00:28:45,920
testimony.
It’s a sort of a judgement upon

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him and then having.
Given that judgement, he

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translated him that he should
not see there and we read in

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that verse those words and was
not found and was not found,

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which means that there was a
search made for him and they

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could not find him.
One day Enoch was there

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00:29:11,440 –> 00:29:17,520
proclaiming the Lord cometh with
10,000 of his Saints, a familiar

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00:29:17,520 –> 00:29:23,160
figure to that generation, and
then he’s not there and people

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00:29:23,160 –> 00:29:28,280
ask where’s Enoch?
They can’t find him, so a search

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is made for him, but they can’t
find me not he’s not to be

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found.
That says it here.

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He was not found.
He’s the 7th from Adam.

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He seems to be a type of this
generation and the time is

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coming, brethren of sisters,
when a search will be made for

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us and we won’t be found when
the Lord Jesus Christ returns.

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Paul says in the Second of
Thessalonians chapter 2 and

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verse one, that we will be
gathered unto him.

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We will be taken unto the Lord
Jesus.

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We will be taken out out of our
immediate circles and to the

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presence of the Lord Jesus
Christ, and our voices will be

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00:30:09,480 –> 00:30:12,120
stilled as far as the witness of
the world is concerned.

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The doors of our halls will be
kept locked and closed.

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Our homes will not be will be
vacated.

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We will not be there and people
will wonder what will happen.

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You imagine the scene, it’s a
real scene.

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But when the Lord returns and
we’re taken out of our homes,

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people are going to ask what’s
gone wrong?

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Where’s these people?
Where have they gone?

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And like in the days of Enoch,
it will be a seven days wonder.

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A search will be made.
Have they all gone away?

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There may be mortgages to be
paid.

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00:30:46,400 –> 00:30:49,120
There may be commitments to be a
full field.

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They can’t do that and they’re
not there to do it.

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And people will wonder what is
the matter.

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00:30:54,320 –> 00:30:59,400
There will be the halls closed
and ultimately I suppose

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somewhere will say, well look,
we’re going to full close up on

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the hall and they will open the
hall and then they’ll see the

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hell out of the coming age or
something like that.

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And then they will know what’s
happened.

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We’ve been taken away.
The Lord has come.

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The witness will be fulfilled.
And I believe it’s good to set

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00:31:14,120 –> 00:31:16,880
forth that witness that the Lord
is coming and this is going to

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happen, and let the world know
it’s.

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00:31:19,240 –> 00:31:23,000
Going to happen.
Whether we let the world know it

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00:31:23,000 –> 00:31:26,560
or not, that’s going to happen.
The Lords going to be going to

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00:31:26,560 –> 00:31:28,280
return.
We’re going to be called to him.

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00:31:28,600 –> 00:31:30,160
These places are going to be
locked.

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Our opportunities will be
closed.

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We will no longer be gathered in
Bible school.

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00:31:35,120 –> 00:31:37,280
We will no longer gathered at
our meetings.

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00:31:37,640 –> 00:31:42,200
The chance the opportunity will
cease and it will be like this

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00:31:42,720 –> 00:31:46,640
and the possibilities are that
we like Enoch may be translated

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that we should not see there.
Thank God that that will be our

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destiny at that particular time.
That we should be like him in

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that that faithful witness that
he has set forth before all

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00:31:58,120 –> 00:32:04,200
mankind at that particular time.
So that in the case of Enoch and

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in the case of of layback, the
way of the world and the way of

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00:32:11,440 –> 00:32:16,600
truth is faithfully set before
us at the beginnings of

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00:32:16,600 –> 00:32:19,800
creation.
So that God has laid it down

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00:32:19,800 –> 00:32:25,800
there what we should do and how
we should act in the face of the

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00:32:25,800 –> 00:32:32,120
growing climax of these times,
in the face of the growing crime

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00:32:32,120 –> 00:32:36,720
and immorality, the decline in
the things of God that is

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00:32:36,720 –> 00:32:41,000
manifested in the world, the
repudiation of principles of

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00:32:41,000 –> 00:32:47,000
righteousness.
Let us walk with God and let us

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00:32:47,000 –> 00:32:53,160
witness faithfully in relation
to the future that God has

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00:32:53,160 –> 00:32:56,480
designed to to set up upon this
earth.

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00:32:57,000 –> 00:33:03,120
You see that little verse and
Enoch walked with God and he was

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not.
This is back in Genesis chapter

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5.
He was not.

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00:33:07,200 –> 00:33:10,360
That is not sound for God took
him.

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00:33:11,480 –> 00:33:14,760
And so you see that was Enoch’s
witness.

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00:33:15,200 –> 00:33:21,160
He had witnessed for for his the
days of Enoch were 365 years.

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00:33:21,840 –> 00:33:29,880
It’s like a lunar, it’s like a
year, a solar year of years, 360

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00:33:29,880 –> 00:33:32,200
years and there.
In.

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The midst of darkness, there was
light.

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00:33:35,800 –> 00:33:38,760
You know, just in passing.
There’s a very interesting

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00:33:38,840 –> 00:33:44,440
statement in the 24th chapter of
Isaiah in which actually our

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00:33:44,440 –> 00:33:49,480
witness, at least in these
times, is the foreshadowed or

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00:33:49,480 –> 00:33:52,320
foretold predicted by eyes are
the prophet.

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00:33:52,800 –> 00:33:56,560
The chapter starts with the
emptying of the land of Israel,

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00:33:56,600 –> 00:33:59,400
scattering of the people of
Israel because of their wicked,

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their disobedience, their
wickedness.

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And when that happens, we read
in verse 13, when it shall be in

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the midst of the land, among the
people, the people of Israel,

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00:34:09,280 –> 00:34:12,320
there shall be as the shaking of
a knowledge tree and as the

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00:34:12,320 –> 00:34:14,960
gleaming grapes when the vintage
is done, a few berries.

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00:34:14,960 –> 00:34:18,880
You see, they shall lift up
their voice, they shall sing for

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00:34:18,880 –> 00:34:21,840
the majesty of Yahweh.
They shall cry around from the

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00:34:21,840 –> 00:34:25,960
sea.
It means from the from lands far

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00:34:25,960 –> 00:34:31,320
removed, Australia, New Zealand,
America, Canada.

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00:34:32,000 –> 00:34:34,800
They shall lift up their voice,
they shall sing for the majesty

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00:34:34,920 –> 00:34:39,280
of Yahweh, they shall fly all
out from the coast to the far

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00:34:39,280 –> 00:34:43,239
extremities of the earth.
And the excitation is to glorify

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00:34:43,239 –> 00:34:45,280
Him in the fires.
Verse 15.

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00:34:45,560 –> 00:34:47,440
But the word in the Hebrew is
you.

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00:34:47,800 –> 00:34:51,920
You, The lights glorify Him as
lights.

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00:34:52,600 –> 00:34:56,080
Even the name of Yahweh, Elohim
of Israel, glorify Him as

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00:34:56,080 –> 00:34:58,120
lights.
That’s the point the brother

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00:34:58,400 –> 00:35:02,320
Lloyd brought out when he
referred us to the statement in

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00:35:02,480 –> 00:35:05,960
Philippians where we should
shine as lights in the world.

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00:35:06,560 –> 00:35:08,920
That’s what Enoch did.
He walked with God.

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00:35:09,080 –> 00:35:13,160
His way of life as well as his
witness by the word of mouth was

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00:35:13,160 –> 00:35:17,360
a testimony to the world that he
knew of what he was speaking.

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00:35:17,680 –> 00:35:21,040
He walked with God.
He lived with a purpose and that

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00:35:21,040 –> 00:35:23,400
purpose was clearly set before
his mind.

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It was the Kingdom of God.
And so in that place in Hebrews

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00:35:28,720 –> 00:35:33,480
we have Abel and then Enoch, and
then the emphasis without faith

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00:35:33,480 –> 00:35:35,520
that is impossible to please
God.

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So back in Genesis we read
concerning Methuselah, the

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oldest man that ever lived.
His name means when he dies it

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00:35:45,720 –> 00:35:48,600
shall come.
And the record shows that

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00:35:48,600 –> 00:35:52,840
Methuselah died in the same year
as the flood.

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What a dramatic moment that
would have been for those who

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00:35:57,000 –> 00:36:02,720
understood.
Here is a boy or a man now whose

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00:36:02,720 –> 00:36:05,120
name means when he dies, it
shall come.

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He would know what that name
meant because his father would

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00:36:08,920 –> 00:36:11,240
have told him.
His relations would have

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00:36:11,240 –> 00:36:16,160
understood that.
But year after year after year

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00:36:16,320 –> 00:36:21,920
after year, rolls die as far as
he is concerned, for he lived

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00:36:21,920 –> 00:36:24,560
nearly 1000 years.
Not quite.

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00:36:25,040 –> 00:36:29,480
He didn’t live a Millennium.
He lived there, however, over

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00:36:29,480 –> 00:36:33,320
900 years, about 969 years of
playing.

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Remember writers down here, he
lived for that period of time,

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00:36:37,000 –> 00:36:40,000
year after year after year until
what would happen.

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00:36:40,240 –> 00:36:44,880
People would get used to it.
They’d take it for granted.

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00:36:44,880 –> 00:36:50,200
I think he’s never going to die.
Or they would lose that sense of

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00:36:50,200 –> 00:36:53,560
urgency.
You know, time and time again in

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00:36:53,560 –> 00:36:57,160
the Bible that’s emphasized.
Do you remember when Joseph

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00:36:57,160 –> 00:36:59,320
died?
Joseph died and he says God

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00:36:59,320 –> 00:37:02,240
shall surely visit you and you
shall take up my bones from

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00:37:02,240 –> 00:37:04,080
hence.
So they put him in a coffin and

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00:37:04,080 –> 00:37:08,800
put him in in Egypt, in the land
of Goshen, in some dark recess.

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00:37:08,960 –> 00:37:12,120
And for year after year after
that, I am sure people would

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00:37:12,120 –> 00:37:15,280
say, look, that confident is a
witness to us that God is going

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00:37:15,280 –> 00:37:17,880
to visit us.
But by the time that God did

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00:37:17,880 –> 00:37:23,360
visit them, they’d forgotten,
and Moses had to wake themselves

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00:37:23,360 –> 00:37:25,360
and wake them up to the
realization of it.

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00:37:25,360 –> 00:37:28,640
They’d forgotten and they were
fully immersed with the things

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00:37:28,640 –> 00:37:31,360
of Egypt.
There was an evidence there.

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Take the taking of Jericho.
You’ll imagine the people locked

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00:37:35,640 –> 00:37:38,840
up in the city of Jericho, and
they see the army of Israel

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00:37:38,920 –> 00:37:41,040
moving across from the river
Jordan.

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00:37:41,320 –> 00:37:44,120
But the army only goes and it
encircles the city and goes

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00:37:44,120 –> 00:37:47,280
back.
Curious thing that next morning,

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00:37:47,400 –> 00:37:51,520
the same thing, very curious.
The 3rd morning, the 4th

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00:37:51,520 –> 00:37:54,880
morning, they didn’t even worry
to watch it, the title.

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00:37:56,080 –> 00:37:59,280
And by the time the 7th day
comes and in fact the walls fall

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00:37:59,280 –> 00:38:01,560
down, they’re all taken off
guard.

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00:38:01,760 –> 00:38:05,440
The walls like that.
The voice of the trumpet, the

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00:38:05,440 –> 00:38:08,920
trumpet of the apocalypse, is
sounding full, but it’s been so

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00:38:08,920 –> 00:38:14,320
continuous that we take.
It all for granted 30 years ago.

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00:38:14,960 –> 00:38:18,880
If we would see the things
happening, what we see today, we

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00:38:18,880 –> 00:38:22,640
would be alerted.
And so we are to measure today.

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00:38:22,960 –> 00:38:28,800
But they happen so continuously,
Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Russia,

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00:38:29,000 –> 00:38:32,560
Israel, the worst, the common
market, everything.

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00:38:32,720 –> 00:38:37,640
So much of it that we taking it
all for granted and therefore

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00:38:37,640 –> 00:38:40,040
that we may lose that sense of
urgency.

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00:38:40,200 –> 00:38:46,800
So it was here, so it was here
because the sons of God did not

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00:38:46,800 –> 00:38:54,200
take heed to that Lamac we are
told in verse 28, and lived for

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00:38:54,440 –> 00:38:59,040
182 years and began a son.
And he called his name Noah,

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00:38:59,040 –> 00:39:03,960
saying this time shall comfort
us concerning our work and toil

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00:39:03,960 –> 00:39:08,240
of our hands because of the
ground which Yahweh cursed.

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00:39:09,960 –> 00:39:12,200
They next looking for the
Messiah.

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00:39:14,360 –> 00:39:18,000
He’s looking for the seed that
will bring the serpent’s head.

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00:39:19,840 –> 00:39:25,000
He calls his son’s name Noah.
And there was kept alive the

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00:39:25,000 –> 00:39:31,480
messianic hope, and his
statement is really a hope that

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00:39:31,480 –> 00:39:34,760
this one Noah may be the
promised seed.

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00:39:35,440 –> 00:39:37,640
And in type he was the promised
seed.

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00:39:37,640 –> 00:39:42,640
As we know, his name means rest.
And he brought rest and comfort

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00:39:42,640 –> 00:39:47,400
to that generation, when of
course it would be washed clean

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00:39:47,640 –> 00:39:52,040
by the flood.
And so that brings us to the 6th

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00:39:52,040 –> 00:39:55,920
chapter of Genesis and the
record of the flood.

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00:39:57,560 –> 00:40:01,400
When we come to the 6th chapter
of Genesis, there is a summary,

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00:40:01,400 –> 00:40:03,600
first of all of what has taken
place.

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00:40:04,120 –> 00:40:07,600
It came to pass when men began
to multiply on the face of the

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00:40:07,600 –> 00:40:09,440
earth.
Now in the Hebrew, I think I may

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00:40:09,440 –> 00:40:12,920
have mentioned this before, the
definite article is given, and

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00:40:12,920 –> 00:40:17,440
in the Hebrew it reads, It came
to pass when the atom began to

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00:40:17,440 –> 00:40:21,400
multiply upon the earth.
Now the atom is called male and

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00:40:21,400 –> 00:40:24,560
female.
So it became to pass, when they

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00:40:24,560 –> 00:40:27,200
began to multiply upon the
earth, and daughters were born

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00:40:27,200 –> 00:40:30,800
unto them.
So they not only had Cain and

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00:40:30,800 –> 00:40:35,520
Abel, they had daughters as well
that were born unto them, that

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00:40:35,520 –> 00:40:38,280
the sons of God saw the
daughters of men.

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00:40:38,840 –> 00:40:41,160
And here again the word is
rendered elsewhere, the

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daughters of other men, that
they were fair.

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00:40:44,760 –> 00:40:48,160
This was the condition in which
they saw themselves, and I think

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00:40:48,160 –> 00:40:52,080
it possibly would have been that
daughter of Lamech, Naima, that

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00:40:52,080 –> 00:40:55,880
led the way in this.
The statement they were fair,

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00:40:55,880 –> 00:40:57,920
actually in the Hebrew can be
rendered.

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00:40:58,120 –> 00:41:03,080
They made themselves fair.
They gave particular attention

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00:41:03,080 –> 00:41:07,000
to that aspect of life.
They made themselves beautiful

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00:41:07,000 –> 00:41:10,480
outward, but not inward.
And that was a pity, and it

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00:41:10,480 –> 00:41:14,640
always is a pity.
Nothing wrong with beauty, I

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00:41:14,640 –> 00:41:20,200
like it very much, but it’s
beauty within that counts for

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00:41:20,200 –> 00:41:24,120
most.
Sarah was a beautiful woman, we

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00:41:24,120 –> 00:41:26,840
are taught.
She was a beautiful woman in

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00:41:26,880 –> 00:41:30,160
every regard.
She was a beautiful woman

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00:41:30,480 –> 00:41:35,920
inwardly and outwardly as well,
and therefore she helped her

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00:41:35,920 –> 00:41:40,280
husband in that way.
The bride of Christ is mentioned

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00:41:40,280 –> 00:41:46,480
in the 45th chapter of the
Psalms, and it says concerning

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00:41:46,480 –> 00:41:50,880
her, the bride of Christ, verse
13, the King’s daughter is all

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00:41:50,880 –> 00:41:56,520
glorious within.
She has a personality that is

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00:41:56,520 –> 00:42:01,880
pleasing to her husband, Christ.
He sees in her a reflection of

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00:42:01,880 –> 00:42:05,080
himself and she’s beautiful
within.

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00:42:05,800 –> 00:42:08,560
It has not made the pop with
outside that counts.

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00:42:09,120 –> 00:42:12,720
It’s real motivation from
within.

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00:42:13,440 –> 00:42:16,960
And that is the difference
between them and the daughters

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00:42:16,960 –> 00:42:21,640
of other men here who had made
themselves fair externally but

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00:42:21,640 –> 00:42:26,280
not internally.
Now archaeologists who have

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excavated an ear of the cow
these and have suggested that

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this may have been the period
before the flood, point out that

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there is no real evidence of
paganism.

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So when we come to this part of
the gods revelation, the 6th

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chapter of Genesis, it’s not so
much a Pagan or idolatrous race

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that we’re considering, but a
godless 1.

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And that’s more difficult.
It’s a godless one.

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It’s the worship of flesh.
It’s the worship of self.

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And so we have a a godless race.
We have a people that are proud

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and arrogant.
We have a people that are

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lawless and totally unconcerned
about God, his revelation or his

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00:43:08,160 –> 00:43:10,520
will.
We have a people that are

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progressing in material things,
that are clever in their way,

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00:43:14,680 –> 00:43:18,600
but as far as spiritual
qualities are concerned, they

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are utterly bankrupt.
That’s the position that

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presents itself in chapter 6,
which is the climax of what

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00:43:26,480 –> 00:43:29,000
we’ve read in chapters four and
five.

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There was also an ecclesial
problem, that separateness was

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being destroyed.
The sons of God took the

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daughters of men and they
married them.

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There was a marriage problem, as
we have it at the present time

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throughout the world, so that
there was a breakdown even in

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the family life within the
ecclesia, so that there was a

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picture of the world in the days
of Noah.

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And Jesus Christ said, as it was
in the days of Noah, so shall it

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be at the coming of the Son of
Man.

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So you had externally in the
family of Lamac and his

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descendants, an attitude of mind
and a way of life that is

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permitted to us today.
And the challenge on this

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ecclesia in the days of of Noah
in his day, the challenge on the

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00:44:18,640 –> 00:44:22,960
ecclesia likewise was affected
thereby.

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The truth was corrupt, and
possibly the long lives of the

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antediluvians had induced in
them a sense of permanency and

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power.
Be that as it may, God says

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this.
My Spirit shall not always

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strive with man for that also He
is flesh.

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00:44:46,720 –> 00:44:54,120
God is saying He’s only flair.
His only flesh and being only

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flesh will get rid of.
Him.

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00:44:57,440 –> 00:45:02,920
You see, when Abraham prayed
unto the Father, he said, I am

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but dust and ashes.
And he approached the Father,

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recognizing his low estate.
I am but dust and ashes, and I

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00:45:13,880 –> 00:45:17,520
presume to come before this.
What do we do with dust and

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00:45:17,520 –> 00:45:20,640
ashes?
You did a vacuum cleaner, pick

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00:45:20,640 –> 00:45:24,320
it up and fling it away and
that’s all.

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00:45:24,320 –> 00:45:31,160
We’re worth unless we put
something in it now what we can.

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00:45:31,160 –> 00:45:34,520
Put in it.
We’ve been virtually told this

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00:45:34,520 –> 00:45:39,520
morning in that reading from
Jeremiah, because there he tells

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00:45:39,520 –> 00:45:44,360
us what he did for Israel, and
we are in the place of Israel

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00:45:44,880 –> 00:45:47,640
and in that 13th chapter of
Jeremiah.

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And the verse 11 we read as the
girdle cleaveth to the loins of

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a man, so have I caused the
Cleveland to be the whole House

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00:45:56,720 –> 00:46:00,720
of Israel, and the whole House
of Judah, that they might be

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00:46:01,120 –> 00:46:07,800
unto me for a people, and a
name, and a praise, and a glory.

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00:46:09,800 –> 00:46:11,440
But they should live to
themselves.

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They should live under God.
They should build into their

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00:46:14,160 –> 00:46:15,840
lives the.
Qualities of God.

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00:46:16,480 –> 00:46:19,000
They should know what those
qualities are, be familiar with

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00:46:19,000 –> 00:46:20,720
them and build them into their
lives.

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00:46:20,880 –> 00:46:23,840
Then they will be for him a
people and a name and a praise

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00:46:23,840 –> 00:46:26,600
and a glory.
But he said they wouldn’t hear

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00:46:27,360 –> 00:46:30,880
because it’s by the process of
hearing that we will learn those

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00:46:30,880 –> 00:46:33,040
qualities and build them into
our lives.

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00:46:33,640 –> 00:46:36,720
The more we study the Word of
God objectively and think about

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00:46:36,720 –> 00:46:40,040
that Word of God, the more our
mind is going to reflect to it.

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00:46:40,640 –> 00:46:43,120
And as a man thinketh in his
heart, so is he.

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00:46:43,440 –> 00:46:46,680
The more we fill our mind with
the things of God, the less we

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00:46:46,680 –> 00:46:49,040
will have time to think of the
things of flesh.

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It’s in the mind that the battle
of life has won or lost.

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In the mind where that is done,
I can say I’m going to do this

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00:46:57,200 –> 00:46:58,920
for God.
I’m going to do that for God,

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00:46:59,080 –> 00:47:02,080
but it’s in the mind that I’m
going to act for God or against

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00:47:02,080 –> 00:47:04,840
God.
And if I allow things to creep

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00:47:04,840 –> 00:47:09,840
into my mind, as unfortunately I
do, if I allow that to happen,

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00:47:10,000 –> 00:47:12,080
then I’m not going to be
pleasing unto God.

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00:47:12,560 –> 00:47:16,240
Because it’s there in the mind
that my will govern my action.

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00:47:16,600 –> 00:47:18,480
Now, you see, Israel was called
out.

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00:47:18,480 –> 00:47:20,720
What for?
Why did he do that?

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00:47:20,840 –> 00:47:22,880
Why did he pour out the flags on
Egypt?

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00:47:23,000 –> 00:47:25,560
Why did he open the Red Sea and
take them through?

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Why did he give the matter in
the wilderness of water out of

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00:47:28,360 –> 00:47:29,600
the lot?
What for?

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That they might be unto me a
people than a name and a.

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Praise and a glory that they
failed and they rotted in the

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00:47:44,880 –> 00:47:50,080
wilderness 2.
Million people on the other side

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of the Red Sea the.
Song of Victory.

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00:47:53,280 –> 00:47:56,000
The song of victory.
A glorious thing.

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We will choose Yahweh for his
goodness.

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00:47:59,400 –> 00:48:03,400
The horse and the rider.
His clash into the sea we’ll

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00:48:03,400 –> 00:48:10,120
save three days later.
You bought it in the reverse

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00:48:10,120 –> 00:48:13,600
that we might die.
That’s flesh.

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00:48:14,240 –> 00:48:17,280
And here God is saying that he’s
only flesh.

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00:48:18,200 –> 00:48:23,240
He’s but flesh that his days
shall be 120 years.

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So is a set time now a set time
for affirmation.

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00:48:28,600 –> 00:48:34,760
Peter says in the first of Peter
chapter 3 he says God waited in

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the days of Noah.
And in the second epistle of

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00:48:38,400 –> 00:48:42,880
Peter chapter 3, he said,
account the long-suffering of

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00:48:42,880 –> 00:48:47,800
God, our salvation, the 1st as
relation of Noah’s day, the last

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00:48:47,800 –> 00:48:50,760
two hours.
This is salvation.

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00:48:50,760 –> 00:48:56,760
God’s God is waiting as he did
then, but in the meantime there

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00:48:56,760 –> 00:49:02,000
is a time of salvation.
So you see 120 years and there’s

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00:49:02,000 –> 00:49:06,320
a set time, you know, there’s a
set time to favour Zion today.

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00:49:06,680 –> 00:49:11,920
We’re told that in Psalm 102 and
this term, the set time is used

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00:49:11,920 –> 00:49:19,080
frequently in the Scriptures.
In Psalm 102 and these words in

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00:49:19,080 –> 00:49:24,520
verse 13, thou shall the rise
and have mercy upon Zion for the

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00:49:24,520 –> 00:49:28,000
time to favour her.
Yeah, the set time has come.

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00:49:30,160 –> 00:49:35,640
Then again in context, verse 16,
when the Lord shall build up

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00:49:35,640 –> 00:49:41,760
Zion, we seen that He shall
appear in His glory the next

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00:49:41,760 –> 00:49:45,480
verse.
This shall be written for the

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00:49:45,480 –> 00:49:53,320
generation to come, not that
generation ours, and the people

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00:49:53,320 –> 00:49:55,880
that shall be created shall
praise Him.

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00:49:56,720 –> 00:50:01,120
Psalm 75 at the set time that I
appoint, I will judge.

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00:50:02,040 –> 00:50:06,440
That’s the House of Hebrews
Chapter 11 and verse four.

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I think it is.
The times are thoroughly

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adjusted to God’s command.
Romans Chapter 11 where the

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apostle Paul says if the casting
away of them be the richest of

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the world, what does the
receiving of them be what we see

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00:50:24,440 –> 00:50:27,640
in Israel today?
Paul says what does that mean?

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It means life from the dead, the
token of the resurrection in the

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land of Israel today.
But take it at the time of the

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00:50:38,280 –> 00:50:42,280
end, the witness of Almighty God
to ask them to the whole.

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00:50:42,560 –> 00:50:45,080
World.
That he’s about to move as it

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00:50:45,080 –> 00:50:50,880
was in the days of Noah, 120
years were appointed and what

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00:50:50,880 –> 00:50:54,040
happened then we hope to outline
tomorrow.