Good Morning all,
I hope and pray you all had a safe and blessed weekend… We did for sure as we had our 9th annual Old Paths Preachers Meeting the 11th-13th, what a blessing !!!
My thoughts today come from one of the sermons preached by Pastor Danny Farley, concerning Enoch, who ‘walked with God’ (Genesis 5.22 & 24). A quick study will find that the days of Enoch overlapped with the days of Noah. In these days the people ate, drank and rose up to play, they married and were given in marriage. Genesis 6 tells us that the imaginations of the people were continually evil. It was a time of complete iniquity (lawlessness) where mankind did that which was right in their own eyes; whatever felt good they did. The time was ruled by adultery, fornication, murder, deceit, robbery, sensuality etc. Yet in all this, Enoch walked with God!
Fast forward 4000 years and we have today’s society… Not too unlike it was in the days of Enoch, Noah and later even Lot. Mankind today lives by the rule of what seems right in their own eyes, they dictate to others what will benefit them the greatest. Adultery, fornication, thievery, sensuality deceit and murder reign in the world today and sad enough to say even in many churches. To get a good idea of the imaginations of mankind today, just look at the latest CD and box office sales; it will not take long to understand that mankind imaginations are simply evil continually.
Yet in all this, we can still walk with God! Enoch has been given unto us as an example, of how we are to live. He did not camouflage himself to be as the world, nor did he put a ‘moral slant’ on an immoral activity… He just walked with God. We can, even in the insanity of today’s world, walk with God…we can today even when the everything and everyone around us is going the way of Cain, walk with God. In doing so, God will honor it and bless us. We just need to remember that Enoch was in the world, but truly not of the world….for he walked with God!
Have a wonderful day!
Today in History:
1716 – Boston Light, the first lighthouse in America, in kindled for the first time.
1814 – Francis Scott Key writes “The Star Spangled Banner” after watching the British bombard Fort McHenry in Baltimore during the War of 1812.
1847 – U.S. forces, including Marines, capture Mexico City and raise the flag over the “halls of Montezuma.”
Til the Shout,
Dr. B.J. Stagner Jr.
Pastor
New Testament Baptist Church
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