Enoch

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Genesis 5:24

And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

I. WHAT IS MEANT BY ENOCH'S WALKING WITH GOD?

1. That he was well-pleasing to God (Hebrews 11:5). Amity, friendship, intimacy, love.

2. That he realized the Divine presence (Hebrews 11:6). God was to him a living Friend, in whom he confided, and by whom he was loved.

3. That he had very familiar intercourse with the Most High.

4. That his intercourse with God was continuous. He did not take a turn or two with God and then leave His company, but walked with God for hundreds of years. He did not commune with God by fits and starts, but abode in the conscious love of God.

5. That his life was progressive. At the end of two hundred years he was not where he began; he was not in the same company, but he had gone forward in the right way.

II. WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES WERE CONNECTED WITH ENOCH'S WALKING WITH GOD?

1. The details of his life are very few. Quite enough for us to know that he walked with God.

2. It is a mistake to suppose that he was placed in very advantageous circumstances for piety.

(1)  A public man.

(2)  A family man.

(3)  Living in a very evil age. Still he bore his witness for God.

III. WHAT WAS THE CLOSE OF ENOCH'S WALK?

1. He finished his work early.

2. He was missed. "Not found" (Hebrews 11:5).

3. His departure was a testimony.

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