Episode Transcript
- Good morning, or good afternoon, everybody.
I lose track of time, I guess.
It's gonna be the verses.
Camera lady telling me right there's pretty good.
So it's gonna be the verses.
We'll be accompanying with the Book of Jude today.
We'll be going over.
So if you get time there, you wanna look these back up later and here they are to do so.
There we go.
Up from the grave he arose. - All right, what a good looking crowd.
People waiting on me, wanna get here, what a blessing.
Waiting to hear God's truth.
That's wonderful.
I hope everybody's had a wonderful week.
I know there's a couple out and we need to be in prayer for them.
Brother Thomas and his head, according to God's will, and Brother John too.
So we'll miss them when they ain't here. - Amen. - All right, good to see everybody.
Wow, y'all are such a blessing to me.
This is the highlight of my week right here, and I can't think of a better way to kick a Monday off than to come and spend Sunday with y'alls.
This is fantastic.
All right, we're gonna be in the book of Jude today, so we're gonna pick right back up where we left off - Verse 13, but today we're gonna move on to verse 14, God willing.
Jude has been comparing the ungodly to things in nature in verses 12 and 13.
And now Jude is going to shift gears here in verse 14.
And he's gonna let us know that what he is telling us about the ungodly is not just his opinion, but is backed up by an Old Testament prophet as well.
God's word says in the book of Matthew chapter 18 in the second part of the verse, now that little piece of paper that I passed out to everybody, that has 'em.
You'll notice on a little piece of paper it has Matthew there and it's got the verse and there's a little bee beside it.
Not an aunt, not an uncle, but a little bee.
Not a grasshopper, but a bee.
There's a small bee right there beside that right there, if y'all can see it.
I got it on the, yeah.
That little bee means that we're using the second part of the verse.
Now, if we were using just the first part of the verse, we'd have a little A right there beside it.
So, that way we just stay true to what we're trying to do here.
So, we're just using the second part of the verse want to let you know that that's what we're doing.
We're using the second part of the verse.
Now, today we're using the second part of the verse which says that in the mouth of two or three witnesses, every word may be established.
In other words, he's saying you have a witness to what's taking place.
I have a witness to what I'm telling you.
And he's going to be using Enoch as his witness today along with God's Word.
Jude is not just telling us his opinion here, folks.
He is backing up what he has been saying about the ungodly and what is going to happen to them by pointing us back to an Old Testament prophet named Enoch.
It's just like Jude is saying, "If you won't believe what I'm telling you, "please believe Enoch."
I believe preachers should always use God's word to back up what they are telling you, and this is what Jude is doing here.
So let's go ahead and read verses 14 and 15 in the book of Jude, and God willing, let's learn something in God's word today, folks.
So in the book of Jude, we're gonna read verses 14 and 15, and we'll come back and start expounding verse 14.
So Jude has gone from nature, talking and showing us things in nature that represent them godly, and he's gonna say now verse 14, "And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, "prophesied of these, saying, "Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints "to execute judgment upon all, "and to convince all that are ungodly among them "of all their ungodly deeds, "which they have ungodly committed, "and of all their hard speeches, "which ungodly sinners have spoken against them."
Now folks, do you think he's talking about to un-god in here?
(laughs) Brother Doug knows he is.
Now, let's pray.
Heavenly Father, we thank you so much, Lord, for your precious and wonderful word, Lord, that you've blessed us with, Lord, and we're so thankful for those who come to hear you, Father.
And Lord, we just pray, Lord, that you would just let your spirit teach us here today, Lord.
We thank you so much, Lord, for Jesus and for all that you do, Father, for all you do is good, Lord.
We pray that all ears will be attentive today, Lord, and that we'll just be taught, Lord.
Just fill us, Lord, with your word, Lord.
We thank you and love you, Lord, and in Jesus' name we pray, amen. - Amen. - All right, so, in verse 14, he says, "And Enoch also."
The words and and also join things together, don't they?
For instance, I would like to retire as soon as the good Lord wills it, and my wife also would like to retire as well.
Do you see how my wife and I are joined together in the same goal by those words "and" and "also"?
Jude has joined his teaching with that of Enoch's, which is what a Bible teacher should do.
That is what I want to do.
I want to join myself with the Word of God when I am teaching you the Word of God.
I want to be joined to this.
If you are a Bible teacher, stick with what the Bible says and you are doing the right thing.
So who is Enoch?
When I looked up his name, it comes from the Hebrew Chanok, Chanok, C-H-A-N-O-K, Chanok.
And says that he was an antediluvian patriarch.
And since we all know what that is, we'll just go on and move on. [laughter] Alright.
The word antediluvian, I found this was so fascinating.
Folks, when I get to start looking up words and I get into God's word and look up things, it just, oh, it's just wonderful to me.
I enjoy it so much.
I enjoy learning new things in God's word.
Yes, sir, excuse me. - I'm having trouble finding the beat in the hop.
The last four, the four, it's June.
We gotta be in the book of June, so June.
We'll go down here to verse 14. (chatter) There we go.
I should have lent you a more clear, sorry about that.
All right.
Now then, the word antediluvian, it means before the flood.
Before the flood.
And the word patriarch means a forefather.
So we know that Enoch was somebody that lived before the flood.
And he's talking about Noah and the ark.
And when God flooded the earth to rid it of all the evil of humanity, for man only knew evil within their hearts, to wipe out the whole civilization except for Noah and the ones that went in the ark with him.
And that's gonna be important here in a little bit.
We're gonna get to that.
Now so Enoch was an Antediluvian patriarch.
He was before the flood.
His time took place before the flood at this current time.
And we're going to talk about that in a little bit too.
Enoch was the son of Jared.
And to stay with God's word, let's look at this for ourselves.
So let's turn to the book of Genesis, the very first book in your Bible, folks.
Genesis.
We're gonna see if we need to start learning how to do this.
We're gonna turn to the book of Genesis.
Very good, Don.
And we're gonna go to chapter five.
Genesis five.
And we're gonna start at verse 15.
Genesis chapter five, and if you need some help, let me know.
We want all eyes on God's Word.
Genesis chapter five.
You find it, Miss Becky?
You find it, bro? - Yes, sir. - All right.
Yeah, we're gonna start verse 15.
One more over.
You probably got it.
Everybody got it?
You got it, Miss Mary?
You found it, Tom?
Verse 15, chapter, we're gonna start at verse 15.
And chapter five.
So right now you're in chapter one. - Book. - So chapter five, yes. (chattering) There we go, chapter five. - Chapter five. - Chapter five, and we're gonna start reading at verse 15.
Now if you want to, during your personal Bible reading time, you can start at verse 1 in chapter 15 and you can trace Enoch's genealogy all the way back to Adam.
But for the sake of time, we're going to pick up his genealogy from his grandfather.
We're going to pick it up from his grandfather.
So is everybody in the book of Genesis chapter 5?
Here we go, we're gonna start at verse 15.
And he says, "And Mehalalil lived sixty and five years and begat Jared."
That means Mehalalil had Jared.
Jared was his son.
And Mahaloleel lived, after he beget Jared, 830 years and beget sons and daughters.
And all the days of Mahaloleel were 890 and five years and he died.
Can you imagine folks living 890 and five years?
895 years. - I would not want to live that long in this present world.
I can tell you that for a fact.
When it's my turn to go and the good Lord calls me home, they try to drag me back, they'll drag me back, clawing and screaming because I don't have none. 895 years is a long time to be living on this old world.
Verse 18, about 518, "And Jared lived and hundred sixty and two years and see what it says, and he begat Enoch.
This is the Enoch that we're talking about over here in the book of Jude.
So Enoch, his daddy is Jared.
Jared's daddy is Mahalaleel.
And like I was telling you earlier, you can go back and you can start at verse one in chapter fifteen and it will bring you all the genealogy all the way down.
It'll give you Mahalo Little's daddy and his daddy and so and so and it's a lot of genealogy reading.
And Jared lived after he begat Enoch 800 years and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 520.
And all the days of Jared were 960 and two years and he died.
That's important. and he died.
Jared.
Jared was Enoch's father.
And Enoch lived sixty-five years and begat Methuselah.
So Enoch was living for sixty-five years and then he had a child named Methuselah.
And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years and beget sons and daughters.
And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty and five years.
Three hundred and sixty-five years.
And then the next verse says, And Enoch walked with God.
And look at it, folks.
Verse twenty-four.
And he was not, for God took him.
Do y'all read any word where it says, "And he died?"
No.
It's because he didn't.
God took him.
The words "God took him" means "accepted."
God accepted him right up.
He walked with God.
Folks, I'll tell you what.
He walked with God.
God took him.
That is leading the perfect life that we cannot lead.
God allows no sin in heaven, right?
So you got to think what kind of man Enoch was in order for God just to take him right on up to heaven.
What kind of man was he?
And still is, by the way. - Yes.
Adam and Eve walked with the presence of God in the Garden of Eden when they were first created.
But they disobeyed God by unbelief.
Let's look at the aftermath of their disbelief.
After God had told them not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and and how their unbelief costs them their privilege of walking with the presence of the Lord.
So you're still in the book of Genesis?
Let's turn to chapter 3 in Genesis.
Let's turn to chapter 3.
You're 5?
You got it, Don.
I think you're hot on the trail there.
Chapter 3.
Just turn back to chapter 3 a couple of... two chapters and you'll be in chapter three. - What verse? - We're gonna start at, let's see here.
Start at verse six, that's where we're gonna pick up, verse six.
Oh, I guess I need to get there too, don't I?
Genesis chapter three, we're gonna start at verse six.
Chapter 3, verse 6.
Now then, we're going to see how their unbelief costs them their privilege of walking with the presence of the Lord.
It says here in verse 6, "And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that "and it was pleasant to the eyes.
"And a tree to be desired to make one wise, "she took of the fruit thereof and did eat, "and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat."
Now, before this, God had told them, "Do not eat of that tree, do not touch that tree, "lest ye die."
We can see here in verse six, They didn't believe God.
Unbelief.
They didn't believe God.
So they did eat.
And she gave all sorts of her husband whatever and he did eat.
They both ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil after God had told them not to do it, unless they died.
They didn't believe him.
Folks, we're telling people nowadays about Jesus Christ and how he died for their sins.
There's people out there that don't believe.
They go, "Ah, I don't believe that."
There's going to come a time.
I heard Brother Adrian Rogers says, "There's no atheists in hell.
There's no atheists in hell.
They're all believers."
But then it's too late.
It's too late.
And the eyes of them both were opened and they knew that they were naked and they so fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.
And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.
They heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.
And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
They ran from God.
They ran from God.
A lot of people run from God nowadays.
And the Lord God called unto Adam and said unto him, "Where art thou?"
God calls to us folks.
And a lot of people just have a stiff neck and they don't want to listen.
They want to ignore God.
And he said, "I heard thy voice in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked and I hid myself."
And he said, "Who told thee that thou was naked?
Hast thou eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?"
God already knew.
God knew that they've already, when he gets what he said.
He wasn't asking him a question that he did not know the answer to.
And the man said, "The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat."
So he starts blaming Eve.
Folks, we all have to make our own choices.
Adam chose to disobey God.
And the Lord God said unto the woman, "What is it that thou hast done?"
And the woman said, "The serpent beguiled me and I did eat."
She believed the serpent over what God had told her.
She believed the serpent over what God had told her.
What a terrible choice.
But there's a lot of people that do that today.
They believe what this world offers over what God tells us.
They believe that it's more fun to go golfing on Sundays.
They believe it's more fun to go hang out at the bar.
They believe it's more fun to go fishing.
They believe it's more fun to go do this, that, or the other.
Take the kids to the soccer matches.
They believe that's more fun than what God tells us.
God tells us, "Not forsaking the assembly of thyselves."
But people believe what the world's telling them instead of what God is telling us.
Sad.
I wanna tell you something.
I was one of those people at one time.
I used to believe what the world said too 'til God opened my eyes.
And now I wanna believe, I do believe every word that comes in this book right here.
And the Lord God said unto the serpent, because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle and above every beast of the field upon thy belly shalt thou go, and thus shalt thou eat all the day of thy life.
And I will put in the teeth between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed, and shalt bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Unto the woman, he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception.
In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children, and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
And unto Adam he said, because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, thou shalt not eat of it, curse is the ground for thy sake, and sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
Thorns-- - I'm in tears, Shopee.
"Mourns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it was thou taken, for thus thou art, and unto thus thou shalt return."
What I want you to see through all those verses there, folks, there is consequences to our choices. consequences to not believing what God has said.
God tells you something, believe Him.
And Adam called his wife's name Eve because she was the mother of all living.
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skin and clothe them.
The consequences that you, I mean the choices that you make, folks, don't have to be the final choice that you make.
I have made so many bad choices in my life.
I have chose the wrong so many times when I wish I would have just believed God and chose right.
But like God made coats of skin for Adam and Eve, He made a coat of skin for us too, folks.
He made a covering for us and His name is Jesus Christ who died on the cross for our sins.
You are covered through the blood of Jesus Christ, folks.
Amen.
You have to believe, for by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves.
It is the gift of God, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son.
What is a gift?
It's something that is given to you.
God gave us his only begotten Son to die for our sins.
Just like Adam and Eve messed up and made a mistake, they were forgiven by the shed blood of innocent animals.
We're forgiven through the shed blood of Christ.
Don't let a bad mistake be your last.
It wasn't mine.
Amen.
And the Lord God said, "Behold, the man is become as one of us to know good and evil.
And now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live forever, therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken."
So he drove out the man.
He drove out the man.
And he placed at the east of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flanging sword which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life."
Enoch believed the Lord.
Adam and Eve chose not to believe the Lord.
They were separated from the presence of the Lord.
They were kicked out of the Garden of Eden, separated.
Enoch believed the Lord.
Let's look at Hebrews chapter 11 verses five through seven.
We got you marked there.
Hebrews chapter 11.
Hebrews chapter 11. - Make it this way and back here. - Hebrews chapter 11.
"Enoch believed the Lord."
Enoch believed the Lord.
Everybody there?
Hebrews chapter 11 verse 5.
By faith, Enoch was translated that he should not see death.
Remember all the forefathers he had there and they died, and they died.
Enoch didn't.
By faith, Enoch was translated that he should not see death and was not found because God had translated him.
For before his translation, he had this testimony that he pleased God.
Faith, he believed God.
That word translated means to transfer or transport, exchange or change sides.
Enoch went from the side of living on the earth to the side of living with the Lord.
He was transported from the earth to be with the Lord.
Hebrews 11, 6 says, "But without faith, it is impossible to please Him."
Adam and Eve did not believe that.
They did not believe.
But without faith, it is impossible to please Him.
For he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him."
Hebrews 11 says, "By faith, Noah being warned of God of things not seen as yet."
Adam and Eve were warned by God.
They chose not to believe.
Noah was warned by God of things he hadn't seen yet.
For by, let's see, we walk by faith, not by sight.
Noah did not see, but he chose to believe the Lord.
By faith, Noah being warned of God of things not seen as yet.
This whole book right here warns us, it warns us of things to come, of things that have passed and of things that are.
By faith you accept it.
We walk by faith, not by sight. choose to believe.
By faith Noah being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house, by the which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
Now I wanted to include that verse with Noah in it.
Noah believed the Lord.
And by the way, Enoch was the grandfather of Noah.
Genesis 5.25.
Genesis 5.25.
Go back to Genesis, don't worry about it.
Genesis 5 .25.
We're gonna back up what we say with God's word.
Enoch was the grandfather of Noah.
That was so cool.
Genesis 5, 25.
You getting there?
(murmuring) - No, no. (murmuring) Genesis 5, 25. (audience chattering) You got it, Miss Becky? - Yes. - All right, Genesis 5 .25.
We're gonna read this together.
Now it says, "Enoch was the grandfather of Noah."
Genesis 5.25 says, "And Methuselah," remember we talked about Methuselah a while ago, "he lived 187 years and begat Lamech."
Now remember, Methuselah, y'all remember whose son he was?
He was Enoch's son.
Methuselah was Enoch's son.
And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech 780 and 2 years and begat sons and daughters.
And all the days of Methuselah were 960 and 9 years.
And he died.
And he died.
Genesis 5.28.
And Lamech lived an hundred, eighty, and two years and began his son.
And he called his name Noah.
That's right.
And he called his name Noah, saying, "This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed."
Genesis 530, we're closing this out here.
And Lamech lived after he begat Noah 590 and 5 years and begat sons and daughters.
And all the days of Lamech were 770 and 7 years and he died.
And Noah was 500 years old and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Now mom and dads, what are you passing down to your children?
I messed up so much when my child was young and I was not teaching him the things I should have been teaching him when it comes to God's Word.
I thank God that he has blessed me with the time to show my child that there is a different way than the one I used to show him.
We don't have to live ungodly, folks.
We don't have to.
You make a choice.
We can choose to live godly through believing God and accepting His only begotten Son as the one who paid for all our sins.
Faith in Christ will change your life.
I'm standing here before you in a changed band.
"Grandparents, what are you teaching your children?
"What are you teaching your grandchildren?"
I'm so thankful that my grandchild, she was too young to know how I used to be.
And she has grown to know, and the papa that stands here and tells people about Jesus.
My son, he sees a man up here telling people about Jesus now.
He has to make his choices whether he wants to choose Jesus or not.
I believe he has, but only he and God know.
Only he and God know.
We'll close, folks.
Heavenly Father, we thank you so much, Lord, for your word.
Thank you, Father, for each and every blessing you've bestowed on us. upon us, Lord.
We sure thank you, Lord, for the people that come to hear your word taught, Father.
And Lord, I pray, Lord, that the saints were edified here today, Father, and that the laws were appointed to you, Father.
Help us, Lord, just to absorb your word, Lord, and carry it with us and keep it, Lord, and just hold on to it, Lord.
Help us to be able point others to Christ, Lord.
Just like Enoch did back in the day, Lord, pointing people.
Help us to point people to you too, Lord.
Help us do what Jude is doing, Lord, and point people to you as well, Father.
Lord, we know there's a difference between godly and ungodly, Father, and we pray for the ungodly that you'll open their eyes to Christ, Lord.
We pray that they'll seek you, Father.
Thank you for another lesson here, Father, that you blessed us with and shared.
And Lord, we just thank you so much, Lord.
We wanna pray for those who are sick, Father, those who are recovering for surgery.
We wanna pray for John, Father, and Thomas, Lord.
And just pray that your will be done in their lives, and Don as well, Father.
We pray your will be done in each and every person's life that is here today, Father, and ones that come to seek your face, Father.
We just thank you so much.
I want to pray for the caregivers that are here, Lord, and pray that they care for these folks like you would, Lord.
Thank you for your love and kindness and your mercy and grace.
And we thank you for the one that took our place, Lord.
Thank you for Jesus, Father.
And in his name we pray, amen.
>> Amen.
