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 Let's read together from Genesis chapter 4, verses 17 through chapter 5, verse 3.

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 And then we'll have a little bit more in Genesis chapter 5.

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! And then we'll flip over to Hebrews 11, which is what our sermon series is based on right now.

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 So there's Bibles at the back.

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 If you'd like one, feel free anytime to get up and grab one.

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 If you'd like a hard copy of a Bible, they're just on the back table.

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 And if you're here tonight and you're exploring Christianity and you don't have a Bible,

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 please take one of those with you.

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 We want you to take that.

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 And we'll read together now from God's Word.

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 It's also printed in the bulletin and will be on the screen as well.

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 Cain knew his wife and she conceived and bore Enoch.

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 When he built a city, he called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch.

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 Enoch was born Erod, and Erod fathered Mahu-jael, and Mahu-jael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech.

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 And Lamech took two wives.

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 The name of the one was Adah and the name of the other, Zillah.

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 Adab were Jabal.

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 He was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.

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 His brother's name was Jubal.

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 He was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe.

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 Zillah also bore Tubal-Cain.

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 He was the forger of all instruments of bronze and iron.

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 The sister of Tubal-Cain was Na'amah.

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 And Lamech said to his wives,

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 Ada and Zillah, hear my voice.

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 You wives of Lamech, listen to what I say.

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 I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.

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 If Cain's revenge is sevenfold, then Lamech's is seventy-sevenfold.

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 And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and called his name Seth.

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 For she said, God has appointed for me another offspring instead of Abel, for Cain killed him.

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 To Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh.

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 And at that time people began to call upon the name of the Lord.

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 Chapter 5 says,

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 This is the book of the generations of Adam.

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 When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.

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 Male and female, he created them, and he blessed them, and he named them man when they were created.

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 And when Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

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 And then down to verse 18 to 24 of this chapter.

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 When Jared had lived 162 years, he fathered Enoch.

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 Jared lived, after he fathered Enoch, 800 years, and had other sons and daughters.

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 Thus all the days of Jared were 962 years, and he died.

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 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he fathered Methuselah, and Enoch walked with God.

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 And after he fathered Methuselah, 300 years, and had other sons and daughters.

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 Thus all the days of Enoch were 365 years.

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 Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.

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 And from our sermon series text, Hebrews 11, we read,

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 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

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 For by it the people of old received their commendation.

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 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God,

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 so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.

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 By faith, Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain,

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 through which he was commended as righteous.

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 God commending him by accepting his gifts.

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 And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.

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 By faith, Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death.

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 And he was not found, because God had taken him.

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 Now, before he was taken, he was commended as having pleased God.

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 And without faith, it is impossible to please him.

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 For whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists,

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 and that he rewards those who seek him.

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 This is God's word.

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 Thank you, Corey.

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 It's great to be back with you in St. Columbus,

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 and to get to share with you on Enoch.

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 Now, as Corey said, we're doing a series of sermons at the moment,

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 going through Hebrews 11,

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 which is one of the most important chapters in the whole Bible,

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 in making sense of what it means to be a Christian,

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 because the chapter begins with the definition of faith that Corey just read.

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 Faith is something that gives you assurance of what you hope for.

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 So your hope is not just wishful thinking.

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 It's not cognitive dissonance.

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 It's actually something somehow that assures you in life.

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 And that assurance then shapes a deep conviction in this life,

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 based on things that you can't see or that you haven't seen,

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 and yet it grounds you, that conviction grounds you

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 in how you live in this world of things that you can see.

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 And then not just that, but it gives you that definition,

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 and then after that it gives you example after example after example

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 of that definition lived out in the lives of people from the Bible,

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 in the Old Testament.

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 So last week David preached on the first of those people, on Abel.

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 Abel, the brother of Cain, who offered God a better sacrifice by faith,

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 who was murdered by his brother Cain,

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 and yet being dead by faith he still speaks.

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 But tonight we're looking at Enoch.

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 And we just read the verses there about Enoch who did not die,

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 who was taken by God.

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 And what we're presented with there is a really strange story.

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 And it's different to Abel's story in obvious ways.

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 Abel is the story of someone who died,

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 and Enoch is the story of someone who did not.

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 Abel is the story of someone who by faith did something.

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 By faith he offered a better sacrifice than Cain.

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 But Enoch is the story of someone to whom something was done by faith.

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 By faith he was taken.

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 By faith he did not see death.

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 And that God took him from this life,

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 and he bypassed death entirely.

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 Now if you hear that and wonder,

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 is that a metaphor?

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 Or are you saying God really transported Enoch from earth straight to heaven?

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 Well, so the word that Hebrews 11 uses here,

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 which we have as something like taken in our English translation,

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 comes up in a couple of other important places in the New Testament.

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 Just to give you a sense of what this is really saying.

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 In the book of Acts,

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 when it's talking about Joseph,

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 the prince of Egypt who died there,

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 his bones being transported from Egypt to Canaan,

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 it's this word.

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 The bones began in one place and ended somewhere else.

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 Paul uses the same word in Galatians,

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 when he's talking about people who started off saying they believed the Christian message,

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 and then who ended up saying that they didn't.

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 They started in one place,

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 and they ended up in another.

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 And what Hebrews 11 is really saying,

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 is that there was a man called Enoch who started off in one place,

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 in this world,

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 in this life where we are,

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 and ended up somewhere else,

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 taken directly into the bosom of God,

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 bypassing death entirely.

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 And, of course,

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 Enoch isn't the first person in Hebrews 11 to make that journey.

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 Abel did the same thing.

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 Abel went from this life to the next.

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 Abel went from this world of sin and suffering and sorrow

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 into the presence of God.

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 But Abel made that journey through death,

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 and Enoch didn't.

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 And God simply took him.

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 And after telling us that,

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 the next verse then looks back on Enoch's life,

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 on the kind of character of life that he had.

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 And that tells us about what faith looked like in his life.

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 Enoch's life pleased God.

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 He believed that God exists,

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 and he believed that God rewards those who seek him.

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 In our culture,

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 when you hear,

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 he believed that God exists,

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 maybe you hear that,

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 and you think,

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 okay,

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 so he accepted an idea,

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 and a dry idea,

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 like something you would maybe accept

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 because you've been to a philosophy lecture,

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 an intellectual proposition,

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 just like saying,

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 I believe in gravity,

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 or I believe in human rights,

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 or I believe that white wine goes better

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 than red wine with chicken.

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 But that's,

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 when he says,

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 when it's talking about you must believe that God exists,

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 it's talking about something completely different.

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 Now,

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 if you read some other English translations of Hebrews 11,

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 maybe you'll see a translation that says,

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 whoever comes to God must believe that God is.

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 Okay?

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 It's a different way to translate the verse.

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 It's a hard verse to translate into English.

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 So that God is.

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 That's the thing that you must believe.

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 And it's not talking about the existence of God

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 simply as an idea,

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 as a proposition.

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 Instead,

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 what it's saying is what you find throughout the whole of the Bible

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 in how God reveals himself to people.

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 Okay?

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 Think back to when God reveals himself to Moses.

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 Moses,

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 the burning bush.

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 And Moses asks God,

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 who are you?

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 What is your name?

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 And God reveals his name by saying,

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 I am who I am.

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 Okay?

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 And Jesus identifies himself with this as well.

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 You know,

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 at one point when he's debating with the Pharisees about Abraham,

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 and he said something that can sound really strange

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 until you get that he's identifying himself

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 as the God who spoke to Moses

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 when Jesus said,

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 before Abraham was,

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 I am.

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 That he is who he is.

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 That he is God who comes to you on his own terms.

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 That he is not just an idea,

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 that he is reality.

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 That he is the living God.

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 And that is how Enoch came to God.

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 Wanting God on God's own terms.

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 Wanting the God who is.

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 Wanting the living God.

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 Wanting God.

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 So Enoch is someone whose life

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 is a life of desire for God.

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 And Enoch wanted God as God really is.

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 Knowing that everything that God showed Enoch about himself

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 was so good.

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 And so true.

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 And so beautiful.

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 That God was what Enoch wanted.

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 More than anything else.

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 And God was happy to give Enoch the one thing that he wanted.

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 And that is why God took Enoch directly to himself.

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 You see, who was Enoch?

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 Well, Enoch is the man in the Bible

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 whose wildest dream came true.

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 Enoch is the man in the Bible

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 who got everything he ever wanted.

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 Because the thing that he wanted was God.

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 As God really is.

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 And maybe at this point though you're wondering,

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 well how do you know all that about Enoch

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 just from this verse in Hebrews 11?

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 Because it doesn't say that much about him.

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 How does, what was his actual life like?

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 How does whoever wrote Hebrews 11

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 know what Enoch's life was like?

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 And the answer to that is way back early on

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 in the book of Genesis.

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 And it's why we read those verses

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 from Genesis 4 and Genesis 5.

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 So the Enoch that we're talking about,

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 and you may have noticed that there were two Enochs

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 in those readings.

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 Two separate people, same name,

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 they're actually cousins.

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 But the Enoch that we're talking about

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 in Hebrews 11 is the Enoch from Genesis 5,

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 from the family tree of Seth.

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 And where we find him in a really strange genealogy.

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 And the story of Enoch there in Genesis 5

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 is a hard one for people to make sense of

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 in our culture because the details that we get about him

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 come to us in a genealogy.

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 And it's a strange one for us to read

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 because the genealogy focuses on people's ages.

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 And the ages seem almost impossible for us to imagine.

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 People living to be 900 years old.

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 And the details of his life in the midst of all of that

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 aren't obvious.

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 Genesis 5 does not tell us

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 what did Enoch do as a job.

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 It doesn't tell us who he was married to.

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 It doesn't give us any stories

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 of things he did in his life.

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 So for people from our culture,

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 it'd be really easy to read Genesis 5

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 and think, well, we don't really know anything about Enoch

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 or what his life was actually like.

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 Because we find him in a genealogy

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 where all we see is names and numbers.

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 But if that's what you do,

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 the good news for you is you're doing it wrong.

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 And what I want to show you

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 is that if you want to make,

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 that we can make a lot of sense of Enoch

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 as we find him in Genesis 5.

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 But the way that you have to do that

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 is by reading Genesis 4 and Genesis 5 together,

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 side by side, the tale of the two Enoch's.

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 One who lived by faith and one who didn't.

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 And when you do that and you see them there,

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 you see that the stories are family trees,

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 each with an Enoch, as I said, these cousins.

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 And you see the shape of a life defined by faith,

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 a life of walking with God,

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 and you see a life that is the opposite.

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 And it's in that contrast that you start to see

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 what the Enoch who lived by faith was really like.

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 So let's start off in Genesis 4 though,

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 with the faithless Enoch.

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 So Genesis 4,

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 Corey read from the part where Cain has a son.

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 But Genesis 4 before that,

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 just to give you a really short summary,

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 it starts off in the background with Adam and Eve.

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 They begin in the Garden of Eden.

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 They're there in paradise.

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 They walk with God.

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 And they're led astray by a lying serpent.

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 They try to replace God.

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 And they sin against him.

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 And they're cast out of the garden.

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 But as God does that,

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 he gives Eve a promise

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 that one day,

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 one of her descendants will come

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 and will undo the fall.

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 And the paradise will be restored.

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 The paradise that has been lost.

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 But the promise also has a key detail,

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 which is that from now on,

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 the descendants who come from them,

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 the human race, the world,

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 is going to be divided into two groups.

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 And one group will believe the promise

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 that has been given to Eve.

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 And the other group will side with the serpents.

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 And they will live by his lies.

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 And then what happens at the beginning of Genesis 4,

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 as you'll know if you were here last week,

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 is that this is immediately the case

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 with their first two sons, Cain and Abel.

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 And that Cain believes that the serpent's lies

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 and Abel lives by the promise given to Eve.

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 And then Cain kills Abel.

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 And then God sends Cain out into the world

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 to be someone who walks,

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 but who walks as a loner.

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 He's a wanderer and a vagabond.

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 And he's someone whose own parents walked with God,

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 but he's the ultimate loner in the world.

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 And that then is where we pick up the story

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 in Genesis 4 where we read,

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 because what comes from there on

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 into the rest of Genesis 4 is a family tree.

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 It's what happens next with Cain and his family.

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 Because Cain then,

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 and it's a much easier family story,

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 genealogy for us to make sense of,

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 to read than what comes in Genesis 5.

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 So Cain has a son,

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 and he names his son Enoch.

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 And Cain is a rootless person

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 who's wandering away from God,

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 wandering away from humanity's true home,

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 but he doesn't want his son Enoch to feel like that.

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 So look at what he does

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 to try and make his son Enoch feel rooted somewhere,

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 like he belongs somewhere,

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 like he has a paradise to call his own.

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 He finds a city,

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 and he names the city Enoch.

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 And that the message that this Enoch hears

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 from his own father is,

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 this world is yours.

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 It has your name on it.

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 Most of you will know who the artist Banksy is.

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 He paints things on walls that just appear.

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 For a while, Banksy had a rival artist

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 who would turn up whenever Banksy

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 had just finished a painting,

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 and the rival artist would add his own name to it

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 to take credit for it.

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 Team Robo, apparently.

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 I'm not sure if Team Robo is still doing this,

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 but this is what Cain does for his son Enoch

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 by stamping his son's name on this world.

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 Ownership.

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 This is yours.

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 This is the place that will satisfy your desires.

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 So Enoch, this Enoch grows up there

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 in a city named after himself,

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 and he has a family,

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 and in the chapter is his family tree,

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 and in that family he has a descendant called Lamech.

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 And by this point,

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 the unbelief that their family is based on

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 really grows into its final boss form.

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 It's really fully arbed at this point.

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 Because Lamech was a complicated man.

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 He has three sons,

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 and they are exceptionally talented in different areas,

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 in music, technology, agriculture.

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 Enoch Lamech, this guy,

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 is the first man in the Bible to take two wives,

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 Ada and Zillah,

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 against the will of God.

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 He confesses to being a murderer,

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 like his ancestor Cain.

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 He controls his wives through fear and intimidation.

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 He's talented with words.

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 So when Corey read the chapter there,

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 and Lamech starts saying,

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 hear my voice,

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 wives of Lamech, Ada and Zillah.

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 And he boasts about having killed a man.

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 It's a piece of poetry.

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 It's a song.

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 It's a lyric.

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 And he uses that gift to control people

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 through the power of fear.

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 And above all that,

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 what you can see from his poem

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 is that this Lamech,

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 this descendant of the faithless Enoch,

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 he does not believe or live by

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 the promise of forgiveness

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 that was given to Eve.

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 And you can see that because he said,

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 if Cain's revenge is sevenfold,

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 and maybe, incidentally,

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 when Corey read that,

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 you just glossed over it.

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 Cain's revenge.

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 But actually what you see here

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 is the lie that they live by.

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 Because this is the family's origin story,

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 as Cain has told it to his own descendants.

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 That Cain wasn't the aggressor.

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 That Cain did the right thing.

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 That he was just taking revenge.

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 That it was actually Abel who started it.

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 That Abel had it coming.

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 That Abel was really the one

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 who was in the wrong.

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 So they live by this lie.

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 And then if that revenge for Cain

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 was sevenfold,

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 Lamech's will be 77fold.

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 He does not believe in forgiveness.

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 He believes in exponential vengeance

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 and violence.

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 You see, he believes in revenge

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 rather than forgiveness.

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 And he lives by a cycle of retribution,

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 not grace.

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 And his life is all about

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 clinging to power

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 in this worldly city

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 by whatever means necessary.

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 And the family's values

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 are actually so opposite the gospel

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 that this is what Jesus was referring to

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 when he taught in forgiveness.

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 And he said to his disciples,

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 if someone wrongs you,

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 forgive them 77fold.

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 Jesus is saying,

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 we must be the opposite

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 of the family of Cain and Lamech

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 and that other Enoch.

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 So you see,

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 there is an Enoch in the Bible

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 before the Enoch that we meet

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 in Hebrews 11.

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 And this is the world

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 that that Enoch creates

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 and the family that comes after him.

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 And it's a world where desire

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 is disordered left, right, and center.

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 And you don't have to spend too long

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 looking at Genesis 4

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 to see that we're still in that world.

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 And that the world of Cain

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 and his son Enoch

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 and his descendant Lamech

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 is still the world that we live in.

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 Is it hard for you to imagine

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 a world of petty egos,

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 of power being worshipped,

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 or women being treated as objects,

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 or good things like art

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 and music being misused

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 for terrible purposes,

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 where human beings stamp their own names

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 in their tiny patches of this world

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 as though they own the whole thing,

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 and where we all expect

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 something in this world

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 to satisfy our ultimate desires?

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 So that Enoch is really relatable.

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 But showing you the other Enoch

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 is harder work.

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 That's what we're going to try and do.

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 See, when Genesis 4 comes to an end

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 and that first Enoch's family tree ends,

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 we find another new character

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 being introduced,

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 and that is Seth.

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 So this is another brother

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 to Cain and Abel.

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 So Adam and Eve have this third son, Seth.

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 And Seth, like Abel,

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 believed in the promise

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 that had been given to Eve.

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 He's someone who looks for God.

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 He prays.

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 He calls on the name of the Lord.

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 And those who come after him

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 and his family do the same.

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 And that then takes us into Genesis 5,

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 which is another family tree.

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 And that's where we find the Enoch

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 who comes up in Hebrews 11.

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 Now Genesis 5

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 is one of the hardest chapters

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 in the Bible

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 for people from our culture

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 to make sense of.

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 And that makes it hard

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 for us to understand Enoch.

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 Like I said before,

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 it's a list of names.

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 And we didn't read the whole chapter,

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 but if you remember what Corey read

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 or if you have the Bible

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 in front of you,

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 it's a list of names.

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 There are 10 generations,

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 10 names.

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 So 10 names,

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 each with three dates.

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 So the age that this patriarch was

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 when he became a father,

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 and then the number of years

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 that he lives for afterwards,

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 and then the third number

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 is the total number of years

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 of his life.

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 So it's a really different way

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 to tell a family story

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 than what you find in Genesis 4,

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 which is, you know,

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 narrative and gritty details

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 and songs.

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 But it's a really important difference

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 to grasp.

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 And there are some things

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 that are a strange parallel

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 to Cain's family,

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 because Cain's family

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 is centered on Cain,

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 an Enoch,

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 and a Lamech.

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 And Seth's family

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 also has a Seth,

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 well, it begins with a Seth

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 instead of Cain,

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 but then also another Enoch

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 and another Lamech.

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 But they're completely

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 different people,

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 because the thing

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 that they live by

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 is completely different.

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 So the resemblances

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 are really superficial.

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 But when you get into,

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 try to read Genesis 5,

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 it's really hard to make sense of,

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 because we're talking

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 about such huge numbers.

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 You know,

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 it's where Methuselah

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 is 969 and so on.

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 And I think

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 in our kind of culture,

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 we don't really know

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 how to read a text like this.

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 Because in our culture,

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 numbers are things

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 we use to talk about quantity.

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 So if I tell you I'm 43,

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 that is entirely

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 a description of quantity.

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 It's just the number of years

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 that I've been alive for.

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 But,

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 and it's an exact number,

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 I can prove it to you,

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 I can give you

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 my birth certificate,

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 we can do all kinds

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 of measurements,

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 we can track the age

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 by the second

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 as my life goes on.

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 But,

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 it tells you nothing

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 about the quality of my life,

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 because we don't use numbers

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 in that way.

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 We use numbers for

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 quantity instead of quality.

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 And in our culture,

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 what do we say?

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 Age is just a number.

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 Right?

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 But in the world

00:24:39.779 --> 00:24:41.740
 of the ancient Near East,

00:24:42.000 --> 00:24:43.339
 the early chapters of Genesis,

00:24:43.339 --> 00:24:45.619
 age isn't just a number.

00:24:46.259 --> 00:24:47.399
 And numbers have

00:24:47.399 --> 00:24:48.879
 distinct significance

00:24:48.879 --> 00:24:50.279
 in terms of the qualities

00:24:50.279 --> 00:24:51.139
 that they convey.

00:24:51.539 --> 00:24:52.779
 So we're immediately

00:24:52.779 --> 00:24:53.679
 getting into a very

00:24:53.679 --> 00:24:54.639
 different culture

00:24:54.639 --> 00:24:55.539
 of thinking about

00:24:55.539 --> 00:24:56.019
 ages,

00:24:56.439 --> 00:24:56.740
 numbers,

00:24:56.839 --> 00:24:57.359
 and how numbers

00:24:57.359 --> 00:24:58.059
 tell a story

00:24:58.059 --> 00:24:59.059
 to the kind of culture

00:24:59.059 --> 00:24:59.659
 that we're in.

00:25:00.019 --> 00:25:00.899
 But in a way,

00:25:00.959 --> 00:25:01.740
 that shouldn't really

00:25:01.740 --> 00:25:02.439
 surprise us

00:25:02.439 --> 00:25:03.019
 when we get into

00:25:03.019 --> 00:25:04.279
 an ancient text like this.

00:25:05.000 --> 00:25:05.759
 It's only really

00:25:05.759 --> 00:25:07.539
 in the 17th century

00:25:07.539 --> 00:25:08.679
 that it became normal

00:25:08.679 --> 00:25:09.919
 to expect that everyone

00:25:09.919 --> 00:25:11.779
 would think about their age

00:25:11.779 --> 00:25:12.960
 is something that everyone

00:25:12.960 --> 00:25:14.339
 should know in an exact sense.

00:25:14.799 --> 00:25:15.359
 So if you go back

00:25:15.359 --> 00:25:17.899
 to your own medieval ancestors,

00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:20.559
 if you're from European descent,

00:25:21.519 --> 00:25:22.899
 very few of them

00:25:22.899 --> 00:25:24.059
 would be able to tell you

00:25:24.059 --> 00:25:25.359
 exactly how old they were

00:25:25.359 --> 00:25:26.160
 because they just didn't

00:25:26.160 --> 00:25:27.119
 think in those categories.

00:25:27.399 --> 00:25:28.440
 That wasn't their experience.

00:25:28.759 --> 00:25:29.279
 If someone was from

00:25:29.279 --> 00:25:30.240
 a really privileged background,

00:25:30.420 --> 00:25:31.759
 maybe someone would have

00:25:31.759 --> 00:25:32.839
 written down somewhere

00:25:32.839 --> 00:25:34.019
 the year of their birth.

00:25:34.359 --> 00:25:35.259
 Most people would just

00:25:35.259 --> 00:25:36.240
 wouldn't know

00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:37.240
 how old they were.

00:25:37.700 --> 00:25:38.859
 I was born the spring

00:25:38.859 --> 00:25:39.799
 after the river flooded.

00:25:39.799 --> 00:25:41.159
 I was born,

00:25:42.139 --> 00:25:42.899
 or they would explain

00:25:42.899 --> 00:25:43.940
 their age in life stages.

00:25:44.079 --> 00:25:45.259
 I'm obviously a child

00:25:45.259 --> 00:25:45.919
 or I'm a man

00:25:45.919 --> 00:25:46.680
 or I'm elderly.

00:25:47.980 --> 00:25:48.839
 But if you go back

00:25:48.839 --> 00:25:49.619
 much further

00:25:49.619 --> 00:25:51.339
 into a very different culture again,

00:25:52.079 --> 00:25:53.200
 to the world

00:25:53.200 --> 00:25:54.019
 of the early chapters

00:25:54.019 --> 00:25:54.579
 of Genesis,

00:25:55.599 --> 00:25:56.839
 people had a very different

00:25:56.839 --> 00:25:57.519
 way of thinking

00:25:57.519 --> 00:25:59.000
 about numbers

00:25:59.000 --> 00:25:59.740
 where numbers

00:25:59.740 --> 00:26:02.259
 can denote quality

00:26:02.259 --> 00:26:04.399
 rather than just quantity

00:26:04.399 --> 00:26:05.599
 like in our culture.

00:26:05.980 --> 00:26:06.940
 So what do I mean by that?

00:26:07.899 --> 00:26:08.960
 Think about it like this.

00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:10.460
 In our culture,

00:26:11.059 --> 00:26:12.299
 some numbers

00:26:12.299 --> 00:26:13.960
 can denote something

00:26:13.960 --> 00:26:14.960
 like a quality.

00:26:15.100 --> 00:26:16.299
 They have a symbolic meaning.

00:26:16.980 --> 00:26:18.000
 Lots of hotels

00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:19.700
 don't have a 13th floor

00:26:19.700 --> 00:26:21.019
 because some people

00:26:21.019 --> 00:26:22.420
 think that the number 13

00:26:22.420 --> 00:26:24.140
 symbolizes bad luck.

00:26:24.880 --> 00:26:25.819
 But we have very few

00:26:25.819 --> 00:26:26.819
 numbers like that.

00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:27.100
 You know,

00:26:27.259 --> 00:26:29.660
 212 is just quantity.

00:26:29.860 --> 00:26:31.100
 Nobody is probably thinking,

00:26:31.240 --> 00:26:31.840
 oh, 212,

00:26:31.960 --> 00:26:33.140
 that symbolizes something.

00:26:33.559 --> 00:26:33.660
 Right?

00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:34.640
 It's just that they're

00:26:34.640 --> 00:26:36.079
 212 of something.

00:26:36.079 --> 00:26:38.919
 And in our culture,

00:26:39.019 --> 00:26:39.639
 if we want to get

00:26:39.639 --> 00:26:41.339
 to those symbolic meanings,

00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:43.379
 we tend to use words

00:26:43.379 --> 00:26:45.099
 rather than numbers.

00:26:45.980 --> 00:26:47.480
 But if you're an ancient Hebrew,

00:26:47.639 --> 00:26:48.460
 you're from a different

00:26:48.460 --> 00:26:49.179
 kind of culture.

00:26:49.839 --> 00:26:50.679
 And for you,

00:26:51.500 --> 00:26:53.259
 every letter of your alphabet

00:26:53.259 --> 00:26:55.299
 has a numerical value.

00:26:55.559 --> 00:26:57.000
 It's not really the case for us.

00:26:58.579 --> 00:26:59.839
 And numbers

00:26:59.839 --> 00:27:02.599
 have a symbolic meaning to you.

00:27:02.599 --> 00:27:04.419
 And you actually see this

00:27:04.419 --> 00:27:05.059
 throughout the Bible.

00:27:05.639 --> 00:27:07.599
 You'll realize this

00:27:07.599 --> 00:27:08.319
 retrospectively

00:27:08.319 --> 00:27:09.599
 if you know the Bible a bit.

00:27:09.919 --> 00:27:10.939
 The number 7

00:27:10.939 --> 00:27:13.279
 symbolizes perfection,

00:27:13.579 --> 00:27:13.980
 completion,

00:27:14.459 --> 00:27:15.459
 seven days of creation,

00:27:15.819 --> 00:27:16.219
 and so on.

00:27:16.639 --> 00:27:18.359
 12 symbolizes

00:27:18.359 --> 00:27:19.639
 a different kind of completeness,

00:27:19.980 --> 00:27:20.719
 12 tribes,

00:27:20.879 --> 00:27:21.559
 12 apostles.

00:27:22.179 --> 00:27:24.480
 40 symbolizes trials,

00:27:25.039 --> 00:27:27.019
 40 days of reign

00:27:27.019 --> 00:27:27.679
 on the ark,

00:27:27.980 --> 00:27:29.039
 40 years in the wilderness,

00:27:29.480 --> 00:27:30.500
 40 days in the wilderness.

00:27:30.500 --> 00:27:33.220
 And 500 symbolizes

00:27:33.220 --> 00:27:34.240
 completion

00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:35.559
 in a different kind of way

00:27:35.559 --> 00:27:35.940
 as well.

00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:37.880
 And the numerical value

00:27:37.880 --> 00:27:38.799
 of the last letter

00:27:38.799 --> 00:27:39.579
 of the Hebrew alphabet

00:27:39.579 --> 00:27:40.259
 is 500.

00:27:40.619 --> 00:27:41.299
 Think of the temple.

00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:42.259
 How wide is it?

00:27:42.319 --> 00:27:42.700
 500.

00:27:42.839 --> 00:27:43.460
 How tall is it?

00:27:43.519 --> 00:27:43.880
 500.

00:27:44.720 --> 00:27:45.519
 So numbers,

00:27:45.839 --> 00:27:46.799
 if you're an ancient Hebrew,

00:27:46.900 --> 00:27:47.519
 you live in a world

00:27:47.519 --> 00:27:48.140
 where numbers

00:27:48.140 --> 00:27:49.339
 convey something to you

00:27:49.339 --> 00:27:49.859
 that numbers

00:27:49.859 --> 00:27:51.259
 don't really convey to us.

00:27:52.559 --> 00:27:53.420
 But if you know

00:27:53.420 --> 00:27:54.119
 the Bible a bit,

00:27:54.259 --> 00:27:54.980
 you'll recognize

00:27:54.980 --> 00:27:56.059
 at least some

00:27:56.059 --> 00:27:56.819
 of these numbers.

00:27:56.819 --> 00:27:56.960
 numbers.

00:27:58.539 --> 00:28:01.759
 And here's the thing.

00:28:01.980 --> 00:28:03.200
 If you were a native

00:28:03.200 --> 00:28:04.139
 in that culture,

00:28:04.700 --> 00:28:05.799
 you would simply

00:28:05.799 --> 00:28:07.279
 look at and see numbers

00:28:07.279 --> 00:28:08.659
 and see things in them

00:28:08.659 --> 00:28:09.399
 that we don't.

00:28:10.159 --> 00:28:10.639
 Significances

00:28:10.639 --> 00:28:11.679
 and symbols.

00:28:13.240 --> 00:28:14.240
 And when you start

00:28:14.240 --> 00:28:15.619
 to see Genesis 5

00:28:15.619 --> 00:28:16.359
 like that,

00:28:16.679 --> 00:28:17.659
 this genealogy

00:28:17.659 --> 00:28:18.779
 where Enoch appears,

00:28:19.419 --> 00:28:20.379
 you start to see

00:28:20.379 --> 00:28:21.419
 some hints of this.

00:28:22.159 --> 00:28:22.779
 The Enoch

00:28:22.779 --> 00:28:24.619
 in this family tree

00:28:24.619 --> 00:28:26.119
 is the seventh person

00:28:26.119 --> 00:28:27.839
 in his genealogy.

00:28:28.239 --> 00:28:28.879
 This place of

00:28:28.879 --> 00:28:30.379
 significant symbolic

00:28:30.379 --> 00:28:31.139
 perfection.

00:28:32.579 --> 00:28:33.479
 The Lamech

00:28:33.479 --> 00:28:34.819
 in this family tree

00:28:34.819 --> 00:28:36.000
 when he died

00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:37.539
 was 777.

00:28:38.539 --> 00:28:38.659
 Okay?

00:28:38.879 --> 00:28:40.259
 Threefold perfection

00:28:40.259 --> 00:28:41.239
 and completeness.

00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:41.939
 And you know

00:28:41.939 --> 00:28:42.739
 who's number seven

00:28:42.739 --> 00:28:43.799
 in the other family tree

00:28:43.799 --> 00:28:44.659
 in Genesis 4?

00:28:45.539 --> 00:28:46.839
 It's the

00:28:46.839 --> 00:28:50.479
 other Lamech.

00:28:51.119 --> 00:28:51.299
 Okay?

00:28:51.419 --> 00:28:52.519
 And there's a 777

00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:53.299
 there as well,

00:28:53.299 --> 00:28:54.039
 but it's the opposite

00:28:54.039 --> 00:28:54.839
 symbolically.

00:28:55.220 --> 00:28:55.839
 What did he say?

00:28:55.899 --> 00:28:56.700
 It's the seventh person

00:28:56.700 --> 00:28:57.480
 in his family tree.

00:28:57.759 --> 00:28:58.619
 If Cain's revenge

00:28:58.619 --> 00:28:59.399
 is sevenfold,

00:28:59.539 --> 00:29:00.200
 Lamech's will be

00:29:00.200 --> 00:29:01.379
 77 folds.

00:29:02.379 --> 00:29:02.460
 Okay?

00:29:03.319 --> 00:29:05.180
 And in the Genesis 5

00:29:05.180 --> 00:29:05.899
 family tree,

00:29:06.180 --> 00:29:06.960
 when Noah has

00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:07.599
 his three sons,

00:29:07.700 --> 00:29:08.599
 he is 500.

00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:09.159
 Again,

00:29:09.180 --> 00:29:09.759
 a different kind

00:29:09.759 --> 00:29:10.279
 of completion

00:29:10.279 --> 00:29:11.079
 like the temple.

00:29:12.299 --> 00:29:13.399
 So even for us

00:29:13.399 --> 00:29:14.440
 at such huge

00:29:14.440 --> 00:29:15.480
 cultural distance

00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:16.159
 with how we think

00:29:16.159 --> 00:29:17.079
 about numbers

00:29:17.079 --> 00:29:18.180
 and what they can tell us,

00:29:18.919 --> 00:29:19.799
 some of the numbers

00:29:19.799 --> 00:29:20.779
 in this family tree

00:29:20.779 --> 00:29:22.559
 stand out even to us

00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:23.179
 from our really

00:29:23.179 --> 00:29:24.000
 foreign culture,

00:29:24.720 --> 00:29:25.740
 although the meaning

00:29:25.740 --> 00:29:26.480
 of most of the numbers

00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:28.059
 is lost on us.

00:29:29.259 --> 00:29:29.960
 I'm trying to think

00:29:29.960 --> 00:29:31.519
 of the best illustration

00:29:31.519 --> 00:29:32.500
 for this from our culture,

00:29:32.559 --> 00:29:33.500
 and I think it's like this,

00:29:34.099 --> 00:29:34.859
 that it's a bit

00:29:34.859 --> 00:29:35.919
 like computer code.

00:29:36.559 --> 00:29:37.659
 If you're coding,

00:29:38.359 --> 00:29:39.539
 you can write code

00:29:39.539 --> 00:29:40.159
 with letters,

00:29:40.559 --> 00:29:41.279
 and you can have words

00:29:41.279 --> 00:29:41.940
 that if you know

00:29:41.940 --> 00:29:42.599
 nothing about coding,

00:29:42.720 --> 00:29:43.379
 you can look in

00:29:43.379 --> 00:29:43.919
 and make a little bit

00:29:43.919 --> 00:29:44.440
 of sense of.

00:29:44.839 --> 00:29:45.679
 But behind all of those,

00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:46.579
 you can write code

00:29:46.579 --> 00:29:47.480
 always in numbers,

00:29:47.539 --> 00:29:47.960
 and that's really

00:29:47.960 --> 00:29:48.740
 what it comes down to,

00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:49.679
 all ones and zeros.

00:29:49.680 --> 00:29:52.360
 I know almost nothing

00:29:52.360 --> 00:29:52.840
 about coding,

00:29:52.940 --> 00:29:53.460
 and I've told you

00:29:53.460 --> 00:29:54.220
 pretty much everything

00:29:54.220 --> 00:29:55.259
 that I know about it already.

00:29:56.900 --> 00:29:58.299
 So if I'm looking at code

00:29:58.299 --> 00:29:59.100
 and it's all numbers,

00:29:59.920 --> 00:30:01.039
 it's all lost on me

00:30:01.039 --> 00:30:01.920
 because I don't know

00:30:01.920 --> 00:30:02.940
 what I'm looking at.

00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:07.019
 But if you have

00:30:07.019 --> 00:30:08.000
 an expert coder

00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:08.600
 who's looking at

00:30:08.600 --> 00:30:09.580
 all these ones and zeros

00:30:09.580 --> 00:30:10.220
 in their order,

00:30:10.799 --> 00:30:11.820
 someone who knows the code

00:30:11.820 --> 00:30:12.440
 can look at it,

00:30:12.500 --> 00:30:13.120
 and then they see,

00:30:13.240 --> 00:30:14.160
 oh, this is doing something.

00:30:14.299 --> 00:30:15.220
 These things have meaning.

00:30:15.320 --> 00:30:16.259
 This is all put together

00:30:16.259 --> 00:30:17.920
 in a really complex,

00:30:18.060 --> 00:30:19.100
 beautiful, meaningful way,

00:30:19.099 --> 00:30:19.719
 and they see things

00:30:19.719 --> 00:30:20.480
 that I can't see.

00:30:22.619 --> 00:30:23.559
 So here's what

00:30:23.559 --> 00:30:24.179
 I'm trying to say,

00:30:24.819 --> 00:30:27.259
 that people from our culture

00:30:27.259 --> 00:30:28.639
 look at Genesis 5,

00:30:28.719 --> 00:30:29.719
 at this genealogy,

00:30:30.219 --> 00:30:30.779
 and think,

00:30:31.259 --> 00:30:32.980
 what a stupid chapter.

00:30:33.099 --> 00:30:33.740
 What kind of idiots

00:30:33.740 --> 00:30:34.839
 would read this stuff?

00:30:35.079 --> 00:30:36.339
 Who would care about Enoch

00:30:36.339 --> 00:30:37.199
 in the middle of that?

00:30:38.399 --> 00:30:39.139
 But do you know what?

00:30:39.559 --> 00:30:41.199
 If you knew how to code,

00:30:42.119 --> 00:30:42.919
 you'd look at it

00:30:42.919 --> 00:30:44.000
 and you would take

00:30:44.000 --> 00:30:44.839
 a deep breath

00:30:44.839 --> 00:30:46.439
 and you would say,

00:30:47.319 --> 00:30:47.699
 wow.

00:30:47.700 --> 00:30:49.299
 Compared to the people

00:30:49.299 --> 00:30:50.400
 in Genesis 4,

00:30:50.900 --> 00:30:52.680
 the people in Genesis 5

00:30:52.680 --> 00:30:54.700
 have the most

00:30:54.700 --> 00:30:58.200
 numerically beautiful lives.

00:30:58.900 --> 00:31:00.059
 For all of these numbers

00:31:00.059 --> 00:31:00.840
 and these symbols

00:31:00.840 --> 00:31:01.759
 speak to us about

00:31:01.759 --> 00:31:03.220
 how in a world

00:31:03.220 --> 00:31:04.080
 that is broken

00:31:04.080 --> 00:31:05.860
 and ruined by the fall,

00:31:06.299 --> 00:31:07.319
 somehow these people,

00:31:07.880 --> 00:31:08.840
 person after person,

00:31:09.400 --> 00:31:10.380
 are symbolized

00:31:10.380 --> 00:31:11.720
 by completion,

00:31:12.340 --> 00:31:13.279
 by repair,

00:31:13.880 --> 00:31:14.319
 by perfection

00:31:14.319 --> 00:31:15.500
 perfection in the middle.

00:31:15.819 --> 00:31:17.359
 And place number seven

00:31:17.359 --> 00:31:17.799
 in the middle,

00:31:17.919 --> 00:31:18.519
 they have Enoch.

00:31:20.819 --> 00:31:23.359
 Somehow they are restored

00:31:23.359 --> 00:31:24.659
 and that theme

00:31:24.659 --> 00:31:25.720
 recurs in their lives

00:31:25.720 --> 00:31:27.019
 generation after generation.

00:31:27.720 --> 00:31:28.179
 And like I said,

00:31:28.240 --> 00:31:29.679
 in the middle of it all,

00:31:29.720 --> 00:31:30.740
 there is this uniquely

00:31:30.740 --> 00:31:31.879
 beautiful person

00:31:31.879 --> 00:31:32.879
 in Enoch

00:31:32.879 --> 00:31:34.379
 whose life is so pleasing

00:31:34.379 --> 00:31:34.939
 to God

00:31:34.939 --> 00:31:36.200
 that God takes him

00:31:36.200 --> 00:31:37.299
 from life

00:31:37.299 --> 00:31:40.259
 straight into his presence

00:31:40.259 --> 00:31:41.460
 without death.

00:31:41.460 --> 00:31:44.100
 Enoch in this chapter

00:31:44.100 --> 00:31:45.380
 who in every way

00:31:45.380 --> 00:31:46.740
 is the polar opposite

00:31:46.740 --> 00:31:47.420
 of the Enoch

00:31:47.420 --> 00:31:48.400
 in the chapter before.

00:31:50.079 --> 00:31:50.460
 You know,

00:31:50.539 --> 00:31:51.980
 if you want to compare

00:31:51.980 --> 00:31:53.440
 these two Enoch's,

00:31:53.460 --> 00:31:54.319
 the thing that makes them

00:31:54.319 --> 00:31:55.600
 different is desire.

00:31:57.480 --> 00:31:58.579
 Cain's son Enoch

00:31:58.579 --> 00:31:58.579


00:31:59.240 --> 00:32:01.160
 is the son of a wanderer

00:32:01.160 --> 00:32:03.640
 who is alienated

00:32:03.640 --> 00:32:04.380
 from God.

00:32:04.380 --> 00:32:07.500
 But Seth's son Enoch

00:32:07.500 --> 00:32:08.680
 is someone who walks

00:32:08.680 --> 00:32:09.260
 with God

00:32:09.260 --> 00:32:10.500
 in this life

00:32:10.500 --> 00:32:11.420
 and who walks

00:32:11.420 --> 00:32:12.520
 straight out of this life

00:32:12.520 --> 00:32:13.180
 without even

00:32:13.180 --> 00:32:14.400
 going through the gates

00:32:14.400 --> 00:32:14.960
 of death.

00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:16.800
 He walks with God

00:32:16.800 --> 00:32:17.640
 in this world

00:32:17.640 --> 00:32:18.420
 as though he was

00:32:18.420 --> 00:32:19.200
 still in Eden.

00:32:21.880 --> 00:32:23.320
 Cain's Enoch

00:32:23.320 --> 00:32:25.620
 directed all of his desire

00:32:25.620 --> 00:32:27.420
 into what he could find

00:32:27.420 --> 00:32:28.140
 in this world.

00:32:28.860 --> 00:32:30.300
 Seth's son Enoch's desire

00:32:30.300 --> 00:32:31.780
 was too big for this world

00:32:31.780 --> 00:32:32.480
 to satisfy.

00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:36.000
 And God gratified

00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:36.599
 that desire

00:32:36.599 --> 00:32:37.940
 by giving him himself.

00:32:39.180 --> 00:32:40.400
 And the big question

00:32:40.400 --> 00:32:41.579
 that comes to you then

00:32:41.579 --> 00:32:42.099
 when we look at

00:32:42.099 --> 00:32:42.920
 Genesis 4

00:32:42.920 --> 00:32:44.299
 and Genesis 5 together

00:32:44.299 --> 00:32:45.500
 and faithless Enoch

00:32:45.500 --> 00:32:46.059
 and the Enoch

00:32:46.059 --> 00:32:47.099
 who lived by faith,

00:32:47.740 --> 00:32:48.559
 the question that comes

00:32:48.559 --> 00:32:49.180
 to you is

00:32:49.180 --> 00:32:51.519
 which family tree

00:32:51.519 --> 00:32:52.880
 do you want to be yours?

00:32:53.539 --> 00:32:54.220
 Which Enoch

00:32:54.220 --> 00:32:55.019
 do you want to be

00:32:55.019 --> 00:32:56.519
 the one that you belong to,

00:32:56.620 --> 00:32:58.299
 the one that you line up with?

00:32:58.299 --> 00:33:00.599
 Like I said,

00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:01.980
 in Cain's family,

00:33:02.799 --> 00:33:04.379
 the seventh person

00:33:04.379 --> 00:33:04.940
 in the row

00:33:04.940 --> 00:33:06.419
 is Lamech.

00:33:07.119 --> 00:33:08.220
 And his life

00:33:08.220 --> 00:33:10.519
 is the perfect expression

00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:12.799
 of the lie of unbelief

00:33:12.799 --> 00:33:13.379
 that the family

00:33:13.379 --> 00:33:14.359
 starts off with.

00:33:15.480 --> 00:33:15.799
 Do you know what?

00:33:15.839 --> 00:33:16.359
 The generation,

00:33:16.700 --> 00:33:17.960
 in his family tree

00:33:17.960 --> 00:33:18.960
 it stops at generation

00:33:18.960 --> 00:33:19.659
 number seven.

00:33:21.079 --> 00:33:22.779
 It's not life going on

00:33:22.779 --> 00:33:23.399
 and flourishing

00:33:23.399 --> 00:33:24.559
 exponentially forever.

00:33:24.879 --> 00:33:26.200
 It hits rock bottom.

00:33:26.200 --> 00:33:28.980
 And do you know

00:33:28.980 --> 00:33:29.299
 who number,

00:33:29.360 --> 00:33:30.480
 and I said number seven

00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:31.680
 in Seth's family tree

00:33:31.680 --> 00:33:32.660
 is Enoch.

00:33:33.019 --> 00:33:34.240
 But he's not the end.

00:33:34.319 --> 00:33:34.779
 It goes on

00:33:34.779 --> 00:33:36.000
 down to a tenth generation

00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:36.620
 and that's also

00:33:36.620 --> 00:33:37.660
 a symbolic number.

00:33:39.980 --> 00:33:41.259
 And Enoch's descendants

00:33:41.259 --> 00:33:42.500
 go on and on.

00:33:43.019 --> 00:33:44.160
 And the symbolic things

00:33:44.160 --> 00:33:45.059
 we're told about them

00:33:45.059 --> 00:33:46.279
 are that their lives

00:33:46.279 --> 00:33:47.720
 are marked by integrity

00:33:47.720 --> 00:33:48.779
 and wholeness

00:33:48.779 --> 00:33:50.140
 even in this broken world

00:33:50.140 --> 00:33:51.100
 living side by side

00:33:51.100 --> 00:33:51.880
 with the family

00:33:51.880 --> 00:33:52.840
 from Genesis 4.

00:33:53.900 --> 00:33:54.539
 But the thing

00:33:54.539 --> 00:33:55.279
 that is so striking

00:33:55.279 --> 00:33:55.799
 is this.

00:33:56.200 --> 00:33:57.920
 That if you

00:33:57.920 --> 00:33:58.860
 are descended

00:33:58.860 --> 00:33:59.960
 from that Enoch

00:33:59.960 --> 00:34:01.160
 in Genesis 5

00:34:01.160 --> 00:34:04.640
 by coming after him

00:34:04.640 --> 00:34:05.319
 and his family

00:34:05.319 --> 00:34:06.559
 what you get

00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:07.700
 is life in abundance.

00:34:08.840 --> 00:34:08.980
 Okay,

00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:09.480
 you get all these

00:34:09.480 --> 00:34:11.240
 numbers of perfection

00:34:11.240 --> 00:34:12.220
 and completion

00:34:12.220 --> 00:34:13.039
 generation

00:34:13.039 --> 00:34:14.380
 after generation

00:34:14.380 --> 00:34:15.659
 after generation.

00:34:17.039 --> 00:34:18.260
 But in the midst

00:34:18.260 --> 00:34:18.860
 of that all

00:34:18.860 --> 00:34:20.159
 of life in abundance

00:34:20.159 --> 00:34:20.980
 for the descendants

00:34:20.980 --> 00:34:21.800
 of Enoch

00:34:21.800 --> 00:34:23.059
 in the midst of it all

00:34:23.059 --> 00:34:25.460
 the exceptional person

00:34:25.460 --> 00:34:26.279
 in the middle

00:34:26.279 --> 00:34:27.460
 is someone

00:34:27.460 --> 00:34:28.340
 whose life

00:34:28.340 --> 00:34:29.099
 in this world

00:34:29.099 --> 00:34:30.480
 is cut short

00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:32.000
 as a young man

00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:33.239
 in comparison

00:34:33.239 --> 00:34:34.340
 to all of the others.

00:34:35.179 --> 00:34:36.320
 Enoch in Genesis 5

00:34:36.320 --> 00:34:37.539
 is taken from this world

00:34:37.539 --> 00:34:39.900
 at the age of

00:34:39.900 --> 00:34:40.960
 three, six, five.

00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:45.179
 And in that way

00:34:45.179 --> 00:34:46.000
 don't you see

00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:46.880
 that Enoch

00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:47.840
 in Genesis 5

00:34:47.840 --> 00:34:48.600
 is a type

00:34:48.600 --> 00:34:49.340
 of Christ

00:34:49.340 --> 00:34:53.620
 that he is

00:34:53.620 --> 00:34:55.180
 that everything

00:34:55.180 --> 00:34:55.880
 about him

00:34:55.880 --> 00:34:57.360
 points forward

00:34:57.360 --> 00:34:57.940
 to Jesus

00:34:57.940 --> 00:34:59.760
 as the truly

00:34:59.760 --> 00:35:00.840
 perfect person

00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:02.300
 who at the age

00:35:02.300 --> 00:35:03.240
 of 33

00:35:03.240 --> 00:35:05.400
 and the prime

00:35:05.400 --> 00:35:06.019
 of life

00:35:06.019 --> 00:35:07.800
 the one

00:35:07.800 --> 00:35:08.180
 who lived

00:35:08.180 --> 00:35:09.019
 a perfect life

00:35:09.019 --> 00:35:10.100
 who desired God

00:35:10.100 --> 00:35:10.700
 perfectly

00:35:10.699 --> 00:35:11.480
 with everything

00:35:11.480 --> 00:35:12.819
 in him

00:35:12.819 --> 00:35:14.500
 for every second

00:35:14.500 --> 00:35:16.539
 of his earthly life

00:35:16.539 --> 00:35:18.719
 someone who

00:35:18.719 --> 00:35:20.079
 truly deserved

00:35:20.079 --> 00:35:20.819
 to bypass

00:35:20.819 --> 00:35:22.239
 death entirely

00:35:22.239 --> 00:35:22.960
 and to have

00:35:22.960 --> 00:35:24.099
 all of his wishes

00:35:24.099 --> 00:35:24.539
 granted

00:35:24.539 --> 00:35:25.759
 and to be received

00:35:25.759 --> 00:35:26.519
 victorious

00:35:26.519 --> 00:35:27.960
 before his father

00:35:27.960 --> 00:35:29.719
 that this Jesus

00:35:29.719 --> 00:35:31.460
 dies

00:35:31.460 --> 00:35:32.259
 that he does

00:35:32.259 --> 00:35:32.619
 the thing

00:35:32.619 --> 00:35:33.179
 that Enoch

00:35:33.179 --> 00:35:34.059
 doesn't do

00:35:34.059 --> 00:35:36.179
 and that this Jesus

00:35:36.179 --> 00:35:36.839
 does that

00:35:36.839 --> 00:35:37.759
 for you

00:35:37.759 --> 00:35:38.559
 so that if you

00:35:38.559 --> 00:35:39.519
 have faith in him

00:35:39.519 --> 00:35:40.699
 that you will

00:35:40.699 --> 00:35:41.199
 not perish

00:35:41.199 --> 00:35:41.940
 but have eternal

00:35:41.940 --> 00:35:42.360
 life

00:35:42.360 --> 00:35:42.860
 and that you'll

00:35:42.860 --> 00:35:43.460
 be like the people

00:35:43.460 --> 00:35:44.119
 who come after

00:35:44.119 --> 00:35:45.599
 Enoch in Genesis 5

00:35:45.599 --> 00:35:46.579
 that you receive

00:35:46.579 --> 00:35:48.019
 life in abundance

00:35:48.019 --> 00:35:49.940
 life everlasting

00:35:49.940 --> 00:35:52.159
 so you see

00:35:52.159 --> 00:35:52.840
 when I'm asking you

00:35:52.840 --> 00:35:53.860
 which Enoch

00:35:53.860 --> 00:35:54.619
 do you want

00:35:54.619 --> 00:35:55.460
 to belong to

00:35:55.460 --> 00:35:56.559
 really what I'm

00:35:56.559 --> 00:35:57.300
 asking you is

00:35:57.300 --> 00:35:58.940
 do you believe

00:35:58.940 --> 00:35:59.519
 the promise

00:35:59.519 --> 00:36:00.139
 that was given

00:36:00.139 --> 00:36:00.699
 to Eve

00:36:00.699 --> 00:36:02.219
 or do you live

00:36:02.219 --> 00:36:02.699
 by the lie

00:36:02.699 --> 00:36:03.219
 that was given

00:36:03.219 --> 00:36:04.239
 by the serpents

00:36:04.239 --> 00:36:07.039
 the most compelling

00:36:07.039 --> 00:36:07.860
 reason to want

00:36:07.860 --> 00:36:08.739
 to belong to

00:36:08.739 --> 00:36:09.679
 the family

00:36:09.679 --> 00:36:10.259
 of Enoch

00:36:10.259 --> 00:36:11.199
 from Genesis 5

00:36:11.199 --> 00:36:11.819
 and not the other

00:36:11.819 --> 00:36:12.299
 Enoch

00:36:12.299 --> 00:36:13.439
 of course it's not

00:36:13.439 --> 00:36:14.199
 Enoch himself

00:36:14.199 --> 00:36:15.859
 it is the Lord

00:36:15.859 --> 00:36:17.119
 Jesus Christ

00:36:17.119 --> 00:36:17.879
 whose life

00:36:17.879 --> 00:36:18.839
 is prefigured

00:36:18.839 --> 00:36:20.059
 let's pray

00:36:20.059 --> 00:36:22.759
 our father in heaven

00:36:22.759 --> 00:36:23.959
 we praise you

00:36:23.959 --> 00:36:25.859
 for the gospel

00:36:25.859 --> 00:36:27.199
 for this glorious

00:36:27.199 --> 00:36:28.399
 hope that we have

00:36:28.399 --> 00:36:29.919
 that the promise

00:36:29.919 --> 00:36:30.379
 that you gave

00:36:30.379 --> 00:36:30.819
 to Eve

00:36:30.819 --> 00:36:32.439
 has come true

00:36:32.439 --> 00:36:33.739
 in Jesus Christ

00:36:33.739 --> 00:36:34.559
 we thank you

00:36:34.559 --> 00:36:35.179
 for all those

00:36:35.179 --> 00:36:36.979
 heroes of the faith

00:36:36.980 --> 00:36:38.099
 who came before

00:36:38.099 --> 00:36:38.400
 him

00:36:38.400 --> 00:36:40.340
 whose remarkable

00:36:40.340 --> 00:36:41.719
 lives in different

00:36:41.719 --> 00:36:43.199
 ways were fulfilled

00:36:43.199 --> 00:36:44.780
 in Jesus

00:36:44.780 --> 00:36:45.539
 and we thank you

00:36:45.539 --> 00:36:45.960
 that Jesus

00:36:45.960 --> 00:36:47.000
 is the true

00:36:47.000 --> 00:36:48.079
 and the better

00:36:48.079 --> 00:36:48.500
 Enoch

00:36:48.500 --> 00:36:49.559
 more perfect

00:36:49.559 --> 00:36:50.559
 still in every

00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:50.880
 way

00:36:50.880 --> 00:36:51.719
 the true

00:36:51.719 --> 00:36:53.760
 777

00:36:53.760 --> 00:36:54.840
 for us

00:36:54.840 --> 00:36:55.800
 and the one

00:36:55.800 --> 00:36:56.240
 who

00:36:56.240 --> 00:36:57.760
 although he

00:36:57.760 --> 00:36:58.280
 deserved

00:36:58.280 --> 00:36:59.599
 to be taken

00:36:59.599 --> 00:37:00.740
 from one place

00:37:00.740 --> 00:37:01.219
 to another

00:37:01.219 --> 00:37:01.980
 from this world

00:37:01.980 --> 00:37:02.500
 of darkness

00:37:02.500 --> 00:37:02.980
 that he came

00:37:02.980 --> 00:37:03.659
 into his light

00:37:03.659 --> 00:37:04.879
 deserved to be

00:37:04.879 --> 00:37:05.179
 taken

00:37:05.179 --> 00:37:06.960
 into light

00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:08.219
 and glory

00:37:08.219 --> 00:37:08.940
 with you

00:37:08.940 --> 00:37:10.079
 that he nonetheless

00:37:10.079 --> 00:37:11.739
 did what Enoch

00:37:11.739 --> 00:37:12.420
 didn't do

00:37:12.420 --> 00:37:13.099
 and that he

00:37:13.099 --> 00:37:13.839
 endured the

00:37:13.839 --> 00:37:14.259
 ultimate

00:37:14.259 --> 00:37:15.799
 darkness of the

00:37:15.799 --> 00:37:16.139
 cross

00:37:16.139 --> 00:37:16.960
 the ultimate

00:37:16.960 --> 00:37:17.859
 forsakenness

00:37:17.859 --> 00:37:19.219
 and that he

00:37:19.219 --> 00:37:19.839
 endured that

00:37:19.839 --> 00:37:20.519
 for the joy

00:37:20.519 --> 00:37:21.219
 that was set

00:37:21.219 --> 00:37:21.859
 before him

00:37:21.859 --> 00:37:22.839
 so Lord

00:37:22.839 --> 00:37:23.279
 please

00:37:23.279 --> 00:37:24.440
 convince us

00:37:24.440 --> 00:37:24.940
 afresh

00:37:24.940 --> 00:37:26.579
 to belong

00:37:26.579 --> 00:37:28.219
 to Enoch

00:37:28.219 --> 00:37:29.819
 from Genesis 5

00:37:29.819 --> 00:37:30.899
 from Hebrews 11

00:37:30.900 --> 00:37:33.340
 but not to

00:37:33.340 --> 00:37:34.019
 Enoch alone

00:37:34.019 --> 00:37:35.180
 but to be

00:37:35.180 --> 00:37:35.780
 those who are

00:37:35.780 --> 00:37:36.860
 united to

00:37:36.860 --> 00:37:37.660
 the Christ

00:37:37.660 --> 00:37:39.099
 who fulfilled

00:37:39.099 --> 00:37:40.139
 everything that

00:37:40.139 --> 00:37:40.820
 we see in him

00:37:40.820 --> 00:37:42.099
 in Jesus name

00:37:42.099 --> 00:37:42.680
 Amen