Campus Churchhh

So today at Campus Church was pretty great.  The sermon was on Enoch, and how he walked with God. 

He used this example to really drive the point home.  Throughout history, we can see that if a King were to go somewhere, he would send out his servants ahead of time, to make sure everything was set for the King's presence.  That would be the same as us walking before God, or serving God.

Enoch though, walked with God. As opposed to going ahead and preparing the way for God, Genesis 5:24 says "Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away".  Imagine, being that close to God.  Enoch didn't die either, evidence by the end of this verse, God took him away.

Enoch was also the father of Methuselah, the oldest man to ever live.  If you break down Methuselah's name into Hebrew it means, "when he dies, it shall be sent".  Genesis 5:21 -22 states that Enoch fathered Methuselah, as well as many other children, but specifically mentions Methuselah.  The significance in this ( this kind of confuses me), but the flood was prophecized by Methuselah and his life.  If you look at the definition of his name, when he dies, it shall be sent.  When Methuselah died, the flood came, after he lived his whole life prophecizing. 

This suggest to me that this was a turning point in Enoch's life, giving birth to Methuselah, and this enabled Enoch to walk with God on a level to my knowledge no one ever has.  We were given three points at the end of the sermon.

1) There has to be a turning point, something has to happen in our lives to allow us to become closer to Christ.
2)  We have to actively and consistently pursue God.  We can't just have this occurance, this turning point, then fall back into the same pattern of sinfullness.  We have to keep trying, do the necessary things to grow in our walk with Christ.
3)  We have to humble ourselves, surrender ourselves, and let our pride down. 

It was a really inspiring, humbling, and spiritual song.  While praising I started weaping, just weaping honestly for the first time in a long, long time.  "Be my everything".  That is my cry.