‘Enoch walked with God and for God!’ We are given this fact two times in Gen. 5:22-24, I believe it’s repeated for emphasis so we won’t miss it. Gen. 5:22 says, “Enoch walked” (yalak) this word means, ‘to walk about.’ Like the old English movies, ‘Pride and Prejudice’ used to say. It’s deeper meaning means, ‘to live!’ We will see that a little later. In v.22 the preposition with (eth) denotes intimacy and fellowship and appears only in reference to God with Enoch and Noah, the only other man who walked with (eth) God. Gen. 6:9. To walk (yalak) with (eth) God (Elohim) is to enjoy uninterrupted, conscious, intimate fellowship with Him. Or to put it another way, “To Practice The Presence of God!” To walk with God denotes a holy life, a life lived in close, intimate, communion with Him; ‘Spiritual Yada!‘ Hos. 6:3. What an epitaph on your tombstone, “_______, walked with God!”

The first thing implied in Enoch’s walk with God is ‘His Reconciliation,’ II Cor. 5:17-19. Amos 3:3 says, “Can two walk (yalak) together (yachad – alike, united, in union) except they be agreed (ya’ad-together, appointed, betrothed, engaged: Ex. 21:8-9) Answer? NO! To walk with God means that you have been conformed to his image, NOT, He to yours! So, you have been reconciled to Him! Enoch was 65 when he started walking with God not 5 or 6 and he walked with Him for 300 years and had about 300 children. The second thing implied in Enoch’s walk with God was ‘His Similarity with God’s Nature.’ You see light has no communion with darkness, none! II Cor. 6:14. No sinner can walk with God, because he has nothing in common with God. In fact even his mind is at enmity with God. Gen. 6:5 and Isa. 64:6 we are sinners by nature and sinners by practice, Jer. 17:9 says, “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.’ After all, it is sin that separates us from God, is it not? Isa. 59:1-2, “Behold the LORD’s hand is not shortened that it cannot save, neither His ear heavy that it cannot hear, but you iniquities/sins have separated between you and your God and your sins have hidden His face from you that He will not hear.” The third thing implied in Enoch’s walk with God is ‘Holy Fitness,’ A Holy God does not walk out of His holiness, He doesn’t step out of His circle, you do and into His circle again! A Holy God can’t walk together with an unholy person, Haggai 2:13. I John 1:6-7 says, “If we say that we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth…” Walking with God means to cease walking your own way and to abandon the world’s way and follow the divine way. Listen, it’s His way or the highway, or should I say, ‘Hell’s Way!’ The fourth thing implied in Enoch’s walk is a ‘Surrendered Will.’ God does not force His company or His companionship on us. Jesus said, “Take My yoke upon you” He doesn’t force it upon anyone. The yoke has two sides, He is under one and you get under the other and you pull together with Him. By the way, Enoch’s grandfather was Mahalalel, ‘Praise to God’ or ‘Blessed God’ – A godly grandfather, what a heritage! How is your walk (yalak) today? Are you in agreement with Him? Better yet is He in agreement with you? Together, united, appointed, betrothed, engaged? Listen, you must be in agreement to walk together, Amen? Amos says you must be betrothed. Christ is the groom and the church is the bride! What a principle for living, what a principle for prayer! How is your walk today? The Hebrew word for walk is (yalak – to go on habitually) how sweet is that! Remember he is the seventh from Adam, a picture of divine completion, rest after the fall, after the sin nature! But this kind of intimacy and union necessitates communion and talking; and prayer is simply talking to God. Just like a child, they walk first and talk second; and that leads to our next principle.

Enoch talked with God and for God! In order to walk you must talk! Amen? Are you paying attention or just reading? These are not just words on a computer screen, I’m sharing my heart with you, if you don’t have time to really ruminate on what I am giving you right now, like a cow chewing her cud, then shut it off, come back later when you have time to think about what I’m writing because this is no 5 minute blog about a walk down the street, or look at my cookies, I spend hours preparing my blog. Now where was I, Oh yeah, have you ever taken a walk with someone you really love, I mean really love! A lot of communication takes place even through silence, sometimes your body language speaks louder than your words. Amen? A look, a glance, a gesture, a nod, a squeeze, a touch, a kiss… If you think not, drive on the belt way at rush hour and watch the body language! Some commentators believe Enoch met God in the ‘Garden of Eden.’ But angels guarded it you say, they guarded the ‘Tree of Life.’ I don’t know if he did, but the Bible says he had intimate fellowship with his Creator for 300 years. Unhindered, unbroken, unsevered, ‘Spiritual Yada’ for 300 years. We can not make 40-50 minutes on Sunday mornings for 40-50 years. The Bible says, “Enoch Pleased God!” What a sequel to his other epitaph, “Enoch Walked With God!” Put either one on my stone! There is a pair of character qualities to mount in your prayer closet, “To walk with God is to please God; To please God is to talk with God.” Put that on your frig! Enoch was a ‘God – Pleaser’ not a man-pleaser! Jude v.16. How did he do that? Turn to Hebrews 11:5, “Before his translation, he had this testimony, that he pleased God!” How is your testimony today? Are you a ‘God – Pleaser’ or a man-pleaser? The test is simple, how are your prayer answers? That pretty much will answer your question right there! James 5:16! How did he please God? Simple, “By Faith!” The word “Faith” appears 230 times in the Newer Testament and only twice in the Older Testament, Deut. 32:20; and Hab. 2:4. Ten percent of them appear in Hebrews 11 alone. Faith is the basic, essential element of prayer. Without it, you cannot please God and He will not answer prayer. Hebrews 11:6 says, “But without faith it is impossible to please Him/God.” The word impossible is actually the Greek word (adunatos) so you are absolutely powerless to please God without faith. So without faith it is impossible to please God, but might I add that without risk faith is impossible. Because if there is no element of risk involved there is no need for faith, because the thing hoped for is a sure thing! You have probably never linked Heb. 11:6 together with Enoch in 11:5, I didn’t either. So, from now on whenever you think of Hebrews 11:6, think of Enoch who talked with God and for God and walked with God and for God, for 300 years and he was not, for God took him! Enoch still has more to share so, ‘Come Walk With Me.’         ‘Between The Lines’  “Portraits of Prayer in Genesis”                         (Enoch – Part #2)