Our Scripture Of The Week Is:

Galatians 5:25 KJVS
[25] If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

Paul has been describing what it looks like to live as one who is free in Christ. He has been clear that this is not a freedom to do whatever feels good. It is not a freedom to simply indulge in trying to satisfy all our sinful desires.

On the contrary, true salvation—and freedom from the Old Testament's ritual law—is freedom from being controlled by our sinful desires.

How?

Just as we needed an external source, Jesus, to pay for our sin, we also need an external source of power, the Holy Spirit, to overcome our sinful desires and lead us in the right direction.

This happens, Paul has written, when we "walk by" (Galatians 5:16) and are "led by" (Galatians 5:18) the Spirit.

The picture he paints is not one of possession in the sense that the Spirit takes us over and does whatever He wants. We are not spiritual robots, or puppets who suddenly lack free will. Instead the picture is one of Christians using our will to allow God's Spirit to set the direction we will go.

It's a mysterious idea that none of us fully understand, but the way Paul describes it in this verse is helpful. He says living by the Spirit involves keeping in step with the Spirit. It involves adjusting our pace to match the pace and direction the Spirit is leading. Sometimes, Bible teachers describe it as allowing one's partner to lead in a dance.

In other words, it involves submitting to God's way, but we are still the one taking each next step. This will not happen automatically. It is something we must choose from day to day.

In fact, we must choose often to give the lead to the Spirit moment by moment as we follow after Christ.

Our topic today is:

The Final Chapter Of Adam’s Biography – The Thrilling Story Of Enoch Discussion

In the first section of the Book of Genesis (chapters 1–11), we have world events—
first the Creation, then the Fall, and now the Flood in chapters 5–9.

In chapter 5 we have the book of the generations of Adam through Seth. Cain’s line has been given to us and is now dropped. It will be mentioned again only as it crosses the godly line. This is a pattern that will be set in the Book of Genesis.

In one sense, chapter 5 is one of the most discouraging and despondent chapters in the Bible. The reason is simply that it is like walking through a cemetery.

God said to Adam, “… For in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” (Gen. 2:17), and they all died who were the sons of Adam.

Paul says, “For as in Adam all die …” (1 Cor. 15:22).

This is the book of the generations of Adam. Chapter 5 serves to link the history of creation and the earliest of the humans with the time of Noah and the flood. It accomplishes this with a simple genealogy of Adam's descendants through his son Seth.

The chapter begins by restating an essential truth about God's creation of humankind. He made men and women in His own likeness and used the name ā'dām, which is literally the Hebrew word for "human."

This likeness isn't about a physical resemblance to God. It's about God giving His image to humans as His representatives on earth. It's about sharing with humanity His responsibility to rule and subdue the rest of creation.

Being made in God's likeness also means that each human life has great value in God's eyes. This likeness to God is passed down from one generation to the next in the same way that a father's likeness is passed down to his son.

So as Adam fathers Seth and Seth fathers Enosh, the likeness of God and man are handed down through the years together.

Chapter 5 also reveals key details about the lives of people after the garden, spiritually and physically separated from God and under His curse.

First, the lifespans (and reproductive years) of the earliest humans were extraordinarily long. The text gives explicit clues as to whether or not the numbers reported are actual years.

However, it is difficult to square a non-literal interpretation with the figures given. Such lengthy lifespans would have been entirely possible on an earth free from pollution and genetic decay. This would have allowed for the earth to be populated very quickly.

Second, we see that though there is great progress—as mortal eyes see it, humanity thrives in this chapter—the curse remained as an oppressive reality in the lives of men.

Chapter 4 detailed the lives of Cain's descendants, some of whom exhibited even more aggression than Cain did (Genesis 4:23–24).

In contrast, Noah's father, Lamech, declares that Noah will provide comfort or rest for him in the painful work of pulling his livelihood out of the ground.

Finally, no matter how long these first generations of humans lived, one theme is constant in their lives: They die. This ultimate consequence of sin becomes the norm.
Enoch, commended for walking with God, becomes the exception that proves this rule (Genesis 5:24).

His case becomes unique in all of history.