ENOCH: SKIPPING OUT ON DEATH (14)
Scripture: Genesis 5:1-32
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Enoch: Skipping Out on Death (14)
Series: Genesis
Robert Dawson
Genesis 5
A man was complaining to his friend, Mark Twain, about how bad life was and how desperate a predicament the world was in. He said, ''I'm afraid the world is coming to an end.'' To which Mark Twain responded, ''Don't worry about it. Nobody makes it out alive anyway.''
That'll bless your heart. A rather cynical response but very accurate, nonetheless. Last I checked, death is one of the few certainties of life. It is unavoidable...mostly. That's a lesson early humanity slowly learned.
• Death came as a consequence of sin and disobedience.
• God warned Adam and Eve of this back in Genesis 2.16-17 when he said, ''From any tree of the garden you may freely eat; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for on the day that you eat from it you will certainly die.''
• God did not simply say, ''Don't eat.'' He told them what would happen if they did. Death would come. Death did come.
o On one level, it came immediately. Genesis 3.7 says, ''the eyes of both of them were opened.'' They now knew shame and guilt. It caused them to hide from God.
o Their relationship with God was broken beyond their ability to repair it. As a result, in Genesis 3.22, God sent them away from His presence.
Death of the spirit was swift and certain but physical death did not seem to be in such a hurry. Now, death makes an appearance in Genesis 4 but only through the taking of life by another. Cain kills Abel. Lamech, Cain's great-great-great-grandson takes the lives of two men. So yes, death has made its presence known but its inevitability and dominance were yet to be fully realized.
The specter of death hovered over humanity like an ominous storm cloud threatening everyone's existence. While the threat of death lingered, the reality of death seemed to be nothing more than a myth, a made-up story and empty threat because these antediluvian people, these pre-flood people ...
Series: Genesis
Robert Dawson
Genesis 5
A man was complaining to his friend, Mark Twain, about how bad life was and how desperate a predicament the world was in. He said, ''I'm afraid the world is coming to an end.'' To which Mark Twain responded, ''Don't worry about it. Nobody makes it out alive anyway.''
That'll bless your heart. A rather cynical response but very accurate, nonetheless. Last I checked, death is one of the few certainties of life. It is unavoidable...mostly. That's a lesson early humanity slowly learned.
• Death came as a consequence of sin and disobedience.
• God warned Adam and Eve of this back in Genesis 2.16-17 when he said, ''From any tree of the garden you may freely eat; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for on the day that you eat from it you will certainly die.''
• God did not simply say, ''Don't eat.'' He told them what would happen if they did. Death would come. Death did come.
o On one level, it came immediately. Genesis 3.7 says, ''the eyes of both of them were opened.'' They now knew shame and guilt. It caused them to hide from God.
o Their relationship with God was broken beyond their ability to repair it. As a result, in Genesis 3.22, God sent them away from His presence.
Death of the spirit was swift and certain but physical death did not seem to be in such a hurry. Now, death makes an appearance in Genesis 4 but only through the taking of life by another. Cain kills Abel. Lamech, Cain's great-great-great-grandson takes the lives of two men. So yes, death has made its presence known but its inevitability and dominance were yet to be fully realized.
The specter of death hovered over humanity like an ominous storm cloud threatening everyone's existence. While the threat of death lingered, the reality of death seemed to be nothing more than a myth, a made-up story and empty threat because these antediluvian people, these pre-flood people ...
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