Genesis 5:24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. I. WHAT IS IMPLIED IN WALKING WITH GOD. II. THAT GOD WILL MANIFEST SOME PECULIAR TOKENS OF HIS FAVOUR TO THOSE WHO WALK WITH HIM. 1. God will guard them against the favours of the world. 2. God graciously guards his friends while they walk with Him, from their invisible as well as visible enemies. 3. God will give those who walk with Him peculiar evidence of their interest in His special grace. He loves those who walk with Him, and will manifest His love to them. He expressly called Abraham His friend when he offered up his son upon the altar. He sent a messenger from heaven to declare that Daniel was greatly beloved. And He manifested His special love to David by lifting the light of His countenance upon him. 4. God will manifest His peculiar favour to those who walk with Him, by giving them not only inward light, and joy, and peace, and the full assurance of hope, but by granting them outward prosperity. 5. Those who walk with God have ground to hope for another great and peculiar favour; that is, His gracious and comforting presence when they leave the world.IMPROVEMENT. 1. We may learn from the nature and effects of walking with God how all true believers may attain to the full assurance of hope. If saints would prevent or remove darkness, doubts, and distress from their minds, let them walk closely with God, who will give them peculiar tokens of their displeasing Him, and standing high in His favour. 2. If God manifests peculiar tokens of His favour to those who walk with Him, then they have more to gain than to lose by walking with Him. 3. If God be highly pleased with His friends while they walk with Him, then He must be highly displeased when they depart from Him. 4. It appears from the nature of walking with God, that those who walk with Him in a day of degeneracy do peculiar service and honour to religion. 5. This subject calls upon all who have professed to walk with God to inquire whether they have walked worthy of the vocation wherewith they are called. 6. This subject exhorts all who have not hitherto walked with God to walk with Him. (N. Emmons, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.WEB: Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him. |
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