Genesis 5: Three Words to Remind You That God Doesn’t Lie

(upbeat music) - Welcome to chapter by chapter four year journey through the greatest book given to the human race. The word of God, the Bible. And we get to go through it chapter by chapter seven minutes a day and seven days a week. Join us each day and share it with others so they can join this journey that will be life changing for all of us. We will stop at unexpected places on the journey and be challenged. Some verses will create awe and wonder. We will even have chapters that will be instructive and in others we'll find joy and comfort. We will occasionally be convicted and want to change but all in all the journey will be worth it. The best way to get the most from this podcast is read the chapter we are discussing before or after the podcast. It's his word that transforms. You will find more and seem more than I can ever articulate. Welcome to chapter by chapter. And today's chapter is Genesis five. God doesn't lie. He always tells the truth. In fact, here in Genesis five, we see his veracity immediately. I love that word veracity to talk about God. The word veracity means habitual truthfulness. We have heard of habitual liars. God is the opposite. He is a habitual truth teller. And here we read three sobering words to remind us that God doesn't lie, but habitual when it comes to the truth. He kept his word and here's what it says. Genesis two, 15 through 17. Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. The Lord God commanded the man saying, "From any tree of the garden you may eat freely "but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil "you shall not eat. "For in the day that you eat from it you will surely die." There they are. You will surely die. That's pretty clear. God didn't lie. Man ate the fruit of that tree and Genesis five is God keeping his word with these three bomb shell words. And he died. Some time ago someone sent me a video that they wanted me to see if some spiritual leader in our country that they did on the names of this genealogy in Genesis chapter five. They took the names of the Genesis five genealogy and discussed their hidden meaning. They said if you take the names Adam, Seth, Enoch, Kenan, Mojale, Enoch, Methuselah, LeMek and Noah, that their meanings speak of the coming of Christ. I listened to and I said, "What?" That's not it. That's not it at all. There is no secret meaning to their names. You missed the whole point. The Bible is clear. Christ is coming back in Genesis 3.15. This chapter is about God keeping his word. You will surely die. You went so deep that you missed the meaning. Eight times in this chapter these are the words that are used and he died. These words were not part of the vocabulary of the first man. And here in Genesis five we read the word death for the very first time. Adam's sin introduced the last enemy, death. Now we see in this chapter that whether you live for nine hundred and sixty nine years like Methuselah or today you die at a young age. Death is looming for all the human race. God really did tell the truth. Thousands of years later, the Apostle Paul said it like this in Romans 6.23. The wages of sin is death. This chapter of a promise kept opens up with some pretty important words. Listen to chapter five verse one. This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. Man is not mere dust and particles, but man has the touch of divinity upon him. He's not in the likeness of an ape or a primate, but in the likeness of God. This is what gives man value and makes humanity different than any beast. But notice a change occurs after the fall of man, the entrance of sin and death. It happens in verse three. When Adam had lived 130 years, he became the father of a son. Here it comes in his own likeness. Though man is made in God's image and likeness. Now when man is born to man, after the fall, he is in the image and likeness of his natural father. The likeness and image of Seth is Adam. This is the reason why we must be born again. We need the image of the father restored. It seems so dark to keep reading these words in Genesis 5. And he died. But God is the God of hope and gives us hope in a name in the midst of the list of dying. Eight times and he died. It's the certainty of death because of the choice of sin. Listen to it. So all the days that Adam lived for 930 years and he died. All the days of Seth were 912 years and he died. Genesis 511, all the days of Enoch were 905 years. And he died. All the days of Keenan were 910 years. And he died. All the days of Mahalagal were 899, 95 years. And he died. So all the days of Jared were 962 years and he died. And all the days of Methuselah were 969 years. And he died. All the days of Lemmech were 777 years and he died. Then there is one man in this chapter that breaks the line of and he died. And it is Enoch. In the middle of dying, you read these words. Enoch walked with God and he was not for God took him. He did not die. It just says he was not. This is what happens to the people that walk with God. Death is no longer in charge because Christ has defeated death. To get that victory, you must walk with God. You need a relationship with God. The Apostle Paul explains it this way with this anthem. In 1 Corinthians 1553, for our earthly bodies, the one we have now that can die must be transformed into heavenly bodies. That cannot perish, but will live forever. When this happens, then at the last, the scripture will come true. Death is swallowed up into victory. Death, we're then as your victory. Where is your sting? For sin, the sting that causes death, will be gone. And the law which reveals our sins will no longer be our judge, how we thank God for all of this. It is he who makes us victorious through Jesus Christ, our Lord. I heard someone say one time, when you were a baby, you look like your parents. When you're old, you look like your decisions. Make the greatest decision of your life. Don't live like Adam, Kenan, Seth, or even and have an extended life like Methuselah. They all died. Make the decision of Enoch. Walk with God. And you will look like the greatest decision of your life. Enoch's end interrupted the funeral bell. A little child gave probably the best explanation of what it means to walk with God like Enoch. It says that she was going home from Sunday school, and the mother said, tell me what you learned at school. And she said, one day, Enoch and God went for an extra long walk, and they walked on and on until God said to Enoch, you're a long way from home now. You better just come home with me. And he went out of the mouths of babes. Thank you for joining chapter by chapter. 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