However, when Adam and Eve sinned against GOD, they could no longer enjoy undisturbed fellowship with GOD.
"...And they heard the voice of The Lord GOD walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of The Lord GOD amongst the trees of the garden." ( see Genesis 3:8).
Enoch walked with GOD. Enoch was a man of faith. Enoch knew who he was , where he came from and where he was going to. Enoch prayed and talked to GOD.
"...21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
22 And Enoch walked with GOD after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
24 And Enoch walked with GOD: and he was not; for GOD took him.".( Genesis 5:21-24).
“....Can two walk together unless they be agreed ?....”. ( Amos 3 verse 3 ).
The
company you keep influences the life that you live.
The
proverb says " Birds of a feather
flock together".
To walk
with God one must agree with His Word.
The
believer is influenced by the preaching of the pure and unadulterated Word of
God. The
hearing of
the Word of God gives him faith. ".......
Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the
Word of God.........". (Romans 10 verse 17 ).
The Word
of God is full of quickening power.(
Hebrews 4 verse 12 ) . The Word is full of power and full of life and full
of victory. The Word of God has dynamic quickening transforming power.
The anointed
Word of God grants the believer his daily bread.( Matthew 6 verse 8 to 15 ).
The Holy
Ghost feeds on the spoken Word of God. The Holy Ghost confirms the Word of God with
signs and wonders following. ( Mark 16
verse 20).
Enoch
walked with God. Enoch agreed with God every step of the way of his pilgrim
journey.
That Word
of God so quickened his life that he was
transformed and one day he just walked on up into heaven. ( Genesis 5 verses 23 and 24 ;
Hebrews 11 verse 5 ).
Aaron's
rod budded in the presence of God. The rod of Aaron was quickened by the
Presence of God. A barren life cannot stay barren in God's presence. The dead
cannot stay dead in the presence of God. ( Numbers 17 verses 1 to 13 ; Hebrews 9 verses
3 and 4 ).
The Lord
Jesus had to say "... Lazarus come
forth..." ( John 11 verse 43 ) otherwise all the dead within hearing
distance and in close proximity of Lazarus grave would have
been
resurrected together with Lazarus.
Remember
the dead man that was let down in the tomb of Elisha and when he touched the
bones of
Elisha the dead man was revived and
stood up on his feet? ( 2 Kings 13 verse
20 to 21 ).
Quickening
power was still resident in the bones of Elisha and that quickening power
raised that dead man from the dead and quickened that man brought him back to
life.
Joseph
knew about the mystery of the resurrection that would take place in the
promised Land. He knew that God would keep His Word and visit His people and
take them out of the land of bondage and into the Land of promise. (
Genesis 50 verses 22 to 26 ; Matthew 27
verse 51 to 53 ).
Joseph
before he died asked the children of Israel to carry his bones to the Promised
Land
because by
revelation Joseph knew that there would be a resurrection in Jerusalem. ( Genesis 50 verse 25 ).
In the New
Testament, when the Lord Jesus Christ yielded up the Ghost. We
read in Matthew Chapter 27 :
“... And behold, the veil of the temple was
rent in twain from the top to the bottom : and the earth did quake and the
rocks rent.
52 AND THE GRAVES WERE OPENED
AND MANY BODIES OF THE SAINTS WHICH SLEPT
AROSE,
53. AND CAME OUT OF THE
GRAVES AFTER HIS RESURRECTION, AND WENT INTO
THE HOLY CITY, AND APPEARED UNTO MANY......" ( Matthew 27
verse 51 to 53 ).
Within
three days He arose from the dead, just like He said He would. He defeated
death, hell and the grave .
Christianity
is the only religion in the world that can point to an empty tomb where their
founder was once buried but defeated death , hell and the grave, just like He
said He would.
If we walk
with Him. Every step of the way, in the rhythm of His Word, walking in His
steps , we too may look death in the eye and say ;
“.... O death , where is thy sting ? O grave ,
where is thy victory ?
56. The sting of death is
sin ; and the strength of sin is the law.
57. But thanks be to God,
which giveth us the victory through our
.
58. Therefore, my beloved
brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord,
forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the
Lord..................” ( 1 Corinthians
15 verses 55 to 59 ).
Walking
with God in the rhythm of His Word. Like Enoch , like Abraham, like all the
other prophets and saints of God.
God is not
a God of history. He is the Only True God. The Only Wise God. “....Hear O Israel : The LORD our God is One
LORD.....”. ( Deuteronomy 6 verse 4 ).
"..They that wait upon the Lord, shall renew their strength,
they shall mount up with wings as eagles
; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk and not faint.."
(Isaiah 40 verse 31 ).
When we
walk in the Spirit and are led of the Spirit of God , the inner man is renewed
day by day and we are quickened and changed from glory to glory.
Abiding in
His presence , anointed by His Word, quickened by the quickening power of the
revealed Word of God.
The Word
of God pulsating within our souls. Transforming quickening power, the inner man
renewed day by day. ( 2 Corinthians 4
verses 16 to 18 ).
Moses was
transfigured when he came down from Mount Sinai. Moses had to cover his face
with a veil. (Exodus 34 verse 33 and 2
Corinthians 3 verses 6 to 18 ).
On Mount transfiguration, Peter , James and
John saw the transfiguration of the Lord Jesus Christ (
Matthew 17 verse 1 to 13 ; Mark 9 verses 1 to 10 ).
When John
the Baptist was baptising the Lord Jesus Christ, John was quickened by the Word
of God so much that he saw the heavens opened (Matthew 3 verses 16 and 17; John 1 verse 29 to 34 ).
The
heavens are opened to the Saints of God abiding in His Presence and walking with God in the rhythm of His Word.
The Saints of God can declare “.....Thy Kingdom come .Thy will be done in earth,
as it is in heaven....”. ( Matthew 6 verse 10 ).
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