1. Hebrews 11:5–6 (ESV)
  2. Application

The path to walk with God is open

Hebrews 11:5–6 (ESV)

5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God.

If Enoch had been pleasing to God by virtue of some extraordinary gifts and talents, or by reason of marvellous achievements and miraculous works, we might have been in despair! But if he was pleasing to God through faith, that same faith which saved the dying thief, that same faith which has been worked in you and in me—then the…gate at the head of the way in which men walk with God is open to us also. If we have faith, we may enter into fellowship with the Lord. How this ought to endear faith to us. The highest grades of spiritual life depend upon the lower ones and rise out of them. If you want to walk with God as a man of God, you must begin by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, simply, as a babe in grace.1

Charles H. Spurgeon