1. Genesis 5:22–24 (ESV)
  2. Application

Walking with God in the midst of evil

Genesis 5:22–24 (ESV)

22 Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters.

Enoch lived in a very evil age. He was prominent at a time when sin was beginning to cover the earth. It was not very long before the earth was corrupt, and God saw fit to sweep the whole population from off its surface on account of sin. Enoch lived in a day of mockers and despisers. You know that from his prophecy, as recorded by Jude [Jude 1:14–15]…He lived when few loved God and when those who professed to do so were being drawn aside by the blandishments of the daughters of men. Church and state were proposing an alliance; fashion and pleasure ruled the hour; and unhallowed compromise was the order of the day. He lived toward the close of those primitive times wherein long lives had produced great sinners—and great sinners had invented great provocations of God. Do not complain, therefore, of your times and of your neighbours and other surroundings, for amid them all, you may still walk with God.1

Charles H. Spurgeon