Enoch Walked with God (Selected Scriptures)

Urgent Bible Prophecy Update- May 13, 2023

Convergence: We’re in the Season! – Pastor Jack Hibbs and Dr. David Reagan

God's Love vs the Devil's Hate

What love is not! Love is not ignoring sin so people feel good about themselves.

Love is not giving everyone what they want from you.

God is love, focus on Him will create love in the hearts who have been transformed by Him.

Focus on the world will create a humanistic mindset based on selfishness. The selfishness that says as long as something is what I want then others have to accept it. No rules, not conviction of sin and no caring about others is the mentality of the humanistic sinner.

The selfish focus is only loving toward those who can give us what we want and this includes praise and acceptance of the sin we love.

Satan is at the core of all evil attitudes and actions. He is the one who convinced Eve she should distrust God and do whatever she wanted. It didn't work out so well for her because it brought the whole world into chaos and disorder. We are not different from Eve, the world is full of "Eve's" who refuse to obey God and do their own thing even if it destroys them.

We cannot blame satan, we have the choice to follow him or Christ. If we follow our own hearts satan will use it to destroy us. If we follow Christ He will use it to bless us and save us from hell.

John 10:1-18 "10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. 11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. 13 He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd. 17 For this reason the Father loves me because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. 18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.”

The world's love, if we were to break it down is really just to allow everyone to do what they want even if it leads to hell.

Choose Christ today and He will remove the hate, the anger, and the evil desires that ruin you. He will transform you into an entirely different person, the joy and peace will flood into your soul greater than you have ever experienced before. The things that ruin you that you loved before you begin to hate. Your eyes will be opened to the destruction satan had for you and the blessing God has for you after your transformation.

Choose Christ today and you will never look back, nothing in the past will be significant anymore, except the lessons you learned.

What is Agape Love?

1 Corinthians 13:4–8

"Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away."

When we love others we abhor the thought that we might have harmed them even in the slightest.

Ephesians 5:25–27

"Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish."

Ephesians 4:1–3

"I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace."

Song of Solomon 8:6-7

"6 Put me like a seal over your heart,

Like a seal on your arm.

For love is as strong as death,

Jealousy is as severe as Sheol;

Its flames are flames of fire,

The flame of the Lord.

7 Many waters cannot quench love,

Nor will rivers flood over it;

If a man were to give all the riches of his house for love,

It would be utterly despised.”

Love is the first commandment and the first fruit of the Spirit of God.

Matthew 22:36-40

"36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”

37 And He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

38 This is the great and foremost commandment.

39 The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 Upon these two commandments hang the whole Law and the Prophets.”

Fruit of the Holy Spirit in every believer is as follows;

Galatians 5:22-23

"22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

23 gentleness, self-control; against such things, there is no law."

Love is the very first fruit and the two greatest commandments. When we have to love someone through discipline or chastisement we do it with heaviness of heart and a desire to help them make the right choice. There is no love in bludgeoning someone merely to demonstrate superiority or force another person to think the way we do. Nothing in love is about ourselves, its about helping others learn the path and obedience to Christ.

Just as all that Christ did on this earth when He was here was for mankind and not Himself, we too must diminish our own desires and fleshly nature to walk as Christ walked and to love as He loved.

1 John 2:4-6 "The man who says, "I know him," but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

5 But if anyone obeys his word, God's love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him:

6 Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did."

It Takes Faith to do Things God's Way

When someone is repentant and we forgive them because they changed their heart then it is easy to forgive and easy to forget. When someone is not sorry and we cannot forgive them, then there is no forgetting, there remains distrust. We are not bitter because of their choice to refuse to be sorry, but we are cautious. Confession and forgiveness is for the sake of restoring the relationship. The relationship cannot be restored if one of these actions is not taken.

Luke 17:3-4 "…3Watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. 4 Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to say, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”

It takes faith to do what God said to do because it doesn't feel good for a relationship to be broken, but the mending is not in the "letting it go", the mending is in the confession and forgiveness, both sides of the same coin, they cannot be separated.

When someone pretends to forgive when the offender is not sorry then God's purpose is thwarted and stunted. The person who will not be sorry doesn't grow and even becomes bitter. The person who forgives without the offender being sorry is not really forgiving, its just something to say to feel more spiritual and superior.

Those who do not forgive unrepentant offenders do not become bitter, they desire to forgive, they desire a changed heart for the offender and they even pray for the offender to realize their need to confess and change, so that the relationship will be restored authentically God's Way.

When we try to "feel better" for ourselves we are not thinking of the eternal well-being of the offender.

Psychology has destroyed reconciliation by getting people to focus on temporary feelings instead of long-term consequences. Reconciliation is not important to those who base their actions on feelings, only momentary superficial manipulation that solves nothing, rather it sweeps the dirt under the rug hoping the dirt will not emerge at a later time.

Nothing is cleansed, nothing changes and no one is freed from the uncomfortable sense every time they encounter the offender or the offender encounters the victim.

Mere sensations do not solve anything, they are nothing more than indicators of a desire, not the substance of anything real.

Do we as believers desire to forgive others? You betcha we do, we want that more than anything but just saying we do when they are not repentant is useless and sort of infantile. The idea that because I want it and say it then it must be true is not very mature thinking.

Sometimes we have to do the hard thing, wait a long time, and learn patience for God to do the real work in someone and in ourselves.

Do we have the strength to believe God by doing things His way even if it doesn't feel good or if we don't understand it?

We spanked our children when they were small to teach them good things. It didn't feel good but it accomplished better things than just feelings, it built character.

We see in our day how the character of children has been destroyed by the lack of discipline and training of the parents. And, we see how the culture has completely lost the ability to have consequences for bad attitudes and behavior, leaving a rude and crude culture hypersensitive to correction.

We are headed to the tribulation and are now living in the 2 Timothy three generation because of the teaching of self-esteem and lack of character training in the previous generations.

Just because the world has gone mad without the ability to think rationally does not mean that we should become like the world. God's ways are still for us, we are still to obey His commands even if no one else does.

Romans 3:3-4 "…3 What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness? 4 Certainly not! Let God be TRUE and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”

Don't worry, if you lose all your friends and family, God is always your Father and those who love Him are going through the same things you are, you are not alone ever!!!!!

Conservatism Gets No-one to Heaven

Conservatism will not get anyone to heaven. Only loving Christ having been changed by Him will get anyone to heaven. Many political conservatives will be in hell. They trusted in their politics for a better life but they never trusted in Christ as their Savior.

The first thing out of a person's mouth, when you greet them on the street, is likely what they love the most.

1 Thessalonians 5:26 "26Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss. 27 I charge you before the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers."

Notice that the brothers and sisters greet one another with excitement and then they share the word of God with them. There is nothing more satisfying than loving a brother or sister with His Word.

There is nothing more satisfying than loving the non-believer by sharing the gospel with them.

Love is about Christ, sharing His wisdom with brothers and sisters, and His love and salvation with non-believers.

If you are merely enjoying a non-believer without sharing the gospel then you are not loving him, you are loving yourself attempting to win him to you.

Proverbs 29:25-26 "25 The fear of man is a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is set securely on high. 26 Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man receives justice from the LORD.…"

Think about it.............pray about it!!!