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Three Ways God Transforms us Through Genesis 5
Charles Spurgeon said it well.
“Nobody ever outgrows Scripture. The book widens and deepens with our years.”
CH Spurgeon
The more I study it, the wider it gets, and the deeper my faith becomes, and the higher my heart soars.
God’s Word transforms. Are you ready for it to transform you? I’m Jean Wilund, and this is “Three Ways God Transforms us Through Genesis 5.”
God wants us to know the important men that He recorded in Seth’s genealogy in Genesis 5. But you know what, so what if we could write a 50-page report about Enoch, if we’re no different before we wrote it then after we wrote about his miraculous life.
God gave us the Bible for transformation, not just information.
So let’s ask ourselves the transformation question:
“If we believe and act and what God has revealed in Genesis 5, how will our hearts be changed and our lives be different tomorrow?”
#1: We will remember that God creates, we imitate, and sin mutilates.
God created us in His glorious image, but our parents gave birth to a child made in their own likeness—sinners.
And since we know that sin mutilates, if we believe and act on what God has revealed in Genesis 5, we will not allow ourselves to be deceived by sin’s allure, because we’ll remember our inherited sin nature is prone to being deceived.
We won’t think more highly of ourselves than we ought to think, and instead, we’ll think way more and way higher about God than we have in the past.
And we’ll seek to imitate Christ, including extending mercy to others—the same mercy that He has extended to us.
#2: We will walk with God for the rest of our lives.
We will walk so close to Him that we could almost just basically walk straight on into heaven.
We will not attempt to do it in our own power because we know that our sin nature is powerless against sin. But as Christians, we have been given the Spirit of God who has all power to defeat sin—the temptation to sin in us.
We will dig into the Word of God so that it will dig into us. And by the power of the Holy Spirit, we will be able to walk with Him, blameless and pleasing all the days of our lives.
#3: We’ll remember that God is incredibly merciful, but judgment is coming
Third: if we believe and act on what God has revealed in Genesis 5, we’ll remember that God is incredibly merciful, but judgment is coming. So we will obey the Lord in everything.
We will share the gospel with gentleness and respect. And we will wait for God to do the work of transformation in their hearts. We can’t save people, but His Spirit can.
We will remember the extravagant mercy that He demonstrated when He appointed Methuselah to live for nearly a thousand years before He sent the flood.
We will pray to our merciful God to restrain the evil in this world and in our country.
And we’ll serve our country without fear—no matter who’s in the White House because we will know and believe that God always cares for His children. None of His plans, purposes, or ways can ever be thwarted by anyone.
We’ll remember that Christ is the merciful, but righteous, judge of all the earth—not us. He’s called his children to protect the weak, to declare the Truth, to bring conviction where it’s necessary, and even to make judgments. But by His command, we will leave vengeance to Him.
We will trust Him, who knows the hearts of all men, to do what He knows is best and to strongly support us as we wait on Him.
As he cared for Enoch, we will trust that He will care for us.
As He faithfully preserved the genealogy of Christ, we’ll rest in the assurance that He will preserve us for eternity.
He will preserve His children for eternity. And we will stay alert for Christ’s return when He comes back with His thousands of holy ones.
