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Genesis 5: Grace in Ruins

Genesis 5: Grace in Ruins

Series: Genesis: Grace In Ruins Title: Genesis 5: From Adam to Noah Many Bible readers skip over chapters with long genealogies. However, in most cultures throughout history, ancestry was very important. In the NT, Luke cites all the chapter 5 names in order to present the genealogy of Jesus Christ. Genesis 5 not just a ancestery.com, genealogy, but a theological statement emphasizing continuity, divine purpose, and the contrast between the righteous and the rebellious. Gen 5:28 When Lamech had lived 182 years, he fathered a son 29 and called his name Noah, saying, “Out of the ground that the Lord has cursed, this one shall bring us relief[d] from our work and from the painful toil of our hands.”

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Early civilization was advancing rapidly—people were building cities, raising families, creating music, developing tech. Progress. But under the surface, something dark was brewing: human pride, violence and rebellion. In this tension between prosperity and corruption—we find Genesis 5. Filled with names, years, and the story of a man who walked with God and once again, God’s grace!
Despite people’s best-efforts and advancements, they die.
Walking with God means:

Walking in communion and friendship with Him
To trust and obey Him consistently
Walking with God involves repentance from sin and a desire to live according to His truth.

To Walk

a. By faith (2 Corinthians 5:7),
b. In the light (1 John 1:5-7), and
c. In agreement with God (Amos 3:3).
Enoch and Methuselah

In Hebrew, Methuselah means:

1. “When he is dead it shall be sent”
2. Apparently, God told Enoch that when Methuselah died, the world was going to be destroyed by a flood

Enoch was a man of Faith

Hebrews 11:5 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.6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

How did he demonstrate:

1. Enoch was a preacher who spoke of Christ’s 2nd coming centuries before His first coming

2. He preached on the coming judgment
Jude 14 It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones, 15 to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

3. Enoch was one of 2 humans who got to heaven without dying physically
vs 27 Thus all the days of Methuselah were 969 years, and he died.

a. He lived longer than any man in history. Why?

b. God was waiting. Holding back judgement.

i. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you,[a] not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance
The heartbeat of Ch5 is:

· Everyone dies, until one man walks with God, and another is born who will save a remnant.

· That you can walk with God when no one else does.
· That God is writing a story in your family line.
· That though death reigns, God is preparing a deliverer—and
· Today, that Deliverer is Jesus.

Will your name be part of the story of faith?