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00:03 by the friends of the Amazing Facts Ministry. 00:14 Doug Batchelor: Enoch walked with God during a time when 00:16 there was great wickedness in the world. 00:18 So you can't say, Lord, I'd walk with You, but in this culture, 00:21 we're in today God needs men who are going to walk with him no 00:24 matter what's happening around them, that they're going to stand 00:27 for the right, though the heavens fall. 00:33 Doug: I want to welcome everybody. 00:35 Thank you for joining us here at Granite Bay as well as our 00:37 friends, who are watching on television and the internet. 00:40 This is the second part in a four part series. 00:43 We have three parts and one session of questions and answers 00:47 dealing with mighty men of God, and our message today is talking 00:51 about "Walking with Integrity" and that's a rare thing 00:55 these days. 00:57 You know, the Bible tells us about someone who walked to God 00:59 about as close as you can. 01:01 In the book of Genesis, you read about Enoch. 01:04 Genesis 5:21: "Enoch lived sixty-five years, and he begot 01:09 Methuselah, and Enoch walked with God after he begat 01:13 Methuselah," and some people think that after he had a son 01:17 and he understood how much God must love us and that he was 01:20 going to send his Son, that it did something to his 01:23 relationship and he was especially close to God after he 01:26 found out about his love for his children. 01:29 He realized how much God our Father loves His children and he 01:33 walked with God. 01:35 "And he walked with God 365 years," that's one day for 01:40 every--or one year for every day, and it says, "He walked 01:45 with God and he was not for God took him." 01:50 And the Bible says that he had this testimony that he 01:52 pleased God. 01:54 He was the first one who was, what you would say, translated. 01:57 God just caught him up. 01:59 Now, through his example of walking with God, we can 02:03 learn something. 02:04 First of all, we want to do what Enoch did because Enoch is where 02:08 we want to be. 02:10 Where is Enoch now? 02:12 You know, if I ask you who's the oldest man that ever lived, what 02:14 would you say? 02:16 Methuselah, that's a trick question. 02:17 Methuselah the oldest man who ever died; the oldest man who 02:21 ever lived is Methuselah's father, Enoch, because he's 02:24 still alive. 02:25 He never died, right? 02:27 He's where we want to be. 02:29 How did he get there? 02:30 He walked with God. 02:32 We need to have that kind of walk, and walking with God 02:35 doesn't just mean that you occasionally think about God and 02:38 you come to church once a week. 02:39 It means having a life, a walk of integrity, a walk of honesty. 02:46 It's interesting that he walked with God during a time when 02:49 there was great wickedness in the world, just read what it 02:52 says about his grandson Noah. 02:55 During the time of Enoch, it says that the thoughts of men's 02:58 hearts were only evil continually and violence was in 03:02 the land. 03:03 We live with a lot of violence in the world today, a lot of 03:06 bloodshed, a lot of dishonesty, a lot of corruption, but he was 03:11 still able to walk with God. 03:12 So you can't say, Lord, 03:14 I'd walk with you, but in this culture we're in today--God 03:16 needs men who are going to walk with him no matter what's 03:18 happening around them. 03:20 That they're going to stand for the right, though the 03:22 heavens fall. 03:24 The Bible says Noah was a just man. 03:25 Now we're in Genesis 6, verse 9. 03:27 Next chapter: "Perfect in his generations, Noah walked 03:31 with God." 03:32 If Noah could walk with his God just before the end of the 03:35 world, you know Noah lived through the end of the world 03:37 back then. 03:38 We can walk with God before the end of the world now. 03:42 He saw from the example of his grandfather, Methuselah, and his 03:47 father, because Methuselah died just before the flood, and his 03:50 great-grandfather, Enoch, what it meant to walk with God, and 03:55 he followed that pattern. 03:57 Now, I'm glad I can tell you that there were good examples 04:00 like Enoch, and then Noah modeled his great-grandfather's 04:04 example, and he walked with God, but, you know, even some of the 04:06 men of God failed in areas of integrity. 04:11 When you think about the great patriarchs, 04:12 what are their names? 04:14 Abraham, Isaac, Jacob. 04:18 Abraham, a good man, loved the Lord, kept the Commandments, but 04:21 not always. 04:25 You can read in Genesis 20 verse 2: "Now Abraham said of Sarah 04:29 his wife, 'She's my sister.'" 04:33 You know the story? 04:35 He went down to Egypt during the time of a famine and Sarah was 04:38 very good looking and she may have, you know, had a unique 04:43 sparkle because Abraham had come from another country, and there 04:47 were the women in Egypt were a little more swarthy in their 04:51 appearance, Sarah stood out. 04:53 It's like I remember when Karen and I and the boys went to 04:57 Tiananmen Square and I figured we'd see a lot of European 05:01 tourists there in this big famous Chinese square. 05:05 I was amazed at how many Chinese tourists went there, and Nathan 05:11 and Steven were walking around and everywhere they walk they 05:14 were turning heads because when they were younger they both had 05:17 blue hair and blond eyes and they just stood out. 05:23 What did I say, blue hair? 05:24 Well, that's now, that was before. 05:26 [laughing] 05:29 I really didn't mean to say that, but everybody was turning, 05:33 it was such a spectacle. 05:35 And Sarah was very attractive, even though she was older at 05:38 this point, she still stood out, and Abraham thought, Boy, you're 05:42 not going to go down to Egypt, got to go, we're out of food. 05:44 They got food there, but, you know, I don't know about the 05:47 ethics of the people down there, and they're going to look at 05:50 Sarah and, you know, it was pretty barbaric. 05:52 It was the wild wild West back then. 05:53 They didn't have police force and laws, and it's sort of like 05:56 every man had his own security team, and he thought, They're 06:00 going to kill me and take my wife. 06:01 So just to play it safe, she is actually my half sister. 06:05 I'll leave out the wife part and I'll just say, yeah, oh, she's 06:08 my sister. 06:10 Well, you know, that didn't go very well because pharaoh 06:12 thought oh, good, she's your sister, I'll take her over to 06:14 my harem. 06:18 And then word about that ended up getting to his son, Isaac. 06:24 There's another famine and Isaac has to go dwell in the land of 06:27 the Philistines because that's the only place there's bread, 06:29 and he's married to his cousin now, Rebecca, who is also 06:33 beautiful, from the same country as Sarah. 06:38 And the men of the place asked about his wife, Isaac said, Oh, 06:42 she's my sister. 06:46 And again later he was discovered and he was rebuked by 06:48 the pagans. 06:50 So where do you think Isaac learned that? 06:52 And then it doesn't stop there. 06:53 You know, the Bible says, "Unto the third and fourth generation, 06:56 our example of integrity or our lack of integrity will be 07:01 reproduced in the lives of those around us." 07:05 You get that? 07:06 Our lives of integrity, or our lack of integrity, and I expect 07:10 to see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in heaven. 07:12 Well, we gotta get to Jacob. 07:16 Isaac wants to bless his boys. 07:17 He says, Call Esau. 07:19 Genesis 27: 12: Rachel, says, No, Jacob you go in and you 07:25 pretend to be Esau, and you put on Esau his clothes and say that 07:30 you're Esau and you'll get the blessing of Esau. 07:32 And you notice how it's progressing? 07:34 First he says, Well, she's actually my sister. 07:36 Now she's my cousin. 07:37 Well, Dad did it. 07:38 I'll say she's my sister, and now I'm going to say my brother. 07:42 And it just a little by little, that's a pretty far stretch from 07:46 calling your half-sister your wife to calling your brother, 07:49 saying you're your brother. 07:51 But that's kinda how compromise happens little by little 07:54 in degrees. 07:57 You ever heard the expression white lies or half truths? 08:02 A half truth is a whole lie, and Christians ought to be 08:07 consistently honest all the time. 08:10 You've heard that expression. 08:11 It's not an expression. 08:13 It's actually from Numbers 32, verse 23: "Your sin will find 08:16 you out," you never really get away with any lies. 08:22 Your sin will find you, and it catches up with you. 08:25 Joe the butcher at the end of his day, final customer came in 08:29 his butcher shop, this was years ago, and she said I'd like a 08:33 chicken, whole chicken. 08:36 So he reached into the freezer, he had one chicken left, he 08:39 pulled it out he put it on the scale and said that'll be a 08:41 $1.79, and she looked at it and scrutinized it and she said you 08:45 know, it's not quite big enough. 08:48 I think I need a little bigger chicken. 08:50 She said, Can you get me a different one? 08:53 He took that chicken he put it back in the freezer, fumbled 08:55 around, and pulled it back out again. 08:57 This time he just put his hand on the scale a little bit and 09:00 said, Okay that one's going to be $2. 09:03 She thought for a minute. 09:04 She said, you know, I guess I better get them both. 09:09 He got busted. 09:13 Christians should be perfectly honest. 09:16 Moses said Deuteronomy 25:15, "You will have a perfect and 09:21 a just weight, a perfect and a just measure, that your days 09:25 may be lengthened in the land that your Lord, the Lord your 09:29 God is giving you." 09:30 One of the criteria for their staying in the land and not 09:33 being carried off captive was honesty. 09:37 Faithfulness in their business, faithfulness in their dealings 09:40 with each other. 09:41 And he said, I'll bless you, because the Lord is looking for 09:44 truth, the Bible says, in the inward parts. 09:47 He wants us to walk a walk of truth. 09:50 He wants integrity in the family. 09:53 One of the ways you become a mighty man of God is by keeping 09:57 your vows, and that would include your marriage vows. 10:02 Ephesians 5:22: "Husbands, love your wives." 10:06 How? 10:07 "As Christ loved the church." 10:09 He doesn't say if your wife cooks well, love her. 10:15 You're supposed to love her no matter what. 10:19 It doesn't matter whether she's being easy to get along 10:21 with or difficult--he doesn't give that out here. 10:24 It's a command: Love your wife. 10:26 Is she your wife? 10:27 Love her. 10:29 Oh, but sometimes she's so unlovable. 10:31 How? 10:32 Love her like Christ loves the Church. 10:34 Does God love us when we're unlovable? 10:37 Did God wait for you to be good before he loved you or does he 10:40 love you even when you're bad? 10:43 You know that song "Jesus Loves Me," there's that one verse, 10:46 "Jesus loves me when I'm good, when I do the things I should. 10:50 Jesus loves me when I'm bad even though it makes him sad." 10:55 And our love for our wives should be like God's love for 10:59 us, which is a consistent, unconditional love, A-- 11:04 congregation: Men. 11:06 Doug: If I were to ask all the men here how many 11:07 love your wives, raise your hand. 11:09 Don't do it. 11:11 But I bet all the hands would go up, but then if I were to ask 11:14 how many of the wives feel loved? 11:18 If there was an honest response, you might find it's different. 11:23 Now, men often think, Well, I provide a good house. 11:30 I make sure that there's food in the refrigerator. 11:33 I protect you. 11:34 I do the yard work, of course, I love you. 11:36 I mean, for us that's the evidence of love. 11:39 That's not always the way the wives view it, though. 11:43 It says, "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the 11:45 church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify her and 11:50 cleanse her with the washing of the water by the word, that He 11:53 might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot 11:56 or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy 11:59 without blemish. 12:01 So husbands ought to love their wives." 12:03 It's talking there about Christ loves the church so that he can 12:07 have a sanctifying influence on the church. 12:09 Husbands ought to love their wives so that we have a 12:13 sanctifying influence on them. 12:17 Colossians 3:19: "Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter 12:21 towards them." 12:23 Now, sometimes there's bitterness, harsh words are 12:25 spoken or needs aren't met and it turns into anger and people 12:29 can live in the same house for years and act like strangers. 12:33 God says you need to love, show affection, cherish. 12:38 Doug: Here at Amazing Facts International 12:40 we strive to reach the world with the amazing truths 12:44 of the Bible and proclaim the love of Jesus. 12:47 We print thousands of easy-to-read materials 12:50 such as books, tracks, and fully illustrated magazines 12:54 that are all designed to change lives by clearing up 12:57 the many misunderstandings people have regarding 12:59 the Word of God. 13:01 Our warehouse is filled with resources ready to mail out, 13:04 and we're eager to send them to you. 13:07 Make the most of your Bible study today 13:09 by requesting our free offer. 13:11 It'll surely enhance your knowledge of the Bible 13:14 while imparting a blessing to you and those in your life. 13:17 Simply follow the instructions on the screen, 13:20 and we'll send it to you free of charge. 13:22 And once you read it, be sure to share it with a friend. 13:26 Doug Batchelor: And then not only being mighty men of God 13:29 means examples in the family with the wife or the spouse, but 13:33 with the children. 13:35 "And you, fathers, do not provoke your children of wrath, 13:39 but bring them up in the training and the admonition." 13:42 Don't just shout at them and tell them what they're doin' 13:44 wrong, but be an example and admonish them in the Lord. 13:49 Do you have worship in your families? 13:51 There are a lot of husbands and wives that haven't held hands 13:53 and prayed together. 13:55 It's something that ought to happen every day in a Christian 13:57 home where families have worship. 13:59 You've heard the expression, families that pray together stay 14:02 together, and when you pray, closer you come to one object, 14:05 the closer you come to each other. 14:07 And if you're both coming closer to God in your devotions, you'll 14:09 be coming closer to each other and be able to talk about 14:13 spiritual things and things that you learn. 14:17 And we should be honest to God, not only in our families, but if 14:19 you're a Christian, you probably have taken some baptismal vows. 14:23 You said by God's grace, I am going to stand for Christ. 14:26 I'm going to be part of this people. 14:27 I am going to support the work of God. 14:29 I am going to share the good news about Jesus. 14:32 And have you sworn to your own hurt and changed? 14:38 Are you willing to keep your word and stand for the promises 14:41 that you've made? 14:43 Now, being a Christian means a consistent walk. 14:48 Colossians 2:6: "As you there have received Christ Jesus the 14:52 Lord, so walk in Him." 14:55 You know, some people lose their first love, we need to 14:58 consistently continue to walk in the Lord. 15:01 Ephesians 5:8 and 9: "For you were once darkness, but now 15:05 you're children of the Lord. 15:06 Walk as children of light." 15:09 Our neighbors and the people around us, if we are men of 15:12 integrity, ought to see that we're different in the way that 15:14 we walk. 15:16 I heard about a missionary in India that was teaching a 15:18 roomful of people, and he saw one lady about halfway through 15:23 his presentation, got up and went out, and he looked through 15:27 the window and he thought he saw her talking to his driver that 15:31 was taking him from one appointment to another, and then 15:35 a few minutes later, she came back in and she sat down and she 15:38 looked very interested and he was curious. 15:40 And so after the study, he went after he says, You know, I 15:43 noticed you got up and you went out partway through the program 15:45 and I was wondering if it was something I said? 15:47 And she said, Well, yes. 15:49 She said, What you said really touched my heart. 15:52 What you told me about Jesus was very interesting, and I thought 15:56 I wonder if this man really lives like this. 15:59 So I went out and I asked your driver, Does this is man really 16:02 live the things that he talks about? 16:04 The driver said, Yes. 16:06 So I came back in to hear the rest of what you had to say. 16:09 So what would your driver say? 16:12 Are we the same? 16:13 You know what integrity is? 16:15 Integrity means you're the same person when no one's watching as 16:18 when everybody's watching. 16:20 That's what integrity is. 16:22 God is calling for mighty men who are going to be consistently 16:27 followers of Jesus, whether the crowd is watching or not. 16:31 You know, I heard that somebody did a study on the street, and 16:38 they pretended they were blind, and they would go up to 16:42 strangers, and cameras were rolling--you can actually see 16:44 this on Youtube--and they go up to strangers and they pretend 16:47 they're blind, Sister, I hear you, can you please help me? 16:50 I've got to get change because there was you've got to pay for 16:53 a meter, whatever it is, can you take this $5 bill and give me 5 16:57 ones and some change? 16:59 And he'd ask these strangers on the street, but he would hand 17:02 them, a 50. 17:06 And fortunately, 70% of the people said, Oh, brother, that's 17:10 not a 5, that's a 50, be careful. 17:14 But it was shocking, and you could see it, some people said 17:18 Oh yeah, $5? 17:20 Sure. 17:21 Let me have your 5, here's 5 and they walked away. 17:26 They were pretty surprised and because then the guy would take 17:28 his glasses off and run up to him and say, Hey, give me back 17:30 my money. 17:32 They got busted. 17:34 But it's kind of scary to think that when they thought nobody 17:36 was watching, they could take advantage of a blind person. 17:41 They'd do it. 17:42 I can't imagine that I would never do that, God's my witness 17:45 that I couldn't live with myself doing something like that. 17:48 But a person of integrity realizes that God always has the 17:52 camera running and you are the same on camera as you are off 17:57 camera, that's what it means to walk with the Lord. 18:00 It's something that's happening consistently. 18:03 Psalm 1, verse 1 and 2: "Blessed is the man who walks not in the 18:08 counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, 18:12 or sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in 18:15 the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night." 18:21 This is the man who's blessed. 18:22 This is what it means to walk with God. 18:24 We talked about Joshua, where God said last night, If you want 18:27 to be courageous, then walk in the laws that I gave Moses. 18:31 Here the very first psalm, King David, who is certainly a mighty 18:35 man, he said, "The man who does not walk in the counsel of the 18:39 ungodly," and that's tough when you're surrounded by a world 18:43 that doesn't believe in truth, "nor sits in the path of seat-- 18:46 sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is 18:50 in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day 18:53 and night." 18:54 Being a man of God means that you spend time in God's Word day 18:58 and night, amen? 19:00 You need to be spending time in prayer as well. 19:04 Heard about these pigeons, you ever seen how a pigeon walks? 19:08 A pigeon walks where it takes a step and then it moves its head 19:12 and it goes like this... 19:14 And I know they--I grew up in New York City, we had a lot of 19:16 pigeons--used to catch pigeons, we bring them home, my mother 19:18 would get disgusted, make us take them back out again, and 19:23 it's because someone explained to me that a pigeon cannot focus 19:27 its eyes while it's moving. 19:30 It's something about their eyes that they have to stop their 19:33 head and they're taking a step focus, focus, focus, focus. 19:39 You know, ours, God made us where our focus can continue to 19:41 move while we're moving, and a lot of other birds, but not a 19:44 pigeon, but it's sort of kind of how it is for Christian. 19:47 As you're walking, you need to continually adjust your focus 19:51 based on the Word of God because the society that we're living in 19:55 can't see straight. 19:57 I--kinda interesting, this year I was at a dinner back in New 20:01 York City, and I sat down next to a man, and we're visiting, 20:04 I said what's your name? 20:06 And he said George Barna, and he's the one who has the fame of 20:09 Barna study group, delightful Christian man. 20:13 I was very impressed. 20:14 He did a study a number of years ago, actually it was a 1992 20:17 study that confirmed Americans are in danger of becoming a 20:21 nation of relativists. 20:25 The survey asked the Americans is there such a thing as 20:28 absolute truth? 20:30 Amazingly, 66% of Americans-- it's worse today, I'm sure--66% 20:36 of American adults responded they believe there's no such 20:39 thing as an absolute truth. 20:41 You got your truth and I've got my truth, and if you believe 20:44 something, you'll get to heaven and all rivers lead to the ocean 20:47 and you're--you know, we all kind of have our truth, and 20:51 if its truth for you, it's truth. 20:53 And my truth is true for me, and so you got your truth, I've got 20:56 my truth. 20:57 And he says doesn't that kind of permeate our society? 21:00 They can sort of invent your own truth? 21:04 And you know, it sounds good philosophically, 21:07 but in reality that doesn't work. 21:10 Do you want a brain surgeon to start working on you that says 21:14 well, I think today, I really believe that I'm going to find 21:19 your brain somewhere in your ankle, because I believe it. 21:25 Do you want to get on an airplane and have the pilot say, 21:28 You know, I've had an epiphany about the laws of aerodynamic 21:31 design, and today I'm almost sure that this plane will work 21:34 just as well as a submarine, so as we're going across the ocean, 21:38 I believe it, and so it'll work. 21:41 Would you believe that, or would you think he should 21:43 be arrested? 21:44 Because there are certain laws of flight, and people's lives 21:49 depend upon those absolutes being unchanging. 21:53 So what's the key? 21:56 We become like who we walk with. 22:00 As you spend time walking with Jesus and the Bible says he is 22:03 the truth. 22:05 Christ said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." 22:07 1 John 1:7: "If we walk in the light as He is in the light, we 22:12 have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus 22:15 Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin." 22:18 Acts 4:13: When the disciples were being tried for their 22:21 faith, "When they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and 22:24 they perceived they were uneducated and untrained men, 22:27 they marveled. 22:28 And they realize," they said ah, "they've been with Jesus." 22:33 By the way they were acting, they could see that they'd been 22:36 with Jesus. 22:37 Have you ever met somebody before and you just watch 'em 22:39 for a few minutes and talk to them and you say, I think 22:42 they're a Christian. 22:44 You become like who you walk with. 22:48 That's very important if you're going to be a man of God, who is 22:51 influencing you? 22:53 The Word of God or the views of the world? 22:57 Do you spend more time in the Word or watching 23:03 videos, television? 23:05 What's going to define your values of truth? 23:09 Is going to be Christ? 23:11 We are changed by beholding, and as we keep our eyes fixed on 23:15 Jesus, how do we lay aside the sin and the weight that so 23:18 easily beset us? 23:20 It tells us there in Hebrews chapter 12, Looking unto Jesus, 23:24 the author and finisher of our faith, it's through keeping our 23:26 eyes fixed on him we become like him, so that we are transformed 23:31 from glory to glory into the same image. 23:34 The image of the Lord. 23:35 You know, the whole purpose of the plan of salvation is to 23:37 restore in man the image of God. 23:40 We need to be spending time in God--in Christ's Word, and being 23:44 people of integrity. 23:46 Being somebody who swears to their own hurt and changes not. 23:51 You know how hard it must have been for Hannah when she said, 23:54 Lord, I'm going to make a vow. 23:56 If you give me a son, I promise I'll give him back to you. 24:02 And she had Samuel, it was her only boy, and it wasn't until 24:05 she gave Samuel back to God, God then blessed her with several 24:10 other children. 24:12 You can read in the book of Judges chapter 11 about one of 24:15 the judges he's mentioned in Hebrews, he's going to be in 24:17 heaven, Jephthah. 24:19 He said, Lord, if you give me victory in this battle against 24:25 the Ammonites--it might have been the Moabites, I don't 24:28 remember, it was one of them -ites--you give me victory, 24:33 it'll come to pass that when I come back, whatever comes forth 24:36 from my house to greet me, I will 24:39 offer to you as a burnt offering. 24:40 Well, he thought, you know, he had a small ranch, he thought 24:43 coming home, you know, the family cow, goat, sheep would 24:46 come out, and it was his daughter that came out first. 24:52 And he said, Oh my daughter, you've brought me very low. 24:54 He says, I've opened my mouth to the Lord and I can't go back. 24:59 And it was different from Hannah, and he didn't sacrifice 25:02 her, he gave her to serve at the temple and she could 25:05 never marry. 25:06 And that's why it says the daughters of Israel went up 25:09 yearly to visit her. 25:11 And he would never have a son, it was his only daughter. 25:14 She went on the mountains to bewail her virginity, 25:16 she said, Father, you've opened your mouth to the Lord. 25:18 You need to keep your promise to God. 25:21 Boy, those people are pretty rare today, huh? 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