Most people skip through genealogies, but this one has much to teach us. There is a deliberate and distinctive feature of this set of names that is not found in any other genealogy in the Bible; it is the phrase "and he died". It is intentionally repeated to make the same point that the apostle Paul stated about four thousand years later: "in Adam all die". Adam's sin introduced death into the world, and the pattern has been repeated throughout history. In contrast, the good news of the gospel is that "in Christ all will be made alive" (1 Corinthians 15:22).
The record of the earliest human ancestors of the Lord Jesus Christ also includes three men who walked with God: Adam, who walked with God in the garden of Eden, Enoch, who walked with God right out of the world, and Noah, who walked with God and obeyed Him by faith. What about us? We also are called to walk with God by faith. The New Testament contains at least 18 different descriptions of how we are to walk, including in truth, in love, in newness of life, and in a manner worthy of the Lord. In the darkness of our current world, we must walk in the light, and we may be the generation that does not die - just like Enoch - and are suddenly taken up by our Savior, who will receive us to Himself.
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Jay was born and raised in Kansas City. Although his family attended church every week and he participated in the youth group and choirs, he never heard and understood the gospel during those years. In the Lord’s sovereignty, he joined a fraternity at the University of Kansas...