This is the Truth Network. There are two words which radically scare most Christians: correction and control. Could there be anything good come out of discussion of these terms?
Well, stay with us, listen, and learn. You're listening to Until He Comes, a blend of prophetic and practical biblical studies with Dr. Greg Hinnant, author of The Second Coming of Christ, His Appearing, His Return, Our Preparation. And now, author and teacher Greg Hinnant. Welcome to the program today, my friend.
We're going to continue our study. on the life of Enoch, his lifestyle, and what it means to us. But before we do that, we first of all want to mention a very important Event that is occurring. september fourteenth through the twenty eighth. In Cornersville, North Carolina, Five nights, september fourteenth, seventeenth, 21st, 24th, and 28th.
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Also is the judge of the Church.
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So reserve your seat today. by going to Greggennett Ministries.org. and following the prompts which are on every page of our website. Today, we're going to go forward in our study of Enoch by learning about correction.
Now, when I said that, I'm sure some of you may draw back. Yeah. As human beings, we're essentially proud, self-centered, self-satisfied, Think we're fine like we are. And don't want anyone to tell us anything that would require us to change, including Jesus. But if we're going to walk with God, That attitude must change.
To continue walking with God, Enoch continued to receive God's corrections. You know, Proverbs six twenty three says this Reproofs of instruction. are the way of life, the way to more life. Receiving more of God's life every day and the way to successfully finishing your path in eternal life. is Bye.
Reproofs of instruction. What does that mean?
Well, that means that God is talking to us about the things that he wants to change in her life. Translation, there are lots and lots of things about us. Once we're saved, which need to be changed. In fact, must be changed if you're going to live the Enoch lifestyle.
So, when God showed Enoch what needed to be changed, Enoch, we know, because he continued walking with God. He changed. For instance, he would have shown him things that were wrong in his life, the way he went about his daily life. Whatever those things were, Enoch changed. Then There was his heart.
the way he felt about people. Enoch had a heart just like we do, he had a fallen nature. and perhaps he resented this person or that person who had wronged him. And he learned to forgive. Perhaps he was proud, at a certain point in his life.
Perhaps even of his relationship with Christ. because he was the only righteous man of that time that we know. Noah came later. If so, then God corrected him about his pride and showed him that pride was the first sin. We can assume he received that correction, repented, and chose humility and meekness over pride and arrogance.
Why? Because only then could he continue walking with God. Or perhaps his attitudes. Maybe there was somebody that he. didn't like some setting that he didn't like, and every time he was round that person or in that setting he got a bad attitude.
And so the Holy Spirit. Corrected him. and he changed it. And he got God's mind toward that person under that situation. Or then the thoughts in his mind, in his heart.
Perhaps he, at one period in his walk, had evil thoughts his whole generation. was full of evil thoughts. In fact, It is sad of that generation, just a hundred or so years later. that every thought, In the heart of every person was only evil continually.
So he lived in a very corrupt. Culture.
So it's very possible that some of the thoughts of his heart were wrong. If so, God convicted him. Perhaps he had thoughts of lust or greed. Or envy?
So God would have corrected him, convicted him. and then he chose to change. A reproof of instruction is a twofold action. First one is told that one is wrong. Or something in your life is wrong.
Then one is told, what is right. what he or she should think, feel, or do.
Now, you say, well, now that's kind of robotic. No, this is the way we learn. And so this is the way I'm sure Enoch would have learned. by a choice of will. He had free will.
He was able to choose. and when God instructed him and told him he was wrong in a certain area, He chose to accept that Instruction, that reproof, and then when God instructed him on the right path to take. whether in thinking, emotion, In attitude. In action Orb In failing to do something he should have, Enoch responded And receive God's correction. Friend, are you receiving God's correction today, right now, while you're listening to me?
Is there some issue, relationship? attitude, activity, thought, motive. That God is dealing with you about Please receive his reproof, receive his correction, and then continue walking. With God. What I'm saying here is that we must be teachable.
The unteachable Christian is an unchangeable Christian, and an unchangeable Christian, listen carefully to what I'm going to say. is not going to be taken to heaven in the rapture.
Now, they don't lose their salvation because they have bad attitudes. But they're going to have to go into the testing of the tribulation period, and you do not want to go into that time. In our Triad Revelation Conference, we're going to demonstrate that from the outset, from the first day of the seven years. When Antichrist signs A seven-year pact. Either creating an agreement with Israel or renewing one.
When that happens. The four horsemen are released one after the other. And in the first half of the tribulation alone, One fourth of the world will die. Today, that would be two point one billion. I repeat, billion people dying through the various causes that are mentioned there.
Undoubtedly, weapons of mass destruction will be used By Antichrist, who is a warmonger. and who will be loosed by Christ, yes, you heard me correctly. loosed by the Lamb of God, to run his evil course. Because God is judging the world for 2,000 years of rejecting His Son. God doesn't want Christians in that time at all.
But if we are incorrigible Christians, Then we are undeliverable. Christians. God can deliver us in the raptured experience. Because We've been stubborn. We wouldn't change.
We wouldn't receive God's correction. We hated His correction. We did not do what he told us to do. Again Rebellious Uncorrectable Christians will not go. and the rapture.
Now let me explain to you Briefly why? The rapture is called the translation, technically. This means that When Christ designates that the moment has come. He will come to the Earth's atmosphere. And no one will see this but those teching.
but all who are prepared and ready. faithful. as he instructed us to be, will be suddenly, in the twinkling of an eye, Paul said in 1 Corinthians 15, caught up. At that moment, We will go from this Life to the next. from time and space to eternity.
in a nanosecond. and be changed from a mortal to an immortal bodily condition. That is called Translation. And we will never see Death. We will not experience physical expiration.
Only two people. have been taken directly. from earth to heaven without experiencing death. Enoch And later Elijah. You can read about that in 2 Kings chapter 1.
Two. Chapter 1 and 2.
So it is a great privilege. To be taken directly from earth to heaven without experiencing death.
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Now, again, Dr. Hinnant. We will be given. Regardless of however we walk as Christians, We will be given. A new body.
a glorified body, a body that cannot die. That's good news. That's a wonderful thing. But it is a privilege, not a covenant benefit. to be taken up and translated, and never see death.
And God has reserved it for those who live the Enoch lifestyle. You see, we began this study by saying in Genesis 5. twenty four. Enoch walked with God, and he was not Because God took him. And we describe then the reason that God took him, because finally, In Enoch, God had found what he desired.
From the time Adam fell, Adam had walked with God. And enjoy sweet. Fellowship with him in the cool of the day in the garden, but then he sent. And he lost that walk with God. Seven generations passed, and another man came along in the land of the godly, named Enoch.
his name meaning dedicated and experienced and in this mana God found what he had longed for for seven long generations. and he was so excited that after Enoch walked with God many years he just simply took him home. He did not require that he pass through death, he just took him home. What a wonderful experience. And you and I can have that translation experience.
And no, we're going to have it. If we just live a faithful life and we receive correction from God whenever, wherever, however it is needed. Friend, be correctable. You may say, Well, my friend here and my friend there, they're not teachable, they're not correctable, they seem to be getting on just fine.
Well, Maybe God has just loosed the reins and let them go their way. Maybe God has said, Well, I'm just going to leave them alone. I'm going to leave them to themselves, leave them to the fruit of their own ways. as he says in Proverbs chapter one, That's one form by which God judges the rebellious Christian. That need not happen to you.
So Enoch was a man who was teachable. Enoch must have believed what Jesus later said in Revelation three, nineteen. Listen to what he says there. Let's go look at that text.
Now here Jesus is speaking to the church. And Laodicea. And he has said some highly uncomplimentary things like. You are lukewarm.
Okay. And I want to spew or vomit. But then he's given them hope. By saying, I counsel you. I counsel you to buy me gold trident in the fire.
that you may be rich. In those accounts, I'm going to put you in some fiery trials. And if you'll trust me there, you'll buy the gold, that is the valuable substance of proven faith and a genuine knowledge of God. a close experiential knowledge of God.
So he's still offering them a way out, though he's disappointed, very much so, in their present experience. And he says to them, As many as I love, I rebuke. and chasten. Be zealous, therefore, And repent. Think about that.
He's saying, look, if I love you, I've got to get after you. If I love you I'm going to stay behind you. If I love you, I will show you all the ways in which you need to change in your thinking, your emotions, your habits, your attitudes, everything. Why? Because I want to perfect you.
Now don't turn off the radio. Or the podcast, please, at this point. Perfect doesn't mean sinlessly perfect. Excuse me, it means Simply mature. Mature.
My goodness, we should all want to be mature, should we not? To be Fully developed? Christ-like? Mm, of course. Of course we should all, if our heart is where it should be.
We should all want to be fully developed as Christians. All right. This is what Jesus taught. He said, If I love you, I'm going to rebuke you when you need it. I'm going to chasten you when you need it.
That is, if you disobey me, I'm going to send adversity in your life that would not be there if you had been obedient. And in that process, you're going to it's going to dawn upon you that you should have obeyed me, and it will change you from thereafter. I think it was Spurgeon who said they'd failed to learn anything except. by the rod.
Now, I don't like the feel of the good shepherd's rod. It doesn't feel too good.
So I try to avoid it in the fear of God, in the awe of God, and I would encourage you to do the same thing, so that we can be correctable and teachable and not have to be chastened by our Lord. Chastening only comes After we have been instructed, Have we received the light of truth? And we've had time to obey it. And we've chosen not to do so, not once, but usually several times. then God in His mercy will remind us Perhaps a pastor will call us aside and say, Hey, look, let's talk about this.
or an elder, or just your Christian friend. Perhaps you'll hear a message or two over the radio, or the television, or in person, that speaks to that very issue in which your life is not right yet. If you don't heed those further, Hints and corrections God will bring a situation into your life They should never have been there. Just to correct you, because God is unkind, no. God doesn't care about you?
No, because as Jesus said, He loves you, He's intensely concerned about you, and you, not He, have forced. The issue, oh my goodness. That is humbling. My friend, as Christians, we will learn one way or the other, but learn we will. We will learn by being taught and simply obeying what we're taught, or we will learn.
by being chastened. and humbold Until we then say, okay, Lord, I get the message, I get the point, I'll be teachable. You have your way. I surrender. Maybe we'll even sing the song, I surrender all, I surrender all, all to you, my Saviour.
as surrender. Oh.
So Enoch Whether he had to go through the chasing of the Lord or not, we don't know. But if he did, I'm sure it didn't take too long for him to catch on, and he began to respond. joyfully, wholeheartedly, to God's instruction, and when necessary, His correction. he became very teachable. You see, God's corrections.
Lead to our best. Jesus wants the best for us. And his corrections point the way, lead us in that way to our best usefulness and our best. Character And his best blessings.
Now think about those three bests. First of all, best character. Don't you want to know in eternity that you let Christ have his way in your life in time? and you grew and your character developed, And you develop the very character of Jesus Christ. You have His nature.
That's gifted to you. But character is something different. Character is formed over time by your decision and actions. Character may be said to be the sum total of our choices and decisions and actions. Over time.
That's your curvature. It's what you usually are. It's when people think of you, the kind of man or woman you are, do they typically think of you as? Truth form. Honest.
Faithful. than kind or loving? Or do they think you as of questionable faithfulness or even faithless. Not too loving. Kinda hard, kinda harsh.
And Not very righteous or holy. Think about it. Think about it. We should be forging godly Christlike character. Jesus wants the best force.
all his teaching and his corrections are aimed at that goal. And if we will respond We will form our best character.
Now, Paul alluded to that in Romans 8:29, and where he said that it is God's plan that we be conformed to the image of Christ. Then that leads us to our best character. service or Usefulness. God is able to get more fruit out of our lives. Friend, we are in the garden of God, not just to occupy time, space, soil.
Nutrients and water, but to produce fruit. Jesus was emphatic. about this when you described us in the vine or vineyard of the Lord in John fifteen. He said there, if we don't bear fruit, he's got to remove us. But if we bear fruit, he'll what?
chasten purge us rather purge. and so that we can bear more fruit. He wants fruit from your life and mine. And then He wants to be able to confer upon you when and as he will. blessings, just good things He gives you because He loves you, tokens of His love.
All that follows if we're teachable. if we're correctable. Jesus' loving corrections come in many ways. First of all, just by reading the Word of God, listen to what the Scripture says about the Word of God. This is Hebrews 4.12 in the New Century Version.
God's Word is active. It is alive, excuse me. Alive and working. and is sharper than a double edged sword. It cuts all the way into us.
where the soul and the spirit are joined, to the center of our joints and bones, and it judges the thoughts and her feelings. in our hearts. Dat, my friend. shows us that the Word of God is spiritually hyperactive. working, moving, once you hear it, once you read it, Ah, you've forever changed.
And you are bound then to obey or be a disappointment to Jesus. Let the Word guide you in how God wants you to change. Then, if we don't follow the Word, conscience will convict us. Respond to your conscience. Perhaps that's bothering you today about something.
If that doesn't work, God will send ministers. who will give godly counsel, or our friends or elders, respond to their voice. Don't let pride hinder you from seeing that God sent them to help you. And then Also Um We will learn even from busybodies. I get a chuckle out of that.
They love to see what's right and wrong about us every once in a while. They'll tell us something we should receive as from the Lord. Though they may not admit it. as I helped you.
Well, Jesus' loving corrections come in all these and other ways.
So today, receive his correction. and grow. Are you receiving a rejection? Are you receiving or rejecting? Rather, what he is dealing with you about at this very moment?
This hour If so. Let him have his way. As we have shown here in this lesson, Teachability and correctability is not optional. It is. essential, so be corruptible and grow.
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