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MEMBERS: SHANNE NICHOLLS CASWELL SMART

NEJELLE DANDAS APPLELENA GARNIE

KEVON GRIFFITH QUILON DICK

OBJECTIVE OF THIS PRESENTATION

• WHAT ARE SOME OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A SPIRITUAL PERSON?• WHO IS ENOCH?• WHAT QUALIFIES ENOCH AS A SPIRITUAL PERSON?• AND HOW DOES ENOCH'S SPIRITUALITY COINCIDE WITH MODERN DAY

SPIRITUALITY?

WHAT IS A SPIRITUAL PERSON?A SPIRITUAL PERSON IS SOMEONE WHO EMANATES FROM GOD AND IS THEREFORE, CONSISTENT WITH THE LORD’S MORAL NATURE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF MOSES. WHEN LOOKING AT SOMEONE WHO IS SPIRITUAL, THERE ARE SEVERAL CHARACTERISTICS WHICH ONE CAN LOOK AT FROM THEIR INWARD, OUTWARD AND CORPORATE SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES. IN LOOKING AT THE SPIRITUAL PERSON WHO DISPLAYS HIS SPIRITUALITY CORPORATELY FALLS THE DISCIPLINE OF WORSHIPPING AND GUIDANCE. A SPIRITUAL PERSON IS SYNONYMOUS WITH BEING A PERSON WHOSE HIGHEST PRIORITY IS TO BE LOVING TO ONESELF AND OTHERS AND THERE ARE MANY CHARACTERISTICS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO A PERSON BEING SPIRITUAL.

SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF A SPIRITUAL PERSON

1. WORSHIPPINGWORSHIPPING IS HONOURING AND PRAISING GODWITH WORSHIPPING ACCORDING TO PSALM 29: 1-2 IT STATES THAT A PERSON SHOULD, ASCRIBE TO THE LORD, YOU HEAVENLY BEINGS, ASCRIBE TO THE LORD IN GLORY AND STRENGTH. ASCRIBE TO THE LORD GLORY DUE HIS NAME; WORSHIP THE LORD IN THE SPLENDOUR OF HIS HOLINESS. ALSO IN 1 SAMUEL 12:24 THE LORD INSTRUCTED FOR US TO FEAR HIM AND SERVE HIM FAITHFULLY WITH ALL YOUR HEART, CONSIDERING WHAT GREAT THINGS HE HAS DONE FOR YOU. (THE HOLY BIBLE) IN LOOKING AT THE LIFE OF ENOCH HE SPENT HIS TIME IN REFLECTION AND PRAYER TO KNOW GOD’S WILL PERFECTLY. HE WORSHIPPED GOD AND ASKED THE PEOPLE TO TURN AWAY FROM THEIR WICKEDNESS AND FOR THEM TO ALSO FEAR GOD AND WORSHIP HIM. (WHITE, E. G. 2011)

2. SERVICE

SERVICE IS WHERE A PERSON DILIGENTLY SERVES THE LORDPSALM 2: 11 STATES THAT ONE MUST SERVE THE LORD WITH FEAR AND CELEBRATE HIS RULE WITH TREMBLING. ALSO IN 1 SAMUEL 12: 24, STATES THAT A PERSON SHOULD FEAR THE LORD AND SERVE HIM FAITHFULLY WITH ALL YOUR HEART, CONSIDERING WHAT GREAT THINGS HE HAS DONE FOR YOU. (THE HOLY BIBLE) ACCORDING TO THE BOOK PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS, THE ENOCH SERVED GOD WITH SINGLENESS OF HEART. (WHITE, E. G. 2011)

3. SOLITUDE

SOLITUDE IS BEING ALONE WITH GOD. IT IS WHERE A PERSON GO INTO AN EMPTY SPACE AND PURPOSELY ABSTAIN FROM INTERACTION WITH OTHER HUMAN BEINGS, SO THAT THEY CAN HAVE A CLOSER INTERACTION WITH GOD.IN MATTHEW 6: 6 THE LORD INSTRUCTED US TO GO INTO YOUR ROOM, CLOSE THE DOOR AND PRAY TO YOUR FATHER, WHO IS UNSEEN. THEN YOUR FATHER, WHO SEES WHAT IS DONE IN SECRET, WILL REWARD YOU. (THE HOLY BIBLE) ACCORDING TO PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS ENOCH SPENT MOST OF HIS TIME IN SOLITUDE KEEPING HIMSELF AWAY FROM THE INCREASING WICKEDNESS OF THE UNGODLY PEOPLE. HE SEPARATED HIMSELF FROM THE WORLD SPENDING MUCH TIME IN PRAYER AND IN COMMUNION WITH GOD. (WHITE, E. G. 2011)

4. FASTING

WHEN WE FAST, WE EXCHANGE WHAT WE NEED TO SURVIVE FOR WHAT WE NEED TO LIVE MORE OF GOD.•  A SOUL CLEANSING - HOW OFTEN WE FORGET THAT OUR BODIES ARE THE TEMPLE

OF THE LORD ESPECIALLY WHEN DECIDING WHAT TO EAT! FASTING IS A GREAT TIME TO REMEMBER THE SPIRITUAL CONNECTION WE HAVE TO OUR PHYSICAL BODIES.

• A NEW DESIRE FOR GOD- WHEN WE ACKNOWLEDGE THROUGH FASTING THAT WE NEED GOD TO LIVE, AND TO LIVE MORE ABUNDANTLY, WE CAN BEGIN TO DESIRE GOD IN A NEW WAY. 

• A DEEPER PRAISE- BECAUSE THE BODY DOES NOT HAVE TO DO THE WORK OF DIGESTION, IT HAS MORE ENERGY TO FOCUS ON OTHER THINGS.

• SENSITIVITY TO GOD’S VOICE THE NEW TESTAMENT PROPHETESS ANNA IS PRAISED IN THE BOOK OF LUKE FOR BEING A DEVOTED SERVANT TO GOD AND HIS TEMPLE.

• A NEW SATISFACTION- WHEN YOU FINISH YOUR FAST, RENEWED, FULL OF ENERGY, DETOXED, WITH A NEW DESIRE, A NEW PRAISE AND SENSITIVITY TO GOD’S VOICE, YOU’LL FIND THAT THE ABSENCE OF FOOD WAS SMALL IN COMPARISON TO WHAT YOU GAINED.

5. GUIDANCE

• GUIDANCE IS WHERE A PERSON LOOKS TO SOMEONE IN HIGHER AUTHORITY FOR INSTRUCTION, ADVICE AND DIRECTION.

• WITH GUIDANCE ACCORDING TO JAMES 1: 5 THE LORD ADVICE THAT ANYONE WHO LACKS WISDOM SHOULD ASK GOD WHO GIVES GENEROUSLY TO ALL WITHOUT FINDING FAULT AND IT WILL BE GIVEN TO YOU. (THE HOLY BIBLE) ENOCH IN HIS LIFE ON EARTH WAS GIVEN GUIDANCE FROM GOD WHEN THE LORD SENT HIS ANGLES TO GIVE DIVINE INSTRUCTIONS. (WHITE, E. G. 2011)

WHO IS ENOCH?

• ENOCH WAS THE SEVENTH FROM ADAM, HE WAS A SPIRITUAL BEING WHOM WALKED WITH GOD. "WHEN ENOCH HAD LIVED 65 YEARS, HE BECAME THE FATHER OF METHUSELAH. AND AFTER HE BECAME THE FATHER OF METHUSELAH, ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD 300 YEARS AND HAD OTHER SONS AND DAUGHTERS. ALTOGETHER, ENOCH LIVED 365 YEARS. ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD; THEN HE WAS NO MORE, BECAUSE GOD TOOK HIM AWAY." GENESIS 5:21-24

HOW DOES ENOCH QUALIFY AS A SPIRITUAL PERSON?

• THE FIGURE OF A WALK IS USED IN THE BIBLE MANY TIMES FOR THE COURSE OF LIFE. WHEN MEN ARE SAID TO HAVE WALKED IN THE WAYS OF THE LORD—THE MEANING IS THAT THEY LIVED RIGHTEOUSLY, KEEPING GOD'S COMMANDMENTS. WHEN WE READ THAT THE PEOPLE WALKED IN THE WAY OF JEROBOAM, THE THOUGHT IS THAT THEY FOLLOWED HIM IN HIS IDOLATRY. WHEN IT IS SAID THAT ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD, WE ARE TO UNDERSTAND THAT HE OBEYED GOD'S COMMANDMENTS, SO FAR AS THEY WERE REVEALED TO HIM, AND THAT HE LIVED IN COMMUNION WITH GOD.

• IT WAS A WALK OF FAITH. ENOCH DID NOT SEE GOD. WE DO NOT KNOW HOW MUCH HE KNEW ABOUT GOD. WE MUST REMEMBER THAT HE LIVED BEFORE THE FLOOD, ONLY A FEW GENERATIONS FROM ADAM. THE RACE WAS IN ITS INFANCY THEN, AND ONLY A FEW REVELATIONS FROM GOD HAD BEEN MADE. THERE WAS NO BIBLE. IT WAS LONG BEFORE MOSES RECEIVED THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ON MOUNT SINAI. BUT IN WHATEVER WAY AND TO WHATEVER EXTENT ENOCH HAD BEEN TAUGHT ABOUT GOD—HE BELIEVED. GOD WAS AS REAL TO HIM—AS IF HE HAD WALKED WITH ENOCH IN HUMAN FORM!

BIBLE REFERENCES ABOUT ENOCH’S SPIRITUALITY

• HEBREWS 11:5 - BY FAITH ENOCH WAS TRANSLATED THAT HE SHOULD NOT SEE DEATH; AND WAS NOT FOUND, BECAUSE GOD HAD TRANSLATED HIM: FOR BEFORE HIS TRANSLATION HE HAD THIS TESTIMONY, THAT HE PLEASED GOD.

• GENESIS 5:22 - AND ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD AFTER HE BEGAT METHUSELAH THREE HUNDRED YEARS, AND BEGAT SONS AND DAUGHTERS:

• JOHN 8:51 - VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU, IF A MAN KEEP MY SAYING, HE SHALL NEVER SEE DEATH.

• HEBREWS 11:1-40 - NOW FAITH IS THE SUBSTANCE OF THINGS HOPED FOR, THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN.

• JUDE 1:15 - TO EXECUTE JUDGMENT UPON ALL, AND TO CONVINCE ALL THAT ARE UNGODLY AMONG THEM OF ALL THEIR UNGODLY DEEDS WHICH THEY HAVE UNGODLY COMMITTED, AND OF ALL THEIR HARD [SPEECHES] WHICH UNGODLY SINNERS HAVE SPOKEN AGAINST HIM.

ENOCH IN THE 21ST CENTURY HOW DOES THIS ENOCH FIT INTO THE 21ST CENTURY AS A SPIRITUAL

PERSON?ENOCH REPRESENTS COMMITMENT, DEDICATION AND CONSISTENCY, TERMS THAT ARE OFTEN USED TO DESCRIBE PEOPLE WHO ARE SPIRITUAL AND EVEN IN THE SECULAR NOTION OF THINGS TO IDENTIFY ORDINARY PEOPLE WHO DID EXTRA ORDINARY THINGS. ENOCH IS A ONE OF A KIND CHARACTER, ONE OF THE FEW IN THE BIBLE NEVER TO SEE DEATH. HE IS DESCRIBED AS ONE WHO PLEASED GOD AND WALKED MOST OF HIS LIFE WITH HIM AND WAS REWARDED WITH AN EXPERIENCE THAT WE ARE ALL IN SEARCH OF IN OUR CHRISTIAN WALK. TO HAVE A CLOSER AND RICHER ENCOUNTER WITH GOD. TO BE ABLE TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD WITHOUT BEING CONSUMED.

 Today we are living in an age where people model themselves after each other, for instance the secular world people model after their stars or heroes. Ordinary people who were able to do extra ordinary things. So likewise we to who are daily trying to have growth in our spiritual lives and have success in our lives can model our lives not only after Jesus who is our perfect example, but we have Enoch a good example that we can model our lives after in order to have true success. Like Enoch we to come into a wicked and perverted world with the choice to be holy and different without becoming a fanatic (some who goes to the extremes) so we can live in the world and not be guided by the perverted principles that governs the world. He lived a life of complete devotion. It was not one that was guided by selfish desires. Today in order to have true success in our Christian sojourn we need to be committed and dedicated toward our spiritual life to ensure that our relationship with God is both consistent and purposeful.

FOLLOWING IN ENOCH'S FOOTSTEPS

• CONSISTENCY WE MUST HAVE A STEADY PROGRESS. THE TERM “ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD”, VIVIDLY SUGGEST A CONSTANT PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT, TAKING FIRM, REGULAR STEPS FORWARD. A MAN IS NOT ESTEEMED SO MUCH BY WHAT HE PROFESSES BUT WHAT HE WALKS TESTIFY TO THE CREDIBILITY OF WHAT HE PROFESSES. WALKING TESTIFIES THAT A PERSON HAS A PURPOSE AND AIM HE WANTS TO ACHIEVE AND AT THE SAME TIME HAVING THE SELF-WILL AND TEMPERAMENT TO ACHIEVE HIS GOALS. ENOCH IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF SOMEONE WHO WALKED THE TALK. SO LIKEWISE TODAY, WE NEED TO BE WALKING IN THE LIGHT OF THE TRUTH THAT GOD’S WORD SHEDS ON OUR PATH.

• COMPANION AND FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD

WE ARE ALL ON A QUEST IN OUR SPIRITUAL JOURNEY TO HAVE A STRONGER AND HIGHER EXPERIENCE WITH GOD. BUT THIS REQUIRES FELLOWSHIP AND COMPANIONSHIP AND WITH THESE TIME IS OF GREAT ESSENCE. QUALITY AND QUANTITY TIME. ENOCH SETS AM EXAMPLE FOR US THAT IF WE ARE REALLY SERIOUS ABOUT OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, WE SHOULD NOT PUT OR ALLOW ANYTHING TO GET IN THE WAY. AND TIME IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST SACRIFICE ONE CAN MAKE AND ENOCH’S LIFE TESTIFIES THAT FOR US TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN OUR SPIRITUALITY, IT IS A GOOD INVESTMENT TO MAKE.

• RELYING ON GOD FOR GUIDANCE

FINALLY, IF ENOCH WAS LIVING IN OUR DISPENSATION TODAY, HE WILL BE PRAYING AND READING THE WORD OF GOD EVEN MORE. BECAUSE HE TO UNDERSTOOD THAT IN OUR OWN STRENGTH WE CANNOT HAVE TRUE SUCCESS. WE HAVE TO BE TOTALLY DEPENDENT ON GOD FOR OUR SURVIVAL, FOR ONLY GOD IS ABLE TO KEEP US FROM FALLING AND TO PRESENT US FAULTLESS BEFORE HIS APPEARING. ENOCH LIVED A LIFE FAITH AND IT WAS SAID OF HIM BECAUSE OF HIS FIRM CONFIDENCE IN GOD THAT HE PLEASED GOD.

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REFERENCES

• KING JAMES BIBLE ONLINE• 2016 MICROSOFT TERMS PRIVACY & COOKIES DEVELOPERS ENGLISH

(UNITED STATES)• THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. (N.D.).• WHITE, E. G. (2011). PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS: ELLEN G WHITE

ESTATE INC.• HTTP://WWW.GRACEGEMS.ORG/MILLER/STORY_OF_ENOCH.HTM