July 14, 2025 • 25 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to K Wave's Pastor Spotlight featuring the Bible teaching
of our local Southern California pastors. This week we're pleased
to be featuring Pastor Chet Lowe, senior pastor of Calvary Life.
Calvary Life is located at 19,300 South Vermont Avenue in Gardena,
formerly known as Calvary Chapel South Bay. Did you know
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Chet is a seasoned pastor with a lifetime of Christian
ministry that
Began his childhood in the Bahamas as an adult, he
ministered in war-torn Liberia. Then he served at Calvary Chapel
Fort Lauderdale beginning in the year of 2000, pioneering a
number of helpful ministries. In 2021, Chet took over the
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leadership of his current church home. Here now is Chet
Lowe with today's study on Hebrews 11 starting in verse 5.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Hebrews chapter 11, we've made it all the way to
verse 5. It's our 4th week in Hebrews 11. Hebrews
chapter 11, would you take a look at verse 5,
by faith, stop there.
By faith. You see, the writer has told the believers
that they have a need of two things. Directed by
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the Holy Spirit says, you have need of endurance in
chapter 10, and you also have need of faith. I
need to remind you, it's been 30 years since the
ascension of Jesus since this book was written.
And these Christians have endured many trials, some in jail,
some of them have been plundered, some of them have
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been whooped and beat. They have gone through quite an
experience and over the 30 years since the ascension. And
I wanna rest assured and let you know that the
only way to learn.
endurance is to get through a hard workout, to pass
a difficult class, get a degree, or finish a work project.
In fact, just Tuesday, my daughter graduated with a bachelor's
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in nursing, and she's gonna be a registered nurse.
Let me tell you something. The only way to learn
endurance is to go through something, the school of hard knocks.
You see, endurance is a trace that is learned in
the school of suffering. And let me tell you what
God says, you have need of endurance. The Holy Spirit
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directs that we have need of endurance. Therefore, we need
to learn how to endure, but he also says you
need faith. You need faith.
You see, they were struggling to trust what God had
told them because of their current experience. Now how many
you ever been there? How many of you have ever
been in the midst of a trial, and you are
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struggling to trust God? Anyone? Beer, anyone?
Anyone
Like you know God's promise, you believe in God, but
because of the trial, you're beginning to doubt. You're beginning
to wonder.
And that's exactly where these Hebrew Christians were. They were struggling.
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But if you remember what we learned only a few
weeks ago, faith is the substance.
Of things hoped for. Our Christian faith has substance. It's
more tangible than the person sitting next to you, though
you can't see it. We walk by faith, not by sight.
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You see someone who walks by faith, someone who has
faith is more than a conqueror.
Is what the Bible says. Someone who has faith, they
trust God. They overcome their feelings and what they're currently
walking through, whether it be the doubt, whether it be
the discouragement, because they trust God by faith. So when
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they're mad and their feeling begins to get to take over,
by faith they choose kindness.
By faith. When they've been wronged and they want to
show vengeance.
They choose forgiveness by faith, you see, when they're grieved
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and someone has hurt them, they choose to trust God
that he's allowed it for his reason.
When you ask God to increase your faith, he will
provide opportunity for it to grow because faith pleases God.
In fact, take a look. Hebrews chapter 11 verse 5.
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By faith, here's our character Enoch. Enoch was taken away
so that he did not see death and was not found.
In other words, he was completely gone because God had
taken him, for before he was taken, he had this testimony,
so here's what he was known for, that he pleased God.
But without faith, speaking in relation to Enoch, but without faith,
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it's impossible to please him. For he now speaking to
all of us, for he who comes to God must
believe that he is.
And that he's a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
Enoch was raptured out of there. He was and was not.
And one day, because of our faith, we are gonna
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be raptured out of here and receive our reward, the
Lord Jesus Christ. Let the church say,
How many of you are ready for that now? Like,
you could go, I'm good with Christmas, you could come tonight.
I'm good. I'm good with Christmas. How many of you like, no,
let him wait till after Christmas. Christmas is like my holiday.
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And once again,
We have to remember he's writing to the Hebrews.
So the author is assuming a lot of Old Testament
knowledge for us to be able to understand what he's
trying to encourage the men. So what I want us
to do is I want us to go back to
Genesis chapter 5 so that we can discover who is
this Enoch.
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Enoch, Genesis chapter 5, you're going to discover why there's
not a lot of Enochs running around. He only has
a couple of verses in Genesis chapter 5. Would you
take a look? Genesis chapter 5, I'm gonna pick it
up in verse 18.
Jared lived 162 years and begot Enoch. And he begot Enoch.
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After he begot Enoch, Jared lived 800 years. OK, this
guy was 962 years old. You have to remember.
The impact of sin was affecting the world. And so
human beings used to live longer because sin had just
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been introduced to the world through Adam.
And the world was created for us to be able
to live, so people were living longer at that time,
but as we go through this list, you begin to
see they were living less and less and less. So
now the impact of sin on the world, we make
it maybe 40 and 10.
Now those of you who don't have any idea what
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that is, about 80, Amen. So he is there, and
the Bible says he had sons and daughters. Verse 20,
so all the days of Jared were 962 years and
he died. Verse 21.
Enoch lived 65 years and begot Methuselah. Oh, that should
be a name everyone knows. After he begot Methuselah, Enoch
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walked with God 300 years and had sons and daughters.
So all the days of Enoch were 365 years.
And Enoch, here it is, walked with God, and he
was not, for God took him. Now, if you know
anything about Genesis chapter 5, this is the genealogy section, OK?
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Where it takes us from.
The, the, the line of Adam through Seth all the
way to uh Noah, and that's leading us to the
second Adam, which is the Lord Jesus Christ. Now this
is important. Genealogy is very important for the Jews because
God told Eve something in Genesis chapter 3. Go back
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just a page, Genesis chapter 3. Look what he tells
the snake.
Eve. I will put in between between you and the woman,
and between your seed and her seed, he shall bruise
your head and you shall bruise his heel. To the woman,
he said, I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception.
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In pain you shall bring for children. Your desire shall
be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.
So apparently, the first couple of kids didn't hurt Eve.
And now she's going to realize that she gives birth
to the population of the world, it's gonna hurt. So
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genealogy was very important to the Jews, to this line.
Because it would be through this line that the devil
would be conquered. And so Genesis chapter 5 is a
report of the seed that came from Adam all the
way and will stretch to Noah.
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Now Enoch's father is where we're focused, whose name was Jared.
Now that's an important name because names mean something in
the Bible, and his name means dissent, dissent. Now this
is important because the world was descending into the depths
of sin.
I want you to see it even in the genealogies,
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if you read this, Jared lived and died. Methuselah lived
and died. Noah lived and died. In fact, this whole
genealogy pronounces the punishment upon the world because of sin, death,
we live and we die, we.
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Live and we die. It seems so pointless unless you've
got Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord. It was
so funny. My daughter, um, when she was graduating, she
gave her little card to the announcer, and they were
allowed to say on the card, and the announcer would
read who they're thankful for. So my daughter gave her card,
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and the woman that was reading was a Jewish lady,
and she said, Elio.
She would, she would like to thank her Lord and Savior.
She couldn't even get the word out. So Ellia looked
at her and she goes, Jesus.
It was great testimony to the Lord Jesus Christ in
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front of an audience of people. So I just want
to thank the Lord. There's a little parent pride coming out,
you can deal with it.
The world was descending in descent. Live and die, live
and die. Let me prove it to you. Just go
above to Genesis chapter 4, because in Genesis chapter 4,
we have the report of the family of Cain, Cain
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the murderer, Cain, the sinner, Cain, the bad boy of
the two, Cain and Abel.
So let's take a look. Then Cain went out from
the presence of the Lord. There's his first mistake. And
he dwelt in the land of Nod on the east
of Eden. Cain knew his wife. She conceived more Enoch.
Uh oh, this is not the same Enoch. In fact,
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let's call this guy the anti-Enoch, OK? So we have
one line that has the anti-Enoch.
And we have one other line through Seth that has
the righteous Enoch. Now, take a look at Cain's line
as we go on in verse 17, and he built
a city and called the name of the city after
the name of his son, Enoch. The Enoch was born Erod,
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and Erod begot Mahu and Mahujahehe begot Methuselah.
And Methuse begot Lemec. Now that name I want you
to hold in your heart. Then Lemec took for himself
two wives. The name of one was Ada and the
name of the second was Zilla.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
You're listening to K Wave's Pastor Spotlight. This week we're
pleased to be featuring Chet Lowe, senior pastor of Calvary
Life in Gardena, California. And now once again, here's Pastor
Chet Lowe with more of today's look at Hebrews chapter 11,
verse 5 and 6.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
And
Ada bre Jabba. He was the father of those who
dwell in tents and have livestock. His brother name was Jabal.
He was the father of those who play at the
harp and flute. And as for, and thus we get
this word jubilee, and as for Zillah, she also bore Tulane,
an instructor of every craftsman in bronze.
And I, and the sister of Talking was Nama. Then
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after Lemec gave birth to all these kids, then Lemec
said to his wives, Ada and Zilla, hear my voice.
Listen to me, ladies. Wives of Lemec, listen to my speech,
for I killed a man for wounding me. Excuse me?
Even a young man for hurting me. So the guy
that he killed was a younger guy and he's kind
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of proud of it. I killed someone younger than me
cause he tried to hurt me, so I killed him.
Now take a look at what he says.
If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, then lamec 7-sevenfold. Cain
gave birth to the anti-Enoch. You see, Cain's heart.
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Cain's heart was to be great on the earth. So
he gave the fruit of his produce. Look at what
I can do on the earth. And if it wasn't
by produce any longer, cause you remember God punished Cain,
if it's not by produce any longer, then it's gonna
be by production. So he built a city and he
named the city Enoch, because his heart and his mind
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were on the cities of the earth, not on the
city of God.
An anti-Enoch, anti-Enoch had walked away from the Lord, the
presence of the Lord the same way his dad did.
And so he gave birth to his, uh, a son
who gave birth to a son and his great grandson's
name was Lemec. And Lemec goes, I killed a guy.
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I killed the guy, and if God thinks he's strong,
and he's gonna avenge Cain sevenfold, if anyone was to
kill Cain, well, I want God to know that Lemec
is stronger, and I'll avenge someone not 7 times like God,
I'll avenge someone 77fold cause I'm greater than God. That's
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what Lemec is saying.
That's how far the world had plunged into sin during
the days of Enoch the Righteous. You see, while everyone
was living and dying, living and dying, living and dying,
Enoch alone beat death. He got raptured.
In fact, he was all gone. They couldn't find him anywhere,
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not even a piece of him. He was completely gone.
His corrupt body became incorruptible. His mortal became immortal just
as Paul reported about the rapture of ourselves. Take a look.
It's 1 Corinthians chapter 15. 1 Corinthians 15, there are all.
celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies. But the glory of the
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celestial one and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
Do you remember Jesus' celestial body? He was able to
walk through walls, OK? He was here in one place,
there another, celestial and terrestrial. We're not walking through walls yet.
You know why? We have terrestrial bodies. The body is
sown in corruption. It is raised in incorruption.
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It is sown in dishonor. It's raised in glory. It's
sown in weakness. I don't know about you, but I'm
over 50, and when I sit down, I make noises,
and when I stand up, I make noises. When I
go down, it's like, oh, when I come up, it's uh,
it hurts. And now, I used to be able to
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sleep through the night. Now if I lay on one side,
my whole arm goes numb. I gotta turn over, stretch
it out. It's crazy what's happening to this body.
It's sown in weakness, it's raised in power, it's sown
a natural body, and there's a uh it's, and there
is a spiritual body, and so it's written, the first man,
Adam became a living being, the last Adam became a
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life-giving spirit, however, the spiritual is not first.
But the natural and afterward, the spiritual. In other words,
you gotta live your 40 and 10, and then you
get your celestial body. And Enoch was raptured out of
there and he was no more the same way that
the church one day will be raptured out of here.
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Think of the cataclysmic events that will happen when the
church is raptured. Like, who's gonna be flying Delta?
Think of the accidents on the 405, when all of
a sudden there's no driver. Think of the devastation that's
going to happen when the rapture of the church happens.
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But Enoch was raptured out, and the believers of the
1st century world had only been struggling for a maximum
of 30 years. The ascension had happened only 30 years
prior to this, and he's trying to encourage them to say,
Enoch did it for 365, so.
How can you? Isn't it our aim that no matter
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what we walk through, no matter how long it is,
that we choose to trust God, even in the midst
of our doubt, even in the midst of our concern,
even while we're on the cross and we may say
like Jesus, why have you forsaken me?
But yet our faith is securing God alone. You see,
it also reveals.
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Not only that he had this faith that pleases God.
But Hebrews chapter 11 tells us how to have this
faith and to walk by the faith that Enoch had.
No matter how long your trial goes, go back with
me to Hebrews. Let's see it.
Hebrews chapter 11. Now we'll pick it up there in
verse 6. We see that Enoch was not to be
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found because he had a testimony that pleased God. Look
at verse 6, but without faith, it's impossible to please him.
Take a look at the first. There's only 2.
For he who comes to God must believe that he is.
Hebrews 11:6, it makes it simple. It boils it down
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to two things that we can follow Enoch's faith in.
Two things. The first is this, we must believe that
he is. Now, this first point, it's more than just
a simple belief, there's a God.
We have to understand the context that this is in.
A lot of people believe in God, even the demons
believe in God and they shudder.
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But we're talking in the context of the faith of Enoch.
Enoch walked with God 365 years, and he had a
testimony over 365 years, more than Job. He had a
testimony of 365 years of pleasing God by making righteous
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decisions over the course of a trial that lasted 365 years.
You see this kind of faith?
I believing what God has said about Himself.
In what he's told us about himself in scripture.
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You will find yourself if you're really seeking after God
that you will become more graceful. You see we've been
born again, and that what that means is we got
God's DNA. Now you know what's amazing? The older and
older I get, the more and more I look like
my father.
Same is true spiritually. The older and older we get
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in the Lord, we should be looking now more like
our spiritual Father, and he is a God of grace,
not legalism, not judgment.
We're gonna start to resemble God. He's our parent and
he's graceful. You see, when we are seeking Him.
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You're also gonna realize something else and why you're gonna
grow in grace. When you're seeking after God, you're gonna
realize you got issues.
And you're looking at everybody else, you're a sin sniffer.
I smell the sin on him. But if you're seeking God,
you're gonna realize the odor is you. Have you ever
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been sitting next to someone on a plane and you're like, man, BO?
And then you stretch and go, Whoa, it's me.
Ever happened? Personal story, sorry about that.
You see, sometimes we've got to realize that if we're
living in judgment, we're not seeking Him, because he's a
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graceful God. But if we are seeking Him, we're gonna
realize we got things to deal with so that when
we see things in other people, once we've dealt with
it ourselves and experience the grace and the mercy of God,
we'll know how to take the splinter out of someone
else's eye.
It'll be with mercy, it will be with grace, because
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none of us want the wrath of God the way
we want to give it to other people.
Number 3, take a look at Matthew 7:6.
He says this
Do not give what is holy to the dogs, nor
cast your pearls before swine. Do you remember Jesus? He
didn't do speak or do any magic tricks for Herod
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when Herod said, show me a trick. He didn't throw
his pearls to swine.
Unless they trample them under their feet and turn and
tear you in pieces.
See if you're seeking him.
You're gonna become more discerning.
You're gonna become more discerning.
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Now we already studied this in Hebrews chapter 5 verse 14.
The Bible says in Hebrews chapter 5 verse 14,
But solid food belongs to those who are of full age,
that is those who by reason of use have their
senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
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Do you see what's happening?
As we begin to seek him.
And he begins to communicate to us things in his word.
We're gonna be able to look and go and something go,
that's good. That's not so good. That's actually evil. Oh,
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that's good.
That's not so good.
You ever been to a wedding?
And the couple's walking down the aisle and you go, man,
that's good.
Have you ever been to a wedding where the couple's
walking down the aisle and you're like, this has got
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about a year.
Nobody wants to admit it, but you all laugh, so
it hits.
You see, when we are seeking God, we're gonna become
more discerning.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
And with that we conclude today's study with Pastor Chet Lo.
Join us right here tomorrow on Pastor Spotlight as we'll
hear more from Pastor Chet as he continues his study
in Hebrews chapter 11. Chet Lowe is a senior pastor
of Calvary Life located at 19,300 South Vermont Avenue in Gardena.
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Pastor Spotlight is a production of Kwave Radio.
Welcome to K Wave's Pastor Spotlight featuring the Bible teaching
of our local Southern California pastors. This week we're pleased
to be featuring Pastor Chet Lowe, senior pastor of Calvary Life.
Calvary Life is located at 19,300 South Vermont Avenue in Gardena,
formerly known as Calvary Chapel South Bay. Did you know
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Chet is a seasoned pastor with a lifetime of Christian
ministry that
Began his childhood in the Bahamas as an adult, he
ministered in war-torn Liberia. Then he served at Calvary Chapel
Fort Lauderdale beginning in the year of 2000, pioneering a
number of helpful ministries. In 2021, Chet took over the
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leadership of his current church home. Here now is Chet
Lowe with today's study on Hebrews 11 starting in verse 5.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Hebrews chapter 11, we've made it all the way to
verse 5. It's our 4th week in Hebrews 11. Hebrews
chapter 11, would you take a look at verse 5,
by faith, stop there.
By faith. You see, the writer has told the believers
that they have a need of two things. Directed by
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the Holy Spirit says, you have need of endurance in
chapter 10, and you also have need of faith. I
need to remind you, it's been 30 years since the
ascension of Jesus since this book was written.
And these Christians have endured many trials, some in jail,
some of them have been plundered, some of them have
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been whooped and beat. They have gone through quite an
experience and over the 30 years since the ascension. And
I wanna rest assured and let you know that the
only way to learn.
endurance is to get through a hard workout, to pass
a difficult class, get a degree, or finish a work project.
In fact, just Tuesday, my daughter graduated with a bachelor's
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in nursing, and she's gonna be a registered nurse.
Let me tell you something. The only way to learn
endurance is to go through something, the school of hard knocks.
You see, endurance is a trace that is learned in
the school of suffering. And let me tell you what
God says, you have need of endurance. The Holy Spirit
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directs that we have need of endurance. Therefore, we need
to learn how to endure, but he also says you
need faith. You need faith.
You see, they were struggling to trust what God had
told them because of their current experience. Now how many
you ever been there? How many of you have ever
been in the midst of a trial, and you are
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struggling to trust God? Anyone? Beer, anyone?
Anyone
Like you know God's promise, you believe in God, but
because of the trial, you're beginning to doubt. You're beginning
to wonder.
And that's exactly where these Hebrew Christians were. They were struggling.
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But if you remember what we learned only a few
weeks ago, faith is the substance.
Of things hoped for. Our Christian faith has substance. It's
more tangible than the person sitting next to you, though
you can't see it. We walk by faith, not by sight.
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You see someone who walks by faith, someone who has
faith is more than a conqueror.
Is what the Bible says. Someone who has faith, they
trust God. They overcome their feelings and what they're currently
walking through, whether it be the doubt, whether it be
the discouragement, because they trust God by faith. So when
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they're mad and their feeling begins to get to take over,
by faith they choose kindness.
By faith. When they've been wronged and they want to
show vengeance.
They choose forgiveness by faith, you see, when they're grieved
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and someone has hurt them, they choose to trust God
that he's allowed it for his reason.
When you ask God to increase your faith, he will
provide opportunity for it to grow because faith pleases God.
In fact, take a look. Hebrews chapter 11 verse 5.
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By faith, here's our character Enoch. Enoch was taken away
so that he did not see death and was not found.
In other words, he was completely gone because God had
taken him, for before he was taken, he had this testimony,
so here's what he was known for, that he pleased God.
But without faith, speaking in relation to Enoch, but without faith,
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it's impossible to please him. For he now speaking to
all of us, for he who comes to God must
believe that he is.
And that he's a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
Enoch was raptured out of there. He was and was not.
And one day, because of our faith, we are gonna
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be raptured out of here and receive our reward, the
Lord Jesus Christ. Let the church say,
How many of you are ready for that now? Like,
you could go, I'm good with Christmas, you could come tonight.
I'm good. I'm good with Christmas. How many of you like, no,
let him wait till after Christmas. Christmas is like my holiday.
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And once again,
We have to remember he's writing to the Hebrews.
So the author is assuming a lot of Old Testament
knowledge for us to be able to understand what he's
trying to encourage the men. So what I want us
to do is I want us to go back to
Genesis chapter 5 so that we can discover who is
this Enoch.
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Enoch, Genesis chapter 5, you're going to discover why there's
not a lot of Enochs running around. He only has
a couple of verses in Genesis chapter 5. Would you
take a look? Genesis chapter 5, I'm gonna pick it
up in verse 18.
Jared lived 162 years and begot Enoch. And he begot Enoch.
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After he begot Enoch, Jared lived 800 years. OK, this
guy was 962 years old. You have to remember.
The impact of sin was affecting the world. And so
human beings used to live longer because sin had just
(06:59):
been introduced to the world through Adam.
And the world was created for us to be able
to live, so people were living longer at that time,
but as we go through this list, you begin to
see they were living less and less and less. So
now the impact of sin on the world, we make
it maybe 40 and 10.
Now those of you who don't have any idea what
(07:20):
that is, about 80, Amen. So he is there, and
the Bible says he had sons and daughters. Verse 20,
so all the days of Jared were 962 years and
he died. Verse 21.
Enoch lived 65 years and begot Methuselah. Oh, that should
be a name everyone knows. After he begot Methuselah, Enoch
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walked with God 300 years and had sons and daughters.
So all the days of Enoch were 365 years.
And Enoch, here it is, walked with God, and he
was not, for God took him. Now, if you know
anything about Genesis chapter 5, this is the genealogy section, OK?
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Where it takes us from.
The, the, the line of Adam through Seth all the
way to uh Noah, and that's leading us to the
second Adam, which is the Lord Jesus Christ. Now this
is important. Genealogy is very important for the Jews because
God told Eve something in Genesis chapter 3. Go back
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just a page, Genesis chapter 3. Look what he tells
the snake.
Eve. I will put in between between you and the woman,
and between your seed and her seed, he shall bruise
your head and you shall bruise his heel. To the woman,
he said, I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception.
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In pain you shall bring for children. Your desire shall
be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.
So apparently, the first couple of kids didn't hurt Eve.
And now she's going to realize that she gives birth
to the population of the world, it's gonna hurt. So
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genealogy was very important to the Jews, to this line.
Because it would be through this line that the devil
would be conquered. And so Genesis chapter 5 is a
report of the seed that came from Adam all the
way and will stretch to Noah.
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Now Enoch's father is where we're focused, whose name was Jared.
Now that's an important name because names mean something in
the Bible, and his name means dissent, dissent. Now this
is important because the world was descending into the depths
of sin.
I want you to see it even in the genealogies,
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if you read this, Jared lived and died. Methuselah lived
and died. Noah lived and died. In fact, this whole
genealogy pronounces the punishment upon the world because of sin, death,
we live and we die, we.
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Live and we die. It seems so pointless unless you've
got Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord. It was
so funny. My daughter, um, when she was graduating, she
gave her little card to the announcer, and they were
allowed to say on the card, and the announcer would
read who they're thankful for. So my daughter gave her card,
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and the woman that was reading was a Jewish lady,
and she said, Elio.
She would, she would like to thank her Lord and Savior.
She couldn't even get the word out. So Ellia looked
at her and she goes, Jesus.
It was great testimony to the Lord Jesus Christ in
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front of an audience of people. So I just want
to thank the Lord. There's a little parent pride coming out,
you can deal with it.
The world was descending in descent. Live and die, live
and die. Let me prove it to you. Just go
above to Genesis chapter 4, because in Genesis chapter 4,
we have the report of the family of Cain, Cain
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the murderer, Cain, the sinner, Cain, the bad boy of
the two, Cain and Abel.
So let's take a look. Then Cain went out from
the presence of the Lord. There's his first mistake. And
he dwelt in the land of Nod on the east
of Eden. Cain knew his wife. She conceived more Enoch.
Uh oh, this is not the same Enoch. In fact,
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let's call this guy the anti-Enoch, OK? So we have
one line that has the anti-Enoch.
And we have one other line through Seth that has
the righteous Enoch. Now, take a look at Cain's line
as we go on in verse 17, and he built
a city and called the name of the city after
the name of his son, Enoch. The Enoch was born Erod,
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and Erod begot Mahu and Mahujahehe begot Methuselah.
And Methuse begot Lemec. Now that name I want you
to hold in your heart. Then Lemec took for himself
two wives. The name of one was Ada and the
name of the second was Zilla.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
You're listening to K Wave's Pastor Spotlight. This week we're
pleased to be featuring Chet Lowe, senior pastor of Calvary
Life in Gardena, California. And now once again, here's Pastor
Chet Lowe with more of today's look at Hebrews chapter 11,
verse 5 and 6.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
And
Ada bre Jabba. He was the father of those who
dwell in tents and have livestock. His brother name was Jabal.
He was the father of those who play at the
harp and flute. And as for, and thus we get
this word jubilee, and as for Zillah, she also bore Tulane,
an instructor of every craftsman in bronze.
And I, and the sister of Talking was Nama. Then
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after Lemec gave birth to all these kids, then Lemec
said to his wives, Ada and Zilla, hear my voice.
Listen to me, ladies. Wives of Lemec, listen to my speech,
for I killed a man for wounding me. Excuse me?
Even a young man for hurting me. So the guy
that he killed was a younger guy and he's kind
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of proud of it. I killed someone younger than me
cause he tried to hurt me, so I killed him.
Now take a look at what he says.
If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, then lamec 7-sevenfold. Cain
gave birth to the anti-Enoch. You see, Cain's heart.
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Cain's heart was to be great on the earth. So
he gave the fruit of his produce. Look at what
I can do on the earth. And if it wasn't
by produce any longer, cause you remember God punished Cain,
if it's not by produce any longer, then it's gonna
be by production. So he built a city and he
named the city Enoch, because his heart and his mind
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were on the cities of the earth, not on the
city of God.
An anti-Enoch, anti-Enoch had walked away from the Lord, the
presence of the Lord the same way his dad did.
And so he gave birth to his, uh, a son
who gave birth to a son and his great grandson's
name was Lemec. And Lemec goes, I killed a guy.
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I killed the guy, and if God thinks he's strong,
and he's gonna avenge Cain sevenfold, if anyone was to
kill Cain, well, I want God to know that Lemec
is stronger, and I'll avenge someone not 7 times like God,
I'll avenge someone 77fold cause I'm greater than God. That's
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what Lemec is saying.
That's how far the world had plunged into sin during
the days of Enoch the Righteous. You see, while everyone
was living and dying, living and dying, living and dying,
Enoch alone beat death. He got raptured.
In fact, he was all gone. They couldn't find him anywhere,
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not even a piece of him. He was completely gone.
His corrupt body became incorruptible. His mortal became immortal just
as Paul reported about the rapture of ourselves. Take a look.
It's 1 Corinthians chapter 15. 1 Corinthians 15, there are all.
celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies. But the glory of the
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celestial one and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
Do you remember Jesus' celestial body? He was able to
walk through walls, OK? He was here in one place,
there another, celestial and terrestrial. We're not walking through walls yet.
You know why? We have terrestrial bodies. The body is
sown in corruption. It is raised in incorruption.
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It is sown in dishonor. It's raised in glory. It's
sown in weakness. I don't know about you, but I'm
over 50, and when I sit down, I make noises,
and when I stand up, I make noises. When I
go down, it's like, oh, when I come up, it's uh,
it hurts. And now, I used to be able to
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sleep through the night. Now if I lay on one side,
my whole arm goes numb. I gotta turn over, stretch
it out. It's crazy what's happening to this body.
It's sown in weakness, it's raised in power, it's sown
a natural body, and there's a uh it's, and there
is a spiritual body, and so it's written, the first man,
Adam became a living being, the last Adam became a
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life-giving spirit, however, the spiritual is not first.
But the natural and afterward, the spiritual. In other words,
you gotta live your 40 and 10, and then you
get your celestial body. And Enoch was raptured out of
there and he was no more the same way that
the church one day will be raptured out of here.
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Think of the cataclysmic events that will happen when the
church is raptured. Like, who's gonna be flying Delta?
Think of the accidents on the 405, when all of
a sudden there's no driver. Think of the devastation that's
going to happen when the rapture of the church happens.
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But Enoch was raptured out, and the believers of the
1st century world had only been struggling for a maximum
of 30 years. The ascension had happened only 30 years
prior to this, and he's trying to encourage them to say,
Enoch did it for 365, so.
How can you? Isn't it our aim that no matter
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what we walk through, no matter how long it is,
that we choose to trust God, even in the midst
of our doubt, even in the midst of our concern,
even while we're on the cross and we may say
like Jesus, why have you forsaken me?
But yet our faith is securing God alone. You see,
it also reveals.
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Not only that he had this faith that pleases God.
But Hebrews chapter 11 tells us how to have this
faith and to walk by the faith that Enoch had.
No matter how long your trial goes, go back with
me to Hebrews. Let's see it.
Hebrews chapter 11. Now we'll pick it up there in
verse 6. We see that Enoch was not to be
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found because he had a testimony that pleased God. Look
at verse 6, but without faith, it's impossible to please him.
Take a look at the first. There's only 2.
For he who comes to God must believe that he is.
Hebrews 11:6, it makes it simple. It boils it down
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to two things that we can follow Enoch's faith in.
Two things. The first is this, we must believe that
he is. Now, this first point, it's more than just
a simple belief, there's a God.
We have to understand the context that this is in.
A lot of people believe in God, even the demons
believe in God and they shudder.
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But we're talking in the context of the faith of Enoch.
Enoch walked with God 365 years, and he had a
testimony over 365 years, more than Job. He had a
testimony of 365 years of pleasing God by making righteous
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decisions over the course of a trial that lasted 365 years.
You see this kind of faith?
I believing what God has said about Himself.
In what he's told us about himself in scripture.
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You will find yourself if you're really seeking after God
that you will become more graceful. You see we've been
born again, and that what that means is we got
God's DNA. Now you know what's amazing? The older and
older I get, the more and more I look like
my father.
Same is true spiritually. The older and older we get
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in the Lord, we should be looking now more like
our spiritual Father, and he is a God of grace,
not legalism, not judgment.
We're gonna start to resemble God. He's our parent and
he's graceful. You see, when we are seeking Him.
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You're also gonna realize something else and why you're gonna
grow in grace. When you're seeking after God, you're gonna
realize you got issues.
And you're looking at everybody else, you're a sin sniffer.
I smell the sin on him. But if you're seeking God,
you're gonna realize the odor is you. Have you ever
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been sitting next to someone on a plane and you're like, man, BO?
And then you stretch and go, Whoa, it's me.
Ever happened? Personal story, sorry about that.
You see, sometimes we've got to realize that if we're
living in judgment, we're not seeking Him, because he's a
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graceful God. But if we are seeking Him, we're gonna
realize we got things to deal with so that when
we see things in other people, once we've dealt with
it ourselves and experience the grace and the mercy of God,
we'll know how to take the splinter out of someone
else's eye.
It'll be with mercy, it will be with grace, because
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none of us want the wrath of God the way
we want to give it to other people.
Number 3, take a look at Matthew 7:6.
He says this
Do not give what is holy to the dogs, nor
cast your pearls before swine. Do you remember Jesus? He
didn't do speak or do any magic tricks for Herod
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when Herod said, show me a trick. He didn't throw
his pearls to swine.
Unless they trample them under their feet and turn and
tear you in pieces.
See if you're seeking him.
You're gonna become more discerning.
You're gonna become more discerning.
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Now we already studied this in Hebrews chapter 5 verse 14.
The Bible says in Hebrews chapter 5 verse 14,
But solid food belongs to those who are of full age,
that is those who by reason of use have their
senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
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Do you see what's happening?
As we begin to seek him.
And he begins to communicate to us things in his word.
We're gonna be able to look and go and something go,
that's good. That's not so good. That's actually evil. Oh,
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that's good.
That's not so good.
You ever been to a wedding?
And the couple's walking down the aisle and you go, man,
that's good.
Have you ever been to a wedding where the couple's
walking down the aisle and you're like, this has got
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about a year.
Nobody wants to admit it, but you all laugh, so
it hits.
You see, when we are seeking God, we're gonna become
more discerning.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
And with that we conclude today's study with Pastor Chet Lo.
Join us right here tomorrow on Pastor Spotlight as we'll
hear more from Pastor Chet as he continues his study
in Hebrews chapter 11. Chet Lowe is a senior pastor
of Calvary Life located at 19,300 South Vermont Avenue in Gardena.
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Calvary Life is dedicated to coming together to glorify God
through the acronym LIFE.
Learning the word, investing into relationships, following in the way
of Christ, and engaging in our world. This church is
a vibrant community of believers who are passionate about worship,
Bible teaching, and gospel outreach with a multicultural and multigenerational congregation.
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Calvary life embraces diversity and celebrates unity in Christ.
You and your family are invited to join them for
their inspiring services on Thursday nights at 7 p.m. and
Sunday mornings at 8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., and 12:30 p.m.
Calvary Life hopes you'll plan a visit to experience their
warm and welcoming atmosphere firsthand. For more information, we invite
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the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ here on Pastor Spotlight.
We will feature more of the teaching of Pastor Chet
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