1 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 1: Life Audio. Hello, and thank you for listening to your 2 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 1: Daily Bible Verse, the podcast that examines one verse each 3 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:19,920 Speaker 1: day to help us learn more about God and his 4 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 1: will for us. I'm your host, Shaka Hines, and after 5 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 1: this short word from our sponsor, will dive into today's 6 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 1: Bible verse in Genesis four, verse twenty six. Today's Bible 7 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 1: Verses Genesis four twenty six. Seth also had a son, 8 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:51,280 Speaker 1: and he named him Enosh. At that time, people began 9 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 1: to call on the name of the Lord. You know. 10 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 1: At truly desperate times, we might call on a stranger 11 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 1: to help us when no one we know or trust 12 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:04,839 Speaker 1: is in sight. But mainly people tend to seek aid 13 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 1: from someone familiar, someone with a proven track record of 14 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 1: keeping promises, or at the very least, from someone who 15 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:16,479 Speaker 1: has offered to help. I think of our youngest son. 16 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:19,559 Speaker 1: If he falls down and scrapes his knee, he does 17 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 1: not run to a stranger on the playground to be comforted. 18 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:27,560 Speaker 1: He searches for me, his mama, the one he's learned 19 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 1: has promised to love and take care of him no 20 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:34,399 Speaker 1: matter what. He knows that I'm the one who's going 21 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 1: to pull him into my arms. Kisses aUI, and he 22 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:41,960 Speaker 1: believes my declaration of either it's going to be okay 23 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: or we need to go get that looked at. He 24 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 1: looks for help from the one he expects to show 25 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: up and make everything okay. Genesis four twenty six says 26 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:57,000 Speaker 1: at that time that indicates a shift in events, and 27 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 1: the biblical account that is noteworthy. The time indicated is 28 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 1: after Adam and Eve have been evicted from the garden 29 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:10,799 Speaker 1: and from God's intimate presence. In the desolate lands east 30 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:14,360 Speaker 1: of Eden. They have their sons, Cain and Abel. We 31 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 1: know the story. Out of jealousy, Cain commits the first 32 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 1: murder and kills Abel. When Eve has another son, Seth, 33 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:24,400 Speaker 1: she acknowledges that he's a gift from God. The Bible 34 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:28,640 Speaker 1: recurs cowards nothing about Seth except that he was born 35 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:31,640 Speaker 1: and he was the father of Enosh. And we know 36 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 1: next to nothing about Enosh except that he was also 37 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 1: a father, and that sometime around Seth and Enosh, people 38 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: for the first time began to call on the name 39 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: of the Lord. According to the NIV Exhaustive Concordance Dictionary, 40 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:49,520 Speaker 1: to call in the name of the Lord means to 41 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: proclaim or praise the excellence of Yahweh, to worship Yahweh 42 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 1: or to summon Yahweh by name for help. After Eden, 43 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: humankind lived with the consequences of Adam and Eve's disobedience 44 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:08,519 Speaker 1: to God. Life would now be a struggle. The very 45 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 1: ground they lived on was cursed, so that only through 46 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:16,360 Speaker 1: painful toil could people get food from it. Women would 47 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:20,240 Speaker 1: have severe pain and childbirth. The relationship between men and 48 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 1: woman would be a struggle for control. And humankind was 49 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 1: exile and alienated from God and now subject to death. 50 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:34,839 Speaker 1: And from beneath this burden people began to cry out 51 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 1: to God for help. It's important to understand that the 52 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 1: Bible says Adam lived not only to see his children 53 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 1: and his grandchildren, but a few generations beyond them, So 54 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 1: that those living at the time of Seth and Enosh 55 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 1: they learned firsthand about Yahweh from one who had had 56 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 1: the privilege of walking with him in the garden. They 57 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 1: knew about the circumstances of the fall and its consequences, 58 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:06,120 Speaker 1: but they'd also learned about the First Gospel, also known 59 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 1: in scholarly circles as the proto Evangelium in Genesis three 60 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: point fifteen, after the fall. God meted out consequences, but 61 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 1: he also gave a promise to Adam and Eve and 62 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 1: their descendants. One day a Messiah would come who would 63 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:27,279 Speaker 1: crush the head of the serpent, and the serpent would 64 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 1: only be able to strike his heel. The head of 65 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:35,479 Speaker 1: the serpent would be crushed, the source of all evil 66 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 1: would be overcome. And with this anticipatory promise, people began 67 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:43,600 Speaker 1: to call on the name of the Lord for the 68 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:47,280 Speaker 1: one he had promised who would save them. We are 69 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 1: told what kind of awakening occurred at the time of 70 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 1: Seth and Enosh that led people to finally cry out 71 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:57,280 Speaker 1: to God. Perhaps the struggles of life were simply too 72 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 1: heavy to bear without God. Perhaps evil became more prevalent 73 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 1: and ignited a hunger for a return to the garden 74 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 1: that Adam could describe to them so vividly. For whatever reason, 75 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:13,680 Speaker 1: people began to cry out for the one who would 76 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:19,040 Speaker 1: make everything okay again. Today we live in the age 77 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:24,520 Speaker 1: of promise fulfilled. The Messiah King. He suffered everything predicted 78 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 1: in Isaiah fifty three, and he rose from the dead, 79 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 1: defeating death itself and carrying all of his people towards 80 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:37,839 Speaker 1: the time when Christ would return once more. Revelations twenty one, 81 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 1: three and four says, and I heard a loud voice 82 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:44,920 Speaker 1: from the throne saying, Look, God's dwelling place is now 83 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 1: among the people, and He will dwell with them. They 84 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:52,159 Speaker 1: will be his people, and God himself will be with 85 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 1: them and be their God. He will wipe away every 86 00:05:55,839 --> 00:05:58,839 Speaker 1: tear from their eyes. There will be no more death 87 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:03,000 Speaker 1: or mourning, crying or paying for the old order of 88 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:07,599 Speaker 1: things has passed away. Revelations twenty two to three says, 89 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 1: no longer will there be any curse. With the promise 90 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 1: in mind. At that time, people began to call on 91 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:19,920 Speaker 1: the name of the Lord. At this time, we in 92 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 1: Christ are the recipients of that promise made manifest in Him. 93 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:29,039 Speaker 1: And according to First Peter, we can look ahead to 94 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:34,360 Speaker 1: an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or faide, kept 95 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:38,480 Speaker 1: in heaven for us. At this time, let us also 96 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 1: call on the name of the Lord, because he is 97 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:46,719 Speaker 1: faithful to all he is promised. If you are listening 98 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 1: right now and you haven't yet submitted your life to Jesus, 99 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 1: the Messiah and the promise Keeper, but you want to 100 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:57,720 Speaker 1: pray with me now to invite Christ to be the 101 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:03,720 Speaker 1: Lord of your life, say Jesus, I acknowledge that you 102 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:07,159 Speaker 1: are the son of God, sent into the world to 103 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 1: rescue me from the debt I owed and could not pay. 104 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 1: You took my sin to the cross, became sin for me, 105 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 1: and died in my place. You rose on the third day, 106 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 1: fulfilling the scriptures. I ask you to come into my 107 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 1: heart and be my Lord and savior. I give my 108 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:33,240 Speaker 1: life to you and ask for your help to live 109 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 1: for you. Thank you, Jesus. Amen.