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February 6
saturday


CHARLIE'S WALK
ON THE MOON

READ:
GENESIS 5:21-32
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Enoch walked with
God; and he was not,
for God took him.
__Genesis 5:24
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The documentary In the Shadow of the Moon includes the story of Charlie Duke, one of the apollo 16 astronauts launched to the moon in 1972. While the command ship orbited the moon, Duke and another astronaut landed the lunar module Orion on the moon's surface. After 3 days of running experiments and collecting lunar rocks. the Apollo 16 crew safely returned to earth.

Later, Charlie had a spiritual transformation. He said it began when his friend invited him to a Bible study. After the meeting, Charlie prayed to Christ, "I give You my life, and if You're real come into my life." He then experienced an indescribable peace. It was so profound that he began to share his story with others. Charlie told them, "My walk on the moon lasted 3 days and it was a great adventure, but my walk with God lasts forever."

The Bible tells us of another man who walked with God. "Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him" (Gen. 5:24). His spiritual walk with God was so close that God took him directly into eternity (see Heb. 11:5).

We can learn a lesson from Charlie and Enoch. For believers, no matter where our journey leads, our walk with God will last for eternity! __Dennis Fisher
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`````````````````Let me walk with You, dear Savior,```````````````
``````````````````Side by side and hand in hand;`````````````````
````````````````Keep me clean and pure and faithful```````````````
```````````````Till I reach the heavenly land. __Hess``````````````
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Keep eternity's goal in sight
by walking daily in God's light.

***************Today's Bible Reading __ Genesis 521-32***********

21 Enoch lived sixty-five
years, and begot
Methuselah. 22 After he
begot Methuselah, Enoch
walked with God three
hundred years, and had sons
and daughters. 23 So all the
days of Enoch were three
hundred and sixty-five
years. 34 And Enoch walked
with God; and he was not,
for God took him.

25 Methuselah lived one
hundred and eighty-seven
years, and begot Lamech.

26 After he begot Lamech,
Methuselah lived seven
hundred and eighty-two
years, and had sons and
daughters. 27 So all the days
of Methuselah were nine
hundred and sixty-nine
years; and he died.

28 Lamech lived one
hundred and eighty-two
years, and had a son. 29 And
he called his name Noah,
saying, "This one will
comfort us concerning our
work and the toil of our
hands, because of the
ground which the LORD has
cursed." 30 After he begot
Noah, Lamech lived five
hundred and ninety-five
years, and had sons and
daughters. 31 So all the days
of Lamech were seven
hundred and seventy-seven
years; and he died.

32 And Noah was five
hundred years old, and
Noah begot Shem, Ham,
and Japheth.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Methuselah, the oldest person in the Bible at 969 years of age, is
listed as the son of Enoch (v.22) and the grandfather of Noah. The
name Methuselah means "man of the dart or spear" and may be a
reference to hunting. Some, however, translate the name to mean "it
will be sent" and see Methuselah's name as a prophetic warning of
the coming flood of judgment that would mark Noah's day.
__BILL CROWDER