The document discusses using Enoch in the Bible as an example of having a good exit strategy from this life. It provides three points: 1. Plan to exit saved by walking with God as Enoch did so that one will be safe and saved like Enoch was taken directly to heaven. 2. Plan to exit suddenly like Enoch did, being ready at any time to leave this life and be with the Lord, as none of us know when that time will come. 3. Plan to exit serving God as Enoch walked with God his whole life, living in obedience and having communion with Him, just as we are all called to be servants.

4. A Good Exit Strategy!
Gen 5:21-24 Enoch lived sixty-five
years, and begot Methuselah. After he
begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with
God three hundred years, and had
sons and daughters. So all the days
of Enoch were three hundred and
sixty-five years. And Enoch walked
with God; and he was not, for God
took him.

5. Have you ever wondered why performers
focus on the “entrance” & not the “exit?”
♦ Now I know people often talk about “first
impressions” and how they stick with us, but
what about “last impressions?”
♦ The fact is that none of us probably had a
grand entrance into this life, but we can
have a grand exit!
♦ We have no control over our entrance!
♦ And yet, complete control over our exit!

6. The only two people ever to live and left
without seeing death!
♦ First there was Enoch! (Gen. 5:21-24)
♦ One of only two people that the Bible says
“walked with God!” (Gen. 5:22, 24 cf. 6:9)
♦ Second there was Elijah! (2 King. 2:1-12)
♦ With Enoch we never see him again, but
with Elijah we do!
♦ The Mount of Transfiguration! Him & Moses
with Jesus! (Mt. 17, Mk. 9 & Lk. 9)
♦ Today we want to use Enoch as an example
of “a good exit strategy!”

7. I. Plan to Exit Saved!
♦ Have you ever thought about what Enoch did
with the first 65 years of his life?
♦ Gen 5:21-22 Enoch lived sixty-five years, and
begot Methuselah. After he begot Methuselah,
Enoch walked with God three hundred years,
and had sons and daughters.
♦ Now it maybe that he walked with God then as
well, or that having a son changed his focus, we
just don't know!
♦ I have often wondered is Enoch knew about the
coming flood?

8. The coming flood!
♦ Enoch’s first child was named
Methuselah and he was the oldest person
to ever walk the earth that we know of!
♦ Methuselah = when he is gone/dead, it
will come! And we know that he did die in
the year of the flood!
♦ Noah was 600 when the flood came (Gen.
7:11) Methuselah 369 years older than him.
(Gen. 5:25, 28) totaling 969, which is the age
at which he died! (Gen. 5:27)

9. No matter what was the cause of Enoch’s
desire, it is a desire we need to have!
A desire to walk with God!
♦ 1 Jn 1:7 But if we walk in the light as He
is in the light, we have fellowship with one
another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His
Son cleanses us from all sin.
♦ When we walk through life with God, we
will always be safe/saved!
♦ If any of you haven’t come to believe and
obey to be saved, then now it the time!

10. II. Plan to Exit Suddenly!
♦ I have often wondered if I was given the
opportunity to leave this life and be with the Lord,
would I take it?
♦ 2 Cor. 5:8 We are confident, yes, well pleased
rather to be absent from the body and to be
present with the Lord.
♦ When Enoch leaves this life he does it
“suddenly!” I have often wondered if he even knew
it was coming?
♦ One minute on the earth, then next with God!

11. The Hall of Faith! (Heb. 11)
♦ The first person by name we find is Abel!
♦ Heb 11:4 By faith Abel offered to God a more
excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he
obtained witness that he was righteous, God
testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead
still speaks.
♦ The second person is Enoch!
♦ Heb 11:5 By faith Enoch was taken away so
that he did not see death, "and was not found,
because God had taken him"; for before he was
taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

12. One thing for sure is that this life is
temporary!
Heb 9:27 And as it is appointed for men to
die once, but after this the judgment.
♦ Unless Jesus returns in our lifetime, none of us
are getting out of here alive!
♦ These fleshly bodies will one day die!
♦ Because we do not know when this will happen,
we need to always be ready!
♦ Mk 13:33 “Take heed, watch and pray; for you
do not know when the time is.”
♦ Mk 13:36 “lest, coming suddenly, he find you
sleeping.”

13. III. Plan to Exit Serving!
♦ Have you ever given much thought to what
it means “to walk with God?”
♦ Walking with God = to live in obedience
to His commands, and have communion
with Him!
♦ You see, walking with God is more than a
one time event, it is a way of life! It is living
our lives “for” Him, it is living our lives “with”
Him! It is living with Him always in motion!

14. Called to be a servant!
♦ Mk 9:35 “And He sat down, called the
twelve, and said to them, “If anyone desires to
be first, he shall be last of all and servant of
all.”
♦ Mk 10:43 “Yet it shall not be so among you;
but whoever desires to become great among
you shall be your servant.”
♦ Mk 10:45 "For even the Son of Man did not
come to be served, but to serve, and to give
His life a ransom for many."

15. Conclusion:
♦ What can we learn from the great-
grandfather of Noah? We can learn what Noah
did! “Learn to walk with God!”
♦ Gen 6:9 This is the genealogy of Noah.
Noah was a just man, perfect in his
generations. Noah walked with God.
♦ We have no control over our entrance, but
complete control over how we will exit life!
♦ Are you ready for your journey into eternity?
If not, now is the time!

17. Are We Ready for Our
Journey into Eternity?