Calling on the Lord (Genesis #16) - Bible Baptist Church

Calling on the Lord

Text: Genesis 4:19-26

Success by any worldly standard, but without salvation

At the beginning here in Genesis you’re covering a lot of ground, thousands of years in just a few chapters. This means that whatever is included is VERY important to note. The last phrase in Genesis 4:26 – call upon the name of the Lord – will show up a few more times in the Bible. Each time it is the means of salvation of souls.
Lamech is the one the Lord picks out to define the state of things for a thousand years.
- Lamech dishonors marriage
- Lamech kills a man and boasts about it
- Lamech says his sin is more noble than his great great great great grandfather Cain’s sin
- Cultural advancements in the line of Cain and progress without God
The contrast will be that everything Cain’s lineage produces, all the culture and technology without God, will be wiped out in the flood. Noah will come from Seth’s line.
And that also means that everyone in Seth’s lineage dies too except Noah and his family.

By the time of Seth’s birth Adam and Eve are probably broken but have come to accept sin having witnessed human history without sin and then living in sin.
David on his deathbed says in Psalms 116:1-4, 13, 17 that he’s called on the Lord and the Lord has heard him.
Zephaniah 3:8-13 and applied by Paul in Romans 10:13

Enos apparently means weak, incurable, frail, and sickly. It certainly describes how a soul must see itself before it calls on the name of the Lord.
Peter preaches it in Acts 2:21 applying Joel 2:28-32
Jesus said in John 5:38-40
The point is there is a man associated with people calling on the name of the Lord!