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Introduction: The Oldest Description of a Godly Life
The Bible's oldest and most beautiful description of a godly life is very simple: it says that a man walked with God. Before there were churches or seminaries or programs, there were men who simply walked with God, day by day. To walk with God is the very heart of the Christian life, and it is the soil out of which every other discipline in this course grows. If we do not learn to walk with Him, all our devotion and prayer and study will be only machinery. So we begin here, and ask two questions: what does it mean to walk with God, and how do we do it?
I. Men Who Walked with God
The phrase first appears with Enoch: "And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him" (Genesis 5:24, NKJV). His fellowship with God was so close that one day God simply took him home without death. It appears again with Noah: in a generation so corrupt that God was grieved He had made man, "Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God" (Genesis 6:9, NKJV) — and that walk preserved him and his house through the flood. And God said to Abraham, "I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless" (Genesis 17:1, NKJV). The phrase runs all through Scripture, and it means this: to walk with God is to live one's whole life in His company.
II. What It Means to Walk with God
First, walking with God means agreement. The prophet asks, "Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?" (Amos 3:3, NKJV). Two men cannot walk the same road in step unless they have agreed to go the same way at the same pace. To walk with God, then, is to come into agreement with Him — to want what He wants and to go where He goes, rather than asking Him to follow our path. Second, it means continual fellowship. It is not one hour on Sunday or a prayer in a crisis, but a steady companionship through the ordinary day, the way two friends talk as they walk the same road. Third, it means obedience. John writes, "if we walk in the light as He is in the light" (1 John 1:7, NKJV) we have fellowship with Him. We cannot walk with God and walk in sin at the same time; the walk requires that we keep turning from darkness to light.
III. Abiding in Christ
In the New Testament the Lord Jesus gave this walk a deeper name: abiding. "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me… for without Me you can do nothing" (John 15:4–5, NKJV). To abide is to draw our very life from Christ, moment by moment, the way a branch draws its sap from the vine. Cut off from the vine, the branch withers and bears nothing; joined to it, the same branch bears much fruit. This is the great secret of walking with God: it is not striving harder in our own strength, but staying close to the Source of all strength. Apart from Him we can do nothing; in Him we can bear much fruit.
IV. A Daily Walk
A walk is made of steps — one after another, day after day. No one walks a long journey in a single stride, and no one walks with God by one great experience. We walk with Him by a thousand small, faithful steps: rising in the morning to meet Him, listening for Him in His Word, speaking to Him in prayer, obeying Him in the small decisions of the day, and returning to Him quickly whenever we stumble. The prophet Micah gathered it all into one sentence: the Lord requires us "to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God" (Micah 6:8, NKJV). The walk is humble, it is steady, and it is daily.
Conclusion
Every discipline we will study in this course — daily devotion, prayer, the Word, fellowship and accountability — exists to serve this one thing: that we might walk with God. Enoch walked with God in his generation; Noah walked with God in his; and the same God who walked with them invites us to walk with Him in ours. The question for each of us is simply this: are we walking with God, day by day? And if our walk has grown distant, the way back is always open — one step, today, toward Him.
Unit 2 Final Exam
Certificate track: the 20 multiple-choice questions. Associate: multiple choice and the 10 fill-in-the-blank questions. M.Div. and Th.M.: multiple choice, fill-ins and the 10 short-answer questions. 90% of each part is required to pass. If you do not pass, the exam waits a short time before you can try again.
Multiple Choice — 20 Questions
Short Answer — 10 Questions
M.Div. and Th.M.: all five assigned readings are part of the course. Their separate exam is required after activation; see its page for the current rule. Honors remains optional and does not replace the exam.
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