A person who is not a believer in Jesus Christ cannot fellowship with God. He may be acquainted with God.

He or she may have some sort of soft and fuzzy, warm feeling about God. They may believe that God exists.

They may believe that God is almighty. They may believe that God even created the world.

But to them, God will always be the man upstairs. You see, they cannot fellowship with God. None of us can, until our

hearts are changed. Until our hearts changed, we cannot fellowship with God.

Until our lives has been exchanged for the life of Christ and received the new nature in Christ,

we cannot fellowship with God.

Until our nature has been transformed, we cannot fellowship with God.

There are preachers all over the place talking to people about intimacy with God before their hearts have changed, before the lives have changed.

But why is this?

Oh, because the non-believer in Jesus Christ and God, they have no common sphere.

Their natures are different because they do not have a common nature.

And that is why the Bible said in 2 Peter chapter 1, verse 4, that those who are in Jesus

Christ, they are the recipients of a divine nature, that we are partakers of the divine nature.

And it's only when we receive that divine nature when our hearts change, can we fellowship

with God? Can we have anything in common with God? And that divine nature makes it possible

for us to walk with God in intimacy day in and day out.

No wonder the Apostle Paul in Philippians chapter 3, verse 20, said that our citizenship is not here, but in heaven.

But most believers live as if their citizenship is here, and they think nothing about their eternity.

We have begun a series of messages entitled, They Were Just Like Us, from Hebrews Chapter 11,

They were Just Like Us. And here we come to this part in verse 5 of Hebrews 11,

where the writer to the Hebrew said, by faith, Enoch was taken up to heaven so that he would not see death.

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