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III. Your Testimony Before Heaven
Just as your testimony before the world and the Church are important, your testimony before heaven should be important to you too. The primary purpose for maintaining a good testimony should be the same as that of Enoch in the opening verse of this lesson. Enoch pleased God. If we will seek that testimony then all the other points in this lesson will naturally follow.

A. God knows every thought and intent of your heart
You cannot hide anything from God. He knows your heart and your thoughts. Furthermore, God will not bless you if your motives for what you do are wrong or if your thought life is improper. If you will bear this in mind, it will help you to grow morally as well as spiritually.

Hebrews 4:12; Matthew 9:4; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 2 Corinthians 4:2

B. The cloud of witnesses
In Hebrews chapter 11 we find a litany of saints that pleased God through their great faith. The point of the chapter is found in the last two verses which state:

“And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect” (Hebrews 11:39–40).

Those Old Testament saints did not have the completed Bible or the knowledge of the New Covenant which we have today. Their faith is therefore a witness against we Christians who do not live in the faith as we ought to despite so much more knowledge. We ought to be ashamed of ourselves when we don’t live up to their example. The story continues with these key verses:

“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God” (Hebrews 12:1–2).