DIRECTIONS

Pastor Rick Jackson

Proverbs 3:5-6

Someone has defined "directions" as that which men hate to ask for and that which women delight in giving. Over the years people have come up with directional catch phrases--- some right, some wrong, and some down-right impossible from a true Biblical standpoint.

I. IMPOSSIBLE DIRECTIONS

1. "Get lost!"

This is impossible from a spiritual standpoint. You are either already lost (2 Corinthians 4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:)

Or you once were lost, but you are now saved, and can never be lost again (I Jn. 5:10-13)

2. "You can't get there from here!"

(Mt. 19:26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.)

3. "Go back where you came from"

(Jn. 3:3-7) Nicodemus asked Jesus about this knowing it wasn't possible.
"You cannot change the past but you can ruin a perfectly good future by dwelling on it!" Remember, F.I.D.O., Forget It & Drive On!
Philippians 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before

II. WRONG DIRECTIONS

1. "Go To Blazes" (Lk. 16:22b-31)

2. The So-called road To Pleasure (Pr. 7:10-27)

3. The Way That Seems Right (Proverbs 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.)

III. RIGHT DIRECTIONS

1. The Way of Preparation (Amos. 4:12-23)

2. The Way of Truth & Life (Jn. 14:6)

3. The Way of Word of God

(Isaiah 30:21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.)