Wednesday, April 04, 2018

DIRECTIONS ON THE ROAD OF LIFE

Pastor Rick Jackson



Proverbs 3:5-7



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 [1 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.

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