The Old Path is the Only Path

Read Jeremiah 6:13-16

This exhortation is given to redirect Gods people, to awaken them to their personal responsibility to stand, to see, to ask for and to walk in the old path = the only path.

Many of Israel’s prophets and even the priests had lost their fear of God and their love for God, they had become greedy and materialistic. They were performing their services out of greed.

They were prophesying falsely and deceitfully, they were saying what the people wanted to hear and not what God had said. In doing this it had produced a spiritual cancer that was destroying Gods people, they were covering their sins with religious activities.

This word from God from a true prophet (Jeremiah) told the people that they were responsible to know the truth for themselves and not to be deceived by these false priests, and false prophets.

It is very easy to get caught up in a gospel of what we want to hear:  that is a gospel of convenience and comfort, a gospel without a cross, and a gospel that permits you to think, say, or do anything you want. A gospel that denies the grace of God, and exalts self, so that anything self chooses is considered right and acceptable.

Pr 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Pr 16:25 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Any time the bible says something 2 times word for word this close together it is vitally important.

Paul said,
Ga 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

Today as never before we must heed this admonition to stand in the ways and see = consider, compare, Do you see the cross? Do you see the blood? Do you see the son of God dying for your sins? Do you see him rising from the dead? Do you see him coming to live in his children through the person of the Holy Spirit?

 
Do you see the requirement to crucify self?  Do you see Jesus Christ as the only door and way to God the father?

We must never substitute Movement for progress, or Activity for power.

I believe in progress, but all movement and all change is not progress, We must ask ourselves:  Do the changes bring us closer to God’s word and God’s pattern, or take us farther away?

Make sure you are on the old, best, and only path today!