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"Seeking the Old Paths ..."
Join us for five evenings of old-fashioned preaching and teaching.
In Jeremiah's day, God's people had reached an alarming level of compromise and worldliness. God began to warn them through the ministry of Isaiah and, finally, Jeremiah that severe judgment would come.
But, God offered them a solution, a way to turn away the impending judgment against them. He said, "Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls." [Jeremiah 6:16]
What was His people's response? "But they said, 'We will not walk therein.'" They preferred their way to God's Way.
Today, God's people find themselves in a similar situation. Modernism and worldliness are rampant in Christians' lives and within the church. Christians dress like the world, talk like the world, listen to the world's fleshy music, are hooked on the world's material things, and have the world's attitudes. They have remade God in their own image to make him comfortable, acceptable, and cool, instead of letting God remake them in His image.
The solution is the same as it was in Jeremiah's day -- we must seek the "old paths" and walk in them. No fanciful new doctrines, worldly methods, or outward makeovers will deliver us from the straits our churches and families are in -- only a return to Biblical principals and practice used by Godly churches throughout the last two millenia will turn away God's displeasure and bring His blessings.
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