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Know Their Existence• Old paths can become overgrown through

neglect, diminished travel• Doesn’t mean they no longer exist• Only means they are harder to find

• Jeremiah exhorted the Jews about such “old paths”

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Know Their Existence• Jesus similarly exhorts Mt 7:13-14

• One road is “broad” easy to travel• One road is “narrow” more restrictive

• This should be our path Jn 14:6 Acts 4:12• We must “strive to enter” Lk 13:24 cp. Jude 3

• Included in this striving is finding it

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Ask For Their Whereabouts• The Lord made His appeal to Israel

• They needed to “ask for” these trusted ways• They were the best way…revealed by God 18:15

• However, the Jews sought other ways cp. 7:22-24• Tantamount to forgetting God, stumbling

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Ask For Their Whereabouts• Jesus similarly exhorts

• He invites us to learn of “His way” Mt 11:29• It was shared with His apostles Mt 28:20• It was followed by 1st Christians Acts 2:42• It was enjoined on all believers 2 Thess 2:15 3:6

• Any other way is misleading, false Col 2:6-8

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Look For Their Markers• The solution God had for His people 31:21

• The only way back to God was to follow the signposts, road markers

• A principle in the Mosaic covenant Prov 22:28• Israel (Northern Kingdom) had already violated

this principle cp. Hos 5:10

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Look For Their Markers• We are similarly exhorted today

• We must not “transgress” or trespass 2 Jn 9• We must not act “lawlessly” Mt 7:23• We have our “markers” today 1 Cor 14:37

1 Thess 2:13

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Conclusion• We must not act like these ancient Jews

• Their true attitude is revealed v. 16b• They were hard-hearted, rebellious

cp. 3:3 6:28• God will also “give up” (reject) hearts that

are hardened today cp. Rom 1:24, 26, 28

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Conclusion• Others may not be as rebellious, but their

“complacent goodness” has them on the wrong paths as well

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Roman Catholic Church (Boniface III) A.D. 606

Lutheran Church (Martin Luther) A.D. 1530

Presbyterian Church (John Calvin) A.D. 1540

Methodist Church (John Wesley) A.D. 1729

Episcopal Church (Francis Drake) A.D. 1578

Baptist Church (John Smyth) A.D. 1607

Mormon Church (Joseph Smith) A.D. 1830

Jehovah’s Witnesses (Charles T. Russell) A.D. 1884

Church of Christ (Jesus Christ) A.D. 30

Which One Has The “Old Paths”?

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Conclusion• Others may not be as rebellious, but their

“complacent goodness” has them on the wrong paths as well

• We all need to check to see if we are on the “Old Paths” of God!!

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