Walking With God in the Old Paths

 Temple Baptist Church - 7-30-2023

Jeremiah 6:16

Introduction:

 

A.  I have often said that we live in a changing world politically, morally, socially, and—unfortunately—spiritually.

 

1.  Not all changes are bad.  Some changes in our world have been beneficial as our standard of life has been greatly enhanced.

 

2.  But other changes are prophetic ones.  “Worse and worse, falling away, lukewarm, satisfied with life outside of God and the Lord Jesus
Christ. 

 

B.  I will leave the change for the most part this morning because the Bible says it will come and I believe the Bible. 

 

C.  It is the spiritual change that I believe that God hates most.  2 Chronicles 7:14 says, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways…”

 

D.  People are being taught that God does not mind how we live as long as we are saved.  They are taught that “turning from their wicked ways” is a doctrine of the far-right conservatives and it a legalistic doctrine.

 

E.  Jeremiah 6:16 is not a suggestion; it is not a recommendation; it is not negotiable;  it is a COMMAND!  God will not walk with anyone outside of the Old Paths. 

 

1.  Most people today either Reject the Old Paths or try Renovate the Old Paths into New Paths.  A term often heard is “Reformed Theology”.  Theology does not need to be reformed.

 

2.  New Paths are not right paths.  We MUST walk in the Old Paths which are the Right Paths which are the Only Paths that God will walk with us in!

 

Ecclesiastes 1:9  The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

 

3.  If anything is theologically new, it is not old, and if it is not old, it is not right!

 

F.  When the Old Paths are forsaken, God says that we are to Repent and Return.  Verse 16 is not a request; it is a requirement.

 

1.  “Stand ye”  That means to not be either moved or removed.

 

2.  “See”  Make sure that you know where you are standing is right.

 

3.  “Ask”  The Old Paths are both available and knowable.  They are found in your Bible if you happen to own the right one and that is King James!  No exceptions.

 

4.  “Old paths”  Not the new ones of the 20^th and 21^st centuries.  These paths are Old Paths.

 

5.  “Where is the Good way”  God’s way is not only the right way, but also the good way.

 

6.  “And walk therein”  Clear paths that are well worn through the ages by our spiritual forefathers who walked those paths and made plain to us who follow them.

 

7.  “And ye shall find rest for your souls”  How wonderful it is to know what God said and to walk with Him within His Word.  We will not find rest for our souls in New Paths because they cause confusion and division.

 

8. “But they said, We will not walk therein.”  Paths of rejection.  People in our day want to change what God said, walk contrary to what God said, and think that they are right with God.

 

G.  The Old Paths of:

 

1.  Scripture.  I neither have nor do I want a modern translation from the New Text, the wrong text, the Wescott-Hort Text: the minority text, the critical text, the Catholic text.  Our Bible is the Authorized King James Bible of our forefathers.

 

2.  Salvation.  No “wink wink, nod nod, one two three—repeat after me” prayers of salvation.  Our salvation is the old salvation of our forefathers.  Repentance from dead works and faith toward God through the Gospel.  Salvation is a heart thing; salvation is a changing thing; salvation is an eternal thing.

 

3.  Sanctification.  Our sanctification is the old sanctification of our forefathers.  A life that is changed through salvation and a life that is obedient through separation from this present evil world.  Sanctification is light and salt!

 

4.  Security.   Our security is the old-fashioned security of our forefathers.  Security or eternal life is a hated doctrine in our day.  Security is found in Christ and Christ alone!  We are not good enough to get saved and if you lived a perfect life, it could not save you.  Salvation is a finished work through the gospel alone.  We are not good enough to remain saved as we are sinners by both birth and choice.

 

5.  Safety.  As our forefathers walked in spiritual safety, we walk in the Old Paths of spiritual safety.  Life is hard at times, life is unfair at times, life is confusing at times, but “Safety is of the LORD!”  Walk in the Old Paths of safety and you will find rest for your soul!

 

Conclusion:  “Thus saith the LORD, 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.”   They rejected the Old Paths in Jeremiah’s day.  “But they said, we will not walk therein!”  But we here at Temple Baptist Church will continue to walk in the Old Paths!

The Landmark Of Scripture

 Temple Baptist Church - 1-24-2021

Genesis 3:1-4; 2 Timothy 3:13-17

Introduction:

 

A.  Last week, we saw the necessity of spiritual “landmarks” that define all that we believe.  Once again, a “landmark” defines a boundary and is a point from whence all other points can be measured.  It is to be both stationary and unchanging!

 

1.  If these “landmarks” are removed, we will soon find ourselves drifting from the spiritual truths that we once held dear.  Today’s denominations have drifted far from the “moorings” of their founder’s intentions.  Most denominations were started by godly men who revered and feared the Lord while remaining true to the Word of God.

 

2.  If these “landmarks” are removed, these spiritual truths that we once held dear will not be known by our posterity.  Today’s children are a lost generation!  With little or no values, either spiritual or moral—the have become the children of apostasy!

 

B.  Eleven times in the first two chapters of Genesis it is recorded that “God said.”  The first times that what God had said was recorded.  What God commanded was done and stood fast.

 

C.  In chapter 3, we find the first mention of something questioning what “God said.” It was satanic in nature so to question what God has said is both evil and devastating to mankind.

 

D.  The first attack upon a scriptural “landmark” is found in our text as Satan questioned the Word of God thus deceiving Eve and causing Adam to fall. 

 

E.  I am preaching on the Landmark of Scripture first because of its importance.  Our Bible is the foundation upon which our faith stands.  Not upon the original manuscripts because we have never seen one much less owned one.  Not upon men who are quick to generate doubt and then constantly change their theology.  Our Foundation is the Bible that we hold in our hands this morning.

 

F.  Our text, found in 2 Timothy, tells us all that we need to know about God’s Word.

 

1.  The Word of God is inspired.  Verse 15-16.  Paul is speaking of the scriptures that Timothy had, not original autographs.  What Timothy had was called “holy scriptures.”  The Word of God declares that what Timothy held was “given by inspiration of God.”

 

2.  The Word of God is profitable.  Verse 16.  If the intent of verse 16 was to show that the original autographs were inspired, then—because Timothy did not have one—then Timothy could not profit from what he did not have.  The Bible is profitable doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness.

 

3.  The Word of God is perfecting.  It will “throughly furnish” God’s men and God’s people.

G.  I will stop with that because, if you do not believe that “all scripture” refers to “all scripture,” then nothing else that I have to say will convince you.

 

H.  The Bible is the foundation for our faith and the practice of our faith.  It is the ABSOLUTE FINAL AUTHORITY!

 

Psalms 11:3  If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?  (The answer to this question is understood: WE CAN DO NOTHING!  If the Bible errs, then all that we know and believe becomes unsure.  If the Bible errs, then our authority must be shifted to those who translate and re-interpret.  To those who know where every error occurs and can “straighten us out?”  I THINK NOT!)

 

J.  The Bible is THE FINAL AUTHORITY FOR FAITH AND PRACTICE!  The Bible is not a man book, it is a God Book.  The Bible is our Foundation!

 

1.  In The Landmark of Scripture We Find Our Sovereign God.  Genesis 1:1  In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.  (He is, He was, and He will forever be the Creator and Owner of the universe.)

 

2.  In The Landmark of Scripture We Find Our Sinfulness - Romans 5:12  Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:  (From Adam to Self, the Bible is clear on the matter of sinfulness.)

 

3.  In The Landmark of Scripture We Find Our Saviour - Psalms 40:7  Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, (All we need to know about God’s gift of His Son, Jesus Christ is found there.)

 

4.  In The Landmark of Scripture We Find Our Salvation - Romans 10:17  So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. (Saving faith is found in the Bible through repentance and belief.)

 

5. In The Landmark of Scripture We Find Our Security - John 10:27-28  My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:  And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.  (Salvation is eternal life.)

 

6.  In The Landmark of Scripture We Find Our Satisfaction - Job 23:12  Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.  (How sweet to the taste is the Word of God.)

 

7.  In The Landmark of Scripture We Find Our Stability - 2 Timothy 3:16-17  All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:  (17)  That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.  (In the Bible, we have all that we need to live for Christ in this life.)

 

8.  In The Landmark of Scripture We Find Our Surety - Revelation 22:20-21  He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.  (21)  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. (Our Lord is coming, we are leaving, and everything will be alright.)

Remove Not The Ancient Landmark

 Temple Baptist Church - 1-17-2021

Proverbs 22:28

 

Introduction: 

 

A.  We live in a rapidly changing world and the changes are not for the better.

 

1.  The World is changing.  We are seeing the anti-God movement as people become reprobate concerning the faith.  There is a general forsaking of the local church; a general lack of concern for things that are eternal; a general turn away from the beliefs of our fathers.  People today think that they have to re-invent the wheel and that their fathers and mothers were wrong on almost everything that they taught.

 

2.  Churches are changing.  Quantity over Quality.  They have become “numbers” oriented instead of maintaining the traditions of the fathers.  Their ploy is that the world is changing, and we must change with it.  Both young and old are forsaking traditional churches for the contemporary ones where they are entertained instead of being preached to.

 

Hosea 4:6  My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

 

3.  Doctrine is changing.  Thus, we come to our text for the next few weeks.  I have often said: “We must have an Anchor in the shifting sands of human theology.”  We must have something that is right; something that is not moving; otherwise, we get “spiritual vertigo.”

 

Psalms 11:3  If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

 

B.  Before I dissect our text for this morning, I want you to turn to 2 Timothy, chapter 3.  The introduction to the context found here is simple:

 

1.  Verses 1-5 – The Spiritual Condition of the Last Days.

 

2.  Verses 6-9 – The Spiritual Confusion of the Last Days.

 

3.  Verses 10-17 – The Spiritual Constancy of the Last Days.

 

C.  How do we know what is right?  The key is found in Verse 14: “But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them.”  I will look at these verses in a later message but now I want to go back to our text.

 

D.  Let us look at the words of our text as words in the Bible are important.  I will also take a closer look at that in the weeks to come.

 

E.  Our text verse says, “Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.” 

 

F.  LAND'MARK, n. [land and mark.]  1828 Webster's Dictionary: A mark to designate the boundary of land; any mark or fixed object; as a marked tree, a stone, a ditch, or a heap of stones, by which the limits of a farm, a town or other portion of territory may be known and preserved.

 

G.  The Bible has much to say concerning “landmarks.”

 

1.  These landmarks were given by God - Deuteronomy 19:14  Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.

 

2.  The Lord curses those who remove them - Deuteronomy 27:17  Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.

 

3.  These landmarks belong to others also - Proverbs 23:10  Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

 

4.  There is an ulterior motive for removing them - Job 24:2  Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

 

H.  The longer we hold to the “Old Paths” or “Ancient Landmarks,” the farther away from this rapidly advancing, present evil world we get! 

 

1.  W become the spiritual “stick in the mud” or “narrow minded” fundamentalists!  Our theology becomes less and less acceptable in both the world and the religious community.

 

2.  The farther we get from the world (it is the world that is moving away from God, not us moving away from the world) the more of as oddity and threat we become.  We will become more maligned and persecuted for an unbending faith in both Christ and the Bible.

 

3.  The world will hate us because it hated Christ but the danger is this:

 

a) If we move or remove the ancient landmarks, we will think about them less and be more apt to “get used to the dark” of sinfulness.

 

b)  If we move or remove the ancient landmarks, our children will never know them!  They will only know the pseudo-spirituality of the Antichrist and his one world religion of the end-time.

 

2 Timothy 3:12  Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

 

1.  The Command of the Landmark – “remove not”  (If these landmarks get either moved or removed, it will be done by us, not the world.)

 

2.  The Antiquity of the Landmark – “ancient”  (“New” may be good in some things, but not in the spiritual realm.  We are to seek and walk in the “Old Paths” wherein is the good way.)

 

3.  The Fixture of the Landmark – “landmark”  (We need to make sure that these landmarks not only are left for our children but also that they do not “move!”)

 

4.  The Setters of the Landmark – “fathers”  (These landmarks come from our spiritual forefathers who loved God, loved God’s Word, loved God’s church, and loved God’s people!)

 

5.  The Permanence of the Landmark – “set”  (If these landmarks are right (and they are) then they need to be driven so deep in our hearts and lives that they can never be either moved or removed!)

Remove Not The Ancient Landmark, Which Thy Fathers Have Set

 Temple Baptist Church - 6-24-2020

Proverbs 22:28

 

Introduction: 

 

A.  Happy Father’s Day!  We sometimes make less of Father’s Day than we do of Mother’s Day, but both are equally important.  How many times have you heard someone say, “If it had not been for Mother, I would not be here!” 

 

B.  I have got good news for you.  “If it had not been for Father, you still would not be here!”  I heard a woman once say, “If we women could have children without you men, YOU WOULDN’T BE HERE!”  Enough of the foolishness! 

 

C.  I want you men to know just how important that you are this morning to the home, the church, the work force, and this great nation.

 

1.  The home would be weakened without the father.  The home needs the father’s steadfastness, wisdom, and strength to operate properly.

 

2.  The church would be handicapped without the father.  The church cannot be run by women, regardless of what the “new fangled religionists” say.

 

3.  The workplace would be is crippled without the father.  There are jobs that women just simply cannot do due to lack of physical strength and male drive.

 

4.  The nation would be extinct without the father.  I know that we have women in the military this day, but an army entirely made up of women would not go far in battle.  Women are no physical match for men.

 

5.  We, as fathers have a moral obligation to our wives and children that the Lord has given to us. Teaching them God’s holy Word.

 

6.  I want to look at this verse this morning to get the meaning of it and then try to glean some truths from it.  I will also make application to the Word of God, which is the landmark that our fathers have set.  The Bible sets the boundaries within which we are to remain and distinctly marks the difference in things right and things wrong.

 

7.  Fathers, our children need the Word of God more than anything else that we can give them!  It is of the utmost importance that they not only know which Bible is God’s Word but also are taught the Scriptures that they might not “sin against God.”

 

8.  Let us look at God’s Command to the fathers:

 

HOW IMPORTANT IS GOD’S WORD TO OUR HOMES?  THIS ONE VERSE EXPLAINS IT.

 

1.  “Remove not” – This is something that we refuse to do or this is something that we do. 

 

a.  The ONLY reason that we move the “landmarks” of our property which have been set by surveyors is when we either sell or give the land away.  Then we have the land re-surveyed.

 

b.  Too many in our day are willing to either sell our cheaply or just give our spiritual “land” away! 

 

c.  If the Word of God is removed from our homes, it will be the fault of us fathers.  

 

d.  If the Word of God is removed from our churches, it will be our fault, the fault of its pastor and its people.

 

e.  “Remove not” is a commandment!  “Remove not” is an “absolute negative,” meaning never for any reason!  The Holy Spirit did not put this verse here just to take up space and, the verse stands alone which makes it self-explanatory. 

 

f.  Landmarks were anciently set to distinguish one man's land from another, to secure property, and preserve from encroachments; but some were so wicked as either secretly in the night to remove them, or openly to do it, having power on their side, pretending they were wrongly located. 

 

g.  To remove a landmark was not only prohibited by the law of God, but also pronounced an accursed thing.

 

Deuteronomy 19:14  Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.

 

Deuteronomy 27:17  Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.

 

2.  “The” – the word the is a definite article! 

 

a.  Words are important in Scripture and need to be taken as such.  To the new preachers, churches, and colleges of our day, the importance of singular words makes little or no difference.  A definite article is used before either singular or plural nouns referring to a member of a group.

 

1)  The word “the … landmark” refers to something singular in nature.  We endure a war of attrition spiritually.  The world and the liberal theologians do not try to remove every Old Path or Landmark of biblical Christianity at once as the God’s people would not stand for that.  Over the years, they keep chiseling away at the Landmarks of Christianity a little at a time so as to get God’s people accustomed to the dark.

 

2)  The Sanctity of the Scriptures.  The verbal, plenary inspiration, and preservation of the Scriptures.  To believe that God only gave perfection to the original manuscripts is to BELIEVE NOTHING!  That means that in the beginning man had God’s Word but now only has a manmade replica of it. 

 

a)  Many replicas have been made of the Mona Lisa painting but are worthless compared to the original.  We have THE “Mona Lisa” in our King James Bible!  Bible believers are called cultic by the liberals.  Book worshippers, worshippers of paper and ink.  The liberal left is good at labeling the conservative right in everything from politics to the Bible!

 

b)  The Word of God is not to be “tampered with” in any sense of the word.  It is to remain in its position of final authority, otherwise, we have no authority and every man can do that which is right in his own eyes.  We fathers have the responsibility of keeping God’s Word in our homes.  The welfare of the home hinges upon God’s Word.

 

c)  The King James Bible is not a bible.  The King James Bible is the Bible!  Liberals have tried to discount and defame this blessed Bible, but it still stands as the “benchmark” of all so-called bibles.  We fathers have the responsibility of making sure that our children know which Bible is the right one.  The King James Bible!  The very Word of God!

 

3)  The Sanctity of Marriage.  Marriage is honorable in all according to the Bible.  It was the first institution that God created and the most important as it typifies our relationship with Christ, which cannot be broken.

 

4)  The Sanctity of the Believer.  God’s people have slowly conformed to the image of the world instead of to the image of Christ.  Without holiness, no man will see the Lord!

 

5)  The Sanctity of the Local Church.  What does “not forsaking” mean?  There has been a movement away from the local church in our nation.  God said “not,” an absolute negative.  Only being providentially hindered (God allowed something to stop you from attending) is permitted by the Lord.

 

6)  The Sanctity of Life.  Our nation is a Baby Killer!  God gives life at conception and pro-choice is before conception, not afterwards.

 

7)  The list could go on and one!

 

b.  One Landmark at a time eventually leads to the destruction of all Landmarks.

 

Jude 3  Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.  (God is not going to deliver the embodiment of Truth again!)

 

3.  “Ancient” – refers to something of antiquity or of ancient history. 

 

a.  This is something that is known and has been known for a long period of time.  This does not refer to anything new or recent.

 

2 Peter 1:19-21  We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:20  Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. 21  For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

 

b.  The Word of God has been preserved by God from the original autographs to the Bible that we now hold in our hand.  The right Bible off of the right line of text! 

 

c.  I have a Bible as old as eternity past because “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2  The same was in the beginning with God.”  The Word is still God!  That statement will make the liberal cringe!

 

d.  This old King James Bible was good enough for our fathers, it is good enough for you and me, and it is good for our children.  It was before all things and will continue to be when time is no more.

 

4.  “Landmark” – landmark is singular in number.

 

a.  LAND'MARK, n. [land and mark.]  1828 Webster's Dictionary

A mark to designate the boundary of land; any mark or fixed object; as a marked tree, a stone, a ditch, or a heap of stones, by which the limits of a farm, a town or other portion of territory may be known and preserved.

 

b.  An indelible Mark by which something may be known.  We have surveyors place stakes and ribbons in strategic places for reference.  By this, we know the boundaries of our land.  By the Word of God, we know our spiritual boundaries.  It is of no wonder that this new generation do not want the standards set by our Bible.

 

c.  By which something may be preserved.  Surveyor’s stakes are left there to preserve the boundaries and they are to be left alone.  This speaks of a specific boundary, not just any boundary. 

 

d.  As a norm, we at least mark the four corners of our land, but this refers to only one landmark.  Surveyors place their secondary markers about one specific marker from which they take measurement.

 

e.  Our children deserve a benchmark that is both settled and unmovable.  Everything is shifting today:  morals, mentors, as well as “churches” and “Christians.”  They need the stability of God’s Word!  They need an unmovable anchor!

 

5.  “Which our fathers” – this lets us know who set the landmark. 

 

a.  This is just not any landmark that we come upon, but it is one set by those who we know, love, and respect. 

 

Deuteronomy 6:4-9  Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: 5  And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6  And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7  And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 8  And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. 9  And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

 

b.  “Fathers” – this is a plural word!  Not a landmark set by one father, for this may or may not be a right one, but a landmark set by our fathers who agreed with one another!  Separated by thousands of years, they were in perfect agreement.

 

c.  “Our fathers” – this is in reference to specific fathers.  Not just fathers in general.  There have possibly been billions of fathers since the beginning of time with not all fathers either spiritual or ours.  This blessed Book was written to Israel and by application to the child of God.  These are our fathers!

 

2 Timothy 3:13-15 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 14  But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; 15  And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

 

d.  As Isaac re-dug the wells that Abraham dug previously, we are also “digging where our fathers dug!”  These are our Christian forefathers who stood for these precious truths and passed them down to us.  By “digging where our fathers dug” and calling these “wells of truth” by the same names, we can give them to the generations to follow.  The Bible worked for them, it works for us, and it will work for them.

 

6.  “Set” – to place in a permanent position. 

 

SET, v.t. pret. pp. set.  1828 Webster's Dictionary to compose, as a book, to dispose or put in order, to establish, found or institute, to possess, to cease;  To put or place; to fix or cause to rest in a standing posture. We set a house on a wass of stone; we set a book on a shelf. In this use, set differs from lay; we set a thing on its end or basis; we lay it on its side.  To put or place in its proper or natural posture. We set a chest or trunk on its bottom, not its end; we set a bedstead or a table on its feet or legs.  To put, place or fix in any situation. God set the sun, moon, and stars in the firmament.

 

1 Peter 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

 

Hebrews 6:17-19 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an oath: 18  That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: 19  Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;  (The Word of God still has the power to convert the sinner, comfort the saint, and convey our children in the right way.)

 

Conclusion:  Fathers, let us stand in such a way in front of our wives and children as to lead them in the way of righteousness.  If they wander, we must give to them a place to return to that has not moved!  A place where they can find the Lord and the help that they need.  God bless each of you this Father’s Day!