The Wrong Way to
the Old Paths

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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.
But they said, We will not walk therein.
Jeremiah 6:16


Once again, by staying IN the Book and not just learning "teachings" and hearing "messages" from it, the Holy Spirit shows us another of the devils devices.  So, let's continue on and maybe we can eliminate some ignorance concerning the devils latest device.  Who is he after now?  Homeschoolers!  King James Bible Only Homeschoolers as well as the rest of the ecumenical home schooling crowd.  These wonderful folks are falling backwards into another gospel!

The Devil copies everything that God has: Note Isaiah 14:13,14 where the devil says, "I will be like the most high"  Well, it seems that folks are more than willing to help achieve that status of being put 'higher' or 'before' God!

God's Order and the Devils Imitations:

God   -   Devil
Christ   -   Antichrist
Holy Spirit   -   spirit of antichrist
Bible   -   perversions, vain words, fair speeches, psychology, personalities
(Moses; Jesus Gospel; Apostles to Jews)
(Paul to Gentiles)
Body of Christ  Imitations, God does not know them
Local Body of Christ   -  Denominations all move over to the ecumenical wagon - no church, perverted church
(OT - win the lost)
(NT - edify the saints)
Family   -  redesign the family; take out the strong man, give the strength to the woman, deceive & pervert the kids with  'back to the family' false teachings; make the obvious perverted teachings of today a smokescreen while he subtly grabs the 'good folks' through the 'good ole early American stuff!'

Study the real thing and you can tell a counterfeit every time!


Holiness Churches
I preached earlier about the holiness movement and how they use Jesus teachings and OT gospel and early acts, etc.  Along with learning about ALPHA, one can know the details of modern Christianity!

II Peter 2:19,20 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

Today's Issues: Family Integrated Churches - Old Path Baptist Churches, etc.

Nice people, they 'love' their children, they discipline, they teach them, the kids are obedient little children, many claim KJV, order of the home is followed, dress modestly, kids are well educated, dads are involved with discipline and daily routine, etc. etc. etc.

Their emphasis is "Rebuilding the Christian Family, One House at a Time!"  Who wouldn't want that?

Unfortunately, it is rebuilding the Christian Family AFTER it they redesign the family!


Their promise sounds good, but the results are damning!

Remember, this all started with a concern I have about so many KJV Homeschooled kids leaving the roost without church and without their King James Bible - right out to the ways of the world - their aim being happiness and financial success so they can buy all the stuff they were either brought up with or were denied!  So many homeschoolers are not taught nor are they expected to live Proverbs 30:7-9  Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:  Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:   Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD?  or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.  But that is another sermon some day for the homeschoolers who TRULY wants to heed a warning that a grandpa has learned after he home schooled and has watched many others!

Returning to the Old Path is an invitation to disaster these days!

We must choose NOT to hearken to the new way to the Old Path!

Just because it is old fashioned or from the early days of America doesn't make it godly!

The new way certainly does NOT bring rest to the soul - just look at the kids when they get older!

The new way to the Old Path gives rest to the flesh - but only for a season!  Romans 10:2-4 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.  For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.  For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

The new way to the Old Path brings misery, legalism, bondage, frustration, if not rebellious kids then kids lacking strength and God's design along with wasted moms and beat down dads!


America's Old Paths were quite Calvinistic, actually!
John Calvin, Puritans, Benjamin Keach (The London Confessions of 1644 and 1689 and Philadelphia Confession of Faith of 1743), Christmas Evans, Massachusetts Bay Colony settlers, Cotton Mather, first colleges were calvinists seminaries, the Great Awakening Jonathan Edwards, George Whitfield, Southern Baptist Convention founded by Calvinist J.P. Boyce, John Eliot (1st to the Indians); David Brainerd (Indians), William Carey (India) and Adoniram Judson, John Bunyan, John Newton (Amazing Grace), Augustus Toplady (Rock of Ages), William Cowper (There is a Fountain Filled with Blood), Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Presbyterian ministers J.C. Ryle, D.M. Lloyd-Jones and Baptists J.C. Philpot, B.H. Carroll, henry Mahan, Matthew Henry, A.A. Pink, etc. etc.

The Old Path must be a RIGHTLY DIVIDED PATH or you will get onto the wrong road...
...a road that leads to Calvinism - a road that leads to destruction!

Jesus walked the old path, imputes his 'success' to us and now He tells us to walk the Old Path with Paul as our guide!


Readers, I have a tough but timely warning here!
Let's see just how KJV Only you really are!
Let's see if dad really can make the right decisions!
Let's see if parents really do love God more than their own children!

Remember, as your local pastor, or website preacher...

(see Ephesians 4:11-14+) It is my calling and it is the work of this ministry to edify you toward perfection (completion).  ...till we come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ - not just be a good baptist, but to look into this Book and prove what is acceptable unto the Lord... to prove all things... to hold fast that which is good!  (I Thessalonians 5:21;

Going back to the Old Paths on the Wrong Road is NOT GOOD!

It is against the Scriptures!

I am to feed the flock - there are wolves coming into your homes!
Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

I am to feed you with:
knowledge
understanding
(Jeremiah 3:15)

I am to:
1) show you in the book distinctly...
2)  give you the sense...
3)  cause you to understand!
(Nehemiah 8:8)


We are to heed and follow Paul in this and all of life's matters!

Let's do a short review concerning Paul's influence in our walk...

We trust Paul for who he is and what he was given and by whom it was given!
Galatians 1:11,12
Ephesians 3:1-7
I Timothy 1:11

We will be judged by Paul's gospel!
Romans 2:16

Paul cares for us!
Ephesians 1:16-19
Ephesians 3:14-20
and it is all for God's glory, not his nor ours! Ephesians 3:21

Paul warns us:
Acts 20:29,30 - wolves from within
Ephesians 4:17-24 - not to walk in the vanity of our mind
II Peter 3:17 - led away with error of the wicked
Colossians 2:4,8 - lest any spoil us with philosophy, vain deceit, traditions of men and rudiments of the world
Philippians 3:2-4 - dogs, evil workers, the concision
II Corinthians 11:1-4 - God is a jealous God - one bride to another Jesus!
Galatians 1:6-9 - another gospel
I Thessalonians 3:5 - the tempter tempt us (Luke 8 - lose our joy and 'quit!)


And Paul's solutions are so simple!

All that we have to do is:

I Timothy 6:5 - from such withdraw thyself!
II Timothy 3:5 - from such turn away!
Ephesians 5:6 - don't fall for their vain words!
Ephesians 4:14 - grow up!
II Corinthians 11:13-15 - open your eyes to the right light!
II Timothy 4:2 - reprove, rebuke, exhort - in other words, PREACH!
II Thessalonians 3:6,14,15 - have no company with the brother who is dangerous to your family!
Ephesians 4:20,21 - hear and learn from the King James Bible - from Christ directly!

Proverbs 27:12 - A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.


"The Family" according to the Book!

In part II, we will look at some specifics concerning these Family Related Churches.  But first, let's see what God really has to say about the family.

Of course, the family is to be like heaven on earth, as is the church - the same design exists for both.  Keep in mind the order, however.  But the devil can turn them both into an idol!

Idol - making a created thing an object of worship - putting something first before God!
Exodus 20:3-5 - no other gods before me, etc.... because he is a jealous God!

Focus on the Family - Dobson
    advertised in a communist newspaper along with an article warning unregistered churches and Christians to stop their work!

Turn our hearts toward home?
    See Psalm 119:112 - turn our hearts to the BOOK!  I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.

Joshua 24:23  Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel.

I Kings 8:58 That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.

Jeremiah 7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

Jeremiah 11:8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do; but they did them not.

Proverbs 2:2  So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;


Churches have family emphasis by bringing in speakers that are therapists that speak about mentoring and modeling...

Marriage and family has become the most important issue today - family values...

It is still making families miserable and guilt ridden!

Sure, God tells husbands to love their wives and to provide for their family; wives to submit to their husbands
and children to obey their parents, etc.


But, here are examples of "family" being put before God...

Old Testament
Genesis 15:4; 16:2 - Abram is to have his own child, but Hagar got involved because He hearkened to his wife instead of God
Genesis 19:31,32 - Moab and Ammon, enemies of Israel came about because they wanted to 'preserve the seed of thy father.'
Genesis 22:2; 16-18 - Abraham was told to put Isaac on the altar - he was willing, too!  Are you?
Numbers 14:3 - they were concerned about their wives and kids in the wilderness thus they whined to God, etc.
Judges 6:25-27 - "because they feared his father's household"

New Testament
Matthew 10:35-37
Matthew 12:46-50
I Timothy 2:14 - Adam put his wife before what God told him!

Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it.  Psalm 127:1

Jesus didn't tell Paul to preach & teach on the family like today's churches preach & teach!

The point I am trying to make?

see part II on:
The Poison from Today's Family Integrated Churches


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