Standing at the Crossroads: Choosing Righteousness Over Rebellion

Sunday Sermon notes

Pastor Derk Adams

May 3, 2025

JEREMIAH 6:16

Introduction: We learn here that this is Jeremiah writing to Judah (the southern kingdom) and its capital city, Jerusalem. He was writing for the purpose to urge God’s people to turn from their sins and return to God. Judah was in a backslidden position. Jer. 6:13, 15; Jer. 2:11-13. The church today is in the same condition as before God. Many who are truly saved follow the Lord afar off, and they have departed from the Old Paths. God exhorted Judah to return to the Old Paths, and He would give them rest for their souls. We need to return to some Old Paths.

"Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely."

-Roy T. Bennett

JEREMIAH 6:15

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the Lord.

JEREMIAH 6:17

Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it

ISAIAH 55:2-3-2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

KEY POINTS

1.    A CALL TO PAUSE: Have you taken time to seek God about your current path?

           Psalm 25:4-5-4 Shew me thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy paths.5 Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.

2.    A CALL TO SEEK: Are you seeking wisdom rooted in scripture or in culture?

          Psalm 1:1-2-1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

3.    A CALL TO ACT: What steps of obedience is God calling you to today?

          Isaiah 30:21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, this is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

4.    A PROMISE TO REST: Are you tired and restless? Maybe it’s time to walk a different way.

          Matthew 11:28-29-28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

5.    A WARNING OF RESISTANCE:  Are you resisting God's path even though you know it's right?

       Proverbs 4:26-27-26 Ponder the path of thy feet and let all thy ways be established.27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

Matthew 7:13-14-13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.