"The Wrong Road"

The final service of the meeting was held at 2pm, Sunday, April 10th. Ronny's text reading was 1 Samuel 27:10.

David had fled Saul. For awhile he lived in the land of the Philistines. He would report to the king his comings and goings. The king would inquire of him, "Where have you been today? What have you been doing today?" Implied is the question, "Where are you headed?"

Too many people aren't thinking of their eternal destiny. Some people are traveling the wrong road. Some roads don't take you anywhere. They are worthless roads.

Job 6:18 tells us about roads that go nowhere. Those aren't roads we want to travel.

1. Idleness is a road to nowhere.

Matthew 20:1-6 is the story of a man who goes to hire laborers. All throughout the day he goes to hire people. Late in the day he comes across people who have been sitting idle all day long. "Why stand ye here all day idle?"

Time is the most valuable element of life. You can't store time. You can't relive time. When time is gone, it's gone forever. Use of time is final and unchangeable.

Have we wasted our time? Colossians 4:5 instructs us to carefully improve what remains of our time and wisely use what we have now!

2. Prejudice is a road to nowhere.

Matthew 13:15 Prejudice in religion caused the death of Stephen.

Racial prejudice should never be named among God's people. In Galatians 2:11 Peter was confronted by Paul for displaying prejudicial behavior. James talks of not showing partiality or being a respector of persons.

3. Confusion is a road that goes nowhere.

For instance, atheism is a confusing road. Job 8:13, 14 "so are the paths of all that forget God." A spider's web is tough to trace from the beginning to where it ends. That's how confusion is.

2 Timothy 3:8 describes a man who is reprobate or perverted morally. It's a man whose mind is clouded with his own speculations.

Hypocrisy is also confusing. It's always confusing when people say one thing and do another.

Denominationalism is confusing. 1 Cor. 1:10-12

Some in the Church desire to be like the denominations.

There are destructive roads we should avoid, too.

a) Worldliness is such a road. We can't love the world.
b) An uncontrolled temper is such a road. Proverbs 14:17, Proverbs 14:29 and Proverbs 29:22. Many sins are commited in anger. Gen. 49:6 and 1 Sam. 15 are but two examples where people lost their temper and destroyed themselves.

Think about the road you are traveling. Make sure you're on a profitable road that will take you to heaven.

And so our 2005 Spring meeting came to an end. It was a wonderful meeting, made so by the profitable preaching of one our best. Ronny has served our brotherhood in so many ways that only history will be able to recall them all. All week long he was willing to give of his time to all who called (and many did). The burdens of others is never far from him as countless people seek his counsel. We pray for him in the Lord's Work. We pray for the brotherhood and all faithful congregations who fight the good fight.