Sermon on Proverbs 3:5-6 | “He shall direct thy paths.”
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Sermon on Proverbs 3:5-6 — Sermon outline by G. E. Watkins focusing on the need for and the terms of God’s direction. Written for a Wednesday night devotional.
TITLE: He shall direct thy paths.
INTRODUCTION: Read Prov. 3:5-6
1. “He shall direct thy paths.”
1) This is the objective.
2) It was the objective for Noah.
3) It was the objective for Abraham.
4) It was the objective for Moses.
5) It was the objective for Joshua.
6) It was the objective for David.
7) This is to be our objective.
2. How do we get from here to heaven?
DISCUSSION: [discussion of this sermon on proverbs 3:5-6]
I. “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart;”
1. Sometimes it’s hard to trust knowing you might die doing it.
1) Job 13:15 “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him…”
2) John 21:18-19
3) Rev. 2:10
2. We trust him unto death knowing His great and precious promises, 2 Pet. 1:4.
II. “And lean not unto thine own understanding.”
1. When you don’t understand and think you could do better, answer with Job, Job 38:1-4; 40:3-4; 42:1-6.
2. Prov. 14:12; Jer. 10:23
3. Judg. 17:6, Did what was right in his own eyes. Spent much of that history in captivity.
III. “In all thy ways acknowledge him.”
1. I think of Moses as an example, Num. 12:3.
2. Matt. 11:28-30
3. Matt. 28:20, “Teaching them…”
IV. “And He shall direct thy paths.”
1. 2 Tim. 3:16-17
2. 1 Cor. 4:6
3. Jude 3
4. John 12:48
5. Rom. 1:16
6. 1 Cor. 2:4-5
7. Luke 20:4, Heaven or men?
CONCLUSION: [end of this sermon on proverbs 3:5-6]
1. Who leads you?
1) Do you walk in your own counsel?
2) Or do you follow some man?
2. Proverbs 3:5-6