IF YOU'RE GOING THE WRONG WAY, TURN AROUND | CHAD VEACH

proverbs chapter four proverbs chapter four go to verse number 10 and let me just give you a little bit of context if you just new to our church someone sent you the link and you're like what is the zoe thing what is this church thing i tell you where we're at we are in a study through the book of proverbs proverbs is that thing that if you flip your bible like right into the middle it's going to probably land on proverbs proverbs is written by a man named solomon well about 95 is written by a man named solomon solomon's dad was whoa solomon's dad was he was a bad man he he was in a good way he was the king of israel he was when god found his dad he said i finally found a man after my own heart david was such a man of war that when we come back from winning his laker championship they throw the parade not on zoom in person and they say they say saul has slain his thousands but david his ten thousands david was a whoa david was a bad man and david gave birth to a son solomon but anybody knows that just because the dad is one way that doesn't mean the son will be the same his man was his father was a man of war solomon is a man of thought he's a thinking man solomon gives us three books in the bible song of solomon the book of proverbs and ecclesiastes in proverbs it is a collection of a collection of wise sayings in fact solomon god says of him in first kings chapter three there has never been and there will never be another man as wise as solomon so solomon when he was the king of israel when he led israel never experienced more peace and they never took more real estate he was a man of wisdom and so he writes here in this collection of collections why sayings to his sons he wants his sons to be wise like him and so he's through his experience and through his insight revelation knowledge and understanding he is giving his kids wisdom he's saying to his son the themes of life he's saying sons life is between good and evil righteousness and wickedness it is between abundance and poverty it is between fidelity and adultery it is between life and death he's teaching his kids the power of decision he's saying this because i'm your dad it is not a given that you're gonna be wise it is not a given that you're just gonna do the right thing son you have a choice you have a choice when you live in righteousness or will you choose wickedness we live in abundance or will you live the life of poverty son son son are you going to be diligent or will you be lazy because let me just teach you the different son the diligent man will prosper and the lazy man will suffer which way will you choose he is teaching his kids how to flourish and how to prosper aren't you glad that god in his sovereignty saw fit in all the 66 books in the bible god saw fit that you and i needed this book in fact we've been saying around zoe a proverb a day keeps the fooling me away because all throughout proverbs just addressing the fool the fool the fool the fool to fool and contrasting it with the wise man the wise man does this the fool does this we talked about it last sunday if you missed you got to check out the podcast or the youtube the fool in me keeps fooling me he's got to go just hit yourself on the head if you're a fool hit yourself twice bob you got to just hit yourself if you sit next to a fool hit him with your elbow kidding guys i'm kidding i'm kidding don't don't elbow your spouse like that that's not cool so we have said all that to say we're going to jump into today's subject in the book of proverbs and i want to talk today one of the main themes in the book of proverbs solomon writes to his kid about past he writes to his son about roads and he says son there is a road there's a path that leads to abundance and there is a path that leads to barrenness so i just want to ask you if you're on the right path today i just want to as we start 2021 just be like are you going down the right path it was amazing uh christmas break we had the best time and uh and and we went over to hawaii we went over to hawaii for christmas break that's a pretty good christmas break i gotta be honest hey so we went over there and julia you know my wife she's my my wife is a planner my wife is very organized and my wife when we went over to hawaii she's like there's a few things i want to do now when we're on vacation we're not really on vacation we're on agenda vacation i'm like oh cause i thought we were just gonna play in the ocean but okay what at the agenda vacation items was julia wanted to go see a waterfall she wanted to go see a waterfall so i was like all right we're going to go see we've done this before in hawaii with her family we were there one time we went on a beautiful stroll with strollers and we went on this leisurely walk up this paved road we saw a waterfall looked like jurassic park it's awesome so i think i'll take you on the water we've done this before i'll take you to another waterfall love that song tlc let's go let's go to the waterfalls we're chasing them we're not supposed to according to the song but we'll we'll go so i told the church where they're preaching at a church that's how my pastor's kids my sons are going to grow up son we turn pre preaching ministry appointments into vacations okay that's what's going to happen to your life so so we're over so i told the church while we're over here my wife agenda vacation lady she would like to go to a don't go chasing waterfalls moment so like we could we are going to line up for you pastor chad the best waterfall [Music] well aren't you guys just great host so uh they tell me the place to go and and we line it up and we get there now i'm expecting because julie and i have done this before i'm expecting paved roads i'm expecting strollers fam when we got into the jungle we were walking in jurassic park mud and bamboo sticks in running water and i was just like where have we come and it was a three-mile hike up the steepest i've got a two-year-old a five-year-old a seven-year-old and me i'm not even counting julia it says i am me okay i'm a baby too so we we we go climbing up this mountain the boys are in heaven i mean i'm like oh gosh oh gosh oh gosh oh gosh i'm melting this is my kryptonite okay i'm dirty oh my nikes up just dying so we get lost on the waterfall hike and we finally find some people are coming down they look at us like we're crazy because we got little kids and they're like they're like are you guys going up the waterfall and i'm like she has an agenda on vacation it's what i have to deal with they're like okay if you want to go up just follow all the pink ribbons that will take you on the right path up to the waterfall i just love that because for the rest of the two hours it took to hike three miles anytime i felt lost all i had to do was remember follow the pink ribbons the pink ribbons mean you're on the right [Music] path i want to tell you today we are not following the wrong path we are going on god's path god's light god's way god's agenda watch here together proverbs chapter four proverbs chapter four you're good my man we'll bring you back if you go to urban outfitters real fast just grab me a beanie all right proverbs chapter four my man look like he's straight out of stumptown coffee i love it get me a coffee while you add it dawg proverbs 4 verse 10 is all love i'm in a carhartt jacket what can i say proverbs 4 verse 10 hear my son and receive my sayings and the years of your life will be many i have taught you in the way of wisdom and i have led you in the right paths verse 14 do not enter the path of the wicked and do not walk in the way of evil avoid it and do not travel on it turn away from it and pass on ain't no pink on that path verse 18 but the path of the just is like the shining sun that shines even brighter until the perfect day and the way of the wicked is like darkness they do not know what makes them stumble last one verse 26 ponder the path of your feet and let all your ways be established do not turn to the right or to the left remove your foot from evil ponder your path establish your path god is so concerned about your path that he doesn't even just speak to you he talks to you about raising your kids on the right path in other words god wants you to walk on the right path so well that you can lead your children on this path watch what it says here proverbs 22 6 direct your children onto the right path and when they're older they will not leave it god is into paths god is into your path i took a class when i was in high school my freshman year high school took a class called pathways and it was supposed to be in as a freshman in high school you're supposed to decide what career you were gonna have when you grew up so in ninth grade as a 15 year old i chose my career at that time i chose the career of a dj the end of my year paper the dj in me okay i just ones and twos you get it little did i know i'd be hiking up waterfalls but god has a a clear path god has the right path he doesn't just want your children it's amazing we live in this culture it's like i'm not serving god i'm not doing the right thing but i want my kids in church i want my kids to know god want my kids to understand these stories no no god wants you on the right path and you're blazing that trail so much your kids want your faith your kids want your joy your kids want your strength [Applause] want to preach a message today write down the title if you're going down the wrong path turn around if you today are going down the wrong path i want you to stop and turn around get off that path there is not pink on that path there's no there's no there's no abundance on that path some of you got influenced by the wrong crew and the wrong people down a path that has destroyed your marriage that has destroyed your finances stop and turn around it's called repentance repentance is not crying repentance is not tears repentance by definition is a 180. it is literally making a u-turn you ever come to a light and you see up there and it's just and it's it says up on the sign no u-turn if you're going down the wrong path permission you turned get out of that thing stop using that thing stop acting a fool stop being that way you're not called to be deviant you're not called to be deceitful you're not called to be someone that that's not respectable if you're going down the wrong path stop it turn around because today god is calling your name on the right path the path that has peace the path that is established the path that has an abundant life jesus is over here on this path saying there's room for you over here there's life on my side that path cost you more than you ever wanted to pay that that that path right there do you see where it took you you are more bitter you are more angry you are more frustrated nobody likes being around you why because you are infested with sin stop being intoxicated by unforgiveness get off the wrong path and on to the right one that's why i say to you if you're on the wrong path no shame if you're on the wrong path i'm not mad at you and neither is god if you are on the wrong path right now hear the voice of the holy spirit he is beckoning you he is wooing you he is calling you on to the right path let me give you four things to write down today write down number one i love this you make your plans but god has the last say you can make your plan that's fine you can make all your plans for your path i'm on a a path for this that and the other i'm fine with plans you can make your five year plan your one year plan your six month plan your two week plan i don't care how long or how big or how small or how great your plan is i'm just telling you make your plans but god has the last day watch what he says in proverbs chapter 16 and man's heart plans his way but the lord directs his steps oh i love this proverbs 21 in the lord's hand the king's heart is a stream of water that he channels towards all who please him a person may think their own ways are right but the lord weighs the heart oh i love this because god is about trying to take you from your plan to his plan from your path to his path he you say no i know what's best i know what i'm going to do listen james said in the in the bible you don't know what tomorrow will bring your life is a vapor instead you should say this if the lord wills i'm gonna be on this path if god still wants me to i'm gonna be on this path i make plans god orders my steps i got to be honest as angelino it's very exciting the the restaurants are opening back up i know we still on the sidewalk but i'll take it listen beggars can't be choosers i know be outside with space heaters but beggars can't be choosers do you know how much i miss having someone walk up to the table and just ask can i take your order it's the kindest thing you've ever asked i'd like a salad and a club soda with lime add chicken onto the salad the fast is over the the bible says you you make your plans but the lord orders your steps he orders you're going to have this and i'm going to bring this and i'm going to let you do this see the problem is for most of us is we want my plan over god's plan and what i am married to what i thought my life would be and where i'm supposed to go and who i'm supposed to marry in my profession and my many plans as a does a man have in his own heart but the lord says ah that that's that's great but i've actually got something better it's not that god thinks that your plans are small it's just that he's got something so much greater he doesn't do it because he's upset with you it's design it's destiny it's for the greatest fulfillment you could ever experience this path is god's plan for your life that i think that's why jesus is like listen guys let's just let's just pray a powerful prayer i must decrease and he must increase i've got to be okay with just saying okay i've got my little schmeasley plans here but god you're the boss can you see jesus he's in a garden it's called gethsemane he's about to die he's about to go to the cross he's saying to god i don't want to do this this is not my plan but nevertheless nevertheless your will be done not mine come on clap in your home right now thank god if you're grateful to get on his path because getting on god's path is saying yes to his plan it's your plan for my finances this is your plan for my body this is your plan for my future this is your plan for my home this is your plan for my city i'm on your path and your agenda and i am glad to be aligned with your will oh i love this one write down number two i love this one is that you you have your opinion god gives you counselors so you can have your opinion about paths you can have your opinion about future i listen you could tweet all you want i'm happy to hear your opinion we're grateful to hear what you think it's just at the end of the day so that you stay on the path while you're running your lane god brings around you counselors just in case you start getting you ever have a friend go funny i'm not talking about i think about funny like oh that's weird i never i know i didn't see that path coming for them not the path i choose god god puts counselors on your path to help these are called pastors these are called parents these are called connect group leaders these are called community friends he puts cat there's there's wisdom in the multitude of counselors watch with this watch what he's saying to his kid watch this proverbs 15 22 without counsel plans go awry but in the multitude of counselors they are established proverbs 19 21 there are many plans in a man's heart nevertheless the lord's counsel that will stand god loves you enough that when you get on this path he puts around you encouragement he puts around you other thinkers he puts around you other people that see it from another vantage [Applause] and and the problem is is you're going to get down the wrong path you're going to go down the wrong path if you're like it's it's me against the world it's my way or the highway yeah i know it's right how do you how do you know it's right because i just know that it's right oh it's cool uh what what what do your parents say about that oh i haven't talked to them maybe we should oh just hold out there you talked to your pastors oh they're just so hard to get a hold of they wear carhartt what about um what about your connect group have you what do they think about it oh i'm not interconnect do you see how the tactic of the enemy is to get you by yourself because the enemy knows that when you are lonely you are prone and susceptible to being under attack and so he says get on the path that has counselors one of one of my favorite images that comes to mind as you all remember when t-mobile had the fave 5. not not not that i've ever been a t-mobile guy my att guy but man of god i'm a man of god i would never do t-mobile man of god but i enjoyed the commercial because i had charles barkley i'm a man of god i would never do t-mobile but i appreciate the commercial who's in your fave five y'all remember my space i never i didn't have a myspace oh man of god i didn't have a but i remember they had that thing top eight is it favor eight top eight you wicked humans here that did that i didn't have myspace i'm a twitter guy instagram guy didn't buy space no way but do you have like do you have three people do you have five people i always get afraid it's like it's just like i have my mentor whatever my mentor says you got you only got one because cause the scripture here says the multitude of counselors because i need a little bit of what they say and a little bit of what they say and they had great thought you need godly counselors you need people we talked about it last week that have the wisdom from above that you don't need a bunch of friends telling you do whatever path you want you just do you boo you just go down your path okay how's that working out for you i'd rather go down the path with counselors people challenging me and encouraging me and equipping me and inspiring me and asking the right questions you can have your opinion not matter your opinion just bump your opinion up some godly counsel write down number three i love this one you have your dream but god requires diligence everyone gets on their path and like i'm on the path it's awesome i'm on my path it's got pink and i'm gonna get to the waterfall and we're gonna wash off the mud because i'm on the path i've always dreamt of being on this path i'm all for dreams i hope in 21 days of prayer and fasting you got a dream i hope in 21 days you got some vision like vision is from god god is the dream giver i texted a friend this morning i was like i don't know what's up with you bro but you've been in two of my dreams in the last week i don't know what that means i just i'm just texting you to let you know i love you i'm with you i don't even know what that means but you just you keep showing up in my dreams so i'm just being a good friend i love you the person was like thank you so much thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you you mean this much to me blah blah blah i don't know what it means but god speaks in dreams god speaks in vision you can have your dream that's fine have your dream but when you're on this path don't think that i'm on the path let's see what happens i'm on the path all right i'm good no no no when you get on this path it is a path of diligence it is a path of work ethic it is a path of putting your hand to the plow don't look behind you clap in your house if you are thankful god has put something big in your heart which means you got something big in your hand oh let me read this one to you proverbs 21 oh i'm sorry 21 5. the plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty but those of everyone who is hasty surely to poverty the hand of the diligent will prosper opportunity is mainly disguised as work ethic in all the time that you have dreamt of the path of legacy and the path of fruitfulness and the path of impact and the path of of great things in store for your family it's beautiful but do you hear what solomon is saying to his kids do not think because you have a dream you're good do not think because you chose the right path you're good it will require of you diligence it will require of you getting up in the morning and doing your job to the best of your ability oh i love what colossians 3 23 says it says everything you do do it wholeheartedly as unto the lord i'll never forget when i first got hired as a youth pastor i was 19 years old first thing they did was they asked me to cut my hair was down to here someone got a haircut for the glory of god it's my new path and i remember i go to bible college every morning till 12 i go to the cafeteria i'd have a lunch and i drive to the church and i'd get there by one o'clock and i work at the church from about one to six every night then i work all weekend and i just i just remember having this thinking that like i think i'm getting a paycheck it's kind of like pennies i think i'm working pennies on the dollar but it doesn't matter because i wasn't working for the pastor and i wasn't working for a paycheck and i wasn't working for man i was doing everything unto the lord don't be diligent because of a payday you want to have don't be diligent because you think you can get a greater vacation we are diligent because god has placed us on a path that requires our diligence requires our discipline you can have your dream i love your dream i applaud your dream tell me your dream i want to hear about it but don't tell me your dream unless you're willing to be diligent that's what he's saying to his son he's talking about paths he's talking about counselors he's talking about dreams he's talking about diligence listen listen if you're on the wrong path turn around there's abundance over here there's righteousness over here there is peace right here there's prosperity on this path i'm tell there's friends on this path there is so i'm telling you there is beanies carhartt and stumptown coffee on this path i'm preaching to myself right there he's preaching myself he's saying listen i want you to understand son it is not just a one-time decision okay well if it's good and evil no doubt i choose good saying on this path you still gotta you still gotta clear out a way you still gotta carve out some space for your family name he said i i went by the the sluggard's house i went by the lazy man's house he's got weeds he said i went by the lazy guy's house he's you know you son he's so lazy he can't even lift his hand from his bowl i went by the lazy man's house he's got weeds all over his front yard i went by the lazy man the lazy man's house this is how he describes him he says a little sleep little slumber and bam poverty ran up on his home he's saying no no no not you you choose a path of hard work you choose a path of diligence come on clap right now if you're grateful i'm willing to do whatever god has put in my heart i'm willing to work work whatever he's asked me to work clap a little bit louder and thank him today this is my path and the last one worship team you can come join me you have your persona but god works on your heart you can have your persona you can have your you know people think this about you and image management we live in this culture where everybody's like managing their image my brand ambassador don't want to hurt my image that's fine okay i'm good have your persona but one person you can't fool you can't trick god you can't filter your heart to make it look good when god's watching and god says all of this to say i'm actually going to test your heart last scripture in the book of proverbs today proverbs 21 every way of a man is right in the in his own eyes but the lord weighs the hearts proverbs 17 3 in the same way that gold and silver are refined by fire the lord purifies your heart by the tests and trials of life so in other words when you're on the right path you are not exempt from god testing your heart god says i'm going to test your motives why are you walking with me why do you call me lord why do you serve other people why are you a part of the local church why are you building a family legacy it is so that it makes you look good or so that your children will walk in an inheritance you know the bible actually teaches us that the righteous man leaves an inheritance for his children you ought to start right now banking an inheritance for your children a wicked man leaves him with bills a righteous man leaves him with inheritance so the lord tests your heart he just weighs your heart again if you're going down the wrong path don't worry turn around we have seen where god's path takes us it is a life of diligence no question it is a life of counselors without question it is a life of god's agenda over our agenda without question but one of the things i love about god is as i'm running down this path see because you got to get the image i am not lazily walking down this path i'm a christian go to church no i i see it more like paul paul says i don't know about you but i'm gonna fight the good fight i don't know about you but i'm gonna run my race so i can win it i don't know about you but i'm going to do everything in my heart to fulfill the call of my life so you got to choose today not just the path that you're on but the rate you're going to run it do you want to just watch everybody else run watch everybody else succeed watch everybody else have peace watch everybody else have goodness see the invitation that god is making you today is to not just get off the wrong path it's to run on the right path it's a greater invitation see we see it as religion all right all right i'm not gonna smoke i'm not gonna do that i won't do the bad stuff i'll go to church i'll stop by if i gotta listen to hell saw me i'll listen to the hillsong no no no no no no no no no no no that's not what solomon is saying just kidding he's saying son do you realize what happens over here it is a world of blessing he says one time to his son the blessing of the lord maketh one rich and he addeth no sorrow to it it will overwhelm you how good god is oh son i'm setting before you life and death blessing and cursing choose wisely now i got to preach to some people because some people at home are like i don't know man i don't know if this is me i don't know if this is a message for i know what past chat why are you trying to get up in my business and preach at me today because god is so good sometimes he's got to get a message to your life because you're going the wrong way one of my favorite stories in all the bible one of my favorite stories how was your break glad you came back we need you dawg drew one of my favorite stories of the bible is a story about balaam this is one guy i'll keep it short there's one guy named palum he's got a donkey and he's got this donkey and he's ready to go down this path and so he's been riding his donkey for a long time this is donkey it's like shrek right here donkey is his donkey and he's like all right donkey let's go and he's like ready to go down and donkey ain't moving he's been with this guy a long time and balaam's kind of like you ever go out to start your car and you're like [Music] this is a 2018 toyota corolla this should never happen to me so palin's like on the doggy like starts hitting his donkey two times he tries it three times he tries it then all of a sudden the donkey speaks and all of a sudden god opens balaam's eyes to see that there is the commander of the lord's army an angel in front of him standing in his way because balaam was about to go down the wrong path sometimes god will stand up on a sunday and get you a message to your spirit to say i'm standing in the way you're not going down the path of 2020 you're not going down the path that destroyed your family you're not going to do what your grandfather did you're not going to do what your dad did you're gonna get off that path you're going down righteousness you're going down abundance you're going down freedom you're going down peace oh come on right there right wherever you're at lift your voice let's praise the lord today hallelujah

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Length: 35min 19sec (2119 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 31 2021