Best thing. Let's see.
Can I run the sound in Kevin? Would you be able to stay in
here or All right. Yeah.
All right. Go ahead and turn in your Bibles
to Deuteronomy Deuteronomy 19 where we're going to start.
We're going to move all over the place tonight and we're going to
see if I can get through this in one night.
But hey, that's all right. I've got two nights.
So if I can't then I can just move it to next week and finish.
Deuteronomy 19 worse. 14 is where we're going to start
tonight. If I can find it, there it are
you all right, Deuteronomy 1914. Now shalt not remove thy
neighbor's Landmark, which they have a v, I'm have set in 9
inheritance, which Thou shalt inherit in the land.
That the Lord thy God giveth, the to possess it, turn over to
Deuteronomy 27 617 And if you've got 17 fingers, go ahead and
keep one in each of these places because we're going to go back
and forth to them. So, just the morning to you
Deuteronomy, twenty Seven Seventeen cursive be he that
removeth his neighbor's Landmark.
Now, when god mentioned something once it's, you know,
important, obviously, but when he mentions it multiple times,
it's something we need to keep track of go, a little farther,
go to proverbs. 22. Proverbs 22.
And we'll give you a test here real quick and see who's who's
the king one. Proverbs 22 verse 28 says remove
not the ancient Landmark which thy fathers have set.
Go a little farther Proverbs 23 verse 10.
Proverbs 23 10 remove not the old landmark and enter not into
the fields of the fatherless. Who sees the connection who's
our, what's our keyword? Landmark Landmark, when you're
reading your Bible here. What what's a landmark?
We can talk. It's this is a two-way
conversation one. What's a landmark?
Anybody. There's not much I guess there
is a run. A description, a mark of things
in the Bible. What we're talking about is a
landmark of property today. We have surveyors and we have
GPS locations and we have a plots that you can get of.
Okay. This this is my boundary of my
plot till it goes from this Landmark.
As the Bible would call it to this Landmark to this one to
this one and they're all put together in a nice fancy
document and put down to the go. Courthouse or to you the
lawyers, and you have records that way.
Well, back back in Bible time, in the ancient times, they
didn't have all that they didn't have the guy that had the wheel
that. Okay, it's 50 feet from the
house. All right.
Let's keep going. You did.
They didn't have all that stuff. So they just this is the end of
my property. So I'm going to put a landmark
here. I'm going to dig a hole and put
a big stone or I'm going to put a pile of rocks there.
I'm going to, I read that they do.
Trenches through a field to say this is my boundary from there
to that Landmark to the other landmark.
To that Landmark back to this Landmark is my property.
That Landmark was set for to give people to understand.
This is my area, this is my property to show who's the owner
of that property, but also to show what the purpose of that
property was and and that Removing not the ancient
landmarks. Sadly.
We live in a day today, in America, that God has set
landmarks in this country, but today those landmarks are being
pushed and moved and removed and you're there.
Like I said, get your finger back to Deuteronomy 1914 says
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark.
Well, that's interesting. My neighbor's Landmark.
It doesn't say necessarily my Landmark.
It says, my neighbor's Landmark history.
I read an article historians wrote about some interesting
practices. If you wanted to make your land
a lot bigger, there was an easy way to do it.
You would go out at night or when the owner of the other
field next to you was not there and you would Move, that
Landmark, two feet. Nobody's gonna see a two-foot
move. I mean, might take most of the
night, depending on how big the rock is, or how big the hole is.
That was dug for it, but you could move it, two feet, three
feet, and then and leave it alone for a week and then the
next night go out and move it. Another two feet.
And before long you could essentially steal your
neighbors, a lot of their land before they ever even knew
anything. And they don't have a court
document to go to to say wait, no, no, it's not there, it's
supposed to it. Used to be over there.
Oh, that's that's the landmark you said, right?
Yeah, that's, that's the pile of rocks that I put.
Well, that's right. Here's your plot.
This is where your boundary ends and and sadly today, that's
happening, more and more and more in our churches and in our
country here. And and New, the dishonesty of
our hearts, which is why he specifically says, don't remove
thy neighbor's Landmark it not just don't move it because they
don't want you to steal and everything like that.
But it shows who's the owner of that property today, God in
heaven. Has landmarks in your life.
If you're his child, he has landmarks in your life saying,
these are my boundaries for my child because he's mine.
You're not your own. If you're saved, I'm not my own.
We go turn to First Corinthians. We know these verses First
Corinthians 6:19, First Corinthians 6:19, we're not our
own. What know, ye not that your body
is the Temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have
of God and ye are not your own for ye are bought with a price.
Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit which
are Gods. There's somebody that owns your
life. Somebody that has put landmarks
in your life, to show your there's what.
Before you got saved, you did not have those certain
landmarks. it's you didn't you weren't a child of God when you
were in in the family of the devil, essentially in darkness,
you had different landmarks But when God paid, for your sins,
and with his blood and you accepted his salvation, his
gift, his good news of the Gospel, he put landmarks in your
life to prove that you're his. Some people don't like that.
I don't like the fact that I somebody owns me.
Well the fact of the matter is, when you got saved, you
voluntarily accepted that deal. Didn't get a choice to say, I'm
going to get saved but leave this out of that, you know, I
still want this side, you know, put a boundary here even though
technically my property goes here, got God said I own all of
you? You may not surrender all of it,
but God owns all of you look over at verse chapter 7, your
they're in First Corinthians 6. Look at chapter 7.
Let's start in. Let's start in 2017.
First Corinthians 720 lat, every man abide in the same calling
wherein, he was called Art, Thou called being a servant care, not
for it. But if thou mayest be made free,
use it rather. For he that is called in the
Lord. Being a servant is the Lord's
Freeman. Likewise also he that is called
being free is. Christ's servant ye are bought
with a price. Nice, be not be not ye the
Servants of men. It's trying to explain to you
that you're not your own. I might have said that once or
twice before, but we're not. If you're saved, you are bought
with a price, you are not your own, you can't and shouldn't do
what ever you want to do. When you're a servant, when
you're a servant of a new master, your job is to please
that new master. Not to please you, we are made
in the likeness of him to serve him to give him glory to bring
him glory and honor the, the song says so long, I search for
life's meaning enslaved by the world and my greed.
Then the door of my prison was opened by I love for the ransom
was paid. I was free.
I'm free from the fear of tomorrow.
I'm free from the guilt and the past.
I've traded my shackles for a glorious song.
I'm free. Praise the Lord free at last.
When I got married before you got married, before I got
married, I was single, I did whatever.
I wanted to do was just I did what I needed for myself to do.
It was a lookout for me, kind of thing.
But when you got married, you're not by yourself anymore.
The Bible says that these two lost my place.
And they twain shall be one flesh.
You're one, you're not, you're not thinking for yourself any
longer. You're not.
It's not just about you. In marriage, is a picture of
Christ and The church. when you got saved you became a part of
that church which means you and Christ are one that it's a
picture of you two being one in the idea that Christ now, owns
you Head back to Deuteronomy. I got to show you something
Deuteronomy, 19. Deuteronomy 1914.
It says, Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark.
And look at this, which they of old-time have set.
Keep that that phrase, which of old-time, keep that phrase, go
go, to, again, Proverbs 22 Proverbs 22.
Sadly today. In America, were trying to get
pushed away from that phrase. We're trying to get away from
the old stuff. Proverbs 22 28 is removed.
Not the ancient landmarks Proverbs 23 says remove not the
old landmarks Something that is ancient has been there for a
while. It's set in place, it's pretty
unmovable at, you know, when we tried to dig out some of these
posts and stuff. One of the things that I was
worried about was our great, did they cement this into the ground
isn't going to be fun? But Brian was like, oh, no, this
is pretty new. They just recently did this?
It won't be that difficult to get this post out versus
something that has been in the ground for Long enough to call
it ancient. Say that it's pretty well stuck
in there that, that is something not only does these landmarks
show, that this is my, or who I belong to or were, were the
property who owns it. But it also shows a longevity of
the Operation God is in. This thing for the Long Haul.
He don't don't be shy and go away from the fact that Church
is an old-fashioned bible-believing old-fashioned,
hymns, Bible preaching Church, the Old Paths, I'm not ashamed
to be called the fundamental Baptist Christian that there's
nothing wrong with it, we're going through that.
Now with preacher, he's going through what it means to be a
fundamentalist and what it means and what it does.
Not mean going through that. It's very important to know
where you came from because what has worked for years and
centuries. Still works today.
Today's Church, may not agree with that.
You see them changing that over and over and over.
But God didn't change it. God didn't set out a new Proverb
about, you know, if it's not really working for you, try
this. There's not a, you know, wait,
there's more like an infomercial.
That's not the way this Bible was written.
Think of Malachi 3:6. We don't turn there, but you
guys know it for. I am the Lord, I change, not
God's, not the one that is going around in while you're sleeping,
and it's at night. He's going to move that Landmark
away. And oh, now, contemporary music
is okay. He's not the one that changes.
He doesn't go over to this landmark and go.
Okay. Now, we're just going to hope
they don't know. Not looking.
I'll just move this over here. Now, any version of the Bible is
fine. God didn't change anything.
God said it in stone. Just like he did the food.
Stay! What are we doing here?
I broke it! I'm sorry!
God did not change things just like he wrote out the Ten
Commandments in stone. What does it say about God's
word? It's going to last forever.
It's settled in heaven. It's essentially written in
stone God's. Not changing this book and not
changing what it says and not changing how it said.
Hebrews 13:8 says, Jesus Christ the same yesterday today and
today and forever. God's not the one changing
Christianity. God's his Bible is not the one
changing what the way churches are ran.
The weight churches are doing their services, we are Jesus,
was the foundation of the church and that was set over 2,000
years ago. It's not going to change, it's
not going to move. And there's no reason to
question things and change things and say, well, I don't
really agree with that in the Bible.
Let's take that out. It's time.
We just do what the Bible says. We have a generation sadly today
who's trying to change it. Trying to say that the old way,
the way Grandpa did stuff, that old fashioned.
I don't need to do that. I don't like that.
I don't like how it is. I like how this music makes me
feel. Makes me feel like I'm getting
something from this. They call us dinosaurs.
They call us old time preaching old-fashioned and they can't
wait for us to die. To be honest, can't wait till
they're not having somebody to fight with. but think, out
through the years, the landmark of this book, Worked for your
grandpa when he got saved worked for Grandma.
When she got saved, worked for Dad, when he got saved.
And it worked for you when you got saved and you know what?
It's going to continue to work. The same way.
It always has do Christ comes back.
I'm sticking with this Landmark. Look back at Proverbs 22.
You still might be there. Proverbs 22:28 again, remove not
the ancient Landmark, which thy what Fathers have set.
Dad's me included. That's our job.
It's our job to make sure those landmarks stay in place, to be
honest. It's because your family depends
on it. Pastor said this many a times
kids may not come up to you and say Mana, thank you for for
being so strict with me. Thank you for not letting me go
out and play when I needed to do.
My homework. Thank you for not letting me.
They won't say that as kids, but I can guarantee you if you stick
with it. It, they'll say it when they get
older landmarks dad, you're you're in charge of keeping the
old ancient landmarks and setting them and keeping them in
your family. The sad thing is today's
families. They say, well, I raised my
kids, I raised the they they went to church every Sunday.
Why are they the way they are? Well, the problem is is the
church isn't supposed to be the one that raises your kids.
You are at home. The church is supposed to
enforce what's happening at home, but the kids learn
Christianity and what it means to be a Christian at home first.
They see that 24 hours a day and then they can come to church and
learn and get it more. Solidified that, oh yeah, what
dad's teaching, and what we're doing at home.
That's that lines up with what the Bible says. but sadly,
today's church has moved the landmarks To be closer to what
the world's landmarks look like. I don't know why I like playing
sports football and soccer were my might to, but we had a rule
in our family, that no matter if there was practice or a game on
Sunday, didn't matter? I was going to be in church.
It matter if there was a game or a practice on Wednesday night.
I knew our Landmark was, I was going to be in church.
And guess what? When my kids Charlie?
I don't know. He's kind of not coordinated.
I don't know how soccer would work out, but maybe it would be
good for him, but if he ever decides to start playing any
sports, he was in Karate for a little bit.
If it ever got to the point where it was, well, yeah, you've
got a game on Wednesday and this will be the first game and know,
I'm sorry, I'm going to be a church. and they learned that
from you, Dad and Mom setting that landmark in place, And then
I learned it and then I set it for my family, for my kids.
What landmarks are you sitting in your house?
Because you're setting landmarks, whether they're good
or bad, there are landmarks being set.
There are boundaries that are being set.
Don't move the ones that have been old and tried and trued.
And based in the word of God. Job, turn to job 24.
Why is why are landmarks so important?
Why would god mentioned over and over?
Don't move the old and ancient landmarks.
Don't move your neighbors landmark.
Job 24. Joke, 24 verse 1.
Why seeing times are not hidden from the almighty, do they not?
Do they do? They that know him not see his
days. Some remove the landmarks.
They violently take away flocks and feed their of.
Some remove those landmarks and and it limits those landmarks
that we set up limit, what you can do.
The rules their boundaries to live by.
We don't go to movies, we don't drink, we don't smoke.
We don't do a lot of things and a lot of times kids, you know,
fight against that landmark, and that boundary But those
landmarks are there for a purpose.
Dad be vigil. Be careful.
Because the devil and this world wants nothing more than you to
have a very loose. Landmark.
That they can come in and move. And look again, their verse 2,
when some remove the landmarks. What happens?
They violently takeaway phlox. What happened to your kids?
Depends on how strong that Landmark is in your life and in
your family. What happens?
Down the road with your family and how well they turn out for
Christ. All depends on how solid and how
much you fight for those landmarks.
Look at the next thing. Know, right after that, they not
only violently, take away the flocks.
They feed their up. They're not just in it to take
away our kids and everybody. There to consume them.
It satisfies them, they have. Have you ever met?
And we've seen this recently, and in times past that kids, get
out of being in a strict or a Christian home.
And all they want to do is throw everything away, everything
they've ever learned and been taught, they go off the deep end
and then what do they do? When they're off in the deep
end? They bash.
Everything over here lie and tell everybody.
This is horrible, what? Are you guys doing?
How can you do that to your family?
They take pleasure in taking away the flock.
They attack an attack because they know that they aren't just
going to come in and just ask them to come away.
Says they violently take them. They take them.
Why, why is it that the highest percentage of people that
convert to Mormonism and Islam? Today are from independent,
fundamental bible-believing, Baptist Churches, Why?
It's because church is in those families have let those
landmarks be moved. Or they start to lean over
because of the rain came. I never grew up on a farm, but
I've seen a lot of times where the, the farmers are out,
especially in horse farms. They have it, you know, their
whole yard yard field. Big yard is fenced in and a lot
of times, it's with barbed wire and and they constantly have to
go back and mend the fence. If they didn't, mend the fence.
Those horses would escape and get out.
So they mend the fence, these landmarks are the same way in
your life and in my life. We don't just set them in.
Okay, that's good enough. I dug a hole, we're good.
The devil attacks those landmarks and constantly works
on pushing that Landmark over and over and over.
And we have to go back and make sure we sure them up and fight
for them. I want like have you Turner
Hosea 5:10 says the princes of Judah were like them that
removed. The bound.
Can't we change things, Josh? I mean, this well, there went my
analogy. This old him.
And yeah, it has a lot of good hymns in it, but it's just not,
it's not people today. They don't want to hear him.
They want to, they want to have, you know, big band sounds and
and they want to have really a fancy singing with it.
And they want to have all these, you know, I want to be able to
go from from the nightclub the night before on Saturday and
walk into church and not see any difference.
You know, I'd like Like it to still be dark because most
likely, I'll have a hangover and I don't want it to be really
bright. And I want I want to have the
same type of music playing. So, it just feels the same and I
can go through my life and yeah, I went to church.
Yeah, it was great. But how are we going to get the
young people if we don't change the way we are, how come we
can't get young families in? It's because we don't have the,
the new age' of type of contemporary music.
We're not drawing them in because of this.
Don't back up, don't back down, don't give up.
Don't let that Landmark slide because it's a very slippery
slope. Pastor said it a lot of times.
Once once you give an inch to this, you have to give two
inches the next time, and then you've got to give three inches
the next time because that first inch satisfied them the first
time. But the second time, they're not
just satisfied with that. They've got to have a little bit
more and we need a little bit more and we needed a little bit
more and soon you don't even know where your Landmark went
because it's gone. You picked it up and moved it a
couple times or allowed the world to move it a couple times
and now they just took it away because what's the point of
having the landmark if you're not even going to pay attention
or obey it? One more versed.
First Corinthians 14. Remember he said, in Job that
they violently take away the flocks.
Why is it so so much that when people get mad in church and get
mad at we say the preacher? But really, they're just mad at
the what the Bible says that they don't just leave by
themself. They take others with them.
I've never heard of a split of one family leaving that church.
Splits don't all I got mad. I'm leaving.
No they take other people. They violently take others.
And why why can't they just leave by themself?
It's because that's not the way the Bible says, they do it first
Corinthians 14:33. I'm not even there.
I gotta catch up. 14:33 for God is not the author of confusion
but of Peace, as in all churches of the Saints, if your landmarks
at home are different than your landmarks at church, what did
your kids understand about that? We talked about today with these
kids, they don't even know what gender they are, because these
schools are indoctrinating them, with all this junk, you're
confusing them. Well, guess what, when you come
to church and act one way and you go home and you act, the
total different way you're doing the same thing, these kids are
getting confused, which way are we supposed to be dead?
Am I supposed to live right? And no cursing.
And we shouldn't watch anything with cursing and and we should
be respectful to people or when we get home you just watch
whatever you want to watch at home and they curse all the time
on the movies. that you watch and and you drink every once in
a while just for social reasons, just, you know, because it's we
got to be social When your kids get older and it's time for them
to have a family instead set, landmarks they're going.
Which one do I do? I don't know.
Which one am I supposed to set myself?
Do I set this one? And I can guarantee you in
pastor says, many times what you do in?
Oh, great. Now in moderation, they'll do an
excess. What you allow your, you sent to
landmarks one's. A strict landmark in one's a
loose one, which one do you think your kids are going to do?
Same ideas. Here's some broccoli.
Emma for supper. Here's some broccoli for you, or
you can have this pile of chocolate.
It's up to you which one you want, but you know, this one's
more healthy than this one. So, hopefully you make the right
decision. Well, no, you're confusing.
The kids when you, when you act one way and do something totally
different. God is not the author of that.
It's important to set those Land part landmarks because it sets
those limits for your family. We don't miss church when the
doors are open. Why?
Because that's a landmark that was passed down to me.
And I set myself, we don't we don't drink, we don't smoke.
We don't watch certain things. We pastor says, man might as
well just use all the Fasteners messages to He says, a lot of
times it's not because I don't get to do those things.
It's because I don't have to As a child of God, I'm not bound by
sin. I don't have to do those things.
I have a choice to say, no, I'm not going to let that Landmark
slide. One more ver.
I lied. Okay.
One more verse Jeremiah Jeremiah 6.
Jeremiah 6:15. God is not the author of the
confusion. We're the ones that are doing
it. And we're allowing it.
Jeremiah 6:15 says, where they 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 same time that I visit them, they shall be cast
down. Saith the Lord.
Look at verse 16. Thus saith the Lord stand ye in
the ways and see and ask for the Old Paths.
Where is is the good way and walk therein and ye shall find
rest for your souls. That's the way we should be.
We should be asking and looking for the Old Paths and trying to
walk on those Old Paths and Lead our families In Those Old Paths.
But sadly, it doesn't end there. Israel said, but they said, we
will not walk therein You know what, God's plea for us.
Stand in the way. And ask for the Old Paths.
God put those landmarks back in my life that were there.
That you set that my parents set.
Maybe you didn't grow up with parents that even went, took you
to church, maybe you are the first to set that landmark.
Do it so that the Next Generation can also see it and
said it. My kids are out of the house.
I don't have kids but they're all old enough.
You still set landmarks, you're still an example to them.
We need a Revival back to those old landmarks.
I don't know why. I keep these flowers.
Are now the landmarks, by the way, my analogies.
The sad thing is, is most Christians today. say the same
thing, the sending of this verse say, We will not walk therein.
We'd rather have the rock music. We'd rather have the
contemporary music. We'd rather have these emotional
roller coasters of going to these big worship Services where
there's absolutely nothing happening spiritually, or at
least this spiritually. We'd rather have that than the
old past, we'd rather have that, then what God has set in set.
In ancient times, the landmarks were our lives for our church.
Be happy that you're in a church.
That delaying marks aren't going to be moved.
No matter what, pastor's not moving those landmarks.
And if he tries to I can guarantee you there's a lot of
us that are going to fight him and keep those landmarks.
If he does try to move those landmarks, because, why?
Because it's based off of this And if those landmarks are based
off of the word of God, then they're set forever and settled
in heaven. Let's pray their Heavenly Father
Lord. I Thank you so much for tonight
for your word. Lord, to be able to have
something. We can go to as a guide, as a
way to live, our lives guidebook landmarks that we need to have
in our own lives. I pray that if if we have
landmarks that you've said that that have come down through the
years that we've allowed to to axon that we've allowed to be
moved or just completely removed them because we didn't like it.
God, I pray that you break our hearts and to realize that we
need those landmarks, the old pass, are the right way.
The old pass are the thing that will give us as your word says.
It's the good way. And walk therein because will
find rest for our souls Lord. I pray that we you use this to
recharge s re re mend those spots that are falling apart.
And I pray that you be glorified and you be honored because it's
it's what you want. And ultimately that's the goal
of why we raise our families and keep those landmarks and try to
stay true to the old pass because it's the way to please
you And I thank you for all that you do in Jesus name, I pray.
Amen. You're dismissed.