THE WAYS OF THE LORD – SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Isaiah 2:2-3 (Micah 4:1-2) – …it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; And all nations shall flow to it. ³ Many people shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us HIS WAYS, and we shall walk in HIS PATHS. ”For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

The Lord wants us to know His Ways!

• Exodus 33:13 – If you are pleased with me, teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to find favor with you. Remember that this nation is your people.”
• Psalm 103:7 – He made known His ways to Moses, His deeds to the people of Israel:
• Psalm 25:4 – Show me Your WAYS, O Lord; Teach me Your PATHS.
• Isaiah 2:2-3 (Micah 4:1-2) – …it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; And all nations shall flow to it. 3 Many people shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us HIS WAYS, and we shall walk in HIS PATHS.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
• I Samuel 12:23 – … I will teach you the good and the right WAY. (Samuel)

What does it mean to know God’s ways?

• Isaiah 55:8-9 – “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,”
  declares the Lord. ⁹ “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

As Christians we must learn to know the Ways of God!

If we learn to acknowledge the Lord in all our paths, we will acknowledge His ways.

• (Proverbs 3:5-6) – Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; ⁶ in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.

The Lord wants us to Walk in His Ways!

• Psalm 81:13 – “Oh, that My people would listen to Me, That Israel would walk in MY WAYS!
• Deuteronomy 10:12 – “And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all HIS WAYS and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
• Deuteronomy 11:22-23 – “For if you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do—to love the Lord your God, to WALK IN ALL HIS WAYS, and to hold fast to Him— 
• I Kings 2:2-4 – keep the charge of the Lord your God: to WALK IN HIS WAYS, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His judgments, and His testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn;

Why do we need to know and walk on His Ways?

• Psalm 128:1 – Blessed is every one who fears the Lord, who walks in HIS WAYS. 
• Proverbs 8:32 – For blessed are those who keep MY WAYS.
• Deuteronomy 5:33; 8:6 – You shall walk in all the WAYS which the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess… “Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in HIS WAYS and to fear Him.
• Deuteronomy 28:9 – “The Lord will establish you as a holy people to Himself, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in HIS WAYS.
• I Kings 11;38 – if you heed all that I command you, WALK IN MY WAYS, and do what is right in My sight, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as My servant David did, then I will be with you and build for you an enduring house,
• Proverbs 16:7 – When a man’s WAYS please the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
• I Samuel 18:14 – And David behaved wisely in all his ways, and the Lord was with him.
• 2 Samuel 22:21-22 – “The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness;
  According to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me. 22 For I have kept THE WAYS OF THE LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
• Job 34:21 – “For His eyes are on the WAYS of man, And He sees all his steps.

• Joshua 2:21-23 – so that through them I may test Israel, whether they will keep the WAYS OF THE LORD, to walk in them as their fathers kept them, or not.” ²³ Therefore the Lord left those nations, without driving them out immediately; nor did He deliver them into the hand of Joshua.
• Job 24:13 – “There are those who rebel against the light; They do not know its ways Nor abide in its PATHS.
• Hebrews 3:10 – Therefore I was angry with that generation, And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, And they have not known MY WAYS.’
• Proverbs 14:14 – The backslider in heart will be filled with his own ways,
• Haggai 1:5,7 – …thus says the Lord of hosts: “Consider your WAYS!
• Jeremiah 18:11 – Return now every one from his evil way, and make your WAYS and your doings good.”
• Lamentations 3:40 – Let us search out and examine our WAYS, And turn back to the Lord;
• Proverbs 19:16 – He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, But he who is careless of his ways will die.

God’s ways are always higher than man’s ways.

Let’s make it a habit to walk in His ways!

Choose to walk on His Ways!!!

It’s the best way!

Proverbs 4:18-22 – ¹⁸ The way of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, which shines ever brighter until the full light of day. ¹⁹ But the way of the wicked is like total darkness.  They have no idea what they are stumbling over. ²⁰ My child, pay attention to what I say. Listen carefully to my words. ²¹ Don’t lose sight of them. Let them penetrate deep into your heart, ²² for they bring life to those who find them,  and healing to their whole body.