Proposition: You must seek the old paths!
I. Because you will find rest for your soul. 16,17
A. The way is good! 16
B. The way is announced! 17
II. Because you will circumvent evil. 18,19
A. Your sin is not made public. 18
B. You will not reap the fruit of your thoughts. 19
III. Because you will improve your future 20,21
A. Your service will be acceptable. 20
B. Your stumbling blocks will be removed. 21
Jer 6:16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
20 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
21 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
