Proverbs 4:24-27 • Still a boy in a man's body. America is full of them. Solomon saw it coming — and he handed fathers a roadmap to fix it.

⛪ Preached at Pilgrim Baptist Church • Cookeville, TN • April 12, 2026.

📚 Part of our ongoing verse-by-verse expository series through Proverbs

America has a boy problem. Men trapped in men's bodies who fold when an authority figure says no, who can't fix their eyes on anything longer than a scroll, who never made a covenant with their eyes before the temptation arrived. Solomon saw it coming. He handed fathers and mothers a roadmap: guard the mouth, fix the eyes, ponder the path, and remove your foot immediately when it lands where it shouldn't.

This is not a self-help sermon. This is the wisdom of God working from the inside out — from a kept heart to a disciplined mouth, disciplined eyes, and disciplined feet. The man who pondered Job's covenant before the billboard went up. The farmer who fixes his eye on the fence post before the plow starts moving. The fighter who studies his opponent before he ever steps in the ring. That is the man Proverbs 4 is building.

Parents — this is your roadmap too. You are not being mean when you say no. You are not being unreasonable when you guard what your children's eyes land on. You are building men and women who can stand uncompromised before God and the world.

This sermon through Proverbs 4:24-27 covers:

• The froward mouth — what it is and why moderation with it will destroy you

• The perverse lips — how they flatter, exaggerate, insinuate, and spin

• Why your mouth is a symptom, not the disease — Matthew 12:34

• Eyes straight on vs. eyelids wandering — the difference between direct vision and peripheral drift

• Job's covenant with his eyes — the decision made before the temptation arrives

• The plowing illustration — why a wandering eye produces a crooked life

• Distraction training from the martial arts floor applied to Christian discipline

• Numbers 20 — Israel's pledge to stay on the king's highway without tasting the vineyards

• Why the temptation to wander never looks evil at first

• Remove thy foot from evil — why God says now, not gradually

• Three marks of the disciplined man: upright, downright, and straightforward

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