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How Firm a Foundation (Luke 6:46-49)
9 Plays16 days ago
Sunday Message recorded 16 March 2025
by Senior Pastor Victor Morrison
First Baptist Church - Columbus, TX, USA
1700 Milam St.
Columbus, TX, USA 78934
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Transcript
Introduction to the Sermon and its Comparison
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Would you turn with me to Luke chapter 6? Luke chapter 6, we're going to finish up the chapter. This morning, we're going to see the conclusion to the Lord's sermon. You know, Jesus preached the message here. And this message is called the Sermon on the Plain.
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It's interesting that the Sermon on the Mount, which is the one recorded in Matthew chapters 5 and 6 and 7, is very similar. But there's some differences. But one thing that's similar is they both end the same way. And so I thought that was pretty interesting. They end with this analogy.
Builders and Foundations: A Metaphor for Faith
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When you go to these two builders, one is a wise builder. One is a foolish builder. But this message digs deep. It's going to dig deep this morning. So I'm going to try to prepare you as best I can.
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It's going to dig deep within the soul to examine the foundation of your faith and of my faith. Is it based on rock or is it just sand?
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You know, the pastor of Carter Lane Baptist Church of London, his name was John Rippon. He published a collection of hymns back in 1787. 1787. I think I was in junior high, so something like that. But anyway, that was the first time that anybody had ever heard or seen of a hymn called How Firm a Foundation. But it certainly wasn't the last because that great hymn says, How Firm a Foundation ye saints of the lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word what more can he say then to You
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to you who for refuge to jesus have fled you know the tower of pisa is pretty famous you've probably seen pictures of it before but there's one for you right there found in Italy in a region called Tuscany.
Historical Analogies of Foundations
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But the construction began back in 1173. This is before I was in junior high. he stood he stood ah It stood upright for the first five years. There was not a problem.
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But when they added the third floor, it was completed in 1178, it began to lean. That third floor sort of began to make it lean. And so the foundation was only 10 feet deep.
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and it was built on dense clay, ae a dense clay mixture. So it was left unfinished just up to the third floor for 100 years.
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And then an architect said, I think I can fix this. And so he began to fix that. He added more floors. He went all the way to the seventh floor, and it began to lean even more. And he's like, maybe I didn't quite fix it. He put a bell tower on the top, and it was finally finished in 1399.
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But the 190-foot tower was moving 1 20th of an inch each year until it was 17 feet out of plumb. It was predicted that it would fall in 2007, but engineers began to look at it, study it, began to make some preparations. They spent $40 million dollars trying to stabilize this 852-year-old structure.
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For me, it's like beyond my capacity to understand why it hasn't fallen over when you see how it looks. It's leaning in such ah such a drastic way.
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But if you've ever played the game Jenga, you ever played that? You stack those little wooden blocks, you know, and there's a point there where you see we're not gonna make it much longer. It starts leaning and then it just falls over.
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I read where one guy made it to the 41st story. And I'm thinking, 41 layers of those Jenga blocks? That's incredible. Well, one hint that I'll give you is if you're going to play Jenga, put it on a table. Don't put it on a couch cushion. It just doesn't work good that way.
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Imagine the spiritual cost and the fallout of building your life, your life, your life on something that is not going to last through eternity, building it on a poor foundation.
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You know, Jesus can help us with this. Listen to what he has to say in Luke 6, verses 46 through 49. Would you stand with me? Let me read these verses and then we'll dig into this message.
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Jesus says in verse 46 of Luke 6, why do you call me Lord, Lord and not do what I tell you? Everyone who comes to me hears my words and does them, I'll show you what he is like.
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He is like a man building a house who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it because it had been built well.
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But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. And when the stream broke against it, immediately it fell.
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And the ruin of that house was great. Let's go to the Father in prayer. Lord, I love these people. They mean so much to me. I do not want to see their lives fall apart.
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I do not want to see them ashamed when they get out there in eternity and they stand before the great wine throne judgment if they don't have Christ. If they do have Christ,
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Help them know that that foundation alone, the perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ will be enough. And they will go into heaven with great joy because all their sins have been forgiven and everything has been atoned for.
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They will know then that the foundation is so strong and so sturdy. that it will last for all eternity. But Lord, we need the help of your spirit so that each one of us right now during this message, that we might hear you talking to us in helping us know where we stand regarding the foundation of our faith.
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In Jesus' name we pray, amen. Thank you, may be seated.
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Luke uses the word faith 18 times. Four times, Luke records Jesus saying these words, your faith has saved you.
Genuine Faith vs. False Professions
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Your faith has saved you.
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Sometimes he would say your faith has made you well. But after calming the raging sea, Jesus looked at his disciples and he asked them, where is your faith?
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I would ask you that same question today. Where is your faith? Where faith? You know, Lord willing, on March the 30th, we will examine biblical manhood from Luke 7, verses 1 through 10. You're going to see up close a Roman centurion, sort of someone you wouldn't think, but a Roman centurion. Now, the Roman centurion had an incredibly steady faith.
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And Jesus says, not even in Israel have I found such faith. You know, Jesus and James that wrote the book of James, Jesus and James confronted the same problem.
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Shallow faith with no evidence in life. It's like no evidence to verify that your faith is real. You know, James got so worked up about it. He actually said, look, even the demons believe in shudder.
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But James says in James 1.22, be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. So what I want us to do is to go back through here real quickly.
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And let me give you just some things you can sort of hang on to in and in understanding what's he trying to say about faith. If you look at verse 46, where we started, then you'll see that first it starts off with this false profession of faith, ah false profession of faith.
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You know, there's people all across our country today who believe everybody's going to heaven. It really doesn't matter who you put your faith in what you put your faith in As long as you're a good person, you're kind, you're good, everybody's in But that's not what Jesus said.
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Jesus said in John 14, 6, that there's only one way that people come into the Father's house, and that is through him. You see, Jesus at this time was speaking to Jews.
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They weren't trusting in Christ. And they they needed to hear what he had to say, even though they were religious. I'm sure many of them were moral, but there were also people from the seacoast along the Mediterranean Sea, from Tyre and Sidon. Go back to the beginning of the message.
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They were mixed into the crowd. And so there were people in there who were worshiping idols. Were they going to be able to go into heaven? Well, Jesus was one to warn them early on.
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Don't count on it. Don't count on it. Everybody who builds a life is not building it on the right kind of foundation. And so right here at the beginning, you'll see Jesus talking about some people who give a confession of allegiance.
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They're saying, Lord, Lord. Kent Hughes in his commentary says that whenever you double it up and you say, Lord, Lord, what it really means is it's an intense, intense affirmation of allegiance, an intense affirmation of allegiance.
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So what someone is saying when they say, Lord, Lord, is you can count on me. I'm one of your followers. You can count on me. But look at what he does. Even though they're giving this confession of allegiance, he says, you know what? We need to confront something.
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And they're saying, oh, really? You're confronting my profession of faith? No. He said, I'm confronting your possession of faith. He says, we need to talk because you're saying, Lord, Lord, with your mouth. And he says, you're not doing what I tell you to do.
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remember a time when Peter learned this? He was on top of a roof. He was hungry and the Lord gives him a vision. And in the vision, it's like a blanket coming down.
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And there's all these things that you could eat on there. And the Lord says to Peter, Peter, arise and eat. And you remember what Peter said? He said, by no means, Lord.
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You know, those two things kind of are mutually exclusive, aren't they? Is he Lord? If you're saying by no means, like God told Peter what to do, but Peter wasn't ready to do it. And so I thought, wow, you know, Jesus gave a parable in Matthew 21, 28 to 32. And he said, you know what? He said, it's like there's a dad and he has two sons.
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And he says to the first son, I want you to go and work in the vineyard. And that son says, I'm not going to go work in the vineyard. I want to stay here and play my video game. No, he didn't say that. But he said, I don't want to go.
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But then afterward, he felt bad that he said that to his dad. And he said, you know what, dad? I was wrong. I'm so sorry. Please forgive me. I'm going to go and work. But to the second son, he said, I want you to go and work in the vineyard. He said, OK, I'll get to it. I'll be right out there. You'll see me a little bit later.
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But do you know what it says? Jesus in the parable said he never went. He never even went out there. He said he was going to go. he said you can count on me, but he didn't go. That's what Jesus is talking about.
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Many years ago, there was a theologian named J.C. Ryle who said that's been around for a long time. It's been around for a long time because even Ezekiel, 600 years before Christ ever walked this earth, was already confronting those who have a profession of faith, but without a practice of their faith.
Parables and Visualizing Faith
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And here's what he says from Ezekiel. And they come to you as people come. And they sit before you as my people and they hear what you say, but they will not do it.
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For with lustful talk in their mouths, they act. Their heart is set on their game. So just think about how tragic it was in the days of Ezekiel where some were saying, I'm one of God's children. And yet you look at their life and you're thinking, where's the proof of that?
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So Jesus, in this passage that we're looking at in Luke 6, beginning at verse 47, he says, you know what? I believe you need a picture. And so he thinks of this parable, and it's going to be a fitting picture of faith.
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Jesus in scripture in the New Testament gave 40 different parables. And what he's trying to get the people to to realize back then, he wants them to be able to visualize what he's saying. And so he picked something really easy.
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Everybody in this room can understand what Jesus is about to say. You know, John MacArthur says in a book that he has about parables, he thinks every parable is really about salvation.
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And so it's like the Lord is trying to take salvation and think, you know what, I'm going to tell you how this works. And so that's what this is going to be about.
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So Jesus pick chooses a fitting picture. I know he picked he chose a picture because he said, I will show you. It's like he says, I'm going to show you You ever seen anybody that's really good with art and they can just show you, you know, they can just draw it up there and sketch it out.
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Well, Jesus parables, he was taking his words and he said, I'm going to take principles related to salvation and I'm going to do a picture of salvation. And so then he gives a hint of a focal point.
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I didn't realize this until I had to look this up, but I actually found out that painters and artists many times have this focal point. There's something that they want your eye to see first.
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It's the most important. It's the subject of the painting. And they call it the focal point. What was the focal point? Well, let's read it. He says it clearly, but you can miss it. I had never noticed it.
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He says, everyone who comes to me hears my words and does them, i will show you what he is like. That guy. In other words, the point, the focal point is the wise builder, not the foolish builder.
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He says, I'm going to show you what the wise builder builds his life upon. And so that's the focal point. But Jesus also finds the right palette.
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You know, a palette is what that the painter holds when they've got all these different colors of ah paint on there. And so they're going to decide, okay, what will I use to paint this or that?
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You know, his parable was striking in its imagery. Skillfully, Jesus paints the picture and makes it come to life. As he paints one, the wise builder builds on a rock.
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The foolish builder just builds on the ground, on the dirt. Maybe in Matthew 7, you read it, he built on sand. Can you imagine Jesus just sort of painting this before them? And people are saying, I can visualize it.
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But then you see also there's this determination about the foundation. Because one of them really dug down deep. He really gave it his best to try to understand. Are you giving it your best to try to understand what God's word says to you?
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But there's also the agitation against the foundation. Whenever the storm comes, whenever the waves beat against the houses, But then one of them, there was duration.
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There was continuation. One house was not shaken. See, all of that is like color. And the Lord is trying to make this story come alive. He wants you to be able to see it.
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And so now we need to explore the details and the lessons about salvation that are contained within this picture. So let me move next to the full preparation of faith.
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Notice that the wise builder does not stay shallow. Are you shallow in your faith? You don't have to be. I think there's many people, perhaps maybe even a majority in this room, your faith's not shallow.
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I talk to you all the time. I hear the comments you make in Sunday school classes or on a Wednesday night or a Sunday night. You've got deep faith. But that's how this guy was. This wise builder said, you know what? I'm going to dig deep whenever I'm coming to putting laying a foundation for my home.
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And so it says he dug deep. There's actually two Greek words. Any of you men ever heard of an excavator? Well, the word escapatsen is the word we get excavate from.
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It talks about effort and diligence. It's digging deeper. Deeper is ebethunnin. It means deepen by continuation of work.
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So there was nothing that was shallow about this guy at all. This guy was like, um I want this. Do you really want to understand salvation? If you really want to understand, I believe the Holy Spirit and the word of God and people in this church, they will help you understand how this works because that's the point.
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That's the whole point that Jesus is trying to say. i want you to get this. Don't go into eternity guessing. Go into eternity with assurance of salvation, knowing that
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But when I looked at this and I thought, oh, look how easy it is. He makes it easy. Look at verse 47. What preparation is there? He says, everyone who comes to me.
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And here's my words and does them. Three things. Everyone who comes to me, here's my words and does them. I will show you what he is like.
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So this is the application, right? What is he like?
Building a Solid Foundation of Faith
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Well, when it says everyone who comes to me, i thought about my life when I was in high school. When I was a senior in high school, I began to realize something's not right. I'm living life according to my way.
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So when I go to college and I'm in my freshman year of college, realized, you know what? I'm making a mess of my life. And so I came to the point where I said, you know what? I need somebody to help me.
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And you know who it was? The Lord Jesus Christ. So I would say that whenever someone reaches that point where they actually go to Jesus personally, a personal relationship, you go to Jesus, you go to him and you say, I want you to be the Lord of this ship.
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Lordship is where it starts. But there's also another question that when you say, i want Jesus to be my Lord, there's another question you need to answer right there, right at the beginning. And I did.
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That answer is, will you follow him and listen to him for the rest of your life? You know, right here, August the 10th, 1985, I stood here with my wife and we exchanged our wedding vows. And it was such a special moment and it still is.
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But I'm thinking to myself, It's kind of like that. Whenever we say, I want to follow Christ, we need to say, I'm willing to listen to what you say for the rest of my life.
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Would the answer to that question of discipleship be a yes? Is the answer to the Lordship question yes? But there's one third question is, are you willing to do what he says?
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Not just listen. Are you willing to do what he says? It's going to be very important in this parable. It's very important to the Lord. And I thought, you know, stewardship is another important question I got to answer at the very beginning.
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Maybe you felt like you're the one, you went to college, you went to a trade school, you learned from a mentor, you learned and now you're able to do so much in your life.
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So maybe you'd say, i don't owe God anything. Everything I have, i got it myself. Nobody helped me with anything. Just don't overlook the thing. of Who gave you that body?
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Who gave you that mind? Who makes your heart beat right now? I think that would be God, right? So we're gonna be held accountable. It's like stewardship. Am I gonna do what God wants me to do with my life?
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You there was ah was a kid in there. I've never seen anybody get kicked out of a want-up but Christian Farr. He's the only guy I've ever seen. Congratulations, Christian. You're the winner. But I'm just thinking to myself, yeah, he made some mistakes, you know.
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But there came a point in his life when he said, you know what? I'm willing to do what God says. I'll never forget it. For me, when I knew something to happened, I was in the Wednesday night supper line and I saw Christian Farr coming down the hallways. He's just a teenager.
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And I said, hey, Christian, how's your day been? He said, it's been very fine, sir. How's your day been? thought, wow, he called me sir. And then every time I would ask him, he said, yes, sir. No, sir. Yes, sir. No, sir.
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And I thought, what has changed? It was Jesus. He was changing him from the inside out. And he can change your life just that same way. No matter how many mistakes that you've made.
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I don't know, maybe maybe people always listen to you. Maybe your kids always listen to you whenever you're talking as a mom or a dad. But if there's one group in the whole United States that I think has a trouble with this, it's those flight attendants.
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When they start talking about all of these things, the safety features on the aircraft, do you listen to that? You know, I'm just thinking, of I'm trying to be honest, but I actually heard about one flight attendant who got so frustrated with it, she said, I've had it. She looks out there, she's trying to show them when the oxygen mask drops, you know, put it over your nose, right?
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was nobody's even looking at her. Nobody's even listening to her. So here's what she says over the thing. She says, when the oxygen mass drops down, place it over your navel and continue to breathe normally. And guess what?
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Nobody said anything. And that made her even more angry. You know, it's like, what have I got to do? Listen, the wise builder was paying attention. And he was paying attention. He was making preparations for a sturdy home in the future.
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Are you making preparations for a sturdy faith that's built on the foundation of God's word? Let's move to the foolish builder. By contrast, Jesus brings him in as well.
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The foolish builder made a faulty presumption of faith. i don't know if you can see it in verse 49, and I don't even know if it's everything I'm going to say, but I saw more than one presumption.
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Let me just give them to you rapid fire. I think that this foolish builder assumed that he didn't even need a foundation. He assumed he didn't even need a foundation because it it tells us in the parable he built um a house without a foundation.
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Also, it says he assumed that dirt, or if you're in Matthew chapter 7, he assumed that sand was a suitable foundation. it's not. he He assumed that hearing only was an adequate foundation.
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If he just shows up for a worship service, I'm good to go. No, that's that's not really what James was saying. James said in James 1, 23 and 24, don't be like a hearer only and not one who hears and then goes out and does it.
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Don't just be a hearer only, be a doer of the word. Otherwise, you're going to be like a man who looks in a mirror and forgets what he was like. Man, you should be glad that I didn't forget what I looked like when I looked in that mirror this morning when I first got up. Man, you would be laughing still.
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But you know what? He assumed also that doing was optional, not essential. He thought, you know what? I can just hear. I don't have to do a thing. I don't have to do a thing.
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And so Jesus is calling this this guy out on it. He says, you know what? The one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation.
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So the wise man made preparation for faith while the foolish man made a presumption about faith.
Testing Faith Through Life's Challenges
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Now, as long as the sun was shining, as long as the sun today is shining today,
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on the two houses, there's no problem. But we know, don't we? i mean, we've learned already in our lives that life is not all sunshine.
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Sometimes there are storms, really bad ones. And so the final proof of faith is not what your life is like when the sun's shining down on you. No, the real test of faith is what am I like when storms come, when it's stormy in my life?
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You know, there's two things I wanted to pass along to you that I just observed about this storm. The same storm broke against each house.
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Same one. Even you go to Matthew 7, the rain fell, the flood came. The wind blew and it beat on the house. It's the same thing, both places.
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But then here's the thing I also noticed. Even though the same storm broke against each house, the storm only broke one house. Storm didn't break the other house.
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The first house did not get shaken even. And I thought, wow, how is that even possible? But the foolish man, he lost it all. He gambled.
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He thought, I don't think God's real anyway. I don't think the Bible's true anyway. And so he gambled. He lost. He lost. And when he lost, it was a terrible loss.
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It even says, and the ruin of that house was great. You know, some Bible scholars say, well, this is the hardships of life. Others say, no, it's not.
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This is a picture of the wrath that will come. There will come a storm that you will not survive if you reject Christ. And then others say, oh, really? I think it could be either one.
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And I think it's both.
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You know, when words rhyme, it catches my attention. Have you ever noticed I like words? Well, I noticed in here it said it had been built well.
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That's the wise man. But then the foolish builder, it says immediately it fell. And something about that just kept ringing over my head. It had been built well.
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Immediately it fell. want to show you a photo photo here, an image of the sand palace that's located and on Mexico Beach over in Florida. Do we have that picture? Can we bring that up right there?
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Hurricane Michael slammed into the Florida panhandle in October of 2018. eighteen with winds in excess of 150 miles an hour. As a matter of fact, as you can see from the from the photograph, 54% of the homes in that area were entirely destroyed. 23% were severely damaged.
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Those that really suffered the most were like this place. They were near the shoreline. But one home, oddly enough, it's like it stood and it was only 400 feet from the water's edge.
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I read an article, they wanted to know how come your place stood. And so the owner said, well, what we did was we used reinforced concrete. We used insulated concrete forms.
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Their names were Russell King and LeBron Lackey. He said, what we wanted was some kind of wall system that could sustain 250 mile hour winds.
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It came in over 150 miles an hour, and there's the proof right there. There's the proof. Those guys took time to think about what's gonna last through all the storms, through all time.
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So I'm asking you one simple question. How it is the foundation of your faith today? Are you building your faith on your own commitment?
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even though maybe you're a very committed person. I'm not knocking that. Are you building on the traditions and rituals that you've received from family?
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Are you building it on being religious? Are you being building it on, I'm a good person. There's one foundation that's going to last. And I don't think it's any of those that I've mentioned.
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I think it's given to us in 1 Corinthians 3.11, for no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Yeah, that's that's the foundation.
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You want to know how some in this church family just keep going, even though life has been tough? It's Christ. It's Christ in them. That's how they keep going.
Invitation to True Faith and Closing Prayer
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So I want to give an opportunity for anyone that's here who does not know Christ personally. Maybe you'd say, you know what? I don't feel I'm ready. I didn't even know what the foundation was like. I didn't even know it really mattered what foundation you have for your faith.
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But now Jesus explained that to you in Luke 6. He helped you understand and maybe say, you know what? I'm in a different place now. I really want to learn more about the foundation that only Jesus can give.
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So that's why I'm going to be standing down here. We're going to ask the congregation to stand and then we're going to sing a song. But ah during that song, if you want to come and talk to me, we can get the conversation started.
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And so we can meet this week or next week, whenever is good for you or your family. But I want you to really take seriously what Jesus just said to us. So let's pray. Then we're going to stand. And then we'll extend the invitation in Christ's name.
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Lord, thank you so much for this time to look into your word. Lord, your word's always relevant. It's not dated. It's not outdated. No way.
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We're not talking old school here. We're talking... eternal here. The eternal principles of God's word. They're living. They'll speak across generations. They'll speak across cultures.
00:31:53
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And so Lord, somebody, you were talking to them today. And so help them to just realize, maybe this was my wake-up call. Storms do come in life.
00:32:03
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I pray they would not have any storms to come in their life, but we all know they do come. And so when they come, The question is, is my foundation of my life, will it be strong enough to withstand the storm?
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In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
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