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How To Build Your Life
Luke 6:17-
Blessings and Woes
Blessed - Poor, Hungry, Weep, Hated
Warned - Rich, Filled, Laughing, Loved
The Contrast is describing prophets and false prophets.
Teachings of Love, Perspective, and Righteousness.
All of this is directly tied into the prophets and false prophets.
Those who are false are loved, but they hate others!
They are preaching hate and are not willing to forgive the lowly who turn back to God.
Love is in the place of judgment.
It’s easy to criticize and it makes us feel a sense of release of our anger, but God is calling for us to love those who hate us and treat them with mercy and compassion.
Love in the place of judgment.
It’s easy to criticize and it makes us feel a sense of release of our anger, but God is calling for us to love those who hate us and treat them with mercy and compassion.
3 Parables
All have one point - Choose your teacher wisely and be like your teacher.
Blind Leading Blind
Luke 6:39-42
It is in this context that Jesus goes on to say that the guy with the log in his eye is trying to get the splinter out of the other guys’ eye.
Both are blind and will fail.
The point is that we must all turn to someone with nothing in their eye for help and then we can see clearly to help others.
Jesus is the only one who could heal anyone’s eye.
The goal isn’t to be able to judge our brother.
It is not to condemn our brother.
It is to create gratitude that results in mercy.
Bad Trees Bear Bad Fruit
43-
This parable helps us to see that we can’t look to the false teachers to get the good fruit.
Those who are rich, filled, happy, and loved by men, but at the same time have shown themselves to be hateful, false, and unloving hypocrites must be recognized as bad trees who bear bad fruit.
Their spawn is not good.
Their is no production of good from them because their heart won’t allow it to be truly good for God’s glory.
The good person loves mercifully and compassionately.
They are self critical, but willing to help those who they can.
Houses Without Foundations
Foundations are the most important part of the house.
Without the foundation, there is no stability.
The foundation is where you must begin if you want a house to endure the test of time.
Houses without a solid foundation won’t sell because no one wants a house that could collapse.
Insurance companies don’t cover collapse.
Most Foundations
Most of our foundations are not dug down to rock.
We tend to dig down a couple of feet and pour our own rock that we call concrete.
Unfortunately that isn’t always enough.
Man’s solution of concrete does not ensure that your foundation will not fall.
Our Sinking House
Our house was 40 years old when we bought it.
We had a structural engineer look under the house to make sure that it was in good shape and that it’s bones were well constructed.
He looked at all of the major problem areas for most houses and said, “They did this house right.
I don’t think you would go wrong here.”
The footings all looked good for the outer wall and the inner pillars.
Unfortunately, 3 years later, half of our house has sunk 3 inches.
So, we paid to have people come and dig new steel pillars all the way down to bedrock and put half of the house on stilts.
That foundation isn’t going anywhere unless someone wanted to remove those.
I can’t even imagine saying, “lets take these studs and just set them straight on the ground.
They should hold up for the rest of our lives.
It is comical.
That wood floats.
Have you ever seen those houses that are floating away in a flood?
This House
It is interesting that Jesus decided to compare listening to what He just said to building a foundation.
Jesus uses this illustration to say, “if you listen to my words, you are digging down deep and anchoring yourself on something that will not be moved.
You may be tempted to think that the ground isn’t moving, but it is and it definitely will when the floods come.
Don’t be fooled into thinking that the ways of the false prophets work and will provide you with life.
You have life to look forward to if you can do what is difficult.
Be the poor, hungry, weeping, and hated.
Be the one who loves, is merciful, and compassionate.
Don’t judge those around you so as to condemn them.
They don’t need that.
They need someone to love them.
They need someone to point them to Jesus so they can get the log or splinter out of their own eye.
My House?
Your words and your teachings could be leading to a pit.
Trust God’s teachings and His word… Jesus the Messiah.
If our motives are in any way self serving, we have to evaluate our hearts.
His House!
a deliberate concealment of someone’s mistakes or faults.
It doesn’t do anyone any good to ignore problems and ignore the faults when they are open and exposed to God.
Either we start digging to find the truth of where we need to change and what we must do to follow Jesus or we might as well bulldoze everything down.
God says to Israel, I will tear it all down.
If it’s not built right, don’t build it at all!
You are just a blind man about to fall into a pit and bring people down with you!
Stop!
Build a Foundation of Love
Following the ways of Jesus essentially tells us to become more loving and compassionate people who are seeking to glorify our Lord and Savior.
We care about the truth, but we also care about the souls of those who need it most.
This is foundational.
If we get this part of our time here wrong, we will need to dig down deep to bedrock and support the true life that Jesus has us live.
Don’t whitewash over the foundation.
Do it right!
We have to spend our time here focused on the truth that has come from God and that is able to set men free.
We aren’t here to say “Peace!” when there is no peace and we aren’t here to say “Judgement!” when it is God’s place to do so and He could just as easily say it toward me.
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