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We’ve been talking about standing firm and learning lessons from the life of Daniel.
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Today, I want to look at Standing Firm by Building on the Right Foundation.
Houses lean… levees failed…people’s live collapse
We are going to look at a passage where Jesus is preaching what we call the Sermon on the Mount.
This whole sermon is about what Jesus wants his followers to do… how to act so to speak.
He teaching to show mercy, to be salt and light, to treat people like you want to be treated, to forgive...
He is going through all kinds of great teaching and then he says...
TO STAND FIRM, YOU CAN’T FAKE IT
Not everyone who claims to be a Christian… really is and they won’t go to haven.
You can’t fake it.
Two types of Fakers: Those who talk it but don’t live it & Those who try to live it on their own power.
Too Many People Talk the Talk but Don’t Walk the Walk.
Don’t tell anyone you are a Christian and live like the devil… that’s trying to fake it.
The guy Scott and I witnessed to… Keith Shamrock knocked a guy out in 23 sec.
Too Many People Walk the Walk in Their Own Power
These folks do a lot of good stuff.
They show up every time the doors are open but they are trying to be good enough for the Lord.
Nothing we can do is good enough for God… That’s why He sent Jesus to dies for your sins and for my sins.
God is not just concerned with what you do, He is also concerned with your motives.
Jesus said to both groups
Jesus says that he never knew them.
They were fakers… not back sliders.
Here is what happens.
Jesus describes this later in Matthew.
He will separate the Fakers from the True Believers.
The Fakers will be cast down to hell while the true believers go to heaven.
Movie Hell & Back - The man could smell burning flesh… another attacked on his way to hell.
We all need to make sure we are not fakers.
WISE PEOPLE BUILD THEIR LIFE ON THE ROCK, FAKERS BUILD THEIR LIFE ON SAND
FAKERS BUILD THIER LIVES ON SAND JUST LIKE THE FOOLISH BUILDER.
When we don’t obey Jesus we are like the foolish builder who built his house on sand and when the storms came in, the house was washed away because it was not built on a firm foundation.
You can’t stand firm on Sand because it washes away.
You can’t stand firm on Sand because it Blows Away.
You can’t stand firm on Sand because it will not hold up under weight.
You can’t build a building on the sand for these and probably many other reasons, but if you try, the building will not last.
Jesus is saying here that if you and I build our life on sand, we will not be able to stand when the storms come.
In our lives, sand Might be: Career; popularity; good looks; family; social status; friends; relationships; money;
If our lives are built on these things, when the storms of life come, we will fall.
It seems obvious that we should not build a building or our life on the sand… right?
Then,
Why do we Build our lives on the Sand?
Building a good foundation for a big building takes a lot of time and effort.
Dynomite… drive pilings...
In or lives, while we are putting in all this effort to base our lives on a good foundation our fiends are having a beach party.
They are grilling, drinking, going places while you study or prepare for a test.
We think, life is supposed to be easy, so I want to go to the beach.
We don’t want to stand out and more be required of us so we just try to blend in at work.
After all, what’s wrong with going with the flow, enjoying life, not a worry in the world.
Write this down…
STORMS WILL COME.
Have you ever seen a hurricane season like this one?
One right after the other.
Thank God that none have hit us.
There have been two major earthquakes during the same time as well.
Storms happen all the time on our world.
Storms of life also occur all the time.
For those who based their lives on the Sand, their will struggle and collapse.
A WISE PERSON, THE ONE WHO STANDS FIRM, BUILDS HIS LIFE ON THE ROCK.
If you build your life on the rock, not sand, you are like the builder who built his house on the rock.
You will stand form when storms come.
Buildings built on Rock don’t wash away.
Buildings built on Rock don’t blow away.
A Foundation Built on Rock will provide a building with a Firm Foundation.
We have to base our lives on the Rock - Jesus
In Genesis he is called the Rock of Israel.
David Called him His Rock and His Redeemer
Isaiah said he is the eternal rock
Jesus said he is the rock the church will be build upon.
HOW DO WE BUILD OUR LIFE ON THE ROCK?
We must Accept Jesus as Savior and Lord of our Lives
Let me explain.
God loves you and created you have a relationship with Him.
We have to realize that
Our Sin keeps us from having a personal relationship with God.
We can only have a relationship with God through Jesus Christ.
Jesus is the only way.
You will never be good enough on your own, but he makes you good enough when he becomes your savior.
After his death, he rose from the dead.
Simon Greenleaf - more evidence to support the resurrection than any other conviction ...
You can know all of this, but still miss out… still be building your life on the sand.
You have to personally respond by trusting in Jesus Christ as YOUR Savior and Lord.
How do we do that?
We respond by Receiving Christ
This means we repent
We do this by faith.
1 Turn from Your way of Living.
2 Invite Jesus to come into your life and trust him to forgive you of your sins.
3 Allow God to Direct your life.
That’s the first step.
Then we have to build a life on the Rock of our Faith in Christ Jesus.
In New Orleans we have to drive pilings… so let’s look at some pilings of life we can drive to base our life on.
Quiet Time
Set aside a time with the Lord every day.
Jesus spent time with the Father often through out the day.
Read the Bible
Read it every day… like crossing a lake in a motor boat
Study the Bible
Like looking under the water in a glass bottom boat… you begin to understand the scriptures.
Memorize the Bible
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