![]() ![]() There is “rain and floods and wind” for EVERYONE in this life: those who build their life on the rock, as well as for those who build their life on the sand. That is a false gospel, and you are setting yourself and others up for bitter disappointment if that is your message. ![]() If you DON’T know this already, you need get it today: the message of Christianity is NOT “just ask Jesus into your heart” and everything will be smooth and easy from this day forward. It is NOT like: “OK, now that you are a Christian, nothing bad is going to happen to you.” Quite honestly, most of you have probably figured that out by now, right? As a Christian, you will still get sick you will still have problems with your job or marriage or kids you still have “rain and floods and wind.” So one of the things we should learn from this is that you are NOT somehow “exempt” from the trials of life if you build your house on the rock. He tells us the SAME trials came to both of them: BOTH of them had rain BOTH of them had floods, and BOTH of them had winds. He said: “The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew.” And what did He say in :27 happened to the house built on the rock? What does Jesus say in :25 happened to the house built on the sand? He says: “The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew.” One of the things we should notice in this passage is that the storms we see here, were the same for BOTH of these houses: He shows us the importance of having your house “built on the rock” spiritually - and He also teaches us exactly what that means. As He brings this Sermon on the Mount to a close, He says there are two kinds of “spiritual houses” you can have: either a house built on the rock, or a house built on the sand. And that is what Jesus talks about in this passage. But it is even more important to be certain about your “spiritual house,” and the storms which might come against you spiritually. It is good to have that kind of peace of mind about the security of your house. The street drops way downhill from our house and is much lower at the other end - there is a little creek down there I might worry if I lived there - but our house is set up on high in a safe place from any floods which might come against us. Some of you know we live at the end of a cul-de-sac off of Hwy 70 east of Morganton, and it is situated up on hill. We did keep on the alert for a tornado, but one thing I did NOT worry about that day was our house flooding. Cheryl & I were actually on the way to church the Wednesday the tornado warning sounded on our phones - and we looked around at the sky and said, “Well, we don’t see anything …” and just kept on going (that is NOT the wisest course of action to take, by the way!). They put out several weather advisories, including a tornado warning, and also a flood advisory. Some of you remember the bad weather we had a few weeks ago, with all the high winds, and a tornado in the area, and the downpour of rain we got - several inches in very short period of time. ![]()
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