... resting on God. And the rains fell,
said Messiah. Next verse. And the floods came.
And the wind blew and slammed against
that house. And the rains descended,
because the rains will descend.
You cannot live a life without a storm.
You cannot live your life without having
floods, storms. I'm not talking
in the natural. I'm talking about in your life.
There will be storms. There will be floods.
There will be rain. There will be
opposition. And it says in the rain ...
... it burst against that house.
They will come. The question is how will
you deal with them? When the storms come,
how do you deal with them? Do you fall
apart? Do you ... have high blood
pressure, take medication because there
are too many storms? What do you do?
Do you go crazy? That's ... you're going to lose your peace.
You get depressed. You get filled
with anxiety. God doesn't want you to be
that way. That's easy. The thing is that,
that storms will actually test
the foundation. The storm will test
the foundation of the house. The storm
in your life will test the foundation of
your life. That's why storms often lead
us back to the foundation. Because, we should
even thank God for the storms, which often
leads us back to ... Look what happened after 9-11.
And people raced to churches for three weeks.
Why? Because they knew their,
everything had been shaken. The wise man
built his house on the rock, said Messiah.
The rain fell. The winds blew, they slammed
against the house. But. It fell not. Why?
Why didn't it fall? Because it had been founded
on the rock. It had been founded on
the Word of God. A life that is grounded,
founded on the Word of God will not fall
when the storms come. God wants you
immovable. He wants you to be able
to withstand no matter what happens. Whether
it's calamity in the world. Whether it's
persecution in the world. Whether it is,
whether it is a crisis in your life that
you stand.
Because those storms will manifest who
you are. And what you're built on.
The wind cannot touch the foundation.
The flood, it's not going to happen.
Throughout the age, people of God have
suffered loss of status, of fortunes,
of privilege, of friendship, of family,
of freedom. But they fell not. They were
threatened. They were beaten, but they
didn't fall. Because they built their
house on the rock. Messiah said, upon this
rock I will build my church,
and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.
When ..., some of you know Corrie ten Boon
and her sister Betsie ten Boon, who were
hiding Jews in the Holocaust, and
they were arrested and taken
to the concentration camps. Now maybe there are
motions at times, have some shaking to it.
But their lives were not shaken.
They continue to shine even in concentration camps.
They led Bible studies.
The love of God was not shaken. They did not fall.
Whoever hears these words of mine says Messiah,
whoever hears these words
and does not act on them will be like
a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
Now here's the other one. Here's the other whoever.
Whoever hears the word but doesn't do them,
they're going to be like
the one who's building on the sand.
What's the difference between a follower
of the Lord who doesn't do the will
of God. And the follower, and the one
who's not a follower of the Lord, what's
the difference practically in their lives?
No difference. If you don't do
the will of God, there's no difference.
If you're not ... How can you be a follower of
the Lord if you're not following the Lord?
You may be a listener of the Lord,
but not a follower. There were many who
listened to Jesus but didn't follow.
And he's saying that's not going to do
anything in the end. You hear the Word,
even if you like the Word, and you don't
take it home with you, it won't do
anything. But you take the Word, whether
you like the word or not, take it home
and you do the Word, it's going to change
your life. The one who hears the Word and
doesn't do it it's like the foolish man
who builds a house but on sand.
It's not about enjoying the Word.
It's not about not getting emotion about The Word.
It doesn't matter if you feel good with
the Word. Doesn't matter. Did you do the Word
of God. Who built the house.
Now when I first was reading this years ago,
it didn't seem to fit. It would seem
it should read, the one who hears the Word
and does the Word is the man who built
his house. But the one who hears the Word
and doesn't do anything is the one who
doesn't build a house. But it doesn't say that.
Both are building a house. The truth
is deeper. The point is even when you
don't follow the Lord you're still
building. Even when you don't follow
the Lord you're still laboring for something.
You're still doing things. You're just
not doing it for the Lord. Both men are
laboring to build a house. Both, all
people build a life in some way, by their
actions. But one is building on the word
and one is not. On one of the tours
to Israel, two tours ago, or so, Jim Bakker
the famous evangelist who fell was there.
And we were, and on the tour, and we were on
onthe shores of the Mediterranean at night
and he was building sandcastles in the,
on the on the edge of the water. And he
And he was teaching my son Elias how to build sandcastles.
And he said to the adults there,
he said that was his life, he said.
He was always building and then it would
always be knocked down. and Eliel was there,
probably four years old and overheard that,
him talking that, and the other thing, and said, why did
they knock it down? Why did they knock down
what he built? And he was referring to,
among other things, to the fall of his
ministry in the 1980s, PTL. Even though it was in
the name of God, even though God worked
through it and much was of God, ultimately
it became separated from the foundation.
And when that happens
everything falls. It's building on sand.
After he fell, after his ministry fell,
he became grounded, on the rock. It's easier
to build on sand than it is on rock.
So when you do things but you're not
following the will of God, you're just
doing your own thing, it's easy.
But in the end it's going to collapse.
To do your own thing and go your own way,
and ignore what God's saying to you,
it's easy, in the short run. But in the end
it's all going to collapse. A surprise
comes. If you take the easy road your
whole life, you take the road, I just want
to have pleasure, I just want to do my
thing, or popularity, or comfort, it seems easy.
But in the end it's going to collapse.
The rain will come on that life too.
Because when the rains came he said, verse 27,
the floods came, the winds blew
and slammed the house and it fell, and
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