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Introduction
Good evening and welcome back for Part II!
This morning we started with the last half of and Jesus’ practical application of the Sermon on the Mount.
Just to recap and bring us up to speed, this morning we looked at verses 13-23 and covered the first two of the three topics that Jesus covers here.
Specifically this morning we looked at the narrow way and how that way is the only way to heaven.
We can’t go the way of the world and do things the way of the world and expect to make it to heaven.
That way isn’t going to cut it.
Because the world is full of lies and deception that is designed to draw you further away from God instead of pulling us toward God.
In fact John tells us that . . .
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And Jesus says that . . .
And Jesus says that . . .
The world and it’s ways will come to an end.
The only hope that we have is Jesus Christ.
Jesus is . . .
So, if we want to endure, then we need to be on the narrow road-On Jesus’ road.
That was the first part, the second thing we talked about this morning was bearing fruit and the type of relationship we have with God can be summed up by the type of fruit we bear.
And we hit on it just bit this morning, but the reality is we all bear some type of fruit.
We are all “fruitful” in some sense of the word.
Either the fruit is good fruit or it is bad fruit.
Just our very nature dictates that we will all bear some sort of fruit.
Good fruit indicates that we have a good relationship with God and bad fruit that our relationship is not so good, or that it doesn’t even exist.
And we sort of left off with the question of what type of fruit are we bearing?
One thing we didn’t get into though was the impact of rotten fruit on other fruit.
Think about, what happens if you have a sack full of fruit and there is a bad piece down in the bottom?
If we don’t get rid of it, it will spoil the other fruit.
Paul sort of clues us in on this point . . . .
1 Corinthians 5:6-
And also in Galatians . . .
Galatians 5:9
And we actually need to be looking at this in two way here.
First, people who are rotten, if we are not careful will pull us down with them.
But even more importantly, if there is some rottenness in us if we don’t get rid of it will ruin is.
And by rottenness I am talking about sin.
If there is sin in our lives that is not being dealt with then it will eventually ruin us.
Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but if it is allowed to persist it will absolutely ruin us.
Which brings us up to where we will pick up tonight.
Because in this last section Jesus is going to tell us how we should go about staying on that narrow path and about bearing good fruit.
We are going to pick up in verse 24.
Matthew writes . . .
Scripture Focus
Building on the Rock
So here we are and this is actually a very familiar parable that Jesus tells.
And he does so in such a way that the people can really understand what he is talking about.
In his day, people built their own houses.
There were not construction companies and contractors that came in and built a house.
If you wanted a house you had to prepare the land and build it yourself.
And there were different types of houses as well.
Some were built out of rocks and mud, some were stone structures, but the one thing that all of them had in common was a good, solid foundation.
Some stone.
Today houses are either built on concrete slabs or they pour a concrete footer around them.
This give the house stability and keeps it from rotten down around you.
They used different materials in Jesus’ day (mostly rock) but the concept was the same.
You either built a house on a rock or dug out around the perimeter and laid rock for the foundation.
So Jesus is going to talk to them in this same way so that they could really grasp what he was talking about, which was . . .
Matthew 7:24
So, we see a couple of things playing out here.
Jesus says that the one like the wise man, who we all want to be, is the one who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice.
It is not just enough to hear what Jesus has to say.
It is not enough to hear it and even agree with it.
We have to do something with it.
We have to put it into practice.
It has to be useful to us in some way.
Otherwise, just like we talked about this morning, it’s just words and it’s pretty much useless.
In fact, if we will recall the words of James . . .
James 1:22-
And that is the truth.
How many times have we listened to someone and then immediately after they were done talking forgot what they were saying?
How many people heard the sermon this morning and after they walked out the door immediately forgot what it was about?
How many here tonight could not tell me what the sermon was about this morning?
And the reason we are like this is because we fail to apply what we are hearing.
We may even agree with what is said, we may like what is said, we may be challenged by it, but if we fail to put it into practice, we will quickly forget about it.
And we struggle and struggle and fail to have lasting victory in our lives because of it.
We are hearers of God’s word and not doers.
We need to change this.
We need to be sincere doers of God’s Word.
If we are then we are like the wise man who built his house on the rock.
In other words he had a very strong foundation.
That foundation was the Rock, it was Jesus.
The foundation of his entire life was Jesus and everything else was built on that foundation.
The path he took was built on Jesus.
The fruit he bore was built on Jesus.
It was a strong and solid foundation.
And because of that . . .
Matthew 7:
And we all know and realize that there will be storms in our lives.
And those storms will beat and beat against us.
It happens to us all . . .
The storm will come.
The question is, will we be prepared to handle it?
Will we weather the storm?
Will we make it?
If it has a solid foundation built on the Rock, then yes we will make it.
We will as Paul puts it . . .
Romans 8:37-
But, do we believe it?
What is our foundation built on?
Is it built on the solid rock or something else?
That is an important question because lots of people build their foundation on lots of other things besides Jesus.
Some build their foundation on their jobs.
Some on their money.
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