Repeated Words: Most Quoted Verse (Faith)

What do I believe God wants us to know? God is loyally faithful

Why? We need a rock to stand on

What do I believe God wants us to do? Stand on the rock

Why? It brings us hope

ME/WE

One of the things we learn early on as a child is that FOUNDATIONS are important. They matter supremely.

Where do we often discover this first as a child?

When you are building with building blocks or Legos

What we come to discover it doesn’t matter what is going on upstairs if the downstairs, the foundation is not propperly fit to handle upstaris

Upstairs could be 10 floors with amazing furniture and features

But if the FOUNDATION is off or not strong enough it comes a tumbling down.

We know this in the real world with real houses

If you build your house upon a wetland, pond, sand what will happen to the house?

It will collaspe

Or what will happen if the foundation is not poured corretly, let’s skip some steps and rush to get the job down...

You not only have a BROKE FOUNDATION, you have a BROKE HOUSE

Your house cannot stand if you have a broke foundation

INTRO

The question for us today is not about our physical house but your SPIRITUAL HOUSE

What are you resting your HOUSE UPON?

What is the thing HOLDING YOUR SPIRITUAL HOUSE UP?

What are you giving your FAITH, YOUR LOYAL ALLEGENICE TO?

This is question Jesus ends the Sermon on the Mount with. Jesus gives this long over 20 point sermon and then at the end says

What I said will not matter if you don’t move your HOUSE UPON HIM...

It will do you great damage if your FAITH pistis…your believing loyality does not move to HIM

HOW SO

WHAT so GREAT

TRUTHFUL

TURNS THINGS AROUND

TOOK YOUR SINS TO CROSS

How do we know if our confidence and faith has moved off of the Lord?

Anxiety

Worry

Communion

When we were faithless He remained faithful