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If you were to walk around our city, you could go to areas that are building new homes and you would see concrete slabs.
The rest of the house can’t go up until the foundation is laid.
No walls can be built.
No roof shingled.
No plants planted.
No windows installed.
No walls painted.
No memories made until the foundation is laid.
As a matter of fact, I found a website online that says there are 7 steps to laying a foundation for a house.
Those steps didn’t even include the measurements and the surveys and all the other things you have to do before building the foundation.
Jesus finished his famous sermon, the Sermon on the Mount, by talking about two different builders.
One He called a wise man, the other He called a foolish man.
This story is found in Matthew 7:24-27
In verse 24 and 26, Jesus says, “everyone who hears these words of mine...” The words Jesus is talking about here is the sermon.
He had just spent the last 3 chapters of Matthew with His famous sermon.
These four verses are Jesus’ conclusion to his sermon.
All throughout this sermon there was good truths that He taught on.
He began this sermon in chapter 5 with the Beatitudes.
He talked about what light was like.
He used an illustration with salt.
He talked about murder, adultery and divorce.
He talked about what to do if someone hits you on one cheek.
He talked about loving our enemies.
This is also the place that He gave us His most famous prayer that we call, “The Lord’s Prayer.”
He told us about fasting and about storing up treasures in Heaven.
He told us not to worry and not to judge others.
He talked about a narrow and wide gate.
He also taught that not everyone who says Lord Lord will enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
But He ends it with our text today.
He has told us the truth.
He has given us all this good information on how to live our life.
How we can please God.
He has touched a number of many subjects.
And He sums it up with a quick word of advise.
He says, “everyone who hears these words of mine” and then He places all of us into two categories.
He says we are either wise men or we are foolish men.
The wise are those that put Jesus’ words into practice.
The foolish men are those that does not put Jesus’ words into practice.
The wise man built his house with a foundation made out of rock.
The foolish man built his house with a foundation made out of sand.
When the storms came, foolish man’s house didn’t stand because it was built on a bad foundation.
But the wise man’s house stood because His foundation was built upon the rock.
Jesus uses the same word for rock here that He used in our text last week.
That is the same Rock that Peter referred to the chief cornerstone when He referred to Jesus in 1 Peter 2:6
Jesus tells us here that if hear His words that are true and put them into practice then when the storms come our way, then you will be able to withstand those storms.
The Truth Changes Everything
The word of God is the truth.
There are no lies.
It is not wrong.
The Bible is not just right or wrong.
It’s a different kind of truth.
It is God breathed.
It’s an alignment with the Creator of the universe and the way He intends things to be.
Therefore it carries His power and authority.
Have you ever had to say the words, “I was wrong?”
It is hard to admit when you are wrong.
When you discover the truth about someone or something or a situation that you are in and you have to change your opinion about something and admit that you were wrong, it’s hard, but it was the truth that changed that.
I like to read non-fiction books.
I want to know something that is real.
I like history.
I like true-crime.
I believe that we can learn from the past so that we don’t repeat it.
Several years ago, John Grisham, wrote a non-fiction book called “The Innocent Man.”
It is about a murder case that was botched and a man went to prison for many years for a crime that he didn’t commit.
Once the truth came out they released this man from prison.
The circumstances didn’t change, but the results changed.
All because of the truth.
The truth is a powerful thing.
Jesus gave us the truth and He wants us to put the truth in our life and make the foundation our life is built upon a solid foundation.
We Need to Walk in the Truth
Real quick I want to give you 6 items that will help you walk in the truth.
1. Reading Your Bible
The best way to get the truth into your life and to have a solid foundation is to read the truth.
None of us like being bound in chains.
If I was to bring you up here and put chains on you and tell you that you needed to walk around with those heavy chains binding you, you wouldn’t want to do that.
No one likes being bound.
The Word of God, the truth, sets you free.
When we read the Word of God, it keeps us free from bondage.
But don’t just read it.
Study it.
2. Study the Word of God
Put the scriptures in your heart.
These last few verses in 2 Timothy was words that Paul wrote to a young preacher.
Paul was giving Timothy advice.
He was telling him to make the scriptures a part of his life so that he could deliver those words to his congregation.
Why?
Because God’s Word is the truth and it will help you to build a solid foundation in your life.
You Need God’s Word!
3. Talking to God
You need to ask yourself, “Have you made a conscience effort to talk to God today?”
Have you spent more time with God than just a rubba dub dub thanks God for the grub?
Have you prayed more than just a lay me down to sleep prayer at night when you go to sleep?
God wants to have a conversation with you.
Even if you don’t know what to say or how to say it, just simply say thanks.
But take a minute of each day and spend it with God.
If I went an entire month and didn’t talk to my wife, how do you think that relationship would go?
We would probably be talking to a lawyer before long.
I have conversations with my wife everyday.
When we first started dating, we would have long talks just getting to know one another.
We still talk today, but our conversations are different.
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