This is what Jesus said in Luke chapter 6. "Whosoever cometh to me and heareth my sayings and does them, I will show you to whom he is like. He is like a man which built a house, diggeth deep, laid the foundation on a rock. And when the flood arose, the stream beat the Hemetly upon that house and could not shake it for it was founded upon the rock. But he that heareth and does not is like a man without a foundation built a house upon the earth against which the stream did beat Behemoth and immediately it fell and the ruin of that house was great."
The key here is listening to Jesus's words and then obeying
them, which most Christians are not doing today. The men of old, Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, they heard things from the living God and then they acted in
faith, leaving their towns, taking persecution, overcoming trials, leaving
family members who did not believe. They were very straightforward about their
faith, the God that they serve. They were unashamed. They didn't bend to the
culture and when they made mistakes, they repented and they continued to go
down the path of the straight and narrow that leads to life. Today though, most Christians are not like
the fathers of faith. They're not like the early apostles. Christians today
don't think that they will suffer persecution. They don't think that they'll
have to go through the end times tribulations. They don't think that they have
to pray continually. They don't think
they have to truly repent of sin and overcome. And so their entire foundation
is on the earth. It's on the sand. They believe in the Bible. They believe in
the prophets. They can quote you things
that Jesus said from the scripture. But because their entire foundation is upon
the sand, even though they built on it with the scripture, when the rains come
down and when the stream beats vehemently upon their house, the whole operation
will come tumbling down. And we see that happening today with many Christians'
lives, many church organizations. We see the whole thing falling apart because Christians
are no longer basing their life on obedience and true repentance. They're
basing it upon their knowledge and understanding of the scripture, their church
doctrines. We need to make sure that we
truly are repenting, that our faces are on the ground before God, that we
become humble, and that the Lord fills us with His righteousness. That we're
not thinking we're righteous because we know the Bible and because we're
educated men and women, but that we are righteous because the Holy Spirit of
the living God is in us and he has purged us from all uncleanliness, from all
things that are evil. We need to make sure that we're separate from the world
doing the will of God, then we can have the very basic foundation that Jesus
wants us to have. The foundation that is on him. Is your foundation on Jesus
Christ? Are you on the solid rock? Or
have you built your life on the knowledge of the Bible without true repentance,
without true obedience, without righteousness, without the holiness God
requires? Are you really obeying and living out your faith for the Lord Jesus
Christ?
