8. "Building Upon the Rock"

9. Matthew 7:24-27 24 "Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash."

10. 1. The Similarities

11. 2. The Difference 1 Corinthians 3:11 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. Ephesians 2:20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. “Many want to have the teachings of Jesus without the Jesus of the teachings.”

12. 3. The Results 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.

13. 27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.“

14. 3. The Results 1 Peter 1:6-7 6 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7 These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

15. Why don't more people build on the firm foundation? The Lazy Christian Luke 6:48 He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.

16. Why don't more people build on the firm foundation? The Lazy Christian The Short-sighted Christian

17. Why don't more people build on the firm foundation? The Lazy Christian The Short-sighted Christian The Naïve Christian

18. How to Build on a Firm Foundation FIRST, We Must Know the Truth SECONDLY, by faith, we need TO DO what God is telling us

19. Matthew 7:21 "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

20. Ephesians 2:8-10 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith— and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

21. Philippians 4:9 Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.

22. James 1:22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.

23. James 2:17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.