Hi everyone...Those who are foolish in planning and preparation are often foolish as well in their assessment of the damage. Why do some whose lives are falling apart not seem to notice? How can you help one you know?
DIFFERENCE IN WITHSTANDING THE STORM
Matt. 7:25, 27 "The rain fell and the flood came, and the winds blew and slammed against the house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock.....The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against the house, and it fell -and great was its fall."
Everyone's religion, whether true or false , will be tried one day. that test will determine with great finality who are the wheat and who are the tares-in other words, the unredeemed will be revealed from the redeemed. When the storm of final test comes, those houses are on the bedrock of Jesus Christ and His Word will be spared "from the wrath to come" (1 Thes. 1:20). However, those whose houses are on the sand will not be spared, but like the goats in Jesus' prophesy of the end times, "will go away into eternal punishment" (Matt. 25:46, Rev.20:12,15).
The house of the wise man-the life and ministry of the genuine believer-is spared because he has built carefully and faithfully, with a sense of substance and divine importance. After obediently doing all that God commands, he humbly realizes he was only doing his duty (Luke 17:16).
The house of the foolish man-the life and ministry of the pseudo-believer suffers a devastating judgment from the storm and is destined for eternal punishment. Because of this inevitability, everyone who claims to be a Christian must carefully heed James' words: "Prove yourself doers of the Word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves" (James 1:22).
The greatest difference between "wise" and "foolish" resides in what promise from God they can claim. To the wise He says, in the words of the hymn, "Though all hell should endeavor to shake, I'll never, no, never forsake!"
more to come...
DIFFERENCE IN WITHSTANDING THE STORM
Matt. 7:25, 27 "The rain fell and the flood came, and the winds blew and slammed against the house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock.....The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against the house, and it fell -and great was its fall."
Everyone's religion, whether true or false , will be tried one day. that test will determine with great finality who are the wheat and who are the tares-in other words, the unredeemed will be revealed from the redeemed. When the storm of final test comes, those houses are on the bedrock of Jesus Christ and His Word will be spared "from the wrath to come" (1 Thes. 1:20). However, those whose houses are on the sand will not be spared, but like the goats in Jesus' prophesy of the end times, "will go away into eternal punishment" (Matt. 25:46, Rev.20:12,15).
The house of the wise man-the life and ministry of the genuine believer-is spared because he has built carefully and faithfully, with a sense of substance and divine importance. After obediently doing all that God commands, he humbly realizes he was only doing his duty (Luke 17:16).
The house of the foolish man-the life and ministry of the pseudo-believer suffers a devastating judgment from the storm and is destined for eternal punishment. Because of this inevitability, everyone who claims to be a Christian must carefully heed James' words: "Prove yourself doers of the Word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves" (James 1:22).
The greatest difference between "wise" and "foolish" resides in what promise from God they can claim. To the wise He says, in the words of the hymn, "Though all hell should endeavor to shake, I'll never, no, never forsake!"
more to come...
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