Standing in the Storm -- 16 January 2022

If you are like a smart carpenter who builds his house on solid rock, when the rain pours down, the river floods, a tornado hits—but nothing moves that house. It is fixed to the rock.

“But if you just use my words in Bible studies and don’t work them into your life, you are like a stupid carpenter who built his house on the sandy beach. When a storm rolled in and the waves came up, it collapsed like a house of cards.”

Jesus said, “If you work these words into your life, you are like a smart carpenter, a wise man...” Or, if you hear these words of mine and put them into practice...obey these words...you are wise...nothing will move you.

Notice, he didn’t say, if the rain comes, if it begins to flood. Verse 27 says, when the rain comes... Stormy season - The rain of immorality, chaos, and confusion is falling and the flood of fear is rising, and the wind of compromise is blowing all around us...where have you built your life, your house?

We don’t want to hear the word only, listen to teaching from the word only, we want to do what it says. For the word says, if you do what it says, God will bless you for doing it. As the rain of deceit falls and the flood of fear rises and the winds of compromise are blowing all around us, if you have built your house on the rock, Jesus said that nothing will move that house.