"EMBRACE YOUR SOLID ROCK AND BECOME IMMUNE FROM SUFFERING AND SORROW"

MATTHEW 7:24-29

THEREFORE , WHO SO EVER HEARETH THESES SAYING OF MIND, AND DOETH THEM, I WILL LIKEN HIM UNTO A WISE MAN, WHICH BUILT HIS HOUSE UPON A ROCK: AND WHEN THE RAIN DECEDNED AND THE FLOODS, CAME , AND THE WINDS BLEW , AND BEAT UPON THAT HOUSE; AND IT, FELL NOT ; FOR IT WAS BUILT UPON A ROCK. 

AND EVERY ONE THAT HEARETH THESE SAYING OF MIND AND DOETH THEM NOT,SHALL BE LIKENED UNTO A FOOLISH MAN

WHO BUILT HIS HOUSE UPON THE SAND;  AND THE RAIN DESCENDED AND THE FLOODS CAME , AND THE WIND  BLEW, AND BEAT UPON THAT HOUSE ; AND IT FELL; AND GREAT WAS THE FALL OF IT.

MY DEAR FRIENDS IN THIS PARABLE JESUS LOOKS AT THE VERY HEART OF THE HUMAN CONDITION AND SOME OF THE NATURAL CAUSES OF HUMAN SUFFERING AND HUMAN SORROW. ACCORDING TO THIS PARABLE  IF YOU LIVE LONG ENOUGH YOU WILL EXPERIENCE, SICKNESS,THE LOSS OF LOVE ONES AND THE LOSS OF VALUE MATERIAL POSSESSIONS AND MANY OTHER KINDS OF

TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS. JESUS INDICATES IN THIS PARABLE THAT BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN TO EVERYONE AS ILLUSTRATED IN THE STORY BY THE RAIN DESCENDING AND THE FLOOD COMING AND A HARD WIND BLOWING UPON THE HOUSE(YOUR LIFE)

THEREFORE IT IS ORDAINED IN THIS LIFE THAT WE ARE GOING TO EXPERIENCE A CERTIN AMOUNT OF ADVERSITY REGARDLESS OF HOW GOOD YOU MAY BE AS A PERSON.

FIRST OF ALL LET US UNDERSTAND HOW PEOPLE BUILD THEIR LIVES ON SAND.

1. IF YOU HAVE BUILT YOUR LIFE ON THE IDEA THAT THIS LIFE IS YOUR LIFE AND YOU ONLY GIVE IT BACK TO GOD WHEN YOU DIE - THEN YOU HAVE BUILT YOUR LIFE ON SAND AND YOU ARE HEADED FOR THE GREAT FALL OR SORROW THAT JESUS AS TALKING ABOUT IN THIS PARABLE.
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1. SECONDLY IF YOU HAVE BUILT YOUR LIFE ON THE IDEA THAT YOU ARE YOUR NAME SAKE IN OTHER WORDS, I, ME AND MY – THEN AGAIN LIKE MOST PEOPLE WHO THINK LIKE THAT YOU HAVE BUILT YOUR LIFE ON SAND…AND REGARDLESS TO HOW GOOD OF A PERSON YOU HAVE BEEN –

WHEN THE HARD WIND OF CHANGE AND THE RAIN OF TRIAL AND TRIBULATION DESCENDS INTO YOUR WORLD.  JESUS SAYS GREAT WILL BE YOUR FALL (SORROW) - BECAUSE YOU BUILT YOUR LIFE ON THE FALSE NOTION THAT YOUR LIFE BELONGS TO THIS I, ME AND MY CONCEPT - THIS IS LITERALLY BUILDING YOUR LIFE ON SAND.

ON THE OTHER HAND, THE ONE WHO BUILT HIS LIFE ON THE SOLID ROCK IS THE ONE WHO BUILT HIS LIFE IN THE HERE  AND NOW. THE ONE WHO LIVES IN THE PRESENT BUILDS HIS LIFE UPON THE SOLID ROCK - WITH HIS CONSCIOUNESS ANCHORED IN THE HERE AND NOW – VOID OF THE THOUGHT  OF I, ME AND MY - AND WHEN THE WIND CAME AND THE RAIN DESCENDED UPON HIS LIFE AND THE FLOODS CAME (TRIALS AND TRIBULATION) UPON HIS HOUSE (LIFE) YET HE WAS ABLE TO STAND WITHOUT SUFFERING OR SORROW BECAUSE HE BUILT HIS LIFE UPON THE ROCK (SEE SHORT CUT TO GOD HOMEPAGE)

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