Mat 5:2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them,
saying…
Mat 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of
mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house
upon a rock:
Mat 7:25 And the rain descended, and the floods came,
and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was
founded upon a rock.
Mat 7:26 And every one that heareth these sayings of
mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his
house upon the sand:
Mat 7:27 And the rain descended, and the floods came,
and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the
fall of it.
Whoever HEARS.
Whoever DOES.
Christianity is NOT
an inactive religion, it's an entire WAY OF LIFE for those who truly believe
that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior.
Salvation does NOT begin when we are translated to heaven upon His
return or raised from the grave to meet Christ in the air when He returns for
His saints. Salvation begins LONG before that moment of transformation from
mortal to immortal. Salvation has to be our way of LIVING, not a mere few
moments out of our lives.
Jesus says- whoever HEARS and whoever DOES.
Whoever hears all
that HE has been teaching, all the things we've been studying for approximately
the last 48 days. Whoever hears and then DOES all those things He's teaching HE
will liken that person to a WISE MAN.
The wise man who built his house upon a rock and when the rain fell and
the floods came and the wind blew and the house was beat up by all that- it
DIDN'T FALL, and it didn't fall because it was built upon a ROCK- a solid
foundation.
Jesus also says-
whoever hears and DOESN'T do all those things He's taught He will liken to a
FOOLISH man, who built his house upon the sand. The same rain comes, the same
floods, the same winds blow and beat upon that house and it did NOT stand, it
FEEL and GREAT was the FALL of that house.
When we lose
salvation there is NO greater fall in existence.
So why anyone can
ever imagine that our Savior taught that being His meant merely uttering a few
words asking for forgiveness and a bit of repenting and nothing more, is beyond
me.
Our Savior gave us a
lot of instructions on the life we are to lead and He even told us that we are
FOOLISH if we do not do what He tells us. We are foolish and we will NOT be
saved, He will NOT know us.
Is it any wonder
that we should be studying these WORDS of Christ's over and over and over
again?! Is it any wonder that we should be making these words of Christ's a
part of our LIVES?
We have to LIVE
Christianity, we have to LIVE the life CHRIST would have us live through HIM
and HIS power by the Holy Spirit!
Being a Christ
follower should be FIRST in our lives and everything else secondary to Christ!
EVERYTHING ELSE!
We cannot say we
can't comprehend Jesus when He speaks so plainly to us- you are wise if you
hear and do what He says, you are foolish if you hear and do not do what He
says.
Salvation is through
CHRIST and CHRIST alone. We must hear and do what He says if we hope to be WISE
unto salvation. If we hope to live in this sick, sick world being attacked
endlessly by spirits that want us to deny Christ and all the power that is found
in CHRIST, if we hope to live this way buffeted, beaten, facing spiritual storm
after storm and stand firm through it all, we HAVE to DO what our Savior says,
not just hear, but listen and DO what He tells us to do. We will live in this
spiritual stormy life no matter what, the only thing we determine is whether or
not we will be living in Christ when the storm passes, or if we will succumb to
the evil world and be no more, totally destroyed, when the storms are over.
Please Lord let us
be ALIVE in YOU NOW, and ALWAYS!
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