Rock or Sand Matt 7:24-27
Mat chp 7:24-27 (please read)
Whoever heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them I will liken him unto a wise man who built this upon a rock. (Verse 24.)
Rock or Sand?
All have heard this story of the man who builds his house on a rock firm, another builds on sand and falls - what are we building our lives on? The Rock (Jesus Christ ) what does it really mean to build our house on the rock?
It means he is a man who not only wants forgiveness, and wants to escape hell and wants to go to heaven, still more, in a sense, he wants positive holiness in this life and in this world. He wants to be righteous, he is singing that hymn of Charles Wesley's -
O for a heart to praise my God, A heart from sin set free,
A heart that always feels the Blood, So freely shed for me.
That is the man who builds upon the rock. He is a man who desires and prays for holiness and who strives after it. He does his utmost to be like that because his supreme desire is to know Christ. Not only to be forgiven, not only to go to heaven, but to know Christ now, to have Christ as his brother, to have Christ as his companion, to be walking with Christ in the light here in this world, to enjoy a foretaste of heaven here in this world of time - that is the man who builds upon the Rock.
D.M. Lloyd-Jones (1955)
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