Our paragraph topic is: (Conclusion of the sermon) Part 2.
In this part of the final sermon, Christ tells us what happens in life. He tells us the rain fell, the floods came, the wind blew and beat against the house, but it did not fall.
We have rains that come into our lives today in buckets. When it rains it pours. It pours problems in the home with our children. It pours problems in our relationships with our spouses. It pours problems in our work environment with our co-workers, our supervisor, our managers, the company policies, the company workers that rub us the wrong way. It pours in our churches. It pours in our market places where we notice the increases in prices for the products we need. It pours at the gas pump where we have no control over the cost of gasoline. It pours with problems all around us that causes us to feel out of control.
And then there is the flood. The waters that overwhelms us to the point where we loose control. There is the flood of emotions that causes us to explode at home with our children. Then there is the flood of emotions that comes with the frustration with our spouses that make us seek a way out. There is the flood of emotions that make us feel angry with our jobs because we feel we are under paid and over worked. There is the flood of feelings that comes from looking back upon our lives and seeing that we have not made the progress that we feel we should have made by now in our lives. Instead we seem to be moving backwards. There is the flood of desires that drive us to passions that would have us take pleasure in fun and wild behavior to wipe away all of the frustrations that we experience.
And the winds blow against all that we have, threatening to destroy our lives. The winds of fate blow. The winds of our destiny blow. The winds of destruction blow. The winds of passion blow. The winds of lust blow. The winds of envy blow. The winds of jealousy blow. The winds of anger and frustration blow. The winds of deceit blow. The winds of death blow and seek to destroy all the we have and our homes.
Christ tells us that if we build our house on the rock, all these things will not prevail. He tells us that if we hear his words and act upon them then the winds may blow, and the flood may come, and the rains may fall but none of these things will prevail against his words. His words are truth. His words are justice. His words are everlasting. His words prevail. His words are protection. His words provide, if we just keep them.
Keep them in your hearts. Keep them in your minds. Speak them daily. Speak them to your children. Speak to your spouses. Speak them to your co-workers. Speak them to your friends. Speak them to yourself when you face the winds of evil that we meet everyday. Christ has given us the key, if we would just use it to unlock the door. Father God in heaven I pray that more people will hear your words and come to know them as truth.
