Our paragraph topic is: (Conclusion of the sermon) Part 4.
We finish up this paragraph topic with the final part with Christ telling us about the ruined house that was built upon sand. The rains fell, the floods came, the winds blew and beat against the house and it fell, and was utterly ruined. Here, Christ gives his prediction as to what will happen to those who are foolish and do not heed his warnings. Their house will fall. The winds of destruction will blow against them. The rains of tribulations will fall upon them and they will not know how to solve the problems. The floods of temptation will come again and again until their houses fall. The winds will beat at their relationships and toss them from relationship to relationship and they will be like feathers in the wind. There will be no foundation.
Without action upon the word, life is placed upon a slippery slope. Life will find itself upon a foundation that is changing with the under currents of the world. There will be no foundation for love. There will be no foundation for peace. There will be no foundation for justice. There will be no foundation for wisdom. There will be no foundation for service. There will be no foundation for charity. There will be no foundation for understanding. There will be no foundation for faith. There will be no foundation for trust. There will be no foundation, for the foundation will be defined by the World.
The World will define love. The World will define justice. The World will define peace. The World will define wisdom. The World will define faith. The World will define trust. And the definitions given by the World meets the needs and the desires of the flesh. The definitions of the World have no basis upon which to build. The definitions of the world build upon fulfilling the passions of itself, an ever repeating cycle of passion and lust. Like the decay of the flesh, the definitions of the World are like grains of sand that pass through our hands never allowing us to capture true life.
And the World will perish. Just as we are perishing daily, walking towards death as our final destination. The World is perishing also. The World is on the path to destruction. It is built upon the sands of time and when God decides that time has ended, the world will end.
Take heed to these words. They are our instructions as to how we should live our lives. They are our instructions teaching us how to create a foundation in our lives. They are our lesion plan for ourselves and our children. They are the keys to the kingdom of heaven that our heavenly Father wants to give us that opens the door to our mansion in heaven. They are the badges of courage that we wear here on earth that label us with salvation. Keep these words. Make them a part of your life. Hold them dearly in your heart.
Friday, January 14, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
St Matthew, Chapter 7, verse: 26, The Sermon on the Mount.
The paragraph topic is: (Conclusion of the sermon) Part 3.
We continue the conclusion of the Sermon on the Mount talking about the words that Christ has given us from these sermons. He tells us in this verse that: "Everyone who hears these my words and does not act upon them, shall be likened to a foolish man who built his house on sand." Just as Christ told us about those who hear his words and acts upon them, he is telling us about those who hear his words and do not act on them. These are the ones that will be like foolish men. These are the ones who will not know. These are the ones who will wonder what happened. These are the ones who will have no understanding, for they built their houses upon the sand.
They built their house, their lives, their relationships, their work, their play, their worship, their service, their all, upon sand. They did not take heed and listen to the words of the sermon. They did not understand the meaning that the words gave to them. They continued along the wide path of destruction. They were foolish men. They were men basing their lives upon their own understanding, their own desires, their own passions, their own wisdom.
The Father of all wisdom gave us the truth. Some accepted and some did not. Some rationalized that the words did not make sense. Some sought to understand using their own earthly knowledge. Some sought to make sense of the words based on the way of the world. Some threw out the words and made their own words of wisdom to use as their guide. Some listened to the evil one and became angry at others because they believed. Some continued along the road of destruction. These are the ones that were foolish men who did not heed the words of Christ.
Christ gives us the keys to the kingdom. He gives us the answers to the test. He gives us the foundation to a happy life. He gives us the measure by which we should measure. He gives us the guide to walk by . He gives us the true riches. He tells us beware of the road blocks and the pitfalls along the path. He points us in the direction of the road to life and all we have to do is follow. He gives us the protection of our heavenly father. He gives us the food and clothing that we need to live on this earth. He gives us the peace that comes from the trust that we place in God. He gives us the love of a father that knows what we need. He gives us the tools to work around the traps laid down by the evil one. He is our provider, our protector, our redeemer.
Your house is your own. Where will you build it? Will you build it upon sand? Will you build it upon rock? Will you be a foolish man? Or will you have the wisdom that comes from the father of all wisdom? The choice is yours. Acceptance is the key that will lead you to the road of life. Rejection is the the choice that leads to the path of destruction. You can follow along with the crowd. Or you can make the decision to take the narrow path. Choose wisely and my God go with you.
We continue the conclusion of the Sermon on the Mount talking about the words that Christ has given us from these sermons. He tells us in this verse that: "Everyone who hears these my words and does not act upon them, shall be likened to a foolish man who built his house on sand." Just as Christ told us about those who hear his words and acts upon them, he is telling us about those who hear his words and do not act on them. These are the ones that will be like foolish men. These are the ones who will not know. These are the ones who will wonder what happened. These are the ones who will have no understanding, for they built their houses upon the sand.
They built their house, their lives, their relationships, their work, their play, their worship, their service, their all, upon sand. They did not take heed and listen to the words of the sermon. They did not understand the meaning that the words gave to them. They continued along the wide path of destruction. They were foolish men. They were men basing their lives upon their own understanding, their own desires, their own passions, their own wisdom.
The Father of all wisdom gave us the truth. Some accepted and some did not. Some rationalized that the words did not make sense. Some sought to understand using their own earthly knowledge. Some sought to make sense of the words based on the way of the world. Some threw out the words and made their own words of wisdom to use as their guide. Some listened to the evil one and became angry at others because they believed. Some continued along the road of destruction. These are the ones that were foolish men who did not heed the words of Christ.
Christ gives us the keys to the kingdom. He gives us the answers to the test. He gives us the foundation to a happy life. He gives us the measure by which we should measure. He gives us the guide to walk by . He gives us the true riches. He tells us beware of the road blocks and the pitfalls along the path. He points us in the direction of the road to life and all we have to do is follow. He gives us the protection of our heavenly father. He gives us the food and clothing that we need to live on this earth. He gives us the peace that comes from the trust that we place in God. He gives us the love of a father that knows what we need. He gives us the tools to work around the traps laid down by the evil one. He is our provider, our protector, our redeemer.
Your house is your own. Where will you build it? Will you build it upon sand? Will you build it upon rock? Will you be a foolish man? Or will you have the wisdom that comes from the father of all wisdom? The choice is yours. Acceptance is the key that will lead you to the road of life. Rejection is the the choice that leads to the path of destruction. You can follow along with the crowd. Or you can make the decision to take the narrow path. Choose wisely and my God go with you.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
St Matthew, Chapter 7, verse:25, The Sermon on the Moount.
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.
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.
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