💭 Consider this:
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you are a fool if you do not practice
how can you be saved, unless you know you are lost?
without the storms, both houses? faiths? look the same
the storm reveals the quality of the work of the builder—how strong we are—the strength of the foundation
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📣 Is your faith built on a solid foundation? 🤔
In Matthew 7:24–27, Jesus concludes the Sermon on the Mount with a powerful illustration of two builders. Both heard His words, both built their houses, and both faced the same storms—but only one stood firm. The difference was not in what they heard, but in what they did.
This passage reminds us that it is not enough to profess faith, attend church, or know the Bible. True discipleship is revealed in a life that hears the Word of God and obeys it. A strong foundation is built not on knowledge alone, but on faithful application.
When the trials of life come—as they surely will—they will expose what our faith is truly built upon. Will we stand firm, or will we fall?
📄 Follow along with this sermon's transcript: https://www.bethelbpc.com.au/sermon-database/the-foundation-of-our-faith
📍 Sermon Outline 00:00 Trailer 01:04 Introduction
05:17 I. THE SIMILARITIES
09:43 II. THE FOUNDATION
29:27 III. THE TRIALS
35:35 Conclusion
39:52 Reflection Questions
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Highlights
do you think you are saved before you know you are lost?
is your knowledge perfectly useless?
25:36 - 59 No man would intentionally build a house that he thinks is going to fall. So both men have confidence that their houses will stand. But one man's confidence is in the Lord. The other man's confidence is in himself.
33:59 - 34:15 If you practice what the Bible says, you will be a wise man or a wise woman. You are foolish when you do not practice. The rain, the flood, and the wind may not have come, but you are prepared.
47:14- 48 Dear friend, many people have their own comfort zones, whether it be their houses, jobs, families, children, friends, and so forth, until the storms of life come and expose the foundation. Nobody knew what the foundation was. Without the storm, the wise man's house and the foolish man's house look the same.