Foundational
Truths
Sermon on the Mount, Part 5
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Title:
Foundational Truths (Sermon on the Mount, Part 5)---- Date: 1/15/2000
Keywords:
"foundation" "relationship"
Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand
strong in the face of sexual temptation.
Passage: Matthew 7:24-25*
24. "Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts
them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
25. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and
beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the
rock"
Questions
1. What is the upshot of this passage?
2. Have you applied any of Jesus' words from this Sermon on the
Mount series?
Practical help
As any visitor of Pisa's leaning tower will tell you, the integrity
of every structure begins with its foundation. If you forget, native Venetians may remind
you that one-fourth of the cost of buildings in that floating city go into foundational
pilings.
Just so the Christian life. Without a foundational relationship with
God, we're ill-prepared to deal with life's temptations.
If Web porn has your walls crumbling, don't prop them up with
2-by-4s. Give your foundation a check. How consistent are your daily devotions? Your
prayer life, is it vibrant? Does the Bible interest you? Are you putting your convictions
into practice?
If the answers to these questions are no, go back to square (foot)
one. Begin putting Christ's words from this eXXit series into action. Then see if the
flood of porn doesn't recede -- with you standing firm.
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1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. All rights reserved.