March 15th am | What are you Building on?

And whether or not we trust in Jesus as our Lord and Savior or not, that is a question for every single one of us, isn't Is he the foundation of our life? All of us is trusting something. The picture is simple. There's two men building, one ordinary afternoon. You wouldn't know the difference between the two houses, Same street, same materials. The difference is entirely underground. [00:13:26] (28 seconds)  #BuildOnTheRock

The debt is finished. The judgment is paid by him for you. And three days later, he rose from the dead. The resurrection is the proof that that foundation holds. Death is our ultimate flood. You know, today is a day of celebration, but I want to be honest with us too because it it requires honesty that death has a 100 success rate. [00:18:33] (32 seconds)  #ResurrectionProof

So Jesus points to a gap as wide as it was then as it is today. The gap between what people see and what people actually live for. We can use all of the right language, be in the right building, but be building our lives in the wrong places. Jesus is not asking whether you find him interesting or whether you believe that he is the rock. He is asking, is he the foundation of your life, or is it something else? [00:12:54] (33 seconds)  #LiveWhatYouBelieve

Those foundations that we see in the Bible, they're foundations that that reach beyond this life entirely. It's a foundation that offers eternal life with God. Life as it's always meant to be. That is what is on the other side of trusting in Jesus, that the flood of death itself will not have the final words, and that we will not face that judgment that we deserve. [00:20:20] (28 seconds)  #EternalFoundation

Not because it is comfortable or fashionable, it is far from it, but because there is something happening just now where people refuse to believe that love is just chemistry, and justice is just preference, and death is simply the end. And praise the Lord that we're seeing it in Lossy. How exciting is that? We are seeing people coming to the question of Jesus with a seriousness and a hunger, and they're coming to church, and they are leaving with answers that do not disappoint. [00:10:25] (36 seconds)  #HungryForJesus

Nothing human has ever survived death. But Jesus walked into death and came back out. He's not some historical figure whose memory we simply honor, but Jesus is alive, a living person who we can know today because the savior lives. And when we come to him, when we turn from building on the things that we cannot hold and and and the things that we cannot trust and we trust in what he has done, something far beyond what we can imagine happens. [00:19:05] (42 seconds)  #JesusIsAlive

They might be good things, but those things will fall apart. But the one true foundation which will last forever, the rock, the Lord Jesus, is available to you right now. Coming to Jesus doesn't require us to have it all together first, to understand absolutely everything, but it requires us to take a step of repentance and faith. It requires us to leave that old life behind, the life we build for ourself and trust in what Jesus has done. Don't let today pass you by. [00:25:52] (47 seconds)  #RepentAndTrust

And that flood, in this passage, that flood comes to everyone. All of us will experience that flood at some point. The question is whether we're standing on the rock or the sand. But here's the the heart of what I want to say, and it comes from verse 47. The rock is not a principle or a moral code or even a spiritual discipline. The rock is a person. [00:15:20] (30 seconds)  #JesusIsTheRock