WEBVTT 00:00:07.759 --> 00:00:11.759 You're listening to the road with Pastor Teacher Steve Holt. 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:14.880 What do you want from God? 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:17.839 Ask. 00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:19.120 Seek. 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:21.679 Take opportunities to grow. 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:25.280 Take opportunities to change and be transformed. 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:30.480 Seeking God comes through persistent prayer. 00:00:30.719 --> 00:00:31.920 Crying out to him. 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:35.280 God wants to bless you, beloved. 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:37.840 Church, God wants to bless you. 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:40.799 He wants to pour out so much blessing. 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:52.399 He's there for you, but he but for some reason in the economy of the kingdom, he puts us in a position to need to ask for it, to cry out for that. 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:58.719 At The Road, our mission is to empower people to change the world. 00:00:58.960 --> 00:01:02.960 For more information on The Road, visit theroad.org. 00:01:03.119 --> 00:01:08.000 We hope you are encouraged by today's message from Pastor Teacher Steve Holt. 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:16.959 Turn your Bibles to Matthew chapter 7, and we're coming to the end of the Sermon on the Mount. 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:21.920 Many of you have been with us through the entire Sermon on the Mount, the greatest sermon ever given. 00:01:22.159 --> 00:01:24.640 The greatest sermon ever given. 00:01:24.879 --> 00:01:30.879 Even secular historical scholars will tell you this is the greatest speech ever given. 00:01:31.120 --> 00:01:44.079 And so here at the end of everything that Jesus has said, and we've been through, I don't know, 10 or 12 messages in Matthew 5, 6, and 7, this is how he concludes it. 00:01:44.239 --> 00:01:48.480 So I want you to look at verse 24, Matthew 7, 24. 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:55.280 And then we're going to actually go through the chat, we're going to go through chapter 7, but I want to start at the end, then we're going to backtrack. 00:01:55.519 --> 00:01:56.480 Verse 24. 00:01:56.640 --> 00:02:07.920 Therefore, whoever hears these sayings of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock. 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:19.919 And the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house, and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. 00:02:20.159 --> 00:02:29.520 But everyone who hears these sayings of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 00:02:29.840 --> 00:02:36.240 The rain descended, the floods came, the winds blew, and beat on that house, and it fell, and great was its fall. 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:43.840 So he's saying that you've got to lay unshakable foundations. 00:02:44.319 --> 00:02:56.560 Church, we have this opportunity in this life, and this is the only life you're gonna have on earth, that we can have an unshakable life if it's built on the rock. 00:02:56.639 --> 00:03:03.199 I've had the privilege to be in Joplin, Missouri, right after that massive tornado about a decade ago. 00:03:03.439 --> 00:03:05.840 I've been in Okinawa, Japan living there. 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:11.280 We went through a huge typhoon that wiped out houses all over the place. 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:15.680 You've been to, maybe some of you have been to places where there's been a storm. 00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:18.479 I've been in third world countries right after a storm. 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:48.159 And what's amazing is you went through Joplin, Missouri, and when you went through Okinawa, Japan, you saw the structures that were built with solid, fresh, new foundations and building material right next to these houses that were maybe 50 or 100 years old that were in shambles because the structure was built with those materials that could handle a typhoon, a storm, a tornado. 00:03:48.719 --> 00:03:54.080 And it looked like nothing had happened to one, and then the other one is leveled, right? 00:03:54.319 --> 00:03:54.800 You seen that? 00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:56.000 You've seen that in the pictures? 00:03:56.159 --> 00:04:06.400 You'll look at pictures, especially in third world countries in Asia, you'll look at pictures and you'll see whole communities leveled, and then you'll see this one structure standing. 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:10.479 Jesus saying, build your life on the rock. 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:18.399 Lay foundations because in both cases, whether it's the sand or the rock, typhoons are coming. 00:04:18.959 --> 00:04:20.319 Storms are coming. 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:23.519 Rain is coming, floods are coming to your life. 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:29.279 You're gonna have floods, typhoons, tornadoes, and storms in 2020. 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:31.040 It's the way life is. 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:33.680 But we can be a people. 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:42.560 At the road, we can be a people who are unshakable by laying good foundations through the word and the spirit. 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:44.560 So let's look at chapter 7. 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:52.720 And in chapter 7, Jesus gives us his last admonitions before he closes off his sermon. 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:56.160 He says this in verse 1, chapter 7, verse 1. 00:04:56.639 --> 00:05:00.639 Judge not that you be not judged. 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:05.680 For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged. 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:10.319 And with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:17.839 And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? 00:05:18.160 --> 00:05:25.600 Or how can you say to your brother, let me remove a speck from your eye, and look, a plank is in your own eye. 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:36.160 Hypocrite, first remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. 00:05:36.399 --> 00:05:46.959 Do not give what is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet and turn and tear you in pieces. 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:50.480 I want to talk about these axioms, a new axiom. 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:55.600 Look at the unshakable foundation that Christ wants us to build our lives on. 00:05:55.680 --> 00:05:56.879 Here's the first one. 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:04.879 Stay focused on your own life and quit judging everyone else. 00:06:06.079 --> 00:06:08.879 So here's a plank. 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:11.920 This is a two by four from behind my barn. 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:20.720 He's saying, it's really hard to be focused on your life if you got a big plank and you can only see out of one eye. 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:27.439 And so many of us, and you know, especially in the Christian community, how judgmental we can be. 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:42.480 He's saying, look, you're sitting there trying to pick out the little sliver, the little speck in that person's life, and you got a plank in your own eye, it's going to be super difficult to stay focused. 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:43.839 You guys know what I mean? 00:06:44.000 --> 00:07:10.399 And so I know for me, one who has a tendency toward getting really upset about certain things, it's been a challenge to start focusing on Steve's life, focusing on my life and my family, considering the fact that all around me, with the way that news is and the way that we can get information, we can become so judgmental that it destroys us. 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:11.839 It really destroys us. 00:07:12.160 --> 00:07:23.839 The recent research is that there's a 69% chance that you'll have a negative attitude during your day if you start your day looking at the news. 00:07:25.839 --> 00:07:27.040 Well, here's another reason. 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:29.759 He says here, you're gonna get judged. 00:07:29.839 --> 00:07:34.319 I'm gonna allow judgment to come your way if you're a judgmental person. 00:07:34.480 --> 00:07:38.720 Now listen, there's nothing wrong with being having judgment. 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:42.720 God wants us to have biblical judgment. 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:45.680 It's the problem is judgmentalism. 00:07:46.959 --> 00:08:00.079 Being judgmental, having that judgmental spirit and that attitude toward others that begins to cause us to see every little sliver, every little splinter in other people's stuff. 00:08:00.399 --> 00:08:02.160 Usually we become negative. 00:08:02.319 --> 00:08:06.000 Usually that that negativity affects all parts of our life. 00:08:06.160 --> 00:08:08.079 Here's my challenge to us at the road. 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:14.879 Let's stay focused with 2020 vision in both eyes toward ourselves. 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:20.000 Let's grow up before we grow old. 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:29.920 Let's begin to see God in 2020 transform areas of our life that we need transformation. 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:31.839 Because here's the other thing. 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:33.600 Look what he says in verse 6. 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:41.840 Do not give what is holy to dogs, nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet and turn and tear you in pieces. 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:46.639 Here's the thing nobody cares about your opinion anyway. 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:54.240 Like what Lou Holtz, the great Notre Dame coach, said don't tell everyone your problems. 00:08:54.399 --> 00:08:58.240 80% don't care, and 20% are glad you have them. 00:09:02.879 --> 00:09:05.200 They're not interested in our opinion. 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:08.240 It's just casting your pearls before swine. 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:10.159 Keep it to yourself. 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:11.600 Work on you. 00:09:12.799 --> 00:09:24.159 Because when we work on us to be the best we can be, the best John that I can be, the best Susan that I can be, that's our witness. 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:32.080 That carries with it the power and the testimony of Jesus because we're being transformed. 00:09:32.240 --> 00:09:43.600 And through our positivity, and through our mercy, and through our love, and through our grace, lives are being transformed because they see a difference in our lives. 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:47.519 They see something happening that's supernatural within us. 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:52.720 So here's the next axiom for an unshakable foundation. 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:57.360 When you give your opinion, most people don't want to hear it anyway. 00:09:58.240 --> 00:09:58.879 Right? 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:03.039 So don't throw it, don't even waste your time. 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:07.120 Be a witness for Christ. 00:10:08.879 --> 00:10:11.519 Ask, and it will be given to you. 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:14.000 Seek, and you will find. 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:16.639 Knock, and it will be open to you. 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:19.120 For everyone who asks receives. 00:10:19.440 --> 00:10:23.919 He who seeks finds, and to him who knocks, it will be open. 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:30.399 Or what man is there among you who his son asks for bread, will give him a stone. 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:34.399 Or if he asks for fish, will give him a serpent. 00:10:34.639 --> 00:10:44.960 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him? 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:50.399 Therefore, whatever you want men to do, do also to them. 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:53.440 For this is the law and the prophets. 00:10:53.679 --> 00:10:58.240 Unshakable foundation, axiom, persistence wins the day. 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:08.320 You see, when we get our mind off of judging others and we start focusing in on our own life, we begin to realize, man, I can't do this. 00:11:08.799 --> 00:11:12.159 I do not have the capacity to get my marriage together. 00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:17.519 I do not have the capacity to relook and reframe my finances. 00:11:17.679 --> 00:11:20.399 I do not have the capacity to get another job. 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:25.120 I do not have a capacity to lose weight or whatever it is that you're struggling with. 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:27.759 And it many of us, it's all those things. 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:34.639 So you got to start asking, seeking, and knocking for God to come with his power. 00:11:34.879 --> 00:11:36.080 For God to come. 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:44.399 That those things that are impossible to us can be made possible because we're not focusing on all these other things that we have no control over. 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:45.679 Hello? 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:52.159 How many things do we worry about that we have no control over? 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:58.080 Let's worry about, let's get focused on the things that we can control. 00:11:58.559 --> 00:12:00.080 Men and women, look at me. 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:03.440 You have control of your life. 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:06.000 You have control of your life. 00:12:06.320 --> 00:12:08.559 You can change. 00:12:10.320 --> 00:12:12.559 You can change. 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:21.759 You do not have to have the same future as you've had in the past because you're unwilling to change unless it's your choice to do that. 00:12:21.840 --> 00:12:26.240 And he's saying, look, as you start to focus on your life, start crying out to me. 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:27.279 Let me show up. 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:28.320 I love to answer. 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:30.559 Keep asking, persistence. 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:37.600 Jesus said in Luke 11, a friend comes to another friend at midnight, if you remember the story. 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:41.840 And his friend says, Don't trouble me, it's midnight, I'm in bed. 00:12:42.080 --> 00:12:50.480 And the passage says this, but because of his persistence, he will rise and give him what he needs. 00:12:50.559 --> 00:12:56.320 And then right after that, this is Luke's perspective, he gives us this verse, ask and it shall be given. 00:12:56.480 --> 00:12:57.600 Seek and you shall find. 00:12:57.679 --> 00:12:59.200 Knock and the door shall be open. 00:12:59.679 --> 00:13:07.039 Then in Luke 18, a certain unrighteous judge and the person, the widow comes and she's crying out to the judge. 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:08.399 He says, Don't bother me. 00:13:08.559 --> 00:13:13.360 But it says, Because she cries out day and night, he will avenge her. 00:13:14.080 --> 00:13:15.919 Ephesians 6.18. 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:23.840 Pray with unceasing prayer and entreaty on every fitting occasion in the spirit. 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:32.879 And be always on the alert to seize opportunities for doing so with unwearied persistence. 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:34.879 What do you want? 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:37.600 What do you want from God? 00:13:38.720 --> 00:13:39.919 What do you want? 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:50.639 Knock, ask, seek, take opportunities to grow, take opportunities to change and be transformed. 00:13:51.279 --> 00:13:57.440 Seeking God comes through persistent prayer, crying out to him. 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:00.799 God wants to bless you, beloved. 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:03.279 Church, God wants to bless you. 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:06.320 He wants to pour out so much blessing. 00:14:06.720 --> 00:14:07.600 He's there for you. 00:14:08.159 --> 00:14:20.720 But for some reason, in the economy of the kingdom, he puts us in a position to need to ask for it, to cry out for that in our lives. 00:14:21.360 --> 00:14:22.720 Verse 13. 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:25.440 Enter by the narrow gate. 00:14:25.840 --> 00:14:30.240 For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction. 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:33.600 And there are many who go in by it. 00:14:34.080 --> 00:14:41.919 Because narrow is the gate, and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:44.879 Life is hard. 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:48.159 Life is hard. 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:57.519 It's difficult to lay an unshakable foundation in our finances. 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:02.960 It's difficult to have an unshakable marriage. 00:15:03.200 --> 00:15:09.360 It is difficult to have an unshakable relationship with your kids. 00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:16.639 It is difficult to have an unshakable relationship with your in-laws. 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:18.639 It is. 00:15:19.039 --> 00:15:21.919 It constantly takes work. 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:29.120 And he's saying, look, if you want to do what everybody else is doing, then that's a wide open road. 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:31.039 Just don't do anything. 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:34.480 But if you want to go the way of the kingdom, it's narrow. 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:35.919 It's going to be hard. 00:15:36.080 --> 00:15:37.759 It's going to take discipline. 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:39.519 It's going to take work. 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:45.440 And our mission here at the road is empowering people to change the world. 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:48.639 Empowering people to change the world. 00:15:49.039 --> 00:15:58.720 So men and women, our destiny, our purpose in everything that we do and all the classes we do is to empower us to change our world first. 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:01.840 It starts with our world and our family. 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:07.200 And the three fronts are Satan, the flesh, and the world. 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:10.559 There really is satanic oppression. 00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:16.559 There really is demonic activity constantly working against you. 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:27.200 If you haven't cast out any demons out of your house or any relationships recently, I can promise you they're there. 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:34.240 It is like, to me, a regular routine to cast out demons. 00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:40.720 Now I'm not talking about that I meet someone and they're foaming at the mouth or their head spinning around their head or something like that. 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:41.840 That's not what I'm talking about. 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:53.679 I'm just saying that there's enough spiritual activity that is demonic in the fourth dimension around us that I would challenge you to make it a habit as you come into situations. 00:16:54.240 --> 00:17:06.079 How many of you just on your regular day have vile, violent or sexual or lustful thoughts that seem to come out of nowhere? 00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:09.359 Wow, a lot of you guys are liars. 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:10.160 Okay. 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:12.160 You know you do. 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:13.599 It happens all the time. 00:17:13.759 --> 00:17:25.200 And it's because demons are out there and demons are speaking into your mind, they're speaking stuff into your heart, and it has nothing to do with anything you looked at, it has nothing to do with anything that you were thinking about. 00:17:25.359 --> 00:17:27.440 It just seems to come out of nowhere, right? 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:28.319 Right? 00:17:29.599 --> 00:17:34.160 We've got to get in a habit of casting that out, committing that to the Lord. 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:36.799 In the name of Jesus, get out of here. 00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:38.000 Get out of here. 00:17:38.240 --> 00:17:40.160 Spirit of lust, leave right now. 00:17:40.319 --> 00:17:42.319 Spirit of jealousy, leave right now. 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:46.799 Spirit of unforgiveness, leave right now in the name of Jesus. 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:48.559 And then there's the world. 00:17:49.039 --> 00:18:02.880 So if we inundate ourselves too much with the values of the world, maybe the movies we watch or what we have on our apps and different things like that, there's going to carry with it oppression. 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:06.319 And then there's just us, right? 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:13.440 There's just what we do, the stuff that we drum up within our flesh that we all struggle with and battle with. 00:18:14.880 --> 00:18:21.200 And so the battle on that narrow way is one in which we need others. 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:26.799 We need the word, we need blood-stained allies, we need folks in our life. 00:18:27.599 --> 00:18:28.880 As we grow. 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:31.599 And it's a fight, it's a battle. 00:18:31.839 --> 00:18:36.000 And yet that's how we build unshakable foundations. 00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:38.960 Look at verse 15. 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:42.240 Beware of false prophets. 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:47.599 Who come to you in sheep's clothing? 00:18:48.559 --> 00:18:51.519 So, in other words, they would appear to be believers. 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:54.079 They appear to be Christians. 00:18:55.519 --> 00:19:01.519 You will know them, but inwardly they're ravenous wolves. 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:04.160 You will know them by their fruits. 00:19:04.640 --> 00:19:09.039 Do men gather grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles? 00:19:09.839 --> 00:19:14.000 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit. 00:19:14.319 --> 00:19:16.880 But a bad tree bears bad fruit. 00:19:17.119 --> 00:19:22.559 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 00:19:24.160 --> 00:19:28.880 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 00:19:29.119 --> 00:19:32.079 Therefore, by their fruits you will know them. 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:42.319 Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father in heaven. 00:19:42.640 --> 00:19:53.359 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name, cast out demons in your name, done many wonders in your name. 00:19:54.079 --> 00:20:02.240 And then I will declare to them, I never knew you, depart from me, you who practice lawlessness. 00:20:03.839 --> 00:20:07.519 Liz and I have a phrase that we use a lot, inspect the fruit. 00:20:08.240 --> 00:20:10.160 Inspect the fruit. 00:20:10.400 --> 00:20:15.839 Not just what people say, but what they actually do. 00:20:17.039 --> 00:20:18.000 Inspect the fruit. 00:20:18.079 --> 00:20:25.359 And I would say this, in light of the context in which Jesus gives these words, inspect your own fruit first. 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:28.079 Are you in the faith? 00:20:28.880 --> 00:20:34.799 Men and women, are you in the faith? 00:20:36.240 --> 00:20:38.079 Are you really born again? 00:20:38.880 --> 00:20:39.920 You're here today? 00:20:40.079 --> 00:20:40.960 That's awesome. 00:20:41.279 --> 00:20:42.480 Glad you're here. 00:20:43.680 --> 00:20:52.000 But does the life that we study and we read here line up with how the other six days of the week are in your life? 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:57.680 Because if you're not bearing some kingdom fruit, there's two problems. 00:20:57.920 --> 00:21:02.480 One, you don't know how to grow, or you've chosen not to grow in your faith. 00:21:02.640 --> 00:21:04.319 You don't know how to be filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:21:04.400 --> 00:21:06.720 Or secondly, you're not saved yet. 00:21:07.839 --> 00:21:15.440 You may have said the words or prayed the prayer or been through a catechism class or even been baptized. 00:21:16.079 --> 00:21:17.440 But are you born again? 00:21:17.680 --> 00:21:19.599 Nobody can answer that but you. 00:21:20.640 --> 00:21:22.480 I'm gonna give you that opportunity today. 00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:23.680 Get saved. 00:21:24.079 --> 00:21:25.519 Get born again. 00:21:25.839 --> 00:21:28.240 Put Christ on the throne of your life. 00:21:28.559 --> 00:21:35.440 For some of us, we are born again, we know Christ, but we've never discovered the power of God. 00:21:35.839 --> 00:21:50.400 That unshakable power that when we're faced with temptation, we can ask for the filling of the Holy Spirit and we start to overcome that anger in our life, that bullying in our life, that pride in our life. 00:21:50.799 --> 00:21:52.400 For some of you, it's the other side. 00:21:56.720 --> 00:21:58.400 You're fearful to step out. 00:21:58.640 --> 00:21:59.759 God wants to give you boldness. 00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:08.000 For some of you, you need a good dose of humility, and others of us need a good dose of boldness. 00:22:08.400 --> 00:22:11.599 Well, the Spirit knows what we need. 00:22:13.119 --> 00:22:15.440 That's how we build our house on the rock. 00:22:16.640 --> 00:22:21.359 And so Jesus concludes again, let me read it again in verse 24. 00:22:21.599 --> 00:22:32.319 Therefore, whoever hears these sayings of mine and does them, and this is the key here, he this is someone who hears and does. 00:22:33.279 --> 00:22:40.160 You're hearing me this morning, you're hearing God's word, but now we do it. 00:22:40.559 --> 00:22:42.480 We hear it and we do it. 00:22:43.759 --> 00:22:47.839 I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock. 00:22:48.799 --> 00:22:51.599 The operable word here is built. 00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:54.720 Circle built or highlight built. 00:22:54.960 --> 00:22:57.599 He built his house on the rock. 00:22:57.920 --> 00:23:03.920 The rain descends, the floods came, the winds blew and beat on that house, and it did not fall. 00:23:04.960 --> 00:23:07.200 Because it was founded on the rock. 00:23:08.079 --> 00:23:12.640 But everyone who hears these sayings of mind does not do them. 00:23:12.799 --> 00:23:18.319 So you hear it, it's in one side of your head and out the other. 00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:20.319 It really doesn't affect you that much. 00:23:20.480 --> 00:23:25.039 Maybe that was a good sermon, or you had your time with the Lord, that was a good word. 00:23:25.119 --> 00:23:27.680 But really, it's not changing your life. 00:23:28.400 --> 00:23:32.400 We'll be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 00:23:32.720 --> 00:23:39.519 And the rain descended, the floods came, the winds blew and beat on that house, and great was its fall. 00:23:39.680 --> 00:23:41.920 So here's the word here. 00:23:42.400 --> 00:23:43.759 Jot this down. 00:23:44.160 --> 00:23:51.519 Build on the unshakable rock by doing, not just listening. 00:23:52.319 --> 00:23:55.759 Build on the unshakable rock by doing and not just listening. 00:23:55.839 --> 00:23:58.480 And the operable word here is building. 00:23:59.680 --> 00:24:01.599 Building is hard work. 00:24:01.839 --> 00:24:04.799 Building anything is hard work. 00:24:05.359 --> 00:24:11.519 So I want to challenge you today on Super Bowl Sunday, 2020. 00:24:11.839 --> 00:24:14.799 God wants you to have a Super Bowl life. 00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:23.279 God wants you to have unshakable finances, unshakable marriage, unshakable relationships. 00:24:23.759 --> 00:24:25.680 Because storms are coming. 00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:28.880 You are gonna get rocked this year. 00:24:31.119 --> 00:24:35.599 You've been listening to The Road with Pastor Teacher Steve Holt. 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:38.640 We hope you have been blessed by today's message. 00:24:38.880 --> 00:24:42.720 To connect with us further, visit theroad.org. 00:24:42.960 --> 00:24:46.799 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