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“Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of Mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock” (Matthew 7:24-25).
Many years ago, when I was a boy, a strong hurricane called Hurricane Hazel caused serious damage along the eastern seaboard of the U.S.A. and Canada. Where I lived in Ontario we did not get the wind, but only several days of very heavy rain. Rivers overflowed their banks, and in the area of Toronto, Ontario the Humber River started to wash away some of the houses built along its banks. Some brave men took boats out onto the river, going along and attempting to save people who were trapped in their houses that were surrounded by water. Sadly, many of those houses ended up being washed away.
Those houses were built near the river, and when the floods rose, they were washed away. But those houses that were built up higher, perhaps on a rock, stood firm. In the same way we need to build our lives on Christ, who is the Rock, for God’s judgment will never touch us if we are resting on Him. But if we rest on our own good works, or something else in this world, it will be washed away under the judgment of God. Tomorrow I will tell you a story about a man who was in one of those houses on the Humber river.
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