slides for sermon - Building Your House

1. Matthew 7:24-27

2. The Foolish Man Builds with
Many different standards (Matt 7:1-5)
No standard at all (Matt 7:5-6)
The Wise Man Builds with
The Standard of Jesus Christ (The Gospel)
 He can discern between Good and Evil (Heb
5:13-14)
 He expects everyone to build with that standard

3. The Foolish Man Chooses to Build with
 People he does not know (Matt 7:15-20)
 Those he has judged with evil thoughts (James
2:1-4)
The Wise Man Chooses to build with
 Those that he has judged faithful (Acts 16:14-15)
 Those that he has judged to be wise (Proverbs
13:20)
 “He who walks with wise men will be wise, but the
companion of fools will be destroyed.”

4.  The Wisest Built His House on the Rock
 Matt 16:13-19
 The Foolish Man Built His House on
 The passing pleasures of this world / the Sand
 And the House fell down
 The Wise Man Built His House on
 Our Confession/ Jesus Christ/ The Rock (Heb 10:19-23)
 And the House stood firm