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Where Are You Building Your Hope?
When you see a house falling down, chances are there’s a foundation issue. If it’s a life that’s collapsing, you need to repent or jack that house up and pour a new foundation. Only a life built on the Rock will stand firm (Matthew 7:24-27). We’ve sing a few songs that remind us of this:
My hope is built on nothing less Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness; I dare not trust the sweetest frame, But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.
and …
The wise man built his house upon the rock. (x3) The rains came down and the floods came up. (x3) And the house on the rock stood firm.
The foolish man built his house upon the sand. (x3) The rains came down and the floods came up. (x3) And the house on the sand went smash.
and …
Jesus, You’re My Firm Foundation, I Know I Can Stand Secure; Jesus, You’re My Firm Foundation, I Put My Hope In Your Holy Word, I Put My Hope In Your Holy Word.
I. Hebrews 6:17-20. God tells us that it’s not if but when the storms of life come. If we are resting on His unchanging grace, then we are able to hold onto the hope that God offers us, this hope that is an anchor for the soul, where Jesus has gone before us beyond the veil into heaven itself. Or as this song says:
When darkness veils His lovely face, I rest on His unchanging grace; In ev’ry high and stormy gale, My anchor holds within the veil.
II. 1 Corinthians 3:10-15. Since the wise build their lives on the Rock, how should we build? Walking with Christ, we avoid the building materials that the world offers and begin our new life by being baptized (Colossians 2:6-12). Then, taking care how we build, our lives are tested with a refiner’s fire, and we sing:
His oath, His covenant, His blood, Support me in the whelming flood; When all around my soul gives way, He then is all my hope and stay.
III. 1 Corinthians 15:50-58. We stand firm when our lives found in Him. We must let Christ replace the perishable with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality. Because He conquered death, we, baptized into Him can be clothed with His righteousness and stand blameless before the throne, singing …
When He shall come with trumpet sound, O may I then in Him be found, Dressed in His righteousness alone, Faultless to stand before the throne.
If we are truly being wise and not foolish builders of our lives upon Jesus, we can sing these choruses:
On Christ, the Solid Rock, I stand; All other ground is sinking sand, All other ground is sinking sand.
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So, build your life on the Lord, Jesus Christ. (x3) And the blessings come tumbling down. The blessings come down as the prayers go up. (x3) When you build your life on the Lord, Jesus Christ.
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I Have A Living Hope,
(I Have A Living Hope, )
I Have A Future;
(I Have A Future;)
God Has A Plan For Me,
(God Has A Plan For Me,)
Of This I’m Sure,
(Of This I’m Sure.)
