Okay, let's turn to Isaiah 28.
Before we read our text, I want to tell you the children's story
that I know that you're all familiar with. We've been taught it. We've
taught it to our children. Your children have heard it.
There was three little pigs. And they each built them a house.
I'm going to give you the condensed version. They all built them
a house. And one built a house out of
straw. And when the overflowing scourge
came, his house didn't stand because it was made out of nothing.
laid out of straw. So he took off to his neighbor's
house, and his neighbor's second little pig built his house out
of sticks. I mean, in comparison with his
neighbor, his house was a lot better. It wasn't near as bad
as that other one. But we don't compare ourselves
with ourselves. There's no refuge in that. And
when the overflowing scourge came, his house didn't stand. Because it was made out of sticks.
And those two little pigs fled to their neighbor's house. And
this neighbor had built his house out of brick. And when the overflowing
scourge came, his house couldn't be moved. It couldn't be moved. Everybody in this room has some
kind of refuge. Everybody. Well, I believe in God. I believe
in heaven. Well, I believe there's hell.
Well, I made a promise to Jesus Christ. I made a covenant with
Him. Men build a refuge by creating
an image of God in their corrupt minds. Man's idol can be manipulated
by man. Man's idol God can be bribed
by man. Man's idol God is not holy. He's
not righteous. He's not just. He's not even
loving. He's as cruel and hateful as
the man who made him up in his mind. Man builds a refuge by corrupting
God's Word to say what he thinks it ought to say by bringing the
law down to his level. by defining sin and righteousness
as acts and deeds. Sin's a heart condition. Sin
is hate toward God and love for self. Sin is a nature that has
to be, well, you that are sitting here that are believers, you
still have that unconverted nature, ain't you? But righteousness is not a deed.
It's God the Holy Spirit making a sinner a new creation in Christ
Jesus. Making him a partaker of the
divine nature. John said the man that's born
of God does not sin because his seed remains in him and he can't
sin. He's in Christ. We saw this morning he has no
sin. By one man's obedience, righteousness came. It's having
his obedience imputed to you. men build a refuge in religious
experiences. You ask any number of men what
their hope is. Well, I joined the church. I did this or that. I had so
many yesterday that would walk by and would say, I already have
a church. Well, I'm not. I'm not trying
to give you a church. Not trying to talk to you about
anything about a church. Well, I didn't hear anybody say,
oh, is this about Christ? My beloved, to whom I belong
and who is mine, is this about Him? Sadly, that's because of what
churches are trying to give is an invite to come into their
church and join their church. Many build a refuge in wealth.
Riches become their life by giving away Being benevolent, giving
away, they expect something from that. In alliances with the ungodly,
you'd be surprised how many people really think that they have some
kind of refuge in their willingness to compromise the truth of God.
Just get along with everybody. And everybody simply, until God
comes, until God does something, they just put their head in the
sand. and try to ignore the storm that's coming. Verse 14 says,
Wherefore, hear the word of the Lord, ye mockers, ye scornful
men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. Those were some
people that were really ruling in Judah, in Jerusalem. Mockers,
scoffers, leaders, religious and civil. But it's a good illustration
of those in our day, in earthly Jerusalem, in the earthly church,
in an earthy institution that's made by men and not by God, that
are ruling. Because you've said, we've made
a covenant with death and with hell are we at agreement. Not
even worried about it. Not even worried about that.
We're saved. We're saved. Everybody's saved. Everybody's got some kind of
way everybody saved When the overflowing scourge
shall pass through it won't come into us But here's what God says such
men are doing he says Here's what they're what they say this
is what it amounts to we've made lies our refuge It's the last
time you heard a man say I made a lie my refuge Now I didn't
hear anybody come by yesterday and say that. I don't need that.
I've made a lot of my refuge. But everybody had a refuge. Everybody's
got a refuge of some sort. And under falsehood if we hid
ourselves, all through this book Isaiah's been saying the lofty
looks of man are going to be humbled. He said the haughtiness
of man is going to be made to bow down and the Lord alone shall
be exalted. the Lord alone. He says, Therefore
cease from man whose breath is in his nostrils, for where is
he to be accounted of? Can you count on him? Can you
count on him? He says here in verse 17, Judgment
also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet. And the hail shall sweep away
the refuge of lies, and water shall overflow the hiding place.
And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your
agreement with hell shall not stand." It won't stand. My question this morning, the
title of this message, my question is, where do you stand? Where
do you stand? He says, your covenant with death
shall be disannulled, your agreement with hell shall not stand when
the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be
trodden down by it. Now look back there at verse
16. Wherefore, hear the word of the Lord God. Now let me ask
you something. This morning, right now, I don't
know how many hours are in your lifetime, but I'm asking you
for about 35 minutes, about 35 minutes, to hear the word of
the Lord. To hear what he said. and consider
what He says. Hear the Word of the Lord. The
first thing the Lord says is, He lays the foundation. Verse
15 said, Ye have said, We have made a covenant. We are in agreement. We've made an agreement. But
in verse 16, Therefore thus saith the Lord God, I lay in Zion for
a foundation of stone. Do you know that the covenant
of God, you don't make the covenant of God, we don't make the covenant
of God. Death is the payment of sin. And I can't put away
my sin. You can't put away your sin.
Hell, it has a rightful claim on you unless God redeems you
out justly. I can't do that. You can't do
that. God's covenant is ordered by
God. It's made sure by God. And it's
made to those he makes it with. The first problem with a false
refuge is this. We made it. We made it. It's
our making. We made it. All false refuge
comes back down to this, to a heart that says, I made a covenant. I got a refuge. I made it. Therefore, thus saith the Lord
God, I lay in Zion. I do it for a foundation of stone.
You know, underneath every one of your houses is a foundation. Underneath every house is a foundation.
And every house has got to have a foundation. It's got to have
a foundation. And I thought about the leaning
tower of Pisa. It doesn't have a foundation.
That's why it's leaning. Christ Jesus, the Son of God,
is the foundation that God laid. He's the foundation God laid.
We saw this morning, He's the smitten rock. That rock is Christ. Would you ever think of going
to a rock for water? There's no form nor comeliness
in Him that when we should see Him, we should desire Him. But
He's the life, the water of life. Would you? Now you can kind of
enter into the fact that a rock, a stone could be a foundation,
can't you? You can enter into that. And
yet men still won't come to this stone. There is, throughout Scripture,
He's called the shepherd, the stone of Israel. This is what
Scripture says. Other foundation can no man lay. Which is laid? Jesus Christ. He's the foundation. And God
said, I lay the foundation for God to receive all the glory,
all the glory, all the glory. God has to lay the foundation
and God has to build the whole house. He's got to build the whole house
and he's building his house on that one foundation. God, in His eternal purpose,
when we saw this morning, I've got to go back to this, what
we saw over there next to us. I've been walking around on a
cloud all week on this. When the Lord told Moses, I'm
going to go before you and I'm standing on the rock. That rocks
Christ. And the Father, before time again,
stood on the rock. He did. All His glory, everything
about God Almighty, He said, My son, I'm entrusting it to
you. I'm standing on you. And Christ Jesus came into the
world and He did not fail, brethren. And He's not failing right now. God chose him first and laid
the foundation in choosing his son first to be the firstborn
royal son among many brethren. He chose his son first and he
actually, by choosing his son who is the foundation, he laid
the foundation before the foundation of the world. In fact, he founded
the world to declare Christ the foundation. And in fact, He founded
the world on Christ the foundation, His Son. God loves His Son. God's going to honor His Son
because His Son loves Him and His Son honored Him. He chose
Him to manifest to men finite creatures that He would make
and put into this earth that He would say He chose Him, He
would make Him a body. And His Son who is the invisible
God would come in that body and in that body He would give us
an understanding, a comprehension of the triune, the invisible
God in a body. That's how we know who God is
by looking at Christ. I love that. Did you catch that
last week in the bulletin when George Whitefield, the last little
line there of that article by him, he said, Lord, I long to
adore what I cannot comprehend. Christ chose him to manifest
his righteousness. He chose him to manifest his
holy character. He chose him He chose Him to
magnify His law, not for Himself. God's law is magnified. He's solitary. He don't need
you or me. He did this. He gave His law
and He sent His Son to magnify that law so we could understand
something of look at somebody and actually see Christ in somebody. And the only place we see Him
is in Christ. to fulfill all that was written
of him to show that all this government's been on his shoulder
from the beginning and that he's fulfilling everything and doing
everything. I'm convinced, I'm convinced,
brethren. We see these things in types
and what have you, but I'm convinced that when the Lord spoke to Moses
and said, now, come on, Moses, I'm gonna go stand on the rock,
that was the mediator speaking to Moses. That's the only way
God speaks to sinful creatures, to a mediator. And he's showing him, look, this
is what my father did. He stood on the rock. He's standing
on me. Now you smite the rock. This
is how the foundation's made. This is how life comes about.
He chose Him to put away their sin and He finished the work. He did it all. And He did this,
brethren, so that His Son would build this whole house, foundation
up, build it, fitly frame it together, put every living stone
in place. You are the temple of God who
are born of Him. After He says, no other foundation
can a man lay than that which is laid, He says, let every man
be careful how he builds on this foundation. And right after that
He says, you're the temple of God. You're a living stone of
God built on this foundation. What's Paul been talking about
all through 1 Corinthians? I'm determined to preach nothing
among you save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Turn from the
foundation in trying to build on the foundation and you're
going to build wood, hay, and stubble on the foundation. It's
going to be burned up. It's going to be burned up. And
He did this that no flesh would glory in His presence. Zion is
the church of God. It's God's building. He said, Peter, on this rock
I'm going to build my church. And the gates of hell won't prevail
against it. He said, this is the foundation. This is the refuge. This is what
Isaiah said. Enter into the rock. Put yourself
in the dust for the fear of God. He said, He shall be for a sanctuary. He said, look there, verse 26,
verse 20. Come, my people, enter thou into
thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee. Hide thyself, as
it were, for a little moment, till the indignation be overpassed.
For the Lord is coming out of His place to punish the inhabitants
of the earth for their iniquity. Hide, go into your chamber and
hide. This is the rock we're talking about. And because Zion
is His church, and it's His building, and it's His planting, and He's
built up every living stone in it, and He's put them together
in it, you know what message they declare? Not man's works. Not man's works. Not man's will.
Not man's running. They declare God's works. That's
what they declare. Every one of them do. Christ's
sheep don't need a checklist to go through to figure out if
a man's preaching Christ. You know how? Christ himself
tells us how we're gonna determine it. They that hear, what? My voice. My sheep hear, what? My voice. And they do what? They
follow me. You know how long I have to listen
to a message to determine if a man's preaching Christ or not? until he stops preaching Christ.
Some don't ever start. And I've realized this man don't
know God. If God's messengers don't stand up in the pulpit
and preach anything but Christ, I'm telling you, telling you. And that's how we tell the master
from an imposter. Now here's the second thing.
Christ Jesus is the proven stone. He said He's a tried stone, verse
16. The Lord said, Prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts.
Prove me. He said, He's talking to sinners. Prove me. Try me. You try me
and see if I won't open the windows of heaven and pour you out a
blessing that there should not be room enough to receive it.
Try me, He said. And you know what every believer
does? You know what? This chair right here. right
here, and I look at it, I look it over real good, I can learn
everything about it. I can learn how it's put together,
all the bolts. I could tell you how to take
it apart, how to put it together. I could dissect the doctrine
of this chair to the point that you would say, man, he knows
everything about a chair, but I hadn't tried it until I sat
down in it. Now I've tried it, and guess
what I've proven? That chair can hold me. That chair, I can
rest in that chair. Now I, when I'm weary, I like
that chair. If I'm heavy laden and burdened,
I want that chair. I don't want to talk about it.
I don't want to just, I just don't, I don't want to talk about
how it's made and break it apart to where you can't even comprehend
what the chair looks like. I just want to sit down in the
thing. Well, that's what his people
do. They sit down, they try him.
They prove him. They sit down in him. Satan tried
him. We get hungry and we murmur,
we complain. He hadn't eaten in 40 days. Satan
said, if you're God, make these rocks bread. And he could have.
He said, get behind me. Mosquito buzzing around here,
bothering me. We live in an age of adrenaline
junkies, tempting God. Jump out of the highest plane,
jump off the biggest mountain, ski down the steepest slope.
dangle yourself like a spider up and down. The Lord said, if
you're God, jump off this mountain. He'll catch you. He said, it's
written, don't tempt the Lord God. Somebody comes up to us and says,
man, I'll give you a few hours overtime tomorrow if you'll stay
here and work. And for just a few hours overtime,
we'll go. All right, I'll take it. He said
he took him up on a pinnacle and showed him all the kingdoms
of the earth over all time. And he said, I'll give you all
this. He said, get behind me. Get behind
me. He's faithful. You know what
that means? We ain't. We're not. We're not. He is. He's tried by his father. He
made to feel the agony of all the sin of every chosen child
of God. He felt the hatred of the host of hell unleashed upon
him. He suffered the eternal fierceness of God's wrath. And through it all, God the Father
said, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. And you know what He's saying
to you this morning? You know what He's saying through Isaiah?
You know what He's been saying since He spoke to Adam and Eve
in the garden with those coats of skins? You know what He's
been saying throughout all the ages? Here ye am. Here ye am. Here's the second
thing. Christ Jesus, the Son of God,
is a precious cornerstone. A precious cornerstone. The corner
is the point of unity. That's where all the buildings
are brought together. It's the point of unity. The
whole building is held together by the cornerstone. That means
Christ is precious. More valuable than all else. Because in Him is oneness. Oneness. The triune God. It's
just trying to adore what we can't comprehend. The triune
God and all His elect angels and every chosen child of God are one in one. Christ Jesus the Lord. That's
a precious cornerstone. precious cornerstone. Jew and Gentile, male and female,
rich and poor, have all been reconciled in one body in Christ
Jesus on the cross. Look at Ephesians 2.19. Ephesians
2.19. He says, now therefore, talking
to the believers at Ephesus, now therefore you're no more
strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints
and of the household of God. A house is more than just a foundation,
isn't it? A house is more than a foundation.
It's made out of stones. That smart, smart pig had a house
made out of brick. It's made out of stone. A household
of God. And are built upon the foundation. You sitting right here today
that believe God are built on the same foundation of the apostles
and the prophets. All of them. One. On one foundation. Jesus Christ
himself being the chief cornerstone. All one in him. in whom all the
building fitly framed together." How does it get there? How does
these stones get into this building? They are fitly framed. How are
they fitly framed? Through this gospel. He quickens
whom He will through His truth, through His Word. He quickens
whom He will and He frames this house together. I'm not building
the house of God. I'm not building the house of
God. He's building it. I'm a worker working for Him.
He's building it. You know when you pull up on
a construction site and you go out there to those fellows working,
you can ask them all the questions you want to, but you know where
they're going to say go? You see that white trailer over
there? That's the project manager. He's building this thing. Go
talk to him. Well, he's building it. Fitly framed together and
groweth unto a holy temple in the Lord. In whom? In him. In the Lord. Ye also are builded
together for a habitation of God through the Spirit. Somebody
said, therefore, Christ is a trying stone. This precious cornerstone
has not only been tried, but he's a trying stone. by which
men are discovered to be believers or unbelievers, sincere or hypocrites. The Lord said, I am come for
that purpose. That's what God said. Wherefore? Because you're mocking my people.
I'm laying a stone for a purpose. I'm laying a stone for a purpose.
The Lord said, I am come to set a man at variance against his
father and the daughter against her mother and the daughter-in-law
against her mother-in-law. He shall be for a sanctuary,
but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to
both the houses of Israel, for a jinn and for a snare to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem. To the earthy, he is a stumbling
stone. And he says, and he shall be
for that. And for others, he shall be for
a sanctuary. Don't ask men what they believe.
That won't solve the question. If you're a believer, that won't
solve the question. You really want no answer. Ask them what
they believe. Somebody's smart enough to know
if you ask somebody what they believe, they're going to say
enough things eventually where y'all not going to disagree. Men just
don't agree on things. But if you ask them who they
believe, ask them who they believe. What think ye of Christ? What
do you think of Christ's person? Christ Jesus is holy God. He's
the fullness of the triune God. Is there anybody here that would
dare say God is not all? Would you dare let those words
come out of your lips? Out of your mouth? Christ is God. Christ is God. If Christ is not our all, if
God is not our all, He's nothing to us. What we think ourselves, what
we're really saying is, I'm a builder. And what we're really confessing,
unbeknown to ourself is, I'm a builder that has set at naught
this chief cornerstone. I've made him nothing. I'm the
builder. Well, thank you of Christ's name.
This is the name wherewith he shall be called. This is the
name wherewith she shall be called. The Lord our righteousness. What
do you think of Christ's offices? He's the prophet. He's the priest, the high priest. He is the king. He is the mediator. He is the advocate. He is the
intercessor. He is the captain of our salvation. He is the author and finisher
of the believer's faith. He is. What think ye of Christ's
blood? Is it common? Did He shed it for everybody?
Does it depend upon a sinner to be effectual? Or is His blood
effectual? He washed away the sin of His
people by the sacrifice of Himself, by His blood. He perfected forever
by His blood. He obtained eternal redemption
by His blood. He purchased every chosen child
of God effectually forever by His blood. Eternal life is in
His blood. What do you think of His Word?
He said, If a man love Me, he'll keep My words. What do you think
of His Word? Do you think you have life by
His Word, by your doing? Or does His Word cause you to
lay hold of Him who is life? Do you love that He says, by
the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in my sight?
The law was given strictly to give you the knowledge of sin.
It wasn't made for a righteous man. Do you love that He says,
having begun in the Spirit, you're not now made perfect by the flesh?
Do you love that He says, no man can come to Me except the
Father which has sent Me, draw him, and I'll raise him up again
at the last day? Of all that which He's given Me, I'll lose
nothing, but I'll raise it up again at the last day? Do we
cling to John 6, 3, 16 and ignore Romans chapter 9? If we don't
keep all His words, we just keep some and not others. We don't
keep any. What do you think of His ordinances? Were you baptized
into His death? When He died, did you die? When
He arose, did you arise with Him to glory? Was His broken
body broken for you? Was His shed blood shed for you?
Have you been baptized? Have you followed Him in water
baptism? Have you? Or did you follow that other
Jesus? Just go swimming. Which one? Do we really remember him when
we drink the water, the blood, the wine, and take the bread? What do you think of his people?
Do you love God's people more than you love your unbelieving
fathers and mothers and sons and daughters? That's hard, isn't
it? That's hard. Would you rather be with God's
sheep or be with your friends in the world? You know the answer. I know the
answer. Is your substance their substance? I was talking to Paul last night
about that when the Lord poured out the spirit and they had all
things common and no man said anything was his own, you know.
Men try to imitate that in government, but there's a problem with it.
Christ is the king and he's the head of the church. Men can imitate
it, but what happens is the rich man says, well, I'm not going
to work any harder than I have to if I've got to give it to a poor
man. Because he hates God and he hates everybody. He loves
himself. The poor man says, I'm not going to get up and get a
job if everybody's just going to give it to me. Because he
hates God and he hates everybody and he loves himself. But God's
people are born of the Spirit of God. And the rich man says,
this is not mine, God gave it to me. And the poor man says,
God blessed me through this man and he's constrained by the love
of Christ so that he wants to get up and go get a job. And it's all because Christ reigns
in the hearts of his people, in the midst of his church. The
government's on his shoulder. He is ruling and reigning and
presiding. Men can imitate his church, they
can imitate his governments, and have ever since the beginning
of the world. Where do you think a king came from? Hmm? Where
do we think, what gave, what put it in the heart of a man
to want to try to rule over a group of people and make them do what
he wanted them to do and fulfill his purpose and build up a city
to his name to glorify. Where do you think he got that
desire? Just trying to be God. Just trying to be God. Why did
Israel not have a king until they rebelled against Samuel
and said, we want a king like these other nations have. We
like the kind of king they have. Why didn't they have one up to
then? They had one. That's why. And God's people
always have had one. Unto you. This is the stone.
He's the stone that makes the difference. It's not doctrine
that makes the difference. It's Christ. It's Christ. The reason I don't have associated
with certain men and certain men don't associate with me,
it don't have anything to do with doctrine. It has to do with
Christ. With God. And the reason all
God's people are one is because of Christ. He's this unifying
stone that brings men together. Unto you therefore which believe
he's precious, but unto you which be disobedient, the stone which
the builders disallow. The same is made the head of
the corner, the stone of stumbling. Here's the third thing, I'll
hurry. The third thing. Christ is the sure foundation. Did you see this story? Be turning
to Matthew 7. Matthew 7. Did you see this story
about the last hurricane that came through Galveston, this
past one that really wiped it off the map? Some folks got the
news. They heard the news. There is
a hurricane coming. They heard that news. And they
said, we're going to have a party. Ride it out. We built this house. We went to no expense building
this house, and we're confident this house can last through a
hurricane. And we're staying, and they stayed.
And the hurricane came, and it began to get really bad. And
the lady they interviewed, she said, I looked out my window,
and she said, I started seeing my neighbor's houses just crumble
into the sea. At that point, it wasn't such
a good idea to stay there, was it? It just wasn't. And her house
began to move. She said she could feel the whole
house moving, and she could feel it literally turning and moving. And somebody came, the National
Guard came, and they had a helicopter, and they came and they let down
a basket to her. And it was her husband, I think
it was, and they crawled up there and got on the roof. They took
an axe and broke a hole in the roof. She did. Her and her husband
busted a hole in the roof of their house. That house wasn't
important to them anymore, was it? They didn't value that house
at all anymore. They busted a hole in the roof
of it. And they crawled up on top of that roof and they let
down this basket And they had to be coaxed and urged and persuaded
and begged to get into that basket. No. No, they threw themselves
into that basket. And they zipped them up into
that helicopter and they took them to solid ground. Now read
this with me, Matthew 7, 24. This is the Lord speaking. Therefore,
whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, he said,
if ye keep my word, 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." You know what Isaiah
is telling us? That rock is Christ. That rock
is Christ. But, here's what happened down
in Galveston. Everyone that heareth these sayings
of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish
man which built his house upon the sand. And the rain descended,
and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that
house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it. Is your foundation sure? If your
holiness is in your acts, are you sure you are absolutely perfect?
Because it's got to be holy to be accepted with God. Absolutely
holy to be accepted with God. He doesn't receive anybody but
complete, perfect, holy saints. Somebody will say, well, I'm
no saint. Well, you've got to be if you're going to be accepted
with God. It ain't a matter of you accepting Him. It's a matter
of Him accepting you. And He don't accept anybody but absolutely,
perfectly holy saints. And the only way that can be
is in Christ Jesus the Lord. Are you sure of your righteousness
and your righteous works? God receives His righteous Son
alone and He receives only those resting in His Son. If your wisdom
is in your coming to the doctrines of grace, enticing and slicing
doctrine, no matter how good at it you may be, just like this
illustration I gave you of this chair, If that's the case, it
might be in great accuracy and great truth, but be sure, brethren,
be sure, brethren, that Christ is the power and wisdom of God
unto you. If that's the case with those
that are truly called of Him, they forsake everything and follow
Christ. If you think that the least little
thing you have done, the least little thing you have done has
made you God's own, are you sure, are you sure you're God's purchased
possession? Because God's children were purchased
by the precious blood of Christ Jesus and the Spirit alone seals
His redeeming. This is the sure foundation.
Faith receives a fully completed work of salvation, casting all
care on that sure foundation. And God says, you're complete
in Him. Complete in Him. The gates of
hell can't prevail against you. God's going to have to fall away
before this foundation falls away. This house falls away.
Here's the conclusion. Verse 16. The end there. He that believeth Not he that willeth, not he that
worketh, not he that runneth, he that believeth. I want you to do something for
me. Let's do something. Let's do an experiment. You believe I'm sitting in this
chair, and you're not doing anything.
You believe I'm sitting in that chair, and yet you're not doing
a thing. You didn't lift a finger. That's
what believing is. It's believing Christ is the
sure foundation. It doesn't... It's not you doing
anything. It's you believing Him. That's
faith. He says, and he that believeth
shall not make haste. It means he shall not be moved. He shall not be moved. He shall
not ever be put to shame, shall not be ashamed for trusting Christ. Can you imagine how embarrassing
it probably was for that poor lady and her husband to face
their neighbors and their friends and actually get on there and
tell that story that we stayed in that house? Can you imagine
how the embarrassment of that? Well, God says, if you, if you
build your house on this foundation, you planted and rooted on this
foundation, you'll never have that embarrassment, you'll never
suffer any shame, not from God, not from anybody. That's right. And if he makes you do it, you
won't be ashamed of him, won't be ashamed of him, be willing
to to say what you know, tell what He's done for you. Let me ask you some more questions.
Upon whom is your hope built? When darkness veils Christ's
lovely face, where do you rest? When all around your soul gives
way, just who's all your hope and stay? When Christ comes with trumpet
sound, in whom and how shall you be
found? Eric, let's, you and brother
Jaime, let's sing number 272, The Solid Rock. And as we sing
this now, I want you to consider every word, every word. And as you leave here this morning,
I want you to ask yourself this, where do I stand? Where do I stand? Christ is the only refuge. Every
other refuge is a refuge of lies. Enter into the rock and hide
thee in the dust for fear of the Lord and He shall be for
a sanctuary And he that believeth shall never be moved. Ever be
moved. Amen.