Well, we're going to have a short
break from Isaiah for I don't know how long, at least one week,
at least this week. Now last weekend, many of us
were at the conference and you can all see the messages online,
they're all on sermon audio now, and I did send out an email with
links to all of the audio streams there. And it was a truly blessed
time, we had some excellent preaching. You can go to a conference and
it's a high, you know, it's a spiritual high. But how does it leave you? Is it reality for you? When you
come back, does it last? How do you respond to the preaching
that you've heard? Is it the real thing? Is the
faith that you have the faith of God's elect, the saving faith
of God's elect, the faith that will be with you right through
this life until you take your last breath. Is it that faith? Is it the real thing? Because
we have to beware, there's lots of delusion, there's lots of
falsehood in this thing of salvation. We read about it at the end there
in Matthew chapter 7 before. Many will say to me, Lord, Lord,
and I will say, depart from me, I never knew you. Many people
think they have the faith of God's elect. They think they
have the faith, which is the faith that will see them through
into eternity, because it's based on the redemption that Christ
has accomplished. But when it comes to it, it will prove to
be false. Where does it leave us? Where
does the preaching leave us? Of course, one of the most famous
sermons of all in Scripture is this Sermon on the Mount from
Matthew 5 to the end of Matthew 7 when Jesus preached to the
crowds. The crowds came and he sat down.
Maybe that's a lesson for some of us preachers that we might
be able to sit down. He sat down and he taught them
and at the end of it they were amazed for he taught them as
one having authority and not as the scribes. They all heard
Jesus speak. The crowd all heard Jesus speak,
but not all of them were left in the same condition. Not at
all. Not all of them left in the same condition. What did
he preach on? Turn back to chapter 5 if you've
got your Bibles open. He preached about the blessings
of salvation, the Beatitudes. Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Oh, you don't think that's
the case, do you? Poor in spirit? No. Blessed are
the ones that are on a high? No. Blessed, said Jesus, are
the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed
are they that mourn. Blessed are the meek. Blessed
are they which do hunger and thirst for righteousness, for
they shall be filled. The blessings of salvation. He
spoke in the rest of that chapter about the fruit of the new birth,
that the new birth, if it's genuine, if it's real faith, it bears
fruit. Fruit? It bears the evidence
of that change within. The attitudes, the actions, the
things that we do, the things that we say, the way we interact
with others, is all a result of the change that has gone on
inside. He expounded God's righteousness, the righteousness of God. He
expounded the law of God in the light of God's righteousness.
So he talked about adultery, not just as the act, but as the
heart's desire. He applied the righteousness
of God in terms of what's in the heart. What is in the heart
of man? What is in your heart? What is
in your attitude? What is in your motives? What
is in the things that drive you to do the things that you do?
He expounded God's righteousness. He gave warnings concerning religious
hypocrisy. He gave instruction concerning
prayer. He talked about the futility
of earthly cares and striving for more and more when, if you're
truly the child of God, you have a Heavenly Father who takes care
of all things. He talked about priorities in
serving God, about what our attitude should be to others. filled with
the message of salvation, and every bit of it can be applied
as these are the words of Christ, but they're not just instruction
how to live, they're the words of eternal life, they're the
words of salvation. And then, in verse 13 of chapter
7, verse 13 where we began our reading earlier, He says, Enter
ye in at the straight gate, for wide is the gate and broad is
the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in
thereat, because straight, narrow, is the gate, and narrow is the
way which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. He says, enter in at the narrow
gate. Then in verse 15, he says, beware
of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, but
inwardly they are ravening wolves. You shall know them by their
fruits. And then he talks about false professions, false prophets
and false professions. What will you do with the truth
of God that you have heard? How will it affect your life?
That's what I want you to think about with me this morning, as
we look at verses 24 to 27. How will you respond to the sayings
of Jesus? 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 then, he goes
on, everyone that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them
not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, a foolish man, which built
a house upon the sand, and the rain descended, etc. The Apostle
James speaks of the folly of hearing the truth and acknowledging
the truth, and of nodding to the truth, and of agreeing with
the truth, but not doing it, but not living according to it,
not doing that which you hear. How do we respond to what we
hear? The Master's words, this is the
first point, the Master's words, verse 13, enter in, enter in. Don't just look at the entrance,
go in. Go in. Don't just observe it. Actually get up and go in. Make
a move. It's a narrow way. It's a straight
gate. There's few going in there, but
you go in, is what he says. Enter ye in at the straight gate.
For wide is the gate and broad is the way. Oh, there's an easy
way, but that leads to destruction. And there are many that go that
way because they don't think about it. But narrow, straight,
is the gate that leads to life. Narrow is the way that leads
to life. Few there be that find it. Don't just look at the entrance. You see, We're coming up to the
the proms season in the Albert Hall in the summer and they're
very popular these classical concerts in the Albert Hall in
London and you get an audience of 6,000 people and it's very
nice on a summer's evening early summer's evening to sit on the
steps of of the Albert Memorial across the road and watch the
6,000 people coming and going into the Albert Hall and enjoying
the concert and then to watch them coming out and you can sit
there and you can look at the funny ways some of them are dressed
or you can look at the odd characteristics of some of them, and you can
judge some of them for, well, what do they think they're doing
going in there? And you can make judgments about the way that
they're going. Isn't that not rather a narrow door? Wouldn't
it be much better if they opened that door up and made it much
wider? And you can have all of those conversations with yourself. But you yourself don't go in
and experience what's going on inside. Don't sit judging those
who have entered. Don't try to negotiate a wider
entrance. But you, is what Jesus said,
enter by the narrow way. What's he talking about? The
way into eternal life. spiritual life, true life. This is life indeed. Abundant
life, he calls it. The life of God in the soul of
man that goes on not just through this life, but into eternity,
the bliss of eternity. Enter in by the narrow way. And what is the way? Jesus said,
I am the way, the truth. and the life. John 14 6, I am
the way the truth and the life. No man come, you know, religion
will tell you there's no end of ways to come to God. We can
all go up the same mountain and it's the same God on the top.
That is a lie to the law and the testimony. If they speak
not according to this word, there is no light, no truth in them.
And Jesus said, He alone is the way, the truth, and the life.
And if you would come to God, you must come by Jesus Christ.
If you would come into the kingdom of God, you must come in by the
only door. There is only one door, and it
is a narrow door. But he says in John 10 verse
9, I am the door. He, Christ, is the door. If any man enter in, he shall
be saved. The implication being that if
you sit on the outside when there he is saying, enter in, you will
not be saved. If you hear the word of God,
the truth of the gospel, and merely observe it as being interesting,
Christ calls you foolish. but wise if you enter in. Then
in verse 15, the words of the master, in verse 15 he says,
beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing,
but inwardly they're ravening wolves. You've heard that expression,
haven't you boys? Wolves dressed up as sheep, you know, they're
fierce on the inside but they disguise themselves. Nobody's
scared of a sheep, are they? You go for a wander up on the
hills and the sheep are there and they might look at you and
they might bleat, but if you go towards them they'll run away
from you. They're frightened, but You see, he says, beware
of false prophets who look like sheep. They look as harmless
as sheep, but they're just wearing sheep's wool. Inside, they're
fierce wolves. They're fierce wolves. False
prophets, they have a false gospel. And what's wrong with a false
gospel? It's impotent. It's powerless to save you from
your sins. It's impotent to answer the question,
how should a man be just with God? It cannot do anything for
you. You listen to the religion of
this world, the religion of this country. It's utterly impotent
to save you from your sins. It's utterly worthless come the
day of judgment. Come the day of judgment when
you need to have the holiness that God requires to enter his
kingdom, It's impotent, is this false religion, peddled by these
false prophets. Impotent to save. It's a form
of religion. Paul, writing to Timothy, talks
about them having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof.
And he says, avoid them. From such, turn away. There are
false churches all over this country, and throughout this
world. False churches. And do you know what they're
like? They're like a mirage in the desert. Have you ever heard
of a mirage in the desert? If you were wandering through
the desert, I guarantee you would be thirsty. You would be dying
to have a drink of water. It would be hot. It might have
been a long time since you've had a drink of water. Your tongue
is parched, your mouth is dry, and you're longing for water.
In fact, you'd give anything for some water. You'd just absolutely
love to get some water you just love to have you know that dry
that dry fit you just love to quench that thirst you know.
Oh, if only I could have that, and you see in the distance,
of the sand, you look, you look over the sand and you see in
the distance, trees! Oh look, there's a lake! You
can see a lake! Ah! I can have my thirst quenched!
And you get towards it, and it's still in the distance. And you
go for, and it's still, because do you know why? It's not real.
It's a mirage. It's just the light being bent
by the heat, and it's actually the sky that looks like it's
on the desert floor. It's a mirage. And that's what
these churches are like, peddling false doctrine. A desert mirage. Promising water, promising the
water of life, but deluding. They have deceiving signs which
may be impressive. Oh, you see, people say, oh,
we're not a proper church because we don't have the structure of
a church, we don't have the facilities of a church, we don't have the
numbers that you need to have a good church. Plenty of, outside
a church near to us, a so-called church, there's a great big sign,
and two words on it, plenty of, three words, plenty of activity,
plenty of activity. What's gonna get you to go to
their church? Plenty of activity. not the words of eternal life,
plenty of activity. You go for the plenty of activity
if that's what interests you, if that's what takes your fancy,
if that's what... seduces you to go there, but
you're wasting your time, and you're deluding your soul. They've
got activities, but they're devoid of the essential life of God's
Spirit. And what does the book of God
say? Children of God, any of you, in places like that, the
book of God says this, Revelation 18 verse 4, come out of her my
people. For she's a false church, she's
Babylon, she's that which is corrupted with the unfaithfulness,
the infidelity of the world. Those deluded find themselves. You know, we read about it again.
Many will say to me in that day, in what day? In the day of judgment,
Lord, Lord, you know, well, let's open the books. But Lord, Lord,
haven't we prophesied in your name? Haven't we preached in
your name? Oh, surely we're going to heaven, aren't we? And in
thy name, we've cast out devils in your name, and in thy name
done many wonderful works. And Jesus says, I will profess
unto them, I never knew you, depart from me. Listen, not ye
that tried very hard to do well but got it slightly wrong, no,
ye that work iniquity. You work iniquity if you deny
the only gospel that can save from sin, and that's the gospel
of God's grace as it is revealed in the scriptures. You find that
you arrive at that day, you know Jesus told another parable, about
the marriage supper of the Lamb the final day when all things
are brought to an end and he takes his people to be with him
in glory and it's pictured as a wedding banquet the banquet
at a wedding and to be at that wedding you had to have the essential
garment and they found a man there without the essential garment
and he was cast into outer darkness what is the essential wedding
garment? We read about it in Revelation 19, about the marriage
supper of the Lamb, about the bride being adorned with her
garments of righteousness. It's the righteousness of God
that we are made in Him. Because why? Because Christ was
made the sin of His people and bore its curse and its penalty
in the place of His people. And if you arrive at that day,
and you do not have that wedding garment of the righteousness
of God which is ours in Christ and in Him alone, you will be
cast out. I never knew you. So how do you
react to the gospel truth that you've heard? And what do you
do with it regarding your life? That's an important point, isn't
it? It's not just, do you mentally assent to it? What do you do
with it regarding your life? What does it say to you? How
does it direct your life? In what Jesus says next, in verses
24 to 27, we read about two builders and two houses and a test that
comes upon them and the result of that test. Let's read them.
Therefore, whosoever heareth these sayings of mine and doeth
them, I will liken him or acts upon 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. And
every one 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
wind blew, and beat upon that house and it fell, and great
was the fall of it." Here we see two men, two builders, two
men setting about building houses, and both completed them. That's
the implication of the parable. Both were aware of the need for
shelter, and they were wise enough to know that a house would provide
that shelter. Both these men, right? They're
both, you know. Now think about it. In your life
in this world, think about your experience, your family relationships,
your job, your career, your aspirations, your interactions. Think about
your life in this world and think about where you've come from
and what is the source of your life. And think about the one
who has made you, because I tell you, evolution didn't make you.
A big bang didn't make you. Big bangs, we know. Who's most
scientific, the one who believes in all of this evolutionary nonsense,
or the one who says, like I say, on the strength of the word of
God, evolution did not make you? That's scientific. Big bangs
never make anything. Big bangs only ever destroy.
The best thing you might hope for, if you go to, there are
many builders' yards, builders' merchants round here, and if
you go and set off a bomb in the middle of a builders' merchant,
the nearest thing to a house that you might end up with is
a little pile of bricks, where a load of bricks happen to land
in a little pile, but even then it'll only be a little pile of
bricks. You don't get mansions that are fully furnished with
all the electrics and the plumbing fully working and the windows
in the right place, do you? do you? The very thought, the
very concept is just utterly ridiculous, isn't it? So why
do people believe it when it comes to what you and I are like?
God made us. I am fearfully and wonderfully
made. Think about your origins and
think about the fact that this is the God with whom we have
to do Think about your relationship to God who made you as maker
and judge. For here's a verse I haven't
quoted for a while, I used to quote it almost every week. It
is appointed to man, Hebrews 9, 27, it is appointed to man
to die once. And then, and then the judgment. Oh, put it off, put it off, put
it off. Oh, we don't have to think about that now. Plenty
of other things going on years and years ahead. No, put it off.
I tell you the day is coming. It is appointed to man to die
once, and then the judgment. And as I've said very many times,
we read in the scriptures, God is angry with the wicked every
day. Who are the wicked? Really nasty
people. No, people who deny the truth
of His Son. People who will not bow to the
rule of His Son. He is angry with the wicked every
day. And it is a fearful thing to
fall into the hands of the living God. And our God, into whose
hands we will fall on that day, is a consuming fire. And we must
have the holiness that God requires. To be as holy as Him, to go into
His heaven. For our sins cannot go in there,
nothing that defiles. The wages of sin, says scripture,
Romans 6, 23, the wages of sin is death. It pays out. It never shortchanges, it pays. The wages of sin is death. And
there's a storm of divine judgment that all must face. Can you not
see that you need a shelter? That you need a hiding place?
How should a man be just with God? Oh boy, that is the deal,
is it not? That is the question. Do you
not realize you need a hiding place? How are you going to be
saved from the wrath that is to come on sin? Let's take it
that both of these men were aware of the need for shelter from
probable storms. They set about building houses.
They both realized a storm was coming. And there are those who
realize that a storm of judgment, divine judgment, is coming and
that they need a shelter. How, in this world, so many are
completely unaware, who are completely blinded to truth. who are completely
arrogant in unbelief, proud of their unbelief. I tell you, that
pride of unbelief, that will turn completely around. They
despise the notion of God. They despise it. Oh boy, will
they learn to regret it. What a shock is awaiting for
such, a shock awakening for all such. If you read Revelation
and you read about how the judgment of God comes on the world in
general and you see the reaction to it, it's one of absolute terror
and horror and fleeing from the wrath to come. But let's focus
on the ones that agree on the need for a house. They both set
out well. They seem equally well acquainted
with building techniques. These people who've heard the
words of Jesus Christ, and they know about judgment to come,
and they start building, they start building. They're equally
acquainted with building techniques. They each know how to lay bricks. They each know how to mix mortar.
They each know how to put lintels up for doorways and windows. They each know about roofing.
But one house seems to go up much quicker than the other.
One house has the appearance of a finished house much sooner. Have you ever... you know, you
don't see many of them these days, but... It used to be on
the TV all the time, Westons, Westons, how the West was won. And the cowboys would ride into
the little town and go into the saloon bar. I tell you, if you
went to that film set, right? You'd walk down that street and
you'd think, oh, these look impressive buildings, don't they look nice,
don't these look very, very nice? And you'd go through that saloon
door, and do you know what would be behind it? Nothing. Nothing at all,
because it was just a plywood front painted. It went up very
quickly, it looked impressive. It had the appearance of a finished
house, but it wasn't a real house. Appearances can be deceptive. Spiritual appearances can be
deceptive. Professions can be shallow and
without substance. You know the expression, all
that glitters is not gold? There's a substance called fool's
gold, which looks like gold, and many a fool has mined fool's
gold only to take it to the experts to discover that it's not gold
at all. It's iron, what do you call it, iron pyrites, I think,
or something like that, isn't it? Yes. It's not real gold.
All that glitters is not gold. There are many who appear to
be building the right shelter for the storms of judgment that
are to come, even the storm of eternal judgment that's coming,
but it's a delusion. You see, this is the key thing.
You remember what Jesus said to Nicodemus when Nicodemus came
to Jesus by night in John chapter three. And Jesus said to him,
except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
You must be born again. Spurgeon tells of a woman who
said to him, you keep preaching, you must be born again. Why do
you keep preaching, you must be born again? And Spurgeon replied,
because you must be born again. You must be born again. You must
have that vital union with Christ. You must have the new man of
God's Spirit within. Two people can both have an external
appearance of true faith. They can look as though they
have saving faith, but one is real and the other is false.
The houses they built for eternal shelter looked finished, but
one was only good above the ground. It was no good below the ground
on its foundations. So let's think about these two
houses. These two houses that Jesus compares. It's what you
do with what he has preached. One house was built quicker than
the other. There's an easy believism that's around in religion. that
says it's such a simple thing to trust Christ and to acquire
all the benefits of eternal assurance. There's no need for deep soul-searching
concerning sin and its offense to God. Do you know what I mean
by that? You know, if you come to that
point where you There's deep soul-searching by the Spirit
of God coming within and awakening you, concerning sin and its offence
to a holy God who we must meet, and finding in the Gospel that
the only remedy, and the complete remedy, and the full remedy,
is in Christ and in Him alone. In him alone is the answer to
that question, how should a man be just with God? You see, one
house, the house of the foolish man, oh yes, he wanted some shelter,
but it was laid straight onto the smooth, flat sand, which
looked ideal and so solid. I remember when we lived up in
Barrow-in-Furness, and we used to go down on the beach nearly
every day for a while, and there were days when the tide had gone
out, and it used to go out a long way there, and you used to be
left with perfectly flat sand, hard, flat sand. You could play
cricket on it, a ball would bounce pretty well on it, and it was
flat, as far as the eye could see, dead flat and hard. That's
what this man's house was built upon. But it really, as soon
as the tide comes back in, it all shifts, and it's not a foundation. The other house was built on
deep foundations that were dug down with hard work onto solid
rock. The former house was nearly finished
before the latter house was above the ground. I remember, best
part of twenty years ago, I suppose, putting an extension on our house
in Wellin Village near here, and Peter was at university and
we employed him. to do quite a bit of labouring
for us and I remember Peter digging the foundations and we thought
we'd get away with the standard sort of one metre deep foundation
and the building inspector said no, no, he wasn't happy with
that. By the time the building inspector was happy, Peter had
gone down. You couldn't see the top of Peter's
head above the foundations, it was so deep. Because they had
to be dug down until the building inspector was happy that the
ground was solid enough to build this extension upon. You see,
there are some who appear to have such sudden and impressive
testimonies. Their faith seems to have built
a shelter from judgment very easily, not like the true penitent. Not like the one who's truly
conscious and convicted of sin, and troubled by their offense
to and separation from God. The former entered too easily,
but the gate is straight, it's narrow, it's restricted. This
is why Jesus said in Luke 13 24, he said, breeze into it. No, he didn't. He said, strive
to enter in. Strive to enter in. Strive to
enter in. You won't just casually go in.
Strive to enter in at the straight gate. For many, I say unto you,
will seek to enter in when they've left it too late and shall not
be able. Jesus spoke of sheep and of goats. Do you know, superficially, they're
very similar creatures. They're very similar in nature,
they're very similar in appearance, but they're actually completely
different. Beware of looking like you're wearing sheep's clothing
without the sheep's nature inside. Jesus said, my sheep, he called
those that are his, his sheep. But then there were the goats
that he separated from them. Beware of secondhand experiences
of true religion. Is your faith yours, really yours,
by grace from Christ, through the scriptures, by the Spirit
of God? Or is it second-hand? Is it something that you experience
because others that you know experience it? Parents? Others
in your church? Ezekiel 13 likens it to building
with what's called untempered mortar. where, rather than mixing
the lime for good mortar into the sand mixture, they mix clay
in with it, and it's untempered mortar. And it's okay for a year,
but then it starts to fall off, and it needs constant patching.
You see, that's... It looks like the real thing,
but it isn't, because it falls apart, it doesn't stand the test
of time. True faith, saving faith, has
a deep foundation. On where? On the rock which is
Christ. Rock of ages, cleft for me, let
me hide myself in thee. Built on the rock that is higher
than I. The rock which is Christ, his
works, his death, his blood, his redemption. that he has accomplished. That's the solid foundation.
Our Lord Jesus Christ is that rock. That rock which was with
the children of Israel in the wilderness, that Moses struck
the rock with his rod and out came the water to quench their
thirst. And in the New Testament we read that rock was Christ.
It was symbolical of Christ, who is the source of living water,
eternal water, that quenches the soul thirst for eternity.
True faith is not content with a finished outward appearance.
True faith desires true religion, true conversion, true separation
from this world. True separation from this world.
Let's examine ourselves. Let's ask ourselves, what is
our attitude really like? You know, I read this as well,
that the true child of God, you know, we have complete liberty.
We're free from the law, we have complete liberty in the Lord
Jesus Christ. But the true child of God dreads
the appearance of evil in his life, as a child who was burnt
dreads fire. You know, it's a cringeful prospect,
isn't it? But you know, a child that has
had his hand burnt in a fire, will have a wariness and a fear
and a shrinking back from fire much, much more vividly than
a child that hasn't been burned. And a true child of God, who
knows what it is to be saved from their sins, has a dread
of the appearance of evil in his life. God says this, Isaiah
66 verse 2, But to this man will I look, even to him that is poor
and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. Do we,
do you, do I, tremble at the word of God? Blessed are they
that mourn, said Jesus at the start of this sermon. Blessed
are they that mourn over their sin. Blessed are they that hate
their sin, that would not commit another sin if they could help
it in the flesh, who long to be free from this body of death. they shall be comforted with
eternal life. Do you have faith? Of what sort
is it? Oh, I've got my faith, you hear
people say. Of what sort is it? Is it on
the deep foundation of Christ, the rock, or is it built on sand? Is it just superficial? Is it
that which strives, as Peter puts it, to make your calling
and election sure? How can you make your election
sure? It's fixed for all eternity. Well, Peter says, do this, do
this, do this, do this, build on your faith, patience, virtue,
sell all of these things, he says, and thereby you will make
your calling and election sure. Live like the people of God.
Live like them. Make your calling and election
sure. That which strives for real assurance is the real thing. That which is content to fool
self and the others, it can't fool God. It's built on sand.
You see, two houses, two builders, and a storm. A storm is coming. Both houses face certain storms. There are storms all through
this life. They're the storms of life's circumstances. There
are the storms of health. We hear about them in celebrities
with health problems. These storms come along to everybody
at some stage in their life. There are storms of financial
crises. There are storms in families.
There are storms to do with work. Everything seems to be fine and
you're going along and your living's fine and then all of a sudden
you lose your job. The firm you work for goes bust or whatever
else it might be. And then there's the storm of
death. which we must all come to at some stage. Only the house
on the solid rock will stand. The tempest, the wind, the rain,
the floods that Jesus spoke about at the end of Matthew 7, only
the house built on the solid rock will stand. When it came
to the flood which swept the whole earth in the day of Noah,
who was saved? Only those with Noah in the ark.
Do you know how many there were? Fewer than there are of us in
this room now. There were eight, including Noah. They were the
only ones that were saved. Think about it. What do we do
with what we hear? What do we do? Are we like the
wise man, which built his house upon the rock? Or are we like
the foolish man, which built a sham house on the sand? You
see, He, Christ, is able, this is Hebrews 7.25, He is able also
to save them to the uttermost. Not partially, utterly, that
come to God by Him. If you're in Christ, if you're
believing in Christ, if you're trusting in Christ, You have
a solid hope of eternal life that nothing can take away. You
can go to sleep at night happy to know everything. All to do
with me is in the hands of the living God who loved me and gave
himself for me. There is nothing to fear in him.
I have a salvation that will take me into eternity. I will
hear the blessed words of our Lord say, come ye blessed of
my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation
of the world. That's that solid faith. That's
that salvation to the uttermost. That's that house built upon
the rock. But if we ignore it, If we think
that the wide way is the way, Hebrews 2.3 says this, how shall
we escape, escape what? Certain judgment, if we neglect
so great salvation. Let us think about, take heed
how ye hear, take heed what ye hear and take heed how ye hear
it and how you apply it, and don't Don't, don't, please, on
the strength of God's word, don't be like the foolish man and think
that you can get by with a sham, false, imitation religion because
you can't. Amen.