Big Thought: Build your life on the of Jesus, the only that will empower your .
Deuteronomy 18:15, 18-19 (ESV) – The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers – it is to Him you shall listen… “I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him. And whoever will not listen to My words that He shall speak in My name, I Myself will require it of Him.”
1. do I build my life on Jesus?
a. the Word.
b. the Word.
James 1:22 (ESV) – But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
Psalm 1:2-3 (ESV) – But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
2. should I build my life on Jesus?
a. Life is filled with the .
James 4:13-14a (ESV) – Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit” – yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring.
b. Occasionally, take place.
Luke 13:4a (ESV) – Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them…
c. We all face battles.
Ephesians 6:12 (ESV) – For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
d. We want our lives to .
Hebrews 10:35-36 (ESV) – Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.
3. The of building on foundations.
1 Corinthians 3:10-15 (ESV) – According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.
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