Building on His Voice — Brian Guerin

Jesus says therefore whoever hears these sayings of mine and does them I Will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock and the rain descended. The floods came the winds blew beat on that house and it did not fall for it was founded on the rock.

Verse 26, but everyone who hears these sayings of mine and does not do them Will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. In the rain descended the floods came winds blew beat on the house and it fell and great was its fall.

Didn't just fall great was its fall. So real quick. Just want to talk to you really from my heart on this and I love this many of you know I actually my backgrounds in building under my amazing father here taught by one of the best who built custom homes for many years.

So it hits home, but also like what you're looking at here just from a biblical kind of background is Jesus is at the very end of the Sermon on the Mount. So the Sermon of the Mount the most profound sermon Jesus ever taught.

This is the last parable he shared before he closed the book on that. Everybody knows that the Sermon of the Mount was on one of the most profound teachings of Jesus. They'd be attitudes the Lord's Prayer.

It's all in there. And so if you go back to Matthew 5 Jesus had just healed the multitudes performed miracles. I love this about the Lord to he always Teaches preaches and does. He's not word only but he's spirit.

He moves in power. He multiplies food. So if you're constantly in a stream, that's word only meaning there's no spirit. You want to find one where the rivers flowing that's typically religion. Paul said the kingdom of God's not talk alone, but power.

So we've got to see people healed in their bodies renewed in their minds. Marriages start to transform like Jared. He's a perfect example like lives transformed and that's what's incredible about the word bathed in the Spirit.

It renews the mind it transforms lives, you know, it's incredible. But anyway, so Jesus I love this because you can picture it. He just healed the multitude so everybody's around for that. They love the miraculous the supernatural how it better.

You know better sets up my life and then in the end of Matthew 5 It literally says he looked around. Jesus looked around and saw the multitudes and went up a mountain. Before he got into this so I feel like the Lord was looking around.

He said, okay. Yeah, of course the masses are here for healing. But I'm about to go on one of the greatest teachings this earth has ever seen. And it'll stamp the earth permanently with my eternal words forever.

And I'm going up where only people will follow me who will pay a price for it. You could camp out there forever. He went up high on a mountain and It says the disciples it says he went up high and sat down.

Jesus climbed up this mountain and sat right before I got him to the sermon on the mountain. And the Bible says the disciples when they saw him seat be seated. They came to him. Just the disciples the multitudes they come and go.

This can be applied in your personal life to you'll start to see people that are really supposed to run with you. They love the multitudes being healed the food multiplication. But also the higher places where it costs you to hear it.

They'll follow you and sit right next to you. And so Jesus goes straight into the Sermon of the Mount fifth sixth seventh chapter all this sermon. He's sitting up there. You know, I mean they had out their notebooks.

And he's hitting all like these major foundational things on the kingdom and the Word of God. And I believe the attention span of many the multitudes. I believe many probably stayed at the base of the mountain and just were like, okay, he's not performing any miracles.

He's not there's no food. Okay. Okay. I'm good. And they just begin to hear the echoes off and some was landing some wasn't but how many of you know also proximity really matters things the Lord says the disciples came near him and sat like Mary at his feet just sat there and It landed with them.

You'll see in a second. They were the doers of the word. If you just it's funny I was remembering like because I really started looking up I said I bet part of why he went up was so it could be heard.

Many believe that's why I'd get on a boat go out into the water because it would bounce and I'd go off the water and everybody Could hear but I believe also because it was costly meaning before I share this.

Because literally he lands it here. He says all these chapters of the Sermon on the Mount in the last parable is like therefore we just read it. They taught us in Bible College if you're ever reading the word and you see the word there for to stop and look to see What it's there for.

Meaning when Jesus says therefore he said hey, listen up basically everything I just told you. Therefore these sayings all that I said if you do them, you'll be like a wise man. You don't you'll be foolish and.

But I was remembering we're in Israel and Todd who actually be here tomorrow night. Todd white teaching our school is incredible. But it's funny. You never know what he's gonna do. He's always this way.

We're near a mountain somewhere by some olive trees. I'm fascinated by the olives wondering do they taste ripe yet are they good they look hard and uh. Meanwhile, he runs with these kids up some mountain nearby just gets lost totally leaves the guide everything.

And all of a sudden you hear our God is an awesome God. He's just yelling off the top of this mountain. It's like just reverberating through the mountains, you know, he's a girl and all the kids are like, yeah.

You're like what is going on? He just he just found a high place. I want to worship God and so it's funny I believe that's part of it because they say that sound when you're uphill, you know, it just has air to travel through.

Whereas if you're down at the base of the mountain you shout It's got it hits rocks and bounces all things and it can't quite travel as fast. I believe that's part of it. But also I love that he went to a high place before he got into this and the disciples got real near him.

And there's something to do with proximity. Um. But basically he you know, he goes up this is that this is the last parable before he closes the book on the Sermon of the Mount and he jumps straight into this.

I'll read it again slowly says therefore Whoever hears these sayings of mine and does them I'll liken him to a wise man. Who built his house on the rock? So so we'll stop there. I Loved it to point out to if you read it slowly.

He he's not talking about a wise builder or a foolish builder. He says a wise man foolish man. They both built I believe really well here and I love this parable too because the devil's nowhere in it.

It's Jesus and his words to you and then how you yield to him or not. I Love that's why the parable of the ten virgins is also one of my favorites. It's so much like this and then he devised the wise and the foolish here.

It's what Jesus calls wise or what he calls foolish. He does it with the ten virgins as well and You'll see the only thing that separates the ten virgins is oil there. They're all virgins and pure the direction they're going.

They all fall asleep and weary but Jesus says Oh who's got extra oil wise who does not have extra oil foolish. It's the only thing he checked him on. Well here if you read slowly the only thing that matters is what you're building on not how you build.

What we're building on so matters and that's what gets tried. You notice that we come from Louisiana a lot of us we know this well the these storm progression. This is totally South Louisiana all day long rains floods wind.

Hurricanes, you know and so that progression even has nothing to do with you reach slowly trying to structure. This isn't a tornado. That rips the house to shreds. It's rain. That softens the foundation then floods that erodes the foundation then the wind just to topple it and great was its fall.

Y 'all see that progression there and also I love that in this passage the rain floods in wind and that exact progression Comes to both and it's not an if it's when it's coming and so also I love that you could teach this parable both in the now seasons of our life or like a Eschatological which is a fancy word for like to study the end times meaning the end times is for sure gonna bring about rain flood and Winds it's going to come Isaiah 60.

It's clear in the word. But also I think it can be applied to everyday life like seasons you build something in a season and then it's foundation gets tried. Sometimes it falls. Sometimes it doesn't and I think 2020 was a great exposure of foundations.

Because also while this parable so beautiful is you notice the rain floods and wind. Often wait till you build whatever structure it is and you can be fooled into thinking you built something great. You know the wise and foolish builder here sorry wise and foolish man who built.

I believe both of them built really well. They both built and we're in there a boat and everything looked great until it was tried and This is why it's so important now like in everyday life. We begin to make sure our life is being built on his voice on his sayings on his word.

Because anything especially now the days we're in and you guys know I'm not like a doom-and-gloom guy. But I love truth and I love to build in a quality way. I don't know how many you want to waste your time building this big mansion and then great was its fall it you can also liken it to the Deeds done by following God to get tried by fire in the end and sums wood hay and stubble that all gets burned up.

Some of its, you know precious stone silver gold and it gets tried by fire in it and it's good. But I just want to encourage us that and we'll go through slowly have some notes here. That's pretty wild.

But first to kind of preface it with that. So so real quick these sayings where Jesus says look therefore. Everyone who hears my sayings both camps hear his word to he's talking to believers. I love this the ten versions same thing.

He's talking so his words go forth and then what we do with them. Dictates what we're building on not what you're building. I love this, too. This is basically saying whether you like it or not. You're building something.

Your life is 100 right now. Building the structure of who you are and it will be tried one day. Well, you know a lot of people like well, I'm just not ready especially young ones. Please hear me one day when I build a good testimony or something.

I don't know what that is. That's total nonsense. And then I'm gonna give my heart wholly to the Lord. Oh, no, you're building your house right now. The structure of your life is being built whether you like it or not.

You know, he says those who do what I say, they built a house those who don't do what I say they still built. So whether you're hearing God accurately building not half-hearted in God your life's being built and rain floods and wind are coming and You will be tried.

But what's awesome is I love to look at it this way those that build on his words. The rain floods and wind are a blessing to them. You're built on the rock. You love some good rain. Oh, yeah, just sounds nice on the roof.

The floods are great because it washes away the trash brings in new rich soil. I mean you don't care when that does not faze you. Whereas the other you know, it's quite different but watch this I begin to just dig deeper and I just first wanted to preface it with that.

But watch this the oh. Here's one verse first. I love this. Proverbs 24 27. You don't have to turn there. It says put your outdoor work in order and get your fields ready. After that build your house.

You know, I think it can apply meaning know well what you're dealing with first. And it could even apply here on his word and the rock and then build is funny. My dad will tell you we often would run into this.

We built custom homes for he was in it for way longer than me. I was in it for about a decade with him. And we'd always get these people that would buy this land first and. And then all of a sudden they'd want to build there, but they wouldn't prep it or not.

You know wouldn't think about anything just hurry up and got this lot in this neighborhood that they thought was great. But their dream home they already knew about they wanted to build and they bring us these plans.

Already locked into the very, you know, who knows how expensive a lot hundred some thousand quarter. You know, they get up there and they bring these plans. We'd be like that will not fit on the land.

Train wreck, you know, you got us there's setbacks. There's a lot of codes. You didn't think about well. No, I can picture it the trees. It'll fit right there. It's like no it won't at all. Reverse engineer, you know and I love that the Bible goes out of its way to preface first to land the foundation what you're building on and then you start and and.

So but watch this. Also the difference of the foundation. I Think it's pretty awesome and it's fun to see it this way and I believe kind of can land. You could pull so many different revelations from this but what we're dealing with here.

It's real simple. It's the sayings of the Lord the scenarios exact same across the board the sayings of God which in this Passage is logos his written word. He literally uses logos. Here's both the written Word of God and.

Then also I would propose his Rhema Relational intimate spoken word constantly to you that will never contradict the written. That would be like Romans 10 where it says faith comes by hearing and hearing of the Word of God.

That's Rhema. So God's speaking to you relationally often the best way to get Rhema is through the logos he'll just start speaking and it flows but. But both and so listen to I started looking at like why don't he say dirt which turns in the mud?

He said sand. Jesus said rock, which is a solid mass in sand. So I started looking them up in rock. Of course is solid mass, but listen to. It's a solid mass of mineral quartz granite all this we know this Georgia has them all over the place.

Listen to what sand is finely divided particles of mineral Quartz granite same thing. It's rock divided and eroded into smaller pieces same thing. And so I propose again one of the many ways you could look at this is Jesus his sayings they come to you as rock.

They're solid. But when we don't obey or you'll see in a second we mix in our soulless Application that what was a solid mass that came to you divides immediately. It's no longer a solid foundation. Like this while listen to what sand is its rocks erode or weather over a long period of time Mainly by water and wind and the sediments are transported downstream these sediments Continue to break apart into smaller pieces until they become fine grains of sand.

The type of rock the sediment Originated from and the intensity of the environment give different Compositions of sand. Watch this the most common rock to form sand is granite. It's basically rock divided and So it could wash out from under you.

It's not solid underneath and so You got so many notes here, but basically what listen to this if you are not one with his words His words will not be one under you. If you are one with his words his words will be one under you the rock or the sand divided and So here's only I love to I'm gonna try and condense it but James chapter 1 says this I believe it can apply here's and doers of the word.

It says this in layman's terms. It says look don't be a forgetful hearer of the Word of God. Who are like a man who looks into the mirror and Then when they look away they forget what they looked like.

Be a doer of the word it says who look into the perfect law of Liberty and Continue in it and What you build basically it will be blessed your life will be blessed. So what happens is I believe often We're so caught up in the mirror of ourself.

We're looking into it's our soul the mirror of our soul and that typically produces a forgetful hearer only it even says don't be one of those who are deceived if you sit under the Word of God and Don't do it.

You become deceived inherently. You know it happens inherently and so but looking into the perfect law of Liberty it transforms you. So I want to encourage you guys. I know we know this but sometimes I don't think we really yield our life to it fully.

I'm constantly in the word like we need the Word of God. It does something. It's supernatural. I mean in the shower I'm turn on the word cut my kids will tell you if I'm eating and I'm not with them. I've got the word like we need the Word of God.

The Bible says he who looks into the perfect law this thing is life the perfect law of Liberty you will become like that what you stare at and In it says he who looks in the perfect law of Liberty and continues in it.

Anybody can look into it for a season, but can you continue it? I see them all the time they come and go and that's why their house falls. I see them. They're the multitudes that they've just for a moment.

They'll listen in here and then they get distracted over here and back in the mirror of their soul. And then look away and they forget where they're at and then the rains come and the house falls every time.

But but God said I just know it. I had this dream and I just prophetic word. That's great. But are you looking into the law of Liberty and continuing in it? We've gotta be possessed by the word. And the more you feed on anything else other than this the mirror of the soul and looks like so many different things.

You just forget you become deceived. Thereby your house is being built. Remember it's being built whether you like it or not. In the rains floods and winds come try those that just stare into the perfect law of Liberty and it's the oh, yes.

Right it again. Anyway, love the sound. All the floods are coming. Those are beautiful. See the fish anyway. The wind yes now, it's gonna dry things off. It's perfect. It's all perfect. But those that forgetful hearers.

They build and in the moment, it looks good. I'm telling you 2020 did this many people were built and it's because you know, it says great was the fall. Meeting they didn't have a chance to throw up a little single bedroom.

Great was the fall and Sometimes we can be in what we've built for seasons and then all of the sudden when the rain. You know floods and wind come and try it it will fall for for sure. And so I I pray we'd be kind of recalibrated this morning like oh, yeah, man I've got to build on your sayings your your word like what you're telling me and.

But I have here partial obedience it's the same thing this is when we heed his word. So I want to say this in our camp and a lot of streams I run in because we deal with some people that are Really going after it.

You typically don't see just flat-out disobedience when God speaks. I don't see it a whole lot. I know it's out there, but who we run with. They're typically trying to hear God. They want to hear God and obey.

They're not like heck. No God. No. But what I see is the partial obedience, which is the same thing. It divides that rock that's meant to be solid under you. It turns into sand. It's like this. You see it also remember Peter got out of the boat what on the Word of Jesus he knew it.

He knew is all I need is the sayings and if I do them Peter knew it he his name means rock. He says, okay. If that's really you Lord tell me because I know when you speak I can build anything on it. It's stable.

It's gonna be in the Lord said come. So he steps out solid mass. You can build your life on it. You can take it to the bank. It doesn't matter if it looks Real or not or it fits in a season. Everybody thinks you're crazy.

If he says it you can you can step on it forever. You can build everything on it. You can trust it. But this is what I see most often. Partial obedience mean we mix in a lot of things from the mirror of our soul.

That's off. We get so brainwashed by this and trash the mirror. It's hard to even think anything else you get brainwashed. Or the the voices of others and things like this. But Jesus didn't say come and on your way make sure and check out that storm coming at you.

He said come that's all he said not not anything more or less. So Peter came he started off on the word only pure obedience. But then he looked at the storm and right there the rock starts becoming sand.

Because you're not doing what he said anymore. You're partially doing it and that that doesn't work, you know. So it says he he began to look at the storm then fear came in and this is what typically happens in the will of God and our foundation will come out from under us and so Doers though of the Word of the Lord, it looks like this complete and absolute obedience.

They do what he says to the T. Nothing more nothing less no mixture of their own word in there or anybody else's this often happens. They don't care if it lines up with how they thought it ought to look or be.

They keep it simple and do only what they see the father doing just like Jesus did. I may just leave those all together, but I was you got so much in there, but really I pray. You know at least from now moving forward because I think a lot of us could relate up till now.

We've built many things on what we thought was his voice. Which is still sand if it's not what he said and only that it will become particles under you. It's still the same substance it's just divided now because your soul is mixed in and.

And it's not safe to build on and so. What I'll do often just to encourage you guys to make sure it's his voice you sometimes have to detach. From the noise of your own soul and others and I really wait on the Lord kind of like sifting silt and looking for the gold.

The silt would be the noise the soulless thoughts and what people say and whatever to hear his word only. Because your soul is what causes you to like oh, but what about the storm and that's right then when you start sinking you know the foundation comes out from under you and so like waiting upon the Lord until you know for sure what he said and Then obeying that and that only not anything more or less.

And so if if there's areas of your life, you feel like you know what they're just super shaky. I can tell there's nothing solid under that. I would go back to the drawing board of what he said and in In a very unbiased way.

I try to do this in prayer not always perfect, but say Lord really. What are you saying? I don't want to add my into it. We do that. So often we say yeah God told me but it looks like this and it's a it's gonna be this timing or it's gonna be me doing this and he's like I never told you any of that.

I've seen it often where people have a Timothy call upon their life. Which what's your name right here? Yeah right here in the yeah. No, no right here. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah. I'll match you last week. Yeah.

God's on you. I keep just I don't know. I just feel drawn to you. The Lord's really on your life like a powerful call you had a hoodie on last week though. That's why I didn't recognize you. Wow. He's gonna do something special in your life.

Building on the foundation of his word giving your life over to the word. Everything's gonna change that which shook before it won't be now. I'm telling you that which fell in the past it won't now on his word.

He's really on your life. Um, but anyway, I've seen it where people will have like a Timothy call which is powerful. How do you know you only want to do what he says? I don't we need to not care what it looks like or the title or what if people think and I need to be here and who cares just.

Just throw it all down. Lord, what do you want me to do? Oh, I'm supposed to sweep all my days. I'm gonna be the best sweeper ever. I'm gonna get the baddest broom on the planet. And nobody's gonna top me.

And when I get to heaven and step on the red carpet before the throne the angels like oh snap their mansions huge. Because they did what he said nothing more nothing less the end every season that the rains and flood because I'm telling they come every season you guys know what I'm talking about they come in seasons and Escalate the eschatology.

Sorry at the end. I can't say it trying to sound smart. The end times it'll come in the end. But even in seasons, it'll try your foundations and if we just do what he says now. You ride through and you're just never shook.

You just actually progress. But anyway, I've seen it where like Timothy's they're meant to run as like sons of Paul. They run for a minute with Paul and they go, you know what I got this. I'm to be a Paul.

Seen it so many times and They're like, yeah, yeah, and then they jump out like I'm Paul and it turns into sand. Fall every time the Lord's like I didn't tell you to do that. Never told you to do that.

You see it the the priest with Joshua. They're under Joshua alongside. It's the perfect plan. Nobody's better. Nobody's more or less. It's just the plan of God. It's how it's supposed to work. And all of a sudden the the priest it says under the Word of the Lord through Joshua though.

It's all got to work that way. I love it. I don't care where he's got me. Just let me do the right thing what you're telling me to do. But Joshua said arcs. Sorry priest take the ark into the end. It says right when they put their feet into the Jordan, it's split.

Often this happens to the priests because it's all tied in. To Joshua and the whole arrangement. They'll put their feet in the Jordan splits like whoa. You saw that I was carrying the ark. Joshua's feet didn't split that Jordan.

And they step out over on sand and start trying to be their own hype, you know priest and splits Jordans and it just falls. It's like why'd you do that? In many other scenarios, it's like just stay and what he's telling you to do.

It's gonna be the grace is gonna be there. That's where it's always rock and solid whether people think it's awesome or not who cares and that's what you want to build upon. And so I want to encourage you guys like in in this hour.

May we kind of go back to the drawing board and sometimes it may take a day or two or three and just waiting before. They're like, okay these relationships. Did you really speak for me to stay in these and be in these he'd be like heck no.

Often got like no no. No, why do you think they keep backfiring and blowing up in your face and everything you build around that just collapses. I never spoke to you around around that or this decision even positions jobs, whatever it may be and I just started getting nervous.

Although I've done it plenty where I've made decisions that I thought was his voice and it wasn't in it. It wasn't solid in a foundation way. But that we would I get nervous though where it's like I didn't make a decision off of what he spoke.

You know I try and raise my kids this way we get emails all the time ministry and dealing with people now in the church and students and. Typically my number one go to is like, you know, all that's awesome.

Love it. I advise this but did you hear the Lord? What did he say? Make sure you're hearing the Lord. I can biblically make all that work that you just said, but did he say? Because if he didn't it's going to be tried at some point.