Foundations — Don McClure

The Wise and Foolish Builders

Matthew chapter 7 verse 24 and if you'll stand we'll take a look at it. 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 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 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. And it came to pass when Jesus had ended these sayings that the people were astonished at his doctrine for he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes.

When he was come down from the mountains great multitudes followed him. Let's pray. Father we do thank you again for your word tonight and we ask that as we come Lord to the close of this greatest sermon ever preached, greatest message Lord ever given to man Lord though it takes the rest of the Word of God to understand it.

This phenomenal sermon Jesus that you gave on the mount. We pray that as you concluded it that the great conclusion of it would come to our hearts and the importance of it. The absolute fundamental truth of who you are and what we do with it.

Lord that you would bring it home to every one of our hearts a great understanding of it. For father we ask it in Jesus name amen. Well as we have been going through the Sermon on the Mount of course by now the great principles of the Christian life have been very very well stated of course.

Hearing and Doing Christ's Words

And now Jesus as he is closing off here in chapter 70 has been going through a series of exhortations essentially exhorting us of the fundamental importance of following these things. Not just simply listening to them and hearing them but as Jesus says though in verse 26 everyone that heareth these saying of mine and do with them not.

He's there he looks and he says it isn't did you hear them. He said what did you do with them? What happened with them? And here as he's bringing home the applications. Now he's bringing home that great decision essentially to us of what do we do regarding whether are we going to follow the true prophets or the false prophets.

For Jesus said you know he is through the sermon a number of times he said you know you have heard that it hath been said by them of old times but I say unto you he said that six or seven times to them.

You've been hearing by the false prophets. One thing I'm telling you another one. And as he straightened out the the centrality of the gospel and the importance of understanding the reality of following with him.

And over and over I've seen you've heard but I say. And now he's telling us you got to decide whether you are going to go the broad way or you're gonna go the narrow way. And if we're straight as the gate and narrow as the way and few there be that enter in there at there they're at Jesus says.

The Broad Way, the Narrow Way, and Final Judgment

And here Jesus is bringing home the great reality that one day the Bible tells us that it's appointed to all men once to die and then after that the judgment. The one great thing that we know that is going to happen to all people is that they will one day stand before God to give an answer for their life.

For all of the issues that are important Jesus is bringing it down to this one central great reality. That each and every man will one day give an answer for his life in this final judgment. And as Jesus talks about it here he gives some astounding things.

He says there's a lot of people that will say but Lord Lord didn't I? And he says there'll be many many people who spent their whole life thinking they were a Christian. They're not. And now as he's closing it off he's once again bringing home another application.

There of the the importance there of following him, obeying him, doing the things that will determine and define our eternal life. And here Jesus he gives this final illustration essentially of two men.

Both of them contractors you might say so to speak. Both of them building houses. Both apparently believing they're Christians. Both that would appear at least they're professing Christians as you would look at it.

And when you look at them they both seem to be ones you might say who study the things of God. Study Christianity. They believe it's the right way of life. They've seemingly heard what they believe to be the gospel.

They seem to profess it. Seem to be disciples of it. Building their life in a way that would be right before God. And yet within this group there's obviously a very clear difference between the two. One of them is God's child.

And the other one is not. But thinks they are. An awesome sight isn't it? What a thing to think of one day happen to us. Both men when you look at them on one hand there's quite some similarities I suppose you might say when you would look at it.

Outward Similarity and the Difference of the Foundation

Both men seem to have the same desire. That is both of them wanted a house. Something to protect their family. Something in which to dwell. Both men seemingly almost picked the same geography. When you look at the picture here as it's kind of described it almost appears as if the houses you know were almost next to each other very close.

Both of them I suppose you could say for the sake of the illustration gives here Jesus gives here. You might say built their house the same design. You might look at the two and they both hired all the say had the same architect.

Same subcontractors all you know all the way through. Had the same material. Same design. Same expense. Same framers. Maybe same plumbers. Same electrical. Same roofers. You know in a sense of building all of this house.

They might have as you would look at these houses they might appear exactly the same you know right down to the very little sign over the door God bless this house. You know and both of them as you would look at the houses you'd almost get the picture they're almost identical.

And yet at the same time Jesus doesn't see them that way at all not even for a moment. One of them is truly a born-again child of God the other is a pseudo Christian. And yet as you look at them almost for the sake of the illustration as Jesus gives it it's almost hard to define the difference between them.

You can't see any obvious differences in a sense in the illustration. By all the outward appearances at any rate there it's very difficult to see or determine any real difference at all. And much like I suppose the false prophet and the true prophet.

When you would look at the false and the true prophet both of them say they're teaching the truth. Leading people into the truth. Both of them use the Bible. Both the true and the false prophet believe in God or say they do.

Both of them would talk about Jesus Christ in the way of following Christ. Both of them I suppose might believe in good morals, ethics, values, clean living. And and you have to study even the true and the false prophet sometimes very clearly to detect the difference.

And so too with many people that call themselves Christians. In a sense that you've got to look sometimes very very carefully and at first look at them. You know that when you look at the true Christian and the false Christian they may look very very much alike.

And sometimes the false Christian even puts the true Christian to shame. Sometimes when you look at them their values may be even as good or better than a born-again Christian. They may have ethics. They may have morality.

They may have all sorts of standards that are very very impressive. They may be even higher standards. They may even have greater legal things that they kind of keep and hold on to. Sometimes many Christians say well we can do this and we can do that and God's grace is there.

And they may look and even live better on the surface more righteously. Sometimes when you would look at those that seem to embody themselves within the what they might call the family of God. Whether it could be a Mormon.

It could be a Jehovah's Witness. It could be Christian scientists. It could be all sorts of others that within it and you would try to observe them. Many times in their homes the ethics, the family, the values, the way that they may do business, their honesty, their integrity.

They may be outstanding. They may be somebody that when you look at it they've got great biblical truths on which they hang and have acquired their values, their ethics, their moralities, the way they built their lives.

They may be have a chapter and verse for every stud in the wall you might say. For every you know aspect of the wiring that goes through and all the connections in the roofing. It may be something that they can look and say the Bible taught us how to put this roof up here.

And they may actually have biblical references and it followed scriptural truths all the way through the construction of their house, their relationships, their marriages, their families, their business practices.

Everything that is around them might be very right, very biblical, very, very good and kept to the letter of the law. Kept wonderfully. Kept very, very well. They may practice biblical principles in their marriages, raising their children, you know, and in all the aspects of their life.

And next to a true born-again Christian where Jesus is making quite a difference here, you might even look at one and say, what right do you have to judge them? Look at their family, look at their fine children, look at their home, look at their values, look at the way that they do business.

Well, say whatever you want to, but as far as Jesus is concerned, he divides them right down the middle, doesn't he? He looks at one and he says that it's God's and the other one isn't. Very simple, very clear, very obvious from God's perspective.

From heaven's perspective, there's no struggle at trying to determine at all which is which, which is okay. In God's analysis, when God sits down and he evaluates and he judges, though you and I, you know, could put together a huge panel that could never agree on anything as to who is and who isn't, obviously and clearly from God's perspective, when he sits there in heaven, he isn't gonna have any trouble.

Every human being, when they stand before God, will be easily, simply, quickly definable to God. God isn't gonna sit there and after say, you know, I gotta ask you a few questions. I can't make up my mind about you.

I just go back and forth. You got so many great strengths. You got some really good stuff, but I've never understood this. No, maybe we as a panel might do that. God won't have that. He'll have something that he knows that he knows that he knows as deep and as rigid and as true and as honest as anybody can know anything.

And here Jesus separates between the two. Doesn't have any problem. And he makes it very clear, though, and I suppose this is the important aspect of this illustration that Jesus gives, is that it ultimately, in his decision-making, in his evaluation, it doesn't have anything to do, essentially, with what's above the ground.

Just that simple. When you look at here, you know, what is really going on is Jesus is evaluating it. It's not on the outside. It's what's under the skin. It's what below the ground, you might say, as Jesus gives this illustration of these two men building their houses.

One of them is upon a rock, and the other is on sand, and that makes all the difference in the world. That's the total determining aspect about it. Luke chapter 6, verse 48, Jesus said, He is like a man which built a house, and he digged deep, and he laid the foundation on a rock.

And when the flood arose, and the stream beat vehemently upon the house, and he could not shake it, for it was founded upon a rock. And here in Luke's, you know, evaluation, you know, of Jesus' statement here on it, he looks there and he says, Here's somebody that they dug deep, and they dug deep until they got to bedrock.

They went down, they laid a foundation upon a rock. And here, as he looks there, he says, Then this is the determining factor. And one will ultimately stand or fall. One will either be wise or foolish.

Jesus said, A wise man builds his house, and a fool. A man who is just an absolute fool is somebody that has made a terrible mistake here, as he looks at him. And you might say, What makes him such a fool?

Why is it that one of them, and I suppose both of these men in one sense, you might look at it, they both work just as hard in many ways. Cost in the same, you might say. You know, what it was, you know, they, you know, they got the 16 inches on center on all the studs in the walls and things.

They maybe got all of the, you know, the right engineering done on the roof, or the, you know, the load to hold the snow load, or to all the other aspects about the house. It may be engineered the walls, and it may be where all the electrical is grounded, and all the plumbing, you know, flows in the right direction sort of a thing, and downhill, and everything else.

They may have plenty of water, you know, pressure to run the house and everything, but when it comes down to it, both of them can work awfully hard. They can sweat. They can put out all the energy in the whole world building the thing, but when it's done, one of them followed the rules, and the other didn't.

And it's almost as if one of them wanted a house, and then almost to get on with other things. He didn't have the time for the foundation. Didn't have it. One builds, you know, and he, and maybe he looks at it, he says, this is all I need.

This will get the job of living done. And, and it's something there that a lot of people, sometimes I think, when I look there at what people believe, and I'm not here to make fun or ridicule, you know, any religious systems particularly, but to me, when I look, for example, at the foundations of Mormonism, when I look at the foundations and the truth of what God, where Joseph Smith got all of his information, well proven, very, very thoroughly documented, no question about the fraud that went on in his putting together in the religion.

I don't mean that as a cheap shot. I mean it is an honest accusation. It's well proven. And anybody that wants to go to the roots and look at the foundation of it, and look at the Mormonism, you can do the same thing with Mary Baker, Eddie, in Christian science, you can do it the same thing with Russell and Rutherford and Jehovah's Witnesses.

Testing Religious Foundations

You can do it, you know, when you want to go and you look and say, where'd they come up with this? How did they come about with these things of which millions of people are living under them, and believing them, and going to church, and building these unbelievable homes, building these huge churches, dwelling inside of these religious systems, and they've got great structure to them, great all sorts of other things, but when you look down, what is it upon?

What's the foundation of its existence? Is it God from, you know, all the way through? Is it God's presence, God's power, God's supernatural revealed truth, or is it something there you got some mud? You got a lot of man's thinking, you got a bunch of clay, you got a bunch of things there that isn't.

That as it's built, and many of these theologians from the various religions trying to defend them, they will even acknowledge, they made a lot of mistakes. And, you know, when Joseph Smith declared that there was people running around on the moon, well, he kind of slipped on that one.

But somehow or another, people don't say, wait a minute, this is the guy that also read these plates from Moroni. Might be Maloney. You know, I mean, so it could possibly be in a sense there, but they don't look at it.

They don't look at the foundation. They don't want to really know deeply all the way, and this is the terrible thing. A lot of people, you know, they remind me of me at Christmas, you know, or something to where, you know, you get a toy for your kids, and on the outside of the box, it's just kind of a little thing that says, you know, requires some assembly, you know, or something.

And look out for those. You open it up, and you realize you need an engineering degree, you know, to put these things together, and you only got 10 minutes to do it because the kid's sitting there pounding his foot saying, I want to ride it.

And so you don't sit there and read the instructions. Not if you're, you know, I mean, you haven't got any time to really read them, you know, and sort of thing, and also, but even particularly when you're really intelligent.

Intelligent people don't need to read instruction, and not particularly if you're as intelligent as I am. In fact, I am smarter than any of those things because I am so good at putting things together, I even end up with extra parts when I'm done.

I don't even need some of the stuff that they, you, that they put in there, until you want to use it. Then all of a sudden, you'd realize, uh-oh, I think those parts fit somewhere. And the tragic thing is, is that there are literally millions of people that have put their entire life together, and the parts don't fit, but yet they, they're there, they say, well, it works okay for now.

Not realizing the only issue is, does it work eternally? Does it work forever? Here, both of these houses, under normal weather conditions, apparently did absolutely fine. Under just normal living conditions, normal seasonal things that happen, the normal issues of life, you could take the Christian, the true Christian, born-again Christian, you could, you know, line right up next to him all sorts of other religious people, and let the regular, the rain falls, and the just, and the unjust, and the regular storms, the regular trials, and the regular issues, and you can have as many non-Christians sometimes live through the seasons of life, almost as good, if not sometimes as well or better than the Christian.

And you look at these houses, and apparently they did just fine through life, the regular seasons of life, so to speak. But you see, these people, the ones that built it upon the sand, they didn't realize that the most, the most, not just a most, or a, you know, important quality, but the very most important aspect of the, of the construction, had really nothing to do with the daily issues of life.

It had nothing to do with, you know, that this house, when it was to be built, and when it was designed, it was designed for the, the, the great specific reason of standing strong in the day of eternal judgment.

This is the house Jesus is describing here. This is not just simply kind of a place to dwell through our three score and ten here. This is a house that is built directly with the, with the sense that one day a storm is going to come like no storm has ever dreamed of coming.

There is going to be a rain, and there's going to be winds, and there is going to be a, you know, a tornado that is going to come upon my life called death, unlike any other thing I have ever confronted.

And that's what my life must be built upon, that day in mind, that issue in mind. This home was built not just for the daily, as I said, the normal conditions. Both of them seem to live through those conditions just fine, but one of them was built for a specific day.

And it was built, you know, for a day of judgment, not just thinking about the ordinary conditions. And it's something that, this is something, though, where the other man realizes, this is why I want to build my house the way I'm building it.

Building for the Day of Judgment

The regular conditions of life, you know, in the regular weather, those are fine, and both of them kind of seem to stand up pretty good through those things. But one real aspect, you know, of the house, when it comes down, the only aspect, as far as Jesus is concerned about it, is the foundation.

He looks at that, and he says, that is going to determine the great storm, the real storm, the inevitable storm that every human being knows is coming. I don't know what's going to happen to the economy this year, or next year, or the next few years.

I don't know what's going to happen in the world. I don't know what's going to happen with wars. I don't know what's going to happen with the nations. I've got some pretty good ideas prophetically. I don't know the timetable for them, but one thing I do know is one day, the Bible says, God is going to close up creation as a vesture.

He spoke it into existence. In Hebrews chapter 1 tells us God will close it up as a vesture. He created, and he's one day going to end it. And everyone that he created, that lived within it, and was created by him, is going to stand before him.

That's the, and then that's the determining issue of all of life. And was the house built for the final judgment, or not? And, you know, you can have all your regular little seasonal patterns that everybody can live through, but these are, this isn't hundred-year flood conditions, or thousand years, or, you know, this is eternal flood conditions that Jesus is talking about here.

And you see, one man has built his house as he kind of did it all. He built his old house with, not really that there's a true final building authority that's going to inspect the job. No, this guy, he really didn't need a structural engineer, so to speak.

He knows everything he needs to know. This house works. It works for my friends, it works for my neighbors, everybody around me is living in these houses. And it's a reasonable house, it's structurally fine, or whatever, you know, and besides, we've never had a flood like you're talking about in this area.

Maybe in some other place they need to, you know, build a house for floods. And we've never had a recorded earthquake in this place here, so what do you need to build them with those standards for? And that seems to be the way a lot of people live.

The answers that they really have in life, as they even have their religious life, as their spiritual life, it isn't all about one day standing before God and being, you know, accepted in God's presence eternally.

Their issue is, is there, you know something? When I stand before God, I built my house right. Every, you know, I'm not afraid to stand before God. Every stud is 16 inches on center here. Every, it's all got, you know, three nails, you know, down there at the bottom.

It's got three nails at the top. You know, there are fireblocks in between and all the walls here. It's properly insulated. The wiring is good. The snow load is effective. They can, they go through the whole thing, but do they look down at the foundation of what it is truly all about.

As I said, one of them, you know, is a man there that he's just thinking about this life and this works. Works for me. But the other one looks and he says, I want a house that's going to last and last and last.

And it's going to last through anything and the greatest storm that'll ever happen. That's what Jesus is talking about. A man that built his house upon the rock. Well, look at the rock. It's pretty simple who that is in a moment, but until we realize that that's the issue.

The Foundation Must Reach Bedrock

When I was up in San Jose, there was a man in our church up there who, his father had worked, you know, a whole career. Was getting ready to retire. In fact, a number of years earlier, just planning his retirement in the Monterey Bay area.

He bought a lot there that just looked out over the Monterey Bay there, the ocean, just a beautiful place with that's where he's going to build his retirement home. And he came around time to getting close to retirement.

And so he goes over, you know, get some plans and turns them into the city and he's going to start building this house. And the city comes back and says they want a bunch of seismic work and they wanted a bunch of extra soils analysis and compaction stuff.

And he was angry. So what do you mean? He went back and forth with them and he fought him on it. But then the city still said, you're not getting a building permit until you do this. And he had to pay thousands of dollars and go hire this company to come in and do this silly work.

But when the information came back, he found out that he had to go down almost 30 feet. I mean, here this place had been so settled in, there were huge trees growing there. There had been, he had this place and he's looking at it, wouldn't look at this place.

This is, there's trees, there's huge things, been here for many, many years, hundreds of years of growth here. And now you're worried about if a house will make it. And when he, when they came back and showed him that his house, if he built it as originally designed, as it began to settle, the foundation would crack, everything would have been absolutely destroyed over a period of time.

Cost him over a hundred thousand dollars to then go down, to get literally the bedrock, to put solid, you know, concrete, you know, things going down into it to build the house upon it. But it was something there that he had close to a million dollar home, I believe he was putting on this thing.

And to imagine, had he put a million dollars, his entire life savings for his dream home, on something only to watch it give way. And he fought it. They forced him, they said, you will not build it unless you do it this way.

Well, God doesn't fight with people. He does tell every one of them though, he says, however, you build your life and if it is upon the sand, I don't care what it is you build, you know, going up. If you don't build it right, going down.

And the ultimate thing here is that what is, why this is so important, is as far as God is concerned, when you look at this, why is the foundation so important? It's very simple. You see, as Jesus is speaking here, he wants us to know, you and I were not married, we were, pardon me, we were not created for the house.

We were not created for marriage. We weren't created for Christian marriage. We weren't created for Christian families. We weren't created for Christian homes. We weren't created for Christian values, for Christian business, for Christian ethics.

We were created for Christ. And there's a big difference between the two. One of them is a series of principles of human behavior by which you build relationships and you maintain relationships and you deal, which are very important and very good.

And those will help you through this life. But they were not the reason I was made. I was made by God, for God, to be with God, to be filled with God. I was made to belong to him eternally. And there is, as far as God's concerned, we look at marriages, and yes, there's wonderful things for a good Christian marriage, good Christian homes, good Christian ethics, good Christian values that are in the Bible that we ought to practice.

And if we do, our lives are going to be blessed. But the issue here is that do I sit there and realize, above all else, I was not just created to get through this life and put a roof over my head and have a nice hunky-dory time.

I am created with an eternal aspect of which this life is a vapor. The three score and ten that we have here in light of eternity, it's a flash in the pan, it just comes and goes. And yes, we will maybe look back and realize from an eternal perspective, for a few flickering moments, I was married.

But in heaven, there's neither marriage nor given in marriage. We won't be producing children. We will be living with God. And unless, and as far as God is concerned, as I enter into an eternal relationship, what religion is to be all about, a relationship with God.

Unless I look there and realize this is the primary issue of all of life. And here Jesus is simply saying, listen, yes, you've got each other, that's wonderful. I want to help you with each other. And yes, you've got business, that's wonderful.

I want to help you with your business. And yes, you've got crops to grow, you've got homes to build, you've got things to do. I want to help you with all that, and I do, and I will. But you were made by God in His image.

And until you realize the very need of having Him above all else, Christ is our life. Christ is our home. Christ is our eternal existence. And until something happens where I settle it on that, and when I also then begin to build and I look and realize that everything I would build upon, my own effort, my own energy, my own righteousness, my own commitment, it's sand.

Christ as the Only Foundation

My own goodness, my own consecration, God, I'm going to build, and I'm going to build it good, and I'm going to try hard, I'm going to be wonderful. God says, no, you aren't, and no, you won't. You can't dig deep enough on your own to get a foundation.

The most costly aspect of the home is the foundation. It's the whole basis of the home, and it is something that we cannot do. But as the Bible says that no man can build on any other foundation than that which is already laid.

It's already done. For me to try to build it or redo it is ridiculous, and it's a denial of the sufficiency of Christ. But when I look at my life and I'm able to look and realize, Lord, You are everything, and what You did to give me a foundation, to die upon the cross, to bear my sins, to forgive all of my iniquities, to look at me and say, I forgive you and I love you.

And that's something, by the way, hopefully every one of us know. Hopefully as we're sitting here tonight, there's not a one of us that we do not know deeply within our heart. Jesus Christ is the hope of the world and of us.

Individually that I can look around and not say, how have I done? How do you like the framing? What do you think of the roofing? Nice interior. How do you like it? But we look at that and realize no matter how good it is, what is my life when the storm comes, when death comes, when the final analysis come, what holds me up?

And when I look there and realize that's to where the price has been paid by Jesus Christ, Him alone. As somebody once said, I heard the words of love, I gaze upon the blood, I see the mighty sacrifice, and I have peace with God.

When I look there and realize my hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness, my life is based on Him and Him alone. And as Jesus, you know, is closing out the sermon, you know, and talking about a wise man, he's talking about a fool.

In Proverbs it says there that a wise man he seeks and he covets wisdom, for the gain thereof is better than fine gold. That the wise man wants to look and say, is my house built on the foundation of Jesus Christ?

It's that simple. And when you and I tonight, where are you? Where am I? Is it something that, you know, with many people it's done early, you know, it's done at the beginning. We try to get, it's an interesting thing as you look at people, the farther they get through construction, if you've ever noticed this, the older somebody gets the less likely they are to respond to the gospel.

They've been building a long time. Hey, I got a lot of walls, I got a lot of stuff here done, and you want me to go down to the very foundation and start all over? I don't think so. That's why statistically most people when they become Christians, they're younger.

After the teenage years, every year a person gets older after they're a teenager, the less likely they are to give their life to Christ, because the more they've already built and they just want to say, hey look, I've done a lot of work in my life, I've done a lot of building, I've done a lot, I'm a long way through the project, I don't want to go back and look at the foundation.

Conversion Through Shaking and Crisis

And sometimes God has to bring a, you might say a pre-flood flood. Imagine with many of us, the way we kind of came to Christ is, is kind of, we were building along, we were fine, everything was pretty good for normal conditions, and sometimes God has to bring something that just shakes it.

I had a nephew, I have, I still have, I didn't have, I have, you know, a wonderful young man when it comes to ethics and values and morals and a good husband and a good father and wonderful qualities, a wonderful human being, you can't, you can't look at anything he's done and have accusation against it essentially.

Just wasn't a Christian. Graduated from college, went through his life, going through things, didn't need Christ. Now wonderfully, God in his mercy just kind of let the economy shift and let things start underneath him to where his life really starts getting shaky.

And only, and then he moved back, he was back east, and his wife, wonderful Christian, loving, praying, caring, his daughter, wonderful Christian, precious little girl, no doubt loving, caring, praying for daddy.

Meantime, he's going along, things are fine. He was so nice, he'd go to church with him, didn't believe it, but he'd go to church because he didn't want, he was a nice guy, and nice guys go to church with Christians, and they sit there, and they don't let anything bother them because they don't believe that stuff.

They don't need it, and there they sit. And yet finally something had to shake. Lo and behold, the mother and daughter were shaken to the core, and my niece and her daughter, when the pastor had given all their call, every service they ever did, and all of a sudden he gets up, and he walks down, and somehow or another finally need Christ, finally realizes my life is hopeless outside of Christ.

How long that takes, I don't know, but whatever it is. There's a fellow, I don't want to look at him tonight so much, but he's sitting down here I haven't seen for years. He went to my church in Redland, sat and listened to me.

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