On That Day, What Will You Be Like?
Matthew 7:24-27
- Both Wise and Foolish Builders Produce Good Looking Products. (Vs. 24, 26, Psa 18:2, Matt 23:27-28, John 12:47-48)
* Psalm 18:2, “The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock where I seek refuge”
* Matthew 23:27-28, “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of the bones of the dead and every kind of impurity. In the same way, on the outside you seem righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.”
* John 12:47-48, “If anyone hears my words and doesn’t keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world…
* But add the very next verse, Vs. 48, “The one who rejects me and doesn’t receive my sayings has this as his judge: The word I have spoken will judge him on the last day.”
- The ‘Great Storm’ is Coming; What Builder Will You Represent? (Matt 23:33; 24:30-31, 42; Rev 22:12-13)
* Matthew 23:33, “Snakes! Brood of vipers! How can you escape being condemned to hell?”
* Matthew 24:30-31, “Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the peoples of the earth will mourn; and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. He will send out his angels with a loud trumpet, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.”
* Matthew 24:42, “Therefore be alert, since you don’t know what day your Lord is coming.”
* Revelation 22:12-13, “Look, I am coming soon, and my reward is with me to repay each person according to his work. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”