"Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show
you what he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep
and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream
broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been
well built." Luke 6:47-48
Matthew Henry -- "That those only make sure work for
their souls and eternity, and take the course that will stand them
in stead in a trying time, who do not only come to Christ as
his scholars, and hear his sayings but do them, who think,
and speak, and act, in every thing according to the established
rules of his holy religion. They are like a house built on a
rock. These are they that take pains in religion, as
they do,—that dig deep, that found their hope upon Christ,
who is the Rock of ages (and other foundation can no man lay);
these are they who provide for hereafter, who get ready for
the worst, who lay up in store a good foundation for the time to
come, for the eternity to come, 1 Tim. vi. 19. They who do thus do well for
themselves; for, [1.] They shall keep their integrity, in times of
temptation and persecution; when others fall from their own
stedfastness, as the seed on the stony ground, they shall stand
fast in the Lord. [2.] They shall keep their comfort, and
peace, and hope, and joy, in the midst of the greatest distresses.
The storms and streams of affliction shall not shock
them, for their feet are set upon a rock, a rock higher
than they. [3.] Their everlasting welfare is secured. In death
and judgment they are safe. Obedient believers are kept by the
power of Christ, through faith, unto salvation, and shall never
perish."
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