Will we survive? That will decide
Matthew 7:21. Jesus said to his disciples: "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord!' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father in heaven.
Many will say to me in that day: 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, and cast out demons in Your name, and done many miracles in Your name?'
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Then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you. Depart from Me, you workers of iniquity!' Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on a rock. The
rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house. But it did not fall, because it was founded on the rock. But
everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house. And it fell, and its fall was great.
When Jesus finished these words, the crowds were amazed at His teaching. For He taught them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes. This is the Word of the Lord.
Brothers and sisters, in these two readings we have this truth about life , about the life of every person, the truth about life that God displays, reveals, reveals. He shows us what it is like with our lives, because even we ourselves are not able to see the whole truth and properly assess what is happening. This
is Jesus says: "The parable of two houses built on two foundations." Home is my life and yours, what you have built, what you are building yourself with, who you are building yourself with, what you are building on.
We see from the parable that storms hit all homes, that in this existence, in this existence on this planet, there is no possibility that someone will not experience such a stormy moment that will check whether the foundation on which we are building is correct.
Because it is not the magnificence of the building, but what is invisible - the foundation. It is usually invisible, buried deep in the ground, and determines whether we survive.
But storms come to everyone, and they come to everyone. We saw, as an Old Testament illustration, not at all legendary, historical, how such a historical storm came upon a king, and a king is, after all, someone who is well protected.
King Jehoiakim reigned in Jerusalem, the holy place.
We learned from the Holy Scripture that his mother's name was Nehushta, perhaps it comes from the word "nahash" - snake. This mother is a bit snake-like. And he also had a father whom he imitated.
He clearly had a strong admiration for him, but Jehoiachin's actions, although they were imitations of his father, were evil in God's eyes - that's what the Bible says.
And actually, after this short information, we learn that Nebuchadnezzar, or rather his servants, came and took this holy city and destroyed this holy temple and this strong king who, perhaps, was confident of his power, lost his confidence, trembled and fell. And his fall was great,
because although he was strengthened by his mother and father, and by tradition, culture and religion, in the eyes of God his actions were evil. We learned from the text that not only he and his family, but even the entire court and all the important people of Jerusalem were deported into captivity.
Like ordinary slaves, in an instant their greatness collapsed. So storms are not necessarily climate-related. A storm is simply a powerful change that affects our existence. Interestingly, only those who were poorest remained in Jerusalem.
The text says that they lost everything, not only the king, queen and court, but the princes also lost, the courtiers, the brave warriors also fell, even the blacksmiths and locksmiths, as the Bible says. Only the poorest remained in Jerusalem.
Maybe their lives were built on the rock, based on God, because who can the poorest count on? For God's sake, not for connections, not for connections, not for prestige, not for promotion, not for money and not for power, but for God.
This is a detail in this text, but it clearly corresponds to this parable of the two houses. When we wonder why this is so and what, in a deeper sense, determines the ruin, the ruin of our life, a life not built on God, we will ask Jesus.
What does He, our Lord, have to explain here? He reveals this to us in depth, he says: Not everyone who says, 'Lord, Lord,' speaks, and not everyone who hears, but only the one who fills, builds his house, his life, in such a way that no storm can destroy it. will destroy. Fulfill the will of the Lord.
Let us think even more deeply, because this text from Matthew, chapter 7, this speech of Jesus, was addressed to Jesus' disciples. Such speech should not be addressed to people who believe in Jesus and Jesus, to people to whom we would actually expect.
And yet he says to his disciples: "It is not enough that you say, 'Lord' to me. In this way we acknowledge you as Lord. We believe in this God, in this Jesus Christ. And not everyone who even says to me, but even listens to my words, just as we read, ponder and listen tonight.
What is decisive is whether we fulfill it, because a storm will come. As Jesus concluded his story, he said that the fall of the house was great.
If the fall was great, the house was also huge. But the foundation was very loose, made of sand. He also addresses these words to people to whom he tells them that they will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven: "I never knew you." How so? I never knew you? After all, they called him "Lord" and even performed miracles with the power of His name.
How did I not know you? Will he deny them? What does it mean to know the Lord or to be known to God? "Depart from me, you who practice iniquity." What iniquity is Jesus talking about? Does it say that these people sinned in some unique way?
Perhaps they were thieves, adulterers, proud? No sin is mentioned, but you are committing iniquity. What is this iniquity? It would appear from the context that unrighteousness consists in calling God "Lord", i.e. worshiping Him, kneeling, crossing oneself and praying. Man has some religious culture towards God.
What's more, he listens. So he has his ears open, he nods, he says, "Yes, it's true, what God says, what the church says, what Christ says, it's all so good." But he doesn't fulfill it.
Does not fill in. Jesus addresses these words to people who have been deceived by their religiosity. Can you be deceived by something like religion? Of course! This is one of the most dangerous spaces for the human spirit: religion. Precisely because it allows man to approach God.
That is why it becomes so dangerous even to his salvation.
Interestingly, Jesus did not have such harsh words for the adulteress who washed his feet with her hair, because she knew her sin and did not hide the fact that she was a sinner. He did not have such harsh words for Matthew, who was a tax collector and perhaps also stole and cheated.
One look was enough and Mateusz changed. He did not have such harsh words for sick people, lepers or even possessed people. He only had harsh words for the scribes, the Pharisees. And here we learn that he said such things even to his disciples, which is puzzling and even terrifying.
He said to the Pharisees and scribes, "A brood of vipers." What do you mean, a brood of vipers? Viper - Nehushta. Just like that mother of Jehoiakim.
And he said to them in Matthew 23, that you keep everything external. You shine like a cup, like a golden cup, on the outside you shine, but on the inside you are full of iniquity, abominations, lust and pride.
Not everyone who speaks, but he who does. What do I fill myself with? I am preaching this sermon here today, you are listening to this sermon. But what I am truly filled with inside is what matters. God, or something completely different?
Many will say to me in that day: 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, and cast out demons in Your name, and done many miracles in Your name?'
[media=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9IS1dj6DjU]
Then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you. Depart from Me, you workers of iniquity!' Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on a rock. The
rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house. But it did not fall, because it was founded on the rock. But
everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house. And it fell, and its fall was great.
When Jesus finished these words, the crowds were amazed at His teaching. For He taught them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes. This is the Word of the Lord.
Brothers and sisters, in these two readings we have this truth about life , about the life of every person, the truth about life that God displays, reveals, reveals. He shows us what it is like with our lives, because even we ourselves are not able to see the whole truth and properly assess what is happening. This
is Jesus says: "The parable of two houses built on two foundations." Home is my life and yours, what you have built, what you are building yourself with, who you are building yourself with, what you are building on.
We see from the parable that storms hit all homes, that in this existence, in this existence on this planet, there is no possibility that someone will not experience such a stormy moment that will check whether the foundation on which we are building is correct.
Because it is not the magnificence of the building, but what is invisible - the foundation. It is usually invisible, buried deep in the ground, and determines whether we survive.
But storms come to everyone, and they come to everyone. We saw, as an Old Testament illustration, not at all legendary, historical, how such a historical storm came upon a king, and a king is, after all, someone who is well protected.
King Jehoiakim reigned in Jerusalem, the holy place.
We learned from the Holy Scripture that his mother's name was Nehushta, perhaps it comes from the word "nahash" - snake. This mother is a bit snake-like. And he also had a father whom he imitated.
He clearly had a strong admiration for him, but Jehoiachin's actions, although they were imitations of his father, were evil in God's eyes - that's what the Bible says.
And actually, after this short information, we learn that Nebuchadnezzar, or rather his servants, came and took this holy city and destroyed this holy temple and this strong king who, perhaps, was confident of his power, lost his confidence, trembled and fell. And his fall was great,
because although he was strengthened by his mother and father, and by tradition, culture and religion, in the eyes of God his actions were evil. We learned from the text that not only he and his family, but even the entire court and all the important people of Jerusalem were deported into captivity.
Like ordinary slaves, in an instant their greatness collapsed. So storms are not necessarily climate-related. A storm is simply a powerful change that affects our existence. Interestingly, only those who were poorest remained in Jerusalem.
The text says that they lost everything, not only the king, queen and court, but the princes also lost, the courtiers, the brave warriors also fell, even the blacksmiths and locksmiths, as the Bible says. Only the poorest remained in Jerusalem.
Maybe their lives were built on the rock, based on God, because who can the poorest count on? For God's sake, not for connections, not for connections, not for prestige, not for promotion, not for money and not for power, but for God.
This is a detail in this text, but it clearly corresponds to this parable of the two houses. When we wonder why this is so and what, in a deeper sense, determines the ruin, the ruin of our life, a life not built on God, we will ask Jesus.
What does He, our Lord, have to explain here? He reveals this to us in depth, he says: Not everyone who says, 'Lord, Lord,' speaks, and not everyone who hears, but only the one who fills, builds his house, his life, in such a way that no storm can destroy it. will destroy. Fulfill the will of the Lord.
Let us think even more deeply, because this text from Matthew, chapter 7, this speech of Jesus, was addressed to Jesus' disciples. Such speech should not be addressed to people who believe in Jesus and Jesus, to people to whom we would actually expect.
And yet he says to his disciples: "It is not enough that you say, 'Lord' to me. In this way we acknowledge you as Lord. We believe in this God, in this Jesus Christ. And not everyone who even says to me, but even listens to my words, just as we read, ponder and listen tonight.
What is decisive is whether we fulfill it, because a storm will come. As Jesus concluded his story, he said that the fall of the house was great.
If the fall was great, the house was also huge. But the foundation was very loose, made of sand. He also addresses these words to people to whom he tells them that they will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven: "I never knew you." How so? I never knew you? After all, they called him "Lord" and even performed miracles with the power of His name.
How did I not know you? Will he deny them? What does it mean to know the Lord or to be known to God? "Depart from me, you who practice iniquity." What iniquity is Jesus talking about? Does it say that these people sinned in some unique way?
Perhaps they were thieves, adulterers, proud? No sin is mentioned, but you are committing iniquity. What is this iniquity? It would appear from the context that unrighteousness consists in calling God "Lord", i.e. worshiping Him, kneeling, crossing oneself and praying. Man has some religious culture towards God.
What's more, he listens. So he has his ears open, he nods, he says, "Yes, it's true, what God says, what the church says, what Christ says, it's all so good." But he doesn't fulfill it.
Does not fill in. Jesus addresses these words to people who have been deceived by their religiosity. Can you be deceived by something like religion? Of course! This is one of the most dangerous spaces for the human spirit: religion. Precisely because it allows man to approach God.
That is why it becomes so dangerous even to his salvation.
Interestingly, Jesus did not have such harsh words for the adulteress who washed his feet with her hair, because she knew her sin and did not hide the fact that she was a sinner. He did not have such harsh words for Matthew, who was a tax collector and perhaps also stole and cheated.
One look was enough and Mateusz changed. He did not have such harsh words for sick people, lepers or even possessed people. He only had harsh words for the scribes, the Pharisees. And here we learn that he said such things even to his disciples, which is puzzling and even terrifying.
He said to the Pharisees and scribes, "A brood of vipers." What do you mean, a brood of vipers? Viper - Nehushta. Just like that mother of Jehoiakim.
And he said to them in Matthew 23, that you keep everything external. You shine like a cup, like a golden cup, on the outside you shine, but on the inside you are full of iniquity, abominations, lust and pride.
Not everyone who speaks, but he who does. What do I fill myself with? I am preaching this sermon here today, you are listening to this sermon. But what I am truly filled with inside is what matters. God, or something completely different?
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