Dr. Tony Evans is the founder and senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, founder, and president of The Urban Alternative and author of over 100 books, booklets, and Bible studies. The first African American to earn a doctorate of theology from Dallas Theological Seminary, he has been named one of the 12 Most Effective Preachers in the English-Speaking World by Baylor University. Dr. Evans holds the honor of writing and publishing the first full-Bible commentary and study Bible by an African American. His radio broadcast, The Alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, can be heard on over 1,400 radio outlets daily and in more than 130 countries. Dr. Evans’ sermons are also streamed and downloaded over 20,000,000 times annually.
hello friends before we get into today’s
worship service it would be remiss of me
not to share my heart about the recent
events that have affected us all the
loss the precious loss of a life that of
George Floyd has just ripped at my heart
and at the heart of a nation to see his
life snuffed out the way it was somewhat
overwhelming and it’s piercing but it’s
not a singular individual situation
there’s life after life after life over
years that have been unjustly and
unrighteous ly taken endemic of a
problem that really needs deep fixing
you know we’re in a medical pandemic
right now simultaneously we’re in a
cultural pandemic because we’re seeing
the devolution of our society and we’re
in a cultural pandemic because we’re in
a spiritual pandemic we have wandered
away from a value system that was
established by God for how human beings
were to live enact and relate to one
another across racial and class lines we
have come up with our own standards and
it is not done as good it is absolutely
needed right now that there needs to be
a reset and this is the time to do it
when it has everyone’s attention at the
very same time the Bible is clear and
Psalm 89 verse 14 it says from God’s
throne comes righteousness and justice
and this is not a seesaw where sometimes
you go for righteousness and sometimes
you go for justice these the twin towers
these are twins they’re always to be
balanced side by
righteousness is the moral standard of
right and wrong to which God holds men
accountable based on his divine standard
justice is the equitable and impartial
application of God’s moral law and
society and God wants both yes he wants
to protect the life of the unborn in the
womb but he wants to see justice of the
life once born to the tomb in other
words God wants a whole life agenda not
a term agenda but unfortunately all
lives aren’t valued the same way and
they ought to be because every person is
created in the image of Almighty God it
is now time on a personal level and a
systemic level that we reverse the
course of history that has brought us to
this point and that we reverse it on all
levels
God has four levels in which life is to
be lived and therefore there are four
levels in which changes need to be made
I call it and we call it the kingdom
agenda the visible manifestation of the
comprehensive rule of God over every
area of life it starts with an
individual it starts with you don’t try
to change the nation if God can’t even
change your heart in other words we have
to develop a heart that cares for our
fellow man because they’re created in
the image of God not because they look
like us or have what we have but because
they have the stamp of divine creation
on them and that means that you have the
responsibility to reach out to somebody
different than you let them understand
where you came from where you come from
the things that have been fluence to
your perspective hear from them and give
them an audience and then both of you
find out what God has to say about the
matter so that he can keep everybody
straight
and then there’s your family we must be
transferring values to our children
don’t expect them to think differently
and act differently if they aren’t
hearing differently from their parents
if they’re not getting a a righteous
value system of judging people by the
content of their character not the color
of their skin it means you connect with
other families who may be different than
you and you not only get to know them
but guess what you do as families
together you go serve another family
that’s worse off than you because guess
where reconciliation happens it doesn’t
happen in seminars that’s information
reconciliation happens in service so as
an individual and as a family with
another family different than you serve
somebody worse off than you and now you
are part of the solution through good
works that God calls us all to do and
then the church the biggest problem in
the culture today is the church because
the church has failed we wouldn’t even
have a racial crisis in America if the
church had not failed to deal with this
sin like God calls it in his word but
because it passed it off ignored it and
even promoted it we still have this
division in our culture so don’t expect
God to fix the white house if you can’t
even change the church house churches
don’t just get together for joint
worship services that’s that’s great
that has its that has its benefits but
it also addresses the issue of inequity
whether it’s racial inequity or
economic inequity or healthcare inequity
or opportunity inequity it it it
recognizes the systems that are at work
that work against the fair treatment of
people creating the opportunity for them
to take advantage of all that God has
blessed us with in this nation but they
do it in such a way
where people are held accountable to be
responsible for their decision-making
and then it speaks to the culture at
large it speaks not first of all from a
political platform it speaks first of
all from a biblio centric platform since
God doesn’t ride the backs of donkeys or
elephants the church must speak with one
voice because we have one God one Lord
Jesus Christ and one an arrant word to
speak from and yes we should protest
evil in a righteous way we should let
our voices be heard but then we must act
because if we don’t act all we did was
have a speech we must implement
righteous principles modeling it through
the church so we can see what it looks
like in the broader society and then
finally we must challenge our civil
leaders on all levels of government to
be agents of healing in that division to
speak in such a way where unity is
reinforced and not divisive Ness that
the words that come out of their mouth
and the way they say the words that come
out of their mouth must be words of
strength and kindness not vitriol and
meanness and when those four areas the
individual the family the church and the
community
begin to operate that way based on God’s
standard then he can feel comfortable to
get back in the midst of us and make us
repairers of the breach and healers of
the land and so this starts off with
prayer and I don’t just mean say God
help us no I’m talking about where we
repent of where we fail to do what he
says do the way he says do it where we
realign ourselves under his authority
while pursuing a relationship with him
where his word can overrule our ideas
perspectives and
this and then he will listen to your
prayers cuz you praying like he wants
you to pray not like you want to pray
and when that kind of prayer goes up
with that kind of action supporting it
ah now now we’re ready to see what he
will do and healing a land well the
Sermon that’s part of today’s worship
service was recorded prior to all these
events but it’s still a relevant word
for now because until we take seriously
his word and its application in all the
categories of our lives we won’t see
what he can do and turning this mess
into a healing miracle the miracle we
all long for so what should we do now
first of all as an individual you should
and I encourage you to righteously
protest unrighteousness wherever you
find it to do so with truth to do so
with love but to do so with clarity but
then act be part of the solution not
just part of the complaint build a
bridge with somebody different than you
and then the two of you together go help
somebody worse off than the two of you
because now you’re part of the solution
and not just somebody complaining about
the problem then that’s families I’m a
father I’ve had to have the talk with my
sons and grandsons about what happens
when the policeman pulls you over and
you go the extra mile because you don’t
know where this policeman is coming from
in their perspective but then you teach
your children principles of character
you develop their character to judge
people rightly by their character and
not their color but then you connect
with other families different than yours
and color in class and
together then you go minister to
somebody else worse off than your
family’s a single-parent family that’s
hurting a family that’s lost its job you
do it together because the best way to
reconcile is through service not just
through having discussions and seminars
and then as churches I’m a pastor a lot
of this falls because the church has
failed
we have been bifurcated illegitimately
we have led race overrule God’s rule in
our lives and in our decision-making and
it is time now for the church to be what
the head of the church Jesus Christ
called it to be the repairer of the
breach in our culture and that must mean
that we not just stand up against
personal sins but corporate sins as
systemic sins and that voice must be
heard we shouldn’t pick and choose and
it should be one voice where God has
spoken and has not stuttered there
should not be an uncertain sound coming
from the church when we have a certain
sound coming from our master and if
churches would come together in
communities all over the country as one
church with different expressions with
the unity of purpose not uniformity of
persons where you adopt all the public
schools in your community and minister
to the at-risk schools or where every
church adopts a homeless family so that
homelessness is eradicated which it
could be overnight if every church did
it so we become the solvers of the
problem so people will now be willing to
listen to our sermons and songs because
they see our impact and yes that means
addressing the structures in our society
that perpetuate evil righteous protest
collectively is absolutely biblical
that’s why Paul protested in
Acts chapter 16 the last five verses
when he was arrested
unrighteously and he complained both
biblically and civilly that that was
illegal we must take our stand but we
must not only take it in speech but in
action that gets visible to our verbal
and then a civic leaders we need to
challenge them from the Statehouse to
the house of Congress to the White House
to act and speak civilly that that
language must be healing words not
hurting words unifying words not
divisive language they must be spoken to
complimented for their strengths but
condemned for their failures and then we
must challenge them since they influence
the systems of the land to make sure
those systems are operating righteously
and with equity for all and not just for
a privileged view when we begin to act
like that on all four levels then we’ll
see God do some amazing things because
he can be at home in the creation that
he made some years ago there was a crack
on the wall in my bedroom that needed
desperately to be repaired I called a
painter over to rectify the problem on
my bedroom wall he came over and he
removed the old class that he put up new
plaster he repainted over it
I was happy all looked well it looked
like my problem had been solved but a
few weeks later the crack reappeared
uglier than ever I was a little bit
frustrated since I’d already paid him
but he came didn’t quite understand what
had happened but he we did it yeah
second time look pretty good but a month
and a half two months later
we appeared this time with his nieces
nephews uncles aunts and cousins I mean
I had a whole family of cracks on my
wall so you know what I figured I needed
me was a new painter somebody really
knew what they were doing so I called
over another guy and I asked him to
please please please please fix this
mess on my wall he just stood there and
stared at it and stared at it and stared
at it for what seemed like an eternity
in an ordinary mount of time and he said
so sorry sir I don’t think I can help
you inquiring minds want to know
isn’t this what you do oh you say yes
what I do but I don’t think I can help
you I said well why can’t you help me he
said because you don’t really have a
problem with cracks when you walk this
person was telling me that I didn’t have
problem cracks in the wall the cracks I
was looking at I was thinking to myself
do I see a crack you see crack all God’s
children see a crack his wall is messed
up and that’s when he told me he said no
you you really have a problem with
cracks on your wall you have a symptom
of cracks on your wall he says sir your
problem is you have a shifting
foundation your foundation is moving
underneath your house what you see on
your wall is symptomatic of a much
deeper problem and he said if you don’t
fix your foundation you will forever be
doing patchwork on your bedroom wall he
was telling me I had a foundation
problem well it shouldn’t take a genius
to see that there are a lot of cracks on
the wall of our lives today personal
cracks family cracks Church cracks
governmental civil cracks and crack
cracks you know they’re all kind of
cracks on the wall
but there is a much deeper problem and
that is a shipping foundation no matter
how great your house looks on the
outside if your foundation is shaky the
rest of the house is in trouble that
leads me to one of my favorite biblical
passages in Matthew 7:24 227 where where
we’re going to discover you really do
need to build on the right foundation if
you don’t want to be shaken now this
story is told from the perspective of
two gentlemen it deals with some
comparisons some contrast and then it
drives home a conclusion and it relates
to what we’re going through in this
pandemic I’ll show you what I mean in a
moment Jesus said every one verse 24 of
Matthew 7 who hears these words of mine
and acts 1 then they be compared to a
wise man who built his house on the rock
the rain fell the floods came and the
winds blew and slammed against that
house and yet it did not fall for you
did a little in the rock everyone who
hears these words of mine and does not
act on them that won’t be like a foolish
man who built his house on the sand the
rain fell and the floods came and the
winds blew and slammed against that
house and it fell and great was its fall
let’s start off with some comparisons we
have two men and both had the same dream
they wanted to build a house they both
wanted to build house now in the Bible a
house can refer to a number of different
things it can refer to your life like it
does here they wanted to build a life
worth living they wanted to have a life
that was solid and successful they
wanted to have a life that mattered that
made a difference
they had a dream most people I know you
you have a dream
dreams of a life well-lived or a house
in the bible can refer to your your
family the Bible talks about families in
terms of houses the house of David the
house of Saul’s talking about their
families and no couple walks down the
aisle pre-planning to get a divorce or
at least I hope not I mean you want a
family that’s together unified joyful
caring loving supportive not divided not
abused you have a dream of a house both
men had that dream they wanted to build
solid families the third thing that they
wanted to do or that a house refers to
in Scripture is the church in the Bible
of the Old Testament God’s house was
called the temple the place of worship
and sacrifice in the New Testament God’s
house is called the church it’s called
the household of faith no pastor wants
his ministry a shrink or the people not
to be engaged or people that attend you
want a growing vibrant spiritually based
affected ministry or the build a house
can refer to building a government
building a society building a nation
after all don’t we read in scripture
about the house of Israel that’s a house
that’s talking about the whole nation
then we say in America the White House
the house of Congress and has to do with
the civil government you don’t want a
nation falling apart and unraveling a
nation and conflict and division and
frustration and war you want a
well-watered society that is harmonized
productive and free so you see a house
in the Bible can refer to your personal
life your family life your church life
or your civil government and all of that
is really the sum total of God’s kingdom
which are divided into those four
spheres and both of these men wanted to
build a house and so do you I do too
a personal life a family life a church a
life and yeah as a citizen contributing
to the well-being of the nation so
that’s one thing they had in common a
second thing they had in common is that
they were pretty religious guys because
it says both men heard these words of
mine in other words they were both
listening to the Bible they were
listening to Jesus talk they were
listening to spiritual information and
you couldn’t get any better spiritual
information than from Jesus
that’s perfect data that’s the Living
Word speaking the written word which
means there should be no competing words
so they went to a solid church because
they were listening to these words of
mine so they had the same dream they
went to the same church listening to the
same pulpit eeeh Jesus himself but
something else was affecting them both
they faced the same storm I mean they
were in the same predicament because it
says the storm came and hit them both
are we all facing the same storm called
Corona cope at 19 you’re in this storm
whether you like it or not you can’t run
from this storm there’s nowhere to hide
from the storm because they didn’t think
off your world that it is a gulf of the
world it was bad about this dog can’t
quite located it’s like a hidden storm
with with heavy-duty shower when it hits
and so they face the same storm storms
in the Bible or trials predicaments
difficulties things that you don’t
prefer things that create discontinuity
in your life and in your world and in
your circumstances they face the storm
and it’s one thing about storms you
can’t control them when it decides the
rain you can’t tell it don’t because
storms just come at you from a whole
nother realm
so that’s what made these two men alike
same dream same church same problem
stolen but that’s where the comparisons
in and the contrast began because it
says one man is called the wise man and
the other man is called a fool now big
wise or foolish in the Bible I’d love to
do with your academic acumen it has
nothing to do with the level of your
degrees have none to do whether you’re
high school college MBA Harvard grad or
not whether you were a dropout the
wisdom does not first start with
academic credentials I’m sure all of us
have run into some educated fools in our
lives now in the Bible wisdom is your
ability to apply spiritual truth to
life’s realities to be a fool in the
Bible is your inability or refusal to
apply spiritual truth to life’s
realities let me say that again wisdom
is your ability and decision to apply
spiritual truth to life’s realities to
be a fool as educated as you might be as
rich as you might be as noted as you
might be as your refusal or inability to
apply spiritual biblical truth to life’s
realities it says what man was a wise
man and the other man was a fool
that’s what distinguish them and I know
the table or not right there because
both men had a dream which means the
wise man can have a dream and a fool can
have a dream both men went and heard
biblical truth which means the wise man
can listen to the Bible that a fool can
listen to the Bible since both were in a
stall which means a wise person can be
in trouble
times and a fool can be in trouble times
so which are you are you the wise man
are you the fool well what makes the
difference why is one called wise and
one called foolish well it says one man
built his house on a rock and the young
man built his house on sand
their foundations were different they
didn’t start in the same place you know
your foundation will always determine
your future when you build a house where
do you start you start with the
foundation right you pour the foundation
why because everything else is banking
on it yeah it’s it’s okay
to change the glass if it breaks or the
door if it gets off of its hinges all
the roof if it tails but if you have a
problem with your foundation but
everything else is resting on it we
really didn’t do have a much bigger
dilemma on our hands though see these
men didn’t start at the same spot they
started with two different foundations
and trust me a foundation is where you
start isn’t it you always start you
don’t start with the windows and the
doors of a house or the roof you start
with the foundation because it is
essential to everything else being in
order let’s talk about foundations from
north it says the wise man built his
house on a rock in other words a solid
foundation the other one built it on
saying now if you build on saying that’s
going to be pretty quick if you build on
a rock that’s gonna take you some time
if you build on sand that’s gonna be
pretty cheap and you build on rock
that’s gonna be pretty expensive if you
build on sand now have to work that hard
if you build on rock you’re gonna sweat
thinking I got drilled through that
thing you see a lot of people want God
on the cheap you know they want they
want to throw his name out there give
them a benediction and an invocation as
long as he stays out of the information
in between the discussion we want to we
want to pay due respect to him but we
don’t want to rest everything on him
a problem today is we’ve got building
people building their lives their
families their churches and even their
civil government’s on the wrong
foundation since God even created he
created all of those he created
individuals families churches and
government and he wanted all of them to
rest on the foundation that he has
established anything else becomes sand
so what determines whether you’re
operating on a solid foundation or
whether you’re operating on a sandy
foundation whether you’re building your
life your family your church or your
government on that which can stand or
did you choose the easy way out the way
of man not the way of God well he tells
us he says both men are these words of
mine but one acted on them and the other
did not so your foundation is not purely
tied to your information your foundation
is tied to your execution your
foundation what you build your life one
must be predicated on the right
foundation of data but data is
insufficient for you to have a
foundation a foundation of a house must
be poured not just mixed it must be
implemented not just known about until
God’s Word God’s viewpoint God’s
Authority is the basis of decision
making and thus action it becomes
useless information for you now it’s
useful information for those who believe
it enough to act on it that’s why the
Bible says over and over again don’t be
just a hero of my words but be a doer
there must be action you know in our
church in Dallas we have installed
motion
the lady and that’s when you walk in
from the light goes on when you walk out
the room the light goes off its power
the one they lights in the room but
they’ve been programmed not to work
until they detect movement they don’t
detect movement they’re gonna stay off
because people were wasting electricity
by leaving lights on so we to save money
put in motion detector lighting now the
power is there the lights are ready to
work but only when they detect movement
God’s Word is true God’s person is
powerful but he the motion detect the
kind of God he wants to see what the
movement is and if there is no movement
to obey what he says don’t be surprised
that you don’t see any power emanating
in your circumstance our world is
looking for solutions to the storm we’re
in called Carozza we’re looking for
answers but often on the sandy
foundation I’m very grateful for our
medical experts I’m very grateful for
our essential workers I’m very grateful
for all those who have a hand to the
plow to come up with solutions to this
issue but I would like to make it clear
that if God has allowed this for a
spiritual purpose it doesn’t matter how
brilliant the people are who were doing
all of this work because God is trying
to drive us to a to a whole nother level
a level of recognizing that until he
becomes front-and-center and his truth
is acting on starting by God’s people
the church then long-term solutions you
may come up with something temporary but
only to face it again because God wants
to get the point over but there’s only
room for one God and he’s it know if
you’re gonna build on a foundation
there’s got to be the foundation of the
activated Word of God not just the known
Word of God if you don’t know what you
you can’t act on it but there are too
many people who know enough that they
are
that more information is not the problem
ACK you know what they do know is
memorize this whole group of people who
want to mix you they want they want some
rock and some sand they want sandy rock
okay
they want to mix it all together well
you have to understand something about
is God’s Word it is unadulterated and
not to be watered down he does not want
his revelation to be dumbed down by
human opinion he doesn’t want your
viewpoint when your viewpoint disagrees
with his clearly stated revelation he
doesn’t want to know about your race you
call it you create agenda when it
contradicts what he says in his word he
wants to define your humanity he wants
to define what the definition of a
family is he wants to define how it
should operate he even wants to define
how a civil government operates yep he
wants all of that and his principle is
simple the closer you are to activating
my revelation the more ordered your
homes will be the further you go from my
divine revelation in your action the
more chaotic your homes will become so
we have chaotic lives and chaotic homes
and chaotic churches and chaotic
government because they are building on
the wrong foundation or they want to mix
they want enough of God to look safe not
too much of God to be changed I’m not an
apple god I don’t like apples I’m not
more than orange tangerine kind of guy
except at the Texas State Fair Texas
State Fair is huge and they sometimes
serve kid yeah I don’t like apples but
candy apples a little different right I
can hang with him a little bit longer
and that’s because they dip that Apple
and the liquid sugar and now that
is sweet it’s candy apple now the only
problem is once you dip it in liquid
sugar you’ve begun to nullify its its
nutritional value because you’ve dipped
it into something that works against
what it was created to be what far too
many of us do is we take God’s truth and
we dip it in a human opinion we dip it
in man’s thinking we dip it in how I was
raised we dip it in what my mother says
what my race says what my culture says
what my class says we dip it in a human
opinion while still quoting a little
Bible on top of it you see that all the
time people sprinkle a little a little
Bible on top of it sprinkle a little
Jesus on top of it sprinkle a little God
on the top of it to make it sound
nutritional after they’ve dipped it into
human opinion that is and the opinion of
man that contradicts and competes with a
clear revelation of God and so God’s
Word becomes compromised and therefore
the Bible says you do not follow the
Word of God with your traditions you can
cancel out the Bible that is its
effectiveness in your life and in your
world by adding human opinion to it that
contradicts or competes with divine
revelation I say it a lot God has spoken
and he has not stuttered that two
answers to every question God’s answer
and everybody else is and everybody else
is wrong when they disagree with him
it says that a storm came and it was a
wicked store this is a wicked storm
because we thought that the rain fell
the floods came the winds blew and one
of the holes will blown over now when
you have rain coming down flood coming
up and Winnick and knock over a house
it’s called a hurricane this is
hurricane season right now America and
the world and you and me we’re in
hurricane season it’s a hurricane we
this is no joke
Korona is no joke and then we hear it
might come back I mean this is no joke
you can’t even see when it’s gonna hit
you I mean this is this is a major storm
and it says it was so strong it knocked
a home over I remember years ago being
in Italy in a small little town called
pieces now there’s only one thing in
Pisa it’s called the Leaning Tower of
Pisa it’s a building there leads people
come from all over the world to take
pictures of this building at least I
thought it was a big building – I saw a
little tiny building people go to see it
because it leads now a lot of people
don’t know why the Leaning Tower of Pisa
lean so let me tell you why the Leaning
Tower of Pisa leans cuz it’s located in
Pisa which is a marshy place in other
words it wasn’t built on a solid
foundation it’s been leaning ever since
you know about the Leaning Tower of Pisa
there’s a tourist attraction I can’t do
much with it but people come to see it
you don’t want your life to be a tourist
attraction right you know what’s your
home be a tourist attraction alone you
don’t want your church to be a tourist
attraction or your government to be a
tourist attraction no you want it to be
solid you don’t just want to be for
pictures you want to be for usefulness
and meaning no
notice it did not become a parent who
the wise man was and who the fool was
until the strong key see as long as it
wasn’t raining both father look cool
both of them look like they were owned
it’s both of them look like they were
tight both of them look like things were
lit both of them look like they were on
a roll cuz of a sunshine there were no
problems you know when the economy is up
everybody’s employed you can go to all
your sporting events and you don’t have
to be stuck at home and if money not
funny and you know you’re feeling great
the sunshine so everybody looked like
they’re okay when the Sun is shot oh but
it says the storm game and the storm
reveals where your foundation is you
don’t know the condition of your
foundation until the storm comes until
your world is shaken then you know what
you’re resting on you see a lot of
people give the impression all is right
but when you look behind the scenes the
drug addiction the other kind of
addictions you look behind the scenes of
their misery of their conflicts it
becomes clear they weren’t on a good
foundation because if they were they
would withstand the storm so you don’t
know where you are I’ll tell you in a
store we’re in store so we’re seeing
people lose their cool with seeing
people panic we’re seeing people commit
suicide we’re seeing people in in
circumstances that are creating abuse
we’re seeing this we’re seeing the
effects of the storm when you’re
building a foundation you know what you
want to do you want to go deep when you
go downtown to the city you’re located
in
you see a skyscraper you can always know
how far they plan to build up by how low
they drill down because you don’t build
a skyscraper on the foundation of a
chicken coop in other words the
foundation must be worthy of the
building you plan to put on top of it
people want skyscraper lives on chicken
coop foundations they want skyscraper
families on chicken coop foundations in
one skyscraper churches on chicken coop
foundations and they want a skyscraper
nation the government or the chicken
coop foundation you can’t build
something that big on something that
weak no when the storm came it revealed
where they were and the house fell my
challenge to you today to us today is to
use this storm as a opportunity to
revisit our foundation now let me tell
you a secret about foundations you can’t
build a foundation in a storm you can
pour it before the storm and you can fix
it after a storm but you can’t build a
foundation in a storm ok cuz you know
it’s raining see everybody I’ve been
hearing more about God now but about
political leaders and social leaders a
god named keep coming up and you know
because we’re in this storm well now
that you understand how important the
foundation is and as we weather this
storm let’s begin to set in motion our
plans to reestablish the right
foundation let’s make the decision now
because that may influence god
stopping the storm quicker because we’ve
made the decision to reshape the
foundation that as an individual you
decide personally I’m going to redo the
foundation of my life as a man and woman
we’re going to redo the foundation of
our marriage
family as our church we’re going to redo
the foundation of what a church is
supposed to be which is not just a
religious gathering on Sunday and yeah
even the government the president the
Congress and we need to redo how we deal
with government and make it a righteous
and just place for the citizenry and
when we do that we’ll see what God can
do in reversing the circumstances and
giving us a house like the three pigs
that stands up against the wolf that
wants to blow it down so if that’s your
heart to build your house did you do
that as we plan to do communion as we
plan now to eat this bread and say God I
want to rebuild this house and I want to
make applying your truth in every area
of my life the standard by which I live
from this point on would you call it the
storm so that I can get my foundation
straight let’s eat together
the blood of Jesus shed the blood that
Jesus shed gives you the right to access
the foundation of a new life of a new
beginning and remember God can hit a
bull’s eye with a Crooked Stick so start
where you are and let’s see what he does
because you surrender your life to Him
you first accept him as your Savior
because he died on the cross for you and
then you decide to follow him as your
Lord growing closing relationship and
giving him the right to rule your
decisions
your father and your people returned to
you and you let us learn when a storm
may we do what is necessary to know your
word and to apply your word so that you
can keep us operating on a solid
foundation
in Jesus name