Matthew 7:25 Commentary - Dr Peter Masters

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Matthew 7:25

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Christ puts positive first. The wise man is going to take longer to build. He is just about back to ground level when the other is almost finished, but he is ready for the storm. His house fell not because it was built on a rock. Christ Jesus does not fail. If he has pardoned our sins, then they are truly taken away. God has put them as far as the east is from the west and will remember them no more. All of Satan’s accusations against us will be answered by the Lord and covered by his blood. Satan is confronted with an unanswerable defence, and one that galls him to the core, because it consists of grace which he lacks. He knows that grace is good, through and through, but he is incapable of it. He has been overcome by a superior weapon which he can never match, and every time he wants to accuse us, he is reminded of his inadequacy and his defeat.Christ has come because even God cannot just forgive sin. He is a God of justice and purity. He has said I will take punishment for sin. He punished him instead of us. The pain which we should have born. We have to come and say, ‘Lord I acknowledge it. I am proud, a liar, and have not love thee, and I have committed every kind of sin and selfishness. Lord I will give myself to thee.’ Christ must deal with our sin and he alone can do so. That is what he did on Calvary’s cross, where he took the punishment for all his people and satisfied the justice of God. He made a way by which we can be forgiven by a holy God.

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This life is not the end of the story: you are building for eternity. The house you build in this life will be your home for ever and ever. Not that we can take anything from this world into next – obviously you cannot take your physical house or any of your possessions, but God takes account of your life here and how you respond to his offer of free salvation.

Many feel they are safe. They don’t serve God or worship him; they don’t fear God or obey him; they don’t pray to him or seek his salvation, but they think all is going to be well for them. Christ warns us that there are storms coming, the worst kind of storms, storms that threaten the soul. Do you have a plan for building your life? Nothing is more important, because the consequences are so momentous. This short life determines where we spend eternity, and if we do recognise this and prepare now we will have eternity to regret it. Life deserves serious consideration. You cannot just proceed blind through life as if there were no storms to face in the future. What you sow you also reap. Life in a sense goes on for ever; existence goes on for ever, for the soul is immortal and will be conscious for forever. Even the body which dies and decays in the ground is last forever. It will be raised up on the last day either in the resurrection of life, or in the resurrection of damnation. The things we do here have consequences which last forever.

This one has dug down through shifting sand of human opinion to solid rock of God truth. He has put his trust in Christ as the only Saviour and he walks with God. He depends on him in prayer, and trusts his promises; he puts into practice Christ’s teaching. He is living for the world to come because he knows this world is passing away; therefore he does not make his treasure here. The wise man is diligent in his building work where no human eyes can see. He is not interested in how men and women see him but he says, ‘God’s eye is upon me in my inner most being. I must be careful to build there, for hypocrisy is fatal.’ He comes to God and asks for a new heart and he must be born again. He asks God to try his heart to make him sincere even before the day of judgment comes.

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Matthew 7:25 Commentary and Bible Study