294 – Common Experiences of the Righteous and Wicked

BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CORRESPONDENCE

COURSE: SOTERIOLOGY VI LESSON # 94

SERMON ON THE MOUNT
COMMON EXPERIENCES OF THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED

INTRODUCTION:

1. Much popular religious teaching today is quite contrary to this passage.
2. They teach that believers will be carried to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

3. Such teaching is oblivious to the principle of I Corinthians 10:13

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4. The issue here is warning against complaint, which supposes tribulation.
5. Now, let us consider the common experience of the winds and floods of life.

I. THE COMMON EXPERIENCES OF THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED

1. Solomon says as to appearance one event happens to all. (Ecc. 2:14

and Ecc. 9:2-3

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2. Peter says the same afflictions are accomplished in all. (1 Pet. 5:8-10

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3. Paul says in this life we groan. (Rom. 8:22-23

and II Cor. 5:4

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4. Our Lord says the floods and winds assail both houses. (Mat. 7:25

and 27

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II. THE DIFFERING RESULTS OF LIFE’S STORMS

2. Conversely, we see Christians with the VERY SAME frustrations grow and draw closer to God.

III. REASON FOR THE DIFFERENCE ACCORDING TO THE PARABLE

1. It was not a difference in the construction of the house, wise or unwise.
2. It is not the “Instruction in detail” recommended by the psychologists and counselors will not make the difference.
3. Their error is to deal with the house, not the foundation.
4. The difference here is not the house or foundation, but what it is laid upon.

IV. THE ULTIMATE EFFECT OF THE STORM ON EACH GROUP (ROM. 9:22-23 )

1. The vessels of wrath are fitted to destruction. By what? Sin. (Rom. 1:18

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2. They hate all that God controls. Their nature is in Revelation 16:7-9

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