Recently a four-story apartment building in Istanbul collapsed after torrential rain washed away the ground beneath it. Debris was spread across a large adjacent construction site when the foundations slid away and the building collapsed into a ditch. Built in 1994, the building did not have the required permits, according to Mayor Ahmet Demircan.
Jesus said, “… every one that hears these sayings of mine, and does them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
On what have you built your life?
At the end of his life, Sir Francis Newport, the head of an English Atheist club said to those gathered around his deathbed:
You need not tell me there is no God for I know there is one, and that I am in His presence! You need not tell me there is no hell. I feel myself already slipping. Wretches, cease your idle talk about there being hope for me! I know I am lost forever! Oh, that fire! Oh, the insufferable pangs of hell! …Oh, that I could lie for a thousand years upon the fire that is never quenched, to purchase the favor of God and be united to Him again. But it is a fruitless wish. Millions and millions of years will bring me no nearer the end of my torments than one poor hour. Oh, eternity, eternity forever and forever!, Oh, the insufferable pangs of Hell!
But there is hope!
Jesus said “…whosoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
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