1. Power of the Word Building On A Firm Foundation

2. POWER OF THE WORD Building On A Firm Foundation Three and a half weeks ago, a sinkhole in Seffner, Florida opened up and claimed the life of 36 year old Jeff Bush as he slept in his bedroom.

3. POWER OF THE WORD Building On A Firm Foundation

4. POWER OF THE WORD Building On A Firm Foundation Jeff’s brother Jeremy said, “I jumped in the hole and tried to get him out. I couldn’t get him out. I thought I could hear him screaming, hollering for me to help. I was yelling and screaming for him, yelling and screaming, telling him I’m trying to get to him, I swear I heard him yelling my name and I couldn’t get to him.” (Reported By: Stef DiPietrantonio, FOX 13 Mar.1, 2013)

5. POWER OF THE WORD Building On A Firm Foundation A sinkhole is a place of unstable ground that erodes over time until it can no longer support the soil above it and then it collapses.

6. POWER OF THE WORD Building On A Firm Foundation Across our land today millions are building their life on foundations that will ultimately collapse.

7. POWER OF THE WORD Building On A Firm Foundation What kind of ground or foundation are you building your life upon?

8. POWER OF THE WORD Building On A Firm Foundation The Word of God is a gift from God Himself that reveals, convicts, instructs, edifies and point us to Christ, the ultimate source of foundational meaning and life!

9. POWER OF THE WORD Building On A Firm Foundation The Word of God holds and communicates the very words that give life to all who trust in its message and the one to whom it points, Jesus Christ!

10. POWER OF THE WORD Building On A Firm Foundation “Then Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you also want to go away?” But Simon Peter answered Him, ‘Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. Also we have come to believe and know that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.’” John 6:67-69

11. POWER OF THE WORD Building On A Firm Foundation God’s Word A Foundation Greater Than Ourselves!

12. POWER OF THE WORD Building On A Firm Foundation God’s Word Tells Us of the Work of God!

13. POWER OF THE WORD Building On A Firm Foundation God’s Word To Get Us Connected to Christ!

14. POWER OF THE WORD Building On A Firm Foundation 28 “Then they said to Him, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?” 29 Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.” John 6:28-29

15. POWER OF THE WORD Building On A Firm Foundation God’s Word Tells Us of the Person of Christ

16. POWER OF THE WORD Building On A Firm Foundation God’s Word The Image of One Who Gives Himself Away!

17. POWER OF THE WORD Building On A Firm Foundation 48 “I am the bread of life. 49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead. 50 This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die. 51 I am the…

18. POWER OF THE WORD Building On A Firm Foundation …living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.” John 6:48-51

19. POWER OF THE WORD Building On A Firm Foundation God’s Word Tells Us of the Source of Life

20. POWER OF THE WORD Building On A Firm Foundation God’s Word The Reality of Life-Giving Spirit!

21. POWER OF THE WORD Building On A Firm Foundation 53 “Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood…

22. POWER OF THE WORD Building On A Firm Foundation …has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. 56 He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.

23. POWER OF THE WORD Building On A Firm Foundation 57 As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me. 58 This is the bread which came down from heaven—not as your fathers ate the…

24. POWER OF THE WORD Building On A Firm Foundation …manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever.” 63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.” John 6:53-58, 63

25. POWER OF THE WORD Building On A Firm Foundation Jesus told a story about foundations… Building On a Firm Foundation!

26. POWER OF THE WORD Building On A Firm Foundation Jesus told a story about foundations… …one built upon a rock! …another built upon sand!

27. POWER OF THE WORD Building On A Firm Foundation “But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.” Matthew 7:26-27

28. POWER OF THE WORD Building On A Firm Foundation So… What will you build your life upon?

29. POWER OF THE WORD Building On A Firm Foundation What will you build your life upon? The shifting sands of our day?

30. POWER OF THE WORD Building On A Firm Foundation What will you build your life upon? …or the firm bedrock of God’s Eternal Word?