BUILDING ON THE FOUNDATION (3 OF 4)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: I Kings 5:1-5
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Building On The Foundation (3 of 4)
Series: Iron Man
Jeff Strite
I Kings 5:1-5
OPEN: Ravi Zacharias told of speaking one time at Ohio State University. He said "As I was being driven to the lecture, we passed the new Wexner Art Center. The driver said, "This is a new art building for the university. It is a fascinating building designed in the post-modernist view of reality."
The building had no pattern.
Staircases went nowhere.
Pillars supported nothing.
The architect designed the building to reflect how he saw life. It went nowhere and it was mindless and senseless.
Zacharias said "I turned to the man describing it and asked, 'Did they do the same thing with the foundation?"
He laughed and said: "Oh… you can't do THAT with a foundation."
Any contractor will tell you that a building is only as good as its foundation.
If the foundation is faulty, the building is doomed.
But if the foundation is solid, the building will stand a long time.
APPLY: (pause)
Jesus tells us that everyone builds on some kind of foundation, but not every foundation is a good one. For example, He tells the parable of 2 men who built on different foundations:
• A wise man built upon a foundation of rock and his house stood in the storm
• But the foolish man built his house on a foundation of sand and the rain washed it away
In the story of Iron Man (on which we're building this series), we meet a man named Tony Stark who he finds that he's been building on the wrong foundation, and wants to make a change.
(Clip of Stark deciding to change the company's focus. Begins during the Press conference where he says "I never got to say goodbye to my father" and ends with his final words to the press before being hustled out)
Stark Industries had been built by the hero's father. His Dad had laid the foundation for the company and set the course of what they manufactured. It was that foundation that allowed Tony Stark to be the wealthy man and it was that foun ...
Series: Iron Man
Jeff Strite
I Kings 5:1-5
OPEN: Ravi Zacharias told of speaking one time at Ohio State University. He said "As I was being driven to the lecture, we passed the new Wexner Art Center. The driver said, "This is a new art building for the university. It is a fascinating building designed in the post-modernist view of reality."
The building had no pattern.
Staircases went nowhere.
Pillars supported nothing.
The architect designed the building to reflect how he saw life. It went nowhere and it was mindless and senseless.
Zacharias said "I turned to the man describing it and asked, 'Did they do the same thing with the foundation?"
He laughed and said: "Oh… you can't do THAT with a foundation."
Any contractor will tell you that a building is only as good as its foundation.
If the foundation is faulty, the building is doomed.
But if the foundation is solid, the building will stand a long time.
APPLY: (pause)
Jesus tells us that everyone builds on some kind of foundation, but not every foundation is a good one. For example, He tells the parable of 2 men who built on different foundations:
• A wise man built upon a foundation of rock and his house stood in the storm
• But the foolish man built his house on a foundation of sand and the rain washed it away
In the story of Iron Man (on which we're building this series), we meet a man named Tony Stark who he finds that he's been building on the wrong foundation, and wants to make a change.
(Clip of Stark deciding to change the company's focus. Begins during the Press conference where he says "I never got to say goodbye to my father" and ends with his final words to the press before being hustled out)
Stark Industries had been built by the hero's father. His Dad had laid the foundation for the company and set the course of what they manufactured. It was that foundation that allowed Tony Stark to be the wealthy man and it was that foun ...
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