In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, a strong life.

You can have a strong body and have a weak life.

You can have a strong life, have a weak body, or you

can't have a strong life and a strong body. All of us know what constitutes a strong body,

but what constitutes a strong life. And that's what I want to talk about in this message. As we said,

we've had three in the series of church and family and now the whole idea of a strong

life. What is a strong life? So I want you to turn to a very familiar passage that just

perfectly describes what we're talking about.

And that's the seventh chapter of Matthew in the Sermon on the Mount. And beginning in the

24th verse, and how many times have you read this? And so I want us to look at this in light

of a strong life. And so Jesus said in verse 24, therefore, everyone who hears these

words of mine and acts on them may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the

rock. And the rain fell and the floods came and the the winds blew, and slammed against the house.

And yet it did not fall, for it had been built and founded on the rock.

Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a foolish man

who built his house on the sand.

The rains fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and slammed against that house,

and it fell, and great was its fall.

When Jesus had finished these words, the crowds were amazed at his teachings, for he was

teaching them as one having authority and not as their scribes.

When I look into scriptures and I think about all the verses in the Bible that talk about

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