When the Storm Hits: Built on Rock or Sand?
Before The Noise
Chad Prather
5.0 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
At the end of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus offers a warning. In Matthew 7:24-29, He draws a line in the sand and forces the question: What are you building your life on? Both men hear His words. Both build houses. Both face the same storm. The only difference is the foundation. In this episode, we unpack what it truly means to build on the Rock. Not admiration of Jesus, but obedience. Not emotional hype, but deep structural surrender. We explore the authority of Christ, the danger of hidden sand foundations, and why storms do not destroy your life, they reveal what was already underneath.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to Before the Noise, the place where we slow down before the chaos kicks in every weekday. |
| 0:05.2 | Join us for more at BeforeThe Noise.com. Let's go. |
| 0:08.2 | Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Before the Noise. |
| 0:12.1 | It's Wednesday. It is the 18th, February, 2026. If you're new here, my name is Chad Prater. |
| 0:17.5 | Welcome. Good morning. I hope everybody's doing well. |
| 0:24.6 | Make sure everything is rocking and rolling over here. Yep, looks good. |
| 0:25.6 | We are flying on all of the networks. |
| 0:27.6 | If you are on Rumble, welcome. |
| 0:29.6 | They're in the live chat. |
| 0:31.6 | We have a live chat over on YouTube. |
| 0:32.6 | We just don't have as many people over there, but welcome to you guys as well if you choose to stay over there under the Google overlords of YouTube. If you're on Facebook, if you're on X, welcome. I love you |
| 0:44.6 | guys. I'm glad you're here. Thank you for being with us this morning. We've been working our way |
| 0:51.3 | through the sermon on the Mount Matthew 5, 6, and 7. We're going to finish |
| 0:54.9 | that this morning, Lord willing, he's good to us, and I think he will be. And then I don't |
| 1:00.4 | know where we're going to go next. So we're praying. I'm praying. Be praying with me today |
| 1:06.2 | about what we will do tomorrow. I don't know. I'll be coming to you from a hotel room in Charlotte, North Carolina, Lord willing. |
| 1:15.3 | I've got a show there tonight at the Comedy Zone, so I'm traveling today. |
| 1:19.9 | Then tomorrow we will be in one of my favorite venues to work every year is Greenville, South Carolina. |
| 1:27.2 | Oh, every other year at the Comedy Zone. Greenville, South Carolina, oh, every other year at the Comedy Zone, Greenville, |
| 1:29.8 | South Carolina, tomorrow night, and then three nights, two nights in Greensboro, North Carolina, |
| 1:35.1 | Friday and Saturday night, also at the Comedy Zone. So let me see those dancing bananas, |
| 1:39.5 | you guys. I have to take a deep breath today because yesterday was a day i'll just go ahead and confess |
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