Bible Talk with your Host Deb Osborne Why Your Faith Needs A Stronger Foundation

Storms don’t wait for your schedule, and they don’t skip the faithful. We open the Bible to Matthew 7:24–27 and get real about why some lives stand while others crumble: both hear the word, but only one does it. This conversation moves past church routines and Christian slogans to the hard, hopeful core of discipleship—obedience that builds on the solid rock of Jesus Christ.

We walk through the simple image Jesus gave us: two builders, one storm, two outcomes. You’ll hear why the promise of the gospel isn’t a storm-free life, but a storm-proof foundation. We talk about practical, daily habits that shift you from hearing to doing: treating Scripture as a living conversation, asking clear questions of the text, and moving your feet in response. From Matthew leaving his tax booth to the disciples distributing loaves, we show how action cements faith and how a practiced yes to Jesus becomes your anchor when rain, wind, and floods rise.

We also press into the hope many miss: joy in trials is not denial, it’s growth. James teaches that pressure produces patience, and the Psalms remind us God is our rock, fortress, and defense. We contrast Christ’s righteousness with the false security of self-reliance, naming how sand can look neat until it slides. With a sober eye on chaotic headlines and personal battles, we invite you to choose your foundation today—open the word, pray “Speak, Lord, your servant is listening,” and act on what you hear. Subscribe for more Bible-centered encouragement, share this with someone facing a storm, and leave a review to help others find the show. What step of obedience will you take this week?

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome And Broadcast Info
• 1:46 Introducing Spiritual Storms
• 2:34 Two Houses And One Difference
• 5:17 Not Exempt From Trials
• 8:19 Hearing Versus Doing
• 12:15 Obedience As The Rock
• 16:20 Daily Bible Practice
• 20:45 Joy In Trials
• 23:45 Rock Versus Sand Explained

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:32

Hey, you're listening to Bible Talk with Sister Deba Osborne. Bible Talk will be airing on WTUK 105.1 FM every Sunday at 4 p.m. If you missed the show, you can listen to it on the 421 Podcast. Stream it on Apple or Spotify. You go to the website at H O R 421 Show.buzzsprout.com. I'd like to give thanks to all the listeners and supporters. And always keep us in prayers as we spread the gospel of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. If you'd like to contact Sister Dave, you can email her at Osburn Deborah K at gmail.com. That's O S P O R N E D E B R A K at Gmail.com. And if you'd like to support the show, you can support it through PayPal slash H O R 421. Or you go through the website at H-O-R-421 Show.buzzsprout.com. Now I give you your host, Mr. D.

SPEAKER_01: 1:25

Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Hello, everybody. Thank you for joining me on Bible Talk. It's so good to be back here to talk about the Word of God. Uh, I will tell you this, please excuse me if you hear me squeaking my voice. I've got a little scratchy throat. I'm gonna try not to cough and but allergy stuff. But what I want to talk to you about today is about storms. It's about spiritual storms that come up on your spiritual house. And that's what Jesus is talking about in our scripture today, as he brings his Sermon on the Mount to a close. He was talking about two kinds of spiritual houses. And I'm in Matthew 7, verse 24 through 27, and I'm going to read this. And the Bible says, Therefore, whosoever heareth these sayings of mine and doeth 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 wind blew and beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded upon a rock. And everyone that heareth these sayings of mine and doeth 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 the house and and beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it. Praise the Lord, the word of God is telling us people, uh, and Jesus is talking here about our spiritual house, that we we build it on the rock or we build it on the sand. And we all know the importance of having your house built on the rocks. But one of the things I want to point out and want you to try to understand here today first is that both houses got storms. Verse 25 said the rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew. Verse 25 said the same thing. You know, the rains came, the floods and the wind. It all both houses got hit. The same trials came to both houses. Both had rain, both had floods, both had winds. But one of the things that I want you to see here in this scripture is that you're not exempt from the trials of life. Even if you build your house on the rock, you're not exempt from the trials of life. You're still going to get rains and floods and wind. It's not like, oh wow, that now that I've given my life to God, nothing bad's going to happen to me. And I'm sure a lot of you have figured that out by now, that as a Christian, you will still get sick. You will still have problems. You will still have rain, winds, and floods. He did not promise us a bed of roses. He did not promise us. Friends, the message of the gospel is not ask Jesus into your heart and all are going to be smooth and easy from here on out. That's not the message of the gospel. If you believe that, then you're setting yourself up for a bad disappointment. And my friends, today, if you're preaching that and teaching that to people, you are also setting them up for a big disappointment because that is not what we were promised. Brothers and sisters, I need you to understand today that there's rain and there's wind and there's floods for everyone in this life. Those who build their life on the rocks as well as on the sand. The storm hits us all. And the difference is not that you don't have storms as a child of God. It's that you have a foundation that holds you up through those storms. The difference is the foundation that you have built under your house. Being a follower of Jesus Christ will not keep you from the rain, winds, and the floods of life. But when you face the trials of life, you have a peace and a strength to get by if you have built your house on the rock. Now, what does it mean to build my house on the rock? Some say that building my house on the rock means that just saying that Jesus is your rock, that you're not going to fall. But trust me, my friends, it is way more than that. It means a whole lot more than that. Right? Jesus said in Matthew 7.24, he said, Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them. Whosoever acts upon these sayings of mine. If I tell you what to do in this word and you act upon these sayings of mine, you're building your house on the rock, friends. Building your house on the rock means doing what Jesus Christ says. If you're not doing what Jesus Christ says, then you're building your house on the sand. You see the difference there? My friends, there are a whole lot of people who come to church and think, I've built my house on the rock. I go to church on Sunday. I heard the word of God. Friends, again, in this scripture, both men heard the word of God. Both men heard Jesus' words in this scripture. The big difference here is both men heard, but only one heard and did what Jesus said, and one didn't. Building your house or your life on the rock means doing what Jesus said. And trust me, hearing it is not enough. You've got to do it. Amen. Building your house on the rock isn't the one who hears his words and thinks, wow, okay, wow, those are neat words. Those are really cool. I just love reading those words, blah, blah, blah. People of James 1 and 22 says, Be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourself. My friends, you may think that by hearing the word you've done what you were supposed to do. But the truth is it's not enough. It's not enough just to hear the word. Amen. You got to hear it and you got to do it. And this might be making some people mad, but listen, I'm telling you, people, the there's going to be a lot of many people that walk out of church every Sunday probably thinking, wow, I'm really feeling really good about themselves. Because they went to church and they heard the word of God. My brothers and sisters, Jesus is telling you today that this is not enough. It is not enough just to hear the word of God. We have to do what he says. Being a Christian is not about just hearing the word of God, it's about doing it. It's about doing it. The person that builds their life on the rock is the person who does what Jesus Christ tells you to do. Now, when Jesus walked and talked on the earth, building on the rock meant that when he told his disciples to do something, they did it. Amen. When he told Matthew to leave his tax job and follow him, building his life on the rock meant he followed Jesus. When Jesus told the disciples over on Enthu there in the Word to take those loaves out to the multitude, building their lives on the rock, people meant getting up and doing what Jesus told them to do. They got the bread out. That's building their lives on the rock. Now, see, friends, I know today Jesus is not physically here with us, but he gave us his word. He gave us his commands in his word. So we can still build our house on the rock by obeying his word. We need to read it. We need to, we need to have, we need to hear it, we need to hear it taught. But the first thing we need to do, people, is to get into his word. And it's not hard to do. We all have Bibles, 90% of us do anyway. They're either laying on a table covered in dust or with the technology of today, they're on our phones. So we ought to have one everywhere we go, because you know, we know we carry our phones in our hands everywhere we go, right? My friends, I'm telling you today, I don't I don't mean reading the word daily either like it's on your to-do list or checking it off a chore list. I don't mean getting up in the mornings and grabbing your cup of coffee and sitting down at your desk and making your chore list. Well, today I'm going to do my dishes. Today I'm going to uh do some laundry. I'm going to sweep them up. Oh, at the end I want to read the Bible. That is not what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about putting reading the Bible and getting in the Word of God on your chore list. I'm talking about getting up in the mornings and sitting down and opening your Word of God and reading the Word of God and getting in the Word of God. Now, am I talking to me too? You better believe I'm talking to me too. I don't exempt me, trust me. Do I do it every day? Nope, I do not. But we should. I'm talking to me too. We should. You know what I'm saying? We should. And we shouldn't put the word reading the word of God and getting into the word of God. We shouldn't put that on our to-do list of the day. That ought to be the very first priority of every day. Opening up the word of God. Not on our chore list, not on our have-to-do list today. People, I mean, read it. Read the word of God and really hear the voice of God speaking to us. We need to read the Bible as though we were in the very presence of God because we might as well be his word. It's called Holy Bible. His word is his commands to us. We need to be reading this word of God and getting in this word of God and working and looking at every single command he tells us to do and willing to obey, be ready and willing to obey what he's telling us to do. We need to be like Samuel, people. We need to speak. We need to say, speak, Lord. Your servant is listening. Amen. We need to listen to the word of God. When we are reading it, we need to listen for his voice. People, it's like having a personal conversation with God and obey what he tells you to do. My friends, ask yourself today, am I really building my life on the rocks by doing what Jesus said? Because friends, storms are a normal part of life. The trials of life are nothing unusual. They're a part of living. It happens every single day. Every single day. You know? And as we walk this earth, we all will encounter these storms. We all will. But my friends, I'm telling you to trust me today that these storms and these encounters are going to get worse. It's not going to get any better. Right? But do you know what the thing about the Bible says? The true Christian can consider these trials and these storms of life as a joyful encounter. James says, My brethren, count it all a joy when you fall into diverse temptations, knowing this that the trying of your faith worketh patience. The true Christian can consider these trials and these storms of life a joyful encounter. Right. Now, friends, I need to try to get across the difference between the wise man and the foolish man is what they do in response to what Jesus is saying in this sermon here. The result of the wise men's response is a strong house set upon the rock that withstands the storms of life. This is a response of entering the straight gate, walking the narrow path, finding life, building your house on the rock of Jesus Christ. See, rocks are known for their strength and their dubility. God is our rock. Psalms 8 and 2 says, The Lord is my rock, my fortress, my deliverer, my God, my strength, in whom I will trust. See, this is what David spoke to the Lord in that day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of his enemies. Friends, God is our rock. He's our strength. His word in Psalms alone says it more times than one. Psalm 62 and 2 says He is only, He only is my rock, my salvation, my defense. It says, I shall not be greatly moved. Over and over in Psalms, we hear that He is the rock. And my friends, the result of the foolish man's response is a house that falls. And the Bible says, Great was that fall. His response, the response of entering the broad gate, walking the wide path that leads to destruction. That's the result of the foolish man's response of where he's gonna build his house on the sand. See, the rock that the wise man builds upon is the true righteousness found in Jesus Christ alone. The sand that the foolish man builds upon is self-righteousness. Friends, I've got I'm telling somebody today that solid rock is Jesus Christ. He is the foundation, the righteous foundation on which to build your house. Right? See, these two men built their houses. One on the rocks and they obey he obeyed Jesus Christ. One on the sand and he ignores Jesus. Both men build. Both men face storms. They face the trials and the difficulties. But my friends, the difference here is the foundation on which they built. The foundation, the difference in that foundation is obedience and disobedience. See, these two houses, reading these scriptures, these two houses may look the same from the outside. But my friends, trust me, there is a big, very big difference. See, Jesus tells us the wise man built his house on the rocks and the foolish man builds on the sand. You know? The wise man, again, the wise man is the one that hears the word of God and obeys what the good the word of God tells him to do. They built their lives on the solid foundation. See, scripture refers to over and over and over in the book of Psalms, especially, as Jesus, uh the rock of and our foundation. He's the rock that don't roll, people. The rock that does not roll. I'm telling you. I'm trying to get to somebody, somebody needs to hear this today. The foolish man builds upon sand that will shift and that will move. If you go, anybody goes to the beach and you look out and you walk out into the beach a little bit where the water's coming up in and you stand in the sand and you see the sand moving. When the tide comes in, the sand moves, and when the tide goes out, it moves. It shifts and it moves. People, that's that's here, that's putting your rock on the that's building your house on the sand. That's listening to the word of cr the words of Christ and not obeying them. My friends, the houses are the same. The houses are the same, the storms are the same. The foundation is the difference. And trust me, please, somebody needs to hear this today. The very fate of every person who hears and does not obey the words of Christ is that they will fall on that very day of God's judgment. And people, trust me. Trust me that judgment will be eternal and it will be final. My friends, ask yourself today, am I doing what I hear in the messages and the preachings? Am I doing what I read in God's word? Because trust me, friends, today, if your personal life is just hearing God's word and not doing it, then my friends, your life is built on the sand. And it will not stand. People we're living in the very last days. Things are crazy and getting crazier. Open up the open up the Facebook and look at the news. Open up the the the turn your TV on and look at all of the earthquakes and and the craziness that's going on around you. Look at the people being killed for their religion and and and standing up for Jesus Christ. We are living in the last days. And trust me, we are all here in we all have spiritual battles, and testing times are ahead of us. We've not seen nothing yet. We will be tested. Just like it says in the Word of God, the rain will fall, the winds will blow, and the floods are about to come. And my friends, ask yourself today are you going to stand firm? Are you going to stand firm on the rock of Jesus Christ? And that depends on whether you've got your house built on him or not. People, you need to build your house on the life, build your house and your life on the rock of Jesus Christ by doing what he tells you to do, doing what he says to do, obeying his word. My friends, I'm going to close with this. Today, into this new year, you need to decide which foundation you're building on. That solid rock of Jesus Christ that doesn't roll. He is the rock that does not roll. He is the righteous foundation. And my friends, we only have one life on this earth. Which foundation are you building on? Do you want to build your life on something that will withstand the storms of judgment? Because it is coming. See, hearing the word of God is good. I'm going to say it again. Hearing the word of God is good, but it's not enough. It's not enough. It's all about doing what you hear in the Word of God, what you see, what He's telling you to do. It's all about doing. The difference in the foundation is obedience. It means doing, not just hearing. See, it's not enough just to come to church and nod your head and worship on Sunday. It's not enough to have that Jesus fish on your car. It's not enough to have that cross around your neck. It's not enough to have that, I'm just a girl who loves Jesus on the back of her truck. I got one of those. That's not enough. People, you got to get into the word and you gotta obey what Jesus said to do. You got to obey, friends. It's not Enough to know all the answers in Bible study. Don't assume. The wise builder hears the word of Christ and puts them into practice. My friends, the storms are coming. They are coming. Maybe you're in the middle of the rain and the wind and and the rising water right now. Maybe you're in the middle of that right now. And if you think the storms you're in right now are bad, wait till you see what's coming. My friends, listen to me. Somebody needs to listen to me. It's never too late to change your foundation. It's never too late to build on that solid rock of Jesus Christ. I remember a song Sherry Easter sings. It's called I Go to the Rock. It says, I go to the rock of my salvation. I run to the stone that the builders rejected. It says, Life all around me is sinking sand. But on Christ, the solid rock I stand. My friends, today, when the storms of life are threatening you and they are going to get worse. Stand on that solid rock of Jesus Christ. That's your only hope. Don't be like the foolish man. Don't build on the sand. I'm going to close with a prayer. Thank you very much for listening. I hope this uh blesses you as much as it blessed me to bring it to you. I I really enjoyed this one. I pray each and every one of you heard what I said. I hope and pray that you build your house, build your life on that solid rock. Thank you for listening. God bless everybody. Our Father God in heaven, we thank you for this time, Lord, that we could get your word out here. We thank you for these words, Lord, and with these, these everything that you've given us, we praise you and we honor you for it. I ask you, God, to let these words go to the ears, Lord, in the heart that needs to hear this. Let these people hear, Lord, if they've not built their rocks and their houses on the sand on the foundation, Lord of Jesus Christ, let them understand it, Lord. Let them open up their hearts and their minds and feel it. Lord, let them see, open up their eyes. Let them get into their word. Let them open up your word and listen to the commandments, Lord, listen to your voice and have that conversation that they need to have with you. God, we praise you and we honor you today. We thank you for this word. I just ask you, Lord, to let this word go. Let these words and this what was said here today, let it go to the hearts and the minds of the people that need to hear it. Open up their hearts to receive it. Open up their ears to hear the Spirit. Lord, we thank you. We praise you and we honor you. And we ask these in all things. In Jesus' holy name we pray. Amen and amen. God bless everybody.

SPEAKER_00: 23:05

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SPEAKER_02: 23:23

Stay on Jesus. Oh, I'm walking and talking with my mind. Stay on Jesus. I'm walking and talking with my mind. Stay on Jesus.