The Rock and the Keys SERIES: How to Build on the Rock

"In this connection it is interesting and profitable to note the words of Christ in closing the sermon on the mount. 

Having given His instruction, He said: 

Matthew 7:24 Therefore whosoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will liken him unto a wise men, which built his

house upon a rock; 

25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not; for it was founded upon a rock. 

26 And everyone that hears these sayings of mine, and does them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand; 

27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell; and great was the fall of it. 

Here we learn how it is that we may build upon Christ,

 the Rock. 

It is by obeying His words. 

John 6:63 The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. 

His words are divine, like Himself, whether uttered with His own voice, or by the mouth of a prophet. 

In fact, Christ dwells in the word; Romans 10:17 ...faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

---By receiving the words of Christ, therefore, we receive Christ Himself; and so, by building upon those words, we build upon Christ. 

Matthew 16:16 You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Christ in saying, 18 You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church, –puts Himself, as the Rock of Ages, in direct contrast with Peter." 

E.J. Waggoner