![]() You will need: A cardboard paper towel roll tin foil rice sellotape and coloured paper. You will need: scissors, colouring pens or pencils, a glue stick and a copy of the printable template from Print out a copy of the template and follow the easy instructions on the website to make your house! Maybe you can make two houses - one for the wise man and one for the foolish man in this week's Bible story! Please help us to follow you and do what you ask us to do so that we can be strong and safe like the wise man in the Bible story. Matthew 7:25 Context Crossref Comment Greek Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. Prayer: Dear Lord, thank you that you love us very much and want to be our friend. If we continue to follow Jesus, one day we will go to live with him forever in heaven! If we pray and read the Bible regularly, God will help us to be better followers of Jesus and more like the wise man. Following Jesus and doing what he tells us to do will make us strong like the wise man’s house and we will be safe when bad things happen because he will be with us. But when we obey him and do what he tells us to do, we are like the wise man. Jesus was trying to teach his disciples, and us, that when we do not obey Jesus, we are like the foolish man. ![]() But the foolish man built his house on the soft sand, so when rain came, his house fell apart! The wise man built his house on solid rock and when the rain came, his house was safe because it was built well on the right type of ground. 26 But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: 27 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house and it fell. What happened to the house that was built on sand? So if he gives us good choices to follow in the Bible and gives us these 'rules' they are meant to help us, not to hurt us. We know that God is the maker of everything, He made us and knows what's best for us. The floods are wearing away his sandy foundation and soon one tremendous storm shall beat upon him, and he and his hopes shall fall, for ever fall. Just like a sand castle, a house can't be built on sand and it comes crashing down. What happened to the house that was built on rock? The house built upon the sand is beat upon by the floods and rains its foundation gradually is worn away it falls, and is borne down the stream and is destroyed. Yet men & women design sand castles for their souls every day which ultimately fall broken homes, unrealized hopes. Sandcastles are neat, but no one wants to live in one. Let’s watch the video to see what happens: Jesus said that people who ignore His words are like builders of sand castle: a. This Bible story is about two men who decide to build themselves houses! One builds his house on solid rock and the other builds his house on the sand. In this session we are going to hear another parable that Jesus told.
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