The following sermon was recorded at Calvary Tabernacle on October 27, 2024. This sermon is presented by pastor Kenny Robertson. See below for the full transcript of this sermon.
Episode Transcript
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Matthew chapter 7, begin reading in verse 24, and if I, the Lord don’t change my mind we may
be looking at this same passage tonight, but there’s another part to it that I feel like we may
move into tonight if the Lord leads us in that direction. 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 winds 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 beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it. Let’s read
this one more time, 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 winds 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.
The rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, beat upon that house, and it fell,
and great was the fall of it.
About a year, maybe about a year, year and a half ago, I had a dream. I’ll never forget, I’ll never
forget this dream. I dreamed that I was going through some woods.
I dreamed that I was going through some underbrush. I dreamed we were fighting, trying to
get through that underbrush, and trying to get through those briars, and those thickets, and
those limbs. I knew there was something on beyond, but I didn’t know what it was.
And I, when I woke up from the dream, I didn’t even know who was with me, but there was
somebody with me. They were on up ahead of me, and they were fighting, trying to get
through as well. I remember that they kept pushing, and they kept fighting, and Brother Terry,
I was fighting, trying to get my way through, and I remember there were briars, and there was
all kinds of bushes, and just all kinds of trees, and gnarled limbs, and it was a struggle pushing
through that, but I finally got to a clearing, Brother David, and when I got to that clearing, there
was an old, old house.
I mean, it was old. You could tell that it had been there for many, many years. I remember that
house looked like it was in great disrepair.
It was dilapidated. The paint was gone. Some of the boards even looked rotten.
It looked very, very, almost dangerous, and I remember I looked at it, and it was a big old
house, Craig. It was a big old house. The window panes were broken.
The shutters had fallen off, and I remember I just wanted to get up there and look inside one of
those windows for some reason, and, Mom, I remember as I made my way up to that old,
dilapidated house, I looked in the side of that window, and I remember that foundation looked
so clean, and looked so strong, and it looked so sturdy. That foundation looked like there wasn’t
a bit of debris or garbage on it. That foundation looked like it was just as pristine and in such
good shape as the day it was laid, and I remember I told that person with me, this house will be
fine.
This house is going to be okay because this foundation looks just brand new. This foundation is
still standing, so this house will be okay, and as I thought this week about that dream, it made
me think about what the psalmist wrote in Psalms chapter 11, verse 3. He said, if the
foundation be destroyed, what shall the righteous do? And the more I thought about it, Sister
Peggy, this week, the more I thought about as we look about us, we look around us, there are
foundations collapsing and falling all around us each and every day. The foundations of our
society are falling right before our eyes.
We are in a time where the family unit is a thing of the past. Mothers and fathers have no
respect for each other, so the children have no respect for the fathers and the mothers. If the
children don’t have respect for the fathers and the mothers, then the children are not going to
respect the teachers, the preachers, the authority figures, or anybody else.
Not only that, we’re living in a place in society where some restaurants, if you’re caught
blessing your meal, you will be asked to leave because some of the patrons might find it
offensive. We’re living in a society now where evil is absolutely celebrated and applauded, and
goodness and righteousness is laughed at and ridiculed and scorned. But let me tell you, even
the foundations of some of our quote-unquote churches are being shaken to the very core.
The days of weeping and fasting over the lost loved ones in our lives, the days of weeping and
fasting because of our own sin are well over and well past. We found, as we talked about a few
weeks ago, a new gospel in some of our churches, a new Jesus in some of our churches, and a
new spirit in some of our churches that tells us we can do what we want to do, live how we
want to live, and make it in to a holy heaven. We’re living in a church society today where
iniquity has abounded so much that the love of many has waxed cold, that the love of many has
waxed cold.
My granddaughter doesn’t know what it’s like, what we came up in, where the church loved
each other and hurt for each other and wanted to be there for each other. Now when we go to
a brother or sister with a concern, they get defiant, they get defensive, they want to rail back,
they want to come back. Whatever happened to suffering their own, children of God? Whatever
happened to operating in love in the house of God, children of God? No longer are children
taught to respect the house of God.
I’ve been in churches where kids are allowed to run across the front, carry on and disturb the
saints of God. He ain’t happy with it. He ain’t happy with it at all.
We’re raising up a church society that don’t know what the power of God is. They don’t know
what it means because the foundations are falling. Can you say amen? You know why Satan
ain’t fighting the churches anymore? Because he’s joining the churches.
He is joining the churches, my blessed Lord. We got the devil behind the pulpits in some places.
We got the devil teaching our young people in some places.
We’ve got the devil, I mean we’ve got the devil leading folks to a devil’s hell and they don’t know
no better because it makes them feel good. Let me tell you, I love you. As your pastor, I love
you.
I’m not here to make you feel good. I’m not here to tickle your ears. Y’all know I love every one
of you, but if you’re wrong, I gotta tell you you’re wrong.
If you’re wrong in love, I gotta let you know, cause your blood’s gonna be on my hand and I
don’t want to stand before a holy God and him say, Kenny, you had the opportunity to tell that
one. They needed to shape up, but you didn’t want to hurt their feelings. I don’t want to hurt
nobody’s feelings, but if it means we’re going to walk in glory together one day, I will hurt your
feelings.
Can you say amen? We’re living in a time where preachers are up saying, do as I do, but not as I
act. Let me tell you, Brother Bailey, we got to set an example, but I’m going to drill it down.
Mamas and daddies, you got to set an example.
Grandparents, you got to set an example. Great-grandparents, you got to set an example.
Church, you’ve got to set an example.
There’s still some foundations that we need to lay. I find it interesting in our text, Matthew
chapter 7, you go back, you break it down. There were two builders, right? Listen to me.
Both of those builders heard the same thing. No doubt, both of those builders had the same
tools to build their house with, right? And if you break it down, both of those builders
encountered the very same storm, right? Both builders said the rains came down, the floods
came up, and the wind blew for both of the builders, the wise and the unwise, but there was
only one builder who stood. There was only one house that stood, and it was the one that
heard the words but then did what the Word said do.
Let me tell you, we can stand up here and preach to you all day long. We can deliver the Word
of God to you all day long, but until you act on the Word of God, until you act and do what the
Word of God says do, it ain’t gonna do you no good. It ain’t gonna do nobody no good.
Here’s the thing, if you don’t do what the Word of God says do, when the storms come, your
house is gonna fall. What do you mean, Kenny? Let’s drill it down a little bit more. If it says
forgive your enemies, you’ve got to forgive your enemies.
If it says love those who persecute you, love those who persecute you. If it says give your cloak,
don’t just give your cloak, give your coat also. We could hear it all day long, but until we start
acting as the Word of God says act, we’re building on sand, and the storm will bear it out.
The storm will bear it out. You say, Brother Kenny, so-and-so, I have seen them do this, I’ve
seen them do that, but it appears they’re still standing. It rains on the just and the unjust, but
I’m here to tell you when the storm comes, it’s gonna prove itself out.
Not every foundation is a foundation of God. Not every foundation is ordained of God. I’ve seen
places and I’ve been in places built on the foundation of man, built on the ideas and the
opinions of man, wanting a man to get the glory, wanting a man to get the praise, wanting a
man to get the honor, but I’m here to tell you it won’t stand.
It will bear itself out. If God build the house, if God build the house, it’ll stand the test of time.
Can you say amen? Except the Lord build the house.
They labor in vain. Build it. My blessed Lord, only one survived the storm.
Only one survived the storm. Thought about over in 2nd Timothy 2 and 19 where Paul wrote to
Timothy, he said, nevertheless, the foundation of God standeth sure having this seal. The Lord
knoweth them that are his.
Here’s the thing, we got to let the tares grow up with the wheat. If you ever notice that as the
wheat grows, the tares appear to grow as well. Don’t worry about it.
At the end, there’s gonna come a separation and God himself is going to separate the tares
from the wheat. God let us be found among the wheat. God let us be found among the wheat.
I remember over at the valley, dear sister over there, dear sister, about 50 years ago, she
messed up, messed up. A lot of people put her out and to this day a lot of people have kept her
out, kept her at arm’s length. I mean she’s went on, she’s a good, good godly woman.
I’ve seen the power of God move on her. She’s come and prophesied off my heart before and
I’m telling you there’s still people that’ll point their finger and look at her, but I’ll never forget
one night she stood up and that sat down right on her and she said, you know, I’m not worried
about what anybody says, what I’m happy about, and her face lit up with the glow of God. She
said, at the end, God is going to take care of it all.
God is going to handle it all and we’ll see then who stood and who didn’t. I want everybody to
make it, she’d say. I want everybody to make it, but it’s okay if they don’t have me here because
I know what I’ve got.
I know what’s in my soul. I know what’s going to take me through and I’m here to tell you on
that day it’s going to pay to have stood with the Lord. Can you say amen? Listen to me.
I don’t want a foundation. I don’t want a church built on flashing lights, smoke machines. I
don’t want a fancy church built on worldly devices, worldly programs.
I want a church that’s based on the real, the real power of God’s Holy Ghost where people are
healed, people are saved, people are sanctified, people are baptized in the Holy Ghost, healed
and delivered. Can you say amen? Let me tell you, this right here, this ain’t got nothing to do
with Kenny Robertson. It ain’t got nothing to do with Billy Waldrop.
The singing and the music ain’t got nothing to do with Eddie and Diane or Rebecca and Stacey,
Sister Martha. It ain’t nothing about any of us y’all. We’re just instruments.
We’re just instruments trying to help everybody get on to heaven. Can you say amen? Let me
tell you, as I was thinking about this, I was thinking about all the different things we see
happening in churches. My blessed Lord, we’ve talked about this.
I see we see more division and discord over the styles of music, and again, y’all know me, I
don’t like crazy stuff, even crazy like Christian rap, stuff like that, that ain’t my cup of tea. I ain’t
talking about that, but there’s, you know, some worship music. I feel like there’s some good
worship music.
It takes me somewhere that Southern Gospel don’t take me, but Southern Gospel takes me
somewhere that that don’t take me, but I want to ask you something. I want you to think about
this. Imagine yourself going down to Santa Fe.
You’re sitting there. I’m telling you, you’re sitting there. There’s tables, the restaurant’s full, that
table behind you, waitress, waiters, and waitresses, they all come up and they start singing
Happy Birthday.
What do we all do? We just light up from ear to ear, and we just join in and sing. We don’t know
if they got beer on that table or whiskey or whatever, but the whole restaurant is singing
together, Happy Birthday to you, and we’re so happy, but we come in the house of God and we
point our fingers at each other because they don’t like my music, I don’t like their music, so I’m
going to come against you, but we’ll sing Happy Birthday with a bunch of drunks at the
restaurant down the street. Do you not see the devil in all this? Do you not see the hand of
Satan in all this? Let me tell you, let’s get back to the foundation of Jesus.
Let’s get back to the foundation of Jesus and help each other make it in. My blessed Lord,
blessed Lord, that’s just like the church down the road is not my enemy. If they’re preaching
Jesus, if they’re preaching the truth of Jesus, they are not my enemy.
I’m here, but if they’re preaching false doctrine, we ain’t gonna have no false doctrine, I ain’t
gonna stand for it, we’re not gonna have it, we’re gonna love each other, and we’re gonna set
the example, we’re supposed to say it. Can you say amen? What’s the foundation that you’re
laying? What is the foundation that you’re built on? You’ve got to be built on one foundation,
and that’s Jesus. What did Paul say to Timothy? No other foundation, no other foundation.
It ain’t Kenny or Calvary that’s gonna deliver that boy. It is Jesus. It is Jesus.
We have got to lift up Jesus. He has got to, he has got to be what we lift up in the name of Jesus.
If we lift him up, he’ll draw all men unto him.
Can you say amen? Blessed Lord. Flip over to 1st Corinthians 3, 1st Corinthians 3 and 11. For
other foundation that no man lay, then that is laying which is Christ Jesus.
Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble,
every man’s work shall be made manifest. For the day shall declare it, because it shall be
revealed by fire, and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. Any man’s work abide
which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
Any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved, yet so as by
fire. For other foundation can no man lay, then that is laid which is Jesus Christ. What’s the
foundation you’re built on? What is your foundation? Maybe you started out building on the
right foundation, but somewhere along the line kind of shifted.
Get back to your foundation. This is what it’s about. This is where it’s at.
This is the foundation. This, the Word of God, is the foundation upon which we stand. Stand
with me