Sermons and Talks, Volume 1 - Ellen G. White

Chapter 4
Hearing and Doing
[A Sermon at Santa Rosa, California Sabbath,
March 7, 1885 Text: Matthew 7:22-28]
Here are brought before us two classes--the
hearer and the doer. There is one that hears and
does not; there is one that hears and does. This is
he that not only hears but is a doer of the Word of
the Lord: and this is the class that is building on the
Rock. We want to be among the class that is
riveted to the eternal Rock, and not of that class
that is building upon the sand. For in these two
classes of builders brought to view here, the one is
laying his foundation in the sand, the other on the
rocks. And the question comes home to us, How
are we building?
How we are building is of great consequence.
We want to know that the foundation is deep, so
that the floods shall not move us. Our salvation
cost something; it cost us the blood of the Son of
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