TITLE: Their Rock is not Out Rock

TEXT: Deuteronomy 32:31a For their rock is not as our Rock

PROPOSITION: We must know where we stand, and stand there.

Introduction:

1. Background of the text

2. Moses is about to die

3. Israel is about to enter the promised land

4. Our Rock = solid foundation, God, on whom we stand

Israel followed the wrong Rock

1. Forsook God – vs. 15, 18

2. Lightly esteemed the rock of their salvation – 15

3. Provoked God to jealousy – 16, 21

4. Provoked God to anger – 16-17, 21

5. Lost their faith – 20

6. Void of understanding – 28

7. Lived like inhabitants of land – 31-32

Many today hold to a rock that Christians do not

1. Denominational doctrines

   1. Faith only

   2. Creeds of men

   3. Many names

   4. Baptism not essential

   5. Change worship

      1. Some introduce other acts of worship (instruments)

      2. Some change the day of worship

2. Other religions

   1. Judaism

   2. Islam

   3. Orthodoxy – Russian, Greek, Roman, many more

Unfaithful members hold to the wrong rock

1. Worldliness

2. Forsaking the assembly

3. Wrong speech

4. Covetousness

5. Lack of dedication

6. Lack of cooperation

7. Immodesty

The Rock we Need Today

1. Firm and steadfast

2. True

3. Have confidence in

4. Saves

5. Gives us hope

Conclusion

1. 1 Corinthians 10:1-4 And, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea. 2 And all were baptized to Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 and all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank of the spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.

2. “That Rock was Christ”

3. Have you been standing on other rocks?

4. Throw away all the wrong rocks and stand on the ROCK, Christ.

Adapted from outline by Stephen Paul Waller