The only true and lasting victory we can ever hope to have over any sin or conflict must be rooted in the Spirit-in knowing God. The Holy Spirit unrelentingly desires for us to know the Father and the Son. It is only through our knowing of the Lord we can find the capacity to be overcomers. According to 2 Peter 1:3 we have everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of God, knowledge established both in the mind and the heart.

He then goes on to argue that David, who wrote these words, was not talking primarily about himself, but prophetically about his anointed descendant. "Seeing what was ahead, he spoke of the resurrection of the Christ ['The Christ' (Greek) and 'the Messiah' (Hebrew) both mean 'the Anointed One'], that he was not abandoned to the grave, nor did his body see decay.

They saw suffering and God as incompatible. If Jesus were God he would not be suffering an ignominious death. His claims to be the divine Son are shown to be false by his crucifixion. Is this true? It provokes us to consider the relationship between Christian faith and suffering.

The image Jesus uses is that of a home that will withstand the storms of life, as compared to a home that is destroyed by similar storms. Two men, two lives: one survives and is safe despite what life does to him, and the other who is lost when tragedy hits him. The difference between them is their foundation: rock or sand.