Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 7:27
27. Our Lord gives a vivid contrast in the pictures of the rock-founded and sand-founded house, drawn from the natural scenes of Palestine. It is the foundation that is the main thing. The house built upon the rock could not be undermined; but the light structure erected upon the beach, when the windy storms poured down and swelled the floods around it, soon found its base gliding from under it. Great was the fall ”The fishermen of Bengal,” says Mr. Ward, in his View of the Hindoos,... read more
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 7:24-26
(5.) We stand only by obedience to Christ’s words, Matthew 7:24-27. Our Lord now arrives at the final consummation to which the whole discourse has tended. So the judgment is the final consummation of all the world’s history. 26. Heareth… doeth not It is not the mere hearing, nor believing, but the doing these sayings which places our house upon the rock. Faith cometh, indeed, by hearing; but faith must be justified by works. read more