Matthew chapter 7, tonight we finish up the sermon on the mount and yeah we have

been tracking through on and off in between practices over I don't know six

months or so to recap Jesus ends the sermon on the mount which is all of his

most important teachings in one place I would argue it is the greatest single

collective teaching in the history of human civilization and he ends it not

with a pep talk not with a rally not with a touching story not with an

acronym he ends it with a series of warnings tonight on the dock we have the

last one take a look at chapter 7 verse 24 therefore everyone who hears these

words of mine and puts them into practice it's like a wise man who built his house

on the rock the rains came down the streams rose and the winds blew and beat

against that house yet it did not fall because it had its foundation on the

rock but everyone who hears these words of mine it does not put them into

practice is like a foolish man it built his house on sand the rain came down

the streams rose the winds blew and beat against that house and it fell with a

great crash when Jesus had finished saying these things the crowd was amazed at

his teaching the Cassie taught as one who had authority and not as their

teachers of the law to begin how about a little bit of sociology you got for

that three ideas from three key thinkers over the last few decades first off

Buckminster Fuller there he is ladies and gentlemen come on started out as an

architect invented the geodesic dome anybody been to Disney World yeah he's

the man right there became a futurist and systems theorist in his well-known

book critical path he came up with what he called the knowledge doubling curve

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