Hey everybody I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast and I just recorded this massive block of stuff about the last few verses of the sermon on the mount and it was all going so neatly that I just got carried away which means I've had to do abrupt cuts. If you have not listened to the previous two episodes,

you might want to go catch those real quick,

because this is really just the third chunk of all of this one block of thought

as we land the plane on the

sermon on the mount in Matthew chapter 7. All right let's get cooking. Let's hit this last little text and we'll be done.

There for everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice

is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

The rain came down, the storms rose, and the winds blew and beat against the house, yet it didn't fall because it had its foundation on the rock.

But everyone who hears these words of mind and doesn't put him into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on

sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against the house and it fell with a great

crash. When Jesus had finished saying these things the crowds

were amazed at his teaching because he taught as one who had authority and not as

their teachers of the law and we'll touch back on that one next time around.

Bottom line is the sermon on the mount ends on a bit of a

downer. It is not this proactive. Come on guys come follow me that sounded like Madonna

come on girls you believe in love I didn't mean to do that.

Like come on everybody follow me it's gonna be this great happy thing and you're gonna feel

affirmed and better about stuff and let's put the proactive spin on this. No, he chooses to end this on the

negative spin, on the consequences and risk of hearing all of this stuff, of evaluating his character and his credibility to make these claims and saying no and

There in lies the rub of the sermon on the mount if you're feeling overwhelmed by all of that we're going to run through and

summarize all of it around this last two verses 28 and 29 tomorrow, but I think the simple equation coming out of the sermon on the

mount is this, if everything Jesus said is true and he is qualified to say it, this is the

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