Today we have heard two short sayings from the very end of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. First Jesus says, "Not everyone who says, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven." Not everyone who says, "I believe"; not all who say they are Christians; not everyone who claims to have done great deeds in Christ's name will be saved. "But only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven." And we say, "Oh, my. Does that mean me? Am I one of those who is all talk and no walk?"

Then Jesus speaks of those who hear his words and act on them as being like the wise man who buiilt his house on a solid rock foundation, where the storms could not move it. But he adds a warning about those who hear his words but do not act on them; he says they are like the foolish man who set his house on sand and i…