Foundations of Christian Life
‘Therefore 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 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 and does not put them 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 that 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. (Mat 7:24-29)
The foundation of the Christian life and doctrine are now
clear. This is Jesus’s final summary of asset protection – if we want to be
truly rich and secure we need to build our social and commercial affairs and
systems on the rock of solid good, and not on the shifting sands of justifiable
evils. The rains and winds and streams of competing financial and personal
interests erode the sands of procedural safeguards, humane protections and
quantum limits until we have so much ‘justifiable’ evil that our morals fall
with great crash at the time of trial.
The closing summary shows that Jesus taught with authority
his new law: these teachings are obligatory for all society even though the
obligations are not enforced.
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