Christians are to live counter to every culture.
Christians are still to be a counter-culture among both the contemporary irreligious pagans and religious hypocrites. In this final study of Matthew 5-7 we will recall much of what we have considered in these chapters. In the final paragraph we have come to an illustration in which Jesus is going to challenge us one last time to obey him from the heart. 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.