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Reference Tablet No. 153
Parables.— House-Building
Matt. 7:24–27. The following things are comprised in the teaching of this parable of wise and foolish housebuilding.
1.—That the evidence of wisdom must be sought for not so much in a man’s knowledge as in his practice.
2.—That wisdom is action is conformity with the sayings of Christ, while folly is the absence of any earnest or consistent part
3.—That Christ’s teachings make wise men or fools according to the response which they endure in those who hear.
4.—That the sayings of Christ are the standard of the virtues which commend men to him.
5.—That in this parable there is only the difference of one word between whom Christ approves and saves, and whom he rejects and hands over to desolation; the one hears his sayings and “doeth them; ” the other heareth them, and “doeth them not.”
6.—That the man who puts Christ’s sayings into practice is the only man who lays a good foundation for the time to come, and the only one who answers to Christ’s definition of a wise man.
7.—That the neglect of Christ’s institutions is serious folly, and exposes the foolhardy simpleton in the end to the perils of desolating flood and storm, which will overthrow his house which he thought so secure.
8.—That wise ways are strong ways, in which if a man entrench himself, he is immovably secure against wind and tide, with the good prospect of a quiet haven at last.
9.—That foolish ways are a foundation of shifting sand, which yield only the prospect of final discomfiture and destruction.
1877 Christadelphian p 161
BY F. R. SHUTTLEWORTH.
Parables.— House-Building
Matt. 7:24–27. The following things are comprised in the teaching of this parable of wise and foolish housebuilding.
1.—That the evidence of wisdom must be sought for not so much in a man’s knowledge as in his practice.
2.—That wisdom is action is conformity with the sayings of Christ, while folly is the absence of any earnest or consistent part
3.—That Christ’s teachings make wise men or fools according to the response which they endure in those who hear.
4.—That the sayings of Christ are the standard of the virtues which commend men to him.
5.—That in this parable there is only the difference of one word between whom Christ approves and saves, and whom he rejects and hands over to desolation; the one hears his sayings and “doeth them; ” the other heareth them, and “doeth them not.”
6.—That the man who puts Christ’s sayings into practice is the only man who lays a good foundation for the time to come, and the only one who answers to Christ’s definition of a wise man.
7.—That the neglect of Christ’s institutions is serious folly, and exposes the foolhardy simpleton in the end to the perils of desolating flood and storm, which will overthrow his house which he thought so secure.
8.—That wise ways are strong ways, in which if a man entrench himself, he is immovably secure against wind and tide, with the good prospect of a quiet haven at last.
9.—That foolish ways are a foundation of shifting sand, which yield only the prospect of final discomfiture and destruction.
1877 Christadelphian p 161
BY F. R. SHUTTLEWORTH.
