And why call ye Me Lord, Lord - What will fair professions avail, without a life answerable thereto?
6:47 Whosoever cometh to Me, and heareth My sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
I will show you to whom he is like - or "to what thing he is like".
6:48 He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.
He is like a man which built an house - That is, intended to build one, having drawn the scheme of it in his mind, and provided materials, and fixed upon the spot of ground:
and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock - that is, he dug deep in the earth, till he came at a rock, and there, and then, he laid the foundation of his house; so a sensible sinner, desirous of building his soul, and the salvation of it, on a sure bottom, digs deep into the Scriptures, diligently searches them, till he finds out the scheme of salvation by Christ; and finding Christ to be the rock of ages, he makes use of Him as such: and when the flood arose; an inundation, a multitude of waters, the stream beat vehemently upon the house; or the river, up which the tide came, dashed and broke against it; by which may be signified the temptations of Satan, the persecutions of the world, the corruptions of men's hearts, and the heresies of false teachers: and could not shake it; as none of these can so shake as to move a soul, thus built on Christ, off of him the foundation:
6:49 But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.
But he that heareth, and doth not - Hears Christ's sayings externally, but does not obey His commands:
Such builders, and such a building, cannot stand against the violent rain of Satan's temptations, the floods of the world's persecutions, the stream and rapid torrent of their own heart's lusts, nor the blowing winds of heresy and false doctrine, and much less the storms of divine wrath and vengeance. They are in a most dangerous condition; they cannot support themselves; they must fall, and great will be their fall; their destruction is inevitable, their ruin is irrecoverable.
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