Two Foundations

Jesus was (is) the Master Teacher (Matt. 7: 28, 29). Uncertainties and ambiguities did not characterize Jesus' teaching, He was decisive and authoritative. This is indicated in the supplied reason why the people viewed Jesus' teaching as different: "For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes" (Ibid.). Jesus often taught by presenting a right and a wrong, no in between. There is the strait and wide gate; two masters; and the two foundations (Matt. 7: 13, 14; 6: 24; 7: 24-27). Jesus used the teaching regarding the two foundations to illustrate the fact that "not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven" (Matt. 7: 21). Hear Jesus:

"Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it."