““Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them is like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, but it did not collapse because it had been founded on rock. Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed; it was utterly destroyed!””
— Matthew 7:24-27
Clearly correlation between knowing/believing and obeying.
“Words of mine” is the sermon as whole, or Jesus’ reinterpretation of Torah. New kingdom ethics.
Living as citizen of kingdom is way of wisdom.
Sermon classifies as wisdom literature. Yes commands but this is classic wisdom language.
James has echoes of sermon throughout James and he has this portion in chapter 1. Doers of word…
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