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To build on the rock means to be a hearing, responding disciple, not a phony, superficial one. Practicing obedience becomes the solid foundation to weather the storms of life. The two lives Jesus compares at the end of the Sermon on the Mount have several points in common: they both build, they both hear Jesus’…