He then goes on to argue that David, who wrote these words, was not talking primarily about himself, but prophetically about his anointed descendant. "Seeing what was ahead, he spoke of the resurrection of the Christ ['The Christ' (Greek) and 'the Messiah' (Hebrew) both mean 'the Anointed One'], that he was not abandoned to the grave, nor did his body see decay.

They saw suffering and God as incompatible. If Jesus were God he would not be suffering an ignominious death. His claims to be the divine Son are shown to be false by his crucifixion. Is this true? It provokes us to consider the relationship between Christian faith and suffering.

The image Jesus uses is that of a home that will withstand the storms of life, as compared to a home that is destroyed by similar storms. Two men, two lives: one survives and is safe despite what life does to him, and the other who is lost when tragedy hits him. The difference between them is their foundation: rock or sand.

First of all, he says that there are two roads - two highways - to choose between. One highway is broad, wide and easy. There is plenty of room on it for diversity of opinions and laxity of morals. It is a road of extreme tolerance and permissiveness. It has no curbs, no boundaries of either thought or conduct. Travelers on this road follow their own inclinations, they are autonomous and self-directed. They do what they want to fulfill their own desires.