Hear and Do.. ( Matthew 7 v 13 - 14 )

So what else can we learn from the parable of the two people and the two houses in Matthew 7 v 24 ff ,what was the purpose  of  this parable Jesus told.Kenneth  Bailey,sums it up ,''hear and do '', Jesus had just finished His sermon on the Mount,the sad commentary on the Jewish nation was one of hearing and not doing,they never appeared to really grasp the importance of doing what God  said,and when the trials came they suffered .Disobedience always has a price tag on it, always.How safe Israel would have been, by simply doing what God told them.The safest thing in all the world is obeying God and.the most serious thing for Christians is to  ignore Gods word ,and of course it is even more serious for the non Christian who hears the Gospel and does nothing about it.no matter how prosperous they are as to this life, their doom awaits  in eternity (  Hebrews 9 v 27 )