Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. The most disturbing passage in the Sermon: religious language directed at Jesus — Lord, Lord — is not equivalent to kingdom entry. The one who does the will of the Father enters; the one who only says Lord does not. Luke 6:46 asks the same question: why do you call me Lord, Lord, and not do what I say? The doing of the Father's will is the fruit that the two-trees teaching has been describing: the verbal profession is the sheep's clothing; the life of obedience is the fruit that reveals what is actually happening beneath the surface.

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