In Luke 6:47-48 we see two houses. Now with a casual glance, one could never tell what house has a foundation and one does not. Yet, in the story Jesus tells there is a calamity, a flood comes. There is a bursting of the river and after the flood has done its work, after the storm is over, only one house is left standing. It’s the house that dug a deep foundation and placed the house on top of the Rock. The other house is swept away in the flood. So we see that in the parable of the ten virgins that darkness does its work, we see in the example of the wheat and tares that it is harvest time that identifies the weeds and that in the example of the two houses that the storm, the flood does its work in separating and dividing the two broad categories. Will you stand in the coming storm? So who are the virgins without oil? Who are the tares? Who are the goats? Who are the people whose houses do not have a foundation? Php 3:18-19 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) We see here a group that Paul identifies as ” enemies of the cross of Christ.” It is important to note that these are a group of believers who are ” earthly minded,” who are concerned about the things of this world, people who claim to follow Jesus but specifically reject the ” cross of Christ.” The cross represents suffering and rejection and humiliation, the loss of all things and finally death. And this group of people not only reject the cross of Christ but are enemies. Earlier in the same chapter we see Paul describe what it means not to be an enemy of the cross of Christ but how to be an embrace of the cross. Gods remnant people will not be earthly minded. They will count all things loss for the ” excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus.” To know Jesus more is the heartbeat of the children of God. They want to know HIm and the power of His resurrection. They want to know Him and the fellowship of His sufferings. Brothers and sisters, can you see what is the major identifying factors between the two broad categories of Christendom? One group is an enemy of the cross of Christ and the other group embraces the cross and seeks fellowship with Jesus in His sufferings so that they may know Him more. One counts it all joy to enter into His sufferings and the other despises the notion of suffering and dying, especially the death of the cross.