According to Bishop J. C. Ryle, Jesus closes His sermon by turning “from false prophets to false professors, from unsound teachers to unsound hearers.” The cold hard reality that Jesus presents in these final verses of Matthew 7 is that false prophets are not the only danger facing Kingdom Citizens. Indeed, there is the danger of self-deception. As such, Jesus expounds on the theme of self-deception and the Kingdom citizen in Matthew 7:21-27.
