I will show you what someone is like who comes to me,listens to my words, and acts on them. But the one who listens and does not actis like a person who built a house on the groundwithout a foundation. Paulie’s worry seems to be when he is faced with the ultimate choice—to betray his friends or to stand by his oath—he won’t be strong enough. But we are of course all put to the test at one point or another, in a matter small or large. We don’t really know if in that moment, we will stand up—but Jesus tells us the best strategy to make the question more rhetorical than anything else.