Luke 6:46-49
The true disciple builds on Jesus’ words by obeying them.
46 “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?
47 Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.
48 He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.
49 But he who hears, and doesn’t do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”
The true disciple builds on Jesus’ words by obeying them.
Luke records the conclusion of Jesus’ Sermon on the Plain to confront empty lordship claims and to teach that only hearing and doing Jesus’ words forms a life able to withstand the flood of testing and judgment.
Jesus concludes the Sermon on the Plain after teaching blessings and woes, enemy love, mercy, forgiveness, generosity, self-examination, fruit, heart, and speech. He now presses the hearers to decision: verbal confession must become obedient practice.
The Lord of the Sabbath Forms a Kingdom People
Jesus, Lord of the Sabbath and teacher of the kingdom, forms a people whose lives are marked by mercy, enemy-love, fruitful hearts, and obedient foundations under His word.