Scripture: Luke 6:17-49
Matthew gives three chapters to The Sermon on the Mount. Luke's The Sermon on the Plain has many parallels, but is much shorter. This sermon begins with the beatitudes and the woes, and goes on to the proper conduct of the citizen of the kingdom of Heaven. Throughout these words of Jesus we are reminded of what it means to be a disciple: it is a whole way of life.
Read The Sermon on the Plain and hear the conclusion of the whole matter: "But why do you call Me 'Lord, Lord,' and not do the things which I say? Whoever comes to Me, and hears My sayings and does them, I will show you whom he is like: He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when the flood arose, the steam beat vehemently against that house, and could not shake it, for it was founded on the rock. But he who heard and did nothing is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream beat vehemently; and immediately it fell. And the ruin of that house was great" (Luke 6:46-49).
Jesus would have us come to Him. He would have us hear His sayings. He would have us do things. To hear and do is to be like a man who build's a house and lays the foundation on the rock. To come to Jesus, to hear His sayings, to do His things is essential to one's survival.
Jason Cicero
