Building and Behavior
Luke 6:46-49

1. A problem with fickle behavior
46 Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you? Luke 6:46 (ESV)

Submission to Jesus’ Lordship is evidenced by genuine obedience.

9 And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him, Hebrews 5:9 (ESV)

18 For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience—by word and deed, Romans 15:18 (ESV)

26 . . . through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith—Romans 16:26 (ESV)

2 . . . for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood . . . 1 Peter 1:2 (ESV)

22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. James 1:22 (ESV)

2. A promise for faithful behavior
47 Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: 48 he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. Luke 6:47-48 (ESV)

2 The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. Psalm 18:2(ESV)

4 “The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he. Deuteronomy 32:4 (ESV)

Faithful disciples are those who keep coming, hearing, and doing Jesus' words.

3. A prediction for faithless behavior
49 But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.” Luke 6:49 (ESV)

The appearance of what one has built with “faithless behavior” may appear identical to that which was built by the one with “faithful behavior,” but in essence the foundations are different.

11 For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 3:11 (ESV)