Luke 6
v.13
When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles:
The number would inevitably recall the twelve tribes of Israel derived from the twelve patriarchs. Jesus will later speak of these twelve disciples as sitting on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel (22:30). Here Jesus is setting up the leadership structure for the true Israel of the kingdom of God. #RTFranceTeachTheText
v.20-21
Looking at his disciples, he said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. 21Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
v.25-26
Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will go hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep. 26Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for that is how their fathers treated the false prophets.
v.32
“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.
Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ’s sake. Therefore, human love seeks direct contact with the other person; it loves him not as a free person but as one whom it binds to itself. It wants to gain, to capture by every means; it uses force. It desires to be irresistible, to rule.
Human love has little regard for truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person. Human love desires the other person, his company, his answering love, but it does not serve him. On the contrary, it continues to desire even when it seems to be serving. There are two marks, both of which are one and the same thing, that manifest the difference between spiritual and human love: Human love cannot tolerate the dissolution of a fellowship that has become false for the sake of genuine fellowship, and human love cannot love an enemy, that is, one who seriously and stubbornly resists it. Both spring from the same source: human love is by its very nature desire—desire for human community. So long as it can satisfy this desire in some way, it will not give it up, even for the sake of genuine love for others. But where it can no longer expect its desire to be fulfilled, there it stops short—namely, in the fact of an enemy. There it turns into hatred, contempt, and calumny.
Human love makes itself an end in itself. It creates of itself an end, an idol which it worships, to which it must subject everything…
Because spiritual love does not desire but rather serves, it loves an enemy as a brother.
v.33
And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that.
v.46
“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?