Blessing and Woe

What are you living for? Where is your treasure? You might remember that those are the questions we ended with last week.

Is your treasure in the kingdom and values of this this present age? Or is it in the kingdom of the Lord Jesus, which will only be fully realized in the age to come? These are the sorts of questions this section of Luke's Gospel here in chapter 6 forces us to deal with.

And verses 20-26 really set the tone for everything that follows in chapter 6. Jesus describes the basic character and way of life of his disciples in contrast to those who reject him.

There's an underlying presupposition behind everything Jesus says through the rest of this chapter. And that presupposition is that the Day of God's judgment is coming. Everyone will one day stand before God and give an account of what they've done in their lives.

And in light of that coming judgment, Jesus here completely overturns all social conventions of this present age, and exposes how backwards things really are...