Luke 6:46-49 (a brief exegesis) Obedience via the flesh or the Spirit?
Jesus said,
46 “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you? 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. 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.”
Is Messiah Jesus teaching a works salvation through obedience to His precepts provided during the initiation of the New Covenant?
If one is truly born again by faith in Jesus as Messiah, they will naturally honor Jesus through obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit who is Gifted the redeemed as Guarantor of New Covenant with the Father (Ephesians 1:13-14). If it were possible to honor the Father through perfect obedience to Messiah’s commandments absent the indwelling Holy Spirit, Jesus would not have needed to suffer and die in your place; therefore, the KEY to honoring the precepts given us by Messiah during His Earthly ministry is to honor the Father by faith in the Son and subsequently receive the Gift of the Holy Spirit and walk in obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit producing “fruit” via a redeemed conscience (Galatians 5).
The only works, obedience, philanthropy, that truly honors the Father are those performed through the indwelling Holy Spirit during the daily process of sanctification; all other works, philanthropy, law-keeping, are considered a “filthy rag” or “bloody menstrual cloth” in the presence of the Father (Isaiah 64:6). Only the works of the redeemed in Jesus performed by the power and strength of the indwelling Holy Spirit will endure Messiah’s BEMA Judgment involving the redeemed (1 Corinthians 3:10-15). All works performed absent covenant with the Father through faith in Jesus will be judged at the “Judgment of the Condemned” and these works will testify against the condemned and severity of punishment meted-out accordingly (Revelation 20:11-15).
