Luke 6

In Luke 6 we see a few stories that are parallel to the ones in Matthew and Mark. Jesus's disciples were picking grain to eat and the Pharisees accused them of breaking the Sabbath. Jesus refuted them by telling them that He is Lord of the Sabbath. Being the one who created the Sabbath, He was perfectly aware of what laws were and were not being broken. It was like He was telling them that He knew the Sabbath better than they did.

Then He drove home another point on a different Sabbath. He healed a man with a crippled hand to show them that there is never a bad time to do good. The irony is that the religious leaders were infuriated because He did a good thing in front of them when they would have done nothing.

Then there's mention of when Jesus choose the 12 disciples to be apostles.

Then Jesus went to a level place and healed people. Try to imagine being there. It says, "The entire crowd was trying to touch Him, beacuse power was coming from Him and healing them all." Can you imagine what it must have been like to be in the presence of Jesus and feeling His healing power radiating through the crowd of people around Him. It must have been like standing in heaven.

Then it says Jesus taught the Beatitudes. It doesn't say He went up on a mountain first, but it doesn't give the full Sermon on the Mount like Matthew does either. Keep in mind that Matthew could have taken notes while he listened to the sermon in person, and Luke was writing a second-hand account.

Then Luke adds four woes that Jesus pronounced. These woes echo Amos 6:1-7, and they are the direct opposite of the four beatitudes that He just mentioned.

Then Luke pairs together Jesus telling us to love our enemies and not to judge - really driving home our call to be humble and love sacrificially.

Then he pairs together the parables of knowing a tree by its fruit, and building your house on the Rock. Our fruit comes as a result of our inner life - our heart - and our inner life is driven according to its foundation - our core values and beliefs. If Jesus forms the foundation of our core values and beliefs, then our inner life will be geared toward following Him, and the fruit we bear will reflect His presence in our lives.