Luke 6

v1-11: The Lord's day, is when, like Christ entered into the synagogue on the Sabbath, we are to attend religious meetings.  "Our seat must not be empty except with a very good reason."  When Jesus was in the synagogue, He taught, showing that "giving and receiving instruction from Christ is very proper work" for the Lord's day.

v12-19: Christ's example of private prayer teaches us how to maintain our fellowship with God every day.  He was alone with God "where he would not be disturbed or interrupted."  He also spent a long time with God, continuing all night in prayer.  "We think half an hour is a long time to spend praying, but Christ continued a whole night in meditation and private prayer."

v20-26: Serving Christ and His cause will bring hardships and difficulties.  The world will hate you because your teaching and life convict and condemn them.

v27-36: "What we would reasonably expect to be done to us, either in justice or in love, by others if they were in our condition and we in theirs, that is what we must do to them. We must put ourselves in their place and then pity and help them, just as we ourselves would want and justly expect to be pitied and helped."

v37-42: If we are to help others, we must make sure we are first concerned about our own lives.  "Those who take on themselves the task of rebuking and reforming others should make sure they themselves are blameless, harmless, and without fault." It is not right to criticise the faults of others whilst being unaware of our own.  By reforming our own lives, we may, "by the influence of example, lead others to reform theirs."

v43-49: "We deceive ourselves if we think a bare profession of religion will save us, that hearing the sayings of Christ will bring us to heaven without doing them."  It is obedient believers who can be sure that they are "kept by the power of Christ, through faith, unto salvation, and will never perish."