Gospel Luke Bible Study #11
Luke 6:46-49 The Hearer and The Doer
1. When you go to buy a house, what is the most important to you? Choose one.
( ) #of bed rooms and bath rooms ( ) interior decorations
( ) the price ( ) foundation

When you build your life, what is the most important to you? Choose one.
( ) height, weight, health ( ) social skills, style, popularity, love
( ) education, job money ( ) putting Jesus’ word into practice

2. To whom does Jesus teach these words? 6:46
What were the teachings of Jesus that day?
=disciples
=doer and hearer

3. With what words did Jesus finish His teaching?
a. The doer: What does he experience when practices the word of Jesus? experience Jesus
b. The hearer: What does he experience when he only hears? No experience

4. He who hears Jesus’ words and put them into practice is like a man who builds a house.
a. What importance did he know about building a house?
=foundation
b. How did he prepare for the foundation to build a house? 6:48
=digging deep and laying the foundation on the rock
=ex. digging several months before laying the foundation
c. When was his house tested? 6:48
=when a flood arose,
d. How was the house proved that it was well built?
= the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built
5. He who does not put the words into practice is like a man who builds a house
a. What importance didn’t he know about building a house? 6:49
=foundation
b. How did he build his house?
=without foundation
c. When was his house tested?
=when the stream broke against it
d. How was the house proved that it was built poorly?
=immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great
e. When the two begin building their houses at the same time, who might build it sooner?
=house without foundation
6. What is the best foundation of life?
=doer: practicing the words of Jesus in daily life
=It is good foundation
What kind of foundation material is this according to this passage?
=rock: practicing the words of Jesus
=doer’s life is unshakable
When the storms of life strike, how might his life be like?
=unshakable life
What is a life of practicing the word of Jesus like?
=we build our houses on the rock

7. What are other foundations of life?
=money, education, love, social skill, lies, deceptions, hard work, honesty
What kind of foundation material is this according to this passage?
=fake foundations
When the storms of life strike, how might his life be like?
=falling and shaking
=there is no ground
=complete collapse
=Because these are not true foundations
What is a life of not practicing the word of Jesus like?
=building a house without a foundation
=building a house on a soft foundation
=the house will collapse in no time

8. Are you a doer or hearer?
=doer or hearer
What is the best teaching for the life of your children?
=teach them to build their lives on the rock
=because everything will fall, but the rock