Jesus summarizes His teaching on the Sabbath and three parables on meals with a shocking charge to hate our lives in order to become His disciples. Moses's reminder to the Nation of Israel, teaching them to choose life and the Love of God gives us foundational daily practice in Holy Living. The result of Holy Living is the reversal of ethnic ties and social class in humility, like St. Paul calls Philemon to do by accepting Onesimus as a brother.

The Letter to the Hebrews (13:1-8) teaches us to '...let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral...' and while the world dismisses the simplicity of marriage, without it, we cannot understand God's love for His church or the church's call to be faithful to God. Jesus's radical teaching (Luke 14:1,7-14) about the Sabbath is also grounded in the humble etiquette of the Wedding Guest, which we practice in the humility of Ecclesiasticus (10:7-18). chapter 10.

Jesus journeyed toward Jerusalem, in Luke chapter 13, for His Loving Sacrifice on the Cross and He invites us to Strive alongside Him in His establishing the Heavenly City with Justice and Righteousness. The Prophet Isaiah, in chapter 28, reminds us that the Lord is the precious cornerstone. The grace of the cornerstone is available when we participate in that grace and holiness but is lost if we reject Him as the Letter to the Hebrews describes Esau had done in chapter 12.

In Luke chapter 12, Jesus looks forward to the signs of Fire and Baptism. We are reminded that these are the Signs of Jonah, of Jesus' death and Resurrection and that this is the Word proclaimed by Jeremiah in chapter 23. We receive and proclaim His Word in the great cloud of witnesses of Hebrews chapter 12.