“And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?”
Why do you call me, Lord, Lord, and do not do what I say? — the Lord-Lord address is the most basic form of Christological confession — acknowledging Jesus' lordship. The pointed question is the sermon's diagnostic: the one who calls Jesus Lord but does not do what he says has a fundamental contradiction in their discipleship. Calling Lord without doing is the verbal form of the plank/speck hypocrisy — profession without practice.
Church Fathers on Luke 6:46
Lest any one should vainly flatter himself with the words, Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks, as if words only and not rather works were required of a Christian, our Lord adds the following, But why call you me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? As if He said, Why do you boast of sending forth the leaves of a right confession, and show forth no fruit of good works.
But Lordship both in name and reality belongs only to the Highest Nature.
This is not then the word of man, but the Word of God, manifesting His own birth from the Father, for He is the Lord Who is born of the Lord alone. But fear not the duality of Persons, for they are not separate in nature.
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