The Eye Of Faith

Q: What does the Bible say about the eye of faith?

The eye of faith, as described in Matthew 6:22-23, is focused on Christ and allows believers to see clearly the truth of God. In Matthew 6:22-23, Christ teaches that the eye is the lamp of the body. A single eye, representing a focused faith on Christ, brings light and understanding to our entire being. When our eye is 'single,' it means our faith is directed solely towards the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the object and source of our hope. By maintaining a single-minded focus on Christ, believers can experience the fullness of spiritual light and truth, illuminating the path of godliness and righteousness in their lives. This notion of a single eye emphasizes the importance of undivided devotion to Christ in faith. If our eye is filled with darkness—meaning our focus is on worldly or self-righteous pursuits—then our entire being is filled with darkness. The distinction lies in whether our trust rests in Christ alone for salvation and righteousness, or whether we rely on our merits. In essence, the eye of faith not only opens our eyes to the truths of God’s Word but also shapes our actions and motivations in daily life.

Q: How do we know that salvation is through faith alone?

Salvation is through faith alone, centered on Christ, as emphasized in Ephesians 2:8-9, where it is made clear that it is a gift from God, not of works. The doctrine of salvation through faith alone, often termed 'sola fide,' is foundational to Reformed theology. Ephesians 2:8-9 states, 'For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.' This scripture underscores that salvation is not earned by our merits or religious practices but is purely a gift from God, received through faith in Jesus Christ. The Reformed tradition emphasizes that faith itself is a gift from God, not a human effort or decision. Moreover, salvation through faith alone affirms the sovereignty of God's grace in the redemption process. Christ's atoning work on the cross is sufficient for our justification before God, and there is no need for additional works. As Romans 3:28 states, 'For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.' This reinforces the necessity of a faith that rests entirely on Christ’s righteousness, not our own, ensuring that all glory goes to God for our salvation.

Q: Why is having a single eye important for Christians?

Having a single eye is important because it represents undivided faith in Christ, leading to clarity and understanding in a believer's life. The significance of having a single eye for Christians is deeply illustrated in Matthew 6:22-23. A single eye symbolizes focused faith on Christ alone, the true object of our trust and hope. This principle is critical in understanding our spiritual well-being, as it allows believers to perceive reality through the lens of God's truth rather than the confusion of worldly distractions. With a single eye, believers are able to fully embrace the light of Christ, which dispels darkness and reveals the intentions and desires of the heart. Additionally, when Christians maintain a single-eyed focus on Christ, they align their lives with His purposes and will. This alignment assures that their actions, thoughts, and priorities reflect their commitment to Him rather than being divided by competing interests. As James 1:8 warns, a double-minded person is unstable in all their ways. Thus, a single eye not only ensures spiritual clarity but also solidifies the believer's commitment to following Christ wholeheartedly, thereby fostering genuine joy, peace, and understanding in their journey of faith.

You can be turning to Matthew
chapter 6. Matthew chapter 6. First, I'm
going to read you a portion of scripture from Hebrews 4. If you want to turn there, you're
welcome to do that also. Hebrews chapter 4, I want to
read this to you, and then we'll be spending the remainder of
our time in Matthew 6. Hebrews 4, verses 12 and 13 say this, "'The word of God is
quick,' or that is, life-giving, and sharper than any two-edged
sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and
of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts
and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature
that is not manifest in his or God's sight. But all things are
naked and open, opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have
to do." The word of God is quick, powerful, sharper than a two-edged
sword, piercing, dividing, discerner of the thoughts and intents of
the heart. Those are fitting words and applicable to our Lord's
Sermon on the Mount. Fitting and very appropriate
to our Lord's Sermon on the Mount here in Matthew 6. Throughout his preaching here,
as we've been studying, our Lord gets to the heart and the soul
or the marrow of man's religion. He expresses the innermost thoughts
and motives. He pierces our hearts and pricks
our conscience of our hypocrisy. And we all have it. We're all
full of it. Our Lord exposes our thoughts
and the intents of our mind and our affection. He rightly divides. He rightly divides our words,
what we say We've seen that quite well here in Matthew 6. Now,
it is true that out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. That is true. That is, the things
that most readily come out of our mouth, the things that most
quickly come out of our mouths, reveal what is contained in our
hearts. Praise and thanksgiving, or cursing
and bitterness. quite clearly reveal what is
in us, good things, godly things, or evil and worldly things. That
is true, that what comes out of the abundance of the heart,
the mouth readily or quickly speaks those things. That is
true. Yet a man is not rightly or really
known, a woman is not rightly or really known by what they
say as much as what they are, what they say, because as I've
said so many times, we all can talk a pretty good ball game,
can't we? Especially around believers,
around sovereign gracious, we can talk a pretty good ball game. Now, this is a thought our Lord
is conveying here in Matthew chapter 6. He gives three proverbs,
three proverbs. And in the space of just a few
words, there's great and profound truth, so much so that we couldn't
exhaust one of these proverbs in a lifetime of study. Verse
21, we considered this last week. He said, Where your treasure
is, there will your heart be also. Then verse 22, we're going
to look at tonight. He says, The light of the body
is the eye. If therefore thine eye be single,
thy whole body shall be full of light." A wealth of truth
there. And then verse 24, he says, No
man can serve two masters. He'll either hate the one and
love the other, or else he'll hold to the one and despise the
other. You cannot serve God and mammoth. He deals with three things in
the course of these three parables. He deals with the heart. And
that's where you have to start. That's where true religion starts,
in the heart. He deals with the eye, and then he deals with the
hand. And these are deep, soul-searching
subjects, which I hope all of us, when we look at them and
listen to them, will all, as we hear them, say to ourselves,
Lord, is it I? Is it me? Does this apply to
me, Lord? If I need this, then prick my
heart concerning it. So he said, talking about the
heart in verse 21, he said, Where your treasure is, there will
your heart be also. Whatever you value the most,
whatever you accumulate and store up for your own enjoyment, your
own pleasure or your own profit, is what you're going to spend
your time thinking about and taking care of. All your time,
energy and efforts will be spent upon that which is dearest to
your heart. Now, if Christ is your treasure,
if Christ is that pearl of great Christ, then you will be about
the things of Christ. There's no doubt about that.
Our Lord exposes that. He reveals that. He explains
that very clearly. If Christ is that peculiar treasure,
that one As we read in Philippians 3, that you long to win and know
and be found in and seek that gold, that prize of the high
calling of God, the fellowship of his sufferings and so forth.
If he is that prize, that one, that pearl whom you seek, you
will do, like Paul said, if by any means I might attain to the
knowledge and be found in Christ. All right, and then the eye here. This is what we're going to look
at in verses 22 and 23. Let's read this together. He says in verse 22, the light
of the body is the eye. If therefore thine eye be single,
thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be
evil, And thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is
in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! The light of
the body is the eye." I looked at that a long time before I
put any words down. A very deep and profound truth
right here. and several messages would not
suffice to exhaust this subject. But let me have you consider
just a few things here. When he talks about the I, the
I, the light of the body is the I, several things can be considered. First of all, you could think
of the I as being the conscience, the conscience within a man.
If the conscience is single, or that is, it's the one that
God puts within us, the one God puts within us, to convict us,
to convince us, to warn us, to restrain us, then things are
clear. Things are very clear. Even to
the native in the jungle who has not the written law of God,
yet he has a conscience of pricks, if you'll only listen to it.
Things will be clear, what is right and wrong. And as I've
said so many times, If a man, anyone, whoever it may be, will
act according to the light given them, God will give more light,
will give more light. See, the things of God, even
his creation, his power, his Godhead from the creation of
the world are clearly seen, Paul said. All men are without excuse,
whether or not they have a Bible or not. Things are clearly seen. But if that conscience has been
seared Scripture talks about us searing our conscience. That
is, if we don't have enough conscience now to know light from darkness
or right from wrong or good from evil, Christ says, how great
is that darkness. If you don't have that little
bit of light that God puts in there, and you've seared it,
you've stifled it, you've put, like Bunyan said in his Pilgrim
Holy War, you put Mr. Recorder, you put him in a dark
place where he can't bother you anymore. You can't bother you
anymore, and if man has done that, how great is that darkness?
And it's no need to wonder why men and women have gone to the
utmost extremes in sin and perversity and wickedness in our world.
No need to wonder. It's easy for me to see because
they've seared their conscience. Men and women, young people,
have stifled and seared and put away that conscience, that God-given
conscience. And Christ says, so if that is
not within, then that whatever you have within you is great
darkness. All right? Then there's the eye
of understanding. The eye of understanding. Or
the understanding is what teaches us. The understanding is what
judges things. When we look at something and
we think about it, we discern it, we consider it. We judge
it, and the understanding, whatever understanding we have within
us, it teaches us. OK? The understanding. It weighs,
it teaches us. And if the understanding that's
within us is right, is proper, is wise, then our whole being
will profit and will be properly focused. We'll be focused in
the right direction. That is God's way. But if our
guide or our understanding, our teacher, is ignorant and has
been evilly influenced by all manner of things, our own evil
hearts and lusts, deceived or by outward means or whatever,
then we'll call good evil and evil good if we don't have this
right understanding. And we'll go in a direction we
think is right, and we'll be blind, though, and we'll fall
We'll think we're heading in the right direction all that
time, but we'll fall in the ditch. We'll be blind. And then Spurgeon
mentioned this, the eye of the heart, the eye of the heart of
the affection, the affection. If the affection is pure, pure,
the ways will be pure. If the affection is corrupt,
so will the man. Everything about the man will
be perverted in all his ways, his words, and so forth. All
right, let's stay with me. Here's where we're going to dwell.
This is what I believe, though, this text, this passage teaches. I believe the principal meaning
of this I here is the I of faith, the I of faith. Now, faith, he
said, look at it again, verse twenty-two, the light of the
body is the I. Faith to the spiritual man is
his I. We don't go by things that are
seen. Those are an illusion. Those are temporal anyway. We
go by things we don't see. But we don't go blindly. It's
not blind faith. We do have sight, but it's not
with these eyes. You can't trust these eyes. As the physical eye leads and
guides and motivates, it's hard to get around. It's hard to go
in the right direction if you don't have physical eyes. It
influences us. Our eyes, whatever we see, influences
our inner being, doesn't it? When we look at something we
like, the lust of the eye and the lust of the flesh creeps
up, pride of life and so forth enters in. Even our inner feelings,
our desires and our appetites are indirectly related to the
eye, okay? A man's faith is what leads and
guides and directs and motivates his thoughts, his words, for
his or her ways, a man's faith. Our Lord said, If thine eye be
single. Now, what is it to have a single
eye? Now, we're talking about faith. We're talking about the
eye, we're talking about faith. What is it to have a single eye? A single eye? One faith. We have one Lord, one faith.
True faith has but one object, and that object is? the Lord
Jesus Christ. One object, Christ. If you look
unto Jesus Christ as the author and finisher of your faith, if
Christ is the substance, Hebrews 11 says this, faith is the substance
or the ground or the confidence of things hoped for. Or that
is, when we look to Christ, when we're looking to him, He becomes
the ground or the confidence of those things we hope for.
What things? Forgiveness with God, acceptance with God, wisdom,
righteousness, sanctification, redemption, eternal life, all
of these things, heavenly things, eternal things, unspeakable things,
the things of God. If we look to Christ, he alone
is our ground or our confidence of the things we hope for, He
also becomes the evidence, the proof, the proof, he is the proof,
he is the witness to us of things we don't see. He comes in, he
said, if you just believe my word, keep my word, then I'll
come unto you, my father will come unto you, and we'll take
up our abode with you. And we'll love you, and we'll
speak to you, and we'll have sweet concourse with you. The
substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not
seen is Christ. It's not just some abject principle
or something we do. It's an object. It's a person.
He is the substance of things we hope for. He's the evidence
of everything we cannot see. Right? All right? If Christ is that single object,
then your whole being, your mind, your body, your soul will be
full of And light, quite simply, is understanding. Understanding. Now, as I go on here, I'm going
to talk about faith. All right? I'm not going to be
defining it or clarifying it anymore. When I'm talking about
faith, I just laid it down. What did I say? Faith is. Faith
is not something we do, necessarily. Faith is not a work. Faith is
an object. OK, now when I'm talking about
faith here, from here on out, I'm going to be talking about
looking to, trusting in, depending upon Christ and Christ alone. OK? Belief, trust, confidence,
total independence upon Jesus Christ for all you are, all you
have, and all you will be as you're all in and of. All right? I don't want to have to clarify
that again. All right. Now, this faith is God-given. It's God-given. Man is self-righteous
by nature, and he just will not think along these terms, but
it's God-given. And this God-given faith in Christ,
he said, if your eye be single, or that is, if you look to Christ
and Christ alone, if your eye is single, if your faith is in
one object, then your whole body, your mind, your soul, your affections
will be full of understanding, full of light, full of light.
As Paul said in 2 Corinthians chapter 4, God who commanded
the light to shine out of darkness has shined in our hearts to give
the light of the glory of the gospel in the face of a person,
right? Right? Right. God's glory. We see God's glory
in a person. In a person. His person. We see the glory of the Godhead. in one person. We can't see the
Father. We can't see the Spirit. No man has seen the Father at
any time. The only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the
Father, hath what? Declared it. He came down in the body of a
man and he said, Do you want to know God? This is what God's
like. And he said, My works declare
who I am. He was all glorious as a man,
all powerful. He spoke and it was done, full
of majesty and wisdom full of mercy, love, grace, long-suffering,
goodness. You want to know the glory of
God? You want to know the person of God? We see all that when
we see Christ, when we see Christ. You can't get to God, you can't
understand God. As the heavens are higher than
the earth, so are God's thoughts and ways higher than ours. So God had to come down to our
level, didn't He, in the person of a man, the Lord Jesus Christ. So we see God's glory. in Christ's
person. Secondly, we see God's glory
in Christ's work, his person and his work. And those two things
make up the gospel, Christ's person and his work. And we see
God's glory in the work of the Lord Jesus Christ. We see how
God can be just and punish sin and yet justify sinners like
us, punish our sins. and set us free. How? By making
Christ to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made
the righteousness of God in him. He switched places, substitution.
And we see all that. We could not have seen that except
in the work of the Lord Jesus Christ on Calvary's trip. His
work, how God can punish us and yet release us. This is the wisdom
of God, how God can cause us to suffer for our sins
and yet satisfy his holy law. We had somebody represent us,
a substitute. And then, if we see Christ clearly,
we look to Christ and him alone, we have our eye of understanding, we see sin in all of its darkness,
don't we? You cannot see sin or right unless
you see Christ. OK, because he that judge, he
that compare himself with others is not wise, Scripture says.
But there's coming a day, the Scripture says, when God will
judge all men by that man whom he hath ordained. And that man
came. That man came to earth and he
said, if I hadn't come, you'd had a cloak for your sin. The
Pharisees would still be walking around thinking they were all
right, but he exposed that, and so would we if Christ hadn't
come and exposed our innermost sin. If we hadn't seen man as
God intends man to be in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ,
we might think we're pretty good, right? We might think we're all
right, but when we see the holy, spotless, altogether loveless
Son of God, we say, I see something in my sin. I've sinned and come
far short of that glory. See, that's the only glory God
works in. That's the only man approved
of God. That's the only man God will accept on the basis of his
own work. And also, you couldn't see sin
like it is unless you saw Christ hanging on that cross as a bloody
sacrifice for sin. It's obvious that the world at
large, the religious world, hadn't seen sin like it is because they
don't look to Christ and him alone. They don't see what it
took to put it away. It took a whole lot more than
our silly little works and our silly what we call faith. And
so we took a bloody sacrifice of a holy spotless Son of God,
a horrible, excruciatingly painful death, the equivalency of a life
or an eternity of hell by the Son of God to put away our sin.
Do you see that? If you see Christ hanging on
the cross, then you see something of sin. Your understanding of
sin is clear. All right? If your eye be single
or looking to Christ and him alone, you see the future very
clearly. Stay with me now. These are glorious
things here, whether or not I have the liberty to proclaim them
or not. Listen, there's food, there's help, there's wisdom
here. If you see Christ, you see the
future very clearly. The future. Not all things and
events in the future, but the overall picture. The future. You want to know God's will for
your life? Huh? Your future? You want to know
what's in store for you in the future? But if you look to Christ,
you'll see. You'll see clearly. You'll weigh
things in light of your relationship to Christ. You'll weigh things
in light of him, how he was, what he did, and so forth. God's will for you is what God's
will for his Son was. what his will for his son was.
And God's will for us is for us to be conformed to the image
of that blessed son. That's what salvation is all
about. Death. That's a way that we're all going
to go. Man is going to his long home,
some sooner than others. You can look at death in the
face, Virgie, and not fear. You don't fear what the future
holds in death. You know who holds the future,
right? the future. If you look to Christ
and Christ alone, if you look to him in your eye, that eye
of faith, you have wisdom. You have the light of wisdom.
Things are seen in relationship to Christ. All right? Stay with
me. I didn't just get sermon here.
This is great. All things are very clear when
you see Christ. as all. When Christ is everything
to you, when you see Him as all and in all, Lord of all, when
He's everything, all things are very clear. We see how that God
is working everything. He worketh all things together,
not haphazardly, not randomly, not accidentally, all things,
all things. You know all things? All things.
No matter how small, how minute, How trivially seem to us God
is working all things together. It's all like a big backside
of a tapestry. It doesn't look very clear to
the natural man, but when you see the picture, and the picture
is the face of a person, and that picture is our conformity
to that person, all things work together for good. Yeah, that's
awful painful operation, for good. Maybe not temporal. but eternal, good. All things
work together for good to them that love God. Why do we love
Him? Because He first loved us. Those
who have faith in Christ and are called according to His purpose.
What is that purpose? What is the purpose? That's what
I'm talking about. When you look to Christ, you
see the purpose of God in all things. What is the purpose of
God for you? That one day he's going to gather
together in one all things, that is, all people that are his,
one big happy family, in Christ, both which are in heaven and
which are on earth, even in Christ, in him. He's molding, making,
shaping, conforming, working together everything, molding
it, shaping it, making it, sanctifying it, making it look like and conform
to Christ. All is going to redound to his
glory, to the praise of the glory of his grace. He said that three
times in that same chapter, Ephesians 1. All right? Okay. That's point number one. The eye must be single. Faith
has one object, Christ. And if your eye is single, if
Christ is your object, you see very clearly the whole body The
mind, the heart, the affection, everything is full of light,
full of understanding. Not all understanding. That's
reserved for God alone. But enough, enough to get by
on planet earth. Someday we'll know, even as we've
been known. We'll see him as he is. We'll
see things very clearly then. All right? Secondly, faith must
be single, or Christ alone single. I said that faith's object is
Christ, but here's a different thought. Christ alone. I'm just nailing another nail.
I'm splitting one nail with another. Christ is the object of faith,
but Christ alone. Now, this is important. Christ
alone, single. When your eye is on Christ only. for your whole salvation, then
you have perfect understanding, or light, as to what saves you,
or rather who saves you. If Christ alone is in your eye
of faith, then you realize who must save you, who did save you,
who must save you, who will save you. Christ alone, His righteousness,
not ours, His blood, He is Lordship, everything about him and him
alone, him alone. Verse 22, it says, the light
of the body is the eye, that if the eye be single, single. And then in verse 23, he says,
but if thine eye be evil. And I notice this, if you're
studying, if you're looking at this carefully with me, he said
in verse 22, if your eye is single, then verse 23 says, but if your
eye be evil. What's the connection there,
single and evil? Well, if it's single, what's
the opposite of single? Double. So it's evil to have
a double eye, or a double mind, or a double heart, okay? He's
equating an eye looking in two directions as an evil eye. Are you with me? Are you following?
Anyone looking to Christ and something else has an evil eye.
Christ's work and my work. Christ's righteousness and my
morality. Christ's faith and my faith. That's a double lie. That's an
evil eye. That's self-righteousness. James
warned of it. He said a double-minded man is
unstable in all his way. That's what Christ is saying
here. If the eye of the evil or double look in two directions,
the whole body is full of darkness, full of darkness. People look
to their baptism. I ask you, does baptism add to
the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, which we must be washed in? In
taking a bath in a pool of water, cleanse me from all filthiness
and and wretchedness and sin in the eyes of an all-seeing
God, taking a bath in a pool of water? Well, that, you know,
the person that thinks that, they're full of darkness, aren't
they? How could someone be... Help out in my salvation? Huh? Going through the little ritual
of eating some unleavened bread, some crackers and some wine or
grape juice, can that add to that horrible death of Christ
on the cross? Is that something we add to that,
they say, the ignominious death of the Lord Jesus Christ? Huh? Can that possibly add to that
horrible, bloody, sacrificial death of Christ, what it took
to put away our sins? Can me eating some bread add
to that? Well, people that think that,
their eyes full of darkness in them. How could they think that? Can me giving my little pittance
of an offering, of my tithe or whatever, can that add to what
it took to purchase my redemption, the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ? Without the shedding of blood,
I mean a bloody sacrifice, there's no remission of sin. Can I pay
for My sins by a dollar bill? Can you imagine anybody thinking
such a thing? The whole eye is full of darkness.
The whole understanding is darkened in all their ways. Can my prayers,
my silly little prayers that are so full of self and so full
of covetousness and so forth, add to the prayers of my great
high priest who sweat, as it were, great drops of blood? I'm not talkingâ€”the Scripture
says, "...who with strong cries and tears, sweat as it were great
drops of blood, interceding on behalf of guilty sinners before
a holy God." Can my little pittance add to it? Well, I have something
to say, too, Christ. Can that add to it? Is that necessary? How can somebody think such a
thing? Darkness. In fact, darkness be in someone,
how great is the darkness, right? How could somebody be so deceived,
so ignorant? They are. The eye is evil. It's devil. Not looking in one
direction. One direction. If we think anything
we can do adds to or contributes to our salvation, our eye is
evil. Evil and full of darkness, and
it will control everything we do. everything we do. Verse 23, he says, and how great
is that darkness. If that eye, that's what I'm,
if you've been following me, I think some of you have, if
that eye claims to look to Christ, you know, believe on Jesus, and
yes, he had to go to the cross, and they use the same terminology,
you know, Christ paid for our sins, you believe that, you're
a sinner, don't you? Christ died on the cross, yeah, I believe
that. And well, you must do this, you must do that. That's a double
lie. It's a double lie. It's an evil lie. That's another
one. God calls it evil, I believe.
Well, look over the page there, chapter 7, verse 22. Chapter
7, verse 22. He said, Many are going to be
so deceived, so blind, that they'll say unto me in that day, in the
great judgment day, standing before the Christ, holy God,
and they'll say, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied? We preached.
Well, we preached. No matter what lies they told
on God, what heresy, what blasphemous doctrine they were expounding,
we preached. I was a preacher. We preached. We witnessed. They're going to say, we cast
out devils. You know what, in reality, they're
doing? And really, in reality, rejecting the Holy Spirit of
God. The Spirit that they're rejecting is not devils. It's the Spirit of the living
God. And they're worshiping devils.
They're doing the work of a devil. I'll show you that in a minute.
They say, we've done many wonderful works in your name. We? Our work? They call Christ's
work, you know, that's good work. Good work. Glad he did that.
Well, mine's wonderful. What I did now, let me tell you,
let me testify, I'll tell you about my wonderful work. That's
what I did. Christ, yeah, but my work's wonderful. Now His name shall be called
wonderful. His name. But how great is that
darkness? Christ said they'll reach the
point where they call truth a lie and lie a truth. Evil good and
good evil. They'll call what's a lie the
truth. So that's true. And call what's truth a lie.
Free grace, free grace. How great is that darkness, how
great. You cannot, and this sums up
the whole message here, what I believe Christ is saying, you
cannot have an eye to Christ You cannot believe Christ, you
cannot look to Christ and Christ alone for your salvation, for
anything, and to self. You can't do it. You can't do
it. If your eye be single, single,
tunnel vision, tunnel vision, and that is looking to Christ
and him alone, the author and the finisher of our faith. Faith must, one more time, all
right? for the road. Faith must have
one object, and that object is Christ. Not self, not anything
that has to do with me. OK? Whatsoever is not of faith
is what? Huh? Somebody say it loud. Sin. Whatsoever is not of faith. Now, what have we been talking
about? Whatsoever does not look to Christ
and Him alone is sin. God won't accept it. Whatsoever
does not look to Christ alone for salvation, whatsoever does
not give all the glory to Him is sin. Whatsoever is not totally
dependent upon Him is sin. God won't accept it. And God
equates sin and self-righteousness as one and the same thing. seen
that same final note. I don't know not quit. I quit. Thirty five minutes only thirty
five minutes. If your eye. If your eye that
is your focus your vision. This is this is practical right
here. This is a practical application. If your eye that is what you
look to, your vision, your desire, your affection, that eye, that
heart that Spurgeon talked about. What you're looking for is Christ. Then you're going to have the
light of God's countenance. You're going to have peace, joy,
happiness, fellowship, all of these things. Christ is what you're looking
for. And you're going to find that
great pearl, that light, that unspeakably glorious diadem,
pearl of great pride, bright and shining star, lights. Your
whole body, your whole life will be full of peace, hope and joy. And I'm saying it 24 hours a
day all the time. If we looked at Christ, it would
be. But if you look elsewhere, If you say, well, I'm looking
to Christ, I desire Him, and what I want, what I desire, I
count everything else but done, and I desire to win Christ and
be found in Him, but I ain't going to go down in the house
and pursue this all the best that I can. You won't have any light of Christ,
and you won't have any light in this either. You won't find any
joy and peace in Christ, and you sure won't find it there
either. You say, I'll take a drink, oh, that's satisfying, but then
you go after the water of the world. You keep coming back to the same
water. You don't go here and take a little drink, and you
go down here and try this too. No, once you've tasted, the Lord
is gracious. Once you've seen his glory, everything
else loses its luster. Right? Once you've seen him,
who are you going to go after? What are you going to go after?
Huh? Look elsewhere and you'll find nothing. Somebody said this,
and I'll quit. You cannot look, it's impossible.
I want somebody to try it in here. You cannot look heavenward
and earthward at the same time. Try it. Everybody. You can't do it. It's silly. Why
are we trying it? Why do we do it? You can't do
it. He said, if you be risen with
Christ, set your affection, your heart, Not like a pig rooting
around, you know, a dumb sheep. That's what Milton called us,
you know, dumb sheep. We'll just fall over the cliff.
Look to the shepherd. Look up. Look to him. You won't
fall over the cliff. You won't fall in a ditch. You'll
have light. You'll have eyesight. Look up.
Look down. Look up. All right. Staying with
me now, I'd like to have Brother Bob Coffey dismiss us in prayer.
He was loved. God, we thank You so much for
Your Word, and we thank You for providing us with people who
make this world a better place, a better place to live, a better place to live,
a better place to live, a better place to live, a better place to live, a better place
to live, a better place to live, a better place to live, a better place to live, a better place
to live, a better place to live, a better place to live, a better place to live,
a better place to live, a better place to live, a better place to live,
to live, a better place to live, a better place to live, a better place to live,
to live, a better place to live, a better place to live, a better place to live, a better place
to live, a better place to live, a better place to You know, I worship, you know,
the city and the city, the town and all of it. But the role of leadership
and what we should do about it. And I think it's a good opportunity
to worship and to do that. Thank you. You're dismissed.

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