The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light.“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
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Jesus' followers open and deposit into their heavenly deposit account. And he says, then the eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. man that thinking about this algorithm thing that just jumped off the page in a totally different way to me your eye is the lamp of your heart, soul, mind, your eye. Who wants your eye? Give me your eye. Right here. keep it here. Keep it here. Keep it here. I want your I. be careful he says if your eye is healthy your whole body will be full of light you know what that means? it doesn't mean that your retina and your lens and your corneas are all great it means single and clear focused when your eye is focused, clear your whole body is full of light and then he says no one can serve two masters you're like man he won't let this go louie this is crazy 107 verses and he will not let it go no one can serve two masters either you will hate the one and love the other or you'll be devoted to the one and despise the other you cannot serve both god and money you're like jesus give it a rest he's like no i want you to have a happy and a healthy heart. And you've got to get this right. And then he goes into this beautiful passage that we've sung about at our church so much, the Lord will provide, which capstone is verse 33. …
… circumstances, but we have a God who says, behold, I am doing a new thing. Can you see it? I love Jesus talked about in Matthew chapter six and verse 22 and 23. The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body is full of light. If your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body is full of darkness. Jesus understood something. What has your attention eventually shapes your perspective. What am I focused on? What am I looking at every day? What am I allowing to shape my perspective? What gets in your eyes affects your marriage. What gets in your eyes affects your parenting. What gets in your eyes affects your hope. It affects your faith. It affects your ability to recognize what God is doing. And I find it so interesting that God would ask a question like this after a verse and a promise like this. …
… when it comes to money. He says, the eye is the lamp of the body. This is chapter six, verse 22 through 24. The eye is the lamp of the body. Therefore, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how terrible that darkness will be. No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be loyal to the one and have contempt for the other. You cannot serve both God and wealth. All right, this is so interesting. So he's making the same statement, the same point he made in just a moment ago when he talked about what you treasure. Now he's making that same point using a different metaphor. So in this case, the metaphor he's using is the eye and what you're letting into your body. So the eye is the lamp of the body. …
… jesus in the sermon on the mount talks about how important your eye is what you look at he says the eye is the lamp of the body if your eyes are healthy your whole body will be full of light but if your eyes are unhealthy your whole body will be full of darkness if then the light within you is darkness how great is that darkness so what's the problem in the garden what's the problem in AI? What's the problem with Achan in the plunder? It's desiring something that God forbids. It's desiring something more than God. The fruit wasn't the problem in the garden. There was plenty of fruit in the garden. The silver and gold aren't a real issue here. Well, how do you know? Read chapter eight, verse two, they go finally take AI. After there is repentance, they go battle again and they take Ai easily. And in chapter, in verse two of chapter eight, God tells them, you can take all the plunder you want. Take it home. It's not about the silver. …
… We've heard it said, the eyes are the window to the soul. Jesus affirms the lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye goes good, your whole body will be full of light. If it goes bad, it's not going to go well for you. What are you watching? Is it forming you to Christ? Are you like the psalmist said, deciding, I will set no unclean thing before my eye. I'm not giving my focus to the dogs and to the pigs. It's not what I'm for. I hate the work of those who fall away. It shall not cling to me. I shall set the Lord God always before me. I want to meditate on his word day and night. I want it to be like cud. I'm not just reading it and closing it and going my way. I want to delight in the law of the Lord. I want it to be like a cow regurgitating, continuing to get the truth out of it and the essence out of it and things coming to mind. …
… alright verse 22 of Matthew chapter 6 the lamp of the body is the eye if therefore your eye is good your whole body will be full of light the lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. This deserves much more attention than I'm going to give here, because I actually want to take you into the Christmas story and show you something that I hope will encourage you. I hope will add fuel to what God's called us to be and to do. But look at this again. One of the translation says, if your eye is single. Another one says, if your eye is clean. The word there for good is actually two words. It's the word alpha, and then it's a word that means voyage. Alpha would be alpha and omega, the beginning and the end, the number one and the eternal future. That's the Lord. So here's what I want you to look at. This is a very interesting word. …
… come with making the wrong thing your treasure. He goes on to say this in the same passage. He says, the eye is the lamp of the body. So if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness? What does he mean? What is he talking about? He's talking about what you focus your attention on, what you're looking for, what you're looking at. This is your mental horsepower as well as what you're allowing into your mind through the eyes. What you're focused on, what you're looking at, ends up either a reflection of the light that's already inside of you, or it ends up destroying the light inside of you and fills you with darkness. What is it that consumes you? What is it that you're really focused on? If you think about it, this is what matters most to me. …
… For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 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, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! No man can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. There are three basic truths in these passages that I have read to you. Many things, but three basic truths. Truth number one, we must possess real wealth. We must possess real wealth if we would be successful in life. Look again in verse 19. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven. …