Single Eye
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“ When a my wife cleans our room; she looks, and there is no dust. The air is clear, and all her furniture is shining brightly. But there is a chink in the window shutter, a ray of light creeps in, and you see the dust dancing up and down, thousands of grains, in the sunbeam. It is all over the room the same, but she can see it only where the sunbeam comes.
It is just so with us. God sends a ray of divine light into the heart, and then we see how vile and full of iniquity it is.”
Gods light comes into out lives and we realize there some blind spots.
22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
23 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!
When your eye is single all the other body parts of your body performed satisfactorily.
Almost everything your body does depends on your ability to see.
We need to see in order to run, jump, drive a car, cross a road, cook, paint.
How you use your hands determine the quality of your vision.
How you walk determines the quality of your vision.
Every other part of the human body is determined by the eye.
See The eye is the source of light to the whole body.
Its True,you say Pastor James blind people often cope wonderfully, learn to do many things without eyes, and develop their other faculties to compensate for their lack of sight. Yet the principle holds good: a sighted person walks in the light, while a blind person is in darkness.
The proper function of one small member means illumination to the whole body.
The eye here in Jesus illustration is referring to the heart.
Just as our eye affects our whole body, so our ambition (where we fix our eyes and heart) affects our whole life.
If we have physical vision, we can see what we are doing and where we are going. So too if we have spiritual vision, if our spiritual perspective is correctly adjusted, then our life is filled with purpose and drive.
When your eye is good your thoughts,xdxfwwwwwwww your mind will be good. How you perceive life and the people around you will be good.
15 To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled.
16 They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.
This is speaking about ones teaching and doctrine it effects your morally.
When the eye is evil it effect your whole life.
But when you eye is pure everything else is pure.
Your relationships are pure.
How you see trails and difficulties they are pure.
41 But rather give alms of such things as you have; then indeed all things are clean to you.
See Nothing outside can corrupt one who is internally pure; but someone who is internally impure corrupts all he touches.
Those who are defiled can touch nothing without defiling it. Hence nothing could be pure.
Every relationship that they are in impure.
Every conversation that they hold impure.
When they view trails and tribulations, it breeds anger and bitterness because of impurities.
These impurities are rooted in the selflife.
Every time we hold a grudge, nurse a grievance, entertain an impure fantasy, or live in self- pity, we are sowing to the flesh.
But the heart of God is not that we sow to the flesh but that we walk in The Spirit. which is through Christ Jesus our Lord.
A.W. Tozer said it this way.
His glory lay in the fact that He was perfect in a loveless world; He was purity in an impure world; He was meekness in a harsh and quarrelsome world. Everything that the world was, Christ was the exact opposite. That was what made Him glorious.
A. W. Tozer
Paul was able to do this because he was singled eyed.
21 When these things were accomplished, Paul purposed in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”
“I must also see Rome.” Paul purposed in his spirit.
Paul was fixed conclusively and authortively that he had to go to Rome.
Paul was singled eyed.
Like Jesus when He said I must need to go through Samaria. John 4 .
I’m settled that this is Gods purpose for me!
Paul had convictions !
When we say we have a single eye that means walking with convictions.
Conviction are a sense of guilt and shame leading to repentance.
Conviction means that I have been corrected by God, now in this area (fill in the blank) of my life I’m honoring God.
True conviction means I’m teachable, I’m humble and correctable .
I made it a point to submit to The Spirit of God and to the Bible .
The Bible is composed of 66 books forty different authors over 1600 years point to One Person Jesus Christ.
See if I deviate from this Book please stop listening turn your brain off and leave the church.
I have nothing to tell you. besides self help nonsense.
So Paul said he needed to go to Rome.
One of the purposes of Luke writing the book of Acts was to trace the spreading of the gospel in the Roman world.
The book of Luke focuses on the spreading of the gospel in Jerusalem and in Acts the spreading of the gospel in Rome; these are the focal points in these two books.
22 So he sent into Macedonia two of those who ministered to him, Timothy and Erastus, but he himself stayed in Asia for a time.
So Paul sent two people ahead of him to prepare for his coming.
23 And about that time there arose a great commotion about the Way.
24 For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Diana, brought no small profit to the craftsmen.
So Demetrius was a man who shrines of the goddess Diana for profit.
He didn’t have a 501 c3 it was for profit business lol haha
Two times Paul was oppose from Gentile people it was here and Philippian fortune teller. And both times they where oppose was because o monetary interests.
It was because of money. Livelihoods where at stake.
25 He called them together with the workers of similar occupation, and said: “Men, you know that we have our prosperity by this trade.
26 Moreover you see and hear that not only at Ephesus, but throughout almost all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are not gods which are made with hands.
27 So not only is this trade of ours in danger of falling into disrepute, but also the temple of the great goddess Diana may be despised and her magnificence destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worship.”