MS Wed 10.21.2020 The Eye of a Christian

Lets start with this youtube video on the “The Growing Head Illusion”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1YaFEUNHUg - The Growing Head Illusion

WOW what that does to your brain, all because of you looking at it. Our eye are every important to us. The colors you can see, the beauty of creation, people, things. To be able to see.

There are 2 million moving parts to an eye

Faster than any muscle

Contains

Pupil

Lens

Retina

Cornea

Iris

Blink every 3-5 seconds

Eye video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvozcv8pS3c :22 - 2:09 How the eye works

The Body of Christ - this week as you guessed the eye.

Now let us look at God’s Word - Genesis 2:7

The New King James Version Chapter 2

7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

Think about it what Adam saw for the first time, perfection.

His wife perfection.

Side note - this is why you do not look at pornography because it will distort of what you think a man or women should be.

Have you ever thought of how after sin came into the world how he saw things it changed it all.

The Eye

You know that Almighty God made everything.

He spoke, and universes sprang from His fingertips.

He’s the One who scooped out the seas.

He’s the One who heaped up the mountains.

He’s the One who made the plants.

He’s the One who created the animals.

But God’s crowning creation is mankind.

Think not only of that, but think of your eye—think of the human eye.

There is no scientific instrument as sensitive to light as your eye.

Your eye, in the dark, has a sensitivity that increases ten thousand times.

It’s self-adjusting, it’s automatic, it is constantly focusing, and it takes its pictures in color. They are instantaneously developed.

Do you take eyesight for granted?

When a little baby is born, that little baby begins to develop. And his or her optic nerves—approximately a million of them—begin to grow from the brain to the eye. Then there are another approximate million of these nerves, and they begin to grow from the eye to the brain. From up here these nerves are growing; from down here in the eyes these nerves are growing—a million of them—and each one of them connects. We think it’s great when engineers can dig a tunnel, and the two ends of one tunnel will meet when they’re doing it with dirt. Friend, no wonder the psalmist said, “I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” (Psalms 139:14)

2. THE EYE OF OUR FAITH.

Faith to the spiritual man is his eye. It is with that he looks to Christ—looks unto him whom he hath pierced, and weeps for his sin.

It is by faith that he walks; not by natural sight, but by the sight which is yielded to him by his spiritual eye—his faith. It is by this faith that he sees things not as yet visible to the eye of sense;

Christian Standard Bible Chapter 6

22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light within you is darkness, how deep is that darkness!

In Japan the spiritual darkness - the story about the Budda Shrine

3. Luke 15

In this parable Jesus is telling us how He see this world.

The Three Parables

The New King James Version Chapter 15

Then all the tax collectors and the sinners drew near to Him to hear Him. 2 And the Pharisees and scribes complained, saying, “This Man receives sinners and eats with them.” 3 So He spoke this parable to them, saying:

Three words summarize the message of this chapter: lost, found, and rejoice.

Jesus spoke these parables to answer the accusations of the Pharisees and scribes who were scandalized at His behavior.

It was bad enough that Jesus welcomed these outcasts and taught them, but He went so far as to eat with them!

The Jewish religious leaders did not yet understand that the Son of man had “come to seek and to save that which was lost”

Even more, they were still blind to the fact that they themselves were among the lost.

Now, notice it doesn’t say, “These parables,” but “this parable”—because so many people think this fifteenth chapter has three or four parables in it, but this is just one parable in three or four parts.

Parable that tells the story of a lost sheep,

The story about the lost sheep would touch the hearts of the men and boys in the crowd, many of whom were working as sheep herders

Parable that tells the story of some lost silver

The women and girls would appreciate the story about the coin that was lost from the wedding necklace. I remember when Rhonda told me she lost her engagement ring, it would have been a great celebration if we had found it.

Parable that tells a story of a lost son—but all just one parable.

All who had a loved one gone astray

It is singular—one parable with three parts—to teach a tremendous message.

In this parable Jesus is telling us how He sees this world.

And we have the ability to see the world through the eyes of Jesus Christ, to see men as Jesus saw them,

Faith is to the Christian an eye both quick and sharp,

An eye which discovers sin,

An eye which discerns the Master’s will,

An eye which looks forward, and down a lengthy racecourse to the reward which awaits all those who so run as to receive the prize, looking unto Christ Jesus. Faith

Think about the collage and what did you see or not see. We can not always see everything. But to have the eyes of Jesus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDEvXMzZWUs Give me your eyes

When we are able to see the world with the same love and compassion as Jesus, our own world grows richer, deeper and more loving. Yet, how do we see the world with the eyes of Jesus? Is that even possible? Rohr, tells us Yes and it starts by looking at he true nature of God.