Eye Trouble
Matthew 6:22-23, 18:9
With all his mechanical skills man has never built a machine like the eye. The precision, delicacy, mystery, & durability of the human eye surpasses all mans ability to duplicate. Quote a scripture with an eye in it.
The eye is mentioned 534 times in the bible. The eye flashes with indignation, kindles with enthusiasm, expands with devotion, melts with sympathy, stares with fright, droops with sadness, pale with envy, fires with revenge, twinkle with myth, beams with love, frowns with wrath, and contracts with pain.”An eye can threaten like a loaded gun, insults like hissing, or it can make the heart dance with joy.”
The eye combines the abilities of telescope and microscope.
I: The Eye Has Great Influence.
1. There is the near-sighted eyes — my little world.
2. There is a far-sighted eyes — things look better at a distance. The amount of far-sightedness — age effects.
3. The tunnel vision: See a narrow path ahead.
4. The blurred vision: Nothing focuses, nothing clear.
5. The 20-20 vision: Better standard, normal.
6. Eyes are the subject of poets and writers.
II: The Eye Speaks.
1. Evil eyes — “Eat thou not the bread of Him that hath an evil eye.” Proverbs 23:6.
“Eyes can pluck up the beauty of the garden of the soul.” Dr. Lee.
2. “Instruments of unrighteousness unto sin.” Romans 6:13.
a. “Eyes gleaming like lizards eyes.” Doudet.
b. Yellow eyes like a cat.
c. “When a man has base ends and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy and sometimes dirty”
3. “The eye is not satisfied with seeing.” Eccl. 1:8.
“Eyes you know are the great intruders, and we are only now beginning to see the carefulness of eye conduct found in public places.” Dr. Israel Shenker — N.Y. Times, 1969.
III: Eye Trouble:
1. When the eye becomes lustful. Genesis 39:7 Patiphar’s wife.
2. “Having eye full of adultery that cannot cause from sin.” Peter 2 2:14.
3. Fault find eyes (Matthew 7:3-5, Williams).
4. Jealous eyes: “And Saul eyed David” Sam. 1 18:9.
5. The eye of greed: “He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye.” Proverbs 28:22.
“If thy eye offend thee, pluck it out.”
IV: The Eyes of Jesus:
1. Wept over a friend’s grave.
2. Wet with compassion for the multitude.
3. One look broke Peter’s heart and brought him to repentance.
4. “Go when you want to go, do what you want to do. There is an all-seeing eye watching you.”
The eye is the lamp of the soul and thru the eye we often peep into the real you.
02/16/1969: Perris Valley Baptist: Good spirit and a home almost fell. Preached in Wing.
03/07/1971: Dr. Bills Emmanuel.