How is Your Eyesight?

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How is Your Eyesight?

• Matthew 622

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Matthew 622

• The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore
  your eye is good, your whole body will be full of
  light.

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Adulterous Eyes

• 2 Samuel 112 Then it happened one evening
  that David arose from his bed and walked on the
  roof of the king's house. And from the roof he
  saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very
  beautiful to behold.

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Envious Eyes

• 1 Samuel 189 So Saul eyed David from that day
  forward.

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Proverbs 2317

• Do not let your heart envy sinners, But be
  zealous for the fear of the Lord all the day
• The cure for envy is being
• zealous. Use that energy for
• something better!

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Critical Eyes

• Matthew 73-5 And why do you look at the speck
  in your brother's eye, but do not consider the
  plank in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to
  your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your
  eye' and look, a plank is in your own eye? 5
  Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own
  eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the
  speck from your brother's eye.

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Covetous Eye

• Acts 818-19 18 And when Simon saw that through
  the laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy
  Spirit was given, he offered them money, 19
  saying, "Give me this power also, that anyone on
  whom I lay hands may receive the Holy Spirit."

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1 John 217

• And the world is passing away, and the lust of
  it but he who does the will of God abides
  forever.
• Shouldnt we focus on our
• spiritual prize?

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Matthew 1314

• We need to avoid being like the Pharisees by
  closing our eyes.
• For the hearts of this people have grown dull.
  Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes
  they have closed, Lest they should see with their
  eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should
  understand with their hearts and turn, So that I
  should heal them.
• We shouldnt convince ourselves that everything
  is okay when Gods word says otherwise.

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Compassionate Eyes

• 1 Peter 38 Finally, all of you be of one mind,
  having compassion for one another love as
  brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous
• Do we look out for others as Jesus did?

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Hopeful Eyes

• Romans 824-25 24 For we were saved in this
  hope, but hope that is seen is not hope for why
  does one still hope for what he sees? 25 But if
  we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait
  for it with perseverance.
• Are we anticipating something better?
• Are we looking ahead and beyond today?

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Philippians 320

• For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we
  also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus
  Christ

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Open Eyes

• Acts 1710 12
• Do you remember what the
• Bereans did?

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Psalm 1013

• I will set nothing wicked before my eyes