Good Eyesight Matthew 6 23 24 Matthew 6

Good Eyesight Matthew 6: 23 -24

Matthew 6: 22 -23 22 The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! (NKJV) 22 The lamp 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 the darkness! (ASV)

Defining the Terms Defining Terms Good - Single Bad - Evil • Only used twice – here parallel in Lk. 11: 34 • Lit. – fold together, single • Fig. – united in purpose, clear or healthy • Describing sight that has a solitary focus and is useful for clear vision to aid proper action • Used many times in New Testament • Deals with a thing bad by effect or influence • Not word for evil by nature or character • Describing sight that degenerated from original character to misuse in evil

Matthew 6: 19 -25 Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 22 The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! 24 No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. 25 Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life… 19

Healthy Spiritual Eyesight Demands… • Solitary Purpose of Serving God – Joshua 24: 15 “As for me & my house, we will serve…” – James 1: 8 Double-minded man is unstable in all ways – Matthew 4: 10 Worship God & serve only Him • Solitary Goal of Getting to Heaven – Hebrews 11: 24 -27 Moses looked to reward, the Invisible – Hebrews 11: 13 -16 Faithful of old saw promises afar off – 2 Timothy 4: 7 -8 Paul kept his goal set on the reward • Not Blurring Focus with Worldly Worry & Anxiety – Matthew 13: 22 Cares of world & riches choke the word – Philippians 4: 6 -9 All anxiety condemned