Prov. “You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’39 But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. Pastor Ely Hernandez. When the psalmist considers the evil and arrogance of those who will not bow to God, he speaks literally of their eyes bulging with fat (Ps. “Night and day may you watch over this temple,” Solomon prays (1 Kings 8:29), and again he asks God, “May you be attentive to (lit., may your eyes be open to) your servant’s your people Israel’s requests for help, and may you respond to all their prayers to you” (1 Kings 8:52). Idolatry is the act of misperceiving something else as God. God’s omniscience is not limited to seeing physical things and people. 11 (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001), 29. It’s his favorite diner on the road and his favorite lunch. 161 J. N. Oswalt, The Book of Isaiah Chapters 1-39 in The New International Commentary on the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1986), 189. 4:5). It’s not just any diner and any lunch. Betz, The Sermon on the Mount, 162. "The Eye of Sauron the Terrible few could endure." 43:4). The imagery of the eyes is used in Isaiah’s oracle in reference to Israel’s Messiah, the servant of Israel who will “restore Jacob to himself [God], so that Israel might be gathered to him” (Isa. Mark 7:21-23 - For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, Then the sun itself was termed the “Eye of Re,” while the moon was called the “Eye of Horus” (great heroic falcon god). But such alleviation is denied them. Think of the sharp contrast between the frantic military preparations of a nation (vv. “..And from the evil of the envier when he envieth.” [Quran, Surah Al Falaq 113]. The blind eye in these cases refers to the spiritually-dead person who will not respond to God in faith and gratitude. He noticed that all of it was well watered…like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, all the way to Zoar” (Gen. 13:10). From where does my help come?” (Ps. 3- Allahumma rabban nasi, azhibil-ba’sa washfi anta shafi, la shifa’a illa shifa’uka, shifa’an la yughadiru saqaman. 1:7). Thus in his victory over the sea god Yamm Baal whirled his club in his hand and letting it go, it “struck Prince Sea on the skull, Judge River between the eyes.”150. Or is your eye evil because I am good?’ 16 So the last will be first, and the first last. On the Trinity (Sermon 55) – 1 John 5:7 97. We are so sinful that our sins continue throughout our days. The adulterer is foolish if he thinks God does not see him (Job 24:15), but the righteous enjoy God’s sight, for “Look, the LORD takes notice of (lit., the eye of the LORD [is] toward) his loyal followers, those who wait for him to demonstrate his faithfulness” (Ps. 3. The illustration seems to be this - We see only … 5:3). The Oberlin Evangelist. Lot saw and lusted. When lemon is used for casting off the evil-eye; the subtle Raja vibrations in gaseous form gain momentum and attract the Raja– Tama covering around the individual towards themselves and congregate them. A prominent senior pastor twenty years older than me still calls me teacher after he has audited just one of my preaching classes! 5:21, MT). On the other hand, God often prompts his people to respond to him in faith. When David’s men trap the sleeping King Saul in the cave and David spares Saul’s life, he says to Saul, “In the same way that I valued your life this day, may the LORD value my life and deliver me from all danger” (1 Sam. Ultimately, it is we who will choose which way our eyes will look, whether toward God or toward sin. So it is with J. R. R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings; the evil Sauron is surrounded by thick darkness. It prompted Stuart Hine to write the hymn, “How Great Thou Art”: Consider all the worlds thy hands have made. 10:10). In his instruction regarding treasure, undivided loyalties, and … Sermons Podcasts. Called variously God’s “mercy” (KJV), his “unfailing love” (NIV, HCSB), “lovingkindness” (NASB), or his “steadfast love” (ESV), all these terms relate to God’s hesed, or covenant, love for his people. Finally, the lustful women of Zion are said to “flirt…with their eyes” (Isa. The Matthean version (6:22-23) is woven tightly into the context of Jesus' teaching on priorities in his Sermon on the Mount, while the Lucan version (11:34-36) appears outside the Sermon on the Plain in a looser setting whose context does not show an obvious theme. 63:2, MT). God’s omnipotent care for his people and protection of them from their enemies are shown in his eye watching them. 27:20). Prov. In the New Jerusalem, there will be no lights to light our way, “because the glory of God lights it up, and its lamp is the Lamb” (Rev. 2- Put your hand on the patient’s forehead and say: Bismillahi yubrika, min kulli daa’in yushfika, wa min sharri haasidin iza hasada, wa min sharri kulli zi ‘ain. open their eyes so that they turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me. Sermon by Greg MacRobbie – Sunday, August 9, 2020. At the end of history, in the Apocalypse, John writes of a vision in which he sees the reigning Lamb with seven horns and seven eyes (Rev. Of course God does not have physical eyes as a person has. 2 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1960), 100, 101. Eyes symbolize our spiritual condition before the Lord. “Certainly the LORD watches the whole earth carefully,” the writer asserts, “and is ready to strengthen those who are devoted to him” (2 Chr. If she opens her eye, my body is young (again).”141 In yet another poem he praises his love with these words: “She casts the noose on me with her hair, She captures me with her eye.”142 In the business realm an honest measure was known as “the eye of Re”: “Beware of disguising the measure so as to falsify its fractions…Measure according to its true size…The bushel is the Eye of Re.”143, In the language and culture of ancient Mesopotamia a “bright eye” indicated a happy face, while a “sharp eye” indicated intelligence. 14:21-29). I am so happy to introduce to you this hand drawn set of 40 Evil Eye Illustrations PLUS 20 Evil Eye Seamless Patterns.. Of course such omniscience is necessary if he is sovereign, and it is likewise essential for him if he is to know us in Christ before the worlds began, as indeed he does (Eph. 49:5). The newlywed Young Goodman Brown ventures into the “deep dusk in the forest” to meet with the devil in the darkest part of the woods.136 Likewise in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, sin is concealed by the night until finally in the bright light of day the minister, Arthur Dimmesdale (note the “darkness” of sin suggested by the name), confesses his sin in public before everyone. When we think about what we have learned about the eyes of God in this chapter, we will see that everywhere we are brought to the point of faith. “O you who have believed, fear Allah as He should be feared and do not die except as Muslims in submission to Him.” [Quran, 3:102], “O mankind, fear your Lord, who created you from one soul and created from it its mate and dispersed from both of them many men and women. John speaks of the “desire of the eyes,” along with “the desire of the flesh” and “the arrogance produced by material possessions,” as the sources of our sin (1 Jn. In the well-known Aqhat Epic the noble Dan’el the Rephaite “judged the cases of widows, presided over orphans’ hearing. If we can but gaze calmly on the angry face of the world, we have already half tamed that great foe. (Acts 26:18). 135:16). Likewise, he turns the king’s heart in the way he wishes, thereby effecting his sovereign will in international affairs (Prov. How does the Holy Spirit and filling work? Thirdly God’s eye teaches that he loves us with an everlasting love. Scriptures use our eyes as indicators of our relationship with the Lord—whether we are believers or not and, if we are believers, whether or not we are living our lives for the Lord. It is as if death is not satisfied until everyone has died; so too our eyes look to sin all the time. It is comforting that God’s omnipotent eye watches over his people. He withholds rain from Moab, yet the valleys are full of water and rain. THIS sentence has in it the nature of a proverb. God alone has such power, and it is often pictured for us in his eye. God searches out the evil of his people for their own good—that they may prosper in the Promised Land and enjoy his eternal blessings. I am so happy to introduce to you this hand drawn set of 40 Evil Eye Illustrations PLUS 20 Evil Eye Seamless Patterns.. If we will look to Jesus we will see the Fa. It is his eyes that discern the evil and warn his people against it; he does not wish so much as to look on their sin. God cares for all his people with the special love of redemption and fatherhood. Original, Nature, Property, and Use of Law (Sermon 34) – Rom 7:12 100. An “evil eye,” however, could denote anger or the intention to do harm. 10 A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters. THE EVIL EYE ( 1 SAMUEL 18) The master-disciple or teacher-student relationship in the Chinese society is a hierarchical one. My respected people! 1:18). As we survey Scripture about the good and the bad eye, our journey takes us eventually to the curses of Deuteronomy 28 and leads us finally to the foot of the Cross. He watched over the ancient Israelites in Egypt and as they wandered in the wilderness for forty years. In the previous Sermon we learned how to cure a person with the method of washing. “One Thing I Do Know, That Although I Was Blind Now I Can See (Jn. 26:24 in the following translations: “And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes” (KJV); “Now, behold, as your life was highly valued in my sight this day” (NASB). We choose where we look, and where we look indicates the attitude of our hearts. 2:11),156 and the psalmist asks that he not have “haughty” eyes (Ps. 18:13). If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them … “Someone who has won favor is described as… ‘pleasing to the eye of PN.’ Goodwill and the like are indicated by the expression…’raising of the eyes.’”144 A very brief time could be called “the twinkling of an eye.”145 Idiomatic expressions employing the eye include watching (“keeping an eye”) on someone and the indication of knowledge: “I did not do anything without the knowledge (lit., in the eye) of my lord.”146, In the mythology associated with Mesopotamian religious beliefs Marduk defeated the sea goddess Tiamat and afterwards, “He [Marduk] made the Euphrates and Tigris rivers flow from her [Tiamat’s] eyes.”147 The moon god Sin was termed “the Eye of Heaven and Earth.” Despite their frightening appearance, the gods could nonetheless extend a kindly eye toward some people: “The kindly eyes of the god will eeek out the man again and again.”148, In the language and culture of the ancient Canaanite city of Ugarit the eye served in familiar idioms. Eyes that look up can signify pride (as in the self-righteous Pharisee) or gratitude (as with the psalmist). Just as the waitress … Anthropomorphisms are used so frequently in Scripture, in fact, that they account for one-quarter of all the references to eyes in the Old Testament.164 What then do the “eyes” of God teach us about him? 21:1). As he knows the nations, so God knows individual people. Messiah is spoken of as finding favor in God’s sight, and his favor extends to the people. God watches us with his eye, bringing us to the point where we accept his grace in Jesus Christ. When this figure is applied to the mind it means, that state of mind in which objects are seen through a selfish medium, or when the mind has two objects in view, a legal intention to serve God, but an ultimate intention to serve self. 162 A. Harman, “`yn,” in New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis, ed. When we thread a needle to sew, we thread it through the “eye of the needle.” Potatoes have “eyes” which can be planted, and one of the fine cuts of beef is known as the “eye of round.” We have a pair of teeth we call the “eyeteeth.” And when we speak to someone face-to-face, we do so “eyeball-to-eyeball.” When C. S. Lewis talked about reading literature, he said reading allows us to see with others’ eyes.137 We “see” eyes everywhere, as it were, and that is not surprising, for the physical eye is arguably one of the two most important sense organs, along with the ear, we possess. It is with the eyes that we commit the sin of lust. It is not just things that exist at the present time that God knows about, however, for he knows about everything everywhere without regard to time. From where does my help come?” (Ps. However, If the person who has put the evil eye is not known, then one can ask Allah to cure him by reciting some verses of the Quran and do as prescribed in the Shari’ah. 154 F. J. Stendebach in Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, eds., G. J. Botterweck, H. Ringgren and H-J Fabry (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004), 11:34. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus Christ uses the eye—whether it is full of light or darkness—as the symbol of the moral quality of a man’s heart (Mt. 18:13). 73:7). During all that time, his eye was always on the land of promise (Deut. Please help support ... For he easily drives into all evil doings those whom he has deceived in the matter of religion. David confesses his sin for what it is—an affront to God himself (v. 4)—and then experiences God’s forgiveness as he is cleansed and washed (v. 7), and given a “new” heart (v. 10) that results in restored joy (v. 12) and a renewed ministry (v. 13). 33:18). Where God is, there is heaven; where God is not, there is blackest hell. When God looks at the heart, he sees our true moral and spiritual condition, and he knows our sin better than we know it ourselves. 149 Michael D. Coogan, Stories from Ancient Canaan (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1978), 35; see also the examples in G. R. Driver, Canaanite Myths and Legends (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1956), 58, 59; 60, 61. Verily, the most truthful speech is the Book of Allah, the best guidance is the guidance of Muhammad, and the worst affairs are newly invented matters (in the religion). 16:7). Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. How can this be? In this instance, humble eyes look down; proud eyes look up, but not to the Lord, and boast. Matthew 6:22-23, the eye, lamp of the body. “For Isaiah to declare faithfully what he knew to be so would not result in an admission of guilt and a turning to God. From the beginning he knows the evil of his people. It was narrated that Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: “The Messenger of Allah (Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) commanded me, or he commanded (the people) to use Ruqyah to deal with the evil eye.” [Bukhari]. 170 Stuart K. Hine, “How Great Thou Art.”. Norman Holmes Pearson (New York: The Modern Library, 1937), 1034. 139:16). James B. Pritchard (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969), f469; see also Michael V. Fox, “Papyrus Chester Beatty I,” in The Context of Scripture, vol. 94:9). I pray He lets us recognise the truth for what it is and helps us to follow it, and that He lets us see falsehood for what it is and helps us to avoid it. Categories: Sermon on the Mount, Sermon on the Mount (Bible Study) After discussing the Lord’s Prayer and the Pharisaical hypocrisies, Jesus continues by talking about the inner life of the disciples. However, it is important to note that the evil eye cannot be cast without the Will of Allah (SWT) and so, the only protection from the evil eye lies in the refuge of Allah (SWT). The Reformation of Manners (Sermon 52) – Ps 94:16 101. On the other hand, the psalmist who is preparing to worship the Lord in Jerusalem proclaims, “O LORD, my heart is not proud, nor do I have a haughty look (lit., my eyes are not lifted up)” (Ps. 7.3) Peter speaks of false teachers who infiltrate the church as having “eyes full of adultery” (2 Pet. God sees the attitude of our hearts and, when we are “poor in spirit” (that is, repentant), he will bless us with the “kingdom of heaven” (Matt. All narrated from Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him). The Evil Eye is a curse believed to be cast by a malevolent glare, usually given to a person when they are unaware. 9:27-31; note especially in v. 29 the exercise of faith associated with the new eyesight. May Allah be praised; and may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon His Messenger Muhammad and upon his family and Companions. 6:22, 23. When we see Christ by faith and trust in his finished work at Calvary for our salvation, we are assured that he will never leave us nor forsake us. 166 Compare 1 Sam. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! As the child’s song has it, “Oh be careful, little eyes, what you see.” While unbelievers are blind toward God and use their eyes in sinful ways, believers look toward God as the source of their life (Ps. Finally, he was raised again from the dead. 22:9).152 On the other hand, it is the miserly eye of the stingy man that describes his parsimony (Prov. It may start off with the person just liking or appreciating something in another individual, but the feeling may fester into more negative feelings of jealousy and sheer envy, which may end up harming the other person. Their eyes are full of pride (Isa. 136 Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown” in The Novels and Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne, ed. Featuring a sermon puts it on the front page of the site and is the most effective way to bring this sermon to the attention of thousands including all mobile platforms + newsletter. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. In the New Testament, he incarnated his Son in human flesh without a human father (Matt. 17:8, MT) is evident in the picture of the eyes of the glorified Jesus Christ that begins the book of Revelation, for “his eyes were like a fiery flame” in the midst of the lampstands (Rev. And I ask Allah’s forgiveness if I stepped beyond bounds in anything I said or I do. The humble man is known by the way he uses his eyes, as in the case of the tax collector in the gospels who, unlike the self-righteous Pharisee, “stood far off and would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, be merciful to me, sinner that I am’” (Lk. He fed the multitudes in the wilderness for forty years. Matthew 6:22, 23. 1. “Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight, (lit., prudent before their [own] faces)” the woe oracle in Isaiah admonishes (Isa. References to God’s “eyes” are used as human images to help us understand something about God. THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT KING JAMES VERSION. 32:10). Betz, The Sermon on the Mount, 161–62. 33:18). The first instance of the eye in Scripture is simply as a physical organ, the organ of sight. ... An evil eye, a haughty spirit, and a proud soul—those who have these are of the disciples of Balaam the wicked” (Aboth 5:19). In his role as redeemer, the servant-Messiah is “honored in the LORD’s sight (lit., the eyes of the LORD)” (Isa. 6:1), God tells him, “Make the hearts of these people calloused; make their ears deaf and their eyes blind” (Isa. “Does the one who makes the human ear not hear?” the writer asks, “Does the one who forms the human eye not see?” (Ps. Christ went on His daily course surrounded with evil eyes. A SINGLE AND AN EVIL EYE. 24“No one can serve … He saw God as the holy one, whose glory fills the whole earth (Isa. Blessed are the meek: for they shall … I bear witness there is no god but Allah, alone without any partners, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and His Messenger. Q. Faith will have become sight. A significant part of a person’s character is his moral condition,157 and in Scripture the eye often expresses the moral attitudes of a man. Spread the Word: Address Beth Yeshua Inc. 129 Mason St. Woonsocket, RI. 157 Stendebach, Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, 11: 34, 36. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. It was said that few could endure its terrible gaze.
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