Join Dr. J. Vernon McGee in an illuminating study on the eyes of Jesus that unveils deep truths hidden in his gaze. Known as the window to the soul, Jesus’ eyes hold a significant place in the scriptures. We reflect on his compassionate engagement with individuals such as the rich young ruler and the adulterous woman, emphasizing empathy and divine love. As we traverse through biblical narratives, understand how Jesus’ eyes operate as a divine reflection of God’s love and judgment. In a candid discussion on the importance of maintaining an earnest and sincere faith, delve into the scriptures
The foundation, ye saints of the Lord, is laid for your faith in his excellent word.
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The eyes reveal so much about a person. In fact, some say that the eyes are the gateway to the soul. Well, if that’s true, what about Jesus’ eyes? What did they reveal? Well, find out now on the Sunday Sermon with our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee. In his previous study, we’ve heard Dr. McGee teach us about the hands and the feet of Jesus. Now we’re going to conclude this series with the eyes of Jesus. But before we begin, let’s take a few minutes to hear from some of our fellow listeners. Here’s an email. This one’s from Mary in Maine. I’m a longtime listener. I first heard about your program because my father was a regular listener. It might have been in the 1970s. I love your app. I try to listen Monday through Friday and to the Sunday sermon. After hearing the study in Proverbs chapter 18, I committed to give God the first choice of my time, my efforts, my thoughts, my companionship, and my money, and see what happens. What a great letter, Mary. Thank you so much. I hope that you’ll check in with us and tell us how it’s going. And then we got Ruth from Pensacola, Florida, who shares this. I’ve just listened to Dr. McGee giving his weekly lesson in Isaiah. What a blessing. I’m on my third trip through the Bible, and it’s more meaningful than before. I’m in my 90s and never miss his lessons, including the Sunday sermon. This is the highlight of my day. Well, it’s great to have you here with us, Ruth. I’ll be sure to save you a seat. Our last note comes from Kevin in Texas. Thank you for the Sunday sermon. I never really understood what Genesis 2 for. These are the generations of the heavens and the earth. when they were created meant until now. I said, wow, and praise the Lord for the great truths that were presented here. Thank you for this teaching. Well, I agree, Kevin. I always learn something new, even though I’ve been on the Bible bus through so many cycles. And that’s why I’m a student of God’s word for life. And I hope you are too. Let’s pray. Heavenly Father, even though we can’t see you, we do love you. And we look forward to that day when we will see your son face to face. We ask you for your grace to bless all those who are listening now and help us to hear your word in new and fresh ways through hearts of faith. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen. Now here’s Dr. McGee’s Sunday sermon, The Eyes of Jesus, on Through the Bible.
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Powers said, the eye is the window of the soul. The eye is a two-way street. From out through the eye, you and I look out upon the world that we live in. But the world can also look in upon us. More traffic, I suppose, comes into our own personalities through the eye gate than through any other of the five senses that we have. but also more traffic goes forth from inside of man through the eye gate than any other way. The eyes reveal more of our feelings and of our thoughts than any other part of our body. Benjamin Franklin said, the eye of the master will do more than the hand of the master. And that is what he had in mind. The eye reveals the emotions which swell up in an individual, a floodgate that lets through the flow out to the outside. Everything from love to hatred, joy to sorrow, truth to lying, anticipation to disappointment, all the way from concern to indifference, from worship to blasphemy. All of it pours out through the eye and is registered there. Certainly the eyes have it. The eye is more eloquent and more vocal than the tongue or the pen. It was years ago that we had this statement made concerning the eyes by a man by the name of Webber. He said, there are men whose tongues are more eloquent than those of women, but no man possesses the eloquence of a woman’s eye. Well, he’s probably true, but it would, I think, be also true of a man’s eye. And it was Emerson who wrote, eyes speak all languages, wait for no letter of introduction. They ask no leave of age or rank. They respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue nor sex, but intrude and come again and go through and through you in a moment of time. That’s the eyes. That is that part of our anatomy that is so all-important. The eye is the index of our feelings and of our character, and it was the Lord Jesus Christ himself who said, The light of the body is the eye. If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 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 that darkness. The importance that the word of God attaches to the eye gate. And as far as the Lord Jesus is concerned, actually, we know nothing about the eyes of our Lord. That is, as to their physical makeup. We do not know what color eyes he had. Did he have blue, brown, or gray? What was the shape of his eyes? Were they large or small? Were they deep-set in his head, or did they protrude? We know nothing about that. But the Gospels do let us see the deep emotions that swept over his soul. And we see them through the eyes of our Lord. In fact, his eyes are a TV screen. And you and I can look upon and see registered there his feelings. They were sharp feelings. There were penetrating desires and decisions. and dispositions and disappointments, and they were all registered in his eyes. This morning, we want to look at the world of humanity through the eyes of the Lord Jesus Christ. And first of all, may I say that his eyes were the eyes of compassion. We see that in the incident that I read this morning of this rich young ruler. Our Lord had this young man come to him. We do not know who he was. We know practically nothing about him. Many commentators have attempted to identify him. Some even think he was John Mark. Some think that he was Saul of Tarsus. But we don’t know that. We know nothing about him except he walks out of the crowd one day And he comes to the Lord Jesus, actually kneels before him, calls him good master, and asks him, what must I do to inherit eternal life? This man was obviously sincere because our Lord would have called our attention to it had he not been. And the Lord immediately alerted him. I tried to make him think. He said to this young man, why do you call me good? Have you seen goodness in me? Don’t you know that there’s only one that’s good? That’s God. And if you see goodness in me, you’re seeing God. He wanted to alert him. And he immediately, though, turned his attention to the Ten Commandments. They were under law. But he turned his attention to that part of the Ten Commandments that has to do with a man’s relationship to man, not God, because he knew this young man had no relationship with God. He was a true liberal, and I’d call him a modernist. But the thing is, modernism never has been modern, unless you want to go back to the Garden of Eden. He wanted to trust, if you please, his own works and relationships to others. and forget about his relationship to God. And so the Lord Jesus flashed on that young man this portion of the Decalogue, that which has to do with a man’s relationship to man. And do you know this young fellow could measure up. He could look back into the face of the Lord and say to him, all these have I kept from my youth. I may be wrong, But I’m of the opinion that there’d be very few here this morning that could stand and say, I’ve done the same thing. He’s a remarkable young man. And then we are told here this very wonderful thing, and it is a wonderful thing. Verse 21, then Jesus beholding him loved him. Our Lord looked upon this young man And he loved this young man. And then he told him, what you need actually is a relationship with God. Now you call me good. That’s a start. Only one as good as God. And if you’ll follow me. And to follow me will be necessary that you get rid of those that is impinging upon your life, which for this young man was riches. For you it may be something else. It certainly couldn’t be riches for me. But for this young man, it was riches that was holding him back. And our Lord mentioned that to him. And then we’re told that this young man went away sorrowful. And our Lord did not deter him, though he loved him. That to me is remarkable. Our Lord told him what he was to do, but he didn’t say, we’re going to sing 15 more stanzas to see if you won’t come forward. He let the young man go without saying another word because even to this day, he does not intrude upon your free will. He’s moved heaven and hell to get to the door of your heart, but he’ll never crash the door. Never. Never. He’ll never come in unless you let him in. Never. And so he let this young man go away. We’d like to have a story where we could say they lived happily ever after, but that’s only in fairy stories. And this is a true story. We are told that he went away sorrowful. What the outcome eventually was, I do not know, but the record is given to us to reveal to us that the Lord Jesus, in spite of this young man, he loved him. But you know his love is not confined to that young man. This is no isolated incident at all. We find John, who knew him intimately, reclining upon his bosom. asking him foolish questions, rebuking him, asking him to do certain things that were entirely wrong. Yet this is the man who could say we love him because he first loved us. This man found out that the Lord Jesus loved him. And Paul the apostle, whom I believe was present at the crucifixion of Christ, that this young, brilliant Pharisee Must have been since he was in Jerusalem and he hated Jesus. He must have been in that crowd there that day that shot out the lip at him, ridiculed him, made fun of him. But later on, when he came to know him, he could say, he loved me and gave himself for me. The very moment that I was hurting him and harming him and hating him, he loved me. and he gave himself for me and he put it in a very formal way in writing to the romans in romans 5 8 but god commendeth his love toward us in while we were yet sinners christ died for us that’s love i don’t know whether you could find very many that would die for you i don’t think i could find very many i I know of a few that would like to kill me, but none of them would die for me. May I say to you this morning, friends, he loved you when you were a sinner hating him as Saul hated him at the cross. He loved you and died for you. The compassion of this one, may I say, is remarkable. And the psalmist, speaking of God, had this to say. Psalm 78, verse 38, But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, destroyed them not. Yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all of his wrath. The God of Israel on many occasions could have judged them, but he didn’t judge them because he was providing a sacrifice for them. And the reason was, was because of his compassion for them. And that same compassion is registered in the eyes of the Lord Jesus. Will you notice what Mark says in Mark 6, verse 34? I read, “‘And Jesus, when he came out, he saw much people.'” And he was moved with compassion toward them, because they were his sheep, not having a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things. And then again in John 6, verse 5, when Jesus then lifted up his eyes and saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, When shall we buy bread that these may eat? You and I could only have seen his eyes there that day as he lifted them up and saw that multitude. Eyes of compassion, if you please. He had the eyes of a man, but he saw the world as God sees the world, if you please, because he was God. And you find that revealed in so many incidents. I wish this morning we could take more, but I do not want to wear you. But when you look at several of these incidents, one concerns the little children that they were bringing to him and the disciples didn’t like it. They thought these little ones ought not to come to him. And Mark 10, 14, we read, but when Jesus saw it, that they were forbidding them. He was much displeased, and he said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of God. May I say to you, he looked with compassion and love upon these little ones. And you want to know whether a little one dying in infancy is saved or not? Then read, may I suggest to you, our Lord’s attitude toward these little ones in Matthew 18, verse 14. Listen to him. “‘Even so, it’s not the will of your Father which is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.'” And my friend, when he said, no little one will perish, he meant exactly that. Little one. He had compassion upon the little one. That doesn’t end it all. He was going into the city of Nain and there was there a funeral coming out. It was a sad funeral. It was a widow who had only one son. Apparently, her support And she was, of course, she was almost in shock. And our Lord never met a funeral. He didn’t break it up. And he’s going to finally break them all up someday. But we’re told in Luke 7, verse 13, and when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said unto her, weep not when he saw her. Oh, if you could have seen his eyes there that day. And then there was that woman with the infirmity. You remember, when Jesus saw her, he called her to him and said unto her, Woman, thou art loose from thine infirmity. And then when Simon Peter did that dastardly deed that’s as bad as anything that Judas did, only Simon Peter didn’t even get paid for it. He denied him. We read in John 19, this remarkable statement, by the way, or I should say in Luke 22, verse 61, and the Lord turned and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, and he said unto him, before the cock crow, thou shall deny me thrice. I wish I could have seen that look. Now, I say to you, Simon Peter, who had denied him three times that night after he had boasted he’d never do such a thing, but on the contrary, he’d die for him. Our Lord is being tried, and in that torch-lit Roman judgment hall, Simon Peter’s standing there, and the Lord is carried by. And he looked upon him. We’re told, Father, that he went out and wept. May I say that this man, when he saw that look of compassion and tenderness, and that is the thing that kept this man, he had said, I prayed your faith will fail not. And that carried him through those three dark days. No wonder he rushed to the tomb. No wonder you have a private interview that no record is given because it was settling a personal matter. But our Lord looked upon him with compassion, and this man went out and mingled his tears with the dew upon the grass on the side of the hills of Judea. This is the look of our Lord. And then, even when he’s hanging on the cross, he’s still looking. And it’s a look of compassion. When Jesus therefore saw his mother and the disciples standing by whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son. May I say to you that even in that hour he looked down and those were eyes of tenderness and of love and he thought of her. The eyes of Jesus are eyes of compassion. The second thing I’d like to suggest is that as he looked out upon this world, you see the eyes of consideration. My, how he was considering those that were his own and considering this world as he looked upon it. We have a statement given of an incident that only Mark records. It’s in Mark 6, 48. It’s that incident of where our Lord had fed the 5,000. And all four gospel writers give us the record of that. That’s the only one thing One miracle that all four record. After he had fed them, why, he got away from that crowd because they wanted to make him king. But he never becomes king through the stomach. He always comes through the heart. They felt like they could get on relief or be in a bread line or get a dole from the government, and they’d be very happy to elect him. Any man can get elected that promises the crowd something for nothing. May I say to you, the Lord Jesus will not come to power on this earth on that platform. And so he got away from the crowd. He took his disciples, and he put them in a boat, and he sent them to the other side, and he went to the mountain to pray. And that’s a tremendous scene. It’s a picture of today. He is in the place of prayer. But those that were his own were down on the Sea of Galilee, and a storm broke that night, and they are in the place of peril. And the storm breaks with all its fury upon them. And then Mark records this. He saw them toiling in rowing. May I say to you, the darkness did not shut them out from his eyes. He saw them toiling in rowing. My friend, are you on a storm-tossed sea this morning? Is it rough? waves breaking, you feel pretty much alone. May I say, he sees you today. The very interesting thing is that the record says that he not only saw them in rowing, but he came to them. May I say that if you were in that spot this morning and you were his, he not only sees you, But he has eyes of consideration because he’s coming to you. He wants to be very close to you at a time like this. We find that he used those eyes of his all so often in consideration. Another very unusual incident. You remember that the religious rulers were thinking of everything they could to trap him. So they had a good one. They took a woman in adultery. And as they said it, as crude as anything that’s being written today in this sex-mad age, they said, we caught her in the very act. They brought her in. They flung her down with her disheveled hair. And you can see how defiant and embarrassed she is. And you can’t read that incident without wondering, where in the world was the man? Wasn’t he guilty? Why wasn’t he brought in? And have you ever noticed what our Lord did? This they said, tempting him that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down and with his finger wrote on the ground as though he heard them not. What consideration this poor woman Oh, she’s guilty. That’s not the point. But what an awful way to handle it. They must have been fundamentalists. That’s the way fundamentalists handle it. You don’t have to be crude. You don’t have to be ugly with the fellow that is sinned. You don’t have to beat his brains out. Our Lord wouldn’t even look at her. He stooped down and wrote on the ground. It’s a tremendous story. One commentator suggested that what he wrote was quite interesting because we find out that the oldest, and they had more sense than the younger one, they left first. He says, the one that’s without sin among you, throw the first stone. And he wrote. And one old Pharisee, naturally being curious, he looked over. And years ago in his youth, he’d made a trip to Corinth that no one knew about. And he had really had a fair there. And the girl’s name was, my Lord wrote it out, because he knew it. The old Pharisee says, I forgot. I got an engagement on the other side of Jerusalem right now, and I’m leaving. And I tell you, they all left until finally when Jesus had lifted up himself and saw none but the woman. Now, when they’re all gone, he looks at her for the first time. He said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? Hath no man condemned thee? They all got out. They all left. The one that could condemn her forgave her there that day. Have you ever noticed? He said, if you are without sin, start throwing stones. There was one there who could have thrown a stone. A look of consideration for this one. When Hagar was driven out of the home of Abraham with that little boy, Ishmael, that was a very distressing moment for her. She thought it meant the very end, and it’s very wonderful what is said. And she called the name of the Lord that spake unto her, Thou God seest me. May I say it was a wonderful thing. And that’s the picture that’s given back in the Old Testament of God, that he sees his people. Now, I know that’s an anthropomorphic term. That means there is given to God who is spirit, those attributes that belong to us as human beings. But the only way that I can understand that God sees is to say he has eyes. And the scripture says the eyes of the Lord run to and fro in the earth. He doesn’t have physical eyes like we have. The scripture says, he that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see? Psalm 94, 9. And he does see. And he was able to see Hagar. And the same one now has come in human flesh. And he has physical eyes. And he sees. and their eyes of consideration. What a wonderful thing to know that now God has come. A little girl at night was sent to bed upstairs, and she’d been accustomed to that. But that night there were a great many noises. There was a storm outside. She began to cry. And her mother went up to comfort her, and then she started to leave. And the little girl says, I want you to stay with me. She says, no, you must go to sleep. And after all, she says, God is with you. She says, I know, but I want somebody with a face. May I say to you, Jesus is God with a face. He sees you. He knows you, and he knows you in me today. Listen to the psalmist again. Psalm 34, the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto his cry. And that is the verse that Peter used in speaking of the fact that God sees those that are his own. What a picture it is of him. And then you see him in it. lifting those eyes to God in prayer as he prays for his own. Well, you notice over in John 11, verse 41, then they took away the stone. This was at the raising of Lazarus from the dead, where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And then in John 17, he begins that great high priestly prayer. John records it, says, These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come. Glorify the Son, that thy Son may also glorify thee. He had eyes of consideration, and even as he lifted his eyes to God in prayer, it was for those. that were his own. Now, lest I be misunderstood, may I say in the third place, as I look through the eyes of Jesus upon this world, I see also eyes of condemnation. And let’s not forget that. This is a day we like to forget that. But Mark records this. Over in the third chapter, verse 5, our Lord went into the synagogue, as his custom was, and they had planted a man there with a withered arm to try to trap him on the Sabbath day to see whether he’d heal him or not. The marvelous thing is what a compliment the enemy gave him. The enemy said, we believe he’ll heal him on the Sabbath day, and they sure were right. And they thought they would catch him on a technicality, for that’s what they were after. And notice what it said. When our Lord came in and sized up the situation, we read, And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. He stretched it out, and his hand was restored whole as the other. The Lord was angry, and if you could only have seen his eyes as he looked about on that crowd. Not only then, but when he came into Jerusalem at the so-called triumphal entry, it’s my firm conviction that he did not come in just one day. But he actually came in three days in a triumphal entry. And I think if you’ll read the three gospels in this connection, that you’ll find out that they reveal that. I think Mark makes it very clear, two of them at least. And we read in Mark the 11th chapter, verse 11, it says, “…and Jesus entered into Jerusalem and into the temple.” And when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out into Bethany with the twelve. Bethany, just around the Mount of Olives from Jerusalem, not just about a Sabbath day’s journey. So our Lord, on the first day, which was a Sabbath day, he came into the temple. The money changers are not there. It’s the Sabbath, and they are really technical. They won’t sell on the Sabbath day, but they’ll sure do business six other days. Now Lord comes in, and it says he looked around on everything. He saw the benches that were there. He saw the stalls that were there. They weren’t there, but he knew what they were doing. He had three years before that, he’d cleansed that temple. Now he’s back again. And we read that he came in, Then the next day, Mark 11, verse 15, drop down just a few verses, and they come to Jerusalem. And Jesus went into the temple, and he began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of them that sold doves. And he would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple. And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, my house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer, but ye’ve made it a den of thieves. He said, this temple, we gave it to you in order that the nations of the world might come here and worship God. And what have you done? You’ve made it a regular counting house. You’ve made it a marketplace. You’ve made it a bazaar. that place that should be holy. And he drove them out. Why do you think they got out? Don’t give me the old adage that they got out because of the fact that he said for them to get out. My beloved, they didn’t leave their place of business that easy. They got out because when they looked at him They knew he could put them out. And he could. And he did. Oh, if you could only have seen his eyes. May I say to you, he had eyes of compassion for the sinner. But I tell you, he had eyes of condemnation for that which was phony and that which was false and that which was sham. And I think when we see this, it’ll deliver us from thinking of him in terms of weakness. Many pictures today reveal Jesus as rather effeminate. And the liberals today have touched up the picture. If I may use the common colloquialism of the street, I say to you this morning, he was no milquetoast. He was no first century Gandhi. These pictures today and the way the liberal speaks of him drips with honey and saccharine sweetness. And may I say to you that kind of cheap sentimentality, it’s shabby, it’s shoddy, it’s shaggy, it’s shallow, it’s shifty, it’s sloppy, it’s slobbery, it’s slimy, it’s shady, and it’s sickly. And if there are any other adjectives, you can put them with it too. Because I want to tell you, this one had eyes that could burn with anger for that which was wrong. We need that today. In Matthew 23, the harshest language that’s recorded in the Bible is our Lord’s condemnation of the religious rulers. Ye Pharisees, ye scribes, ye hypocrites, ye blind leaders of the blind, ye generation of vipers. You make the outside of the cup clean, but inside you haven’t even washed it. You are like a sepulcher, white stone and monument on the outside, but inside dead man’s bone. May I say those are fighting words. And you may be sure the Sadducees and the Pharisees and the scribes just didn’t like it. Fact of the matter is, they finally nailed him to the cross because they did not like that. But may I say that even the glorified Savior, and this is the thing that’s the carryover, he still has eyes that are like a flame of fire. And when John, who had reclined upon his bosom, John, who had been so familiar with him, John saw the glorified Christ on the Isle of Patmos. And among the tremendous pictures that we have of him, one is his head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were as a flame of fire. That’s the picture of him. His eyes are as a flame of fire. And you know where that picture is? That is the picture of him walking among the lampstands, walking in the church today. We got a lot of believers today that think, if that is if they are believers, think they’re getting by with it. My friend, you’re getting by with nothing. He sees you. My God seeth me and he sees you. and his eyes are as a flame of fire. When he’s speaking to that church in Thyatira that had departed from him in Revelation 2.18, he says, And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write, These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass. That’s his picture today. That doesn’t end it all. That’s for the saved, if you please. He intends to judge his own, not for salvation, but he intends to judge his own. Paul was disturbed about it. Very few believers are disturbed today. Paul says, I am afraid that when I preach to others, I might be disapproved, and therefore I discipline myself. How many Christians today make it a real business? It’s a sideline with us today. If we feel just right and the weather is just right, we’ll go to church, but we never make a sacrifice for him. I tell you, he sees you today. You think he’s dead? Oh, what a surprise you’re going to have someday when you’re brought into his presence and the loss May I say to you, if you are here today without Jesus Christ, you are not done with him. John tells us in the 20th chapter of Revelation, verse 11, And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. That’s the judgment of the lost, and there’s not a person saved there. But he’s very fair. He’s calling them up. All the lost will be raised for this judgment because there are a lot of people that are saying, I’m good enough to be saved and I’m doing pretty good. He’ll let you talk to him about it. You will have a confrontation with him someday and it will be eyeball to eyeball. And you’ll look into the face of the man that died for you. You’ll have to answer a few questions. We are trying to to force a nation today to the conference table. We can’t do it, looks like. Well, I want to say to you, he’s going to force this unsaved world to a conference table, and you’re going to have to look at him, and he’ll look at you. What a picture. Eyes of condemnation. Yes, he has them. Now, finally, this word. As I… see the eyes of the Lord Jesus. They are eyes of concern. I read this morning that incident of Zacchaeus. That begins by saying, Jesus entered and passed through Jericho. Jericho is an accursed city. And if you’ll notice your map, he made a circuitous route to come into Jerusalem. And this is his final trip down. And Dr. Luke had said, he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem. But as he comes down, he takes a side trip to Jericho, the accursed city. You can widen that. There’s a movement there. He left heaven’s glory, made a side trip to this earth in order that he might reach somebody that’s lost in order that they might be saved. He went through Jericho because there’s a little publican down there that has a heart hunger for God and he’ll not miss him because he saw him. He asked you to look to him in faith, that’s all. Oh, you’ll have to have a desire. Zacchaeus had a desire. He won’t come in unless you open the door. You will have to warn him. If you do, I’m here to say to you, he’s here. By the Holy Spirit, he’s here knocking at your heart’s door. He’d like to come in. My friend, today he sees you. Do you see him? Have you looked to Him? Are you trusting Him?
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Will you look to Jesus? As John the Baptist declared in John 1.29, Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. If you turn to Him and you trust in Him, He’s ready and willing to give you the gift of eternal life that’s purchased through His death and resurrection. And you know that offer of salvation is before you right now. The question is, will you accept it? If you’d like to learn more about God’s plan of salvation for your life, we’d love to share some free resources that will help you grow in your walk with God. Just visit ttb.org or click on How Can I Know God in our app. If you prefer, we can send a few resources to you by mail. Just call us 1-800-65-BIBLE. Now, next week, the Sunday sermon from Micah 7 is titled, Something God Has Not Seen. I hope that you’ll hop aboard the Bible bus as it comes around your corner. And as we go, remember to give thanks to the one who sees our struggles, our sins, and our sorrows, and yet, in love, calls us to himself. Now go with confidence, knowing that, as the Apostle Paul reminds us in 2 Corinthians 13, 14, the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit is with you.
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Jesus paid it all, all to him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain, He washed it white as snow.
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