Fixing Our Eyes on Christ: A Journey of Faith
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"Faith is looking away from self and efforts and works and is looking to Christ as the eyes of servants and the eyes of Maidens look so our eyes look unto you oh Lord David said I will lift up my eyes Under the hills from when comes my help how much are your eyes day in and day out looking at yourself looking at others looking to man looking inward outward behind you instead of Up and Away to see the invisible God who is your refuge and strength." [00:20:43]
"Now the psalmist use the uses these picture of two people servants and handmaidens of course in biblical times a servant sometimes was owned by the household not often sometimes they weren't but the servants role was one thing to serve at the pleasure of their Master have you ever been I know you've been in a restaurant let me stay with me here have you ever been in a restaurant and you were just struck by the quality of your your server or you were struck by how bad they were right and so but a striking thing about a great food server and I've never done it but striking thing about them is that whether you know it or not they're keeping an eye on your table they're watching you they're looking they're watching and they don't bug you too much but just at the right time when your water glass is low or your tea is low or maybe your coffees have full Allen suddenly they show up just in the nick of time they're serving they're looking they're watching they're serving because they want to please the one they're serving that's the picture here as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their Master as the eyes of handmaidens look to the hand of their mistress so our eyes are upon you it's the eyes and the look that waits in faith." [00:11:39]
"Faith is simple but it's not easy a look is simple turning your mind is simple but when you see an army coming when you're broken down on the side of the road on a busy interstate and it's it's night time it's not easy to stop and just pray we want to panic we want to sweat and ire we want to figure out we want to we want to make all the calls we need to and then maybe just maybe we'll pray Jehoshaphat here's basically what they prayed or Lord Oh Lord God are you not God in heaven first thing they prayed do you not rule over all the nations Lord here they come here they come in your hand is there not power so that no one is able to withstand you they're getting closer are you not our God remember an army is coming for them to wipe them out are you not our God and here's the bottom line they said we have no power against this Bunch that's coming and not only that we don't know what to do powerless and clueless but our eyes are on you but our eyes are on you we have no power and we don't know what to do but our eyes are on you." [00:17:02]
"Throughout scripture, we see examples of this kind of faith. Jehoshaphat, facing an overwhelming army, chose to look to God rather than his circumstances. Moses endured by seeing the invisible God, and Job remained steadfast by keeping his eyes on the Lord despite his suffering. The New Testament echoes this call to look to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, as we run the race set before us." [00:24:27]
"How did job endure same thing his wife told him you know go ahead and blaspheme God and just commit suicide it's all over I can't take anymore I can't watch you die so just blaspheme God and commit suicide that's what his brokenhearted wife told him how did job Endure by seeing him who's invisible how does Paul even said this and in one place of the Corinthians he said at present we don't see everything what's the next phrase but we do see Jesus it doesn't matter if you hadn't seen everything it doesn't matter if you know what's going on right now it doesn't matter if you're like Abraham you're going out you know not where you don't know when you'll get there what matters is that now we truly and are continually seeing Our Savior." [00:24:27]
"Let us throw off everything that hinders let us run the race set before us looking unto Jesus fixing our eyes on Jesus the author and finisher of our faith you run and you persevere to The End by looking to Christ but you know that's not all the psalmist says here what are we to look for what are we to hope for in our looking what are we looking for what do we want to get well it's in verse three two and three our eyes wait upon the Lord Our God until he has mercy upon us verse three have mercy on us oh Lord have mercy upon us Mercy is what we're looking for all you need his continued Mercy from God to persevere and it comes by looking and trusting think think about it Brethren Mercy is there's a triple emphasis here because the psalmist is saying exclusively that's this is what we need Lord Mercy there's one place where Paul talks about one of his uh his colleagues in Ministry was at the point of death but then Paul says but God had mercy on him Mercy is all you need Mercy is all-encompassing Lord our homes need your mercy Lord our church needs your mercy to continue Lord your kingdom America needs your mercy our children Lord need saving Mercy they're going to perish Lord Mercy Mercy Mercy it's what we need and we're looking to you the only source for it to send it and bring it Lord have mercy upon us our churches our families our children our marriages our future Lord grant us Mercy." [00:26:01]
"Beloved today let's wean ourselves off of looking to men and methods and the world's wisdom and passing fads and social media and set our eyes increasingly and exclusively upon Christ Psalm 25 says my eyes are ever toward the lord may God help us to make that a reality in our life father thank you for your word this Psalm so small so powerful we pray you'd bless it to our hearts and our lives for jesus' sake amen." [00:32:29]
"Now in the Biblical times it was much more critical if you will servants lived on the property normally they their life was intertwined with the master and they not only had a heart toward them to serve but they were dependent the servants was dependent on everything in relation to the Master Provision Direction help in all things there were was this relational connection between master and servant but what the servant's doing is not trying to earn anything here not the servants weren't competing against the maidens they were all looking looking now if the psalmist here is talking about eyes looking how do we know for sure he's talking about living by faith how do we know that well here's the answer answer because all the Bible pictures Faith like this all the Bible pictures Faith like this the picture of looking now pictur that for the non-Christian who's not not become a Christian you're not a Christian yet the Bible tells the non-Christian to look just look but the Bible tells the believer who's walked with the Lord 70 years to still look right we're still looking we started out when Christ saved us by looking to Jesus we continue to walk with him by looking and if we persevere to the end we will close our eyes in death looking to our great God and Savior Jesus Christ." [00:14:29]
"Faith involves a deliberate choice to look away from ourselves and our circumstances and fix our eyes on God. This act of looking is a spiritual discipline that requires us to trust in God's unseen presence and promises." [00:10:28]
"There's life for a look at the Savior there's no life by looking in here so how's our vision here in these first two verses the psalmist says it eyes four times looking twice so it's the eyes and it's the looking that waits in faith here he says so our eyes wait for thee you wait upon God in faith with the eyes of your mind and your heart blessed are the eyes Jesus said who see so that's what this Psalm is about um and it's so wonderful." [00:09:43]
"Think of Isaiah who remembers the chapter list the book and chapter some of you will those know it all don't answer too quick who remembers the chapter in the Old Testament that Spurgeon was converted through I see some Smiles some of you remember Isaiah 45 you know what was the verse that smote Young Spurgeon as a teenager smed his heart Isaiah 45 all you Nations hear all nations and peoples hear me look unto me and be saved all the ends of the Earth look unto me and Spurgeon said go read it this week Spurgeon said suddenly I looked I savingly looked and my sins were forgiven Isaiah says look now remember Jehoshaphat the moates and ammonites are coming up exceeding great Army it says a gigantic Army is coming what did Israel do well they didn't keep listening to the report they didn't look at the circumstances they looked up in away to the invisible God and his promises." [00:16:37]
"Living the Christian life is to live by continually setting the eyes of our hearts upon him as we journey and keep looking and you get your eyes off you refocus and you keep looking and you keep looking as you walk on now you know often when I when I read the life of Moses I'll have this pause and I'll think you know Peter and John had it easy compared to Moses Moses had over 80 years years of stress and drama and danger and stubborn people a church of 2 million who want to kill the pastor Moses had it had it hard in so many ways so how did he make it all the way how did he endure to the end you know what Hebrews 11 says he endured by seeing him who is invisible right that's it that's it now he got frustrated Lord just kill them all and start over with me that's what God wanted to do and Moses interceded right he endured by keeping his eyes focused on the living and unseen God." [00:23:09]
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"Now the psalmist use the uses these picture of two people servants and handmaidens of course in biblical times a servant sometimes was owned by the household not often sometimes they weren't but the servants role was one thing to serve at the pleasure of their Master have you ever been I know you've been in a restaurant let me stay with me here have you ever been in a restaurant and you were just struck by the quality of your your server or you were struck by how bad they were right and so but a striking thing about a great food server and I've never done it but striking thing about them is that whether you know it or not they're keeping an eye on your table they're watching you they're looking they're watching and they don't bug you too much but just at the right time when your water glass is low or your tea is low or maybe your coffees have full Allen suddenly they show up just in the nick of time they're serving they're looking they're watching they're serving because they want to please the one they're serving that's the picture here as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their Master as the eyes of handmaidens look to the hand of their mistress so our eyes are upon you it's the eyes and the look that waits in faith." [00:11:39]
"Faith is simple but it's not easy a look is simple turning your mind is simple but when you see an army coming when you're broken down on the side of the road on a busy interstate and it's it's night time it's not easy to stop and just pray we want to panic we want to sweat and ire we want to figure out we want to we want to make all the calls we need to and then maybe just maybe we'll pray Jehoshaphat here's basically what they prayed or Lord Oh Lord God are you not God in heaven first thing they prayed do you not rule over all the nations Lord here they come here they come in your hand is there not power so that no one is able to withstand you they're getting closer are you not our God remember an army is coming for them to wipe them out are you not our God and here's the bottom line they said we have no power against this Bunch that's coming and not only that we don't know what to do powerless and clueless but our eyes are on you but our eyes are on you we have no power and we don't know what to do but our eyes are on you." [00:17:02]
"Throughout scripture, we see examples of this kind of faith. Jehoshaphat, facing an overwhelming army, chose to look to God rather than his circumstances. Moses endured by seeing the invisible God, and Job remained steadfast by keeping his eyes on the Lord despite his suffering. The New Testament echoes this call to look to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, as we run the race set before us." [00:24:27]
"How did job endure same thing his wife told him you know go ahead and blaspheme God and just commit suicide it's all over I can't take anymore I can't watch you die so just blaspheme God and commit suicide that's what his brokenhearted wife told him how did job Endure by seeing him who's invisible how does Paul even said this and in one place of the Corinthians he said at present we don't see everything what's the next phrase but we do see Jesus it doesn't matter if you hadn't seen everything it doesn't matter if you know what's going on right now it doesn't matter if you're like Abraham you're going out you know not where you don't know when you'll get there what matters is that now we truly and are continually seeing Our Savior." [00:24:27]
"Let us throw off everything that hinders let us run the race set before us looking unto Jesus fixing our eyes on Jesus the author and finisher of our faith you run and you persevere to The End by looking to Christ but you know that's not all the psalmist says here what are we to look for what are we to hope for in our looking what are we looking for what do we want to get well it's in verse three two and three our eyes wait upon the Lord Our God until he has mercy upon us verse three have mercy on us oh Lord have mercy upon us Mercy is what we're looking for all you need his continued Mercy from God to persevere and it comes by looking and trusting think think about it Brethren Mercy is there's a triple emphasis here because the psalmist is saying exclusively that's this is what we need Lord Mercy there's one place where Paul talks about one of his uh his colleagues in Ministry was at the point of death but then Paul says but God had mercy on him Mercy is all you need Mercy is all-encompassing Lord our homes need your mercy Lord our church needs your mercy to continue Lord your kingdom America needs your mercy our children Lord need saving Mercy they're going to perish Lord Mercy Mercy Mercy it's what we need and we're looking to you the only source for it to send it and bring it Lord have mercy upon us our churches our families our children our marriages our future Lord grant us Mercy." [00:26:01]
"Beloved today let's wean ourselves off of looking to men and methods and the world's wisdom and passing fads and social media and set our eyes increasingly and exclusively upon Christ Psalm 25 says my eyes are ever toward the lord may God help us to make that a reality in our life father thank you for your word this Psalm so small so powerful we pray you'd bless it to our hearts and our lives for jesus' sake amen." [00:32:29]
"Now in the Biblical times it was much more critical if you will servants lived on the property normally they their life was intertwined with the master and they not only had a heart toward them to serve but they were dependent the servants was dependent on everything in relation to the Master Provision Direction help in all things there were was this relational connection between master and servant but what the servant's doing is not trying to earn anything here not the servants weren't competing against the maidens they were all looking looking now if the psalmist here is talking about eyes looking how do we know for sure he's talking about living by faith how do we know that well here's the answer answer because all the Bible pictures Faith like this all the Bible pictures Faith like this the picture of looking now pictur that for the non-Christian who's not not become a Christian you're not a Christian yet the Bible tells the non-Christian to look just look but the Bible tells the believer who's walked with the Lord 70 years to still look right we're still looking we started out when Christ saved us by looking to Jesus we continue to walk with him by looking and if we persevere to the end we will close our eyes in death looking to our great God and Savior Jesus Christ." [00:14:29]
"Faith involves a deliberate choice to look away from ourselves and our circumstances and fix our eyes on God. This act of looking is a spiritual discipline that requires us to trust in God's unseen presence and promises." [00:10:28]
"There's life for a look at the Savior there's no life by looking in here so how's our vision here in these first two verses the psalmist says it eyes four times looking twice so it's the eyes and it's the looking that waits in faith here he says so our eyes wait for thee you wait upon God in faith with the eyes of your mind and your heart blessed are the eyes Jesus said who see so that's what this Psalm is about um and it's so wonderful." [00:09:43]
"Think of Isaiah who remembers the chapter list the book and chapter some of you will those know it all don't answer too quick who remembers the chapter in the Old Testament that Spurgeon was converted through I see some Smiles some of you remember Isaiah 45 you know what was the verse that smote Young Spurgeon as a teenager smed his heart Isaiah 45 all you Nations hear all nations and peoples hear me look unto me and be saved all the ends of the Earth look unto me and Spurgeon said go read it this week Spurgeon said suddenly I looked I savingly looked and my sins were forgiven Isaiah says look now remember Jehoshaphat the moates and ammonites are coming up exceeding great Army it says a gigantic Army is coming what did Israel do well they didn't keep listening to the report they didn't look at the circumstances they looked up in away to the invisible God and his promises." [00:16:37]
"Living the Christian life is to live by continually setting the eyes of our hearts upon him as we journey and keep looking and you get your eyes off you refocus and you keep looking and you keep looking as you walk on now you know often when I when I read the life of Moses I'll have this pause and I'll think you know Peter and John had it easy compared to Moses Moses had over 80 years years of stress and drama and danger and stubborn people a church of 2 million who want to kill the pastor Moses had it had it hard in so many ways so how did he make it all the way how did he endure to the end you know what Hebrews 11 says he endured by seeing him who is invisible right that's it that's it now he got frustrated Lord just kill them all and start over with me that's what God wanted to do and Moses interceded right he endured by keeping his eyes focused on the living and unseen God." [00:23:09]
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