Jesus' Insight: The Heart of True Commitment

"Here we have a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ as it were standing and looking at people and not merely looking at them but judging them and assessing them and determining their fate and I want to hold this idea before you because this is something that is true I say of all of us." [00:02:59]

"Now I want to take this matter that is suggested to us here, those terms here is the captain of our salvation looking at men and women this is something I say that he does to all and with all you can't enter into the Christian life without his choosing you." [00:04:23]

"You have to realize that before you're accepted before you're admitted, you have to undergo an inspection you will be examined you can't just walk in and out whenever you like this is such a tremendous thing that as you come to him he looks at you he inspects you and he examines you." [00:05:57]

"He not only examines us and inspects us at the very beginning when we enlist as it were he keeps on doing so he keeps on examining us but there are special times of the Cajuns when he does this in an unusual memory he reviews his troops he inspects his troops he examines his troops." [00:07:10]

"Much more important than our self-examination is the realization that he inspects us and looks upon us and the examines and we have no choice in this matter, we are put onto the parade ground as you see them doing across the road in Buckingham Pella in Wellington Barracks." [00:08:15]

"The first thing is that it is a very discerning eye that it is an eye which cannot be mislead this is a very sobering thought but it's something that comes out every part in the scriptures it's perfect exemplar it here of course in this incident when he was in the temple at Jerusalem at the time of the Passover." [00:11:09]

"Let me take that further by describing this eye of his as a searching I not only discerning but a searching one and it is of course discerning because it is searching what do I mean well you see this is the thing that is emphasized about God the Father and about God the Son and about God the Holy Spirit everywhere right through the whole of the mind." [00:14:27]

"Now my dear friends, this same blessed Lord is looking at us one by one in this congregation this morning we claim to be his people we have his followers we belong to him we've been with him we've accompanied him we have said things to him but he's looking at us this morning and I wonder if any of us feel as Peter felt." [00:22:00]

"Because he saw something beyond condemnation in that look he saw this pity this compassion that's the difference you see between a Peter and the Judas Judas went out and hanged himself there was no hope he didn't see what Peter saw but people saw this and I'm going to describe it as his piteous eye." [00:24:32]

"Now there's another side to that picture I must read it then shall he say unto them on the left hand depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels for I was on hungered and he gave me no meat I was thirsty and he gave me no drink I was a stranger and he took me not in naked and he clothed me not sick and in prison and he visited me not." [00:33:49]

"Thank God that he looks at us like this and that there are seasons of clear shiny to cheer us after rain sometimes a light surprises the Christian Wiley sings it is the Lord who rises with healing in his wing I do trust that he's looking at some of you in this way this morning you've been down and the devil is depressed you." [00:35:18]

"How do you feel as you think of the day when the trumpet shall sound the bugle shall be sounding the trumpet shall be sounding and the grand parade shall be held of the whole of humanity how do you feel when you contemplate it and think about it because my dear friends we've all go to appear on that parade." [00:41:49]