Matthew 6:19-23
English Standard Version, David Cochran Audio Bible
19 “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 eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, 23 but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
Treasure and vision, darkness and light. Woe to you blind guides.
How to detect lies. Great tips on how to spot a liar. stevepolygraph
*** Looking straight ahead or with eyes that are defocused/unmoving is also considered a sign of visual accessing.
*** A typical left-handed person would have the opposite meanings for their eye-directions.
*** As with other signs of lying, you should first establish and understand a persons base-behavior before concluding they are lying by the direction of their eyes.
*** This guide is hardly in-depthMatthew 23:23-24, 27-28 - Woe to you, blind guides
23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. 24 You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!
27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness. 28 So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
Image. The appearance of goodness. How often is the path straight for the Lord? I'd say the human population is.... wobbly. Like a colt. We are like Charles Dickens theology. Under decision stress, some people are led by the people they want to be like. Then acting as good or as poorly as the 'leaders.'
The Pharisees took the Higher Path all the way to finger pointing. They would have loved to have a conference to discover this new method of detecting the ungodly. This passage is a lot like basketball. Look where the hips travel. When we decide what our goal is (the Lord our treasure), our direction becomes much clearer. As our direction is to the Light of God, what is darkness becomes more easily to detect. And other than prayer and compassion, we need not be judgmental in our conversations or finger-pointers. Discernment.
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
Matthew 7:16
You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
The Pharisees follow Jesus around, not to rejoice in God, but to pull Him down. Jesus proclaimed mercy at a cost to Himself. Jesus was busy with the work of His father - restoration, reclamation. Jesus was on target. The Pharisees created drama, trauma and without truth with mercy or humility.
Romans 8:38
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Each day, Father God, we seek Your guidance, Your love. Lead us away from temptation and deliver us from evil. To Your Glory. Let us live in Your grace and truth. As our sins are forgiven, let us live mercy, truth and forgiveness to the sins done to us. In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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