Read chapter 11
Anyone singing in their heads "This Little Light of Mine" after reading these verses? The point being made that no one uses a lamp only to hide its light but that they and others may see; that's the whole point of having a lamp. Well these men who Christ was talking to in this chapter, Pharisees and lawyers, sure did let "Satan blow it out."
"The light that God had given them was for their good, and to enlighten them altogether. These men, however, had blinded their own eyes to the truth of God that the Lord Jesus was speaking to them. Thus their bodies were full of darkness. Otis Sellers gives as an example the truth that the Scriptures taught that the Messiah was to be born in Bethlehem. This was a truth that God had given, and it was meant to enlighten them to the truth about the Lord Jesus. However, these men had turned this truth into darkness when they just assumed that the Lord must have been born in Nazareth. Thus, by this assumption, they turned what should have been light into darkness." (Bible Teacher Nathan Johnson)Are you hiding Jesus, who is the light of the world? Jesus says the lamp of the body is the eye, this allows light to enter and fill the whole body. If they eye is good your body is full of light but if your eye is back your body is full of darkness. What are your eyes focusing on? TV shows that make sin ok? "Beauties" of this world causing desire in you? Have you allowed your eyes to make you numb to sin? I'm not saying be ignorant of wars, evil and sin in this world, but if one "looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does" (James 1:25).
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