Christ's eyes are described as those of a dove, signifying love, compassion, and discernment. His all-seeing gaze penetrates all things, revealing our true hearts and motives, as illustrated by his interactions with Nathaniel and Zacchaeus. The sermon emphasizes that Christ's eyes discern not only our intentions but also our potential, as seen in his calling of ordinary fishermen like Peter and Andrew to be his disciples. Furthermore, his eyes express deep compassion, weeping over Jerusalem and showing empathy for the suffering, and they also hold a purposeful gaze, providing for his mother and preparing a place for believers. Ultimately, Christ's eyes are a source of correction, provision, and judgment, urging listeners to ensure their lives are aligned with his gaze.
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Thank you so much. I'll be like Brother Hunter, Patrice, score in ten. I'll still be like pioneering, I believe. I mean, four score in ten. No, four score, that's right. But anyway, he's like Caleb. He says, give me this mountain. If I'm like that at four score, I'll tell you, I think I'll still be pioneering. But the Lord will probably be here before that. Again, let's turn to the song of Solomon, chapter five, please, beginning to read of verse nine again.
What is thy beloved more than another, beloved, O thou fairest among women? What is thy beloved more than another beloved that thou art so charges? And she's quick to reply, My beloved is white and bloody, the cheapest among ten thousand. His head is at the most fine bow. Remember we spoke on that Sunday. His locks are bushy and black at the raven. His eyes are as the eyes of dove by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and bitterly set.
His cheeks are the bed of spices, as sweet flowers, his lips like lilies, scrubbing, sweet, smelling, myrrh. His hands are as gold rings set with a bell. His bellies as white ivory or lead with sapphires. His rake-sized pillars of marble set upon sockets of fine gold. His countenance is as leavening, excellent as the seed is. This mount is most sweet. Yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O Taurus of Jerusalem.
Now, the last night, you remember we spoke on his face. lovely face of our Lord Jesus, that sterling face, that shining face, that strong face to set us up meant to do his father's will, that face that was covered with shame, that face that was submissive in the Garden of Gethsemane, that face that was suppressed and covered by wicked men, they covered his face, that face that was shoved his thicket because of his suffering beyond recognition, yet that faith ever searching, solemn, yet that faith that delight to shine in salvation upon the sinner, and that faith that shares as we look into his faith with James from glory to glory, it's wonderful to be more and more like him, and that faith which is completely satisfying when we show clear faith then we shall be satisfied when we await in his likeness.
Now tonight we're going to look at his eyes. The eyes of the Lord. Notice there were mentioned in here. His eyes are the eyes that are dubbed by the rivers of waters washed with milk. And clearly said, speaking about that Sparkling eyes, like rivers or waters, or waters are so sparkling, and in with purity, washed with milk, and deadly set. First, I wanted to think of his eyes as the all-seeing eyes. You know, his eyes see every precious thing, says Job in twenty-eighth verse ten.
His eyes see every precious thing. Proverbs fifteen three the eyes of the Lord on every place beholding the evil and the good the eyes of the Lord on every place beholding the evil and the good and the good then it says in Psalm ninety four nine he that called the eye shall he not see that all seeing eyes his eyes behold His eyelids try, we read, in the Word of God. In Psalm eleven, verse four, that his eyes behold the nations.
Everything is naked and open to the eyes of him, which only has to do in Hebrews four, thirteen. Several years ago, I think it was in Georgetown, Ontario, we were renting a a meeting room, or a useful meeting room, and it's one of those lodges where there's an eye. It gave you the strangest feeling that wherever you were in that room, that eye was looking at you. It didn't matter where you were in that room, that eye was just looking straight at you. It's quite a sensation. Like the missionary, you remember to have a glass eye when he went away, he took his glass eye out and he put it there and he said, now I'm going to be watching you all the time.
He made the natives very conscious that they were being watched. And my friend, we are being watched all the time. His eyes are in every place. Secret pushes to turn to Psalm When we think of the Lord's eye and the Lord's eye being in every place and seeing everything, we think of this Lord's omnipresent. He's in everything. He sees everything. He knows everything. He's always oblivion. Listen to what the psalmist says there in a hundred and thirty-nine. Oh, Lord, thou hast searched me and known me.
Thou knowest my down sitting and my not rising. Thou understandest my thoughts afar off. It's good for us to realize we're the presence of God. Thou accomplishest my path and my line down and unacquainted with all my ways. Not some of them, but all my ways. For there's not a word in my tongue, O Lord, thou knowest it all together. thou has beset me behind and before, and with thine hand upon me, such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is high I cannot attain unto it.
Whither shall I go from thy spirit, or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou there, if I make my bed, and hail, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the othermost part of the street, even there thy hand shall lead me. and thy right hand shall hold me. If I say surely the darkness shall cover me, even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideeth not from thee, for the night shined at the day that darkness hath the light of o'er light to thee. For thou hast possessed my reins, thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
I will praise thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made, Marvelous of thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well, and so forth. Isn't that a tremendous truth put before us here? The all-seeing eye of all laws. His eye lifts. His eyes, behold, his eyelids try. He sees everything. Then not only that, but he has the all-discerning eye. Remember the Gospel of John chapter one, this wonderful chapter where the Lord is dealing with different individuals, different ones brought to Christ?
Because remember especially Nathaniel, the first Nathaniel, after the Lord Jesus has revealed himself to Philip, Philip Like a real man that appreciated the Lord and the salvation. He said, I want my friend to know it. I remember when I first received, oh, how I longed for those that were near to me to have what I had. That should be the natural longing one would say. Oh, I longed to have my friend and my dear one to heal the things that I was hearing. I'd never heard anything like it in my life. But what a problem. And when Philip got saved and he met the Lord Jesus, he said, I want Nathaniel to have it. So he rushes down to where Nathaniel was.
And he said, Nathaniel, let me find him. Nathaniel, he wasn't so sure. Nathaniel said unto him, can any good thing come out of Nazareth? It's in John one, forty-six. And I'm glad this man says, Philip, he wasn't one of the cause to argue. Never gain by arguing. He said, just come and see. That's the best evidence. Come and see for yourself. And he came. And if he was a way off, the Lord Jesus saw him. You remember? And he said, there's an Israelite in need in whom there's no God. I will just say, he and I will do not. Whence knows thou need?
Why, the Lord says, before Philip called you when you're sitting under the big tree, I knew thee. in discerning eyes but he and my friend he sees tonight right into our very being he knows exactly our attitude toward him he knows that what all desires are he knows that we're like Paul the Apostles that I may know him and the powers resurrection that I might be conformable to his death to his suffering He knows who desires. He says to Philip, for to Nathaniel, to Nathaniel, and to whom there's no God.
I know your honest desire. My friend has to leave us with our honest desire to get to know him better. To love him better. To please him better. That's what Paul wanted. So we see him with these discerning eyes. He knows. give you many, many illustrations. One of the outstanding ones is the little story of a little man, Zacchaeus, in Luke nineteen. Little man was up in the tree, remember? And I suppose he thought he was hidden away there.
Little man at the greatest high to see the Lord Jesus. He couldn't get to see the cause of the crowd. He was a short stature. He couldn't see all the people. He couldn't call truth, and he was probably too fast. I don't know. He couldn't get to see him. But he ran ahead when he saw this sickle-moored tree, probably with a low-hanging limb where he could call up and get a ringside feast of the passing procession that the Lord Jesus said, Father, see if he could get to look right down at us. He was probably hidden away up in there. I don't know. But I have a feeling, you know, he's sort of looking down through the leaves. And from the ground you wouldn't be able to see him. But from up there looking like through a little hole among the leaves he could get a good view at the road below.
And if the Lord Jesus came walking by there with a group of people, or you remember the story, all of a sudden he stopped and he looked up, Zacchaeus come down. You remember the Lord how he came down and he received the Lord joyfully. And the Lord took and he changed that man. He says, if I don't any wrong, I'll restore it more for. And I've also thought, well, you get a Jewish man that says that he's really converted. He really has been changed. And that's what the Lord does. He changes the heart. The day he says, salvation has come to your house and this man he was truly and wonderfully changed.
He conceived exactly our heart, our motive. It's another one I might turn to. I'm only taking a very few of the ones I marked down here. You turn to the Gospel of Luke, chapter twenty-one. Gospel of Luke, chapter twenty-one. And as he looked up, And he saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. I'm sure that was an impressive sight. Many of the common folk would say, my, look at those people.
Look at how much they're giving. Think of those large gifts those people are giving. And then he saw a certain poor widow casting in for the two mice, and a person standing by saying, well, what a... That's hardly worth putting in there. A little bit like that. What can that do? But the Lord again, he sees for his discernment. The Lord doesn't look so much at how much we give. He looks at how much we have left after we give. That's what he appreciated. And he said, offer truth and receive.
I say unto you that this poor widow have cast in more than they all. For all these have their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God, but she of her penilee had cast in all the living that she had. Here was a woman that gave all that she had. Now the Lord appreciated that. Here's a woman that was all for him, and she gave all that she had. Can I say a few words about giving?
Is that not popular here? Is that right? It's not a popular doctrine, you know, but it's a necessary one. The word of God says God love it, a cheerful giver. the little soul, he shall be made sad. And many of God's people have never learned the joy of giving. And how God blesses when you really give. The Word of God teaches in first Corinthians six, you wish to lay by as God has prospered and then give it on the first day of the week. And I thank God for the early days, whenever we were married, we met up with Hal Harper.
He took us into a little room, and he taught us about giving. He says, now when you give, you don't give what's left over. You give the first proof to the Lord. You agree before the Lord to give him a certain portion, and then you give that. He says, maybe you want to start at ten or fifteen percent, but keep on increasing it, and God gives your faith. And that's the way to give, friends. Give. The first one, if you wait till you have something left, or you'll never give. I have a friend of the same age as I am, and he was converted a short time after we went into the work, and he had all kinds of deaths, you know.
And he said to me, you know, when I get caught up, and I get all my bills paid, I'm going to start giving to the Lord. You know, he hasn't got caught up yet. He hasn't been caught up yet. He's still in trouble financially, and he always will be. The people use the argument, well, should I take and give to the Lord when I owe people certain bills? I ask the question, should you pay dual bills with the Lord's money? That's not right, is it? The Lord will make his portion or whatever portion there.
you have less of their giving to him, he'll go much further afterwards. He'll prosper you in other ways. He'll prosper your health and so forth. I tell you, friend, I have proven in all twenty-some years, twenty-six, twenty-seven years now that we've been able to increase. And God keeps on increasing. We've never had it as good as we have it now. And it's not because we want to do to get it back, but that's just how God works. You can't outdo the Lord. He looks all the treasuries. Now, may I say it's very important how you give, the motive by which you give.
That you give out of the right motive. I remember the story about this particular group. They had a financial needs, the connection with their building, and they put a basket on the front table like this, you know, and the men were going to come up and put a gift in the basket. And one man came up, and he put in a ten dollar bill. The elders, they were sitting up in front on the front sheet watching. One of the elders, he got up, and he took up the ten dollar bill, and he took it back to the man. He said, you can give more than that. That's the why the man he came up and he threw in a hundred dollar bill.
The elder got up and he took and he took it back to him again. You know, he said, you know I can't give all that. I know that, but you didn't give it in the right motive, not the right attitude. That's the one he came up and he graciously put it in. We must be given others, not to the Lord. That Lord gave the treasury, and he saw, and he commended the woman that gave them the heart that she gave all share. Do you think the Lord made it up to her? You can be sure. There's nothing in the Bible about her going to the foolhouse. You look at her.
Well, there's so many others we can think about where the Lord looked on in a discerning way. Remember when he saw the fig tree. He saw there was no fruit. He saw that false profession, that empty profession. Not he believes, just the profession. And the Lord pronounced judgment on that fig tree. He cursed it. Is there someone here tonight and you are just wrapped up in religious profession? The Lord tells us about another time in Matthew chapter twenty-two about the king that provided a great feast. And they came in to look over the wedding, a guest. He saw a man there that does not have all the wedding garments.
And he saw that man without a wedding garment. And he said, Friend, how did you get into that? Not having all the wedding garments. What did the man say in reply? Not a word. He was speechless. The Lord said, bind him in the foot and cast him out into the darkness. The night, Friend, if you are trusting in anything less than the Lord Jesus, if you have anything else but the righteousness of God that's in Christ and you to stand before God in the fight of God then you will be cast out the Lord has discerning eyes he sees the people that have only religion but not Christ you may fool man but you'll not fool his all discerning eyes he sees he says he has an eye that goes right through and then we saw him too in his having purposeful lives.
I want you to just return to Matthew chapter four. Matthew chapter four. And it bothers to see how the Lord calls these fishermen. Can you imagine the Lord Jesus calling sort of unlearned and dignified men to accomplish his great work that he was going to do? Now just think of it. In verse eighteen of chapter four, and Jesus walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brethren. Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were vicious.
And he said unto them, Follow me, and I'll make you vicious of men. And straightly, none of that, straightly left their net and followed them. And going on from then he saw other two brethren, James, the son of Zebedee, and John his brother. in a ship with seventy their father, men in their nets, and he called them. And immediately left the ship and their father and followed him. Now notice this is Matthew's Gospel. This is not Mark where you always find the word immediately and anon and words of action. This is Matthew's Gospel, but they're still obedient. I've often said that if we've been going around or going around to find some men to do a job the Lord had in mind in evangelizing the world to tell them about this wonderful love of God, we would have probably been calling the great schools of the day, piling up the greatest intellectuals in all the more brilliant people, the people that have remained and are standing to see.
You know, the Lord, he didn't need an advisory board. He needed many good men. And when he said, ah, he ordained twelve, it may be made twelve. And God wants people that are available and that are obedient that he can take and he can roll and he can make and send out. He has eyes that have purpose for us. Purpose for God. He has something in due for us. Now I'm not trying to decline education and anything like that. But sometimes when people get on to a certain stage in the intellectual life and they really know a lot, they're hard to teach anything.
And the Lord says, I want men I can teach and make fishes of men. We might say, well Lord, the girl could ask Peter, he's just a bungling fisherman, he's big, he's fluffy, he's clumsy, he's just dressed up with words that all he takes and so on. He'll never do. The Lord says, I'm going to make it. And there's Andrew. He says to nobody. Nobody knows anything about Andrew. Ah, yes, he brought Jesus to the Lord Jesus. And then there's John and James. And James are just two hundreds. I want to call fire down from heaven.
You remember? They want to be one in the right hand and one on the left. The Lord says, I can make them. Isn't that encouraging for all of us? It will hear his voice and obey and follow him immediately like he said. It's wonderful what he can do. And I think that the capstone of it all is when he called Matthew himself here in chapter nine. And Matthew rose at once and he followed the Lord Jesus. And in Luke's gospel it says, he made a peace. Mr. might say to the Lord, do you know who that Matthew is? The Lord knew only too well.
Well, he sees he's a tax collector, and he's been overcharging people. He's been taken from the Jews and paying it to the Romans. He will just make all names to speak, Master. The Lord said, never mind. I'm going to make you. See his eyes that can see. Whoever does anyone available, Matthew rose up. He left off. He followed him. That's what Paul is looking. people that are willing to hear his voice and obey it and act upon it. Five that can see. Now turn to Luke chapter five. Now he not only wants the men, he wants their profession.
He wants the persons, he wants their professions. Luke chapter five, and it came to pass when the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God. Isn't that a wonderful statement? The people pressed upon him to hear the word of God. And he saw two ships standing by the lake, but the fishermen were gone out of them, and they were washing their nets. And he entered into one of the ships, and it was Simon's and prayed him that he would trust out a little from the land, and he sat down and taught the people of the ship. Now here was a boat available for the Lord to use. The Lord told the ship, and he says, I can use it. One of the greatest sound boards is the ocean.
I'm just a little bit from the land. I can speak to the people who can hear me very clearly, and he used the boat. The boat was available for him. And after he finished using the boat, he said, in effect, now Peter, I'm going to pay you. The Lord is no man's tether. Now, Peter, he said, notice now, in verse four, lunch out into the deep, and let down your nets, flew over towards water, chiming in, and said unto him, Master, if you sing, and I beg, Lord, we're old fishermen, we know, We've been fishing all night.
That's the only time to fish. And we didn't catch anything. It's no use doing it now. But he says, nevertheless, if I were, I'll let down. Don't look at what he says. The net. Singularness. Isn't that like us? We limit God. We limit his power. But the Lord, you were ashamed in this net. And when they had done and enclosed a great multitude of fishes in their nets, wait, let me take it, Peter, to go down to two nets, like you should have done, but you would like it.
And they seconded under their partners, which were in the other ship, and they should come and help them. And they came and filled both ships so that they began to think that how the Lord supplied for those that are willing to give themselves and want to have to the Lord's work. You think sometimes it pays to serve Jesus. It pays every day. It pays every step of the way. It's no man's death or eyes. that have a purpose for it. Then we thought about the eyes of dove's eyes and the song or song where his eyes were dove's eyes.
The dove is the love bird and the eyes of a dove are those eyes of love. And if there's anyone that has eyes of love, it was the Lord Jesus. In Matthew chapter nine and verse thirty-six that he beheld the multitude that Love just flow through him with those eyes of compassion upon the people. It says he was moved with compassion. Two of them, because there was eight foot of the shepherd. The other same again in chapter fourteen in verse fourteen, where he saw the multitude, and he was moved with compassion toward them. Oh, the need of these eyes of compassion.
In Mark chapter one, verse forty-one, as he saw that poor, dirty leper, and the leper spoke to the Lord Jesus. If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And amen to the Lord Jesus. He looked on him with compassion, and he touched him. Eyes of compassion. Sometimes we like that blind man whom the Lord just touched that he saw men as trees walking. And we see people as trees walking. We don't see them with eternal souls. The Lord looked upon people and he had that compassion upon them. How else could he die for them?
What a wonderful Savior is Jesus our Lord. When he saw that blind man in John chapter nine has been blind from his birth, the Lord Jesus has compassion on him, and he heals him. He has compassion on the hungry we read about in Mark chapter six, you remember when he sat there and made them sit down, and Andrew says there's a man here in John six. And you remember he set the multitude, five thousand men beside women and children, because he was moved upon, with compassion upon them. He had eyes that really cared.
Brethren and sisters, we need this compassion. We need the dove eyes to see people with their needs and have compassion on them, not just going on. No, no, one of the tendencies is to say that we don't want to get involved. We don't get mixed up with things, you know. You heard about the girl in New York City brutally murdered, and there were many people in Washington, and none of them lifted their fingers to protect her. They didn't want to get involved. Christian life is involvement. He was that rich young ruler we read about in Mark ten, twenty-one. The Lord looked at that young man, and he had compassion on him.
Even though he knew that fellow was going to turn back, he loved his riches more than he loved the Lord. The Lord still loved him. Even for backsliding Peter, the Lord looked upon him with compassion. And as he looked upon Peter, Peter went out as he heard the cock go and he wept. bitterly. Remember, Jesus looked upon him with that eye, with that look of compassion. Oh, for compassion. Oh, for love. Love, as Paul says in verse thirteen, love never fail it.
We're so cold, we're so hot by nature, we're so selfish, we're so little thought for others. May God move us The love of God has been shed upon in our heart by the Holy Ghost has fallen home and by us. And that's what we need. We need that love within the love of the Holy Spirit, the fruit of the Spirit of love, that compassion that flow through us. The eyes of compassion like our Lord Jesus has. How he has compassion on the various ones. Eyes, a compassion, a member, and beaten this beatitude.
He lifted up his eyes and he blessed them. He always had blessing in mind for men. All we would just live like that, that we might be a blessing to others. Just a channel to which the love of God can flow in blessing to others. So we have eyes of love like the Lord Jesus. Benevolent eyes. Then we see him too with eyes that expressed itself in tears. In Luke, nineteen forty-one, remember he beheld a city, and he wept over it. Remember he said as he stood there, looking over the city, Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often I would have gathered you with a hen together, chicks?
And you would not. now he says your house is left on you is desperate and as he thought about that city and all its privileges and then the terrible future it would have would have been trodden under how he wrecked over that city I will bet when he came to the graveside of Lazarus in John chapter eleven do you remember The shortest little verse, he expressed his feeling, his emotion. It's as Jesus met.
When did you last shed a few tears? When did I last shed a few tears for others of sympathy and compassion? The Word of God says we're to weep with them that weep. Remember the thing about the young Salvation Army officer? He tried everything and the work didn't seem to go. And he wrote to General Gupta about it. General Gupta sent back a little cable and he had this short message, try Jesus.
That did it. eyes that can meet wet eyes. How the Lord Jesus was concerned for the bereaved. The woman, remember, as he met that buyer coming out of Maine in Luke seven, he went over his compassion and he touched that bear. A wonderful, wonderful Savior is Jesus our Lord. And then he had eyes that were uplifted. The devoted eyes. You take his great high, sweetly prayer in John, it reads that Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, Father, I thank thee.
Uplifted eye as a man upon the earth. He had his eyes who lifted up the heaven. He was completely dependent. He lived a life of expectancy. Before he raised Lazarus, he said, I thank you, Father. He thanked God in advance for what he was going to do. That's what it is when you walk with God in sweet communion with him and obedience to his word and you know you ask what you ask in his will. You can thank him. And that's what the Lord Jesus did. He thanked the Father in advance. And I take a close walk to do this. off-lifted eyes, eyes devoted to the Father walking in communion with him all the time at the eyes of the mistress, of the matriarch, mistress, so his eyes was ever so his father, completely independent, off-lifted eyes, ever concerned about the Father, being able to thank him in advance.
And he says, Father, The hours come. Glorify thy son. That's in John. Seventeen. And one other little thing I would like to mention to the several here. One is the eyes of correction. He corrected Peter with his eyes. You know, the word of God says in Psalm thirty-two, eight, I will guide thee with my eyes. As parents, sometimes when we look, have somebody in the house and the child is doing something wrong, all you have to do is just look at the child a certain way and they know what you mean. So it's nice to be in touch with the father, isn't it?
So we are conscious of his look and can be guided with his eye. He guides the righteous with his eye. No need of speaking, just the eye. Then he had wonderful provisional eyes. Look at John, verse twenty-six. He said, the Lord from the cross, in terrible agony, physical agony, this time. You wouldn't imagine he could have any thought for himself, for that, or anyone else for himself.
If we were, Sir Jack, and he was to think of nothing but ourselves and all tortures, but notice what it says. When Jesus ever saw his mother, Provisionalized, and the disciple standing by whom he loved, that was John, he said unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son, and he said to the disciple, Behold thy mother. And from that hour that disciple took her onto his own home for vision alive. He provided for her. None of his own pleasure believed in him at this time.
For here's one that was a well-to-do fisherman. They were men of means. They had servants to remember. And he said, now this is your home. Provide it for her. And before he went back to heaven, he said to his disciples, I go to prepare for it for you. And if I go and prepare a thing for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am, there you may be also. My when he not only has provision for his mother, he's making provision for us. And it's going to be wonderful. It's beyond our wildest expectation, the wonderful place he has for us. That's why I don't get too settled down here.
It's better on ahead. In him closing, and there's many areas we could touch on, but I want to just turn to one scripture, Revelation, verse twelve. There says his eyes were at the flame of fire. That speaks about judgment, speaking about the penetrating days of his eyes and he comes back in power and great glory, his eyes will pierce right through.
And I cannot emphasize that too much should there be someone here tonight that's not saved. It's better to find out now and get right with him now than in the coming day. To have the searchlight of his eyes penetrate right through you, and you'll find yourself absolutely with any righteousness or any standing before God. And to be swept on into a lost eternity forever. Will what you are depending on the nice stare, will it meet with his gaze?
Will it stand his gaze? Will it endure his gaze? Adam and Eve, you know, they dressed themselves in fig leaves, but when they got into the presence of God and God saw them, they hit themselves and what did they say? We're naked. The covering was sufficient for the presence of God. And if you have anything less than the Lord Jesus Christ and his righteousness, you will stand the same way naked before God. and you'll be swept into a lost eternity, into the lake of fire forever and ever. But if you're in Christ, then there's no judgment of them that are in Christ Jesus.
One last thought about our own eyes. You know, Paul, praising Ephesians, that the understanding, the eyes of our understanding may be opened. We should pray as we come to the word of God, open thou mine eyes that I may behold one to think of thy law. If we get in a cooled off condition, then we need to get the eyes set. The Lord Jesus at that revelation where they said, you come and I'll anoint your eyes with eyes there that you might see. And we need to have our eyes open. We need to be able to see the way to have a clear vision.
Maybe so often I have to go and get my glasses changed with the scripture renewed. Because as you read, the print gets blurred. And with the world rubbing through the world and all the influences of the world, you have to get your vision blurred. And you need to constantly come to him and let your eyes anoint it. Sure, you'll have a proper focus that we might see him the way he is and see things the way he sees them and live in accordance to the work of God, to the word of God, that our eyes may be open. Revelation one says, Our eyes shall see him.
Scripture says, I see him, and not another, says Job. And we're going to come, he says, he's going to wipe away all tears. Those that do that have their true soul of loved ones, he's going to wipe away all tears from their eyes. You know, when you have tears in your eyes, you can't see properly. He's blurred. He's going to wipe it all away. And then we shall see the king in his beauty, I say, at thirty-three, seventeen. And as we said last night, when we're going to see him face to face, and we shall be like him. May the Lord use his word tonight, and may our eyes be eyes that have opened to behold him.
The one who have the all-seeing eye, the eye that discerns, the eye that has compassion, the eye that has the purpose, The eye that provisional for us, make daily provision. The eye that can correct us. Or may we live in the consciousness that we ever, in his presence, his eye, is ever upon us. Oh, it will soak our lives. It will make our lives serious. We will realize I'm living in his presence under his constant gaze. His eyes upon us. His eyes on the righteous is that.
His face is against the wicked, but his eyes upon the righteous. Isn't that good? It's wonderful to know his eyes upon us. His eyes on the Pharaoh, and I know he watches me. Oh, Father, we thank and we praise him for the all-seeing eye. And Lord, when we are in sweet fellowship with thee and communion with thee, it's just so wonderful to know that we're never out of thy sight. Thou art always concerned for us. Thou art always see us. Thou art know all needs.
And thou art know how to supply them. And help us too in all lives that we might live with a single eye to thy honour. and to thy glory. Lord, search our hearts. Try us, see if there be any evil way in us, and lead us in the way of everlasting. Help us indeed to have us sing alive for the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Dismiss us with thy blessing. Bring us back again in the morning. We pray in Jesus' precious and worthy name.