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Just One Look Isaiah 45:22
"Look unto me and be ye
saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God and there is none else." Charles Spurgeon quoted
this verse while testing the acoustics in a new sanctuary…he was later
called to the bedside of a dying man.
He had heard him from the balcony where he was working, and God used
that to see the man get saved! That man, like many today,
was looking for something, and when a person is looking, God doesn’t hide,
but makes Himself available, and one look is all it takes! The eyes are the main gate
we have leading to our minds, our imaginations, and our hearts.
Just one look can be powerful and life changing. Consider the power of ‘just
one look…’ Let's take a quick trip
thru the Bible and see 'just one look' from beginning to end. ill.--A little girl asked
her mother, "How did the human race start?" The mother answered, "God
made Adam and Eve and they had children, and so all mankind was made." Two days later, the girl
asked her father the same question. The father answered, "Many years ago,
there were monkeys from which the human race evolved." The confused girl returned
to her mother and said, "Mom, how is it possible that you told me the human
race was created by God, and Dad said they developed from monkeys?" The mother answered, "Well,
dear, it is very simple. I told you about my side of the family and your
father told you about his."
I.
JUST ONE LOOK CAN BRING CONDEMNATION.
A. EVE
IN THE GARDEN. (GEN 3:1-6) Genesis 3:6
And when the woman
saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes,
and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof,
and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. She looked and she took…and
she lost her place in the garden.
She was deceived and just one look is all it took.
Adam came along and saw what had happened…and he took a look at her,
a look at the tree, and said, oh well, give me a bite, and he sinned with
his eyes wide open…and just one look is all it took. joke--
Speaking of Adam and Eve, someone has
suggested that they had an ideal marriage. He didn’t have to hear about all
the men she could have married--and she didn’t have to hear about the way
his mother cooked.
B. God warned them not to look
back (V.17) but she did and became a salt lick in the desert…and just one
look was all it took. And she wouldn’t even have
been in that wicked city of
C. ACHAN.
(JOSH. 7:21) God’s people were
instructed not to take of the spoils of this battle.
But Achan did in this progression:
He saw, he
coveted, he took. Taking
was the disobedient action, but it all began when he ‘saw’.
One look…and then he took!
D. DAVID &
BATHSHEBA. (II SAM 11:2)
He
saw, he lusted, he sinned.
The lust of the eyes demanded he go further, and he started down a
slippery slope. ill.--Do you like water
slides? Some are tame and fun,
and some are a beast. I found
out the hard way last summer when I was the only one in my family to go down
the big one ... I should have known by the fact there were so few in line
and how high up it was. Temptation is like a huge
water slide – you can turn round right up to the moment before you seek to
satisfy your lusts, at which point it is too late and you need to deal with
the consequences. David could have seen Bathsheba taking a bath, and turned
away – but he chose to go down the slide. James 1:15
Then when lust hath
conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth
forth death.
Lust-Sin-Death…the
most dangerous form of LSD, and that’s how it happened for David, and a baby
died as a result, among others. Men are very visual
creatures, and Jesus said we can commit adultery with just a look…so we must
set up serious safeguards: Job 31:1
I made a covenant
with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? Men, we all need to make
some covenants: The television,
the computer, magazines, coworkers, neighbors, complete strangers! Just one look can bring
condemnation. Oh be careful
little eyes what you see! A good way to keep from
going down the wrong path is not to even look in that general direction! Proverbs 23:31
Look not thou upon
the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it
moveth itself aright.
Good news is…
2.
JUST ONE LOOK CAN
BRING JUSTIFICATION. The children of John 3:14
And as Moses lifted up
the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: And all who look to Jesus
can live!
- DIDN'T SAY
LOOK ON THE POLE.
- DIDN'T SAY
LOOK TO MOSES.
- DIDN'T SAY LOOK BACK TO
MIRACLE OF THE They mustn’t look at the
wrong thing…only looking to the serpent would spare their lives.
Sadly, today: - MANY ARE LOOKING TO A
CHURCH - MANY ARE LOOKING TO THE
BAPTISTRY - MANY ARE LOOKING TO THEIR
COMMUNION - MANY ARE LOOKING TO THEIR
CONFIRMATION - MANY ARE LOOKING TO WHAT
MOMMA SAID THEY DID - MANY ARE LOOKING TO A
SAINT OR TO MARY - MANY ARE LOOKING TO THEIR
MORALITY - MANY ARE LOOKING TO THEIR
SINCERITY But they look in the wrong
direction unless they look to Jesus! SONG: LOOK TO THE LAMB OF GOD -
LOOK TO THE LAMB OF GOD. FOR HE ALONE IS WILLING TO
SAVE YOU LOOK TO THE LAMB OF GOD. Hebrews 12:2
Looking unto Jesus
the author and finisher of our faith… SONG: LOOK AND LIVE MY
BROTHER, LIVE LOOK TO JESUS NOW AND LIVE ‘TIS RECORDED IN HIS WORD,
HALLEJUAH ! IT IS ONLY THAT YOU LOOK
AND LIVE.
Condemnation, justification…
3.
JUST ONE LOOK CAN
BRING SANCTIFICATION. (MATT
17:8) Matthew 17:8
And when they had
lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only. Peter, James, and John, the
‘inner circle’ among Jesus’ disciples were taken aside to a high mountain
where they saw the transfiguration of Christ…in other words, they saw Him in
His glory, shining as the sun.
- They were
never the same after this.
- They took
their eyes off everything and everybody except Jesus.
- Moses and
Elijah also appeared that day.
- Didn't say
they saw Moses. (law)
- Didn't say
they saw Elijah - (prophets)
- Doesn't say
they saw each other. (distraction)
-
Good advice - "Keep your
eyes off of people and on the Lord!"
- Who are we
following, anyway?
- They saw
their goal. (be conformed to His image)
- They saw
their challenge.
- They saw
the Truth.
- They saw
the light. Just one look was all it
took to find real sanctification.
And just as we find salvation when we look to Jesus, the Christian
can then go on unto sanctification [going on unto holiness, being set apart
from the world] when we take our eyes off of the temporary trappings of this
life and keep our eyes on Jesus! What’s the first thing you
look to each morning? Mouthwash?
[wish your spouse did?] Coffee
pot? Newspaper? …Restroom?
Ok, after that?! Psalm 5:3
My voice shalt thou
hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto
thee, and will look up. Daily sanctification is
just a look away! Then enter your day, and
look at it differently… Philip. 2:4
Look not every man
on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Matthew 9:36
But when he saw the
multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and
were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. John 4:35
Lift up your eyes,
and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
You’ll never see the other
humans the same way again when you look at them thru sanctified eyes, as
eternal souls that will live or die somewhere forever!
4.
JUST ONE LOOK WILL
BRING GLORIFICATION.
(I JOHN 3:2) 1 John 3:2
Beloved, now are we
the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know
that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as
he is.
- THE CURSE
WILL BE LIFTED.
- THE POWER
OF TEMPTATION & SIN WILL LOSE IT'S GRIP.
- ALL
SICKNESS WILL BE ELIMINATED.
- DEATH WILL
BE SWALLOWED UP IN VICTORY.
-
DISAPPOINTMENT AND DISCOURAGEMENT WILL EVAPORATE.
- ALL LUST,
GREED, MALICE, JEALOUSY, & HEARTACHE WILL BE GONE FOREVER. Think of these last days we
are living in…when reading the newspaper is like reading the book of
Revelation!... Luke 21:28
And when these
things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your
redemption draweth nigh. Titus 2:13
Looking for that
blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour
Jesus Christ; Sing this with me: “WHAT A DAY THAT WILL BE
WHEN MY JESUS I SHALL SEE WHEN I LOOK UPON HIS FACE,
THE ONE WHO SAVED ME BY HIS GRACE” 2 Cor. 4:18
While we look not
at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the
things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are
eternal.
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