THE MIND'S EYE

(Message by Tanny Keng)

1. The Mind’s Eye

a) Matthew chapter 7 is rich in images or "word pictures".

i) The merchant measuring out the buyer’s purchase at the market place (Matthew 7:1-2).

ii) Having a log in your eye while trying to remove a speck from someone else’s eye (Matthew 7:3-5).

iii) Feeding dogs and pigs and being attacked by them (Matthew 7:6)

iv) Knocking on a door and waiting for it to be opened with a welcome (Matthew 7:7-8).

v) A son asking his dad for food and being given good things (Matthew 7:9-12).

vi) Two gates and two roads, one broad, the other narrow (Matthew 7:13-14).

vii) Wolves disguising themselves in sheep skins (Matthew 7:15).

viii) Fruit trees producing fruit. The bad trees being cut down and burned because they produce bad fruit (Matthew 7:16-20).

ix) People on Judgment day pleading and clamoring for acceptance with the Lord (Matthew 7:21-23).

x) Two men, one wise and one foolish, who built homes whose foundations were tested by storm and flood. (Matthew 7:24-27).

The End ...