When Human Beings Declare Spiritual Bankruptcy by Saying, “We Cannot Save Ourselves,” God Performs the Miracle of Salvation by Passing Camel-Like Sinners Through the Eye of a Needle “Jesus looked at him and said, ‘How difficult it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God! For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.’ Those who heard it said, ‘Then who can be saved?’ But He said, ‘The things that are impossible with men are possible with God’” (Luke 18:24–27). (1) As I read today’s passage, Luke 18:24–27, first in the Korean Bible and then in the Greek New Testament, the very first thing that caught my attention was the phrase “ὁ Ἰησοῦς [περίλυπον γενόμενον]” (ho Iēsous [perilypon genomenon]), which is not translated in the Korean Bible. What does this expression mean, and why was it omitted from...
Such sin is a terrifying
evil that must inevitably be punished.
A destructive fire akin
to hell that swallows up everything we have
is the sin of lusting
after a virgin with eyes of lust, straying from the right path,
being drawn to her with
our hearts, hiding outside her door to peep at her, and committing sin.
Such sin is a terrifying
evil that must inevitably be punished
(Ref.: Job 31:1, 7, 9,
11-12).
Therefore, Job made a
covenant with his eyes (v. 1).
The reason is that the
eyes are full of desires (1 John 2:16),
and human eyes are never
satisfied (Proverbs 27:20).
Human eyes are full of
adultery and constantly commit sins (2 Peter 2:14).
Pastor Lloyd Jones said
this:
‘Your eyes are the
problem. Where your eyes go, your heart follows. ...
If there is something
that tempts you, do not look at it! ...
Guard your eyes from
coveting. Do not stray from looking straight ahead. ...
Make a covenant with
your eyes to look straight ahead.
Focus only on what God
commands, on what is holy and heavenly.’
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