Our Seeing and Serving
Matthew 6:22-24
[22] “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, [23] but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
[24] “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
DEEP SHEET: Sermon Study Questions
1. How and why is the Sermon on the Mount so convicting? In what ways have Jesus’ words in the Sermon on the Mount most challenged you?
2. What does it mean to have an evil eye? What do you see when you look out into the world? (Psalm 119:10, 15; Proverbs 28:22; 23:6-7; 22:9)
3. Why should we care about the condition of our eyes? In other words, what does Jesus say about the effect of having an evil eye? (Cf. James 3:6)
4. What would you say is the main objective of your life? Take some time to confess specific ways that the Holy Spirit has convicted you with regard to your storing, seeing and serving (vv. 19-24).
5. How does this discussion of slavery bring us back to Christ’s redeeming work at the cross? What does it practically mean to be Christ’s slave? (1 Timothy 6:10; Luke 14:26; Titus 2:14)
