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II Corinthians 5:7
Excerpted from: Faith (Part Two)I said that there were similarities between eyesight and faith. The similarity is simply in the area of the effect that they have—one on the physical, the other on the spiritual. But in terms of what we are talking about here in II Corinthians 5, faith and eyesight are also opposites. Remember the verse in Hebrews 11 which said that faith is the evidence of things not seen? Faith is the conviction of what we have heard but do not see. Faith comes by hearing. Faith is the conviction of what we have heard but do not see.
Man says seeing is believing. So when a man sees something he is convicted and his mind, then, is inclined to what he saw. In the life of the righteous, faith is the controlling factor that motivates his conduct. In terms of eyesight and what I said in regard to it is true in the physical realm, but eyesight means almost nothing in the spiritual realm.
Consider Israel after the flesh. They saw a multitude of miracles in Egypt and in the wilderness, but it seems to have profited them almost nothing. They saw the river turn to blood. They saw the frogs. They saw the lice. They saw the darkness. They saw the hail. They saw the fire on the ground. They saw the murrain kill the cattle. They saw the firstborn die. They saw the Red Sea part. They saw the pillar of fire and the cloud. They saw all those things.
They saw water coming out of the rock. They saw manna on the ground every day for forty years. It did not affect their minds spiritually at all! Because eyesight means almost nothing in terms of the spiritual. Faith is the foundation, the assurance, the substance, the confidence of things not seen—the invisible realm of God. And what a person can see with his eyes is more likely to frighten him in terms of faith and to create doubt than it is to build faith.
II Corinthians 5:7
Excerpted from: Faith (Part Five)What was it that was witnessed of and is still being witnessed of and affecting us today? The answer is supplied right in the two verses here, 5 and 6. It was that he walked by faith and not by sight, and knowing the tenor of the times that he lived in, he walked by faith and not by sight in the midst of a horribly violent, a religiously and socially degenerate generation.
Exactly the same words, well pleasing. Exactly the same words as Hebrews 11:5, Enoch was well pleasing to God and he did it by faith, by walking by faith. Enoch, walking by faith and not by sight in the midst of one of the most perverse generations ever to live on the face of God's good green earth, did not judge according to what he saw. He was not deceived by outward appearance or by material prosperity. He was not deluded with all the schemes being aired as how to deal with all of the social, economic, political evils for the improvement of that corrupt state of things that were going on around him. He did not seek to please men, and he undoubtedly did not please them because they sought to kill him. But he focused on the same things that we are to focus on, seeking the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and when the time came to intervene, God took him to a place of safety.
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