His Head and Eyes

In this part of the sermon: He begins the discussion of the 'head' by defining it as the cognitive faculty, drawing parallels with common expressions like 'good head on his shoulders' or 'woolly-headed' to…

This common idiom is used to illustrate that 'head' in this sermon refers to cognitive ability, not physical appearance.

We say of a certain individual, well, you know, that guy's got a good head on his shoulders. And what do we mean by that? Well, we do not mean that we've taken calipers and measured the width of his cheekbones and the width of his chin and the distance between his eyes and it is a classically shaped face or one that is anatomically perfect. What we mean is the man has a good measure of gray matter and is obviously able and capable.

7:12 - 7:42 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: He begins the discussion of the 'head' by defining it as the cognitive faculty, drawing parallels with common expressions like 'good head on his shoulders' or 'woolly-headed' to…

This idiom is used to further illustrate that 'head' refers to the clarity or confusion of one's thinking, not hair.

He is competent to use it well. If we say of someone else, well, you know, he's a woolly-headed thinker. We do not mean to make a comment upon his hair, its texture or its style. What we're saying is that his brain is all in a muddle.

7:42 - 7:58 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: He begins the discussion of the 'head' by defining it as the cognitive faculty, drawing parallels with common expressions like 'good head on his shoulders' or 'woolly-headed' to…

This idiom is used to illustrate slowness in absorbing concepts, reinforcing the idea of the head as the faculty of perception and knowledge.

He doesn't think clearly. His thinking process is like trying to see clearly through a dense fog. And so we say he is woolly-headed in his thinking. Or we say of another man, he's terribly thick-headed.

7:58 - 8:14 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: The third characteristic is a head furnished with adequate tools for a lifetime of fresh and sound ministry, enabling a 'workman' to rightly handle the Word of Truth, which is the…

The annual Martin family gathering at a farm museum, lined with old farm implements, is used as an analogy for a minister's mind being 'lined in its walls with the tools for a lifetime of a fresh but sound ministry.'

But thirdly, it is furnished with adequate tools for a lifetime of a fresh and sound ministry. You will not only find, if you dissect the mind of a man of God, that it is filled with an understanding of the word of God, that it is filled with an understanding of the word of God, that it is filled with an understanding of the word of God, a growing, expanding understanding, granted, but you will find in it what you would find when the Martin family, that's not these other Martins, I mean the real Martins from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. When the Martin clan gathers every Thanksgiving day, m...

25:16 - 26:40 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Transitioning from the head, Martin introduces the 'eyes' of a man of God, defining them as spiritual eyes that are fixed and determined, not out of imbalance but out of a…

The image of a determined or demented man with a fixed gaze is used to introduce the idea of a man of God's eyes being 'fixed' on spiritual reality, but with a spiritual, not imbalanced, determination.

Number one. You will find that they are fixed on the unseen world of spiritual reality. Have you ever noticed that the mark of a determined man set out on a mission from which he will not be deterred and often and I don't say this for laughs of demented men but you meet a person who when he walks by you his eyes are not showing that anything is registering around him. You look at him speak his eyes are fixed.

37:50 - 38:24 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: The third characteristic is that his eyes are sensitive to the true state of men, exemplified by Jesus' compassion for the distressed multitudes (Matthew 9:36) and Paul's provoked…

A tourist seeing only the bustling activity and external appearances in ancient Palestine is contrasted with Jesus' ability to see the true, distressed spiritual condition of the multitudes, illustrating the spiritual sensitivity of a man of God's eyes.

He went about the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues. Synagogue worship was going on as usual. Come the Sabbath day, everyone was going up to synagogue. The reader read, the exhorter exhorted, the scroll was brought out, the bazaars were opened. Day after the Sabbath, people bought their oranges, sold their wares. Everything was business as usual. He went about. He went about in a very orderly way because there was stability and order at that time secured and maintained by Roman emissaries. He went about preaching the gospel of the kingdom, healing all manner of sickness and all...

54:57 - 56:01 Read in full sermon

The point: Children in privileged, well-ordered homes must personally embrace the Lord Jesus to be cleansed from their sins and receive a new heart, lest they face judgment.

Paul's reaction to Athens, seeing its idolatry beyond its impressive architecture and philosophy, is contrasted with a modern tourist's superficial appreciation, highlighting the spiritual discernment of a man of God.

seems into God go to mass go to church church may come away worse than when they went in and paul had that same ability as does every man of god to see with spiritual eyes the true state of men and this is my last text act 17 coming to that great impressive city of athens that great center of philosophy of rhetoric of learning filled with impressive temples people would come as we would say on their holidays or vacations to see marvelous athens the triumphs of the human spirit its near deification of the human body as we see a repeat in our own day with health and fitness clubs being one of th...

58:21 - 59:41 Read in full sermon