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Proverbs 20:12

Proverbs 20:12

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Pastor Martin expounds Proverbs 20:12, "The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the Lord has made even both of them," asserting that these human faculties are direct creations of God, not products of evolution. He reinforces this by referencing Psalm 94, which asks, "He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see?" Martin argues that human sight and hearing are reflections of God's own attributes, as He is a seeing and hearing God, and He created man in His image to reflect these divine characteristics. The sermon emphasizes God's intentional design and planning in the intricate construction and function of the human ear and eye.

Primary Texts

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Proverbs 20:12 This verse is the central text, directly quoted and expounded as the explicit statement of God's creation of the hearing ear and seeing eye.

Outline 4 sections · 2 min

  1. God as the Creator of Hearing and Seeing 0:01
  2. Reinforcing Divine Creation from Psalm 94 0:27
  3. Human Faculties Reflect God's Image 0:55
  4. The Ear as God's Intentional Planting 1:35

Key Quotes

“The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the Lord has made even both of them. And here's an explicit statement. Wherever there's a hearing ear, there you see the handiwork of God. He has made them.”
“He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see?”
“seeing and hearing did not originate with man, they originated with God. It's because he is a seeing God, he can make the human eye in man, who is his image, that man will reflect a seeing God by being a seeing creature.”
“So the human ear, a functioning ear, is a reflection of the image of God and is what this text says, the planting of God. It didn't just grow in some kind of evolutionary process.”
“God planned and God structured it in his mind. If we may use the imagery, God went to the drawing table and it was God who put down all of the various components of the human ear that give us the faculty of hearing.”

A full transcript is available on the tab. 5 paragraphs, roughly 2 minutes.

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