How did the early Christians interpret the passage about the eye being the lamp of the body and if your eye is healthy, et cetera? How did they interpret that passage? That was one that always, I mean, it just made no sense. And it seemed to pop up out of nowhere because he's talking about materialism and serving mammon. And he just says this. And then he goes on about putting the kingdom first. And I thought it made no sense until, yeah, I'm reading the early Christians and to them it's making total sense.
He's giving some very hard teachings about wealth, about our possessions. And so he stops for a moment and he says, and he's using a metaphor here. We all know our literal eye, if it's bad, then everything is darkness to us. In other words, if you're blind, those two little organs, you know, there's all this light around us. But if your eyes have been put out or, you know, they're defective, yeah, everything is dark. Metaphor is our mind or our heart.
If it's evil, if it's bad, we are going to find a way around his teachings. And he's telling us, okay, I'm fixing to give you some hard teachings. And if your eye is bad, if your heart is, yeah, you're not going to receive these. But if your eye is good, then you're going to see the light. And we need to recognize that with the sermon on the mount. Most people do find a way around them because they don't want to see the light. They would prefer the darkness.
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