O SAY CAN YOU SEE?
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
O, SAY CAN YOU SEE... WHAT DO YOU SEE?
WHAT CAN YOU SEE? FALLING FAST?
The Parachutist is a magazine printed by the United States Parachute Association
THEY PUBLISH THE FATALITY SUMMARY from time to time...
1. From 1 to 20 jumps is LICENSE A...
2. AFTER 50 JUMPS YOU ADVANCE TO License B...
3. 100 jumps you receive license C...
4. 200 jumps CLASS D..
59% OF ALL PARACHUTE FATALIES WERE SUFFERED BY LICENSED D
JUMPERS...
THE LESSON IS VERY CLEAR: THE MATURE, EXPERIENCED JUMPER FEELS
THAT THEY ARE INVULNERABLE, THEY GET OVER-CONFIDENT, AND THE
MOST EXPERIENCED JUMPERS SEEM TO GET CARELESS AND OVER LOOK
SAFETY PROCEDURES... 59% OF ALL JUMPING DEATHS ARE LICENSED D
JUMPERS...
WHAT DOES THIS SPEAK TO US?
I. JESUS NEEDED TO COME THIS WAY...
JESUS SAW BEYOND WHAT HIS BOYS SAW...
THE GOOD OL' BOYS WANT TO BURN THE TOWN DOWN...
A. JAMES AND JOHN WERE CALLED THE SONS OF THUNDER...
B. They see how mean everyone is...
Luke 9:52-54 (KJV) And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a
village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him.
53 And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.
54 And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command
fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?
C. JESUS SEE BEYOND TODAY...
REVIVAL IS COMING...
D. SPEAK NEGATIVE JUDGMENT OR JESUS' MERCY/GRACE...
John 4:27 And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet
no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?
E. THE GOOD OL' BOYS SAW:
1. A WOMAN... Don't talk publicly with a woman...
2. A woman of Samaria vs JEW?
3. This woman was a bad woman, she came to the well at the SIXTH HOUR, all the
women of the community always walked together in the morning to get water.
Her coming to the well at the SIXTH HOUR tells a blistering story.
4. She has had 5 HUSBANDS and she is NOW LIVING WITH A MAN IN SIN...
E. WHY DID JESUS NEED TO GO THROUGH SAMARIA?
John 4:4 And he must needs go through Samaria.
F. JESUS NEEDED TO REACH ONE LADY...
ONE LADY REACHES THE TOWN...
John 4:29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?
30 Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.
G. JESUS SEES THE REAL NEED... NOT THE BAD REPUTATION...
John 4:35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto
you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
H. WE EXCEPT OBSTACLES. WE MUST OVERCOME EVERY OBSTACLE.
1. HIGH WALLS OF GENDER
2. OLD HOSTILITIES
3. ETHIC DIVISON
4. PREJUDICE, RACIAL BIAS
5. RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS
I. ARE YOU SHARING FAITH OR SLAPPING WITH JUDGMENT?
II. CAN MY EYES SEE WHAT JESUS EYES CAN SEE... ???
WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO JESUS? TO ME...
A. WHAT IS YOUR VALUE SYSTEM?
Matthew 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these
things shall be added unto you.
34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things
of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
B. EVALUATE YOUR PRIORITIES, NOT JUST WORDS... BUT DEEDS?
III. WHAT DO YOU SEE?
YOU CAN CAST THE FIRST STONE... IF YOU ARE PERFECT... ???
THE RELIGIOUS CROWD SAW A CHANGE TO JUDGE AND CAST JUDGMENT TO PUNISH
A GUILTY PERSON...
A. IF SEE WAS CAUGHT IN THE VERY ACT OF ADULTERY...
WHERE IS THE MAN?
B. WE KNOW THE LAW?
JESUS SAW THE HEART, THE POTENTAL, BEYOND THE LAW...
C. IF I ERR, MAY I ERR TO THE SIDE OF MERCY AND GRACE...
John 8:2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto
him; and he sat down, and taught them.
3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they
had set her in the midst,
4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down,
and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is
without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one,
beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing
in the midst.
10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her,
Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?
11.She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin
no more.
D. JESUS CAN SEE THE MOTIVE...
WHY DID YOU CALL FOR JUDGEMENT?
Matthew 5:28 (KJV) But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath
committed adultery with her already in his heart.
IV. ARE YOU A THERMOTER AND MERELY MEASURING...
OR ARE YOU A THERMOTHER THAT CAN CHANGE YOUR ATTITUDES AND THUS YOUR
ENVIROMENT AND FAMILY.
A. I BELIEVE THAT GOD GIVES EVERY FAMILY AN ACHOR HOLDER
Hebrews 6:18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might
have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into
that within the veil;
20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the
order of Melchisedec.
B. I CALL THESE PEOPLE GAP STANDERS... THAT ARE CALLED TO SEE BEYOND THE
PROBLEMS OF TODAY INTO THE POSSIBILITIES OF CHANGE...
Ezekiel 22:30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in
the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
THE ROLE OF SELF DISCIPLINE... THE SPIRIT OF GRADUALNESS
I HAVE MADE IT... I MADE IT TO THE TOP... I DO NOT HAVE TO DO ANYTHING...
In May 1996... Miss Venezuela won the MISS UNIVERSE CONTEST...
She was 5 foot---7 inches and weighed 118 pounds.
After winning the TITLE she told the reporters:
NOW I GET TO DO WHAT I WANT TO DO... QUIT EXERCISE, EAT, EAT, AND EAT
SOME MORE, THEN I WANT TO SLEEP AND EAT SOME MORE.
Miss Universe gained so much weight, she got up to 160 pounds...
In her contract she was required to do BATH SUIT APPEARANCES.
There was discussion of removing her...
She hired a PERSONAL TRAINER AND LOST DOWN TO AN ACCEPTABLE WEIGHT.
IF WE ALLOW OURSELVES TO LET GO AND REFUSE SELF-DISCIPLINE WE
CAN SQUANDER EVERYTHING WE HAVE GAINED...
VICTORIUS LIVING IS MORE THAN A ONE DAY EVENT...
SELF DISCIPLINE MUST BECOME A LIFESTYLE...
BEWARE OF THE SPIRIT OF GRADUALNESS...
V. DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING THAT OTHERS WANT?
ARE YOU A PATTERN FOR MERCY... OR DO YOU WANT TO BURN THE
TOWN DOWN?
A. Years ago I had a friend that sold RAINBOW VACUUM SWEEPERS.
They were cool. You put water in them and the dirty air and dirt ran through the water
and purified as well as cleaned.
B. I was at his house, he opened the closet door to hand up my coat.
A HOOVER SWEEPER FELL OUR...
I asked him, HE SAID A RAINBOW IS NOTHING BUT JUNK, I WOULD NOT
OWN ONE.
C. I SAID: I do not understand ... You can not sell what you would not own.
It was not too long until he QUIT SELLING RAINBOW'S.
1 Samuel 30:6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because
the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David
encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
D. WE MAY BE DIFFERENT, BUT WE NEED TO ENCOURAGE EACH OTHER...
Isaiah 41:7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer
him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails,
that it should not be moved.
VI. GOD GIVES WHITE ROBES? A JUDGE WEARS A BLACK ROBE...
THE MORE YOU STAY OUT OF THE JUDGE'S SEAT THE BETTER THE ATTITUDE YOU
WILL DEVELOP...
Matthew 7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall
be measured to you again.
3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam
that is in thine own eye?
4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold,
a beam is in thine own eye?
His servant, Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
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