JUDGING BY APPEARANCES Part 2

We are beginning to see with a single eye. If your eye is single your whole body is full of light. To have a single eye means we do not judge by appearances. We look beyond the natural and
see only Christ everywhere. One who has a single eye will not behold evil in
another. To have an eye that is single and full of light, we must focus on the
inner man where the spirit dwells. For so long we only focused on Jesus Christ
and that is great, but we now realize that the seed of Christ is in every man.
The true nature that is in every man is the God kind of life. This life can be
locked up in us for years. We can even be Christians and still live to a great
degree by our carnal mind. The more we focus and concentrate on the
Christ within our families and friends, the more we can see them in the light
of the true Word of God, and can see them as Christ on this earth, and the more
we can envision the Christ within them beginning to blossom and come forth, the
more you will see that happen in their lives.

If we continue to judge others by the knowledge of good and evil, it will not be good for them, and it will definitely be bad for us. When you begin to live and discern, and judge by the
appearances of good and evil, you have left the consciousness of being a son of
God and have fallen into the carnal mind. Jesus never judged by the
appearance of good or evil. When the woman who was caught in adultery was
brought to Jesus, what did He do? He didn’t say, “Woman, why were you
doing that?” He didn’t even ask her to repent. He just said,
“Woman, your sins are forgiven you.” Jesus walked in the full
comprehension of a Son of God. He knew there was not a condemning thought
in the mind of God. He knew that His Father had a righteous
judgment. God did not consider that woman an adulterous, although the
religious world did, and although I’m sure she felt that she was an
adulterous. You see, Jesus did not judge by appearances. He
abstained from the appearance of evil, and He spoke the truth. He
recognized in that woman who was caught in adultery, the seed, and the essence
of life deep within her. So He could say to her, “Thy sins be forgiven you.”
Oh, how we need to see that for all of humanity.

As long as we are judging by appearances we still have the wrong concept of God. We must realize the truth of the scripture that says, “God was in Christ reconciling the world unto
himself not holding them accountable for their sin” We have known
intellectually, for many years, about this tree of good and evil. Yet
even today, all around me I hear some folks judging by appearances. “Well
brother, don’t you know what he did? Brother, don’t you realize what a scoundrel
he is?” Yes I do, but I choose not to judge by appearances. You
see; my brother or my sister may be in gross darkness, or gross error.
But if I judge them un-righteously, if my words condemn them, it will help hold
them in that darkened state. That is why Jesus said, “Whosoever sins you
forgive, they are forgiven. Whosoever sins you retained, they are
retained.” So let us begin to focus on the seed of Christ in every man
and woman. Do not look at the appearance of evil. And of course,
I’m not asking you to side with evil. I’m not asking you to side with
wrongdoing. No. But we must look beyond that. We must not
judge by appearance, and realize that the true nature, the true identity of
every person is Christ waiting to be revealed, Christ waiting to be
awakened. And we have the privilege; we have the honor to be able to
awaken the Christ in those we meet. However if you judge them by
appearances, if you even think of them as being other than whom they truly are,
you are not walking in the single eye of a son of God.

Seeing everyone with a single eye is difficult at first mainly because of our religious training. A lot of the struggle we have is because of the concept of God that is
portrayed in the Old Testament. He was portrayed as a God who destroyed His
enemies, a God who would tell people to go into villages and kill everyone
there, because they were heathen, to kill their babies, to kill their women, to
kill everything. So many today have never left that concept of God.
I gave a couple of messages about three years ago, called “THE EVOLUTION OF
CONSCIOUSNESS”. http://sigler.org/audio-gary.htm/

At the time the Old Testament was written, the consciousness people of God had not even begun to evolve beyond the concept of good and evil. That is all
they knew. And so Moses gave them the law. And the law was given so
that sin would become exceedingly sinful. In other words, the law was
given to make you realize that it is impossible with your human nature, to keep
the law. Oh you can keep some things, but the scriptures say that if you
break the least of the commandments, you have broken them all. So it was
made perfectly clear that no one is justified in the eyes of God by trying to
keep the law.

Getting back to the two trees within us. We are a garden. And within us there are two trees. There is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and there is the tree of
life. Those trees are within us in the very midst of us. We have
the ability to live by the knowledge of good and evil, or the ability to live
by life. What Jesus did when He came was to reveal to us His
Father. When He came, the people in that day believed they had an angry,
vengeful, wrathful God, a God who said, “You either do things my way, or you
die. If you get caught in adultery, you die. You will either choose
to walk in obedience to an outward law, or you will die.” That is the
kind of God that the Jews believed in, because it is the only kind of God with
their darkened mind and understanding that they could comprehend. So the
law had to be given to them, to bring them to the place, after many
generations, to see that it was impossible to keep the law. Jesus came to
reveal the true heart and nature of God. Before Jesus Came His true nature was
not known.

Jesus came, and He said, “I know what your law says. I know what your religion says. I know that you live by good and evil, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I
say to you, love your enemies. Do good to them which despitefully use
you.” You can see how Jesus was changing the concept of God in His
day. And that is why they killed Him. He was trying to bring them
into an understanding that God is love. You see they believed if you
disobey God, He will torture you, He will put a cancer on you, He will stone
you. Jesus taught them if you are walking in disobedience, God loves His
enemies. God blesses those who curse Him. God ministers to those
who despitefully use Him . Why? Because He has a single eye and He
only sees and ministers to the spirit within you. God sees way past your
natural mind and understanding. God sees past your adultery and your
homosexuality and your incest and your murder and your rape. He sees past
your bitterness and your unforgiveness and He looks way down deep in the very
deepest recesses of your being, and He sees the seed of His life. You
see; God wants that life to come forth within you. He doesn’t want to
kill you for your disobedience. He doesn’t want to kill you for your gay
lifestyle. He doesn’t want to kill you for you adultery. He wants
to cause the seed of His life within you to burst forth in all of its
magnificent glory.