What Jesus is saying to us in the passage below is that when we’re confronted by sin, we will have to deal with it immediately, and radically so. For instance, If you find you can’t stop yourself or your eyes from taking a third, fourth, or fifth look at whatever or whoever, then poke one of your eyes out…which in contemporary terms means, take a large hammer to your Internet device. Just smash it up. It’s hyperbole and it’s about dealing with sin when it approaches us—immediately radically, and graphically. As Paul later stated, you are not your own. You were bought at a great price. You belong to Jesus. Therefore, glorify God with your body.
Mark 9:42-48, NKJV
“But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea. If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having two hands, to go to hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched— where
‘Their worm does not die
And the fire is not quenched.’
And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame, rather than having two feet, to be cast into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched—where
‘Their worm does not die
And the fire is not quenched.’
And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire—where
‘Their worm does not die
And the fire is not quenched.’”
…So, be careful little eyes what you see.
