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But you! You have eyes only for greed and dishonesty! You murder the innocent, oppress the poor, and reign ruthlessly.
Jeremiah 22:17

Isn’t that what it means to know me?
Jeremiah 22:16b

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Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.

2 Chronicles 36:5

Strong’s 1847: daʻath (dah’-ath): knowledge; discernment, understanding, wisdom

In my words: knowing God through knowledge, discernment, and understanding then with wisdom demonstrating and living what I know.

When we have eyes for our King, we will have eyes of the King. We will see the needs of other with our physical eyes, and meet their needs with the eyes of heart and acts of hand.

Josiah was a King who had eyes for the King. He

• Lived well.
• Took care of the poor and needy.

His son Jehoiakim has eyes for himself. He

• Lived in splendor.
• Showed no regard for others.

About our eyes

• I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.
  Psalm 101:3 (ESV)
• Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.
  Psalm 119:18 (ESV)
• Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin.
  Proverbs 21:4 (ESV)

How do we know if our eyes on right?

• We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death.
  1 John 3:14 (NKJV)
• But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?
  1 John 3:17 (NKJV)

Most important commandment

• Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.”
  Mark 12:30-31 (NIV)
• So, in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
  Matthew 7:12 (NIV)

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Open my eyes and make me a servant Lord.