Hello friends and welcome to Robcast 102 and I have been meeting so many of you recently to all of you who came out to Portland for the how to be here experience to the butter lady from Seattle to Dr. Danny to all of you who came out to Powell's for the signing much love.

It's just so great meeting you here in your stories a tons of you came to LA for the Liz event.

Liz Gilbert and I did it an all day event and good lord you know when it begins with a Drake song that will go in places.

And then I'll talk to all of you who came up to my recent Largo show I did this show I've never done a show like it I did a show based around 82 pictures that I've taken on my iPhone and oh my word I'm still laughing.

So and then a number of you came to the Berkeley book festival and I got to hear all sorts of interesting things to that lovely woman Nisa who said that everything is spiritual inspired her to rethink her work with the five elements from Chinese tradition these these kinds of things people the things that you all are doing it's just fascinating to me and now I'll be in Tulsa in a couple of weeks and then.

Brooklyn and then coming to Australia I'm teaming up with the fine folks in July from Wake Up project to do how to be here events in Sydney Melbourne and Brisbane somewhere before that my older son is graduating from high school I mean all kinds of stuff going on and then in August all be bringing how to be here to Paris London

and then we'll go to Iceland after that so would love to see you all the info on all those events is at robbell.com and just sending tons of love to all of you my new friends who are meeting in all of these cities and then as you can probably figure out I love to make sermons I love to do books I love to do shows I love to do tours I also love to talk about talking and community.

And whether it's like giving a talk message sermon making curriculum writing lyrics a blog and so sometimes I do events just about the art of communication and I'm doing one this fall called finding your groove as a communicator and it's basically like a two day workshop in some sense as I kind of tell you everything I know but this is all new content so if you've come to one of my communicators to do this I'm going to do this.

I've been doing a few days before I'm doing a new one with pretty much all new content we may reach back on a couple of different topics otherwise I've got a whole new thing a whole new two days and that's all coming up maybe you're like a business owner and you give talks to your employees maybe your mom and you blog and maybe you just have the questions of how do you take something inside of you and give it expression.

How do you know where to begin so sometimes people have very deep conceptual questions about how you communicate other times and stuff like how do you memorize a ten minute talk or something like that anyway you'll see the finding your groove on at robbell dot com and I'm doing one I'm taking over the improv here in West Hollywood which is this legendary comedy club and just doing a two day workshop for communicators so if you're a playwright blogger writer.

Lyric composer, sermonizer whatever it is that you do teacher would love to have you there so there's all sorts of things that are coming up and then all yeah everything a spiritual film has been out for a few weeks now it's free on YouTube everything a spiritual 2016 and the feedback has just been great.

So anyway if you want to see that film it's an hour and 55 minutes and we put it for free on YouTube which continues to make me laugh but this episode episode 102 I think it's time for a sermon an old school sermon so this sermon is called an eye full of light and it's based on something that Jesus said that has so

profoundly changed the way that I see the world and at the end I want to give you two very practical ways to think about this idea but it's a classic example of one of those things that Jesus said that people get all muddled up in because if you don't know what he's referring to it just sounds like nonsense but if you know what he's referring to suddenly it gets brilliant so here we go a rob and a robcass.

The first sermon called an eye full of light based on something Jesus said in the sermon on the mount in the book of Matthew he said the eye is the lamp of the body if your eyes are healthy your whole body will be full of light but if your eyes are unhealthy your whole body will be full of darkness and then the light within is darkness and how great

is that darkness what what healthy eyes is there something about your eye that affects your whole body your whole being in essence your whole life what is he talking about now a bit of background Jesus isn't making up anything new here he's actually drawing on a tradition

that his audience would have been familiar with because his audience would have been familiar with Torah which is the first five books of the Hebrew scripture and there was a passage in the Torah that everybody knew that talked about your eye and your eye being either full of light or full of darkness was actually a common expression and an understanding that there were two ways to view the world I know interesting isn't it now the passage that people would have to see in the book of Matthew is not a way of reading the book of Jesus and it's not a way of reading the book of the world I know how we're going to read it now in the book of the book of Matthew is the light of the light and there's a passage that people would have to see and see the light and see the light.

So what I have gotten this idea from was Deuteronomy chapter 15 Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy and as a good Jewish person in the first century you would have been familiar with this passage because you would have heard it talked about and discussed and debated and taught probably your whole life when you went to the synagogue now the passage that Jesus is referring to about your eye comes from Deuteronomy 15 and at Deuteronomy 15 begins like this at the end of every seven years you would have been familiar with this passage because you would have heard it talked about and discussed and debated and taught probably your whole life when you went to the synagogue now the passage that Jesus is referring to about your eye comes from Deuteronomy 15 and at Deuteronomy 15 begins like this at the end of every seven years you would have been familiar with this passage because you would have heard it talked about and discussed and debated and taught probably your whole life when you went to the synagogue now the passage that Jesus is referring to about your eye comes from Deut

you must cancel debts so in Torah was it command that every seven years you set people free from their debt whatever money they owe you you simply waive the debt and you say you no longer owe me anything every seven years everybody gets a fresh start let me think about the implications of this

it's amazing isn't it by the way there's very little evidence that it was actually practiced which is also of course very interesting now so the Deuteronomy 15 begins every seven years you should cancel debts set everybody free let everybody start fresh by the way how great would that be like anybody here have credit card debt anybody here have school debt anybody here have debt from repairs that you didn't see coming just to keep your car running or your house

from falling over imagine if every seven years you got a fresh start now Deuteronomy 15 then goes on talking about what this every seven year would look like when you canceled debt and verse nine it says this and by the way I'm going to read it in the King James because and I can't even say this but the King James actually sticks to the original Hebrew better in a weird sort of way

and basically the King James version of the Bible is like what happened if Shakespeare would have written the Bible at some level or translated it now the verse nine says this beware that there not be a thought in thy wicked heart saying the seven year the seventh year the year of release is at hand and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother and thou give us him not and he cry unto the Lord

against thee and it be a sin unto thee by the way how much fun is that to read so the reason why I read it in the King James is because it says basically beware that there's not a thought in your heart that the seventh year is coming and anybody who owes your money you're going to have to wave the debt and so if you have that in your head and a poor brother or sister come

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