[Part 4]
The world sees a two dimensional worldview. Jesus saw three dimensionally. Worldview, just like every other view, is affected by the sight of the seer.
I am near sighted in one eye and far sighted in the other eye. This affects how I respond to the world around me. I can’t read without my glasses, but I can drive. Do you want to take a ride with someone with one eye that sees things at a distance just OK?
The world sees this way. They cannot make out the difference between religions. That’s why they paste those near sighted bumper stickers that spell out coexist with religious symbols. To nearsighted people that looks profound but to someone who sees into eternity it’s blind.
Jesus said, “Unless you are born again you cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3). There is an entire dimension of sight that the world cannot see. This affects everything they do by limiting the parameters of their sight.
The world has a two dimensional worldview. They see inward and outward, but not upward. Looking inward the world sees self. Self-fulfillment, self-actualization and self-esteem are world’s way of describing their inward view of self.
Looking outward, the world sees humanity. Human kingdoms and human suffering are the foci of their vision. They can be ruthless in accumulating power in the human kingdoms of politics, business and religion. Then, they can demonstrate great acts of benevolence to relieve the suffering of humanity. The two dimensional worldview creates a schizophrenic world.
Once you are born again, a whole new dimension opens to you. You see the upward dimension for the first time and that changes the inward and outward view.  The stars get brighter, because behind them you see the Creator. People are elevated from selves to souls, because you see their Savior.
Jesus saw God as Creator and people with souls. He looked at the world with a three dimensional worldview. The circumstances of our world are different than His world but the view is the same.  The world looked the same in the day of Jesus as it does today. It only looks at two dimensions: inward and outward.
Jesus looked at things differently than the world and it showed at His temptation.
[to be continued]
Michael Peters
STEPHEN SIMPSON is the Editor of One-to-One Magazine and the Director of CSM Publishing. In addition to publishing ministry, Stephen has served in leadership for churches and ministries in Costa Rica, Florida, Mississippi, Texas, and Michigan, as well as being the Senior Pastor of Covenant Church of Mobile (2004-2013). He continues to travel in ministry across North America and in other nations.