Blindness of Sinners - 1

. Blindness to our condition before God

Romans 3:11
There is none who understands;
 There is none who seeks after God.

. Blind to the beauty of Christ

Isaiah 53:1
The fool has said in his heart,
 “There is no God.”
 They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity;
 There is none who does good.

. Blind to the grace of God

Romans 11:8
What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded. Just as it is written:
  “God has given them a spirit of stupor,
 Eyes that they should not see
 And ears that they should not hear,
 To this very day.”

. Blind to the things of the Lord

1 Corinthians 2:9-14

But as it is written:
  “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
 Nor have entered into the heart of man
 The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”

    But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.

   These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

[Message No: 7401]