Types of Spiritual Blindness: Moral Blindness
Bible Text: Isaiah 5:20–21 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;who put darkness for light,and light for darkness;who put bitter for sweet,and sweet for bitter!Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,and prudent in their own sight! Memory Verse: Proverbs 14:12 “There is a way which seemeth right unto a […]
Levels of Spiritual Blindness: Judicial Blindness (Divine Consequence)
Bible Text: Romans 1:21–24 Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and […]
Levels of Spiritual Blindness: Selective Blindness
Bible Text: James 1:22–24 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of […]
Levels of Spiritual Blindness: Partial Blindness (Carnal Believers)
Bible Text: 1 Corinthians 3:1–3 Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions […]
Levels of Spiritual Blindness: Total Blindness (Unbelievers)
Bible Text: 1 Corinthians 2:13–15 Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.But […]
Signs of Spiritual Blindness: Misinterpretation of God’s Will
Bible Text: Romans 12:1–2 Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and […]
Signs of Spiritual Blindness: Dependence on Human Reasoning Alone
Bible Text: 1 Corinthians 1:25–27 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might […]
Signs of Spiritual Blindness: Lack of Hunger for God
Bible Text: Amos 8:11–12 Behold, the days come,” says the Lord Yahweh,“that I will send a famine in the land,not a famine of bread,nor a thirst for water,but of hearing Yahweh’s words.They will wander from sea to sea,and from the north even to the east;they will run back and forth to seek Yahweh’s word,and will […]
Signs of Spiritual Blindness: Confusion About Right and Wrong
Bible Text: Isaiah 5:20–21 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;who put darkness for light,and light for darkness;who put bitter for sweet,and sweet for bitter!Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,and prudent in their own sight! Memory Verse: Romans 12:2 “And be not conformed to this world: but be […]
Signs of Spiritual Blindness: Resistance to Correction
Bible Text: Proverbs 12:1–2 Whoever loves correction loves knowledge,but he who hates reproof is stupid.A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh,but he will condemn a man of wicked plans. Memory Verse: Proverbs 15:10 “Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.” A patient who refuses medical […]