Eyes that are Blind

Eyes that are Blind

• To the evidence concerning Jesus

Isa 6:9-10: Mt 13:13-17; Mk 4:12, Lk 8:10, Jn 12:40, Acts 28:25-27

Dt 29:4: Rom 11:8

Ps 69:23: Rom 11:10

2 Cor 4:3-4

Eyes that are Blind

• To righteousness and holiness

Eph 4:17-18 (cp. Job 17:7)

living in sin without any thought, care, shame or guilt

Eyes that are Blind

• To the requirement of becoming like God

2 Pet 1:4-8

“I’ve been baptized, I’m good”

inspired by forgiveness to make a beginning, not to think that we’ve reached the end

Eyes that are Blind

• To the seriousness of hating my brother 1 Jn 2:7-11; 3:13-18; 4:20-21

I walk in darkness when I think I am in the light

I abide in death when I think I am alive

My lack of action reveals my lack of love

I profess I love God, but this cannot be true

Eyes that are Blind

• To my lack of spiritual development

Rev 3:14-20

“I can see just fine”

attitude of pride, satisfaction and indifference

Eyes that are Blind

• To what a hypocrite looks like to God

Mt 23:25-28

There is no bigger fool than one who has fooled himself:

“If what men see looks good, then I am good.”

Eyes that are Blind

• To God’s truth

Mt 15:12-14; Lk 6:39-40

I am blind if I hold to the traditions and doctrines of men; hose who follow my teaching are just as blind.

Who is my teacher? When I fully trained, then I will be like him.

1 Cor 11:1

Am I Blind?

• Do I accept the evidence for Jesus?

• Am I sensitive to righteousness and holiness?

• Am I diligently working to partake of God’s nature?

• Do my actions show that I love my brother?

• Am I content with my level of spiritual development?

• Do I care more about what men see or what God knows?

• Am I following and teaching God’s truth?