Playlist: Blindness, Causes Sin (topic)
Spiritual Blindness: Choosing a Curse
Sermonette by David C. GrabbeSin produces blindness that in turn generates further sin, creating a self-reinforcing cycle that affects nations and individuals alike. The curse pronounced in Deuteronomy 28 imposes madness, blindness, and confusion of heart, so that those afflicted cannot identify the true source of their mounting troubles and therefore …
Sin (Part Three)
Sermon by John W. RitenbaughThe human spirit given by God at creation empowers the mind for physical perception and achievement yet remains blind and unenlightened regarding the true God and His moral and spiritual truth. This blindness of the heart produces ignorance that darkens understanding, alienates a person from the life of God, and leaves the mind …
The Healing of a Man Born Blind (Part One)
Sermon by Martin G. CollinsBiblical blindness describes the inability to comprehend spiritual truth within material sights or words, a condition of hardness of heart arising from religious or moral impairment or from God's sovereign purpose. This figurative sense appears throughout the Gospels, where physical blindness symbolizes the spiritual state of …
Sovereignty, Election, and Grace (Part One)
Sermon by John W. RitenbaughGod renders people spiritually blind by covering them with a cloud of anger, as described in Lamentations, leaving them disoriented like someone inside thick fog so that they cannot perceive His involvement or the true nature of events around them. This divine act causes them to stray from His ways and hardens their hearts …