SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS

SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS

We have the tendency to believe that we are humans having a spiritual experience, but the truth is we are spirits having a human experience.

The bible is Gods will for your personal life. It is a spiritual book wrote to spiritual people.

We keep thinking we are natural humans in a natural world. The problem is we are not of this world.

John 17:14   ¹⁴ I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Because of spiritual blindness we are not getting our healing or our prayers answered.

Jeremiah 5:21   ²¹ Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not

Even though we have eyes and see and ears to hear, if you don’t have understanding of the truth of Gods word which come from the Holy Spirit then Gods truth is of no effect. This is called spiritual blindness.

Isaiah 42:20   ²⁰ Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.

We see but don’t really see because our ears are closed to Gods truth, we can hear but are not able to hear the true word of God.

The reason for this is we are trying to understand something that is supernatural and spiritual with our natural eyes and ears.

Ezekiel 12:1-2   12 The word of the Lord also came unto me, saying,

² Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.

If you are living in the middle of a rebellious heart, you have eyes to see and do not see, ears to hear and do not hear. Rebellion will cause spiritual blindness to the truth.

When we receive Jesus as Lord and Savior we are recreated and not of this world. We become in that second that we receive Jesus as savior recreated and we are no longer of this world. We have become transformed from the natural to the supernatural. To be transformed means we have supernaturally been changed by the Holy Spirit who dwells within us.

The Holy Spirit was sent from God to be our spiritual teacher. We are transformed with His teaching by the renewing of our minds to the perfect will of God.

By believing and trusting God at is word, the Holy Spirit will guide us into righteousness with discernment and understanding to do what is right before God.

He will open your eyes and ears to the truth and the truth will set you free. It will break the chains of spiritual blindness.

Hosea 4:6   ⁶ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

This is most likely why we are not getting our prayers manifested, the lack of knowledge. Knowledge and wisdom and discernment are always the work of the Holy Spirit.

Lack of knowledge and spiritual understanding will cause spiritual blindness, and stop the healing process in one’s life.

Healing mentioned in the word doesn’t just mean one’s body, it also means your soul which is made up of your mind, your will, your emotion and your spirit.

Romans 8:6-7   ⁶ For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

⁷ Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

The carnal mind cannot please God because it is always chasing the flesh and is not working in the Spirit.

Psalms 103:3   ³ Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;

God forgave us on the cross. It is our job to repent and accept that he forgives all of our iniquities and heals all our diseases.

Psalms 107:20   ²⁰ He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.

He sent His Word, (Jesus) and healed them all and kept them from their destructions.

Why are we not receiving our healing of the body soul and spirit?

It is because we keep doing the same thing the Jewish people did, they failed at trying to do good to get good. That is under the law. We live under grace.

We Christians are not Gods chosen people living under the law. We are Gods called people living under grace.

Genesis 15:6   ⁶ And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

Abraham believed and was considered as righteousness and was blessed. God made a non-Jewish people righteous by faith in God.

If and when we believe, we will be blessed. Spiritually, mentally, and physically. Jesus was God in heaven and also on earth.

God made promises to Abraham and his seed. God said to your descendant (singular) and that one person is Christ Jesus.

These blessings only come through faith, through the Cross that Jesus died on by which we can have the spirit that God promised. We receive this promise by faith.

Christ did this so that Gods blessings that he promised to Abraham could come to the non-Jewish people.

John 15:4-5   ⁴ Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

⁵ I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

We are not the root of the tree we have been grafted into the tree by receiving what the Jews were offered.

The law came 430 years after the promise to Abraham. What was the law for?

It was to show the people the wrong they were doing. It continued until the “Special” descendant of Abraham came, Christ Jesus.

Galatians 3:19   ¹⁹ Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

The law was given by angels who used Moses for a mediator to give the law to men. God himself gave the ten commandments to Moses.

The Law was the master teacher. Jesus was a Jew, lived as a Jew and lived by and fulfilled the law.

After the cross we were made righteous with God through faith by accepting His son Jesus and Jesus’ death bridged the gap between God and man.

THE GARDEN

Now grace has come and we are no longer under the Law. We are now living under the new covenant of grace.

Galatians 3:26-29   ²⁶ For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

²⁷ For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

²⁹ And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

The law was natural. God’s grace is supernatural. We keep thinking we have to do good to be good, that way of thinking is under the law, not under grace.

2 Corinthians 12:9   ⁹ And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Gods grace is sufficient, it is always enough. In your weakness His power is made perfect in you.

Deuteronomy 28:1-2   28 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:

² And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God.

Under the law if you did good you were blessed

Deuteronomy 28:58-61   ⁵⁸ If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, The Lord Thy God;

⁵⁹ Then the Lord will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.

⁶⁰ Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.

⁶¹ Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the Lord bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

This was all under the Law. After the cross, by accepting His son we are under grace. If we try to live according to the law then we will reap the law. Let us not be spiritually blind to the truth. We are saved by grace and live under grace, not the Law.

Stay in the word. 
Brother Andy