Blindness, Spiritual
Explained -- Joh 1:5; 1Co 2:14. The effect of sin -- Isa 29:10; Mt 6:23; Joh 3:19,20. Unbelief, the effect of -- Ro 11:8; 2Co 4:3,4. Uncharitableness, a proof of -- 1Jo 2:9,11. A work of the devil -- 2Co 4:4. Leads to all evil -- Eph 4:17-19. Is consistent with communion with God -- 1Jo 1:6,7. Of ministers, fatal to themselves and to the people -- Mt 15:14. The wicked are in -- Ps 82:5; Jer 5:21. The self-righteous are in -- Mt 23:19,26; Re 3:17. The wicked wilfully guilty of -- Isa 26:11; Ro 1:19-21. Judicially inflicted -- Ps 69:23; Isa 29:10; 44:18; Mt 13:13,14; Joh 12:40. Pray for the removal of -- Ps 13:3; 119:18. Christ appointed to remove -- Isa 42:7; Lu 4:18; Joh 8:12; 9:39; 2Co 4:6. Christ's ministers are lights to remove -- Mt 5:14; Ac 26:18. Saints are delivered from -- Joh 8:12; Eph 5:8; Col 1:13; 1Th 5:4,5; 1Pe 2:9. Removal of, illustrated -- Joh 9:7,11,25; Ac 9:18; Re 3:18. Exemplified Israel. -- Ro 11:25; 2Co 3:15. Scribes and Pharisees. -- Mt 23:16,24. Churches of Laodicea. -- Re 3:17.