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.